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LionArcher posted:how you make the lentils? it’s not easy to express because it’s kind if variations on a general framework but the steps involve: dice onion or garlic (usually onion for me) cook on sauté setting in butter or olive oil after you done the onions turn it off and add: tomato paste if you want, about 80% of a can/jar (or all of it if you can tolerate it) (red pepper paste also works excellently if you have it) anaheim pepper carrots if you want cumin coriander salt red pepper flakes hot sauce if you want maybe half a cup of vinegar if you want bay leaf if you want then you add the lentils (about a pound) and add either water or — highly recommended — stock or broth until they are covered with about 2/3 inch of headroom. you also need to add a requisite amount of fat, I recommend lots of butter if green lentils, olive oil if red. that’s really up to you. I’ve probably put a stick of butter in there before. at least 2/3 tablespoons for the onion and at least 4 tablespoons more maybe. next you want to use the stew or beans setting on the pressure cooker. I think I did like 23 minutes last time. it’s hard to overcook them. add garnish of Italian parsley if red lentils
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Apr 18, 2022 06:54
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TeenageArchipelago posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/29/nurdles-plastic-pellets-environmental-ocean-spills-toxic-waste-not-classified-hazardous God drat quote:spillage of 87 containers full of lentil-sized plastic pellets: nurdles. quote:In some places they are up to 2 metres deep. They have been found in the bodies of dead dolphins and the mouths of fish. About 1,680 tonnes of nurdles were released into the ocean. It is the largest plastic spill in history, quote:They are the second-largest source of micropollutants in the ocean, by weight, after tyre dust. An astounding 230,000 tonnes of nurdles end up in oceans every year. quote:nurdles are highly persistent pollutants, and will continue to circulate in ocean currents and wash ashore for decades. They are also “toxic sponges”, which attract chemical toxins and other pollutants on to their surfaces. quote:"Pollutants can be a million times more concentrated on the surface of pellets than in the water,” he says. “And we know from lab studies that when a fish eats a pellet, some of those pollutants come loose.” quote:Nurdles also act as “rafts” for harmful bacteria such as E coli or even cholera, one study found, transporting them from sewage outfalls and agricultural runoff to bathing waters and shellfish beds. So we invented little assassins numbering in the billions that roam the oceans for years, murdering everything with poisons and diseases, outstanding, great job everyone
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Apr 18, 2022 07:07
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mawarannahr posted:parts shortages that bad? i like to make extremely low effort split pea soup in mine whenever I can find cheap pork products, just cut the meat into tiny chunks and cook the heck outta it then toss it in the instant pot with dried splitpeas + lots of stock + enough MSG to kill a horse just be aware its going to be complicated to reheat because it will begin to solidify into a thick gel after about 15 minutes
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Apr 18, 2022 07:19
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split nurdle soup
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Apr 18, 2022 08:25
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Hubbert posted:finally, someone in this thread is doing something productive actually I'm going to look into getting my fatbike electrified with something a bit illegal that would be faster than the 25 km/h limit imposed round here, and getting a flatbed trailer that can hold at leat a couple of bouldering crash pads it's more of a summer project though, first I need to find out how much (little) this uni research group internship is actually going to pay me JeremoudCorbynejad posted:So we invented little assassins numbering in the billions that roam the oceans for years, murdering everything with poisons and diseases, outstanding, great job everyone  I can feel it... the snack aisle, it's calling to me...
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Apr 18, 2022 08:26
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:So we invented little assassins numbering in the billions that roam the oceans for years, murdering everything with poisons and diseases, outstanding, great job everyone hell yes, and we created them with no moving parts whatsoever in order to maximize their lifespan  eventually, upon sufficient nurdles getting lodged inside of marine fungi, the bacteria on their surfaces will birth the first orks
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Apr 18, 2022 08:46
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orks are probably the most eco friendly 40k faction even with their mekboyz spouting fantasy diesel gas smoke
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Apr 18, 2022 09:58
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https://twitter.com/sallyhayd/status/1515962802002931713
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Apr 18, 2022 11:24
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bedpan posted:Hmm I wonder why. . . Does it make me an rear end in a top hat for not caring if some "Fifth generation" jerks still profiting off of what their families did in the 1700s/1800s are getting owned by a drought? Most of the ways back then to get giant sprawling empires that will endure the centuries weren't exactly humanitarian.
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Apr 18, 2022 11:48
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https://twitter.com/ftenergy/status/1515644712430063619quote:Daimler Trucks, eBay and a US energy company were among the recent buyers of carbon offsets created by projects that involved injecting carbon dioxide underground in order to extract more oil.
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Apr 18, 2022 12:07
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Chard posted:sending this message back in time to my slightly-less-brain-damaged teenage self why did I not learn about smoking out of an apple until i was 19 poo poo should be mandatory, part of DARE
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Apr 18, 2022 12:27
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Cabbages and Kings posted:why did I not learn about smoking out of an apple until i was 19 Johnny Appleseed also went around planting dogfennel because he thought it was medicinal but people aren't as happy about that.
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Apr 18, 2022 12:45
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Literally carbon onsets but probably as effective as any of the other (commercial) carbon offsets out there
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Apr 18, 2022 12:50
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Since it's Easter, some non-doomer light content. Small group that blogs on low-tech stuff and energy efficiency. Not sure if posted already but I guess some of you might get some enjoyment out of some of the content on their entirely solar powered website. Hosted in Spain though, so some of you might find the website down when you try and access it  https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/high-tech-problems.html Someone should also probably just buy them an account.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:19
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two-time fee posted:Since it's Easter, some non-doomer light content. These guys are great and most thread regulars will definitely like them, pro click This article in particular is great: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html IAMKOREA has issued a correction as of 13:23 on Apr 18, 2022 |
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Apr 18, 2022 13:21
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two-time fee posted:Since it's Easter, some non-doomer light content. This is great, thanks. There's some good stuff on here: Thank god somebody's saying it. All the techno-utopianism about vertical farms is absurd.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:27
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God Hole posted:for three years from 2017 to 2020 i was a peace corps volunteer in Ukraine. the small village i lived in is now a smoking crater, my students' and friends' and loved ones' lives have been completely destroyed as they flee senseless violence caused in part by my government, and I get to watch as my countrymen who before February knew absolutely nothing about Ukraine or even where it was on a map, describe the people i loved alternatively as Nazis or ethnic Russians depending on their preexisting core beliefs. people who just lived their lives and sold strawberries at the bazaar with their grandmother and knew that they were never going to be able to afford a better lot in life but regardless did what they could to hold onto happiness and love. that's all gone now, and all of their sufferings have only served to entrench ideological poles over here rather than shift them in a positive direction. lol I just tried expressing similar sentiments in the COVID thread using my broken and ponderous English, then I come across this gem of a post. Good job making me feel even more inarticulate and useless XD.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:31
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IAMKOREA posted:These guys are great and most thread regulars will definitely like them, pro click Also some windmills for Rime to Chase, wooden ones even :https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines.html
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Apr 18, 2022 13:44
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Hexigrammus posted:
if I remember my crop protection classes correctly, glyphosate has a pretty low half-life in water/soil solution, something like a month or so. it binds quite readily to soils with high cation exchange capacity (i.e. soils high in organics or clay content), which, as I understand it, can slow the degradation, since some of the binding sites on the molecule aren't exposed. it can also chelate free cationic minerals in the soil solution (Ca, for example), reducing their availability to plants. But considering the relatively tiny amount of actual active ingredient applied to crops, though, (like 540 g active ingredient per liter of water at the high rate, with a water application rate of around 1-10L/acre, depending on the crop and weeds), the fairly rapid degradation of glyphosate, and its tendency to adsorb to the surface of the soil, it's pretty unlikely it would have a significant impact on nutrient takeup. Other herbicides, however, are a whole different ballgame. There are plenty with residual effects that can affect things like seed germination in subsequent crop years.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:44
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I had a dream last night that I was standing next to a silent, omniscient presence of some kind in a spectacular Mezozoic landscape full of more colors than I can really see. I started to talk and then broke down crying about how this world was teeming with life and biomass and we're turning it all into ash for my children. The silent figure seemed to express compassion and helplessness. I probably should stop reading this thread right before bed. Or not, that was a pretty lit dream
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Apr 18, 2022 13:45
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two-time fee posted:
after Ukraine I decided to move to Phoenix for some reason, so I'll have a few more post-bong-rip doom posts lined up for the thread when history inevitably starts happening here too, but it'll probably be a few years. feel free to consecrate this pit with some of your own in the meantime!
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Apr 18, 2022 14:53
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I remember seeing something in this thread about how warming on land is roughly double what the numbers are overall, i.e. at 2c global warming, that translates to an average of 4c warming on land, with warming over water being lower. Is that right?
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Apr 18, 2022 16:16
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I remember seeing something in this thread about how warming on land is roughly double what the numbers are overall, i.e. at 2c global warming, that translates to an average of 4c warming on land, with warming over water being lower. Is that right? it varies but yes in general land gets warmer. and ofc more extreme events https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures
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Apr 18, 2022 16:35
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I remember seeing something in this thread about how warming on land is roughly double what the numbers are overall, i.e. at 2c global warming, that translates to an average of 4c warming on land, with warming over water being lower. Is that right? It is global average and since most of the globe is covered by ocean and will be cooler than the land. When people say 2c isn't too bad, they are forgetting that it is actually 4-5c where people live and attempt to farm.
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Apr 18, 2022 17:49
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thank you for the pesticide information, thread! i know absolutely nothing about pesticides, so what i assumed was glyphosate, probably wasn't. from what you've all told me, glyphosate sounds less damaging to the environment than whatever they used. luckily, although natives can't handle it, all the weeds were immune to whatever it was and sprang back almost immediately.
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Apr 18, 2022 18:42
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its above freezing but also snowing so hard that its accumulating and a white out. so much for global warming!
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Apr 18, 2022 18:43
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:thank you for the pesticide information, thread! i know absolutely nothing about pesticides, so what i assumed was glyphosate, probably wasn't. from what you've all told me, glyphosate sounds less damaging to the environment than whatever they used. luckily, although natives can't handle it, all the weeds were immune to whatever it was and sprang back almost immediately. there's a whole mess of herbicides used in farming. they're categorized by their primary mode of action (for example, in Canada, glyphosate belongs to Group 9, which means that it damages the plant's ability to create the proteins needed to make critical enzymes), but even a single herbicide can have a mixture of active ingredients and adjuvants. glyphosate, as far as we can tell, is less directly harmful to the environment and living things, but with the sheer amount of it we apply, who knows what effects it and its degradation products are having on microbial communities in the soil, or even on humans. like, our chemical crop protection regime is just a vast science experiment being conducted on a global scale. Does this poo poo mimic human hormones? Cause health problems long term? What about the products that herbicides degrade into (e.g. glyphosate -> AMPA), do those have any effect on us? Who knows?? Most ag research is industry funded, and who wants to pay to find out how harmful their chemicals are? And even if that research is done for, say, government certification purposes, you can just submit whatever results you like! anyway, to return to the main point: so long as there has been adequate moisture in the areas where the glyphosate was sprayed, it should have degraded or become bound to the soil or leached into the ground water already. Like, farmers in my area spray Roundup (glyphosate) and then are out seeding two weeks later with no ill effects to the crop. but maybe your council is not just spraying glyphosate. like, if they were trying to control certain broadleaf weeds without killing grass, they might have been using a Group 4 herbicide like clopyralid/MCPA or dicamba, which can definitely stay resident in the soil for a long time and have negative effects on anything planted in the area. a herbicide might contain a mixture of glyphosate and one or more, for example, group 4 chemicals. so maybe asking them will help you figure out the possible source of the problem.
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Apr 18, 2022 19:15
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https://twitter.com/dantes76/status/1516024444837322752 Why am I posting this in the Biosphere thread? For the first time in decades, an absolutely insane amount of Siberia has high-res recent imagery available. It's a blanket removal, so while the world jizzes over ruined & abandoned military bases and towns which appear to have totally collapsed to the dark ages the rest of us can go cruise around looking for climate related poo poo. Like 69.68635098859913, 170.42654534723755, a massive burning trash pile with a 1km long emissions plume. Just south of there there's an abandoned facility which looks like a nanobot plague exploded out of it. I dunno, I've only been at this for a few hours, I'm sure there's a shitload of interesting environmental devastation on display which we have a very brief window of opportunity to catalogue. 
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Apr 18, 2022 19:55
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so when are we dying
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Apr 18, 2022 21:25
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Who woulda thought that the same people who have entire teams of accountants working round the clock to find tax dodges would apply those same skills to climate change issues?
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Apr 18, 2022 21:33
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:so when are we dying when they stop selling me my medicine
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Apr 18, 2022 21:36
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bag em and tag em posted:Who woulda thought that the same people who have entire teams of accountants working round the clock to find tax dodges would apply those same skills to climate change issues? quote:Daimler trucks, eBay and a US energy company were among the recent buyers of carbon offsets created by projects that involved injecting carbon dioxide underground in order to extract more oil. we stopped the fire, but we had to add more fire to put it out. accounting is weird!
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Apr 18, 2022 21:41
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Converted methane-burning heating system to electric heat pump, installed rainwater catchment system, and only have a tiny bit of grass left that hasn't been converted into (1) raised beds or (2) clover. It's taken years, but feeling pretty good about the changes made so far. (In PNW so most of electricity from non-fossil sources)
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Apr 18, 2022 22:36
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don’t forget there’s a massive tax credit to the oil companies for doing eor too
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Apr 18, 2022 23:11
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Act Local Mourn Global
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Apr 18, 2022 23:13
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The Lemondrop Dandy posted:Converted methane-burning heating system to electric heat pump, installed rainwater catchment system, and only have a tiny bit of grass left that hasn't been converted into (1) raised beds or (2) clover. It's taken years, but feeling pretty good about the changes made so far. like, an air source heat pump?
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Apr 18, 2022 23:15
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we are going to burn everything that burns. nothing will stop us from releasing every last ounce of hydroxylated carbon back into the atmosphere, where it belongs. this is our purpose on earth and once we are done we can disappear until millions of years from now when there is a lot of buried carbon reserves to burn again. converting solar photons from high energy to low energy. increasing entropy. that's the meaning of life.
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Apr 18, 2022 23:22
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i contend that describing the action a force takes does not, in fact, contain the meaning of that force time flows forward and entropy increases, but is our purpose to maximize that flow? no, i say, it is to enjoy that flow *noisily consumes juicy burg*
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Apr 18, 2022 23:38
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Karach posted:like, an air source heat pump? There's also air sourced heat pump water heater. National Renewable Energy Laboratory/NREL ested to see if it's possible to install it in a way where the heat from the attic is ducted to heat the water  It worked and you get a slightly cooler and less humid attic at the same time  https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/64860.pdf Heat pump is great, everyone should use one for their heating needs. The AC portion is similar to how regular AC is setup where there is a condenser to cool down the refrigerant and piped into the indoor unit. But the neat part is that the unit can run in reverse to also pipe in the heat during winter. When you stand next to the outdoor unit in winter, you can feel the freezing cold air being blasted from the outdoor unit as it carries heat back into the house.
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