The_Sasswagon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This man helped me kill the lawn inside myself, and now I’ve killed my lawn and I’m on my way to kill my parents’ (lawn) too. I might have even accidentally learned some botany along the way

  A really great channel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My suggestion, since I’ve done something similar. (Depending on what is there now) I’d recommend killing the weeds by laying down layers of cardboard and mulch on top (after cutting them down). Some plants are too pernicious for that and require digging up taproots or targeted herbicide, but the majority of the stuff under it will die and be nutrients for what you plan on planting there. As the cardboard, mulch, and old plants rot, you’ll have exceptional soil for pretty nearly free (depending on the cost of the mulch and your time). As a neat bonus you’ll get all kinds of interesting fungus to look at too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of people in a pretty small area in relatively dense cities that currently drive or fly between the cities (technically called strong city pairings). There’s also a pretty enormous tourism industry in Florida that captures much of the Midwestern US/anyone not going to California or Hawaii for their beach or disney vacation. Florida is also flat which makes for very cheap high speed rail. Note how the map goes out of its way to avoid the mountains out West.

  That being said, I’m not sure this map is one of the ones made with serious city pairing calculations. I’m skeptical that Quincy, IL has a really strong draw for high speed rail, for example, and that long gap between Portland and Sacramento/San Francisco, while beautiful and filled with cool places, is way too sparsely populated to justify 6hrs on high speed rail. I think it’s a sort of meme map that’s been going around for years, though I wish it were real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fanless fridge, no damper, but 3 wires go from thermostat to a loop of tube. WTF is that mystery component?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That could be the heater for the self defrost, if this refrigerator has that feature. It would be connected to a thermostat to prevent overheating, and would be under or against the cold plate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Seattle has an ordinance making changing a park to something else very challenging to impossible. Technically golf courses are parks, though I’d argue terrible ones, making it a much smaller lift to turn them into better (actual) parks and let the golfers go out of town.