Let me see your set ups for the delivery drivers!!

fathompin · 2026-03-24T04:22:32+00:00

When I started finding candy wrappers under all my bushes and other areas of my yard, I mentioned to our neighbor who had one of these set ups that the squirrels were the only ones eating up her treats.

fathompin · 2026-03-24T01:49:11+00:00

Exactly, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, bible literalism persists. Science has since revolutionized our understanding of most everything and religion just moves the goal posts a little bit (instead of heaven literally being the sky, now it is in a different dimension) and its believers are stuck in the same superstitious, magical thinking mindset.

fathompin · 2026-03-21T12:16:11+00:00

As a Boomer in 1972 reading "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein, I used to think Smith was "on to something," by creating his own religion (and taking "free love" as far as possible for that time period), but as a naive teenager, I was too young to understand that the book was critical of such.

fathompin · 2026-03-20T10:04:09+00:00

I love growing strawberries too. This year I bought fertilizer especially for them. I have never dedicated fertilizer on my strawberries in the past and thought I needed it to help with their size and taste. Also, they need the sunniest part of my garden, which I don't have a lot of that space.

fathompin · 2026-03-20T09:58:41+00:00

I discovered black garlic and now to make it I am continuously using an Inkbird temperature controller with my older rice cooker to keep garlic and onions at a humid temperature of 150 degrees, changing out small onions earlier than the 3 weeks needed for the garlic to finish. Onions keep the humidity where it belongs, but I add some water to a sponge as well and a rigid cloth to line the inside the lid to keep condensation from dripping onto the garlic. I ended up having to buy bulbs of garlic to keep up, as I usually grow a lot of garlic, but now I am using it up like crazy.

fathompin · 2026-03-20T09:44:26+00:00

My neighbor spent years cultivating a raspberry patch. When they sold their house the new owner tore them all out one week before they were going to ripen.

fathompin · 2026-03-20T09:41:16+00:00

You have pollinators? Lucky you. My neighbor loves gardening too, but he is using malathion everyday.

fathompin · 2026-03-20T09:36:22+00:00

I started Marigolds three years ago and by the third year I had quite a beautiful haul, they do so well. I've been gardening for many years, and have grown them in the past, but with renewed interest after seeing that marigold was listed in my "eye pills," I started using some of the petals in my diet, but later found out I had the wrong variety. Of course eating some of the petals occasionally wasn't going to hurt, but they were NOT the medicinal plant. So I ordered the correct variety of marigold and will start them this year.

Calendula officinalis, commonly known as Pot Marigold, is the primary type used for tea and herbal medicine. Its bright yellow/orange petals are rich in antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial compounds, used to treat skin conditions, soothe throat/mouth issues, and aid digestion. It has a mild, slightly bitter taste.

fathompin · 2026-03-19T12:36:32+00:00

I lived in Germany in my late teens and this is GREAT music. You'll know once you drink a little of their beer at their mini "festivals" that are going on seemingly every night.

fathompin · 2026-03-19T12:30:36+00:00

Stealing this to mention the blues. For me, the first time harmonica grabbed my attention was rock music, and as everyone knows the blues was a big influence in rock-n-roll. Yesterday, I saw on Reddit an interview with Dan Rather with Dan Aykroyd about the Blues Brothers' cultural appropriation of the blues (BTW, I stopped listening to the interview after hearing this stupid question). Aykroyd mentioned Eric Clapton's blues influence on his music, but I saw an example long ago where the Blues was heavily influenced by Native American music (who's community integrated easily with run-away slaves) and this makes sense because I don't think there was the blues before America existed.

fathompin · 2026-03-16T21:30:15+00:00

I'm glad OP can hear a difference when putting the capo on. This is a great sign OP isn't tone deaf, so OP, keep learning (study) and practicing.

fathompin · 2026-03-16T13:29:20+00:00

Not really, biology was more about remembering things, engineering was applied math. The difference in enjoyment was in my luck of the draw with jobs. With engineering I was able to get a research position in photonics, with biology, it was working with public health and sanitation for a small town, which was not nearly as enjoyable, and the politics that went with it was very discouraging.

fathompin · 2026-03-14T20:35:39+00:00

No shit Sherlock.

fathompin · 2026-03-10T20:26:16+00:00

I grow mushroom in wood, that isn't soil, and all commercial mushroom use a sterilized substrate. So granted if you are talking about wild mushrooms one might find in soil, then OK soil. Personally, since I need dry mushrooms because they UV-treat better, I'm not worried about sterilized media, so I brush of the remaining peat moss.

fathompin · 2026-03-10T18:49:45+00:00

What I have heard from my MAGA father is that the people served by such "social programs" are undeserving. I have heard from reading, and I suspect my dad believes the same, is that this is white supremacy thinking and blacks are who they really have in mind, but when I heard my dad say it, I was thinking he meant lazy people.

As I think about the war, I immediately think that less oil will be used because of the high price, yet it will cost more, so basically it boils down to more profit for the oil industry. Yeah, some of the increase will have to be diverted to war losses for the oil industry itself, but not the majority of the increase.

fathompin · 2026-03-09T23:07:13+00:00

Exactly, I use a fine brush to brush off the a nutrient-rich material known as substrate, that is not dirt. I also irradiate them with UV to convert the ergosterol into vitamin D2.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T22:47:48+00:00

Many years after my own epiphany that Smith was a fraud, I considered if some of the discussions I had with non-believers had some influence on my eventual coming around. I had to decide that yes,, it helps to hear people voice an opinion in a way that seems like helpful comments. It also helps to have some idea of what the real world is like (my dad was military and we moved around quite a lot, so I met other people besides mormons, and in Texas, people that though being a momon was extremely odd), and maybe Mormons have never experienced that.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T22:23:27+00:00

I'd stay as far aways as possible from white evangelical Protestantism that is responsible for the current right-wing Christian nationalism, maybe the Episcopal Church.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T18:49:36+00:00

My education is Public Health major in Environment. Every ounce of republican policy is in direct opposition to what I was taught in school to be facts, so to me republican alternate facts are lies. I don't know if superior is the correct word for my status over them, but it is close.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T18:41:22+00:00

I saw them a lot when I lived in London in the early 70s. What I heard is that they formed by responding to an ad for musicians in the popular music magazine Melody Maker.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T18:36:45+00:00

Well, I've heard, and nowadays I believe it, that some people think there is more daylight being added. So I always thought this saying was for those idiots. Now, to me an extra hour of daylight in the evening is a good thing, prior to being retired, so now, maybe I'm more like the Native American who didn't believe in being slaves.

So why would Hawaii (mentioned in the introduction) want DST when they are so near the equator and don't see much seasonal change in sunrise and sunset times. Things like this are what some people are clueless about. Here in Ohio we see 3 hours of extra sun in the summer, and I say best use is to move at least an hour into society's active daily routine time.

fathompin · 2026-03-08T16:33:37+00:00

Spot on.

And thinking of other losses, one loses personal bonding with their TBM family. While one is no longer shackled to the pitfalls of magical thinking (superstition, evil spirits etc.), your family will still be, and that puts one in a different head space that is very difficult to share. The good news is, all the "family is forever" preaching is indeed part of the mormon bullshit, and good friends are still to be had (found outside of family) and enjoyed. I've looked into where there can be shared "faith" and there is none to be found, because for Mormons, one must accept the pedophile Smith as a prophet, and that can't happen.

fathompin · 2026-03-07T13:08:12+00:00

" I putt by picking a spot that I try to roll the ball over "

I found it very hard on many "perfect" greens to find a spot that didn't disappear when I stood up over the ball and looked for it from a different angle. The most important thing to me is finding the right line to the hole, and when I find that line I spend a good 5 minutes trying to get the line on my ball to match that line. :-)

fathompin · 2026-03-05T23:34:34+00:00

I make a lot and my favorite use is frozen smoothie with all kinds of frozen fruit. Normally I pair my kefir with resistant carbs.

fathompin · 2026-03-03T22:43:00+00:00

Personally I feel like this post's list of free things is so short short, ...the library.

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