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Great bundle to purchase if you've got young kids just getting into video games.

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Hello,

I am attempting to raise as much of my family's diet on food we raise ourself on our family farm. We grow corn and if we wanted to we could store an infinite amount of ground corn that falls out of our machinery every year.

We already have chickens for eggs and meat. Space is not an issue.

What animal should we get that can be fed with corn and grass to supplement our chicken flock? I'm willing to entertain all warm blooded options.

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Hello,

I recently had a coworker mention, " You can't just smash Japanese beetles because it will only attract more through a pheromone they release when dying."

Is this actually a thing or is he misremembering some old gossip's tale?

Thanks, DrHugsyMcFur

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Forget your "dying clean" baloney. Stop fetishizing a civil war.

I've got things I want to do in the coming years that don't involve dying to some right wing death squad or dysentery.

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

What's management supposed to do? Hang a sign?

People who play phone speakers in public can't read!

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Have you ever had a job? Hardly anyone visits the office bathroom for a 45 min long dump.

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1a. Trust me, my shits are violent aggressive.

1b. I'll take your advice and whisper my complaints through the door crack. Maintaining eye contact the whole time. We'll even have a firm handshake afterwards.

  1. I'm trying to raise my elo in LiChess. I'm not breaking 1100 while also translating my neighboring stall's latin ballad.
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The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It happens a lot less when you don't cramp billions of animals in extremely close quarters

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I can see that this is super funny to you, but some people with chronic allergies can't enjoy their vacations or go about their lives because inconsiderate people demand to bring their pets to public areas such as hotels or stores.

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

In the American system you need more than just a majority in congress to pass a resolution like federal abortion legalization.

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

At no time under Obama did Democrats have 60 seats in the senate. They had 57 seats and 2 independents who caucused with them.

This is not enough seats to overcome a filibuster which would be required to legalize abortion in all the states. They would have required 1 Republican to vote with the Democrats on this topic and I think even in the kinder political times that Republican would have been strung up on a light pole when they returned back to their home district.

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Can dolphins or whales live in fresh water?

They don't need to breathe in water so assuming they have enough prey I don't see why the water's saltinity affects them.

But then why don't we have dolphins playing in the Mississippi river?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world to c/canning@midwest.social

I canned a few cups of apples this fall. Now that I pull the apples out for some baking, i find that my apples are just barely more firm than applesauce.

Does anyone have any tips on keeping apples firm after canning?

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Satisfactory, it's so much fun, but looking forward to the endgame builds is super daunting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSV2Ku3DhTc

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Attempting to can apples for the first time and I am pretty confident that I filled the can up to the 1/2" point before the headspace starts. But after I pulled them out of the canner I have a good 1" of only liquid that the apples are floating on.

Did I do something wrong?

Is there a good way to really pack apples into the can before they go into the canner to avoid this wasted space?

[-] drhugsymcfur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you catch them ripe then they are a seedy soft banana with a different flavor. It's so soft that the best way to eat it is with a spoon using the peel as a bowl.

But they have a very short window of ripeness, there's a reason that they're not commercially grown and it's generally because of the short ripeness window and they're easy to bruise during transport.

If you've got the space and the time go for it, it's a fun little conversation starter to give family, neighbors, & coworkers something that they may not know grows right in their back woodlot.

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