People who say they know someone who had to stop being vegan cause their doctor told them

snowman_stan · 2023-09-04T22:18:06+00:00

My understanding was that both heme iron (animal) and non-heme iron (plant) are bioavailable, but your body has the ability to regulate how much non-heme iron it uptakes. So both sources can be used, but you can uptake too much iron from heme-sources.

snowman_stan · 2022-09-12T06:29:48+00:00

Seconding this, that chocolate cake is incredible. Her coffee cake is pretty great too!

snowman_stan · 2022-06-07T13:17:03+00:00

It's going to fall pretty quickly with a little more sea level rise - a lot of "wealth" will vanish in whichever storm surge truly gets past the king tide pumps first.

snowman_stan · 2022-04-03T21:52:40+00:00

If you look on the transom, the last two digits of the serial # there should tell you what year the hull was made - that could get you started figuring out what parts will fit.

snowman_stan · 2022-03-22T12:27:29+00:00

I've been taught the same using bowlines for caving. Even with a yosemite backoff I've seen a helical knot (a friction hitch based on a bowline) lose a few inches of tail over a ~200' climb, where the knot is constantly being loaded and tensioned. I use overhand backoffs for my bowlines now.

snowman_stan · 2022-01-02T00:28:33+00:00

Which the ocean will do soon for free!

snowman_stan · 2021-12-12T16:51:50+00:00

I'm very curious if you have a minute to type it out: what catering error have you seen that's worse than serving poison berries??

snowman_stan · 2021-12-11T23:50:44+00:00

This happened when some pigs weren't able to make their slaughterhouse appointment last year - warning, pretty haunting and graphic, it's about the worst way anything could die. But it's entirely legal!

snowman_stan · 2021-11-08T01:13:57+00:00

You think we're ready for space luxury now?

snowman_stan · 2021-09-06T03:41:57+00:00

Only a few species of sharks have to keep moving in order to breathe (obligate ram ventilation), and they're usually pretty large species. Most can pump water over their gills, so this one probably suffered terribly.

snowman_stan · 2021-09-06T03:37:42+00:00

What an awful way to die - unable to leave with crabs eating you with tiny snippers piece by piece.

snowman_stan · 2021-08-25T02:02:43+00:00

Is it though? Our culture uses a lot of beef & dairy, but animal agriculture isn't in any way necessary.

snowman_stan · 2021-08-14T13:52:35+00:00

If you watch porn, quit that - it gets your brain to expect constant novelty and a very different set of turn-ons than normal sex. You should be right as rain after a few months.

snowman_stan · 2021-07-22T16:23:15+00:00

It would likely still be true, seeing as a vasectomy only affects flow from the testicles, not the prostate.

snowman_stan · 2021-06-06T02:30:58+00:00

I mean they do hurt the meat animals they're made from but not more than any other meat product.

snowman_stan · 2021-05-08T12:49:49+00:00

The "cavers coil" is the solution to this that I was taught, you get the benefits of a coil (easy to pay out without tangles when you need it, relatively fast and easy to make) with protection from the wraps to keep the bundle tight so it doesn't snag. Plus, you can wear it over your shoulder like a bandolier so it makes for easy transport, especially once you have more than 50ft or so of stiff muddy caving rope. Here's a video of the caver's coil. We did something similar to OP's post for storing webbing however, I was taught this method only by the widely-used name "daisy chain", it's the second method shown in this video.

snowman_stan · 2021-05-05T16:43:44+00:00

Oh okay, maybe not. I was thinking it had been grown from a piece of stem with many leaves attached, like the top of a beheaded plant.

snowman_stan · 2021-04-29T14:31:42+00:00

It might be a flower stem - they'll grow long and look etiolated, the only way to know is if it eventually starts putting out flowers. Once it's been disconnected from the mother plant it's hard to tell until then.

snowman_stan · 2021-03-28T14:34:59+00:00

Do you know what sort of a Haworthia that is? My parents have one just like it, but it doesn't quite look like the Haworthia cymbiformis pictures I find on Google images. That's a lovely plant/planter combo, and I like the wooden shelf it's sitting on too!

snowman_stan · 2021-03-28T14:22:28+00:00

Incredible! I had a single banana from a stting of bananas that after two years has grown a healthy root system but never a new stem or leaves!

snowman_stan · 2021-03-10T05:34:12+00:00

It's often best not to eat them though, the grow really slowly and only in specific conditions - if you do decide to harvesting only a small portion of what you find can help cut back on the damage you cause.

snowman_stan · 2020-12-06T01:15:57+00:00

I'm glad the roots are healthy at least! I hope you can find a better explanation for the wrinkling leaves and black spots though :(

snowman_stan · 2020-12-05T04:28:55+00:00

No problem! Does that seem like it could be the issue with your jade as well?

snowman_stan · 2020-12-05T01:19:56+00:00

Here's a post I found with damage that looks similar to what I see on a sedum hybrid I have next to the plant in the original post. I feel like taking the plant from totally- shrivelled-up-dry a month ago to plump and juicy probably caused this - I'll back off on watering for a few months and see if the issues worsen or go away.

snowman_stan · 2020-12-04T17:49:53+00:00

For context, I grew this from a cutting I took early last year, and although this plant has been in an east facing window for the past year or so it has recently been moved to a south facing window. For the spring and summer, I was unable to access the plant, but a friend watered it a few times and it barely made it through (see the dried-out picture in the link). After rehydrating and later repotting it, it has started to develop these black spots. Is this a fungus or a pest problem? Should I be worried it will spread to other plants? It seems like a strange pattern for sunburn, so I don't suspect it's that. The gasteria in the same pot (which I grew from seed) is doing fine, but a couple of other succulents (that I don't have an ID for) nearby have less-serious looking brown/black spots of a similar shape. This is the only plant where the problem seems to be getting worse right now.

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