Yeah, I tend to get cookbooks from the library a lot.

Lol, 2 of the books that I own cause they do this well.

Yeah, I wish there was an easier way to distinguish what I’d call actual “cook books” from the vast sea of “recipe compilations”.

I.e., books that go over techniques, but then maybe just give some recipes as examples.

Probably depends heavily on how you rate things. Vocabulary, pronunciation, orthography, sentence structure, etc.

Also, is this just counting the major languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian), or minor languages like ladin, romansh, catalan, corsican, etc.

You got me curious, and the plot thickens.

In September 2024, they voted “to pursue steps for a moratorium on solar development within the town except for roof mounted solar”

They never did actually create a moratorium, they just voted saying that they wanted to. I actually checked the ordinances, and no such ordinance exists. The latest town meeting minutes actually say they are still working on it.

Basically, this whole article is stretching the truth, and I would expect a journalist to look up the ordinance if they are going to claim it exists.

Not a problem I have, but generally, I hate bug spray because of how greasy and smelly it is (and the fact that deet damages synthetic fabrics), so I will go to a lot of lengths to avoid using it.

I use long sleeves and occasionally a bug net if the mosquitos are really thick. They can bite through clothing, so I make sure it’s loose. I’ve actually been thinking about making a garment to wear under a long sleeve shirt to add another layer to my shoulders where gravity makes the fabric sit against my skin.

I also use permethrin treated clothes if im going to be somewhere with a lot of bugs. I do try to minimize that to when I really need it because permethrin is harmful to a lot of beneficial insects, too. You could use a permethrin treated buff or something similar to protect your neck.

Lastly, picaridin comes in a lotion that is not greasy or smelly, and it works just as well as DEET for mosquitos.

I think this is an irresponsible headline. If you actually read the article, it says the town does not currently have anyone trying to develop utility-scale solar. The moratorium, therefore, is not actually pumping the brakes on any solar projects.

Towns need rules on these things, and as long as the moratorium isnt an indefinite pause, and they are actually working on coming up with rules, I think it’s the responsible thing to do.

It’s good to see that there are sane comments here.

It’s crazy to me when people go through a 10 step logical progression to justify how not voting is somehow the moral thing to do.

It is essentially a trolley problem, and maybe my personal philosophy is too utilitarian, but it’s an easy choice for me to throw the switch that causes the least harm rather than sitting by for maximum harm.

Also, there are a lot of non-voting actions you can do that improve things, but voting doesnt prevent any of those. Anyone who says they do direct action instead is full of crap: do both.

Despite all the attacks on voting rights, voting is still one of the easiest actions to take.

This plus a dose of a natural disdain for being given an answer in the question.

The proper way to phrase a question should be “what is your opinion on X?”. Asking why X is good forces me to accept your assumption that it is good.

Idk about merlin, but with iNaturalist, the purpose was logging sightings and locations of plants/animals/fungi/etc, and letting people double check your ID so it can be used in research.

This built a massive database of images, locations, times, etc, which is a really good training set for image (or sound) recognition. Now the app is really good at automatically recognizing stuff from pictures, so people just use it for that. The app actually started to try to penalize you for using it for identification without actually logging stuff.

I sure am glad I have the freedom to hunt through several arcane websites search functions to find a doctor that’s i think looks good based off no information other than that they have an MD and practice primary care, only to book an appointment for 6 months later, at which point they cancel my appointment because they realize that my plan is slightly different than they thought.

If you sat at a table, and wanted water for each person, you would ask for “waters”. The container is implied.

Vertical surfaces are not nearly as effective for the majority of cases in capturing solar radiation.

I will say, I’ve seen compelling evidence for vertical bifacial panels. In east-west facing configurations, they generate more power when demand is greater and regular panels produce little power. They also stay cooler, so they operate more efficiently. I think it’s often more cost and space efficient to have more panels installed flat to something than fewer panels installed at the theoretically best angle.

Thats a lot of infrared that wouldn’t be used by solar panels.

Plenty of people do this with sheep or goats. Cows seem less well suited. They are taller, so your panels need to be higher, and therefore stronger. Cows also tend to rub on things, which could break them.

It seems like (at least according to wikipedia) true immigration to Poland is tiny (~10,000 per year ). Poland allows a huge amount of temporary workers, though. Germany and Czechia, for example, have roughly 10x the amount of immigration per 1000 people.

I also just realized there’s no definition of ethnic diversity on this picture

Definitely important. It’s all a social construct anyway. Its like any kind of taxonomy where you have lumping and splitting of groups. A country could choose to group a bunch of related groups for nationalistic purposes, or they could chose to create in-groups and outgroups.

I suspect there’s little systemic racism in Poland

I would suspect there’s a lot of systemic racism, but more focused on “holding the line” of immigration rather than attacking the existing minority groups.

The best analogy for anything in the fediverse is “it’s like email where you dont need to have an account with the same company as someone to talk to them”.

For Mastodon specifically, it’s just the Twitter equivalent of that.

The fact that a cornfield meet hasn’t resulted in any fatalities (so far) is at least good news.

Plus HPWHs dehumidify the air around them, which is typically good in the places you keep them.