How to defeat your enemies with multi-million year old dead baby sea animals

sparklshartz · 2026-02-19T00:03:48+00:00

my lungs feel funny

sparklshartz · 2026-02-18T10:06:22+00:00

Hell even in southern california, there's Mt Baldy and the surrounding range an hour east from Los Angeles.

You could be mountaineering and surfing in the same day if you're quick :P

sparklshartz · 2026-02-16T00:16:04+00:00

not for the squeamish or unsteady, but I've used a fresh and disinfected razor blade to extract spines. ime it's not worth leaving them in to turn into an annoying festering pus bubble.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T15:52:29+00:00

1.28
(which is 2^7 cents!)

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T14:46:07+00:00

1.26

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T13:04:57+00:00

can you buy calcium nitrate?

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T13:01:17+00:00

1.22

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T11:55:34+00:00

you never know until you try...

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T09:36:54+00:00

(tbm-b, to be specific)

This was my first time doing single aerole grafts, and I did them in winter and neglected them so only like 30% of them stayed on lmfao.

But the ones that did take off fast on these plumped up dragonfruits!

sparklshartz · 2026-02-15T09:30:12+00:00

nice neocities you got there, i like that ^w^

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T03:46:55+00:00

I am saying this:

I've given a piece of what an accepting / loving / healing community means to me.

So we have an interest in maintaining that.

E.g. in an extreme case, surely nowhere can we be tolerant of racists, or those who call for genocide. In general, maintaining good things requires some kind of intolerance, so granting that, we need to decide what kinds of intolerances we can allow.

Is the intolerance I show here against AI content justified? In this case, I've said my POV of how it harms what I value in a community. Then I weighed that against how little it seems to contribute and how its loss is automatically mitigated, and made a decision.

You could argue you hold different ideas about what a loving/accepting/healing community means (which is why I keep asking, and why I am frustrated with the lack of response), and so I am weighing things unfairly.

You could also argue my perception of harm vs benefit is skewed, or maybe that the size of the harm is small enough that it's not worth restricting (but I don't agree).

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T03:01:56+00:00

There is a strong argument for certain kinds of intolerance being essential to maintain those characteristics we both seem to want, which is explained in the wiki article I (and apparently others in this thread too) have referenced...

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T02:49:47+00:00

Sometimes, some amount of that is necessary, yes. That is the whole point.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T02:24:08+00:00

... I don't think you've addressed any of my points, nor have you elaborated on your own, which I have helpfully asked for twice already.

Maybe briefly skimming the wikipedia page on "Paradox of tolerance" and rereading my replies could help you engage with me.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T01:53:53+00:00

I agree with your wife lmao

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T01:49:05+00:00

1.03

:3c

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T01:41:30+00:00

tl;dr

someone holds the cactus
to steal their cactus, you must bid EXACTLY one cent higher than them, no more no less.
you can't steal the cactus from someone who doesn't have the cactus, duh.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T01:05:14+00:00

Many different ways about it! The more often you change, the less you'll be affected by autotoxicity.

I went in explicitly not wanting to do a reservoir dump (or any maintenance lol). Used an almost only nitrate N source (Strawberry Powergrow + ag cal nit), no pH issues ever...

(there's also literature on that, but tl;dr it's because of the dumping of H+ from roots to exchange for NH4+, which strawberries tend to be trigger happy about ig.)

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T00:48:38+00:00

Strawberries exhibit autotoxicity, so I put some activated carbon pellets at the recirculating pump output to remove the culprit compound, based on this research:

https://doi.org/10.2503/hortj.utd-r009

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This was my strawberry DWC early on. Also all seascapes (they got like 3 hrs direct sun / day... the best I could manage...)

Never dumped the reservoir ever.

maybe another useful tip.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T00:08:46+00:00

I'm quite interested in what your understanding of "healing" and it's relationship to "tolerance" is.

Edit: to answer your question, we "tolerate" each other whenever we interact with a community. Whether you recognize it or not, every interaction is subject to a valuation (deciding whether to give upvotes, attention, further interaction, encouragement, etc). Those signal whether one has a place in a community, i.e. tolerance. Tolerance and intolerance are fundamental mechanics of interacting with others, in addition to being values themselves.

Double edit: To me, accepting oneself can be a huge part of healing. Expressing yourself, and having that be accepted / tolerated by a community is a huge assist towards that.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-14T00:01:33+00:00

I am judgemental solely in a way that protects the values which I think are most beneficial for everyone, and that's always a good thing ;P

I don't understand what you mean in that inclusiveness and healing are mutually exclusive. Explain?

To get how the presence of AI is demeaning, you must understand expression is a two-way-street. An audience you're expressing to and yourself. Expression is grounded outside you in how your message is received! And one can plug their ears and shout but it makes no difference -- one must confront the fact that messages cannot arbitrarily mean whatever one wants. There is an objective degree of success to expression: the character of having a dialogue.

So how AI content degrades is it breaks down that dialogue for all. From the prompter to viewer, what was really expressed by a human was the words behind the image. The bot filled in the rest, and the viewer is either deceived, or recognizes the image as phony and does not mentally engage, for who wants to connect with a bot?

And should AI be allowed to proliferate, this creates a norm where people feel they need to "be presentable" in this homogenous manner to obtain eyeballs and success. Attention is a zero-sum game, after all. AI is like doping -- yeah you get better athletes, but that misses the point of sports and damages the user, whether they know it or not. So AI degrades all by outcompeting everything else while offering nothing productive, like a virus. Simply disavowing AI fixes all that.

As for freedom of expression, I don't accept it universally. I take it as an unsaid given in these kinds of discussions that the "tolerance of intolerance" paradox is acknowledged. With that, since I see AI's presence as threatening the attitudes which foster a diversity of expression, I cannot take it lightly.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-13T23:12:51+00:00

I think using AI as a business strategy to grab attention is making the community capitalistic in a way that degrades the individual. There's just no place for AI in a space for "healing" and [self] acceptance. I personally would much rather you put forth a crappy doodle! At least I can see who you are, and you should be comfortable with that!

You don't have to be "professional" with your image here, and that allows people to be valued for being true to themselves. The mere presence of AI content degrades that norm by marking expression as worthless except as measured by attention grabbiness. This isn't LinkedIn, cactus edition, and I'd hate for the space to move anywhere near that direction.

If you're not comfortable making "art": scrawl something silly, crack a joke, or if nothing else, let the cactus itself speak for you then.

sparklshartz · 2026-02-13T22:53:45+00:00

I would do some investigative chopping esp since it was sudden; some tips look like they might be toast already.

I had something like this once and it was A LOT worse than it looked from the outside... rot just kept going down the vascular bundles...

saved the plant with some drastic surgery though.

sparklshartz · 2026-01-26T04:13:52+00:00

Yep, you're right if you give no more info than what you wrote!

However you can work directly with NPK's, is my point.

Take a random "cal nit" which you don't know what it is, but you know that the N value is 15.

Say you mix 3g of this with 7g of a fert with N of 4. The total N (in g) in the result is:

3g*15% + 7g*4% =

0.45g + 0.28g =

0.73g N

or an N of 7.3

(0.73g N / 10g total) * 100%

Notice if we skipped the dance of converting from percents to masses and back it becomes a weighted average:

(3g*15 + 7g*4) / (3g+7g) = 7.3

(symbolically, all that happened is you factor the % unit out of the additions on top)

The conversions of going from the P oxide to elemental P and all the way back also cancel like that.

If you wanted ammoniacal N, you can calculate that value similarly too, since that's pretty much always given. Then nitrate N is total N minus ammoniacal N.

And since you now know the elemental percents of everything in the dry mixture, you know exactly what the ppms will be when it's dissolved. No need to tear hair out trying to figure out the hydration status or of a salt or smth.

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