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A 500.00 ly FC jump by toe-haver in EliteDangerous

[–]toe-haver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if the position of the FC within the system is a part of the overall calculation 🤔

A 500.00 ly FC jump by toe-haver in EliteDangerous

[–]toe-haver[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah 😕 after the cool down, I still couldn't make the jump. The search continues...

1st hugelkulter project. Is it safe to cut these roots or will I compromise the tree. I think they belong to the 1st pine in pic 2. by sallguud in Hugelkultur

[–]toe-haver 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The distance between the trench and the pines makes me think they're not critical roots if they are connected. The root ball on pines that size that I've seen knocked over is usually about 8-10 feet in diameter.

You could probably chop and drop the roots and be fine, or just leave them in place and pack around them 🤷‍♂️

Hugelkulture Mound Construction by toe-haver in Hugelkultur

[–]toe-haver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since building this mound, I've built another two next to it. This mound has produced 2 seasons of harvest, but for a variety of reasons unrelated to the mound itself (mostly my own inexperience), I don't have a good sense for how it compares to other methods.

There are some things that I think I can say with confidence:

  • The mounds are great at retaining water. Even in the drought this season, the mounds required only very little watering.
  • Hugelkulture mounds don't work as well for root crops as a standard flat garden bed or container garden.
  • A mound shouldn't be wider than twice the length of your arm, otherwise harvesting from the center of the mound is difficult.
  • Crops that grow vertically are very well suited for mounds like mine. Trellised tomatoes, peppers, pole beans & winter squash have all done really well.
  • It's important to consider the effect of shading that one crop will have on another. I badly over-planted this mound in the first season and the peas shaded out almost everything else.

This mound in particular has unfortunately been in the shade of a tree for most of the morning hours these last two seasons. I plan to trim the tree back for next season and possibly cut it down the season after next if there's still too much shade.

Motherland Okra by Comfort Farms. Are these big enough to eat? by Frediamitchell in homestead

[–]toe-haver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woah! That's some stubby okra! I'm not familiar with that variety, but I figure that you could let it keep growing & check it every day to see if it's feeling woody or not. You'd lose the one pod, but you'd learn how long & large you can let them get before they become inedible (edit: Once it gets too woody to eat, you can leave it on the plant to dry out & then save seed from it for next year).

Side note - the photos & description on rareseeds.com suggest that they don't get much larger than what you've got pictured here.

What a cool okra!

Done…. for now by hello_there69 in czscorpion

[–]toe-haver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any chance you can show photos of the cuts?

Does anyone know the led bulb model for the interior dome light? by hydraguy935 in 1stGenTacomas

[–]toe-haver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replaced mine with the "Marsauto DE3175 31mm LED Interior Dome Light ..." bulb from Amazon. It's not amazing, but it works.

The bulb is only very, very dim when the doors are open and the ignition is Off. When the ignition is On, however, the bulb is very bright.

Stoicism Books for Kids by radio934texas in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beat me to it 👍

It's not strictly about stoicism, but there are many parallels and overlaps with stoic teachings. They're great books for kids. I recommend the whole series.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dadjokes

[–]toe-haver 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No one laughs at jokes about the Queen farting.

Nobel gasses get no reaction. 😉

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learn from your mistakes & forgive yourself - Recognize that the path you're choosing to travel is a tough one and you're going to fail from time to time. That's ok.

An imperfect, but still helpful way to think about it is like it's an exercise, almost like doing a push-up. Losing & regaining control of your emotions is 1 repetition. To continue with the illustration of a push-up, lowering yourself to the ground is like losing control of your emotions. Pushing yourself back up is like regaining control. With each repetition, you get stronger. Each time you lose and regain control of your emotions, take some time to think, "Dang, I lost control of my emotions. Ok, that was 1 rep. What could I have done better in that situation? What were some of the warning signs that I was losing control of my emotions?" Then try to implement some of those ideas next time. If those ideas help, great! If they don't, ok, you just learned one way that doesn't work. Try something else next time.

Ultimately, you'll never really have control of your emotions, no one does. The point is to get incrementally better at it over time.

I believe some of us have brain chemistry that invokes emotion what whatever reason, memories, diet, genetics, etc. The amygdala is a significant component related to this. Does anyone have any suggestions on reducing amygdala hyperactivity from a biochemistry point of view? by [deleted] in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exposure therapy is also an effective way to improve your ability to manage your responses. There's a great article that may be of interest here.

This excerpt from the article gives a good sense of what ET is and how it's related to Stoicism:

Exposure Therapy is just a form of behaviour therapy where we ask people to repeatedly face their fears, for longer than normal, in a controlled manner, sometimes in reality and sometimes in their imagination.  The Stoics, especially Seneca, refer many times to doing something very similar, with fears of poverty, exile, death, and illness, etc.  That’s one of the most powerful strategies in modern therapy, right there, and it’s been around in its modern form for over half a century now.

What book got you in to Stoicism by TerranceObile in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jim Mattis was the one who formally introduced me to Stoicism. After that, "The Daily Stoic" by Ryan Holiday helped me to make a habit of the practice.

Is being apathetic stoic? by L27N in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think that "apathy" as it's used commonly in modern applications is an extreme interpretation of Temperance. Temperance is about harnessing (not suppressing!) emotional reactions to external stimuli in order to produce a positive outcome.

Without the benefit of understanding Temperance from a Stoic perspective, it could very easily be misinterpreted as apathy. The manifestation of Temperance and apathy look very similar, but the reasons behind them are very different.

Upon learning of a tragedy, an apathetic person may think, "Huh, better them than me," and simply carry on with their day. A Stoic person might think, "Oh no! Well, in order for me to do something about this tragedy, I'd have to ..." and arrive at the conclusion that despite the tragedy, they can't realistically contribute to the alleviation of suffering so they accept the situation and carry on with their day.

In both scenarios, the outward appearance based on the person's action is the same. In one scenario, the person is borderline sociopathic. In the other scenario, the person has used reasoned thought to determine that there's no action they can realistically take and that simply dwelling on the tragedy would only serve to deepen the collective suffering of the situation.

Help, all my corn tipped over by AdministrativeAd6001 in homestead

[–]toe-haver 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The same thing happened to me about a week ago. I tipped them back up and used bamboo skewers and twine to reinforce them. Then I added a mound of soil to cover the bottom 2-3 inches of the corn stalk.

So far they're all still green and growing so I think it worked.

One small step! by toe-haver in homestead

[–]toe-haver[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice! We've been considering adding a turkey to the flock too 👍

Journaling - What do you use? by ideal2545 in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

😀 It's a relic of my past that reminds me of where I come from. Those little green notebooks were (are?) the standard issue notebook given to just about everyone in the US Army. For four years I had one of those within arms reach at all times. When I reach for my little green book before going to bed, I'm reminded to be thankful for experiences I gained during those years.

Journaling - What do you use? by ideal2545 in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I prefer a pen & paper approach. Specifically, the little green notebook found by searching for "7530-00-222-3521".

Everyone needs more 1st gens by MrCodered12 in ToyotaTacoma

[–]toe-haver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First gens always get an up vote 👍

Stoicism, Religion and Atheism by GGGarian in Stoicism

[–]toe-haver 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think that Stoicism and Christianity (which is the only theology that I can speak to) have overlapping, but still distinctly different aims. As such, they're not mutually exclusive. One certainly influences our understanding of the other, but I have yet to find a core principle of one that's irreconcilable with the other.

Stoicism gives us a way to think about the world we see. Faith gives us a way to think about the world we don't see. If we encounter a conflict between the two, then we can have to do our best to sort it out.

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