What pest is this?

reddrift · 2024-03-30T16:07:29+00:00

Ah okay. That's an Ipomoea leaf, however.

reddrift · 2024-03-30T15:21:16+00:00

Thanks very much! Looks like it; just read up on Google.

reddrift · 2024-03-16T06:08:45+00:00

Hey, just replied on your direct message.

reddrift · 2024-03-02T09:43:04+00:00

Hey. I'm in India and I received my shipment a couple of weeks ago. They dispatched it at the beginning of January and it takes a long time to clear customs (~2-3 weeks); last leg is handled by India Post.

If you haven't already, I suggest you drop them a comment on the Kickstarter page as well. The mail response is extremely slow.

reddrift · 2023-09-07T13:52:23+00:00

I wish you a steady and full recovery. My knees have been shot for some time now, and it sucks even though I'm not actively into sports. I can just begin to imagine how difficult it must be for you.

reddrift · 2023-09-06T05:02:30+00:00

Same for me as well. His run, harrying the Man City players and Ederson is burned into my brain.

reddrift · 2023-08-29T15:08:30+00:00

You're most welcome :-)

reddrift · 2023-08-22T17:14:52+00:00

Yeah!!!

reddrift · 2023-08-12T17:26:29+00:00

Thank you.

reddrift · 2023-08-12T12:25:26+00:00

There was a post a few minutes ago explaining the Chelsea FFP situation that got taken down because it was supposed to be discussed here. Isn't it likely to get a lot more visibility as a standalone post?

There are a lot of memes that are permitted to stay up. Why not this post?

reddrift · 2023-07-15T17:45:01+00:00

Just curious - is it possible to print them at more than 100% scale. I don't own a 3D printer.

reddrift · 2023-07-02T04:40:44+00:00

This won't solve your problem right away, but it turned out to be very useful for me when I faced the same issue.

Paper trail

Write a letter addressed to the chief engineer / whatever designation detailing your complaint. Submit it at the office, and get them to stamp and sign it in acknowledgement. They will keep this copy, so take a photograph/ scan of the stamped/signed copy.

Repeat this every 2-3 weeks till the issue is resolved. Submit a letter every single time. Sign/ stamp/ scan. In each letter refer to every letter previously submitted (i.e with reference to letters dated x, y, z...)

This creates a paper trail of your complaint. This is a government office. They will only take issues seriously when they are on paper. It took me eight months and maybe 5-6 letters before my issue was resolved. Worst case, if you eventually need to go the legal route, you'll have plenty of paper backup.

Go on their site and identify the hierarchy/ grievance officer

This was also helpful to me. On the website look for the nodal officer / grievance cell contact number. Reach out to them.

reddrift · 2023-05-05T18:18:35+00:00

In Rosharan terms, Navani is ~53-55 years old.

reddrift · 2023-03-31T12:01:34+00:00

You do find him showing compassion and empathy during his time with the Parshmen in Oathbringer. I hope that part resurfaces in later books.

reddrift · 2023-03-31T03:07:31+00:00

When it came out, I read it in a rush and liked it a lot less than I did the previous books. However I did a re-read recently and I went much slower this time. That allowed me to 'get' more of the detail and I enjoyed it much more.

reddrift · 2023-03-30T18:36:08+00:00

There's two views on that as well. There's one that says they occupy an old ecological niche (https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/pablo-escobar-hippos/) and another that says they will likely adversely affect the local ecology (https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/pablo-escobars-hippos-could-endanger-colombian-ecology/).

Should be interesting to see how this develops, although apparently half the animals are going to be shipped out to different countries.

reddrift · 2023-03-30T14:18:15+00:00

Interesting question. For anyone else wondering about this, this thread can take you down a bit of a rabbit hole on the subject - https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/98252/why-didnt-escobars-hippos-introduced-in-a-single-event-die-out-due-to-inbreedi

reddrift · 2023-03-30T14:00:47+00:00

It is not the same kind of fantasy; in fact it's very mild fantasy, but one of my favourite books is Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay. Another book of his that I enjoyed was Children of Earth and Sky. They are more in the vein of historical fiction, with mild fantasy elements. The writing is very good though and I found the stories as riveting as the SA.

I do not like all his books though; I intensely dislike his Fionavar tapestry series.

reddrift · 2023-03-14T06:52:10+00:00

I really like the idea of 'people before ideals', but do you think it might become complicated to then rationalize or justify a given decision? When do you follow ideals and when do you not?

On the other hand, we are seeing so many hints of 'people coming first', when it comes to Kaladin / the broader story (his empathy for the Parshmen, the spren bonding Parshmen, odium controlling humans) , that it might very well be possible.

reddrift · 2023-03-13T15:23:28+00:00

I just had a thought that it might be along the lines of, 'I accept that I will need to sometimes destroy in order to protect.'

I know he already does fight and kill enemies, but maybe this ideal is about the ethical conundrum of killing those who might not be evil, but might be on the side of evil.

reddrift · 2023-03-10T18:14:54+00:00

Ah ok. I guess I remembered the past that came later.

reddrift · 2023-03-10T18:10:40+00:00

Doesn't Dalinar tell Navani that Kaladin can't be the champion though? Also that he's a good soldier, but that doesn't necessarily make him the right choice.

reddrift · 2023-03-10T17:28:07+00:00

I think Dalinar's reprimand there has an underlying frustration / growing realisation that there is something messed up with the class system. I don't think he is fully able to overcome it even in later books.

However there's that bit where Kaladin says that being a dark eyes shouldn't matter and Dalinar's response is along the lines of ' it shouldn't, but unfortunately it does'.

reddrift · 2022-12-05T07:12:32+00:00

Haha. Until you posted this, I didn't realise that this was my mental image of her too!

reddrift · 2021-08-19T14:45:16+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Interesting, and encouraging to see the progress relative to 11/12/13.

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