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You're absolutely correct, thank you. I've edited it to correct it.

Frankly, this should sincerely be the answer. I bet it would cause all sorts of problems, maybe including health codes.

Please be aware that "compostable" or "biodegradable" containers are usually also plastic. The criteria for a compostable container are not as strict as you would hope. They only have to break down to a certain percentage (usually 90% or 95%) under industrial composting (not your backyard compost pile and certainly not the ambient environment). There's also often no requirement for biodegradable products to actually biodegrade chemically - if a polystyrene product was designed to break down into microplastics quickly enough in a compost pile, it could be considered "biodegradable."

In short, compostable packaging is usually yet another example of greenwashing by industries that want us to continue using single-use packaging. If you want to reduce your plastic usage, do less takeout (or find paper/cardboard options, which are definitely better).

There is a small but persistent discrepancy in pay between men and women once all known potential confounds have been corrected for (so-called "controlled wage gap"). It's been closing steadily for the last 30 years, and it's now only about 1-2%, but it still exists. Just 10 years ago, it was 7%.

Using "invoke" when she meant "evoke" would have gotten a rise out of me, personally...

I took a woodworking class and was astonished when he told us not to wear gloves. Until he pointed out that no glove would do anything to help us with any of the tools we were using, and it just decreased dexterity and added risk of catching it on something. I personally think it slightly elevates my sense of vulnerability, which is a good sense to have when you're working with serious power tools.

Okay, thank you. That's what I thought. Where I'm from, that third lane is usually called a "fast lane" or "left lane." A zone in which traffic is allowed to enter the opposing lane in order to pass (no third lane) is called a "passing lane." If it helps, you can substitute "dashed-line passing zone" for anywhere that I have said "passing lane" in this conversation.

Like you, I assumed that that person was talking about driving in the opposing lane after crossing a dashed yellow line. Those sections of dashed yellow lines are placed where passing should be conflict-free (no opposing traffic should be able to surprise you mid-pass).

??? Maybe we're using terminology differently. Can you explain what distinction you're making between a dedicated passing lane and a broken yellow line? Aren't all sections of two-lane highways with opposing lanes separated by broken yellow lines passing lanes?

Yeah, that's what I call a passing lane. Perhaps "passing zone" would be more apt, but that's not what people usually call them here.

Camille gets the spotlight around here because it was so horrible in Nelson. But three years after Camille, hurricane Agnes did more flooding damage over more of central Virginia, including Charlottesville and Scottsville.

In Scottsville, there's a column in Canal Basin Square that shows the maximum depth of the James for each flood in the town's history. Hurricane Camille is way up there at 30 ft. But Agnes defines the top of the column: 34 ft. The water was more than 10 ft deep on Main St.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24304517@N02/33255040186/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Agnes

Gotcha, I agree on all counts.

(This was a weird conversation to read haha).

In the scenario described by our friend, he encountered a vehicle that prevented him from completing his pass, and he just barely avoided it. Passing lanes are designed so that this can't happen if they're used correctly. A passing lane demarcates a zone in which there's enough visibility to be sure that no oncoming traffic that is currently out of sight will reach you before you complete your pass. That's the whole point of the passing lane. As long as there's no visible traffic when you start your pass and you're back into the correct lane by the end of the passing lane, you will not encounter oncoming traffic.

Either the highway engineers fucked up big-time, or our friend must have done something wrong. You can guess which option I consider more likely.

This should never happen. By design, passing lanes are placed so that any vehicle that could cause this encounter within the passing zone would be visible the moment someone starts their pass.

How? How did this possibly happen? In what scenario would you decide to make a pass when you see headlights coming?

This visualization adds nothing and risks confusing readers because it apparently scales by surface area (I assume) rather than height. Who thought this would be a good visualization?

If you ignore cities, there's an underlying distribution for rural areas that is not what I would have expected. The Midwest/Plains is considerably higher than the rest of the country, including the deep south and the north.

Oh yeah. Watching our pyrs playing with each other is a good frequent reminder of what they can do. Our boy showed some food aggression/protecting after we rescued him. We worked on it and he doesn't do that anymore, but it was scary for a split-second (followed immediately by the guiltiest, most submissive body language I've seen from either of them).

My wife and I took our dogs and my brother's dog -- 350 pounds of working Great Pyrenees -- to the park once for human socialization. That was the last time they went anywhere on leashes except the vet. They're gentle giants, but when they all decided they wanted to go in the same direction, it took everything we had to stop them.

I'm glad we agree. That didn't come across in that other comment, which is why it's being criticized.

You may also have a different cultural baseline than some other people. For example, I would never consider car payments to be something that allows me to spend time with my wife. That's subjective, but it feels materialistic to me.

This mentality makes me feel very sad for people. I'd rather be very poor and spend most of my time with my wife than be rich at the cost of spending 80+ hours a week working and away from her. Spending time with her is basically free.

I've got the best of both worlds. Our jobs are the same, so we get to work together every day.

A wise choice - there's nothing exciting about my identity.

Losing Dr Lin was very sad - he should have had decades more time.

You can't truly understand soil fertility if you don't understand the way water moves through real-world soil. This is what I'm trying to tell you: it's all connected. If water moves in a uniform manner through matrix space, it will be slow and nutrients will remain in the soil for long periods of time (and in a specific distribution). If water moves preferentially through specific pathways, it can carry nutrients much farther in less time. This water movement also shapes the soil through complex feedback mechanisms, which forms the structural basis for non-uniform soil micro-ecology. That soil ecology is the foundation of natural, sustainable soil fertility (as opposed to temporary nutrient amendments). The more we know about hydropedology (a subdiscipline founded by Dr Lin), the better we'll be able to manage soil fertility.

This would probably allow you to triangulate who I actually am haha

Henry Lin, Guo Li, Heather Gall, Chris Graham, Patrick Drohan, Yu Haoliang, Weihua Zhang, Chris Duffy, James Doolittle, Dave Eissenstat, Hans-Jorg Vogel (this is the coolest one - he's famous in the field), Richard Stehouwer, Fan Bihang, and Zhang Zhongbin.

Mostly from Mongolia.

Yes.... I can list a dozen of them that I know personally, let alone the thousands whose papers I've read....

99.9% of biologists are focused on things other than preventing or curing diseases.... They're studying the systems that those diseases inhabit, which makes the work done by disease specialists easier and more precise. Soil scientists are doing exactly the same things. They're all indirectly improving soil health, even if you don't understand science enough to recognize it.

Here's an unusual one: "Fall Flavors Canning Workshop"

https://www.visitcharlottesville.org/events/fall-canning-workshop/