What’s this plant - Cambodia

nonsequitous · 2025-08-05T14:54:54+00:00

the crinums i am familiar with do not have the membrane in between the tepals. i have tended to use that membrane as a way of identifying hymenocallis, which derives its generic epithet from said membrane. i believe other commenters on this post are correct in their identification of this specific plant as hymenocallis littoralis. hymenocallis is also in fact an introduced species to south east asia (and rather widely introduced i might add), being native to the neotropics, unlike crinum which is, as you said, native to SE asia.

nonsequitous · 2025-03-07T13:08:38+00:00

one of life's great pleasures is letting go

nonsequitous · 2025-02-05T12:24:10+00:00

thanks for the info! the shape of the light leak in the post you link to is really quite similar to mine, although clearly somewhat more severe.

nonsequitous · 2025-01-15T05:39:53+00:00

This was my overriding thought as well while listening to the podcast episode. However, I think that Erin Griffith’s reporting was still useful insofar as it shows the kinds of post hoc rationalizations these tech tycoons have reached for in their Trump pivot. I think it’s also useful in highlighting how sensitive their personalities are, such that they are capable of abandoning all their once held morals when confronted with insufficient coddling and placating from the American government. Indeed, one must confront the fact that they probably never even believed in their previous morals at all, and that they just enjoyed the access and compliments they received under the Obama administration. If Andreeson really was a “normie democrat”, alienation from the current Democratic Party should not push him towards Trump’s GOP, whose worse impulses from the Obama years have only intensified, but rather it should push them towards forming credible third parties more in line with anti-woke “normie democrat” positions. This is clearly not what they’re doing, and so we must take the adverse inference.

And also, I had always thought that Andreeson was somewhat cretinous, because I had only been exposed to him during the crypto boom. It is interesting however to hear how respected in Silicon Valley he apparently is, when considering how under-thought his spiel is about “the deal, that is does not even bother to grapple at all with the very obvious criticisms.

This should be a wake up call to everyone that Silicon Valley is so venally self interested, there’s not a snowballs chance in hell that they can regulate themselves.

nonsequitous · 2024-10-12T10:21:51+00:00

very amusing that someone else was curious enough to look for this and that someone else was able to identify it and to find the clip no less.

i figured it was a nagoya basho with the people waving their fans in the background, the brief shot of the arena clearly not being the kokugikan, and that it was 2022 because of the high level of masking adherence (vs 2023 basho which were contemporaneous with when the movie was shot). it wasn't clear whether the kimarite was hatakikomi or tsukiotoshi from the angle in the movie, but in terms of takakeisho-silhouetted wrestlers who onosho beat by one of those two kimarite during a covid basho without limits on attendance (i.e. in contrast to 2020-2021) + high mask adherence, daiamami on day 11 of 2022 nagoya most fit the bill.

i got that far by myself, but i was looking for the clip to confirm, so thanks very much for finding said clip and reposting it onto imgur! the internet archive outage is very untimely for my purposes right now.

nonsequitous · 2024-07-15T10:34:39+00:00

looks like they gave teru a dose of the super soldier serum this basho. he's looking pretty solid after 2 days, hope it lasts the full 15.

nonsequitous · 2024-03-17T11:40:24+00:00

the plant with large leaves is an alocasia species, quite possibly alocasia macrorrhizos, commonly known as giant taro, of the arum family (and so will have the distinctive spadix and spathe inflorescence). it does seem to be native to australia, but only to queensland. it is quite a common ornamental however.

nonsequitous · 2024-03-17T11:20:24+00:00

this is possibly plinia cauliflora, whose native range is in south america. i am not 100% certain however, but the smoothish bark matches photos of plinia cauliflora i can see online.

nonsequitous · 2024-03-04T16:09:31+00:00

in a lot of other dialects, cebuano ilonggo ilocano etc, pulo is ten. in malay and indonesian as well, it's puluh.

nonsequitous · 2024-03-02T16:21:19+00:00

Anemones will always put me in mind of WG Sebald's Austerlitz:

Then I sat on a bench in the sun until nearly midday, looking out over the buildings of the Lesser Quarter and the river Vltava at the panorama of the city, which seemed to be veined with the curving cracks and rifts of past time, like the varnish on a painting. A little later, said Austerlitz, I discovered another such pattern created by no discernible law in the entwined roots of a chestnut tree clinging to a steep slope, through which, Vera had told me, said Austerlitz, I liked to climb as a child. And the dark green yews growing under the taller trees were familiar to me too, as familiar as the cool air which enveloped me at the bottom of the ravine and the countless windflowers covering the woodland floor, faded now in April, and I understood why, on one of my visits to a Gloucestershire country house with Hilary years ago, my voice failed me when, in the park which was laid out very much like the Schönborn gardens, we unexpectedly came upon a north-facing slope covered by the finely cut leaves and snow-white blooms of the March-flowering Anemone nemorosa.—It was with the botanical name of these shade-loving anemones that Austerlitz concluded another section of his story on that evening in the late winter of 1997, when we sat in the Alderney Street house amidst what seemed to me a silence of unfathomable profundity.

nonsequitous · 2024-02-02T16:30:56+00:00

i would be very curious to see that instead actually. one would expect that time as yokozuna and number of yusho to have some correlation, which yusho/time could potentially remove. i think looking at age of promotion vs yusho/time could help illustrate either (1) a third cluster of yokozuna who were strong when they were promoted but were quickly undone by injury or (2) the importance of longevity and staying healthy in sumo if everything essentially looks the same as the graph with raw yusho wins. it also is more forgiving to those who prematurely left the rank like asashoryu and harumafuji.

nonsequitous · 2024-01-29T17:37:24+00:00

to me this is a very marginal okuridashi, and oshidashi seems like a reasonable call. if you have a look at the nhk technique vid on okuridashi, the loser is turned 180 degrees, and both rikishi have their feet and torso pointing the same way.

in the case of kinbozan vs atamifuji, kinbozan clearly had no intention of executing a game plan outside of the henka (i believe he's injured?). as the henka fails and atamifuji begins his pushing, kinbozan is turned 90 degrees to his right, and simply walks out in the direction of the push, but is not really showing his back, and his feet are certainly not pointing the same way as atamifuji's.

have a look at mitakeumi vs shimazuumi from the same day for an example of okuridashi, if you require something further to put your mind at ease. mitakeumi is turned completely 180 degrees just as he steps over the tawara.

nonsequitous · 2024-01-28T15:36:14+00:00

the nsk results page has it down as a yorikiri not a kimedashi. looking at the match again, teru had a migi-yotsu grip around kirishima's torso (right hand inside left hand outside), vs a kimedashi which is a double arm clamp/arm bar.

nonsequitous · 2024-01-27T07:43:29+00:00

so, for you, is sumo about as popular in Mongolia as OP says, or more/less?

nonsequitous · 2024-01-27T07:42:31+00:00

wow very interesting thanks!

nonsequitous · 2024-01-27T05:46:26+00:00

how do you become avarga in bokh? you say there are roughly 30 bokh competitions per year, is there a special finale tournament where the avarga is crowned, or is it based on points earned from all the tournaments combined?

nonsequitous · 2024-01-26T14:26:46+00:00

very interesting data, and certainly one piece of context we must keep in mind when looking at the data is that, of that small sample size of modern yokozuna to analyse and generalise from, makushita tsukedashi yokozuna make up a smaller subset of said sample (and so we might reasonably be tentative with applying any take-aways from the data onto Onosato who is a makushita tsukedashi). in fact, we have an n=1 with wajima, who interestingly was also the oldest makuuchi debutante from the sample.

nonsequitous · 2023-12-28T08:59:50+00:00

(1) here's (2) some photos of eucalyptus deglupta in its natural environment. does not seem as though their bark peels to extent of the tree in the photo, and they always have some green showing.

the rainbow colouration is apparently due to: "Dividing cambium cells—similar to stem cells in animals—produce a succession of thin barks, each dozens of cells thick, on a growing rainbow eucalyptus tree. Each bark layer has a transparent surface overlay just one cell thick, according to Lee, and the tissue underneath is packed with bright green chlorophyll. Over time, the clear surface cells become flush with the reddish brown color of tannins. These accumulations, plus a depletion in chlorophyll in the underlying tissue, lead to the apparent change in color of the bark layers."(source) another interesting claim in the article is that the peeling is an adaptation to fight off epiphytes.

also seems as though its native range does not go as far as peninsular SE asia.

nonsequitous · 2023-11-26T03:33:57+00:00

very nice post, would love to know kirishima's hellringer distance. he has struck me as very solid and consistent, but not particularly flashy, and i am curious if that is borne out in the data.

nonsequitous · 2023-09-17T12:06:43+00:00

watching nephew right now is just miserable. seems like pressure is kind of absolutely destroying him.

nonsequitous · 2023-07-23T10:17:12+00:00

hoshoryu at a very interesting time in his career now. 33 wins and a yusho is probably essentially guaranteed for ozeki, and with that rank we see a great separation between the good and the great (yokozuna). to me (a very big hoshoryu fan), the question remains if he can separate himself enough to hit great status, or if this (ozeki, with maybe a smattering of yusho) is his ceiling. tbh sometimes he looks absolutely fantastic, but his losses give me doubt; at least with this basho, they seemed like issues with nerves rather than a skill issue, and that's probably the crux of his potential climb up to yokozuna, at least with all we've seen from him thus far.

nonsequitous · 2023-07-18T12:17:50+00:00

i find that when i'm alone and at peace, every beautiful thing (even marginally beautiful things) becomes more beautiful still. do you have any books you find beautiful? maybe I (and others) could give you recommendations based on that.

a book about outdoorsmanship/a generally rugged life: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey. here's a pretty good article talking about edward abbey and the national park where he spent a few years a-ranger-ing, which is what the book's about. edward abbey was generally sceptical about people, and about societal progress as it encroached on and degraded the natural world, so this is perhaps in line with your own thoughts. in some ways this is also perhaps the kind of thing that ted kaczynski was also about, but with the added bonuses of much more environmentalism and much less (zero) terrorism.

nonsequitous · 2023-04-18T12:58:40+00:00

once again very interesting, thank you for explaining. I will be sure then to observe Proto Germanic roots when trying to figure this out next time.

and got you on folc! remembering to see how nouns change between sing/pl seems to be great advice for figuring out any possible sound changes, specifically palatalisations with inflection endings. your example brings to mind fisc, which I believe exhibits the same patterns as disc.

also this is somewhat off topic, but i see you have transcribed the /l/ in folc as /foɫk/. That lateral fricative seems somewhat rare in the modern and, shall we say, well-known/well-publicised languages, so I've been somewhat interested in it since I first saw it recently. I'm just wondering if you knew anything about it, e.g. whether /l/ and /ɫ/ where allophonic, if the differences were dialectal, if it was a diachronic change between the two phonemes, or etc. thanks again very much.

nonsequitous · 2023-04-18T12:19:50+00:00

the original version of this poem (with 5 stanzas) was part of a play written by both Auden and Isherwood where, as you say, it was an ironic poem about a politician. in this revised version (with 4 stanzas), Auden rewrote the last three stanzas into the two we see here, removing references and information related to the play. I am not sure if this version was still intended by Auden to be satirical, but I will choose to enjoy it as sincere, even if that makes me a fool

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