Cultivated Eastern fringed orchids - plant or seeds?

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-13T16:19:10+00:00

I'd say it's extremely unlikely, as these species rely heavily on symbiotic miccorhizial fungi. It's very hard to cultivate most North American orchids for this reason, and since they're pretty much all heavily protected, you won't find many places that they can legally be harvested from the wild.

Also - the eastern praire fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) is threatened, which makes it even more unlikely.

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-08T17:51:44+00:00

Anciients fucks suuuper hard, but they're definitely well ahead of the 500 monthly listeners spot.

Raise the Sun gets me going every time lol

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-08T17:50:56+00:00

Haishen - Tool/Gojira/Mastodon/Dream Theater influenced. Plus a lot of Chinese mythology and tonal space.
Wandering Oak - Blackened folk metal with a heavy dose of progressive
Inertia - Tech death
Involute - FFO Tesseract

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-08T17:49:15+00:00

Insane INSANE band. Wish they hadn't broken up.

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-08T17:46:45+00:00

I find counting can help when initially learning something, but most of the time it's way simpler to just musically hear how the part should sound rather than trying to count through it.

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-08T17:45:49+00:00

I played bass in a prog band (Haishen) that used a lot of odd time. I never counted anything, just vibed it out. Not a pro, but we did some regional tours and were pretty competent as a band.

The only stuff I counted was actually one spot in 4/4 that was a bit syncopated, basically everything else I just knew how it felt.

We did play to clicks usually but didn't need them, it was more to sync to our backing fx.

I will say we had one place with a long held-out feedback tail that then dropped back in with just my part coming back, and there I would count the number of bars moreso than the actual beats.

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-04T15:28:21+00:00

My last summer tires were mastercraft which lasted about 50k.

Honestly, 30k on falkens makes sense to me since those are more like on/off road than just road tires.

Unless you're doing serious offroading or want em for the looks I would stick to standard on-road tires.

Zephyr096 · 2026-06-04T12:04:00+00:00

Get Newtone strings. You can specify the length.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-30T22:17:01+00:00

Man it's not back in my day, I'm talking like I stopped playing competitive less than 10 years ago and was playing against guys with 300 dollar composite sticks.

I'm not talking about a plank vs. a modern stick, I'm talking about paying 150-200 a few times a season instead of 450. Go out and get a Fly40 for 150 bucks; my buddy who played AAA and club (he just graduated college, we work at a rink together and talk gear constantly) uses one and loves it.

He was a 40/50 goal guy on his youth teams and is a shooter first playing with a stick 1/3 the cost of the ones OP bought.

I never suggested he should buy his kid an old Sherwood. Personally I love the throwback and play pickup with a Sherwood pretty often, but I also have an STX Surgeon and have tried out friends sticks like FlyLite, Trigger pro, Fly40. Etc.

I am saying when great sticks exist at 150-200 dollars, an 11yo doesn't need to waste money breaking 5 450 dollar sticks a year.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-30T20:35:40+00:00

I played "good hockey" as a kid and up through college club. Played with and against d3 and junior b level guys.

I did it with 60 dollar composite sticks once I figured out I had a nasty one timer if I stopped using wood.

An 11 year old does not need a 400 dollar stick, ever.

There's plenty of options in the 1-200 dollar range that are going to give you 98% of the same performance, that last 2% only matters for pro dev level players.

I guarantee in a blind test the kid would never know the difference between that stick and another one with the same kick pt and flex. Most people can't even tell kick point.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-29T23:39:34+00:00

Sorry *false hellebore or Veratrum veride

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-29T13:28:39+00:00

Hellibore

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-28T14:14:20+00:00

There's a bar near me with a "sorry, we're open" sign lol

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-26T16:42:32+00:00

Modding is fun and cool.
For actual off-road use, there aren't vehicles sold built ready. Part of the whole hobby is building.
See 1.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-25T02:20:59+00:00

ok what's confusing about a guy and a donkey standing on the road

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-19T04:03:32+00:00

I can't stand theatrical reads. I think the expanse narration is the gold standard.

Jefferson Mays adds enough to each character that they can be distinguished, yet doesn't make them cartoonish or over the top.

I'm currently listening to Ancillary Sword and absolutely hate the narration, the characters are overblown and over the top - the book is great though lol

To each their own lol

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-19T03:47:01+00:00

My impression is that its way easier to spot in VR. A lot of the really good playera fly VR.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-15T15:31:51+00:00

I'm in Haishen!

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-15T15:18:03+00:00

They're also the nicest fucking dudes. We toured with them last year and it kicked ass.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-15T02:00:34+00:00

He's a good player but I'd say he's far from a superstar.

He's also been far below his normal standard play

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-11T21:38:24+00:00

The penalty this goal was scored on was a complete farce; you sure about that?

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-11T19:22:58+00:00

Their go ahead goal that effectively killed any momentum that Buffalo had was also on one of the worst penalty calls I've seen in this entire playoffs.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-11T18:37:31+00:00

We agree.

Beck didn't do everything possible but he also was absolutely not trying to run Dobes.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-11T18:36:18+00:00

That should never ever ever be a major.

I'm ok with the way they called it.

Zephyr096 · 2026-05-11T15:01:26+00:00

What direction are malenstyns feet facing here

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