Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Business Insider"
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@boardcertifiable I suggest you look up the Aussie tv show "a current affair" & "cockatoo" if you think cockies are easier to manage than raccoons! Our possums are the same as your raccoons & are really not an issue. Sure, they remove tiles & get into our roofs to sleep & sound like a herd of elephants in there & they eat roses & a range of other flowers & vegetables & fruits, but see Roman's comment as to what cockies are like, or look at the suggestion I gave to see entire verandahs & cubby houses turned into a pile of matchsticks cause the owner went away on holidays for 2 weeks, so there was no-one to chase off the pterodactyl mob.
Don't get me wrong, we still love them, we just don't understand your hate for raccoons, cause we would absolutely love & embrace them too if they were part of our native fauna. Raccoons are certainly not any sort of an issue compared to our normal suburban neighbour native animals
& you may want to look up the brush turkey too, that's one of the birds shown in this video. Male builds a nest to incubate the eggs with heat, to do so he gathers literally 1 tonne of leaf litter & builds a 1 tonne nest mound. They always seem to choose the best kept garden as their nest site too & kick that 1 tonne of mulch to that location from the whole neighbourhood, including across roads & they attack any car that dares interrupt their mulch moving activities & don't even dream of disturbing their nest!!!!!!! They're vicious little buggers if they get upset! Again though, we just see them as having the same rights to the land as us & just compromise & live in peace with them. Beyond me why you can't do that with adorable little raccoons!
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@Globemakers yeh, I was like wtf? I've seen it at least once, some countries were bigger than they should have been/had extra points on them due to the doubling up & then some islands below them appeared twice lol. I was just looking for a cheap globe cause I just wanted to see what was opposite what, so really didn't feel I needed quality for that, but what I got was pretty messed up, so I looked again to buy again (just on ebay) & took more notice of the pictures next time round & it was pretty funny what some of them showed!
I've got a tennis ball sized foam globe, with the join on what's supposed to be the equator. Malaysia directly connects to Borneo & Peru has an ocean directly to it's north, so that's interesting lol Some of the longitude lines line up at the equator, others can be as much as half way between where the lines ended in the other hemisphere. The equator clearly doesn't go around the middle either, higher or lower, depending on what side of the globe. It makes quite a good back massager though, useless as a globe, but good for that :)
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sandy soils are fixed via adding carbon to them. Grasses that grow long would be best, as their roots go deep to access & hold water, then each year or so, bring in a mob of livestock to cut all the above ground grass off, process it & leave it on the ground to become soil carbon as the rain pushes it into the sand, while the roots sloth off & also become soil carbon & any grass trampled instead of eaten becomes mulch, keeping it all moist while this all happens.
That's how you fix sandy soil, BUT those grasses also act as additional habitat for the bugs & help them move around on the farm, they don't stop that happening! Also, the alternative crop is finger limes, a rainforest plant that only grows well in rainforest type soils, which is basically what we're talking about already being in place in Florida
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@lzl4226 yeh, I'm not totally sure my altitude here, but basically I'm at sea level :) I'm in Sydney Australia, so theoretically too cold for coffee growing, but I'm close enough to the coast & low enough altitude to be frost free & with modern weather, subtropical plants seem to thrive here, I've got sugarcane growing as well & a few tropical carnivorous plants, all fully outdoors & quite happy.
With your comment's info added to it, I think I'm liking the idea of trying Sbinalla's suggestion of the popcorn maker, that would certainly keep the beans moving/avoid direct contact with fire/extreme heat.
I'm following everything you're saying up until "development time" Does that mean the total cooking time, or time to cook after the first crack, or something to do with a time after cooking or what? I really don't have a clue what you mean with that & I really want to know, cause the rest of your info sounds fantastic & I really want to try following what you're saying, especially with the 4 minutes to yellow to indicate correct temperature, so if you can indulge me & explain that further, that would be great :)
Height above flame I can't do on my cooktop, cause it's induction, I guess I could use charcoal & a barbie set up, but that might be harder to control the temperature on. First thing I think I want to try is the popcorn maker, cause I should be able to easily put just 2 or 3 beans in that & have it work just fine to test it without any great loses. Frying pan, air fryer etc kinda seems wasteful to run with just 2 or 3 beans in, but might be worth it, depending on how the popcorn maker works out.
& just curious, do you grow your own too? If not, where do you source the green beans for to roast yourself?
Anyway, thanks for the great info, much appreciated :)
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@Alinax99 lol oh dear! You REALLY need to educate yourself!
1. certain fibres are suitable for clothing, others are suitable for industrial uses, such as making sacks, mats or rough ropes for ships, agricultural use etc. Silk is NOT suitable for making sacks etc. Which of the fibres you just listed are suitable for the same purposes as silk? Not many are there!
2. I already gave you the stats. 81% of natural fibres in the world are cotton
Jute-Kenaf and allied fibres are absolutely on the list of globally important fibres, huge amounts of grain & beans & other produce rely on these sacks to be moved around, as well as being the backing that binds carpets together. They make up almost 8% of global natural fibre production, but they have ZERO use in clothing or anything else silk is used for. Coir, likewise makes the cut, at 3% of global fibres, again for mats & ropes. Abaca-sisal-henequen and related are also nearly 3% & again are all unsuitable for clothing.
So what are we left with? Linen? Less than 1% of global fibres, used to be big, until the world became environmentally aware, then fibres like linen & hemp that require retting that causes massive environmental damage fell out of favour. Hemp is at a ridiculously low 0.003% of global fibre production & I'm really not even going to bother with the experimental fibres. Do you honestly wear these fibres as your primary clothing source? You don't do you & if anyone in the world was going to, it would be people like you, but you don't, cause they're untenable. Like it or not, the alternative to silk is wool, cotton or polyester
3. organic farms are the worst offenders in terms of bug deaths in cotton farming, Non-organic have actually significantly reduced bug deaths in recent decades, by using GMO cotton that immediately dead's the bugs before they can take hold & breed, therefore reducing total death toll. The biological controls you speak of are NOT used in cotton production! The management of choice on "organic farms" is high levels of blood & bone & manure applied to the soil so as to make the plants as strong as possible, followed up by regular, scheduled spraying with pyrethrum - a natural pesticide from daisy plants, that can take up to 2 hours to dead a bug, the bug writhing in pain that entire time
4. speciesism can best be seen in someone who objects to silkworms being pampered their whole life, then painlessly disposed of at the most humane time possible, yet happily posions their cousins on mass when they feed on cotton. How can you morally be fine with cottonworm torture & death, yet object to silkworm humane death, when both are the same bug, separated only by a few thousand years of evolution in what they eat, with everything else about them being identical?
5. You REALLY need to educate yourself, not be a little pot calling a kettle black & thinking you're superior because you choose certain species to value & others to torture on mass - which IS what you do! You are all talk, but zero knowledge & zero actions on what you claim to believe! You do NOT choose fabrics that are less harmful, just fabrics you don't understand the damage connected to. Ignorance does not excuse torture though. Stop being a pot & go educate yourself!
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@linhl4710 I have raised silk worms at home, it's not really like beaded curtains, more like fabric curtains, cause the silk strand singular) is glued together. Trying to separate, for me at least, always results in ripping
& the cocoon IS that single silk strand a mile long, once that single strand has been removed, there's nothing left to cut, there's just the pupa inside a shell/exoskeleton doing it's transformation thing.
There's lots of short strands on the outside of the cocoon that form the net that holds the cocoon, that looks like what they're using as the pillow stuffing, but that's not the actual cocoon or thread used for silk garments. Once the worm moves from those outer threads to the actual cocoon, it spins non-stop until the cocoon is done, starting on the outside & steadily moving inwards towards itself as it continues & when it runs out of silk, that's it, it stops (I've had some I've fed on mixed stuff, not fully mulberry leaves & they regularly run out of thread before the cocoon is complete & leave it with a hole in the end, or just so thin it's transparent. Those ones never hatch, they die inside it, I guess cause the cocoon's not thick enough to give them the right climate conditions for their transformation or something)
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@charlie15627 ONE ship carries 200,000 tonnes of grain, one train carriage/shipping container carries 20 tonnes so yeh, how about you stop being so ridiculous in ur lies huh? You're trying to claim that 100 million tonnes of grain have left Ukraine via trains, that would carry only 200 tonnes each, if 10 carriages filled to capacity? That's 1 million trains that would have had to travel to the ports, load up, then travel the whole way back across Ukraine again with their load! Spread over 100 days, that would mean 10,000 trains a day! 416 trains an hour, or 7 trains per minute! Standard operating protocols for trains in the world's best systems is a 3 minute gap between every train for safety, so your numbers are 21 times beyond what's possible, allowing there's the staff to run the trains 24/7, for a longer period than has been available, with no time given to load or unload.
Why don't you go join your army instead of working in the troll farm, cause you're really not very good at this propaganda thing are you! It's physically impossible for even the best rail systems in the world, with unlimited resources to have exported everything that was supposed to go by ship by train! & trains in Ukraine have been used to transport civilians to safety, NOT for endless cargo! Bad enough the work they have to put into constant repairs of the railway lines from the bombings, so as to get civilians out, without also needing to worry about grain trains being blown up!
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@-Acitone yeh, through channels like this one, I've learnt how much hard work goes into making things I used to think were largely made via automation. There is definite variations in how much people are paid for this sort of work around the world & also huge variation in working conditions. This imo is what those conditions & pay should look like though & personally, I would be much happier to pay high prices for a product like this than for one where I know the middle man is profiting & the artists aren't being properly paid or treated, so that's a factor too, they get that "fair trade" type label to add to their value in addition to the quality & also warranty, that it will be perfect & in the rare case it's not, service will be outstanding in fixing it, plus customer service will be fluent in the language & culture of the customers, which again is an additional factor people are willing to pay for. I've just switched internet companies to one that charges $10 per month more than my old one, but they have a local call centre for problems, so there's the peace of mind that if something goes wrong, I will be able to speak to someone without language or cultural barriers & get it fixed fast & easily, so that's worth $10 per month extra to me
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