Thanks for reminding me to breathe. You’re a lifesaver.

We almost did this (I still have some tubes stowed away), but we ended up mostly using soil blocks mainly because I forget to harvest the tubes throughout the year.

What I like about the tubes idea is that they are about twice as tall as soil blocks or commercial fiber pots/trays (which are also tapered) of the same size. That’s a lot more room for the roots to grow before they explode out the bottom, especially for vegetables that want to start with a long first root.

Heck I’ve convinced myself. I need to start my beans inside this year because of the darn squirrels, so maybe I’ll do it with these tubes and then get rid of the rest of my leftover fiber strips with flowers.

While JQ1 is not suitable as a treatment due to neurological side effects, it is known to interfere with a stage of meiosis called prophase 1. This allowed researchers to demonstrate, for the first time, that targeting meiosis can safely and reversibly shut down sperm production.

If developed for human use, this type of male contraceptive could be delivered as an injection given every three months or possibly as a patch to maintain effectiveness, Cohen said.

Mattrle’s Bro Food 🤔

It’s an Atari before they paint it and put the cartridge slot in.

The language is ancient, but, since it has continued to be used long past its ancient origin, words and phrases have been coined in later periods for various purposes.

Also, the “early modern” era is roughly considered the period between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution.

So begins the festival of fools.

“Less” is correct. “Less” had been used synonymously with “fewer” to denote countables for centuries before the contrivance of a distinction, and that usage has continued on despite some’s insistence of one.

Unless you are writing in some professional or technical sense that demands “fewer” instead, “less” is fine.

I’m not sure I follow that math.

It’s trickle-down beeconomics!

I’m sure their friends say nice things.

And you buy drinking water just to flush down the toilet.

Distract them with a cool sword swishing around? That’ll do it.

My darling and I do combat choreography and a theatre friend alerted us to this trend. But honestly, I couldn’t tell you if that was 2, 4, or 12 months ago.

In the intransitive sense ‘choking’ has that meaning, but the transitive sense is more equivalent to strangulation. ‘Getting choked by a dick’, ‘choking on a dick’, and ‘choking one’s own dick’ are three very different things.

Username checks out.

lol. Before i saw the title I thought an AI had hallucinated a down facing solar panal inside a cloud. 😅

It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.

Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.

Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?

Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.

Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!

Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them as tiny fingers.

Away 1: Or octopus suckers.

Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?

Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…

Away 4: Uh huh.

Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…

Away 3: dis-groused?

Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!

Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?

Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.

Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…

Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues

Unironically, I think Star Trek: Away would be a fun Lower Decksian concept that covers an away team, but only while they are on mission.

The episode starts once they have left the ship (whether by transporter, shuttle or otherwise), no context, and the show builds the premise of the mission over the course of the episode. We never actually get a good view of the inside of the ship and all the nonsense that goes on there (mission related or not) has to be relayed through coms, dialogue, or the away team’s outside perspective.

Average “life expectancy” in the past is misleading because it is skewed by high rates of infant/child mortality. If you made it to past your first few years, you stood a much better likelihood of reaching old age.