Posts by clew@octodon.social
 (DIR) Post #3201472 by clew@octodon.social
       2019-01-20T22:50:40Z
       
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       @Jo @bird My grandmother used to say ``A long thread for a lazy seamstress, and more trouble than it's worth". Short enough that you don't have to straighten your elbow to draw it through, she said, if doing very fine work. Which is pretty short. The kinder, more modern phrasing is from the Alabama Chanin workshops who talk about ``loving the thread" -- smoothing it out when you thread the needle and before you take one stitch.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gCpuvEYeeYFGBSgqm by clew@octodon.social
       2019-02-25T18:26:44Z
       
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       @ajroach42  "nothing to copy other than power, bandwidth, and storage space" plus also sysadmin time and customer service had BETTER be included. And none of those are free or even cheap in bulk, and you can't "lose money on each transaction and make it up in volume", although I think that's the current standard practice online. Contrariwise, I don't trust payment processors to tell us what their real costs are although I think it's possible that micropayments cost them real money.
       
 (DIR) Post #9kdLdNnib3MnQu3nqy by clew@octodon.social
       2019-07-08T03:54:56Z
       
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       @GwenfarsGarden @fitheach I don't even know what you feed them to *encourage* them!  ... Not that well rotted manure is a bad bet, though.
       
 (DIR) Post #9w7iqbTECk9QhxLVOC by clew@octodon.social
       2020-06-16T00:19:45Z
       
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       @fitheach The presence of sheep on the land... In a *really different* ecosystem, I had a great set of conversations with a nature-reserve manager about how to approximate the species-of-coevolution for a wildflower prairie. Sheep managed very carefully -- moved on and off the range in bunches, based on phenology -- was the best they could do, and it depended on a coöperative neighbor rancher. Probably the plants actually coevolved with big and small grazers, plus more predators, plus fire.
       
 (DIR) Post #9w9PZ7rTWjOT8qYlBg by clew@octodon.social
       2020-06-16T19:53:06Z
       
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       @fitheach Does Scotland have anything like the missing-predators problem that Isle Royale illustrated?
       
 (DIR) Post #9w9PjWiZxwWd82MGMy by clew@octodon.social
       2020-06-16T19:55:02Z
       
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       @fitheach Whoa! I expect steep cliffs to continue being steep underwater -- how far down does the rubble path go?!?
       
 (DIR) Post #9wABwry2PqJHnJ3Yqe by clew@octodon.social
       2020-06-17T04:55:15Z
       
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       @fitheach Oo, predators, is there a Scottish example of reintroducing them and getting a much richer ecosystem, like in Isle Royale? (rewritten on second reading)
       
 (DIR) Post #9wBSTA1oPhadwRNdSa by clew@octodon.social
       2020-06-17T19:35:07Z
       
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       @fitheach Isle Royale was, of course, an island; it's much harder to allow big predators even in our huge national parks...
       
 (DIR) Post #AQFKiuU7pjcb1rbjOq by clew@octodon.social
       2022-12-04T00:08:44Z
       
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       @apps I don’t know; what would the side effects be? For me, my instance admin, the other people on my instance, the people whose replies I wouldn’t otherwise see?
       
 (DIR) Post #ARJONSB36r4blOUOB6 by clew@octodon.social
       2023-01-04T21:22:05Z
       
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       Is it then natural to chat with the other people in your slightly-slower-moving line?  That could be a very pleasant little social signal. @stux
       
 (DIR) Post #ATsto75Krj0JL5vb7I by clew@octodon.social
       2023-03-22T20:12:28Z
       
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       There are communities of fan reading that do the same picky reading, imo. Learned from school, adapted from school, is enjoyable _after_ you love literature, ?? @clive