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  • Started making an arbour using reclaimed wood from the local woodland that was blocking the path.

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  • Huh, I've had the exact thing you describe from handling pumpkin vines before (which were incidently grown on a wire floating in the air)

    Other suggestions for OP to possibly grow; grape vine, passion fruit, kiwi berry.

    Ipomoea flowers as well!

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    Is this a positive pregnancy test? Does the 2nd line have to be as dark as the 1st one for it to be positive?

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  • If you can pee on that without spilling then you have much greater control than I, haha

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    Is this a positive pregnancy test? Does the 2nd line have to be as dark as the 1st one for it to be positive?

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  • This guy gets why I was initially misunderstanding

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    Is this a positive pregnancy test? Does the 2nd line have to be as dark as the 1st one for it to be positive?

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  • Lmao, the false outrage over me not knowing that they use the same form factor for more than one test...

    I'd only ever come across it for COVID tests, the only pregnancy tests I've interacted with/seen advertised have been the stick versions.

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    Is this a positive pregnancy test? Does the 2nd line have to be as dark as the 1st one for it to be positive?

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  • The UK COVID test were all using this plastic moulding (minus the embossed letters) and I've never seen a pregnancy test that wasn't a stick that you pee on?

    And if you're aware that it says hCG (which I admittedly missed before commenting), then I think you answered your own question...

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    Is this a positive pregnancy test? Does the 2nd line have to be as dark as the 1st one for it to be positive?

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  • If this isn't a joke; this looks like a COVID test to me...

    Edit: TIL they use that form factor for other tests/and that not all modern pregnancy tests are sticks that you pee on...

  • How to clean airfryer basket?

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  • Silly suggestion, and no idea if it will work, but it's an easy one to test;

    Get some cooking/vegetable oil, and see if it will help dissolve the residue by putting a bit on some kitchen towel and either scrubbing with the oiled paper towel or leaving that towel on the residue for 10 mins and seeing if the grease has softened.

    If the oil does seem to dissolve/soften the grease residue then you can add some bicarb/salt to act as gentle abrasive as it won't dissolve in the oil as it would do in water

    I've used cooking oil to dissolve tar/bitumen paint from my skin and clothes before and you can then use soap to clear the dissolved tar in oil.

    Otherwise use a kitchen degreaser like you'd clean a traditional oven with.

    I imagine what's happening with the oil is something akin to polymerization, so you either need to break the polymers bonds or dissolve in a suitable solvent

  • Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed

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  • This should really be the canary in the coal mine for just how bad things are going to get.

  • Hedges and Shrubs what do you think? UK wild friendly garden.

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  • Fox gloves (though maybe avoid if you have young children, or animals who are likely to eat them).

    Lupins

    Linaria purpurea (not native but naturalised basically everywhere in England), the bees and other pollinators absolutely love them.

    Lobelia of different varieties.

    Elderberry is a nice option, flowers and berries can be used in recipes

    Apple, plum, pear and peach are all good to espalier

    Gooseberry and currents will grow no matter what.

    Budliah is great for bees and butterflies, is very fast growing and has lots of flowers for basically 9 months of the year. I would be careful with he variety you get, make sure it is a dwarf variety as it likes to self seed and the larger varieties can require multiple trims a year.

    Use things like rosemary if you want relatively short boundary bushes, can also be used for cooking, they like being pruned back etc

  • How are the prices of eggs impacting your life?

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  • Outta curiosity what is a Keto cough drop?

    I mean I don't think there are any high protein cough drops, but I'm pretty sure you can get sugar free cough drops... You can atleast definitely get sugar free boiled sweets, a couple of type 1 diabetics I know have them, and you get them at the checkouts here as shops aren't allowed to put sugary snacks at the checkouts.

    And in regards to getting proteins that are atleast in stock, lentils and peas/beans are pretty good sources of proteins, I've seen people make some good looking keto friendly naan breads/flat breads using pea protein (IIRC), have you tried anything like that?

  • What are some actual good sour sour candy?

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  • Hmm, that's interesting but IIRC Tyrosine itself isn't all that sour when tasted, nor are really any other amino acids I can think of aside from possibly Taurine, I assumed it was a small amount of hydrolysis of the acetyl group was occurring to enable the taste difference, but if you've got some more context I'd love to hear it

  • What are some actual good sour sour candy?

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  • Get some malic acid if you want it to be a different type of sour, or tartaric acid if you want it to be more tart.

    Oh actually other suggestions; buy some N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine (Often called NALT), it's incredibly sour and slightly sweet, once again different from from the fruit acids (malic, citric, tartaric). NALT is a precursor to Tyrosine an amino acid. You need only the tiniest amount on the tongue to get the affect. The sourness is from the acetyl group, and I think the slight sweetness is from the tyrosine/or the complete structure, as related compounds are used as artificial sweeteners.

  • Extensive skin contact with PLA and PETG seems okay

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  • Never been too concerned with fumes at typical temperatures (higher temperatures required for PETG and the effect of those temps on PTFE bowdern tubes are a different box of frogs), but stringing getting pulled into the extruder fans scares the crap out of me as it basically becomes an ultra fine dust that builds up in the air and eventually settles waiting to be disturbed.

  • Serial experiments

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  • What are some aspects of your life that are currently solarpunk?

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  • Well, I'm in the process of internally overboarding with 50mm PIR sheets for added insulation, added 200mm fibreglass into each floor of my house, and 150mm PIR on top of my flat roofs.

    And have just had a heat pump installed, frustratingly, still haven't quite worked out how to properly drive the thing yet so am rather cold currently.

  • TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home

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  • I'm genuinely unsure they're a scab, I think they're saying that we cannot expect these parasitic companies to have the workers best interests at heart, and as such strong workers rights should be enshrined in law and enforced.

    I could be misunderstanding them though of course.

  • Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers

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  • I wonder how hard would it be to build a extension for a browser that checks the doi of the paper youre looking at on scihub against the live version, to see if there's a retraction/update to the paper, and list the date of the changes. I assume that information wouldn't be behind a paywall.

    The reason for it being via an extension is to reduce load on sci hub, and for the lookup requests to be decentralised and live for the relevant paper

  • what exercises work for you to avoid back pain?

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  • Not necessarily a stretch or workout that I'm going to suggest, but more if you're exercising get help from someone who knows good form.

    I got into doing sit-ups/core strength exercises as a teenager, alongside bad form and bad sleeping/living conditions + stretchy ligaments have completely ruined my back.

    The first thing that's actually started to help in a way that doesn't cause other issue has been seeing a physiotherapist, who worked with me to identify exactly which muscles were stiff, which muscles were over stretched, range of movement, etc...

    And then walked me through what exercises and and positions would actually help with my difficulties.

    Otherwise a massage gun used properly can be a game changer, but same thing, if you have a partner, ask them to help you out; don't over stretch trying to fix things.

  • What are some Communities you recommend checking out and why?

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  • So that community is great, subscribed.

    On a similar "I went for a walk, check out this cool blank I found" vibe, does anyone know of an equivalent one for rocks?

    I know rockhounds used to be a thing on Reddit but I haven't come across a Lemmy equivalent yet?