AstralPath

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[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You were 100% right! They were basically all gone and the few that were left didn't seem to be interested in me at all. What a pro tip this was! Thank you for your help! :)

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I see what you mean. Personally I'm gonna side with the folks that need the block functionality as a defense against stalking/harassment though.

The lead eater can ban anyone they want but that doesn't stop others from posting direct challenges to the lead eater's rhetoric elsewhere. I think its better to help those in need than to leave them vulnerable with less than ideal tools to protect themselves.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

The pear tree is on our property and I don't want my neighbors to be uncomfortable due to the large amount of wasps hanging around. It's just a matter of courtesy.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

A block should also be able to prevent them from seeing your activity. That would not constitute silencing the blocked individual as they can still go anywhere and talk to/see anyone else on the fediverse, just not you.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are they typically less aggressive at night?

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Thanks for your feedback. I'm in Canada and as far as I know there are no laws or rules about this, but I don't want my neighbors to be harassed by wasps, nor am I happy with how many of them harass me on my deck at the moment. I'm not looking to exterminate them, rather safely pick up the fruit and chuck it into a field next to my house so that they're further away from us.

I just don't want to risk being attacked by them if I try to move the fruit, y'know? I can't safely run or even shoo them away right now due to the pain of my injuries.

 

So we have a pear tree in our back yard that decided this was the year it was going to successfully bear fruit.

Its been extremely dry and we've been away a lot so I haven't cut the grass in about 8 weeks. I didn't even notice the tree had ripe fruit on it until yesterday. Stoked to check it out I walked over to pick some and noticed there's about ten full grown pears rotting on the ground below the tree that are just absolutely infested with wasps.

The tree is near our fence with the neighbors so I gotta deal with this fast so they don't get overwhelmed by wasps.

Does anyone know of a safe way to approach this? I broke my ribs and fucked up my back on a dirt bike last weekend so I can't exactly do anything that requires quick reactions or running away.

Any ideas would be super helpful 🙏

[EDIT] The solution was to wait until nightfall for them to return to their nest. I was able to pick up all the fruit and dispose of it with ease with maybe 5 wasps hanging around, seemingly in a stupor due to low light and cold air, instead of what looked like a few hundred during the day.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago

Can't beat them for games that require low latency input though. Just playing retro games on them is worth owning one.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

What about all the people that breathed in that toxic cloud or injured themselves trying to run away from the chaos? Surely many of them ended up in hospital.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

A 3 to 1 girl/guy ratio? That’s a porn shoot, right?

Sounds like it. They could at least offer to send the PH link as thanks for the work lmao

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, look at the calories in what its up against.

I'd say they're comparatively healthy.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Asking the real questions.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Guitar mainly, but I can play any of the typical instruments associated with rock/metal.

My favourite thing about the guitar is all the expressive ways you can play a single note. There's the spectrum of how hard you pick it along with what you use to pick - fingers or plectrum, what angle you attack the string with said pick, vibrato, bend up to the note or down from it, slide into or out of it, etc...

It's such an expressive instrument. I love it. You can really hear someone's personality come out in their playing. There truly are endless different ways to play a single song. It all just depends on the choices you make.

 

I was just reading this thread... https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

...and it got me thinking about something that I've wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I'd love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they're not exactly comfortable. I'd rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

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