ZooL
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Have once seen pots with 2 copper strips running around them with the positive and negative terminals of a 9v battery each connecting to a strip, when a slug or snail tries to cross it it completes the circuit and they get a zap(doesn't kill em, just makes em turn around), they would only work for pots but a similar fence/exclusion zone should be able to be set using some wood and wire for things in the ground.
Would wanna do some safety testing to make sure no arcs or sparks come from the set up but i think with only a 9v battery or similar low power input that should be easy to avoid. -
Thanks, I have sent them an email querying about wording and whether such a request is likely to succeed, depending on their reply if there is one i will give this a shot.
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Also dea in lions tale, will that trigger a cannabis result?
Is there some way to use FOI or somthing to find out exactly how and what is being used in road side testing to make some copy of it i wonder? -
I,m no grass expert so cant give a solid ID, my house is surrounded by fields with phalaris grass and i think to get a solid ID* you would want a close up of where the leaves touch and wrap around the stem and of the patterns on the seed head before it flowers. I think p.brachystachys would be the most useful but i think it's unlikely you would find that growing wild but i could be wrong.
From memory though i think trying to make use of it is more hassle than it's worth due to all the other stuff in it and trying to separate that out, there may also be some stuff in there you may not wanna concentrate down. But there may be better teks and methods now since i looked into that. -
I got no idea what kind of bird this one is, all i have to offer it atm is some homebrew cat food i make that is basically canned dog food, chicken egg, and canned mackerel all blended up into a paste in a syringe thing. it seems happy with that but not sure how it goes with nutrients it need or whether i'm gonna be around in hour ever many hours it starts sooking again.
I plan on doing what i can for the most part but just have a bad feeling its all gonna come crashing down eventually. I guess the little bird today will survive if it does whether me or my efforts collapse in the long run. -
How much effort should i take on? I am currently caring for wayyy too many cats that i inherited from my somewhat catlady mum, when she got sick and i was caring for her i made a promise that i would look after them when she was gone, she said it was fine to put them down if need be(they are mostly reject cats with one issue or another so re homing for most ain't realistic) but i promised to care for them to put her at ease, i could see she was torn between wanting them cared for and not wanting to burden me(I have had my own issues and her not wanting to add to that was clearly a factor). I'm not religious or any woowoo inclined so realistically any promise i made to her is null and void as she no longer exists, but i still have an empathetic response for the cats i took responsibility for, I have recently started letting 2 of the elderly cats live in (my) part of the house as the cat area is a bit hectic(no fights and clean enough down there they just prefer it up here), means they will get a better last days but even more effort for me(cleaning mainly), as i got home today i see a bit shy of a fledgling bird running to hide near my car port( here it wont last a day ) so i take it inside. It adds to the hassle.
This is a "philosophy" post in the creativity,spirituality and philosophy section so I'm just venting i guess and no there is no actual answer, just questions to ponder. -
Before i came across SAB all i knew of people that took/used substances from nature for one reason or another were pretty much just "deadbeat druggies", SAB has shown me that some people in to taking/using some substance from nature for whatever reason may very well be extremely intelligent and likely very productive people.
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Are you sure plant https://identify.plantnet.org is unlimited free? I have a memory of using that one and having to use a proxy after hitting some weekly or monthly limit. But i likely never made an account or used an app and would have just used the web version so may have just been that, it was also a few years back so may be different now.
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Anyone have any good free plant id app or site suggestions?
The place i live has a big garden, like 1.5 acres kinda things with many different plants and trees. Who every used to live here must has been a really avid gardener or owned a nursery or something because there are probably more than 1000 different plants, I have used a couple plant id sites but end up getting through a couple meters and then they want me to pay before i can more, some i could use proxies to get a few more free ones before being asked to pay again but that was just a mess around.
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I was talking to someone recently and realized how important it is to just honestly say where your current view point stands at the initiation of the discussion to avoid wasting an annoyingly long amount of time for no reason.
If say there was a house that either was or wasn't on fire, and you have two people disusing how much effort they should be apply to putting out that fire, one will always try drag the result to nothing because they think there is no fire, the other will try drag the result to everything because they think the fire will consume their house if not put out.
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Some dude i know ended up with a bunch of immature weed(a grey mold and odd whether issue) a while back, not super immature but enough where the smoke was kinda harsh without mixing with tobacco.
He had an idea to make some alcohol tincture kinda thing but only had a small amount of vodka at the time, he mixed little vodka with water assuming there would enough alcohol in the mix to extract all the good stuff. Let about 20gs of decarbed bud matter submersed sit in a jar for a couple days, couple shakes here and there.
Drank have the liquid after that, was nice but more like 1 g than 10.
For some reason he never discarded the bud matter from the extraction attempt and after noticing the mild effect from the tincture fail he dried the bud matter and smoked it.
Apparently it was by far the smoothest smoke he had ever smoked, much lacking the flavor expected but the kick was still there.
The abv of the water/vodka mix would have been about 10-15%, he assumed that this would have been enough to get all the goodies.
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My thinking was just more about the inconvenience of transport and disposal of "sharps".
as in your kit, just the syringe, you sterilize and re use this, dump the cartridge after use.
no sharps spoilage or transport issues.
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Was at the dentist the other day and noticed the syringes they use, they seem like they would be useful for mushroom growing, as in just buying/trading spore cartridges for them and just sterilizing the metal syringe before use.
Is that a thing?
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Is it just me or maybe just where i am but this winter has been odd for mushrooms?
There is a pine plantation i pass through daily and for the past few years at least(since i been in these parts) the road adjacent was awash with the orange of saffrons but this year they showed up a little early but only were around in small numbers for a week or 2, then nothing. Then i went to a place where at the time there would/should have been thousands of subs, i saw 4. Have also noticed in my paddocks and yard its been a lot different, even yellow strainers there has just been one or two little patched when once they were everywhere?
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I have noticed that weed can make getting to sleep much easier but can also make deep sleep/rem sleep somehow less effective at whatever it is doing. I have noticed the same thing with most "sleep aid" things. As in easier to achieve sleep but you gain less from it.
I don't think most "sleep aid" things are good in the long run.
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The nazi regime was all sorts of fucked up but that doesn't mean that anyone opposing them isn't themselves also fucked up in one way or another. In regards to eugenics, I see no inherent issue with it in general but any realistic implementation of it runs into ethical issues strait away.
Eg. Two people realising they have some genetic issue that may be passed on to their offspring so choosing to adopt one of the countless already born kids that need love/parents instead is one thing and is not an issue, but the reality of eugenics implementation requires forcing these people to either not breed or to breed with some "desired" comparable partner instead. In reality there is just no way it ethically works.
Eugenics as it is fails, there is no way around this, but I think conflating eugenics and "designer babies"eg. and such is an issue in itself. From them moment we built fences we effectively started to separate ourselves from "natural" selection which is itself having issues we shouldnt ignore, any sort of "unnatural" selection has its own ethical issues but so does doing nothing in regard to
the "natual" selection we have negated/suppressed.
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I have always been a bit jealous of people that can emerse themselves in larping,fantasy games and even things like worlds in books. I just can't manage to do it myself.
Does anyone know of anything like this that you can just watch/observe and have the experience vicariously through people that that can do it themselves?
The closest I have come across was some show called harmon quest.
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Thanks, this var is out of stock or not available from the sites I usually get things from but I'll wait till is available and give that a try here.
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The reason I asked this is that I've heard the synthetic stuff that is like the compound in khat but with a meth like tail added will trigger a result for amphetamines.
I think I need to find myself a corrupt cop and get my hands on some of their lollipops, is all so hard to find clear Info on this, is it 4 hours or 4 days? Will x y and z trigger a positive. I guess I should just smoke crack and inject heroin to be safe.
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I once got an offer to enter some trial for a slow release ketamine capsule thing to be placed in the effected area and was supposed to have no mental effects but was meant to numb that nerve area for a year or so.
I never took part as its a back injury issue and have always thought no pain at all there was a bad idea while the issue was still present, i don't wanna be doing more damage and not realise sort of thing. But I do wonder how that trial went.
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I am a bit on the fence about how this has all come about so quick with a full 180 from the tga.
On the one hand I think mdma and psilocybin are clearly effective treatments for some conditions, aside from the research being clear on this I have seen first hand instances of someone near instantly snapping out of life long religious indoctrination and instances of people addressing childhood abuse they had never spoke about while effected by these. If I have seen these effects in an uncontrolled environment I have no doubt you could use this effectivly in a controlled situation to treat ptsd and other similar conditions where current treatment has failed.
But on the other hand I think this "mind medicine" group or whatever they're called that has done most of the lobbying and pushing on this is suss as fuck, any time I have heard them speak to journalists or such their responses to questions are like that of politicians, and i really wonder if they are more concerned about gaining some position where they finacially benifit from distribution than with actually helping people. That and the way this is being set up where this will end up being way above the realistic financial abilities of most people seems to make this almost pointless and designed to fail.
I think a far better approach for these and things like weed as a medical tool are just to decriminalise and remove the absurd scheduling first and then address them being used in a medical sense.
It shouldn't be necessary to do it that way but the whole war on drugs thing has just made it all so absurd as it is now.
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Are there any b cappi vars that are better suited to colder climates?
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I'm not so good with id's but could be some kind of --(i shouldn't offer possible id if not sure), I have some that look like these poping up in my garden/lawn atm.
But as rc says they are definitely not psilocybes.
Slug and snail control
in Cacti & Succulents
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Not sure if just copper tape is some kind of irritant for them but this pot was definitely using a current, but yea may need maintenance from time to time, to avoiding having to replace batteries and buying copper tape you could prob use just stripped wire and some low voltage power source connected to mains like one for little lights or pump switches but that's getting into electrics that you really should know what your doing with as has real safety and fire risks if you make mistakes.
Another one i have heard but also not tried is a bed of broken egg shells around the base of plants, apparently snails and slugs wont cross them for some reason. Would need to be replenished from time to time but if you have chickens and guinea fowl you will have excess of them.
I don't really do anything to keep little pests away unless it gets to some infestation level, i've found with enough bio diversity, some stuff just left for the critters and keeping things i really care about neat and raised a bit is enough. If i really want one plant of something i just make sure i have multiple and do something to fully protect one if i see real damage being done, not too fussed if something has a bit of a nibble.
Except seedlings and some food plants, i protects them pretty well and also make sure big things like roos,rabbits,sheep,birds etc cant get to them as some things and seedling can be wiped out moments by grazers.