Do you open your new set of jumper cables first?

@[email protected] if you yank my meme, I’m going to give you a lump of coal.

It’s a shitpost, but there’s enough nerdery to fit here

I thought your UN looked familiar.

I left for the same reasons. Their native app is shit. They got bought out and took private. I have a dental problem with authority - back me into a corner by taking away my choices and you get brick.

I used to reddit a lot in 2011-2013 but set it down then just lurked periodically. I found out where everyone else was going and here I am. A bit of a learning curve to get set up but now I’m happy and this place feels like reddit (but friendlier) before it started sucking

LAWL. Outstanding

The amount of bullshit in permaculture is tremendous. It’s why I often get in online knife-fights with permies. They do a lot of ‘their own research’. Since they’re doing their own research, they’re liable to get roped into pseudoscience claims. I once saw someone trying to sell salt water as a soil amendment. Don’t get me started on electroculture.

Turd turd turd turd is the word

Fun fact, the original word for bear has been lost because people refused to mention them directly - like Voldemort

Bison bison bison

Or pica hudsonica

That particular layout is exclusive to soil, sorry

I love it when the soil triangle gets memed. The original triangle is used to determine soil textures, which is a super important property in [email protected]

Come on by to learn more about passion. We’ve got lots of pictures of profiles and tons of resources for those who want to nerd out

I once drove my Argo

Though a bunch of pollinating cattails. Me and my friend were covered in yellow pollen head to toe.

As im driving through, she yells ‘uhhh! I’m cumming so much!’ in her best mattress actress voice over the roar of the argo

I’m irrationality angry about the term ‘bottom soil’ and that it’s below granite

https://youtu.be/SSPhuj0BDTw

Yes. I found a good rabbithole

While @[email protected] provides an anthropogenic use for bat boxes, they are widely used in conservation.

Disturbance is putting a lot of pressure on bats. White nose fungus is also hammering bat populations. Anyway, bat boxes are artificial refugia - simulated habitat. These boxes, like other artificial refugia, such as bee boxes, need to be pretty carefully designed so they don’t do the following:

• thermally stress the animals - they won’t use them, or they’ll die if they freeze or fry in them
• act as traps - predators are smart, and will exploit poorly designed refugia
• promote disease, in the case of bee or bat boxes - refugia can be any shape or size, but ones that encourage multiple animals to use them can cause mortality through spreading disease

In general, refugia are at best temporary spaces while ecosystems recover from disturbance and natural habitat re-establishes. This is hard in the case of bats, because they need tree crevices (found in older trees) or rock outcrops and the like.

there’s some really cool papers out there on artificial refugia, if you want to nerd the fuck out about it. Cowan, did some great work around them. He’s a cool dude, and was super pumped to hear how his papers were being considered from a reclamation standpoint when I reached out to him: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.204

Millennials losing their minds over this when we used to shout ‘fuck your couch!’ and Rick James, Bitch! all the time, before memes were a thing.

I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before

Howling

My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that’s not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.