Or if you're a willow tree you make a leaky pipe.
Some genius planted a curly willow right in the middle of my house’s septic drain field. That tree cost me $20,000.
Readit Newsbuildsjets commented on Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
buildsjets commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
Canada should build their own air superiority fighter, with hookers and blackjack. They can call it the Avro Arrow.
Well what do you know.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-accused-of-axing-avr...
buildsjets commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
Up here in Canada it's a question of trust, or rather the lack of it. Things are unlikely to ever go back to the way things were.
Buy, make and domestically develop drones, lots and lots of drones.
Canada should build their own air superiority fighter, with hookers and blackjack. They can call it the Avro Arrow.
buildsjets commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
> Open Source
The CC-NC-SA-4.0 license isn't an Open Source Definition compliant license, since it discriminates against a field of use (commercial applications).
https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower/blob/main/LICENS...https://opensourcedefinition.org/
A reminder, open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation:
https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
It's open source to people and organizations who are not assholes and thieves.
I don't care about my fake internet points, so have at it.
buildsjets commented on Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way pudding.cool/2025/08/onio... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I make fresh Pico de Gallo twice a week so I chop a lot of onions. Besides an even dice, I’m interested in not dicing my fingertips. Radial slicing a 180 segment or adding horizontal slices is too unstable.
My method is to cut in quarters, give a quarter a vertical dice, rotate 90, do another vertical dice, then go longitudinal.
Another DH106 Mk4C has been under restoration at the Museum of Flight restoration center in Everett, WA since 1995. I don't think that a single thing has been done to it since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2019. Allegedly they will be losing their lease in few years, no idea if they will do anything to complete the restoration before then.
https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/...
Thanks for the link, but I can read that, too many intrusive ads. I'll give it a go when I get to a computer.
Goalpost mover.
buildsjets commented on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface patternproject.substack.c... · Posted by u/cainxinth
When someone has a profound psychedelic experience that shows them the arbitrary nature of many social constructs, or reveals possibilities for consciousness that mainstream science doesn't acknowledge... that's genuinely disruptive to systems built on those constructs.
The resistance is real, systematic, and rational (from the perspective of maintaining current power arrangements). Not a joke.
As RAW wrote in Cosmic Trigger: "Why does the gnosis always get busted?"
buildsjets commented on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto thedeletedscenes.substack... · Posted by u/wyclif
I've got Genelec studio monitors in my kitchen. I care very much about sound. I would never set foot in your anechoic, soffit mounted cafe blasting jazz at 100dB.
That's a complete, total waste of studio monitors. Monitors are for nearfield positioned listening. Sound great when you are in the (small) sweet spot, but generic and flat off axis, which you will be most of the time in a workspace like a kitchen. And a kitchen is a terrible place to seriously listen to music, with all of the hard tile surfaces and tinny sheet metal appliances reverberating. You may care very much about sound, but you don't know very much about sound. If you did, and you wanted good sound while working in the kitchen, you'd be wearing some nice open back headphones, not some fairly cheap, very small monitors.
buildsjets commented on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto thedeletedscenes.substack... · Posted by u/wyclif
Why though? Because vibrations from a speaker can cause the turntable to move and move the arm or cause the needle to move.
In a jazz cafe, I assume the music plays low most of the time and so it probably doesn't matter much.
The motion of the speaker feeds signal back to the needle/input device. It matters even more in Jazz/syncopated music. The needle tracks with a force of only 1.5 grams or so, and any motion is greatly amplified. Also if you listen to jazz with the volume low you are doing it wrong. Do you link the volume was low in the club when Sun Ra was recording?
But besides that, those speakers are placed terribly for stereo imaging. Even tucked in the cubby, why place them with the drivers together rather than apart? And those speakers appear to be dreadful anyway. A single 12" driver in a vented / untuned baffle with no midrange or tweeter elements?
So this is definitely set up for aesthetic, not sound quality.