i dream of lichen, clover and brush
i leased a house and let the backyard grow wild outside of a small barbecue area, maybe 20x20 ft, because it was huge and I wanted to create it safe space for all the critters.
without a single exception, every single neighbor or person who saw it (we had a gate leading into the backyard) asked about it, and when I told them that honey bees visited everyday and we had fireflies at night threw me an expression like I had just explained to them that it was a great place for people to take a shit in public.
I couldn't appreciate the visual sea lion anymore.What is gish galloping, which I would also appreciate a visual reference for if available.
woo, lots of strong acting choices, lots of accents, single takes no redos, weird enough to be some fun.
the camera trickery is effective.
moved abroad, found out things in most countries are a fraction of what they cost in the states for the same or better quality.
I consistently learn new things in new cultures while living well within my means and saving money.
"False".
you are not convincing.
you insist that using existing technology is the same thing as developing new technology, which it isn't.
were you similarly blown way when Gillette added a third blade to the safety razor?
"Why won't you acknowledge when all reviews say that Huawei made the first trifold?"
because 1. they are specifically referring to a commercial launch, not new technology(a hinge).and 2. I don't value or believe doubtful headlines without evidence.
Tecno released a demonstration of a tri-fold phone in August, it took me one second to find that video, so with almost zero I've heard, we found at least one company showing off a tri-fold phone before Huawei's commercial launch.
other companies were working on and build prototypes of trifold phones, Huawei decided to bring one to market first.
we'll see if that was a good idea after people have the chance to actually purchase it and use it.
It's good for huawei you are excited about the extra hinge, that excitement is necessary for the $3,000 price tag,
Here, this will blow your mind;
5 hinges that fold on the inside and outside:
what will they think of next?
6 hinges?
that would be a coup.
I'll probably give it a watch all the way until they eventually get to "Skis".
you know what, if ship does okay, I bet they'll do "Train".
not yet. i saved it too, but haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
It's more childish to pretend huawei made the first trifold phone when they may the first commercial trifold phone.
they didn't develop or innovate new technology to add one more fold.
"you need technological innovation to make the idea possible"
someone did, I hope you'll notice that Huawei is not claiming to have developed some new innovation.
which makes sense, considering there are other companies that already made trifold phones.
they added one more fold to a phone using the established and developed technology of foldable screens, and have brought it to mass market first, that's all.
there are no new features, no efficiency gains, certainly not cost effective, nothing is significantly different about this phone except that another screen and hinge has been added.
a third fold to reach true tablet size that people have been talking about and companies have been developing for years is a logical development in foldable phones and foldable screens, established technologies, not innovation.
I hope people enjoy it (for that price tag they better), and I hope it spurs development in the field.
I'm excited to see the reviews once it's been used for a few weeks.
I saw the headlines, but there were definitely trifled phones before Huawei released theirs.
I'll check though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHK07J7Bxk&t=33
first result is the Tecno trifold, and he's talking about the Samsung trifold Z, which of course, it's just one more screen, The natural evolution of folding phones to get to the tablet size.
I don't think innovation is the word here.
innovation is a new idea resulting in some sort of paradigm shift or surprising development, not the logical progression of a known process like a foldable phone.
let me control my TVs and other devices with an IR blaster again please.
that was innovative.
I'm glad Huawei is forcing other companies to develop better tri-fold phones so that eventually we have viable phone tablets.
isn't nexus a Google phone?
it has slightly upgraded specs from the HTC one, but the One came out 2 years previous, with truly innovative features like front-facing speakers so that you could hear the audio clearly and an IR blaster, plus it had self-diagnostics so that you could test a second hand phone before you bought it or troubleshoot yours very easily with the series of diagnostic tasks.
what's the innovative part of the 6p?
ooh, I do like that the Nexus adopted the front-facing speakers and aluminum body from HTC One, that was a smart move.
not innovative 2 years later after those features were developed, but definitely a smart move by a hopeful company.
a slightly weaker battery, but 2 years after the HTC One, I would have been interested in the 6P as the logical next step; add 1 GB of RAM, add the new bands, slightly higher ppi.
I was disappointed when the M8 went backward with PPI, HTC one had 468 in 2013, new huawei phones in 2024 have 402 ppi.
that's rough stuff, all the companies are doing it too, skimping out on screens in favor of shitty proprietary software.
other companies made triple fold phones before Huawei, you mean that they brought it to the mass market first?
like 3,000 bucks or something right?
It's difficult to call that innovation when we already have foldable phones, and they haven't found a new way to do anything, they just added one more standard screen.
It's as thick as three phones put together.
It's good for them that they went up 50% in China, but it's been literally federally subsidized since its inception, so a bump not crazy, and they went from 20 to 30% only in cihinq, still 3% total market share.
it sounds like you have nostalgia for Huawei, which i get, I still have nostalgia for my HTC one, that was the best phone/os I ever had, and definitely the most innovative phone company I used, 468 ppi, still higher than almost every other phone 10 years later, aluminum body, with front-facing speakers and an IR blaster, expandable storage, but they've gone the way of apple and Huawei and Google and the rest of them in modern times
"10 years ago Huawei was clearly THEE leader in design"
this is when I used Huawei, and my memories of it are pretty bad. plastic frame, identical iphone hardware setup, pretty low power even for the time, pretty low battery, I don't remember them leading anything.
I remember the pictures being standard, but I don't remember anything remarkable or innovative about them.
can you post photos from your wife's phone versus your modern phone?
when you record video, It's almost 4 MB a second in default, so you're using up a gig every 2 and 1/2 minutes.
sunset+walk on the beach, a gig.
say 30 minutes of a video, and you're between 15 and 20 gigs.
Go to a concert, or a wedding, whatever and you just lost a huge percentage of your phone storage and you aren't allowed to add more storage?
insane, very consumer unfriendly
I don't know where you're getting the Huawei news, but their market share has been nose diving since 2024.
Pixel, though, I can't believe the automatic filters that are impossible to turn off.
Even if you take a photo with .raw, there's still post processing on every single photo so they look like dog shit.
how's Huawei number one in the world for design? do they do anything innovative? The Huawei phones I've used seem pretty unremarkable, indistinguishable from oppo.
which I would also throw in a gutter.
I haven't been impressed by anything I've seen on the market in years, except for the Sony Xperia, because I love front-facing speakers and I didn't know any major companies still made them.
I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going next.
yea, this is correct. beautiful people don't vote for Trump.
I'm surprised at how unpopular your opinion actually is.
huawei is down 7% globally from 10% market share to 3.5%, they're not doing great, I think they're hanging on because of their Asia sales supplemented by federal support.
the not removable Google search on the home screen and non removable date on the home screen means that I will never buy another Google phone.
also, non-expandable storage? you fucking kidding me? what is even the point of a phone if it comes with 128 GB of storage. That's like eight good videos. It's insane.
I have been disappointed by the pixel in literally every way, and I don't know where to go next except probably Sony because their phones have front-facing speakers, and if I can't get decent software on any platform at least I can listen to music with decent hardware and root the thing.
The insane growth of solar power, especially in China, and solar efficiency, negates a lot of the potential promises of hydrogen cells.
the first commercial high capacity batteries made with non-rare materials can change energy infrastructure at any moment.
there are literally dozens of existing next gen battery candidates being pushed to commercial viability.
One of them's going to be viable, and then more of them are going to be viable.
hydrogen cells aren't going to fail because of the small amount of green hydrogen being produced, that will inevitably increase and become a more efficient process, but the timeline in the gains realized by that investment in hydrogen would be better spent in true renewables, which support green hydrogen anyway.
pretty fun movie, I'm going to watch the planned sequel, which is no joke called "ship", haha.
pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.
vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.
bold move with the title, but they really pull it off this book.
this is a great final installment.
the entire book is good, but here's a couple moments that stuck out.
spoilers
I forgot how it starts, with menderash willingly turning into a nothlit(mirroring tobias in the first book) so that he can pilot the Yeerk ship to take them to investigate the kelbrid space is so exciting!
I wonder how many mirrors of the first book there are that I didn't notice since I was devouring the story.
the extended internal torment where Jake is reckoning with Rachel's death and his responsibility as a war criminal who sends his friends to their death.
That Jake and Cassie don't end up together.
but all the anamorphs are pretty much unfulfilled, carrying on Rachel's legacy.
I can't sing this book's praises enough, it really is a solid ending with room to continue or conclude a limited run if they want to.
doesn't even look like they bothered to erase the original title or crop the picture correctly,, but who doesn't like Nic Cage enough to overlook a lazy morph?
The peel is thicker and attached firmly to the root, so cutting off the root end first will save a lot of time and effort peeling garlic.
you can avoid stripping the peel into tiny sticky pieces or digging grooves into the clove while you gouge or scrape off the peel from the top or side.
this is another lifehack I would have appreciated learning years earlier.
lots of great writing here.
this is probably my favorite description of an andalite in the series:
"he was a blue-furred centaur with a pair of extra eyes on movable stalks and a tail like a chef’s knife tied to the end of a bullwhip."
spoilers
Finding arbron again is strange. weird that he is still a nothlit, weird that he has become the leader of his adopted species.
"come on cassie, show me where to go next." is such a great show don't tell apology by Jake.
It's so great that Jake trusts Cassie again and everybody else can see that she was right to let Tom take the morphing cube.
finally! it's been awful seeing her get treated like a traitor for so long.
and Jake basically asks Cassie to marry him, which is great.
I very much like the moment Tom realizes Jake is alive and the visser sarcastically congratulates Tom on his astute observation.
i also really like how the visser is completely aware and resigned to his fate. I wish he was a little more realistic and not so goofy as an evil son of a bitch most of the series.
If your shower is spraying in different directions or looks kind of gross, that's almost always mineral buildup.
pour a few cups of white vinegar in a plastic bag, dunk the shower head in there, leave it alone for a few hours, and it'll come out clean.
you can shake it every hour to make sure the vinegar gets everywhere and the broken down minerals get out of the way, but it's not really necessary.
I soak overnight sometimes, but that's usually not necessary.
White vinegar leaves no residue, no smell, won't damage your rubber or plastic seals, is cheap and safe to use.
vinegar is crazy useful, I'm sure it'll make a reappearance in this community soon.
for clarification - this is the everyday, supermarket 5 to 6% acetic acid white vinegar, all the normal cheap stuff at the supermarket is that balance. Not agricultural vinegar, which has a much higher acidic level(up to 50%) and will damage anything you put it on.
"Acceptable" mass casualties.
All of the emotional and moral discussions in this book are extremely well expressed and kick you in the gut.
spoilers
I was surprised that Ax was still wavering so strongly this late in the series, but it makes perfect context for his absolute shock at Cassie's betrayal.
Everyone can see now that Rachel has a problem with enjoying violence and can't stop herself from indulging anymore.
the opening scene with Ax letting someone go free and Rachel rescinding that action was brutal.
tldr: yes it works; brita filters don't filter out alcohol and do filter out particulates.
set one filter aside in the fridge for your booze of choice, put it in the pitcher when it's time, filter your booze a few times, put the booze filter back in the fridge and use your high quality liquor for whatever you want.
this came about while I was in China because their 白酒, rice liquor, was the worst spirit I had ever tasted.
I have tasted a $5,000 bottle and a $5 bottle of 白酒 and the difference is negligible, both hovering around "wastewater" level.
I remember hearing about this lifehack and so I gave it a try with the Chinese rice liquor and after filtering it one time I could drink it like any medium shelf liquor, whereas before the filtering it literally smelled like rubbing alcohol and I'd want to immediately vomit taking a shot.
so I started testing other alcohols and doing blind taste tests with friends, and literally every single time, and I did a couple dozen blind taste tests, people voted the filtered liquor tasted better.
i started filtering vodkas and gins a lot for my own drinks or parties.
it works with any alcohol since brita filters don't filter out alcohol.
My filters lasted for months, I kept them bagged in the fridge until I filtered a new bottle, poured the vodka through the filter half a dozen times and then put the vodka filter back in the fridge.
It's a simple, easy way to get high quality vodka or gin for mixers and a great way to get any shitty alcohol tasting much better.
Heat up a pot of water(i use a brining pot) to a simmer, pour it down any drain and that clog is gone.
You don't need to boil anything and the exact temperature does not matter.
fill a big pot with tap water, heat it up to a near simmer, dump it directly down the drain.
That'll give the clog a good punch and the weight of the next gallon or two you heated up will get rid of the rest of it.
spoilers
Rachel's sisters meet ax and That's how they react to him.
everything ax does makes me crack up, but this struck me as particularly funny.
It's a great spot of comic relief in an otherwise very bleak run.
I used sink plungers in toilets pretty much my whole life until i scrolled across a similar diagram one day and discovered the truth.
War.
spoilers
A human in morph dies right away so you know what you're getting into, then things are pretty much exploding and bring destroyed for the whole book while they protect a governor, which seems like a bit much until you reach the end of the book and the governor announces the yeerk invasion to the world.
which is a really great ending.
funny note, Marco talks about how did are ax great long-distance flight morph, and finished them to the reliability of a 747.
Maybe that was correct twenty years ago, when Boeing still did maintenance on their planes with sturdy materials.
What happened in the vegan community?
I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.
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when tax time comes around, you fill out an IRS form called the FEIE, the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.
Check the "physical presence test" box, fill out your total income for that year, then write down the dates that you were not in the United States and where you were.
10 minutes, one extra form, no income taxes.