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  • So satisfying to bring a plant back from the dead! Congratulations! The color is really pretty in the newest picture. Does it normally change color throughout the year or is the color change a reaction to the stress?

  • 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.

  • Wow, it's finally approved. I feel like I've been hearing about lab-grown meat forever and I wasn't sure it would ever come to market. Then in the meantime Beyond/Impossible came onto the scene with their technology. To be honest their products are such close imitations of meat, I wonder how much better this lab grown meat could be. I also wonder about the cost.

  • You can make pizza dough with sourdough starter and get the protein through toppings. Here is a recipe by Paul Hollywood for sourdough pizza, with a little yeast thrown in to help it rise. "Strong white bread flour" is the same as bread flour, in case the "strong" throws you off.

  • 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?

  • I haven't ever gotten them to re-bloom on purpose. I just keep them around for years and periodically they do. Some re-bloom much more often than others. I got a few orchid books out of the library recently to take a more informed approach. It seems like many different factors can influence re-blooming and that it depends on the genus/species. Temperature changes like you mentioned, also day length, amount of light, even pressure changes with the weather! Good luck with your orchids.

  • Great question! I know for sure because the picture is from a couple of weeks ago and by now it's clearly a flower spike.

    I had your same question when the growth was at the stage shown in the picture. I looked up how to tell the difference between flower spike and root. What I learned was that two signs of flower spike are:

    • Located right below the middle of where a leaf attaches to the stem, because that's the location of a node that can become a flower spike. Roots can come from a greater variety of locations around the stem.
    • Shaped like a mitten, in other words the growth is slightly asymmetric. I believe the thumb is a forming node and the fingers part is where the spike will continue growing. The mitten shape is not present in this image, it developed a day or two later. In contrast, a developing root is fully symmetric/round.

    There may be other signs too or these may be incorrect, please share if you know them!

  • Thanks for sharing your thoughts, they're really helpful! You kind of combined the concept of satisficing from one comment with the deadline suggestion from another comment in a helpful way. I think reframing my goal as you suggest would work for me. I'm definitely looking for the perfect chair right now. Maybe if I was looking for the good enough chair today it would help me pick. I worry about getting buyer's remorse, but realistically I'll just be happy to have a chair.

  • 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.

  • Awesome, do you know what variety they are? They look to be thornless.

    In my neck of the woods Himalayan blackberries are a super invasive pest that have to be fought tooth and nail, as other commenters mentioned. But the thornless varieties are nice!