You live for these opportunities. The pay stinks, your parents don’t understand what you do for a ‘living’, but you got a sick pun in a Nature Group™️ publication.

Sweet.

Sad. I thought the joke was that Mr Shatner was also the director of that one. That would have been a funny self-own that shows self-awareness

I’m so conflicted. The cops ordered this. They would have charged him for disobeying. But he also gave a lot of ketamine under sketchy circumstances where he could have claimed a medical reason for refusing. But I know what paramedics make and it’s not enough to weather a legal challenge unscathed.

Nonetheless, Elijah McClain is dead because of his direct action. Being aware of nuance doesn’t help that one little bit.

“The ends justify the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have are means.”

U.K. LeGuin

A distinction without a difference. Religion produces demonstrable harm to many people. To be religious is to be an extremist. The entire idea that a being from your imagination should influence my behavior is whack.

usajobs.gov is the official posting site for federal government jobs. The link above is to some kind of commercial site trying to charge for what is freely available.

I blame shitty sitcoms. If you really look at them, most people are terrible to each other.

My hobbies mostly sit at the intersection of plants and electronics/programming esp. microcontrollers and managing fleets of them.

Im obsessed with making things grow and relatively simple types of automation can make a huge difference to a plant. A trickle of water applied at the right frequency can turn an unforgiving sun-scorched balcony into a garden.

Im currently working on prototypes of a device destined for mass production. It’s a power unit for a temporary immersion bioreactor used in plant tissue culture. The benefit of my approach is that the power unit can work with almost any growing container and the unit doesn’t need any power hookups.

The unit is powered by the plant grow lights and my Mark I prototype proved it can harvest enough energy to perform any published temporary immersion protocol I have seen.

I think this qualifies as ‘weird’ because it usually requires explanation to justify the ‘why’ of this project. Plant tissue culture is not a common interest.

But if you want to plant a trillion trees and ‘save the planet’, we will need to develop some new propagation methods. This is my little attempt to address some of that need.

If it were a local depression instead of a hill, the lines would be hatch-marked on the side pointing into to depression.

That’s my understanding too, the substrate often being a root ball from a long gone tree

Oh my . . .

Weirdo!

But seriously that’s the way it really is. I think we need neighbors as badly as friends these days. It’s those casual second order relationships that contribute to a feeling of community.