Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.


We’re almost to our daughter’s 9th month of life. We’re both overtired and feeling overworked, with precious little of the time we used to spend on hobbies or couple-time. That said, while there’s been a shift towards an expectation culture in the house (vs an ask culture) we haven’t had the sort of challenges listed in that first paragraph.
Some things probably working for us:
We’ve been together for over a decade and in our home for 9 years
Our communication style is productive even during arguments (“I feel” statements are much more positive than “you” statements)
We’re majority wfh so we have the capacity to buffer each others’ needs as parents throughout the day, rather than leaving everything to one person or having additional financial stresses with childcare
Some things definitely working for us:
Calling each other out for awesome parenting, because very few others will and it’s amazing to feel that validation
Proactively taking something off of each other’s plates, whether that’s cleaning or laundry, dishes or bottles, whatever task is getting done is one that doesn’t have to be done later
Knowing about spoon theory and being sensitive to how much bandwidth each other has left. It’s way harder to recharge from past depleted, so being flexible and recognizing when I or my partner are reaching that point and stepping in or voicing a need for support goes a long way for both of us
How do you find the mental fortitude to ignore the stupid bs your partner does or says?
I mean, we’re both sleep deprived so I’m sure there’s stupid coming out of my mouth too. I think it’s much healthier to laugh or work to improve the condition causing stress than it is to feed a negative cycle. If either of us are escalating we missed a chance to bolster each other.
How would you describe love to your partner a year after having a baby?
Gratitude. I feel incredibly fortunate to have a partner who puts in the effort and has put in the effort to help build the communication style that’s worked so well for us.
Is there any way to know if you and your partner are going to make it and remain a couple after having a child?
It really helps to have a relationship built on respect, and knowing enough about yourselves to approach challenges constructively. Build a good foundation with each other, learn to communicate positively, and do your best.


“I forgot one thing about the guy who had gained the ability to fly - it was actually only for a foot or two, and only an inch or so high”


A health insurer being permitted to vertically integrate a pharmacy chain to get around profit margin caps.


Tbf, drain cleaning Australia’s synth wave music is pretty rockin but yeah the rest sucks


That’s what I’ve used them for as well =D
Happy planning / planting!


You can check out the toolkit over at Permapeople.org, though I’m unsure exactly how open the codebase is. I do know they’re hoping to make it community run in the future, and that the devs share pretty much whatever is asked of them.
Less in the spirit of your question, but something I’ve used relatively extensively is the mymaps.google tool. Here’s hoping someone with some better answers than me comes along (and I remember to check back) to give additional alternatives


Push for it in your state, first. We’re still in the first few cycles using RCV in Maine (I like STAR better) where folks are learning to love it, but there’s no time like now to get that ball rolling. More people need to experience it to shift the national conversation of “whether we should” to “which should we use”


Iirc the leaked internal docs and reporting showed that nvidia was downloading 81 years worth of video per day. If the pattern holds, and we “throw” the books at them, it probably looks a lot like one of those building-sized front end loaders dropping the library of Alexandria on those executives.
As an alternative, I would be fine if nvidia were no longer allowed to hold copyright or trademarks since the company believes that those don’t matter, required to share all internal documents (including any and all planning), and required to open source all their code until the company implodes


Here’s hoping the plaintiffs can bring the leaked internal docs from nvidia’s management directing engineers to violate the TOS of several sites to show a pattern of malfeasance, and that the judge has at least a modicum of understanding regarding these topics. Throw the book(s) at 'em.
To the file holder of the gdrive, it says no access.
And I was under the impression you were further than that, that’s definitely manageable!
Absolutely! I ship fall/spring but if you’re ever down by the Ogunquit/Berwicks area for stuff you are invited!
I have sent an access request
‘300’ meme but they’re helping someone out of the pit instead while “This. Is. Beehaw” is shouted
If you’d like any of my plants this fall shipping season, they’re yours
Wow, you’re incredible! Again, from the very subcockles of my heart - Thank you!
that was fast! I’ve not heard of that format before just now, and don’t see it in my list of vlc formats so I don’t think so.
https://m.soundcloud.com/njpparchives/sets/lwl
And thank you! I love this space and the people here
there are a handful of tracks on youtube, and someone on soundcloud has a collection as well if I were to pay the subscription to play them offline but as Tomas Kalnoky has said “it’s old music and kids have a right to know”. I’m hoping someone might be able to share and prevent me from having to do some wacky things to get it all locally, but I see and appreciate you


I’ve been pretty happy with HedgeCam2 for still photos - good shots without mucking about in settings but there are tons of settings you can fiddle with
600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it