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my last polaroid of 2020

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This makes so much sense
This accurately displays 'running on fumes' as well. Like, once you get to, say, 5% in your tank. Still 100% of your effort. This is such an amazing visual. Even knowing that my chronic pain impacts what I can do day vs. day, seeing this visual just really helps.
texture and hue//patterns of being//in midsummer views

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It might feel cold in Wairarapa recently with the polar blast, but check out these icicles from a Hawke Bay Orchard in Flaxmere this morning! Looks like a winter wonderland! 😊
It's called frost irrigation and contrary to its looks it is an active protection system for delicate buds!
Overhead water sprinklers spray the tree during freezing temperatures. As water turns to ice, it releases latent heat, maintaining plant tissue right at the freezing threshold ie 0°C shielding buds and blossoms from severe cold damage.
It works on the principle of latent heat which is released during the phase change from water to ice and physically locking plant temperature safe.
A constant slush or water-ice mixture acts as a thermal blanket around sensitive continuously releasing the latent heat.
The system is turned on before temperature is expected to drop to 0°C ie around 1C and the water flow is continuous until temperatures rise above 0c again. Stopping early causes evaporative cooling and worse damage!
During mid-winter dormancy, fully hardened apple flower buds are actually really hardy and can survive extreme cold down to about to -40°C. However, as winter ends and buds begin to swell or open in early spring, their cold tolerance drops sharply, making them vulnerable to light frosts.
Swollen/Silver Tip: Buds survive down to roughly -9°C.
Green Tip: Temperatures dropping to -8°C) can cause minor (10%) damage.
First Pink / Bloom: Tolerance weakens significantly -2°C) kills 10%, -4°C can destroy 90% of blossoms.
Photo credit Andre Kupa.
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omg we got the crazy new place!!! I'll get a post up soon.
Grzegorz Jacek Olejniczak, (Polish b.1968), Moments Before the Storm, 2026, Acrylic and oil technique
Imminence of Twilight - Shoko Okumura , 2019.
Japanese , b. 1983 -
Pigments, gold leaf on Japanese paper , 60 x 45 cm.

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"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
Look at this lovingly maintained cemetery. Look how it is neatly mowed and weedwhacked. Look at all the stones upright and looking intact. People have spent days, months, years, decades, possibly even longer maintaining this pristine space of the dead - for the living. Think of all the hours of the living spent carving these stones, the lovely statue.
The roof is intact on the stone church, the trees are kept clipped. The trees are intentionally planted, there's some extremely non-native conifers in the landscape.
This is an incredibly cared for space. Anyway I love these pictures and this pretty spot, it makes me happy whenever it comes up on my dash that for some reason was tagged rural decay.
My biggest pattern to date, Nature's Journey! It was so fun to do all of these little motifs for this pattern 🌿
Nature's Journey Cross Stitch Pattern | Sprouting Lupine Shop
when people talk bad about cargo shorts i feel so unsafe
like sorry you hate my boxy silhouette and practical pockets

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MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog
Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:
Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”
Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”
Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”
Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”
State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”
The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.
#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true
Interesting and affordable. 1979 Pyramid house in Magalia, CA has 3bds, 1ba, 2,340sqft, $125k, but it does need some work.