I live somewhere that “doesnt have cwd” despite confirmed cases right across a geographically meaningless border. A sickly, relatively young deer dropped dead with no signs of trauma last summer on my street. I tried to report it to see if I could have it tested, and I was given contact info for the state biologist. I reached out, but they never got back to me.
I guess there’s no confirmed cases if you don’t confirm cases.
Does it cost money for you?
Yeah, thats why I specified it was just in the coating. Like the spangle in galvanized metal where you see grains with the naked eye.
As someone who is a mosquito magnet, I’ve always thought that people adapt to their local mosquitos. I used to get lots of bites, and they would itch, but not leave much of a welt. Then I moved across the country, and started reacting more to the local mosquitos here. Now I dont react much to my local mosquitos, but when I visit where I grew up (or visit another country) I react much more substantially.
Sounds like they dont understand how the great lakes shipping works. Obviously, portions pass through the great lakes where you could stick to either countries waters, but the rivers connecting the lakes (and the st Lawrence seaway) have portions that can only be transited through Canada (like the welland canal), but there are also portions that can only be transited through the US.
Restriction of trade on the great lakes would be dumb, and it would hurt everyone, but I can guarantee it would hurt Canada more because most Canadians live on the great lakes.
It’s a real tricky problem. In most places, humans (via hunting, but also car) are the only predators for deer, so if humans stop hunting them, the problem only gets worse.
The solution is also not reintroducing predators like some of the anti-hunting crowd would have you believe: you aren’t going to get a stable wolf pack in suburban Pennsylvania.
The best solution is probably a radical shift in hunting legislation. Many regulations exist simply to make hunting more difficult. Some regulations, like the existence of hunting seasons were useful before technology to monitor populations really existed, but now we have trail cams, aerial surveys, harvest reporting on phone apps, etc.
It’s easier to take a rifle and go harvest a deer in supposedly gun-averse Australia than it is in most of the places people live in America.
We also need easy, free CWD testing.
In addition to what others people have mentioned (studies showing legitimate benefits to increased protein, greater need to ensure adequate protein intake for those with artificially reduced appetite, and just general dude-bro carnivore keto fads), a huge thing that I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread is the massive dairy surplus.
Very few people drink milk as a beverage compared to 15 years ago, so the dairy industry (with the aid of the government) is trying to get as many alternative uses for dairy going as possible.
AFAIK, that’s also how microprocessors are made; single crystals of silicon, though that’s a metalloid not a metal.
This is also a big part of why manufacturing in space has huge potential. In micro-gravity, crystal formation is less effected. I risk it’s a bigger deal for things like proteins, optics, and other non-metal things, though.
I could be wrong, but there’s a decent chance the corrosion is just following grain boundaries of the metal. When liquid metal cools, or is otherwise deposited (like galvanization), the atoms stack up into a crystal structure. Depending on the exact procedure, this process starts in comparatively many or few places. As more atoms stack up, the crystals run into each other, but they are usually not lined up right to just merge, so they have awkward borders. All the “impurities” get pushed into the borders.
The crystals are called grains, and controlling their size and shape is basically the most important factor in determining the strength of a metal. When a blacksmith quenches something, it’s to cool it down really quick so those grains are really small, which makes the metal really hard. Heat treating later lets some of the grains merge to soften the metal up a bit so it’s less brittle.
In this case, the corrosion is just in a coating, probably nickel, but the principle of having grains is the same. All the stuff that’s more susceptible to corrosion is confined to the borders.
Like OP said, definitely whatever specific ethnic markets might be around. I go to an east Asian grocery store, an Indian store, a Latino store, and a Turkish store.
Some spices are literally repackaged by the grocery store into ziploc bags, and some are brand names in alphabets I dont know, but here are some brand names to search:
Laxmi, Suraj, Roshni, and Wise Wife for Indian spices
Badia and La Fiesta for Latino spices and peppers.
Sadaf for middle eastern/Mediterranean.
East Asian brands (at least that I have) appear to be less dominated by a few players, and they appear to be the ones that aren’t using the Latin alphabet.
It’s all probably stuff you can get on Amazon, though obviously, id avoid that if you can. If you dont have any good stores where you live, spices aren’t a bad thing to bring home from a vacation.
Last thing I’ll mention is to avoid any sketchy seeming brands selling preground spices that are red/orange/yellow. Think spices like sumac, cinnamon, saffron(which you shouldn’t buy ground anyway). Bad suppliers will occasionally dose those with lead oxides to make the color more vibrant.
Whole spices are incredibly cheap, and they last a long time. People will tell you they start to lose aroma after a little bit, and it’s true, but usually you can just add more.
Chai masala is another good one to make.
The price of good coffee has definitely risen lately, but the price at the bottom of the market has really cranked up. Something like a can of folgers has basically doubled in the past year or so.
Yeah, definitely Spanish does things differently. At least according to wikipedia, most anglosphere countries teach the 7 continent model, while romance language countries teach a 6 continent model combining the americas, and Russia does 6 continent combining Eurasia.
Tbh, most people dont identify themselves by continent, anyway; they identify by country. Exceptions obviously exist (e.g., pan-africanism, immigrants from neighboring countries in a third country).
Exactly, cause it’s not just one continent, it’s plural.
In the English language, “America” is not a continent, “North America” and “South America” are continents. This also makes way more sense than any other system that considers Europe, Asia, and Africa to be separate continents, but lumps north and south America into one continent.
So you would say that Mexico is in “north america” and Peru is in “south america”, but you wouldnt say that either is in “america” or an american country.
When you run in the outside lane, you start a little further around the track, so the total distance is still 400 m. Generally, in races <=400 m, you stay in your lane the whole way, and in longer races, you are allowed to cut in after a certain distance.
I’m leaving the typo, lol.
It’s a restaurant chain that is almost always open to the point that there are some locations that didn’t even have locks on their doors until covid forced them to shit down.
If the power goes out, they switch to a gas only menu. If gas goes out, they switch to an electric only menu.
The food is not great, but very often the only option in a given town in the middle of the night. Sometimes, it’s what you need.
The US was built on rail. 100 years ago, there were trains going to every little town that a passenger could ride.
Thanks to subsidies of the auto industry, many rights-of-way are not currently in use, and most that are exclusively carry cargo, not passengers.
I’ll admit I like a rail trail as much as the next cyclist, but it does make me a little sad when I’m on a cool trail that’s essentially the skeleton of our former public transit infrastructure.
The rights of way largely still exist, though. Some are still owned by the rail companies and just loaned to municipalities for trails, but the land of a former railway almost never gets completely dissolved into the parcels around it. There’s cost to dividing/recombining parcels, and no one does it without reason. Those lines shouldn’t be splitting anyone’s property, either, because the land was platted with them in place.
Those old rights-of-way often wouldn’t work for high speed due to the radii, but most of the rail we need doesnt need to be high speed. In situations where we do need high speed, there are usually highways that we could and should cannibalize some land from.
Every one of those pupae will hatch a wasp that will go protect another one of your tomato plants.
Yeah, the real “aircraft carriers” (nimitz class) are way too big. There are several smaller classes of ships that are similar to other navies aircraft carriers that legally are not considered “aircraft carriers” in the US because they only carry VSTOL aircraft or rotor craft. Those get really close to small enough, basically enough to get to Montreal, but still too big to make it to lake Ontario.