This sort of thing happens all the time, and it’s usually subject to some level of debate. Just look at the ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa. Some say there is one species with multiple subspecies, some say they are just different varieties, some say that they are different species, or some are and some arent, etc.

I haven’t read this article yet, but I did recently read about electric planes. There are a shockingly large percentage of flights in the US (and probably the world) that are that short. Not a percentage of passengers, but percentage of flights. Lots of islands that don’t have a routine ferry service, or small rural communities in places like Alaska that may be separated from the road system by a mountain range.

Those small communities couldn’t support constant rail (or ferry) service, so small planes are actually the most economical way to serve them. Even places like Hawaii could use electric planes to good effect.

The first I read about them was for flights to Nantucket Island, which absolutely gets ferry service, but it’s also where a lot of rich people have homes, and they are going to fly. https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/cape-air-to-buy-electric-planes

And for anyone curious, it’s an old enough (1869) book that it’s in the public domain, and you can download it free from project gutenberg. As always with older literature, there’s going to be some stuff that’s not scientifically best practice, so don’t take it as gospel, but use it as a starting point.

In the same vein “Living on a Few Acres” is a US dept of Agriculture publication that you can also get free online. Mine is from 1978 and also has a lot of good stuff.

Most people in America have health insurance through their employer. This was originally designed to be a perk of jobs back in the day, but now it unfortunately links healthcare to employment. If you are retirement age, you can get Medicare, which is government sponsored healthcare that still works through the private system, so there are no “government doctors” or anything like that for that population. Similarly, for disabled folks, or those poor enough (which can be hard to prove), they can get Medicaid.

If you lose your job, there’s a system to pay to extend your employer’s insurance policy until your next job’s plan kicks in, but it’s expensive cause your old job is no longer paying a big percentage of it, so a lot of people gamble on not needing insurance if for example, they end one job in May and know they have a new job starting in September.

With insurance, there are some government mandated policies. For example (and don’t quote me on this cause I don’t know the exact policies), things determined to be “preventative” have no out of pocket cost, so you won’t generally pay for a regular yearly checkup, vaccines, etc. There are often options for insurance types to pick from depending on if you anticipate needing lots of care (e.g., a healthy young person probably won’t, but if you are trying to have a baby, you know there are a lot of costs associated).

My employer pays for my insurance. If I were to get cancer, I would probably end up paying for a couple thousand dollars of appointments, scans, etc (called the deductible). Then I’d reach a point where my insurance covers most of the cost, and I kick in 20% (called the coinsurance level). Eventually, if my costs hit a certain limit (the out of pocket limit), insurance covers everything. I think it’s like $8k or something like that for me. That’s the most I could ever have to pay in a year.

People get screwed over by a few things. First is that while I could put together $8k if I had to, many people still have trouble with that. The second is people falling through the cracks of the labyrinthine system, and they end up without insurance while in between jobs or whatever. The third thing is that insurance decides what is necessary, so if you live in the middle of nowhere, and your child gets a specific type of cancer, you might not want to settle for whatever the “standard of care” is at your local hospital, you might want to fly across the country to go to the best hospital for that cancer, and your insurance isn’t going to cover that cost.

And it is incredibly important to note that the insurance companies don’t play fair. When your doctor tells the insurance company that you need a certain procedure, they have an automated system send out a “no”. Your doctor then has to spend time to appeal the decision. Eventually, you might get the care you need paid for, but by engaging in these practices, they are hoping you will either 1: pay yourself, or 2: die.

Also, a final note that I think is important is that cancer, and many chronic illnesses, makes people desperate, and willing to try anything. There is a huge ecosystem (and it probably exists in your country, too), of people selling alternative (i.e., fake) medicine to cure them. Yeah, it’s possible to wind up with a $50k bill for real medicine, but you also have people paying large sums to feed bleach to their autistic kids and then trying to pay for it with go fund me.

Try the Norwegian Paralysis if you haven’t had it.

It’s because they want people to mentally subtract “military-age males” from the figures.

Hard water can build up in the soil. There’s some plants I’ve had in the same pot for a long time where the top of the soil starts to look a little “crusty”, even though i don’t have particularly hard water. If you have a lot of lime scale, your water pH is likely high, which can make it hard for plants to pickup nutrients.

Pro tip for killing the lanternflies: they are super quick and jumpy, but it takes a bit for them to build up a second jump, so once they land on their first, it’s easy to squash them.

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This is a great example of why to check before killing/removing any bugs from your plants. Same thing when you see eggs planted on your leaves. It would suck to crush a bunch of assassin bug eggs on a plant.

I had yellow jackets build a nest inside one of my potted plants last year. On one hand, it’s a little sketchy, on the other hand, wasps and Hornets are great multipurpose predators if they aren’t located where they will bother you much.

Yeah, as someone with some all-clad, it’s really nothing special. I heard that the handles are geared towards maintaining the ability to prevent twisting of the pan in your hand while using pot holders/towels, and i think they work well for that.

I strongly agree with this. You aren’t necessarily going to get fancy brand names, but you can get a stainless frying pan with a big billet of aluminum on the bottom for heat distribution for $20. Spending 5 times that amount basically just gets you a mirror finish, a brand name, and the ability to put it in a dishwasher (and who does that with pans?).

Carbon steel pans are another one. You shouldn’t need to spend more than $10 on a carbon steel pan. The materials are cheap and they can be easily mass produced. There’s nothing that should make it expensive.

Basically an allied country having a base in your country means that any attacker would presumably also have to attack your ally, drawimg them into the conflict. Obviously agreements like NATO article 5 can do that, but people can back out of agreements. Physical presence is more binding than paper.

The nuts at this stage smell very citrusy, almost. Apparently that doesnt last for nocino, but it might for the “molasses”. Also, be forewarned that the nuts are light green-whitish on the inside when you first cut them open, but they rapidly start to oxidize and the liquid inside starts to darken, and I bet it could stain your hands/clothes/cutting board if you don’t rinse quickly.

Technically, you can have 1 reservation on their system with multiple cars, so if you booked like a 15 person site, you could arrive in 4 separate cars. The receipt reflects this with a line item of “vehicles=x”. For mine, it says “vehicles=0”, so somehow it recognizes that the gibberish wasn’t a real car, but i was still required to do it.

I did a very similar project. I was designing cabinet doors that all needed to look the same, but needed to be different widths. I did it before the update to 1.0 so the process is a little different now. I will say it wasn’t that hard, and I definitely parameterized way more stuff than I needed just cause I was playing around with it.

pH doesn’t necessarily tell the right story if you are concerned about acidity for your teeth, GI tract, or taste. Something like distilled water will turn acidic with a pH of 5.8 due to co2 absorption. There’s barely any “acid” there, though, it just doesn’t have any buffering capability compared to water with some dissolved solids in it (like tap water). What really matters is what they call “titratable acidity”.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45776-5_22

They sell a “single dose” hopper that in my opinion isn’t worth it. It’s basically just giving you bellows, which you could just buy yourself and stick with your existing hopper. I’m curious what other mods there are, though, so let me know what you find.

I am assuming they are just out of stock temporarily. I wanted one a while back and I just had to wait a little bit. If you email their support, they are super helpful.

If you’ve never taken it apart, i would definitely do that before ordering stuff from baratza. There’s a good chance if you’ve been using it for a while that’s you have some broken bits of the paddles that clear grounds into the chute, and that’s easy to replace when you replace the burrs. Same thing with the upper burr carrier. It uses 3 points of contact to maintain a setting, and if one breaks, it’s not super obvious except in makes a less consistent grind. To get to that, you just need to pull off the hopper and upper carrier without any tools.

Southern baptists were pro-choice until the rise of the “moral majority” required southern baptists to fall in line with the catholic church on abortion to create the supply side Jesus we know today.