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Yeah self hosting email now is pretty bad. You'll be spending a lot of time trying to get off block lists and finding out you go in everyone's spamfolder. It was a chore even back in the day anyway imo
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Wife and I just planted 10 seedlings in our yard. Hopefully we'll stick around to see them become nice trees.
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Sweet. Tree tubes are great if the plants are small enough. They grow taller faster, grow straight, and are protected from pests. And they stay warmer. https://www.treepro.com/miracle-tube-tree-shelters
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InitialDave posted:Oh, it'll fit, I'm just worried about the yelps and tearing noises. Just unbolt the passenger seat and then it’ll fit easy. Have you considered moving this load using the landrover?..
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STR posted:Cripes. Thanks for that. A very good documentary about Paradise. So angry and sad watching it. The footage of the township after the fires is astonishing.
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Hahahahaha this is so loving typical of the luck of my workplace. Our major gum plantation that we use to feed the koalas managed to survive the initial fire on friday under catastrophic conditions, managed to make it through the wind changes unscathed yesterday.... And got torched by the fire service in a back burn operation today. So tomorrow is going to be hilaaaaarious fun working out how we're going to work around that loss
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I remember reading awhile back that mature eucalyptus leaves bark droppings that burn with an insane intensity, is that true in your plantations? What kind of effect does this have on your koala population? If the population is intact, can you import eucalyptus from other parts of Australia or from California? I'm just generally curious. E: also wish I could mail a few hundred thousands of gallons of water to you all, with the torrential rains in the PNW the small seasonal stream running through my backyard has grown to a significant sized stream, several of the springs that feed it are gushing water almost a foot into the air, it's so much water the 12" culvert that it drains to can't take the volume, and I have a sizable pond at the end of the gorge my house overlooks. Fortunately the ground under the house seems well drained and stable for now, and the rain's abating, so it looks like I don't have to worry about this stupid piece of poo poo getting mudslided into the gorge. Not that that'd be a bad thing, if the animals could somehow survive it. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Elviscat posted:I remember reading awhile back that mature eucalyptus leaves bark droppings that burn with an insane intensity, is that true in your plantations? What kind of effect does this have on your koala population? If the population is intact, can you import eucalyptus from other parts of Australia or from California? Yeah... They're only slightly flammable... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaxc2RuRnCQ And yep, its the same case in my plantations, except because we prune the trees, theres a lot more debris on the ground from the harvest activities and we often have a lot more grass growth under the plantations too due to the increased light from the more open canopies. Doesnt have to be dry and dead leaves either- get a gum tree hot enough and the oils in the green leaves will explode when they get hit by flame. As for the koala populations? Well.. if the wild ones are in the path of the fire, theyre hosed. A koala can move around 800m at a time across the ground before fatigue sets in and they need to rest, and fires will easily do that without blinking. If its a low intensity fire thats on the ground, they can survive that by going up, but if it gets into the crown they're stuffed. Unfortunately we cant just bring in food for them- They rely on very specialist gut flora to be able to digest what is are essentially trees totally devoid of any nutritional value, but its that specialised that its down to the varieties of trees and their localisation. Its been tried sending koalas up to the East Coast from the Adelaide Hills and they just cant digest the trees up there and die. For out koala population in captivity, we're going to have to source gum leaves from local sources to keep em going- and this big plantation might be offline for 5-10 years before its recovered. Its certainly made my Monday tomorrow a whooooole lot more stressful.
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It sounds like it sucks to keep Koalas alive. Keep fighting the good fight.
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Whats doing my head in this time is that the fires are being MORE destructive on their second pass, eg Balmoral. First time on Thursday it rolled through then turned around on Saturday, turned into a firestorm and destroyed everything left. Logically you would think most everything that can burn is done so you wouldnt fear the fire again but noooope. Christ, what a country
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Dec 22, 2019 11:28
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Whats doing my head in this time is that the fires are being MORE destructive on their second pass, eg Balmoral. First time on Thursday it rolled through then turned around on Saturday, turned into a firestorm and destroyed everything left. Logically you would think most everything that can burn is done so you wouldnt fear the fire again but noooope. Ive seen the same piece of bush burn twice a few times now, First time, you'll get a low intensity fire under low winds burn through the understorey and clear that out. What that does tho is scorches the canopy and dries it out. Then you get a day with hellish winds and that pushes a fire up into the canopy and next thing you know your pre-dried canopy is being consumed by a crown fire that roars through it. And yes, koalas SUCK to keep alive, theyre even worse when they're in captivity and become fussy bout what they eat!
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I'm happy 2019 is over soon. I do have a date on NYE so 2020 is looking quite good.
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With all of the discussion here about privacy and security lately, here's something that everyone should read. Then you will a) get freaked out and b) if you're meatpimp, have your opinion further reinforced that when everything is open, rando individuals don't really have much to worry about. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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One-way transparency, of course.
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My signed MCM book arrived yesterday, but I have only been awake at home for like 45 minutes the past two days so I haven’t had a chance to look through it. Very excited for when I actually get a chance to leaf through it.
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meatpimp posted:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab MacOS users: Be careful with this link (at least in Chrome w/High Sierra on an A1278), something on the page made my mbp kernel panic multiple times and I just lost a bunch of poo poo because I wasn't expecting a random kernel panic as a result of reading something on NYT.
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My aunt that lives in Phoenix that I only recently connected with has liver cancer (I may have misunderstood) and it is terminal. My father is a mess but I got him to make some decisions and he's booking a flight to get out there asap. This isn't going to be good for him, I haven't heard him cry in 30 years. Add in his own health issues and well, I'm not going to waste any opportunity to spend time with him.
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poo poo  At least you seem to have a healthy attitude about it.
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I'm sure it'll hit me at some point. She's a wonderful person that I was kept from knowing because my mother hated her. Dad only reconnected with her a few years ago so we're very lucky for the time we got to know her. She came to my wedding and spent some time here during dad's recovery from heart surgery. Her prognosis is not good. Dad said she had many tumors, one is pushing on her esophagus so she can't swallow. She's on morphine for the pain. Dad's got a flight booked, I just hope he gets enough time with her.
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Good luck with the fires down under you guys. Good luck with your fam Rhyno. My heart goes out to all y'all.Powershift posted:You ever get the feeling you might be an idiot? I get the Flowers for Algernon thing going. Like I'm pretty smart, I can do things others can't do, and pretty easily. Yet I'm also smart enough to know just how loving dumb I am, and how many opportunities I've missed or hosed up. I spend a lot of time living in regret, or just nostalgia for when I wasn't as aware. Sometimes I think it's worse than being just plain dumb. Some good news? My daughter has now been accepted to 4 of her top 6 colleges, and #2 and #4 have offered her 100% full ride scholarships, so those have now become #1 and #2. They're private, the awards from each amount to a value of over $200,000. Soooooooo, I don't have to pay for my daughter's college, or watch her suffer with a decade of loans. She will have to pay room and board, and I promised her as a reward for her kicking so much rear end in school that she will graduate 100% debt free, even if that means I pay her rent and food and poo poo. The local drag strip makes money over the holidays by hosting a drive-thru christmas light show that is coreographed to music, so we grabbed some friends and did that with the top down in my convertible and then we went out to her favorite restaurant on Saturday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGt5VuETGfE Not my video, but exactly what we saw. The coolest parts were the little snowman and christmas light bulbs with faces, that actually sang along with the songs. It was very well done. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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That's incredible news Lloyd, congrats. I'm watching demolition man drinking a poo poo load of haig & coke. We're 100% sure the cat is 95% blind, she just walked into my foot. The 3D printer is churning out novelty stocking fillers for the kids, we finally got the tree up and tomorrow is wrapping presents day.
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Whoa - that is awesome! Congrats on having a smart kid!
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LOL I saw your question mark mother fucker, please forgive the defensive response. I'm leaving it anyway. She's smart and also works her rear end off. The smart is luck, the rest is all her. To be fair.
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I'd like to point out my wife is completely done with Christmas so I got to decorate the tree by myself for the first time ever.
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One of our neighbors, who's child is very good friends with ours and is at our house all the time, just accused us of calling the city on them for their worn out fence falling over. Funny thing is my wife warned them about the guy across the street from them doing exactly that, but now it's obviously us since we brought it up apparently....Morons.
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LloydDobler posted:LOL I saw your question mark mother fucker, please forgive the defensive response. I'm leaving it anyway. The ? was an accident! 
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Just a few hours left to get your answers in for the Sheep Game - we are currently at 53 players, needing only eight more to match the best-ever showing. The more players we have, the better! Come play today!
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angryrobots posted:The ? was an accident! All good. I was just fuckin with ya. And between last post and now she just got notice that she got in to #2 school with half tuition covered, no word on grants yet. So of her top 6 schools, she got in to 5, with two offering half scholarships, and two offering full, with no word from the last one. It's a great situation to be in. Ironically it's still her #1 choice school that is making her wait till April to tell her if she got in. But it's a really tough school and the more we learn it's probably not as good a fit for her as she thinks. She's not a hard driving competitor, and we're hearing it's very competitive, even after you get in, with a low graduation rate. I'm hoping she picks one that actually wanted her from the beginning. I hope all you other dads get to feel pride like this, I love her so much. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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I got into my first choice college right out of high school, then I proceeded to get kicked out of there because I had no study skills or drive to be there; I was just going through the motions because it was expected of me. Wasn't until several years later, after spinning my wheels at a local JC for awhile, that I actually found my own motivation and started doing school for myself. For what it's worth, I'd agree with you that prestige isn't all that it's cracked up to be, especially for undergrad. A prestigious top tier research university everyone's heard of probably doesn't have the time or motivation to give much attention to a freshman calculus class or whatever. I ended up at a less prestigious state university after everything shook out, but I had plenty of one-on-one time with professors that I wouldn't have gotten at a research university. Sounds like your daughter is smarter and more driven than I was at that age, though, so she'll probably be fine! I'm sure you have considered all these things anyhow.
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There's definitely an air of realism with gen z unprecedented in our time. Her mom graduated in 1994 with $21k debt and I graduated in 99 with $30k in debt. Then her mom went back for a masters and graduated in 01 with $50k in additional debt. We divorced in 04 so I don't know after that - I paid mine off by 05, her mom is in default I'm sure. (engineering vs humanities, sadly) There was definitely a vibe of "if you don't get scholarships you are not going to college" througout her childhood. It's sad and inspiring at the same time. She's not super incredible, she has a strong vein of anxiety and inadequacy in her life, yet she's excelling academically. It's heartbreaking and pride-inducing all at once. But there is zero bullshit tolerance. Gay people are ok, trans people are ok, healthcare is a right, and gently caress the rich.
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Drove the XC90 250 miles today and encountered the Reduced Engine Power mode twice. Both times it happened while accelerating around 85mph. Power cycling clears it but I don't have my VIDA laptop with me. No codes on the bluetooth ODBII reader. I know what I'm doing tomorrow.
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LloydDobler posted:But there is zero bullshit tolerance. Gay people are ok, trans people are ok, healthcare is a right, and gently caress the rich. You're alright and so is your family.
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A little bit of Xmas cheer for someone in this thread is on offer. I got a PS4 Pro and it came with a voucher code for Fortnite in-game stuffs that I have zero interest in: Epic Neo Versa Outfit Epic Neo Phrenzy Back Bling 2000 V-Bucks Not sure how to get it securely to someone as I don't have PMs but lets see who wants it.
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Powershift posted:You ever get the feeling you might be an idiot? If you are not getting that feeling at least occasionally you are not trying enough new stuff What would you buy?! (Also the name Strato-Chief is cool as hell)  
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LloydDobler posted:The local drag strip makes money over the holidays by hosting a drive-thru christmas light show that is coreographed to music, so we grabbed some friends and did that with the top down in my convertible and then we went out to her favorite restaurant on Saturday night. The county park down the street from me has this kind of thing going on, and I wanted to do a nice date night the other night so we bought a ticket for that and wanted to go out to dinner afterwards. We got there right when the show "opens" at 5:00, and had to wait in line for over an hour. When you pull up to the ticket booth there's signs to turn off all of your lights, and drive slowly but to keep moving and don't stop. Of course not an eight of a mile into the thing I get stuck behind an SUV that's not only rolling forward ten feet, stopping to take pictures or some poo poo probably, rinsing and repeating, but they're slowly drifting side to side between stops so I can't get past them. And obviously every time they stop every four seconds, their brake lights are lighting up like the sun and washing out all of the Christmas lights we paid $25 to see. Finally I manage to squeeze past them and shoot a dirty look at them, and quickly catch up to ANOTHER SUV doing the same drat poo poo, except this time the park roads narrow significantly because it starts to wind through an area that's really meant for foot traffic in its regular use, so I'm stuck behind these fuckers for the entirety of the rest of the loop. Went to a nice Italian restaurant that I haven't been to since I was a kid afterwards though and the pizza was even better than I remembered though. Also both of the lovely driver offenders had Illinois plates, so they drove all the way up to ruin everything, as they do 
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Something's fucky with this new US ID system. Now I'm about as white privileged as it gets, and when I start feeling like there's suppression going on, there must be something SERIOUSLY going on. So I've tried two times to get the new Real ID. The first time I didn't have something, I don't remember. The second time I went to the BMV with my birth certificate, passport, multiple bills in my name/address, current driver's license, and a current auto title and registration. Everything is identical, name/address/etc. But I DIDN'T have a Social Security Card or W2, so I was boned. I'll try again later on this year. My wife went to get hers today. She had her birth certificate, passport, social security card, current driver's license, 2 bills in her name/address. Should be enough now, right? Nope. She also needed "proof of legal name change" since her birth certificate was not in her married name.  So I grabbed both our marriage license and marriage certificate and hopefully she's getting the card this try. Now we have all of our identification documents in order and secured, so they're easy to access, but man, there are a LOT of people not so organized / lucky to have that setup. This is going to lead to a huge number of people unable to fly in the US starting in October of next year. "Obviously" this is for our "security," but what's the real game here? What is the suppressive intent?
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