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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • My plans: I got super lazy and didn’t start any seeds this year. I had the flu the week I wanted to do the starts, so I obviously missed that week. Then I just… didn’t start anything. I’m going to buy starts from our local garden center (non-big box) and I’ll put seeds for the usual bugger things directly in the ground.

    Honestly, this will probably work out fine this year. One of my raised beds is 100% raspberries now. One of the others has two artichokes that may or may not have made it through the winter. I didn’t do enough research and didn’t realize they’re perennials and won’t flower their first year unless you cold harden the seedlings. Those things are big, but they certainly are dead down to at least ground level.


  • Nice selection!

    I’ve grown Tromboncino before. They’re tasty, very hardy, and climb without any coaxing if you give them something to climb up. Their shape is also highly amusing.

    Just in case you haven’t heard, raspberries - and I assume blackberries - spread pretty aggressively. I put one in my raised bed two falls ago. The beds are 4’ x 8’ and I planted it at one of the long ends. The next season I planted some pepper plants in the far end of the bed. The raspberry bush had overtaken 3/4 of the bed by the fall, but it hasn’t tried to escape the raised bed (yet?).





  • 100%. Transitioning from making all decisions for your kids to becoming a trusted advisor is something you need to do intentionally over time. Let your kids make low impact decisions when they’re young. Offer guidance as needed, not all the time. Simple examples include what to have for a meal/snack, where to go for a play date, etc.



  • And building credit is useful to set yourself up for future purchases - a condo/house, car, whatever. The whatever here is bigger than it semese, as having a decent credit score can let you finance all kinds of things at a pretty low rate, if not 0% even today. If you’re saving any extra money in an investment/retirement account, and can pay off your 0% financing offers in full by the time you would start to owe interest, financing at 0% is a great deal even if you have the cash on hand to pay outright.



  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzWin win
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    11 days ago

    There is a whole bunch of regulatory stuff that’s been spun up for EVs over the past 7 years or so.

    I have no idea if Hyundai had something out of the ordinary happen, but the public is generally very slow to change and are a bit hyper vigilant. Add in the fact that the press loves a good boogieman to get clicks and you’ll see some of the EV mess.

    Are they safer than ICE? Yes. Should that stop there? No.

    With an average of 16 EV and hybrid fires per year, there’s a 1 in 38,000 chance of fire. There are a total of roughly 4.4 million gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles in Sweden, with an average of 3,384 fires per year, for a 1 in 1,300 chance of fire. That means gas- and diesel-powered passenger vehicles are 29 times more likely to catch fire than EVs and hybrids.






  • I suggest something where you get to work with a wide range of the populus. Opportunities are basically all service industry jobs: waiting tables in a restaurant, working retail, working in a hotel, etc. Learning how to interact with wide swaths of humans is an invaluable skill that will serve you well in your future professional career. I would focus on building social and emotional intelligence.



  • Has the printer been used recently and put out good prints? Has anything about the setup changed including a slicer update or different slicer?

    I have two knee jerk reactions

    Is there an under-extruded section of the print, similar to the corner closest to the camera on the lower section of the print, on the top section of the print? You might have a retraction/priming problem. A quick retraction test print would make this pretty obvious.

    You might have had a partial clog that resolved itself, but the fact that the extrusion issues change with the topology of the design makes me want to suggest something else. Try the print again. If you get the same outcome filament isn’t the primary cause.