I’m not from Austrailia, but the general rule for pruning is that up to 30% of the crown is ok, so I wouldn’t worry at all about 10%.

This might already be your plan, but the best branches to prune are the ones with the most leverage. Those are the tallest and longest ones. The least effective will be the shortest, lowest, and closest to the trunk.

Unnecessary info: Trees need leaves to make food, but leaves use water and other soil nutrients. Trees need roots to gather water and other soil nutrients, but roots don’t make food. The balance in pruning is between these two things. Cutting off branches in the hot and dry will probably actually help the plant survive because you are reducing water demand during a time when food is plentiful. The trick is to not overdo it and starve the roots. That’s where that 30% idea comes from. Almost every plant will tolerate that amout of cutback without taking root damage.

Yes, there are vegan versions or replacements, and there are plenty of people (cooks) who won’t even register that a sauce might not be vegan and use them. Source: personal experience. If this isn’t a problem around you, I am happy you don’t have to scrutinized menus like that.

Off the top of my head - fish sauce, oyster sauce, and red coloring in other sauces

I was on a crew for a while that worked 8 (10hr) days on, 6 days off. I would choose that again in a heartbeat if I could. 2 day weekends barely give me time to get out of the work mindset

You’re adding extra layers by using an app, even the official one. You might want to try accessing through a browser. The app refused to connect for a while because of https settings.

You can cut cheese with a wire. Imagine having a thin piece of metal through a hole in your ear with weight on it. Your lobe is the cheese the ear ring is the cutter.

Ah, that makes sense

How does a driver choose how close someone follows them?

When someone would ask, “Who wants to be 100 years old?” My grandpa would respond, “Ask someone who is 99.” I think that applies here. When will you feel like you can give up - well, why not now? What will be different when you’re 40 or 50? Why wouldn’t you want to be dating? Why wouldn’t you want your body to work?

Yeah, let’s keep testing if living soil with a variety of nutrients is better than inert growing medium with nitrogen injected.

3. In my experience creamer is meant for coffee/tea. It is not the same as cream. I think it even has less fat than half and half. I would check the nutritional labels against the dairy equivalent to see the comparative fat content. If all else fails, you might be able to find coconut cream in the canned food section.

These are real, current legs. The front 2 of the insect norm of 6

There is a sheet for meals, one for ingredients, and one that relates meals to ingredients

Edit - I wrote a comment on the cross post about a spreadsheet and I thought this was replying to that

It sounds like your biggest challenge might be bringing your partner onboard. I can’t help with that.

What I can say has worked in my house is coming up with a list of our usual meals and just picking off of it for the week. You get to make a choice, so feel less trapped by schedule (I can’t stand a food schedule that repeats weekly). At the same time those choices are from a limited list with no wrong choices, so the choice is less overwhelming. The only things that make the list are things everyone says yes to, not meaning ‘I love it’ but ‘I will eat it and it meets my nutrional needs.’

You can even pop the meals into a meal planner thing (I use a spreadsheet) that will dump out a shopping list. There is probably an app that does it well that won’t take upfront work. That reduces the mental energy of “putting together a shopping list” that sometimes is just the last straw that would stop me.

The scale has ended at carbon neutral for too long. I love that this shows carbon negatives too!

The developer also posted on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@divested/113308051603906364 Looks like it was patched but that hasn’t gotten to F-droid yet

This was kind of cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsg81Tn3s28 I didn’t like the first wall example because the clicking cadence changes, but the field and trees were very clear

Thank you!

I absolutely agree that there should be a official name. My problem with birds is that there are 2 official names. The American Ornithological Society approves both of them (kind of). One is Latin/Greek/whatever in Genus species format - that is the one for science literature and taxonomy. The other is in English and silly in my opinion because that’s where people will use it to say nonsense like there is no such thing as a seagull.

There are weirdly rigid common names around birds. There is a whole thing about renaming them right now. They are essentially regulated terms that low level pedants respect. They are the same types of people who would correct you for calling Frankenstein’s monster ‘Frankenstein’.

The plant community is better. You could call a “sunflower” a “tall flower” and nobody would care. You might get a “oh, I’ve never heard that one” but never “there’s no such thing as a ‘tall flower.’” They just fall back to the scientific names when clarity is important.

IMO common names should just be useful. I will call any gull a seagull when talking to non-bird people because that is a term that is commonly understood and how effective communication works.