I saw the flower and couldn’t resist buying it! It’s a hybrid between Paphiopedilum “Fred’s Wonder” and Paphiopedilum “Presidential Moon” which are themselves hybrids of hybrids....
Unfortunately can’t help you there as this one was in bloom when I got it :)
Has yours grown additional side growths? As far as I understand each fan of leaves only blooms once, then the side growths have to mature and those will each bloom once and so on.
Patience is really worth it with these. I didn’t even have the opportunity to do anything wrong because the second I got her she lost all her leaves but one and the soil started molding (despite watering her only once). After intense rehabilitation and repeated mold removal she suddenly snapped out of it and came back to life!...
Congratulations! What did you do for intense rehabilitation? Did anything else change (sun exposure, temperature, day length)? Hope the momentum keeps up!
Recently, I wanted a white board to have a physical list of homemade healthy food available at home. We didn’t have the money for one so we bought some dry-erase markers and taped old paper bags onto the back of the glass of our rarely used china cabinet. I like having a big visible list in the kitchen so my husband and I...
Interesting! I wonder if other countries will follow suit and if alcohol packaging will eventually go the way of tobacco labels. I also wonder if it will have less of an effect than tobacco labelling -- so often you get a drink at a restaurant or bar where the consumer wouldn't see the labels, compared to a cigarette that's almost always purchased as a back by the smoker.
The article says that page views dropped by 6.6% from the day before the blackout to the second day of the blackout. Those numbers seem quite small to me and sobering about the impact of the blackout. At the peak of the blackout, views were only down 7%? I would imagine that views are recovering as more and more subreddits are being forced back open. That doesn't seem like it will have a big impact on reddit long-term!
To be clear, I'm not happy about it or saying this to defend reddit! It's just my takeaway from the article. Maybe someone more familiar with these metrics can explain that 7% is actually a really big and significant impact?
Maybe this is a good problem to have, but shopping is more of a chore for me than something fun to do. I'm also a pretty frugal person. For those reasons, it's pretty hard for me to make big purchases, like furniture or even nicer clothing....
Thanks for sharing the word "satisficing"! I've never heard it before and it's really nice to have a word for that concept.
I definitely fall into the maximizer category and that causes some of my purchase paralysis. For many types of item, I've started just buying the wirecutter recommendation and trusting it to be good enough. Clothing and furniture feel more personal and less generic, so the wirecutter strategy hasn't applied, but I will have to try to find a way to satisfice with those purchases too.
Paphiopedilum "Presidential Wonder" in bloom (pixelfed.social)
I saw the flower and couldn’t resist buying it! It’s a hybrid between Paphiopedilum “Fred’s Wonder” and Paphiopedilum “Presidential Moon” which are themselves hybrids of hybrids....
Half a year my Alocasia Polly had only one half dead leave, suddenly she grew a new one and another one's already coming! (lemmy.world)
Patience is really worth it with these. I didn’t even have the opportunity to do anything wrong because the second I got her she lost all her leaves but one and the soil started molding (despite watering her only once). After intense rehabilitation and repeated mold removal she suddenly snapped out of it and came back to life!...
How do you meal plan? (i.imgur.com)
Recently, I wanted a white board to have a physical list of homemade healthy food available at home. We didn’t have the money for one so we bought some dry-erase markers and taped old paper bags onto the back of the glass of our rarely used china cabinet. I like having a big visible list in the kitchen so my husband and I...
European doctors toast to Irish alcohol labelling law (www.euractiv.com)
Archived on June 21, 2023: European doctors toast to Irish alcohol labelling law
On food, identity and war: ‘I no longer know how to think about borsch’ (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit usage metrics fall thanks to CEO's plan to boost revenue (9to5mac.com)
While CEO Steve Huffman may be dismissive of the thousands of subreddits going dark to protest his planned API changes,...
How do I get myself to make big purchases when I don't find shopping fun?
Maybe this is a good problem to have, but shopping is more of a chore for me than something fun to do. I'm also a pretty frugal person. For those reasons, it's pretty hard for me to make big purchases, like furniture or even nicer clothing....