Notices by Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)

I clicked on eugen's mention of whoever ATmosseri is, so I could block the domain for threads easily.

@joeo10 Thank you for introducing me to this magazine. Great concept and i'm going to put them on my donation list.
https://give.annualreviews.org/checkout/16737
Reposting is encouraged by them it seems.
https://knowablemagazine.org/republish
Also, they have an rss feed! Yay :-)
I've added it to my TTRSS site.
https://knowablemagazine.org/rss

Why scientists are making transparent wood | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/why-scientists-are-making-transparent-wood/

> The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.

@jenniferhulme
from the profile:
"This account is a replica from Twitter. Its author can't see your replies."

If they can't be bothered with me, I can't be bothered with them: blocked.
Not even a lazy interest.

@cstanhope
I did see this also on HN earlier today at work. Cool to see the actual ppl on fedi now though :-)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885

@q3k @redford @mrtick

I did here of a food shortage in Germany. It *may* also effect Sausage and Cheese, but that's the Wurst Käse scenario.

@clacke The party may as well simply appoint their favs and stop the sham. That's what it looks like from here anyhow.

@clacke There are other things not as good. For e.g. 4 largest suppliers of fossil fuels...
But then blueberries :-)
Not your swedish ones, but we do have those wild (I think they are the same ones).

@clacke Yes, the majority of the world's lentils come from all over - nearly 53%. I just find it astounding that canada supplies the rest.

@clacke I can't speak anything except the english I was born with. I try to read some other things like news items and fedi posts. The last couple of months I've been doing duolingo spanish and german in the morning and spanish and french in the afternoon. Some days my brain locks up and I can't come up with the simplest article in the right language! Meh. It's good for my sorry old brain to try hard anyhow.

@keithzg
Not BC. I assumed SK, no?

edit:
" It is now widely grown in Canada, primarily in the province of Saskatchewan where the cooler temperatures of the prairies and good soil conditions support its growth. Some lentil production also occurs in the southern regions of Alberta."

so, also you guys ;-)
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lentil

@clacke

@sixohsix
You can tell from both Keith and I, that neither of us had any idea that Canadian Lentils were even a thing! :-)
Thank you for buying our lentils!
@clacke

@clacke I live in a different part of the country, so until recently I had no idea canada exported so much of the world's lentils!

Canada: US$1.6 billion (47.2% of total lentils exports)
Australia: $766.2 million (22%)
Türkiye: $537.1 million (15.5%)
United States: $162 million (4.7%)
India: $68.8 million (2%)
Kazakhstan: $58.1 million (1.7%)
Russia: $55.1 million (1.6%)
United Arab Emirates: $29.7 million (0.9%)
Belgium: $22.5 million (0.6%)
Netherlands: $17.6 million (0.5%)
Myanmar: $10.3 million (0.3%)
Egypt: $10.26 million (0.3%)
Germany: $9.8 million (0.3%)
Curaçao: $7.82 million (0.2%)
Italy: $7.81 million (0.2%)

By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 97.9% of globally exported lentils in 2022.
https://www.worldstopexports.com/top-lentils-exporters-by-country/

If I could get better at just one thing that would help me learn more quickly, it would be admitting I was wrong sooner, owning up and saying sorry, my bad. Even to my former self!
That would be an improvement over gemlog v1.x with immediate benefit.
Until then, I can't make a new release.
Nothing in the Change Log

@mpjgregoire Me either. so my 'special needs' guess, b/c of his huge following, might not have been far off.
In any case, even if it's OT, b/c I came in late :-) ...
I think pro writers should host their own instances. 5 bucks. Come on... commensurate with your donations. I can't think of a system more equitable.
I have my own fired up and ready to go, just as a geezer. My 'home' instance of tilde doesn't want/need donations as he's kept the size to his resources, but I think I did manage to sneak in a donation one time two years ago.
This is all self-organizing, co-operative stuff and I (wrongly) thought popehat was whinging about it.
Glad I took everyone off my post and you explained it to me!

@mpjgregoire
I find myself unable to have sympathy for e.g. popehat's special needs. He's perfectly free to go to another platform and I wish him and the others mentioned well.
"Large-ish" accounts take up large-ish resources to service. There are other platforms where they can pay for their needs. Really, they should have their own fedi and use donations to fund it no? Same as any other professional writer. It's what makes them professionals.
Maybe I'm missing something though, I'm a bit tired these days.

@mpjgregoire I don't know! I only had that one post to go on - was that it, really?
Well, I rarely use them either, frankly.
However, the thing about huge accounts kind of free-loading is a thought in my mind.
I took them off the post, b/c I didn't know the context, which you've now corrected me about.

@clacke We've all been there bud.
In that sense, the Edit function in fedi is superior to emails.

@clacke I did! :-)
There's still one downstairs in an A3000 actually.

@clacke Kiki in my dreams :-)
I was an amiga distributor back in the day.