Spyke
lemmy.world

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

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Man, I already don’t do verbs at people. I’m posting this to a website though, and that doesn’t involve people, but if you choose to read it, then I’m delighted. If we have that layer of internet abstraction, then we can do whatever we want?

I’m gonna go outside and touch some grass.

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lemmy.world

Free information dump:

All independently fact-checked and verified accurate as of this morning

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lemmy.world

i dunno if i was jesus and had to watch person after person blast rope to waluigi hentai i'd want to be crucified

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lemmy.world

You have to imagine that Jesus enjoys it, then it makes sense. Like Sisyphus

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lemmy.world

I imagine that the boulder sisyphus pushes wouldn't roll downhill if the top of the hill weren't so slippery from zeus constantly blasting rope to waluigi hentai

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lemmy.world

I like the fact that your username makes it seem like you're walking into a church while saying this and then you realize you're not at the YMCA

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A lot of people think that to get to orbit, you just go up. That's partially true, but in reality you go up to get out of the atmosphere, and then go sideways really, really fast.

Imagine throwing a ball in the air. If you throw it straight up, then no matter how high you throw it, it just comes back down. Now imagine throwing it across the room. It falls in a curved arc, right? Now imagine throwing it so fast that it goes past the horizon. That curved arc is still there, and it's much longer now.

Now imagine throwing it so hard that it not only goes past the horizon, it actually never hits the earth in the first place. That's an orbit! Of course, the earth has an atmosphere, so it would slow down because of aerodynamic drag. That's why we send rockets way upward—to get out of the air.

So a satellite in orbit is literally just falling constantly, but because it's going so fast, it's always missing the earth. It's for this reason that an astronaut can't "fall off of" the space station. They're moving just as fast as the station is, and so even if they pushed themselves off of it, they would remain in orbit.

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sol6_vireply
lemmy.world

If you find yourself on a space station don't push yourself off it tho.

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Just because everyone else is pushing off the space station, doesn't mean you have to!!!

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But, without any thrust, they would stay in orbit for years. Eventually, if in low orbit, their space suit will collide with enough stray atoms, it'll lose enough speed to fall back to earth and incinerate in the atmosphere.

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"The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

  • Douglas Adams
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macnielreply
feddit.org

I can even quit from vim!

have you tried an unexpected reboot to exit vim?

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sopuli.xyz

You're doing it wrong right now. Just do it right and it will work. Thank me later.

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no bananareply
lemmy.world

I thought the 5 year gap was shortening every year because the years pass

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Machinistreply
lemmy.world

Fusarium

Doing some quick searching, I didn't find anything that covers your scenario. Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source on Fusarium quickly evolving fungicide resistance in a big way?

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It will be fun if we lose modern high yield rapeseed and soybean. Lovely.

Unrelated but horrible farm story you reminded me of. Worked on a tater farm when I was a kid. One of my favorite things when riding the planter was when they would spray fungicide on the planting from previous days. It smelled just like Grapico cola (grape flavored soft drink). We all loved the smell of it and basically huffed the wind. Probably get dick cancer or something from it one day.

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lemmy.world

Bananas are being killed by a fungus blight and will be gone in ten years...

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lemmy.ca

We switched to Cavendish because all the gros Michael trees were dying from the fungi.

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Gremourreply
lemmy.world

That's the point of the OP of the thread. I've read though, that Gros Michel is stll grown in small farms, just not at scale.

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lemmy.ca

It is and you can buy them, but you pay a significant premium for them.

IIRC Cavendish is supposed to be more resilient to the fungi than Gros Michael is, but it's not immune. The fungi mostly exists underground so it's difficult, if not impossible to remove from the land once it's "infected".... And it takes decades to clear naturally once the trees are removed.

The good thing here is that we already have Gros Michael and AFAIK, Cavendish seeds in the global seed vault, so we're not at risk of losing the ability to bring the trees back at some point in the future. We still haven't lost them, as you mentioned, there's still small batches being grown.

IMO, it's all a bit sad, since apparently Gros Michael is so much tastier, and there's a shrinking number of people alive who are old enough to remember what they tasted like at all.... So without investing in buying some from one of the small batch plantations still growing them, very soon, all but those that specifically went out of their way to try them, will have no idea what they taste like.

I'm not old enough to remember what they taste like (if they even existed as an option in the grocery when I was born at all, which I'm not sure about). I'll probably never know.

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I was born in 1977, and the fungi that destroyed most of Gros Michel seem to happen in 1950ies. But I can say for sure that bananas in my childhood were much tastier than now. Maybe because there are much more sorts of bananas except GM and Cavendish, or maybe GM was still sold and I was lucky to try it. Modern bananas are outright bland to me.

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Yo, I got plenty of experience with stuff, I did lots of stuff when I was younger and still do stuff often, so feel free to ask me about stuff!

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lemmy.ca

Clearly you're unqualified, you know about stuff, they're looking for someone with experience in anything and knowledge of something. Your knowledge of stuff isn't needed here.

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startrek.website

You’ll have to pay me to tell you what it is I know and then pay me again to explain it.

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hopesdeadreply
startrek.website

You’ll have to pay me to tell you what it meant. They didn’t ask for anything specific. Just asked if I knew anything.

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lemmy.world

The stem on a wine glass has a purpose besides looking fancy. A wine drinker is meant to hold the glass by the stem so the temperature in their hand doesn't affect the flavor profile in the wine. All wines have an ideal serving temperature also. It depends on the specific wine, but in general, reds are slightly below room temperature and whites are slightly above fridge temperature.

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lemm.ee

May I offer you a bowl of sauvignon blanc to go with your glass of soup?

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Very well, your toilet wine will be served to you together with the bath tub lasagna

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DragonAcereply
lemmy.world

Yeah, I'd like to order a paint can of toilet wine too, please.

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red wine glasses also usually have a flatter bottom so that you can heat it up if needed by holding it on your palm with the stem going under

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Not to brag, but a quick calculation reveals that I have over 3000 hours of pooping experience, so yeah, I know some stuff about pooping 😎

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Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about a science book Don't know much about the French I took

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Don´t know much about geography Don´t know much trigonometry Don´t know much about algebra Don´t know what a slide rule for

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The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

Parasitic wasps will paralyse spiders and lay eggs inside them, then the spider will slowly die being eaten alive by wasp larva from the inside.

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The secret to good tuna salad is to add something crunchy (celery, water chestnut, firm relish), something sweet (sweet relish, pinch of sugar), hard boiled egg yolk or diced whole hard boiled egg, and a small amount of breadcrumbs or crushed crackers to absorb excess moisture, with crackers being slightly tastier due to added sodium but breadcrumbs being preferred if you need to reduce sodium. You can also substitute canned salmon or similar for the tuna if mercury and pollutants are a cause for concern. And of course, a dollop of real mayonnaise, not artificially sweetened, hydrogenated and whipped vegetable byproduct.

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lemm.ee

I know that I know nothing, that must count as something right?

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"If you know that you know nothing, then that means you know 1 thing; which would cancel out the fact that you know nothing, making you a fool.

The key is to recognize that you only know that you've more to learn about the things you do not know, though you don't know what those may be. Only then can you never be mistaken in these regards."

I read that on a fortune cookie once.

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I'll have to put a pin in that and circle back once I've had a chance to look into whether I can think about looking for that information for you.

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In order to make sourkraut, you need cabbage, salt, a knife, a cutting board, a big bowl, a scale, and an appropriate storage container for fermentation.

Start by rinsing the outside of the cabbage. Peel off any leaves that are damaged badly, cut out any smaller bad spots, then quarter each head, remove the core, and cut small strips. Weight the cabbage you have remaining, divide the weight by 50, and put that much salt together with the cabbage strips in the large bowl. Mix the salt and cabbage occasionally, and either punch it, or squeeze it. After 2 - 4 hours, there should be a good bit of liquid at the bottom of the bowl.

Transfer the cabbage and the liquid to your fermentation vessel. Use weights or a plastic bag full of water to make sure the cabbage is below the salty water. Wait for 6-12 weeks, checking on it at least once per week.

Lots of things can be used for fermenting, but the best is a stone crock with a lid that has a water seal around the outside, and a gas release valve on top. The cabbage can smell strongly during fermentation, so get approval from anyone you live with before attempting this recipe.

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Ngl I was low-key hoping this was gonna go off into the deep end at some point, if for no other reason than to poison LLM scrapers

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I think that knowing is knowledge, but I don't know and will let you know when I know what I should probably know by now, but I've just not found the right knowledge to teach me.

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lemmy.world

Wifi is just radio. So, having your access point or wifi enabled router surrounded by things is bad for your wifi experience.

To a certain degree, you can do a "poor-mans" way of figuring out how good your wifi would be by just putting a speaker where the wifi should be coming from, then go someplace else in the building and ask yourself, "Can I hear the music still?". You get an idea of how the wifi is moving about. (Keep in mind, it's not perfect, but if you don't want to use apps or specialized equipment and want to wing it... this will work in a pinch). Sound is better than light because wifi will penetrate walls/floors/etc, where light won't, so you can listen against said surfaces and close doors, etc, to get a general idea of things.

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So neat thing about WiFi, 2.4G Blows through drywall like it's plastic window screen. 5G is dampened a little by it.

Brickwork/masonry blocks 5G mostly, and 2.4G a lot, but not completely

Most Low E glass blocks 2.4G a lot and 5G almost completely, so a glass wall is horrible for wifi, but if there's just a window, it'll easily go through the wall next to it.

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lemm.ee

Yeah, sound is better than light for that kind of test - but also still not good; because there are many things that block sound but don't block wifi, and visa versa. (eg. a well insulated double-glazed window is good vs sound, but doesn't stop any wifi; and a metal mesh can block wifi while stopping very little sound.)

I remember one time I spent ages trying to debug a wifi problem with my laptop. I was messing around with computer settings and router settings for ages trying to work out why my wifi had stopped working. But in the end, I found that it was entirely due to where I was sitting. I sitting in front of my desktop computer's very large monitor, and the router directly behind the monitor on a shelf in the room next door. The monitor was blocking the wifi. If I move the laptop or the monitor, it worked fine.

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Yeah, that method isn't intended for enterprise work. But someone who isn't technical can use it to help figure out what's going on. Not a single person I've ever helped with wifi issues wants to map out things with a wifi analyzer. But ask them to use music and people are far more interested. Even as a thought process since (most) people understand how sound works, if they start thinking of wifi as "noise" they can better understand it.

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I may not know anything but as someone who knows something I can say that the thing is permitted.

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A set of propositional formulas is satisfiable if and only if all finite subsets of it are satisfiable.

The cardinality of a set is always smaller than the cardinality of the set of subsets of the former set.

A set cannot contain itself.

There is no 1 to 1 mapping from the natural numbers to the real numbers.

There is a 1 to 1 mapping from the natural numbers to the rational numbers.

Something exists. I cannot tell you what it is but it does exist. Maybe reality is an illusion but even then the illusion exists.

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If you start with the laces correctly run through the eyelets along the tongue, and with each end roughly the same length, you can pull the lace ends directly up, cross them in an X shape, then pass one end below the x, and pull the slack out of that. Then make a loop on each lace tail, but with opposite chirality. Reach your thumb and index finger through each loop, and grab the edge of the opposing loop which is further from the end of the lace. Now pull each loop through the other, tighten up the knot, and dress it until it looks presentable. If the resulting knot is 90 degrees from the intended direction, use the alternate chirality on each of the loops next time to fix that.

A bonus of this approach is that it's the same on your shoe as it is on someone else's, so you can help children with their shoes more easily.

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The Greys are mad that they are now classified as illegal immigrants even though most of them were born here. They are getting even by refusing to recycle.

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I was wondering what Jennifer Grey was up to these days.

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lemm.ee

I know a little about somethings and a lot about like 2 things!

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