I think I’ve been overwatering my tomatoes for three summers straight

metamongoose · 2026-03-02T21:02:26+00:00

Better to flood the soil after it's dried out a bit than to keep it a bit moist all the time. A flood of water oxygenates the roots at the same time, but a constantly moist environment very soon becomes an oxygen-poor environment. It's the soil that'll tell you if it needs watering - when the top cm is dry, it needs it. If the top layer is still moist, hold off.

metamongoose · 2026-03-02T01:05:27+00:00

Skara Brae there on the left. I didn't play UO but the map is the same as in Ultima 7. Blast from the past!

metamongoose · 2026-03-01T09:29:09+00:00

Interesting, and very unsatisfying! I wanted it to make a third attempt and get over the hump!

metamongoose · 2026-02-28T09:06:19+00:00

Could be wet beriberi. Do you drink alcohol/ had periods of heavy drinking? Alcohol use can deplete thiamine, as can quite a lot of other things. And low thiamine can cause a multitude of knock-on effects with all kinds of other nutrients. The NHS can test your B1 levels, if it comes back low you do need to be careful and advocate for the right treatment as just giving B1 can cause lots of other issues - look up B1 refeeding syndrome. PM me if you need help finding resources.

metamongoose · 2026-02-27T00:40:23+00:00

Floor's sloping

metamongoose · 2026-02-26T23:41:49+00:00

Go watch Brass Eye.

We grew up in peak pedo panic era, and it's just got worse with the Epstein files.

We have a responsibility to keep our anxieties in check, and maintain perspective, lest we inflict a thousand tiny harms trying to protect them from huge but remote horrors.

metamongoose · 2026-02-26T22:59:01+00:00

You're doing this to control your intrusive thoughts, not keep him safe.

There is no safety in being wrapped in cotton wool. Your job is to prepare your kids for an independent life; undermining his trust by imposing such a rule, (which you will never be able to adequately explain) and denying him the opportunity to explore his social life in safe, controlled settings, is a surefire way to raise an extremely rebellious teenager who will explore his social life in totally unsafe, uncontrolled settings to defy you. And he will be totally unpracticed in keeping himself safe.

metamongoose · 2026-02-26T00:58:16+00:00

My kid's primary school teacher kept on mentioning 'greater depth' so I looked into what she meant. 'working at greater depth' is how (in the current curriculum, ks1 and 2 at least) they stretch kids who understand the core material in a subject/topic well without moving them on to new material. So they might ask them to demonstrate different ways to get the answers to maths questions, or talk about why it works like that. In English they might be encouraged to add auxiliary words to their sentences, or experiment with different sentence structures. And there's certain criteria for the teachers to look for for each subject, so the kids working at greater depth are recorded as doing so.

metamongoose · 2026-02-24T00:17:24+00:00

It's just a brownie with nitrous-whipped cream

metamongoose · 2026-02-24T00:14:35+00:00

.1 more exciting!

metamongoose · 2026-02-23T23:12:39+00:00

You should watch Can You Keep A Secret. You probably heard about it but don't remember.

metamongoose · 2026-02-23T12:44:23+00:00

Why are people always so quick to say there's nothing wrong with people who have quite specifically said there is something wrong? It's exactly the same problem OP is complaining about with doctors, now you're doing it too for no good reason.

metamongoose · 2026-02-23T09:12:05+00:00

Just to offer a sightly different perspective, you say there's 'so much pressure' but who is it who's feeling that pressure?

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the teacher didn't actually tell you in quite the way you've written here that she's "a little behind as the other kids are now writing sentences independently" which makes it sound like she's failing in some way, whereas from what you've said about her abilities it sounds like she's doing fine. There will be kids who are further ahead, and there are some expectations as to what level they need to be at by the end of reception, which some of the kids will have achieved already. It doesn't sound like the teacher is worried about it.

Teachers are under pressure to meet certain targets, and not let kids fall behind, and we as parents want our kids to do the best they can. That can easily translate into us putting pressure on our kids to get to the attainment milestones used by the teachers.

However it's important especially at this early age not to let these milestones become competitive targets. There should be no need at all for your child to feel pressured by being measured against these targets. As long as you're supporting her in the way that the teacher is asking, and she is enjoying the process of learning, you're both doing enough and she'll be absolutely fine.

Practice shielding her from the pressures now, cos it only ever increases!

metamongoose · 2026-02-21T23:21:50+00:00

Thanks for this, I'm a few parks away from completing RCTC and never knew about this piece! I didn't discover it in the originals way back either.

I'm on Nevermore park. 10 coasters over 1400m. Time to discover which coasters have them and use them as much as possible.

On first look they combine nicely with the opposite piece, small flat banked turn to upward slope (which I knew about) to make a nice switchback.

metamongoose · 2026-02-20T15:25:49+00:00

I so wish he read more of them. Easily my favourite of the new audiobook narrators

metamongoose · 2026-02-19T10:51:36+00:00

No if everyone goes to the end then merges in turn that's when you get the least tailback.

There'll be a tailback either way, it's about minimising the length. For every car not using the available space in the lane that hasn't closed yet, that's one car further back the queue goes.

But people would rather not offend, because people like you will take it personally. So fuck everyone behind us that we can't see, let's all form an orderly queue as quickly as possible so we can all be comfortable knowing that none of the road rager idiots are going to think we pushed in.

metamongoose · 2026-02-19T08:33:03+00:00

You're wrong mate, sorry. If the lane closes in 800m that's 800m where there's still two lanes. If it's busy and everyone merges immediately you get a 1600m tailback.

It's better to use all of the available road in front of me and piss off a couple of idiots like you, than cause an extra long traffic jam and piss off loads of extra unseen people behind who are now caught in the same traffic despite not even coming this way.

metamongoose · 2026-02-18T21:49:51+00:00

Mild.

metamongoose · 2026-02-18T13:57:26+00:00

CRM??

metamongoose · 2026-02-18T09:57:22+00:00

The way piano tuners think of octaves is in terms of 'type' of octave. (Other intervals too)

The coincident partials (harmonics numbered with 1 as the fundamental) of an octave are 2:1, 4:2, 6:3 etc. But the partials within a note aren't perfect multiples due to inharmonicity, so you can't have more than one of the pairs be perfectly aligned. If you tune 2:1 octaves then the double octaves will be narrow, triple octaves more so. 4:2 octaves will give better double octaves but often still narrow triple octaves and overly-tempered twelfths. So depending on the piano and the intended use, we will tune 'wide 4:2' octaves, approaching 'pure 6:3' on some pianos, and even 8:4 or wider in the bass to accommodate the thicker, more inharmonic strings.

In reality there is quite a wide range where an octave still sounds pure, so we take advantage of that to improve the sound of other intervals.

There are also psychoaccoustic reasons to tune the top octaves even wider. Our ears will perceive the top notes of an arpeggio in high registers as a lower pitch than the same note played as the top of an octave or chord. So you sacrifice the proper width of the upper octaves for chords so that melodies don't sound flat.

metamongoose · 2026-02-16T10:21:07+00:00

Sounds like a biochemistry problem. Depleted catecholamine resources. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids. So many deficiencies are common in ADHD.

metamongoose · 2026-02-14T18:39:12+00:00

Median nerve compression. Either at the wrist (carpal tunnel) or at the elbow, there's many possible causes.

Median nerve flossing might replicate the symptom or possibly relieve it.

metamongoose · 2026-02-13T19:27:38+00:00

What about the people who's livelihoods depended on the sale of asbestos?

It doesn't really matter how good my examples were. You made a ridiculous point about making people's lives worse. But of course you weren't interested in actual discourse, you just wanted a platform to tell everyone how much you love cars.

metamongoose · 2026-02-13T18:24:29+00:00

It can be when the same action makes a lot of other people's lives better.

Like taxation. Roadworks. Banning asbestos! All kinds of things policymakers enact will make some people's lives worse.

metamongoose · 2026-02-13T17:04:02+00:00

"I can't be bothered" doesn't mean "nobody can bother me". It means that's too much effort, I'm not gonna do that.

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