mipadaitu

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[–] mipadaitu 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Inner earth and outer earth.

[–] mipadaitu 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] mipadaitu 1 points 3 hours ago

The original still exists, a remake for modern times doesn't delete the first one.

[–] mipadaitu 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I think if it's done right, FP would be a perfect movie for a remake.

The original is pretty good, and has decent special effects, but it's certainly a product of its time.

The overt sexism and racism is pretty obnoxious. As long as the remake keeps the story mostly the same, but just cleans it up a bit, ESPECIALLY if they stick with the retro-futuristic style.

[–] mipadaitu 17 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

The transporter wouldn't be able to disassemble the one ring. In universe, my assumption is that they wouldn't even be able to get a sensor lock on it.

Probably couldn't transport anyone carrying the ring either.

[–] mipadaitu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted_05.html

I printed this out and we've been working through them all from the start. Just crossing them off and starting the next one.

[–] mipadaitu 28 points 1 day ago

I hope they have a good use for it. I'd love to see them utilize the name to try to de-radicalize folks.

The Onion seems to have gotten a new life after they were bought, so maybe they'll go the Cards Against Humanity route and start to push things in a better direction.

[–] mipadaitu 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pritzker has been very outspoken about defying national orders, and even protecting the vulnerable in other states.

I'm not surprised he's leading the charge.

I thought he was going to be another shit governor in a long line of shitty Illinois governors, but this guy is knocking it out of the park.

[–] mipadaitu 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The supreme court has no ability to enforce their decisions. The states can and have ignored their orders in the past.

If an order comes back that's blatant enough, there will be pushback.

https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2024-11-13/jb-pritzker-and-colorados-jared-polis-launch-governors-coalition-to-protect-against-threats-of-autocracy-under-trump

[–] mipadaitu 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The states control the elections, enough of them could literally just refuse to put him on the ballot.

[–] mipadaitu 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup, sometime in the next year or two I'll get laid off, then I'll just mooch off my spouse.

[–] mipadaitu 2 points 1 day ago

That's amazing! I love to see it.

It's great when you can figure out a solution that fits so well onto someone's ability level.

I bet it wouldn't take much for someone to duplicate this work given the level of detail provided.

 

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis have formed a coalition of governors to fight against “increasing threats of autocracy” and strengthen democracy during a second Donald Trump presidency.

The goal of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, or GSD, is to protect state-level institutions of democracy — and to utilize their collective legislative, budgetary, executive and administrative powers. Pritzker said it will “catalyze collaboration across state lines.”

“It’s built off a model that all of us governors have already successfully pioneered through the Reproductive Freedom Alliance,” Pritzker said. “And together, what we’re doing is pushing back against increasing threats of autocracy and fortifying the institutions of democracy that our country and our states depend on.”

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Thermometer Holster (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by mipadaitu to c/3dprinting
 

I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep track of how hot the back of my Expedition gets. I drive pretty regularly with two dogs in the back, and over the summer and winter the temps can get a little extreme.

I need to be able to take it out to keep an eye on it remotely (it has about 1/4 mile range) but also have it not rolling around while I drive.

There was a coin holder there that I popped out, and used as a template for an insert to keep this mounted semi-permanently.

Printed with kinda crappy Amazon Basics PETG. If it holds up well, I'll reprint it with better quality black PETG so it matches the car better.

 

Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline.

Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.

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submitted 4 months ago by mipadaitu to c/gardening
 

Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.

 

We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month.

The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water.

Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough.

Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.

 

The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents.

Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now.

I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again.

This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

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submitted 5 months ago by mipadaitu to c/gardening
 

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

 

Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

 

Jeff from The Float Life pushes it over 40MPH on a VESC'd OneWheel.

 

The amount of detail in these pictures is amazing. You can really see the texture in the nebula, and the features are so crisp, it kind of looks 3d.

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