Typically wildflowers in an area are synonymous with weeds. They shouldn’t have any trouble growing if you break the current grass monopoly even a little. Most people have a hard time getting them to NOT grow in their yard. I had good luck including Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) in my yard. They are HUGE when fully grown and you will basically need a flame thrower to get rid of them but the birds and bees love them. They also spread risomatically by sending out root runners, so they break up compacted soil. A combination of those and sunflowers would basically be a 2 meter tall flower bed. I don’t think you would even need the cardboard.

I’m also interested to see how these hold up in the long run. I have a 2017 BMW ev and really the only maintenance has been tires and a cabin air filter. One of the main reasons I have avoided buying cars like a Porsche ICE vehicle is that, once you have purchased it, there are large, ongoing maintenance costs and it feels like I’m signing up for a subscription service for my vehicle. If these are fast, cheaper, and also have low ongoing costs I might be in. I’m also mildly concerned about all of the telemetry they gather. I would really rather have a dumb car that I can hook to my smart phone and display Open Street Map or something on it. Then I get to make my software choices to a greater extent.

I think one of the keys is that they have to be able to be constructed relatively cheaply and with off-the-shelf components. If it costs $5000 and you need an engineering degree to build the final product it isn’t really a leveler, more of a toy for wealthy land owners.

Some relevant projects I found:

[1]: GitHub - AutoRoboCulture/Nindamani-the-weed-removal-robot: Nindamani …

[2]: GitHub - BrandonAllan/Weeding_robot: The Weeding Robot Project is a …

[3]: A Development Platform for Autonomous Weeding. - GitHub

[4]: anida16/Autonomous-InterRow-Weed-Removing-Robot - GitHub

[5]: GitHub - rahularepaka/Project-Cyclops: Weed Detection and Laser …

[6]: Agroecology-Lab/Open-Weeding-Delta: Open Weeding Delta - GitHub

[7]: GitHub - brycejohnston/awesome-agriculture: Open source technology for …

[8]: [2405.12596v1] A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

I’m going to recommend, in addition to meditation, that you look into IFS Therapy. You can see an actual therapist about it, but you can also just read a book on the subject and do it yourself unless you have really deep trauma or addictions to deal with. The guy who invented it has several books, but I recommend Self Therapy by Jay Earley as it is based around working on your own and is basically like meditation with the purpose of resolving your inner issues. My ADHD brain has improved a ton since I started doing it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. This is my current Hyperfocus, so I’m already way down the rabbit hole on research. 😁

And a very happy Void-Scream to you as well!

That’s nice! Relaxing! I dig it!

One Raga to a Disco Beat, by Glass Beams This is a cover of someone else’s song, but I listened to this and immediately bought both of Glass Beams’ albums.

It irritates me so badly! All I want is a sporty hatchback to replace my BMW i3, since BMW has apparently decided that only sedans are valid vehicles and NOBODY is selling anything compelling in the US! My 2017, carbon fiber chassis, orca should not still be the pinnacle of small electric cars 7 years later!

That’s the greatest/worst thing I’ve ever heard! I’m sharing it with everyone I know!

There is nothing honorable here. This code is best avoided. We are not proud of what we have done.

Ooh! Tell me about this! I’m wanting to make a rye sourdough, but I’m having a hard time sourcing rye flour locally. Did you make a starter specifically for rye, or use a more normal flour starter? Anything special to your process? Your grain structure looks great!

I had to look up what this was (I’m from the Midwest). It sounds incredible and I felt my arteries hardening up just looking at the picture! I can’t wait to try it!

This is not a general answer to your question, but many times if I go to the original manufacturers website they will tell me where I can find their products locally. Failing that you could bite the bullet and call the manufacturer. They should have a distribution database that can answer your question. I’m going to watch this thread to see if someone has a real answer eventually.

That’s fair. I guess I figured since it was shorter than a novel it counted. Is there a medium-length-story Lemmy instance somewhere? 😁

Excellent story! One of my favorites! Thanks for reminding me of it.

Ok… That is an interesting fact… If you move them away from the other objects can you loft it and then move it back?

You had a moment of clarity where your true Self was able to be present and witness the good in the world. This is huge and you should know that a random internet stranger is proud of you for noticing. It is the first step to starting to heal your own inner parts who are still carrying that trauma from decades ago. The next step is to try to bring that enlightenment and understanding inside yourself. Congratulations on your new wisdom!