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This should really be the canary in the coal mine for just how bad things are going to get.

Fox gloves (though maybe avoid if you have young children, or animals who are likely to eat them).

Lupins

Linaria purpurea (not native but naturalised basically everywhere in England), the bees and other pollinators absolutely love them.

Lobelia of different varieties.

Elderberry is a nice option, flowers and berries can be used in recipes

Apple, plum, pear and peach are all good to espalier

Gooseberry and currents will grow no matter what.

Budliah is great for bees and butterflies, is very fast growing and has lots of flowers for basically 9 months of the year. I would be careful with he variety you get, make sure it is a dwarf variety as it likes to self seed and the larger varieties can require multiple trims a year.

Use things like rosemary if you want relatively short boundary bushes, can also be used for cooking, they like being pruned back etc

Outta curiosity what is a Keto cough drop?

I mean I don’t think there are any high protein cough drops, but I’m pretty sure you can get sugar free cough drops… You can atleast definitely get sugar free boiled sweets, a couple of type 1 diabetics I know have them, and you get them at the checkouts here as shops aren’t allowed to put sugary snacks at the checkouts.

And in regards to getting proteins that are atleast in stock, lentils and peas/beans are pretty good sources of proteins, I’ve seen people make some good looking keto friendly naan breads/flat breads using pea protein (IIRC), have you tried anything like that?

You’d be able to, but you would need to either insulate the interior with PIR, or clad the exterior with PIR insulation.

Admittedly my property is a 1960’s brick build with wall cavities, but we’re build on the side of a hill with soil retaining walls so we aren’t the most efficient property, though overboarding the walls has made a big difference. There is a lot of improvements people could do even remaining on a gas boiler.

IMHO, exterior cladding and insulation seems to be the best option for actually making the properties warmer with minimal disruption to living in them, alongside upgrading fibreglass insulation in the loft spaces.

We have gotten a heat pump installed and it’s doing a good job so far, and that’s without a lot of the main upgrades to the insulation don’t, unfortunately the installers have been a pain in the ass.

Not excusing anyone here, but I’m curious where you got the 1.5million dead from?

Wikipedia seems to suggest that combined total losses from the (edit) first Gulf war and the uprising following to be about 500,000 casualties, from all sides, including civilians and combatants.

And to put into perspective, Saddamn killed/massacred/genocided between ~155,000 and ~480,000, many of whom were killed by the use of chemical weapons during this period. Entire villages of Kurds were genocided.

Hmm, that’s interesting but IIRC Tyrosine itself isn’t all that sour when tasted, nor are really any other amino acids I can think of aside from possibly Taurine, I assumed it was a small amount of hydrolysis of the acetyl group was occurring to enable the taste difference, but if you’ve got some more context I’d love to hear it

Get some malic acid if you want it to be a different type of sour, or tartaric acid if you want it to be more tart.

Oh actually other suggestions; buy some N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine (Often called NALT), it’s incredibly sour and slightly sweet, once again different from from the fruit acids (malic, citric, tartaric). NALT is a precursor to Tyrosine an amino acid. You need only the tiniest amount on the tongue to get the affect. The sourness is from the acetyl group, and I think the slight sweetness is from the tyrosine/or the complete structure, as related compounds are used as artificial sweeteners.

Huh, I’ve got a collection of not necessarily dangerous, but hard to find chemicals. DCM (methylene chloride) is still something I’ve been unable to find. It’s an incredibly useful solvent especially for adhering bitumen felt to itself.

Never been too concerned with fumes at typical temperatures (higher temperatures required for PETG and the effect of those temps on PTFE bowdern tubes are a different box of frogs), but stringing getting pulled into the extruder fans scares the crap out of me as it basically becomes an ultra fine dust that builds up in the air and eventually settles waiting to be disturbed.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/lain

https://lainchan.org/

Let’s all love Lain

Wait, why vitamin D before bed?

I thought your body produces it in response to daylight, so I always thought that should be taken in the day?

I’m genuinely unsure they’re a scab, I think they’re saying that we cannot expect these parasitic companies to have the workers best interests at heart, and as such strong workers rights should be enshrined in law and enforced.

I could be misunderstanding them though of course.

I wonder how hard would it be to build a extension for a browser that checks the doi of the paper youre looking at on scihub against the live version, to see if there’s a retraction/update to the paper, and list the date of the changes. I assume that information wouldn’t be behind a paywall.

The reason for it being via an extension is to reduce load on sci hub, and for the lookup requests to be decentralised and live for the relevant paper

My watch later is so big; it breaks whenever I add a new video. I have to manually go into the playlist, change it from recently added to a different listing order, then back to recently added for it to show anything I’ve added since the last time I’ve done this.

So remove a feature, and put in behind a paywall as an additional accessory? … Actually yeah, that’s exactly what apple would do

Not necessarily a stretch or workout that I’m going to suggest, but more if you’re exercising get help from someone who knows good form.

I got into doing sit-ups/core strength exercises as a teenager, alongside bad form and bad sleeping/living conditions + stretchy ligaments have completely ruined my back.

The first thing that’s actually started to help in a way that doesn’t cause other issue has been seeing a physiotherapist, who worked with me to identify exactly which muscles were stiff, which muscles were over stretched, range of movement, etc…

And then walked me through what exercises and and positions would actually help with my difficulties.

Otherwise a massage gun used properly can be a game changer, but same thing, if you have a partner, ask them to help you out; don’t over stretch trying to fix things.

So that community is great, subscribed.

On a similar “I went for a walk, check out this cool blank I found” vibe, does anyone know of an equivalent one for rocks?

I know rockhounds used to be a thing on Reddit but I haven’t come across a Lemmy equivalent yet?

Honestly, it takes surprisingly little recoil to do damage.

My dad managed to split his eyebrow with a little .177 BSA 12ftlb air rifle.

He didn’t think and rested the scope against his eyebrow; was a blunt, cresent shaped cut. Certainly a good way to learn what not to do

Am I missing something? What does this have to do with cyber security?

Do you have a flatbed scanner? Like a photocopier printer?

Literally put the item on the glass of the flatbed and hit scan, stick an etched mm ruler beside it facing the scanner if you want scale.

It’s generally the most effective way by far to perform this.

I’ve used it to copy the perfect profile of an extruded aluminium ebike battery housing, to print a replacement cap after the first got cracked.

Basically when you try to use your phone to perform a task like this, you’ll need to account for the inherent lens distortion of your camera, which is a pain in the ass