My plans: I got super lazy and didn’t start any seeds this year. I had the flu the week I wanted to do the starts, so I obviously missed that week. Then I just… didn’t start anything. I’m going to buy starts from our local garden center (non-big box) and I’ll put seeds for the usual bugger things directly in the ground.

Honestly, this will probably work out fine this year. One of my raised beds is 100% raspberries now. One of the others has two artichokes that may or may not have made it through the winter. I didn’t do enough research and didn’t realize they’re perennials and won’t flower their first year unless you cold harden the seedlings. Those things are big, but they certainly are dead down to at least ground level.

Nice selection!

I’ve grown Tromboncino before. They’re tasty, very hardy, and climb without any coaxing if you give them something to climb up. Their shape is also highly amusing.

Just in case you haven’t heard, raspberries - and I assume blackberries - spread pretty aggressively. I put one in my raised bed two falls ago. The beds are 4’ x 8’ and I planted it at one of the long ends. The next season I planted some pepper plants in the far end of the bed. The raspberry bush had overtaken 3/4 of the bed by the fall, but it hasn’t tried to escape the raised bed (yet?).

I’m sorry - what strategy finally got us gay marriage?

Gay marriage is presently legal in the US at a federal level due to a Supreme Court ruling, not a law. It seems inevitable that this will change given the present makeup of the court, similar to abortion.

I am all for LGBTQ rights, but until something is passed by Congress the current situation seems precarious.

Odds are your phone has a modern connector so this isn’t necessary. I replaced my pixel 3a, which I bought in September 2019, last December. Thanks to wired phone projection, I cycled its USB-C connector twice a day for 5 years and 3 months. That’s ~4,000 cycles. The connector specification calls for a 10,000 cycle lifetime.

I did have to de-lint the connector from time to time, but other than that I had no issues.

Not to say that you shouldn’t use inductive charging of course :)

Agree that using a non-native ISO these days isn’t really a big deal, I was just curious what led to the exposure. Thanks for the reply!

I like the photo, but I am somewhat curious how you wound up with those exposure settings. Could you not have backed the shutter speed off a bit to get ISO down? Not that it’s particularly high, but it seems like you could have probably captured this at your camera’s native ISO.

Adam Sandler. He made a cameo at the 2025 Oscars that Conan O’Brien was hosting. The two of them go way back and you could tell both were trying to not break out laughing during the exchange.

Another Sony shooter here. I have a few Sigma primes and optically they’re pretty good. I imagine their zooms are too, but I don’t have any.

For youth sports, I use Tamron’s 150-500 on e-mount. It looks like it’s available on z-mount too. It focuses very quickly and accurately, is sharp end to end, and has really nice rendering. It’s also a bit smaller/lighter than the Sigma. Yeah, you loose 100mm, but 500 vs 600 isn’t that drastic.

So far I’ve been through two T-ball seasons, one baseball season, and one soccer season with it. I’ve never found myself wanting for more. On the biggest baseball field our kids have been to, the fences put me either 100 or 175 feet (30-50 meters) from home base at the end of the fence. With 6-7 year old kids I don’t need 500mm on the shorter side for a full body + bat shot.

Downsides:

• 150mm is pretty long, so my phone usually comes out of my pocket for post game stuff. I try to stick to a single lens bag
• On Sony, all third party lenses tend to not hold focus well when zooming. This is more annoyance than anything

Aka totally predictable and easily avoidable, which makes this BS unbelievable.

Building capacity costs a ton of money and with the constant flip flopping on tarrifs there’s a lot of hesitancy to break ground.

It’s how a number of them get paid.

I was born in the 80s. I had a paper route at 13 so I could buy an OG PlayStation. Definitely not crazy shift work, but I wonder how a 13 year old could find employment for some spending money these days.

My old i3 clone came with a 1mm steel rod I use in these situations. Leave the extruder on your printer, cut the filament off, heat up the extruder to a normal printing temp, and push the gunk through the nozzle. If you have a cold side clog you’re probably going to have to add heat from something like a heat gun.

No problem! I’m glad you were able to get to the bottom of it.

100%. Transitioning from making all decisions for your kids to becoming a trusted advisor is something you need to do intentionally over time. Let your kids make low impact decisions when they’re young. Offer guidance as needed, not all the time. Simple examples include what to have for a meal/snack, where to go for a play date, etc.

100%. I want to loudly point out that you saying ‘jailing poor people not isn’t fiscally responsible and doesn’t benefit society, the money would be better spent giving people a better shot at success’ is a great example of social liberal (make society better) and fiscal conservative (don’t spend money on stupid things).

And building credit is useful to set yourself up for future purchases - a condo/house, car, whatever. The whatever here is bigger than it semese, as having a decent credit score can let you finance all kinds of things at a pretty low rate, if not 0% even today. If you’re saving any extra money in an investment/retirement account, and can pay off your 0% financing offers in full by the time you would start to owe interest, financing at 0% is a great deal even if you have the cash on hand to pay outright.

Using old cards is important - if you don’t use them the issuer might close them. I had that happen with my very first credit card. My next oldest account was something like 5 years newer, which at the time was a pretty big gap because I hadn’t yet reached quasi-old-far status.

Fun fact, if you save money for retirement, it tends to go up, shocking.

I wonder how long “line goes up” will last. Forget late stage capitalism, this whole thing was built on growth. What happens when global birthrates drop below the replacement rate? It certainly seems we’re heading in that direction. This will make a lot of our current systems/structures struggle.

Although much of Tesla’s value recently was from a big jump in November (getting a fancy new oval-shaped office will do that for you)

I don’t think many people realize just how big a jump this was.