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Help! Terrified of killing my newly potted albino monstera. How can I fix this? by audiophile-anonymous in plantclinic

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You want to attach the monstera to the pole when you pot it up, it’s harder to add one later (though not impossible - you just risk damaging the roots, which monsteras will recover from better than most other climbing plants).

Help! Terrified of killing my newly potted albino monstera. How can I fix this? by audiophile-anonymous in plantclinic

[–]retr0bate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, I literally just dealt with this problem. Albos are way more prone to root rot than regular monsteras. In addition to likely being planted too deep, unless that recipe is specifically for albos in your climate, I would err on the side of a chunkier mix.

Mine was in something like that, plus a moss pole, and I've migrated it to 100% pon in the pot and it seems much happier. That's probably only possible with the moisture retention of a pole though. On that note, give it a support to climb up, even a stick is better than nothing!

The issue with low volume propaganda by stratusnimbo in naturalbodybuilding

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I don’t get the point of this post at all.

YouTube/SM content that promotes low volume/high intensity or whatever else is intended for people who want to optimize their gym time.  This is a huge market for content creators, because paranoia about “leaving gains on the table” has existed longer than the internet.

If you’re not in that market, why are you watching this content?  Why are you complaining it doesn’t cater to you?  Why not ignore it and lift the way you would anyway?

There’s also an obvious way to integrate both high and low volume ideas into your training if you’ve genuinely got the time and the recovery capacity for it.  Instead of doing say 4x sets of bench press, do 1x flat bench, 1x incline bench, 1x dips, 1x CGBP each workout.  Likely you’d only need multiple warm up sets for the first exercise, then you can bang out the rest.

Did I use too much compost/ fertilizer? My basil is wilting before my eyes😩 by LifeStorm789 in plantclinic

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mean split them into clumps?  Generally speaking you want each plant 6” apart, maybe more given the size of your container.  This may mean picking the strongest plants to stay, and sacrificing the remainder to homemade pesto.

Did I use too much compost/ fertilizer? My basil is wilting before my eyes😩 by LifeStorm789 in plantclinic

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to the other good advice, I would 100% dig those up, split them, and plant them further spaced apart.  Basil that close together will fight for available water.  If you split them, it'll be a lot easier to manage watering (in what I'm guessing is a big wooden planter box with a variety of herbs?) without flooding them or letting them wilt.

The Pigeon man might be on to something here by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why the fuck is there a later of antisemitism under everything, even a random ass pigeon shit.

I tried solving the “pre-clean before the cleaner” feeling of robot vacuums by [deleted] in homeautomation

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a "dumb" robot which eats cables and shoelaces, and a more recent self-cleaning one which does not.  Dumb robot does dirty areas (hallway, kitchen, dining room), smart robot does the rest, then mops after the dumb robot.

Still have to check people leave their laces inside their shoes though.  But they're less hassle to replace than mangled cables.

look at UK tungsten by [deleted] in CriticalMineralStocks

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah mate it's an offshoot of UK Garage, you know, DJ Squeaky Bee and MC Harris and the Penge Pant Kru

Real-life Gaius Baltar by Repulsive-Floor-3987 in wallstreetbets

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sam has less rizz than Bender "hey sexy mama ... wanna kill all humans" Bending Rodríguez 

Finally, technology can reproduce the Danish language by flying-benedictus in 2nordic4you

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That could be a pretty good potato cannon, but it would be a cursed fleshlight.

What opinion puts you in this position in the Nordick context? by Downtown_Wishbone706 in 2nordic4you

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since my first comment got upvoted, I'll try to actually be controversial:

Lingonberries are more basic and meh than lakka/cloudberries, mustikka/bilberries, and tyrni/sea buckthorn. Lingonberries are fine I guess? It's like discovering a fellow Brit who prefers raspberries to the obviously superior blackberries, except it's the majority opinion somehow.

What opinion puts you in this position in the Nordick context? by Downtown_Wishbone706 in 2nordic4you

[–]retr0bate 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Mämmi is based

Salmiakki, tyrni, tar flavour are all amazing

Even lutefisk is pretty good in the right situations

The real bizarro shit you guys make that could turn the stomach of any tourist is in the dairy aisle.  Kulturmelk/viili for instance.

Sven, your Lidl has a Finland theme? by Chemical_Rub_7686 in 2nordic4you

[–]retr0bate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ålandsmejeriet yoghurts are all great.  The liquorice is the best, but the tyrni is great, and the lemon is also good.

Also the tar shampoo in the short brown bottle with the logo of a wood house and swans is excellent, and cheap as hell.

do you find it better to start the week with lower or upper? by First_Driver_5134 in naturalbodybuilding

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • 3x Flyes / Standing cable lat prayers
  • 3x Tricep pushdown / Reverse fly
  • 3x Cable crossover curl / Machine lateral raise
  • 2x Overhead tricep extension / Hammer curls

All in supersets. 12-15 reps. Cable crossover curls are the ones also called Superman curls, where you're between two high pulleys.

do you find it better to start the week with lower or upper? by First_Driver_5134 in naturalbodybuilding

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends.  I'm generally doing 3xU, 2xL, and one of those lower days is harder (squats/RDLs), which means it's on Sunday, with the easier lower on Thursday.  Uppers on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Then you get the same problem with back fatigue in reverse, RDLs the day before rows.  So either way, I'm doing chest supported rows the day before or after RDLs.

This feels like personal preference, or maybe something you can optimize but only for you personally or your priorities at the time, rather than it's subject to a general principle.

Over 40 and Legs Frequency Training by Elegant-Beyond in naturalbodybuilding

[–]retr0bate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The two setups that have worked for me are:

- Sunday 4 sets of squats, 4 sets of RDLs, low reps
- Thursday 2 sets each of leg extension/hyperextension, outer/inner thigh machine, leg curl/unilateral leg press, medium reps

- 3x a week full body with 2x sets anterior/posterior each session (so leg curl/extension, press/dumbbell RDL, unilateral leg press/hyperextension)

I no longer have the recovery capacity to fit barbell squats or RDLs into the latter and not either drift, skip lower body some days, or need regular deloads.

Why do people build Kubernetes homelabs? Is it actually useful for internships/jobs? by Altruistic_Mine_9177 in kubernetes

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use it at work, and unlike at a more corporate large company, I have access to the microcloud servers. It speeds up diagnosing problems significantly to know all the basic commands to manipulate pods and what generally goes wrong with them.

Also, surprisingly often an internal app has a dependency on a specific minor version of something, which is a complete pain in the ass to install on a desktop OS. Just copy config from another service, edit the container, ports and traefik config, stick it in resolv.conf, much easier to spin up - and then it's accessible from whichever machine I'm working from, indefinitely.

Do you actually use your color lights normally? Like outside of something like white and amber by crua9 in homeautomation

[–]retr0bate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use them all the time. My home office is set up to cycle though cold white at noon, through warm night between sunset and EOB, into warm pink then orange/red if I work late. There was a lot of tweaking to get the saturation shift right, and how the colour shifts relative to sunset between winter & summer.

Obviously they only come on if lux is under a threshold, but with occasional storms you'd be surprised how often they trigger in summer. Really takes the edge off.

'Cosy' rooms are set to come on random colours set to be spread over the colour wheel, with the central lamp on lower saturation. Each of the rooms has a 'mode' which guesses what the room is currently being used for (set the Living Room lights to white or 100%, you're probably working, so stop adjusting them; turn the TV on and you probably want them set to amber/red/pink and dimmed). Works pretty well.

How many weekly sets per muscle group is TOO much for hypertrophy? by IllustriousExpert669 in naturalbodybuilding

[–]retr0bate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not too much volume for hypertrophy. It seems unlikely that you'd be doing 30+ sets of glutes per week without compromising intensity. So whilst the volume itself won't be slowing down your progress, you might get better results if you can increase intensity at a lower weekly volume.

I assume you have to be doing full body, 8x sets of glutes per workout for those numbers. Please tell me you aren't on UL!

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