Captchas are for free image recognition training, not verifying humanity. My ability to identify fire hydrants is not what makes me human.

It went from 1 pound air loss per day to 2 pounds per day.

So it is significant in the statistics sense. That is a very measurable and sudden change which definitively shows that either a new leak has occured, or an existing leak has suddenly worsened.

However, 2 pounds per day loss is not severe on its own. Presumably the worry is that without knowing what caused the sudden increase, they can’t know whether a sudden and much worse intensification of losses will occur. So the astronauts not involved in repair activities should be ready to evacuate until the situation is fully evaluated and a repair plan is ready.

Oxygen generators recycle CO2 back into O2. They can’t create new air. So lost air is replaced from compressed gas storage tanks that get replenished from supply flights. 2 pounds per day is easy to supply from the tanks. The issue here is not knowing why there is a sudden doubling of losses and therefore lacking confidence that the situation won’t worsen rapidly.

Bad headline from the Guardian on this one.

There’s a big difference between evacuation readiness and evacuation.

There was a sudden, but not catastrophic increase in air loss from 1 pound per day to 2 pounds per day. Until the source of the loss increase is found, NASA doesn’t know if this is new damage such as from a micrometioroid impact or if existing damage is growing. Like a leaking dam, damage in weakened metal can grow rapidly without warning. So the astronauts not involved in the repair efforts are ordered to be ready for evacuation if the situation starts worsening rapidly.

I personally expect the source of the leak to be found and repaired without evacuation.

Some of the nicer burr grinders are significantly quieter. Still not close to silent, but much less likely to disturb someone in another room.

Indices that don’t include spacex can still be effected. As the major indices have to make liquidity available to purchase SPCX, that will suppress the value of everything else in their baskets to some extent. So the indices not including SPCX may be immune to direct SPCX volatility, but they won’t be immune to all the effects of rapid inclusion.

No one said it was a love marriage.

Is there much of a resale market to recuperate some of the costs on modules you replace? I could see slower depreciation being part of an economic justification, but only if there’s a robust second hand parts market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_branding

I don’t think it’s the wokesters being owned here.

I wish inverter type microwaves were standard. The vast majority of residential microwave ovens only modulate on like a 10 second interval. So you put it on power setting 3 or 30 and it will pump out full power for 3 seconds then off for 7 seconds. This works for things like defrosting meat, but a bunch of foods will still start popping and drying out in those few seconds. Inverter microwaves modulate many times a second so they can warm much more fragile foods without searing them.

In times of turmoil, it is prudent to keep a healthy portion of your savings in liquid assets.

I’m surprised they have negative bouyancy with all that trapped air in their feathers.

They said a used car, not a new car.

I get that that is how management types think, but Minecraft clearly demonstrates that both can exist side by side very profitably.

Is there a reason why any new launch shouldn’t have a self host option from the start? Company servers can be used for tournaments, events, ranked matchmaking etc, anti-cheat, cross platform, etc. But why can’t self-hosted servers be an option in parallel? Then it would be a non-issue for when the studio servers go eol.

A while ago, I saw a post recommending people who wanted to try planting milkweed to use a tool that lists nurseries that source local seeds rather than ordering from a national place. This suggestion was made because many plants are fairly well tuned to their local climate. Even if you don’t intend to plant milkweed, I think this is a good tool to find a semi local supplier that cares about local heritage breeds. Most of the ones I checked take online orders and will ship. I’ll shoutout Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Sow True Seeds.

https://xerces.org/milkweed/milkweed-seed-finder#mwf_tool

The other resource I really love is a college near us has a good botany program and they put on two plant sales a year. Their prices are good, but the quality and selection is what really stands out. Plus most of the volunteers are students or faculty so when you have questions they either have a good answer or can walk you over to someone who does. That hasn’t always been my experience at nurseries. I think it would be worth checking if any universities somewhat near you have a horticulture extension office or public gardens program. Try searching for botanical gardens in your preferred maps app and see what shows up.

One last recommendation that perhaps doesn’t fit a houseplants community, but you got me monologing… John Scheepers/Van Engelen is my go to supplier for flowering bulbs. They import direct from holland and ship out to customers very quickly after the container arrives. The quality and size of bulbs I’ve gotten from them greatly surpasses any retail place I’ve tried.

The latest Moody’s Talks Inside Economics episode covers the jobs numbers well and talks about some of thr concerning figures that undermine the headline job growth. Of note: total hours are down and labor force participation are down despite job openings increasing.

It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

Berger is President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate and is the highest ranking member of the NC GOP. This is like John Thune getting primaried and losing.

Idk if he shot himself in the foot. His family gained billions in net worth, and he’s still not in prison.

They definitely hamstrung the rest of us though.

I already bought 3rd party replacement pads, but I’ll keep that trick in mind for the future.