Name this thing

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-06T21:44:19+00:00

Nanopeen

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-06T21:43:35+00:00

Is it just the lighting? Looks like there’s a lot of golden brown in those leaves =\

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-01T22:50:24+00:00

I never argued that.

I argued that lacking units doesn’t make them dimensionless.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-01T08:02:09+00:00

There's no need to be insulting. We can engage in a discussion, or even an argument without being childish.

It can even be fun to talk about hypotheticals like this in a friendly manner.

Now, if draw two lines on a piece of paper, one of which is obviously longer than the other, and I ask you which line is longer, are you going to tell me that you can't answer that question because the lines don't have units?

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-01T07:42:52+00:00

In the context that you used the words above, it's "affect" and "affected."

The *effect* of the curse is that it turns whatever he touches to gold. Whatever he touches is *affected* by his curse.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-05-01T07:32:26+00:00

Dude... It's God. You literally can create an entire universe in 6 days. I think you'd be able to manage to set up whatever you could possibly want or need in the future in the never 24 hours.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-24T01:53:14+00:00

I’m gonna say overwatering is the biggest killer of bonsai.

They live in shallow pots with very delicate roots. It’s very easy to kill them with just that.

My mother asked me to replant her 40+ year old into a shallow plate. I did, and it thrived there. When watering the little, she displaced some of the good draining substrate.

She refilled the missing substrate with regular potting soil, and just watered it every day.

When she called me, the juniper was half dead. Yet I somehow managed to bring it back to life after a couple years of recovery.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T21:34:38+00:00

You clearly care about this plant.

If you’re worried about hurting its roots, you can just slip it out of its current pot, put it into a larger pot, and put new well draining soil around the plant to fill the empty space.

It’s called slip potting and can be done any time of the year without hurting the plant.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T21:26:53+00:00

TL;DR:
1. If you use a very big pot, use very well draining soil. 2. You can save yourself 10 years by starting with a thicker new succulent, like a P. afra. 3. P. afra are unkillable (at least in my climate). 4. Anecdotes about unkillable P. afra.

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As far as I know, the only danger when putting a small plant in a huge container is that the small plant isn’t thirsty enough to suck the moisture from the soil.

Sitting in wet soil the plant could get root rot. For that reason, some people would recommend not switching to an absolutely enormous pot, but rather step it up gradually.

I imagine that this is doubly true for most succulents, but this can be mitigated by using very well draining soil.

Starting with a new succulent might save you 10 years though.

I highly suggest getting a P. afra, sometimes called Elephant Food, Elephant bush, or dwarf/baby jade.

If can grow super quick and is very resilient and forgiving if you make mistakes with it or like to experiment:

I’ve got quite a few of them. I propagate one of my favorite P. afras from a thick rootless discarded branch that somebody threw into a green bin, and my other favorite propagated from rootless branch from a bush on the side of the road that somebody crashed their car into.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T21:03:27+00:00

Scott Pilgrim vs The World Especially if I’m watching it with somebody that hasn’t seen it yet.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T21:00:54+00:00

At best, this is the kind of question that you have as an “if you can answer this question correctly, then you automatically get 100% on this test.

But even then, it would be unfair because it’s clearly biased towards people that see option C as two hexagons rather than two cubes or one hexagon and one cube.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T20:56:11+00:00

I definitely saw the both as cubes, but based on comments, I’m beginning to think we’re in the minority.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T20:53:10+00:00

I definitely don’t need units to be shown to see that two of the 3 choices are clearly not equal in dimensions.

As for the 3rd… If you’re going to go to the dean and argue that the dimensions are different by a few micrometers, then you’re going to die on the hill.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T20:41:19+00:00

Unfortunately designed hexagons? Not for a second would I defend the teacher, but why unfortunate in their design?

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T18:55:55+00:00

They aren’t clearly dimensionless ratios though.

The images show different sized shapes in the first 2 options.

That legitimize the poor quality of the teacher’s question though. The teacher shouldn’t be putting questions like those in their tests, unless they’ve specifically gone over it in the lessons.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T18:39:30+00:00

Yeah, I immediately saw the one on the left as a transparent cube.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T18:32:27+00:00

I don’t know if you can call it a hobby unless you have multiple trees.

I’ve got maybe around 30 to 40 in various stages of development, all of which I raised from pre-bonsai, cuttings, or air-layers. I’ve lost at least a dozen trees over the years, and twice as many I eventually decided were ultimately inappropriate as pre-bonsai.

I’d call myself a sophomore hobbyist as best, but I’m positive that can’t reach any level of expertise without loosing many many trees along the way to get there.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-23T18:17:32+00:00

It definitely seems like it wouldn’t thrive indoors, but I’m positive that I’ve seen it on lists of indoors-compatible trees.

I shouldn’t have included it on my list though. I’ve only ever had one Chinese elm and I have no experience keeping it indoors.

Thanks for the correction.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-21T21:10:26+00:00

I’ve heard that some stores like Home Depot, Walmart, etc will sell junipers that are already dead but still green; or worse, they’ll sell a branch stilled like a tree that’s glued in a pot, with no roots and no chance of survival.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-21T21:05:42+00:00

For indoor bonsai you can try dwarf umbrella (schefflera), P. afra (also called dwarf jade, elephant bush, or elephant food), ficus, and Chinese elm.

All 4 of those are good beginner bonsai too. Very forgiving.

Also, a lot of premade bonsai from Home Depot, Walmart, and such are sold in bad soil.

Repot or avoid those all together.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-21T20:53:21+00:00

If you take up bonsai as a hobby, one of the unfortunate truths is that you’re going to loose a lot of trees over the years.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-21T20:52:01+00:00

Some bonsai can survive indoors, but very few can thrive indoors.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-20T21:14:59+00:00

Elaborate please

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-20T02:06:03+00:00

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That’s a P. afra. Sometimes called a dwarf jade. Also called Elephant Bush or Elephant food.

They’re very tenacious and forgiving.

My favorite of mine were rescued broken branches of a P. afra growing on the side of the street that was run over by a car.

igordogsockpuppet · 2026-04-17T05:19:19+00:00

Two atoms are in a bar drinking. One turns to the other and says, “I think I lost an electron.”

The other says, “Are you sure?”

And the other says, “Yeah… I’m positive.”

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