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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldIt must be getting late
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    13 hours ago

    That’s probably because early Germanic languages formed the base of the early English language, even before we “added” a ton of French and other shit through (actual and) cultural conquest.

    If you look through language roots, English splits from Germanic at some point close enough to make the rules logical going from English to German but probably not the other way around, idk.









  • In highschool back in the early naughties, I worked at a chicken hatchery as one of like 3 non-management non-immigrants. Once they realized I wasn’t lazy or a rat, despite being management’s offspring, they let me in on the secret that they speak English pretty fluently. But we pretended I was speaking Spanish for another full year so they could feign ignorance (they were teaching me Spanish, brought me food they made and even invited me to their homes to see how they live… eye opening for a teen…)

    That whole thing means I can totally skip the test, right? Since I did the full workload? Or does the empathy part of that negate the results and mean I failed?



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    7 days ago

    I had a pantry moth infestation as a result of inheriting birds. No matter what you do if you buy seed you will get moths again and again. It was pretty fucking bad at its worst… at night I would spray a paper plate with cooking spray and just swat them down with it next to the light. Highly effective.

    But then I stumbled across trichogramma wasps. And it was literally life changing.

    They are stingless, self-fertile (all female due to a bacterial infection, if you give them antibiotics they produce males again!), egg parasitic wasps, about the size of a grain of sand. They lay their eggs inside the host species eggs and their young consume the host egg. Once they hatch you never see them again. Tiny dots. You order them 15k or so at a time (depending on website and country probably? but they should be pretty widely available) and if you release them outside as intended, they kill off 95% of the target species (they prefer what they hatch from, which is usually moth eggs, but they can parasitize tons of pest insects). Indoors they can wipe out pest eggs. Then they die off because they are obligate egg parasites. No host eggs, no more wasps.

    You need to release them for several waves to be sure, due to moth life cycles taking many months to complete, but they are cheap af (I paid $12 USD/15,000, ordered them every 3 months for 1.5 yrs, zero moths after) Zero work, and no chemicals.

    I tell everyone who has birds about them now. I gifted the local bird rescue a 2-year delivery schedule, and made sure to tell everyone about it so they could pass the info along to any adoptees who might be turned off by the moth problem down the line and decide against adopting the bird(s)







  • Wait wait. Do people not just cook a potato and wipe it down after as cleaning?

    My whole life when the microwave needs a wash, you put in a big potato in a bowl of water, like an Idaho, or up to three Yukon gold or baby reds (whatever fits your bowl)… you prick them with a fork, put them in a large soup bowl with like a half inch water, and microwave for 11 min on high.

    Let sit for 3 min after it’s done and eat as a baked potato or mashed potato, whatever you like, it’s a potato.

    But then importantly you clean the microwave because the steam from 11 minutes of potato loosens all the shit and you can just wipe it out.

    Cleaning is as easy as making dinner sometimes.