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- about 11 hours ago on Frazz
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1 day ago
on Frazz
Phone is 100% a great item to carry. Patch kit, mini toolkit, phone and an appropriate amount of food.
That’s what jersey pockets are for!
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1 day ago
on Frazz
I am not sure for all the models, but for my exercise watch you need the phone within a very short distance to allow for full access to the communication suite.
Not sure of how many watches actually use a SIM card and would be able to be used independently of a phone. Maybe those on the high end. So you still need to carry it.
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11 days ago
on Frazz
Event outfits offered to volunteers have been earned 100% legitimately.
And thanks for helping run these events!
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about 2 months ago
on Frazz
I had to rehab an injury, got an off-brand ball-and-board for about $50. I ended up using for doing split leg squats and other balance things. Wasn’t the most challenging thing, but worth it to get started.
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3 months ago
on Frazz
Same here. Love that story, but just remembering all that AGP went through gives me shivers. Every time.
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3 months ago
on Frazz
Just want to say all you people are awesome :)
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4 months ago
on Frazz
Anecdote here – I aced everything in school – until I was in secondary school. Actually just a bit after that, when I was 13, so I even got one extra year. It’s just a fortunate coincidence that one has good memory for school facts and reasonable problem solving skills for math.
And as someone else mentioned, that actually made it worse when I had to actually work for things – about second year in this school. Ouch. And I did actually fail art a couple of months!
I did get later in life to meet actual polyvalent geniuses in college- one of them went to the math olympiad (I think in India in that vintage) and played in the equivalent of feeder-division soccer (level below pro). Was also a good looking fellow that knew how to dance and a girlfriend, no mean feat at the time :) Even he met his match in latter years when he added work on top of all that – and it’s not like he was going to write the next great novel, but was good at engineering, work, and life in general.
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4 months ago
on Frazz
I actually can contribute to this discussion – professional on the field (lifecycle accounting and pollution, not forestry).
While mature trees and forests sequester less carbon per year than rapidly growing ones, they still do, just at a lower rate. Additionally, an important factor that is sometimes ignored is carbon capture in soil – when we remove trees this ecosystem component is damaged as well so we release that CO2 in the environment.
One more kink: the cellulose and lignin from cut trees is long lasting, but not in geological terms. Where I work we’re pretty conservative (in the scientific sense of the word) and don’t count wood products as carbon sinks because you have to ensure the “durable good” lasts for more than 100 years. This understates the capture since most wood in a landfill probably won’t fully degrade and some carbon will be removed from the atmosphere.
I think the short story is that getting a natural tree is pretty “safe” on the environmental side of things as long as it’s done from a well-managed forest farm. And that artificial trees probably are comparable in impact if you keep them for more than about 15 or so years. There are no free lunches, after all, in environmental terms.
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4 months ago
on Frazz
Not sure about other varieties of christmas tree, but the ones my family used to cut (at a farm) were of the “viking” denomination [seems to be a hybrid specific to this vendor, probably not unique] would re-grow from the stumps.
You could see that the old cut sites would have little “stumplings” who’d be ready for harvest again in about a decade.
Very good when technology actually does what it’s supposed to.
Mine once sent a message to my wife (emergency contact) stating I had crashed and wasn’t responsive. I was about 2 m from her, having just walked down some steep stairs :D. Definitely needed some more work to make the feature worthwhile.