2C outside this morning AND YET I am looking at a mosquito.

#swearWords

@Jerdie not putting tracks on Bandcamp?

Aha the oak leaf hydrangea lives! Thought I might have over-pruned them last year. I don't actually like hydrangea but these overgrown rangey monsters came with the house and the pollinators like 'em.
#gardening

@MrsE0113 no small feat, well done

@tgraph52
He must be at fancy banks; I haven't seen that. Also what a horrible analogy on every level.

brb gotta go lock my loved ones in a vault so they can stay safe and compound in value.

@JohnnyGenX @SandHillThicket
An example near me right now. Each strip is about 150' wide. All previously part of a former farm and now each owned by a different kid or relative. A real estate developer will need to negotiate with each person in order to eventually get a usable plot.

@SandHillThicket @JohnnyGenX yeah that's a medieval or older allotment system where everyone gets a certain number of plow-wide ish strips, but not necessarily adjacent to each other. On a rotation basis. Plusses, incentive to take care of the soil, equity in land ownership. Negative, people get super touchy about strip boundaries.
Have only read about, cool to see.
US right now families bequeathe farm land to their kids in a similar pattern to maximize total sale price. Can see on tax maps.

Did the bunny see it's shadow? Do we get another 6 weeks of spring?

#amIDoingThisRight

@JolieSaboteuse
I just got an idea

@Oma_Trisha
Let's try this:

@Oma_Trisha @process
I hear that!
I've seen incentive sales by our power company to do with various energy reductions like bulbs; probably worth looking at their website or calling.
The Inflation Reduction Act is also a possibility, I think:
"...energy efficiency retrofit projects will provide rebates of up to $4,000 for retrofits that will save 35% of energy use or more, and $2,000 for retrofits that achieve savings of 20% or more. These rebates double for low- and moderate-income homes."

@Oma_Trisha @process
I noticed that. They're made with a more expensive component -- not THAT much more expensive -- to convert AC to DC power more smoothly, to reduce flicker.

Which brings us to a whole other topic that LEDs use so little power it's not unreasonable to run them with batteries. I do this in out buildings and recharge the batteries with a cheap solar panel.

BUT. Not helping here. Kinda of a big job to re-wire a house for DC lights.

@Oma_Trisha @process
Been reading up. "Incandescent bulbs exhibit approximately 15% flicker, while some LED bulbs will exhibit more than 75% flicker. Virtually all LEDs that are color changing or PWM dimmable exhibit 100% flicker"

So definitely avoid color changing and dimmable* bulbs. There are bulbs advertised as "flicker-free", and/or Phillips has a category, "EyeComfort"

*dimmable bulbs that use "SWT" instead of "PWR" should be acceptable.
Example:
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-LED-557587-Flicker-Free-EyeComfort/dp/B08667GGJW

@Render Now if Erdogan could stop posturing for 10 minutes...

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
Dunno, agree there's weird goings on.
Do know that our awareness of such things is heightened by social media -- feeds on hype -- and mainstream media chasing SM.
Reporters were always hungry for content; everyone is now potentially a reporter deranged with mostly imagined starvation.

When I taught it my first rule of information literacy was: Get good at filtering.
Corollary of this, get good at suppressing FOMO.
Ignorance ain't bliss but it's a start.

@ceorl good ol car. Battery ordered. Thanks!

@Oma_Trisha Thanks, I didn't realize that LED flicker caused health problems. Bummer.
They don't need to flicker, so for personal space it's possible to get led bulbs with comparable to incandescent flicker rate.

Would hope/expect this to be sorted out over time; small comfort I know. Either steadier or variable rate is possible.

@ceorl steady 13.9vdc

@ceorl thanks, yes to multimeter setting, and indeed readings vary a lot whether probes are on wires, clamps, terminal. I'll try just as you say.