Uranium_Green

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This should really be the canary in the coal mine for just how bad things are going to get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Fox gloves (though maybe avoid if you have young children, or animals who are likely to eat them).

Lupins

Linaria purpurea (not native but naturalised basically everywhere in England), the bees and other pollinators absolutely love them.

Lobelia of different varieties.

Elderberry is a nice option, flowers and berries can be used in recipes

Apple, plum, pear and peach are all good to espalier

Gooseberry and currents will grow no matter what.

Budliah is great for bees and butterflies, is very fast growing and has lots of flowers for basically 9 months of the year. I would be careful with he variety you get, make sure it is a dwarf variety as it likes to self seed and the larger varieties can require multiple trims a year.

Use things like rosemary if you want relatively short boundary bushes, can also be used for cooking, they like being pruned back etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Outta curiosity what is a Keto cough drop?

I mean I don't think there are any high protein cough drops, but I'm pretty sure you can get sugar free cough drops... You can atleast definitely get sugar free boiled sweets, a couple of type 1 diabetics I know have them, and you get them at the checkouts here as shops aren't allowed to put sugary snacks at the checkouts.

And in regards to getting proteins that are atleast in stock, lentils and peas/beans are pretty good sources of proteins, I've seen people make some good looking keto friendly naan breads/flat breads using pea protein (IIRC), have you tried anything like that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You'd be able to, but you would need to either insulate the interior with PIR, or clad the exterior with PIR insulation.

Admittedly my property is a 1960's brick build with wall cavities, but we're build on the side of a hill with soil retaining walls so we aren't the most efficient property, though overboarding the walls has made a big difference. There is a lot of improvements people could do even remaining on a gas boiler.

IMHO, exterior cladding and insulation seems to be the best option for actually making the properties warmer with minimal disruption to living in them, alongside upgrading fibreglass insulation in the loft spaces.

We have gotten a heat pump installed and it's doing a good job so far, and that's without a lot of the main upgrades to the insulation don't, unfortunately the installers have been a pain in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Occult Rock; it's the transition somewhere between psychedelic rock and heavy metal.

Relatively unknown nowadays but it you like psych or heavy metal you'll probably enjoy it.

Lots of powerful, bluesy, female vocals.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVuPdhZTnQm25n6QmFyXzCYkKaQamN2F_

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not excusing anyone here, but I'm curious where you got the 1.5million dead from?

Wikipedia seems to suggest that combined total losses from the (edit) first Gulf war and the uprising following to be about 500,000 casualties, from all sides, including civilians and combatants.

And to put into perspective, Saddamn killed/massacred/genocided between ~155,000 and ~480,000, many of whom were killed by the use of chemical weapons during this period. Entire villages of Kurds were genocided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmm, that's interesting but IIRC Tyrosine itself isn't all that sour when tasted, nor are really any other amino acids I can think of aside from possibly Taurine, I assumed it was a small amount of hydrolysis of the acetyl group was occurring to enable the taste difference, but if you've got some more context I'd love to hear it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Get some malic acid if you want it to be a different type of sour, or tartaric acid if you want it to be more tart.

Oh actually other suggestions; buy some N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine (Often called NALT), it's incredibly sour and slightly sweet, once again different from from the fruit acids (malic, citric, tartaric). NALT is a precursor to Tyrosine an amino acid. You need only the tiniest amount on the tongue to get the affect. The sourness is from the acetyl group, and I think the slight sweetness is from the tyrosine/or the complete structure, as related compounds are used as artificial sweeteners.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, I've got a collection of not necessarily dangerous, but hard to find chemicals. DCM (methylene chloride) is still something I've been unable to find. It's an incredibly useful solvent especially for adhering bitumen felt to itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Never been too concerned with fumes at typical temperatures (higher temperatures required for PETG and the effect of those temps on PTFE bowdern tubes are a different box of frogs), but stringing getting pulled into the extruder fans scares the crap out of me as it basically becomes an ultra fine dust that builds up in the air and eventually settles waiting to be disturbed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I'm in the process of internally overboarding with 50mm PIR sheets for added insulation, added 200mm fibreglass into each floor of my house, and 150mm PIR on top of my flat roofs.

And have just had a heat pump installed, frustratingly, still haven't quite worked out how to properly drive the thing yet so am rather cold currently.

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I don't know much about it, it's the only piece I've got that is made from two distinct layers of glass.

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