www.sciencedaily.com City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously thought
Research uncovers new information about the role that forest edges play in buffering global impacts of climate change and urbanization.
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It is the same as other easily spreading plants. In their native habitats there are checks like diseases and predators. When you move them out of those habitats they can thrive at a new level because of the lack of those things.
You can look at wildlife/pollinator gardening. There are different focuses like rewilding or even restoration. There are also a lot of companies willing to sell incredibly invasive plants while calling them nice things, so buy from a reputable source if you do buy plants or seeds.
Absolutely, and just to expand on why they can be wildly inaccurate. Local governments have different ways of updating assessments. Most are simply small increases to the assessment every year. Small enough that they haven't kept up with the market. If you watch, there are usually huge jumps on assessed value when a property sells because that sale value (aka market value) gets recorded as the assessed value.
Refreezing is fine for safety (if you thawed it correctly). The main reason not to freeze and thaw things multiple times is that tiny ice crystals do damage to the structure of the food each time freezing happens.
In meat, that damage makes your meat dry out easier when cooking. That's normally a bad thing, bit it might actually be a good idea for making jerky.
In short, I would have no hesitation using refrozen meat to make jerky
Earthworms are invasive in parts of North America...
I appreciate your sacrifice. It would've been me if not you
Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of "peer reviewed journals", for the people charging you both.
That's a weird way to say "take a walk", but ok.
Connecticut, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
Exactly what I was thinking. If I saw this I would look for hinges before stepping up.
Even worse, he is headed up. Why is he looking down?
I would do it from the top (flat) with a guide. I would probably start with a circular saw, go until the front bumps the wall and finish the last parts with another tool. This allows the front and top to look straight which is all you'll see
Nope, I had the same experience. I don't know how many tutorials for set up of docker and jellyfin via docker that I read/watched and tried. Eventually I found one that worked, but I am still in that steep part of the curve after having successfully set up a few containers. That said, it has worked flawlessly since install, so...
I'm not from Austrailia, but the general rule for pruning is that up to 30% of the crown is ok, so I wouldn't worry at all about 10%.
This might already be your plan, but the best branches to prune are the ones with the most leverage. Those are the tallest and longest ones. The least effective will be the shortest, lowest, and closest to the trunk.
Unnecessary info: Trees need leaves to make food, but leaves use water and other soil nutrients. Trees need roots to gather water and other soil nutrients, but roots don't make food. The balance in pruning is between these two things. Cutting off branches in the hot and dry will probably actually help the plant survive because you are reducing water demand during a time when food is plentiful. The trick is to not overdo it and starve the roots. That's where that 30% idea comes from. Almost every plant will tolerate that amout of cutback without taking root damage.
I was on a crew for a while that worked 8 (10hr) days on, 6 days off. I would choose that again in a heartbeat if I could. 2 day weekends barely give me time to get out of the work mindset
You're adding extra layers by using an app, even the official one. You might want to try accessing through a browser. The app refused to connect for a while because of https settings.
You can cut cheese with a wire. Imagine having a thin piece of metal through a hole in your ear with weight on it. Your lobe is the cheese the ear ring is the cutter.
When someone would ask, "Who wants to be 100 years old?" My grandpa would respond, "Ask someone who is 99." I think that applies here. When will you feel like you can give up - well, why not now? What will be different when you're 40 or 50? Why wouldn't you want to be dating? Why wouldn't you want your body to work?
Mull browser vulnerability?
F-droid is telling me that there is a security vulnerability in Mull. Does anyone know what it is? F-droid doesn't provide details, and I can't find anything relevant on Mull's side either. I am assuming it is some out-of-date library but would like to know the risk?
Does Gboard spell checker phone home on Android?
I assumed that Gboard spell checker contacted servers constantly and have it switched off for whatever good that does. I recently tried enabling it to play with other options and noticed that it works when my phone is entirely offline.
Does anyone know if it works locally or does it just send a bunch of data out once I give it internet access again?
Bonus question: Does anyone know of a privacy respecting spell checker for android? It looks like Florisboard can work with Hunspell through Nuspell but not on Android. Is that right?
Need help choosing a Funkwhale (and other fediverse) instance(s)
I am looking to just dip my toes on a couple of other platforms. What I am finding while trying to choose an instance for Funkwhale (or Friendica, Pixelfed, etc) is that there is very little in the way of descriptions for finding something to match me and I would just be choosing at random.
I am using the official sites' server recommendations/lists to look through and am really getting no info that is helpful to me. Does anyone know of other resources?
My best option at this point is to use a throw away account to get on any server then spend just enough time interacting to find a good one and try to join it. Does that seem reasonable?
Globe gilia (Gilia capatata) in bloom
With a sweat bee on it for good measure
Preferred settings for xkcd
I never scrolled down that far on the page.
Reed (juncus) roots
This plant works hard to clean the water I keep out for wildlife. This one grabbed up so much nitrogen/phosphorus that it got pot bound in one year. I split it in half so each half has twice as much room to grow this year.
City trees and edges impacts on carbon storage
tldr: urban woodland edges around Boston are accumulating carbon faster than expected because the soil microbiome is less functional than in more rural systems. How long that will work as a C sink is unknown.
Name for Lemmy mascot (unofficial)
I thought I would throw this out to everyone in an easy way after seeing this post https://lemmy.ca/post/76405
What do you think the lemming mascot of Lemmy should be called? Top level comments should just be the name.
Lablabi (adapted from a Milk Street recipe)
This is one of the best tasting and easiest things I make. If you don't want to buy harissa you can make your own pretty easily and keep the cost down. The measurements don't need to be precise at all, so I only translated to metric using numbers I thought I could multiply in my head. Let me know if I made a mistake.
Ingredients
For cooking
3-5 quarts water or veggie stock (4-6 L)
2 cups dried chickpeas (0.5 L)
Kosher salt and ground black pepper (to taste)
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (75 mL)
1 large yellow onion, chopped
6 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons tomato paste (30 mL)
2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL)
6 tablespoons harissa (90 mL)
2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL)
For Toppings
8 ounces (250 g) crusty bread (stale works), sliced 1/2-inch-thick (1cm)and torn into bite-size pieces
2 tablespoons lemon juice (30 mL)
Extra-virgin olive oil
Harissa
2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted (30 mL)
1/2 cup drained capers (120 mL)
1/2 cup
Looking for a new mobile OS
I have been running lineageOS on my OnePlus 2. I liked it, but Lineage has stopped supporting my phone. There are two options that I have been able to find as replacements - postmarketOS and /e/OS. Any thoughts on those or other recommendation? Anything that gets security updates, is open source, and is functional meets my needs.
How To Make INARI SUSHI - The Vegan Zombie
Here is a video demonstrating how to make inari (tofu pouches filled with rice). Sushi purists might take issue with some of his technique, but they probably don't need to watch this anyways :)
Yumm sauce
This is a copycat recipe from a restaurant. They serve it on top of rice, beans, olives, cilantro, and green onions. We put it on anything that needs a little something extra and change up the spices to match. It is supposed to be thick like a cheese sauce, but it tastes like its own thing. Anyways:
Materials
1/2 cup Canola Oil
1/2 cup Almonds toasted
1/2 cup Chickpeas cooked and drained
1/2 cup Water
1/2 cup Freshly squeezed Juice of 1 Lemon
1/3 cup Nutritional Yeast Flakes
2 cloves Garlic crushed
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Curry Powder
1/4 cup Cilantro chopped
Instructions
Place oil, almonds, chickpeas and water into a food processor or blender. Process until smooth.
Add remaining ingredients. Process again until smooth.
Store, covered (not too tightly, at first, the yeast may need to expand), in the refrigerator, until ready to use.
Text copied from: https://secretcopycatrestaurantrecipes.com/cafe-yumm-yumm-sauce-recipe/
Plants in bloom - large flowered collomia
The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower.
I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?
Plants in bloom - Meadow-foam
This one is meadow-foam (Limnanthes douglasii). It's annual that is native to prairies of the west coast of North America. Smells great, looks cool, and bugs like it. Comercially, similar plants are grown for the oil from their seeds. The seeds off this one will just fall where they want to sprout up in spring of '22.
What are you excited about today?
For me it is my phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) blooming. I throw some seed down wherever I don't have other plans because the bugs love the flowers? What have you got going?