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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Wool should not be a base layer, but in the mid-layers. It can be a decent shell in lightning, and felt can hold against light rains (and will stay warm even if it does get soaked.)

    Merino wool can be considerably less scratchy than lower-quality wool; alternatively wool blends will also be better (“smart wool”).

    As a material, it can be quite hard wearing if it’s made sturdy. That’s less about the material and more about how it’s made.

    You might want to consider a shell layer that’s wind proof, but for fall, a light sweater and a shell while active should be enough unless it’s ghastly out. (Cold and rainy. That shit seeps; and nothing wholesome ever seeps.)

    Remember the critical thing is to dress in layers so you can adapt.


  • You see that scene where they’re going up to her apartment, to do the protection thing?

    She was excited to see Obi, barely remembered ani (and it wasn’t until jar jar got all happy like the drunken uncle you’re almost never allowed to see calling him by name…)

    Yeah. Obi was totally with Padme.

    Also that deleted scene with her family and the emphatic “we’re not dating”.

    And those straight up incel pick up lines….

    anakin totally dominated her mind to get with her. (And the terrible lines working… was lowkey genius,)
















  • It depends on the fruit in question, really.

    Seedless Watermelon, for example, was developed by hybridizing diploid plants (has 2 chromosomes,) with tetraploid plants (they have 4 chromosomes,). Incidentally, this creates a triploid that happens to be sterile.

    the way this is done is taking the pollen from a male diploid watermelon and pollinating female tetraploids. the fruit grows as you would expect and develop seeds that are themselves sterile (they can grow into plants, but don’t generate seeds.) (we still commonly grow seeded water melons because inorder to trigger fruit development, the seedless variety needs to be pollinated; it just doesn’t develop the mature seeds, and instead, has ‘seed casings’- the white things.)

    many seedles variets of grapes can be propagated from cuttings; though they too were originally developed the same as watermelons.

    Bananas are all clones; by the way. The only kinds of banana that are also edible are sterile. (this is actually potentially a huge problem.) Banana trees will send up new shoots every so often coming up along side the main stem/trunk, these stalks are what produce the fruit, but they can be cut off at the base (with some roots,) and then replanted.

    Tree fruits are generally hybridized and grafted onto root stock. (apples commonly are grafted because it’s faster and you can use a more hardy rootstock with better varieties of apples. The roots are genetically one variety of tree, while everything else is another.) this would include otherwise sterile varieties.