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I ran into an issue involving just this problem a few years ago. I met someone while I was living abroad. We fell in love but we both had to go back to our respective countries eventually. We tried a long distance relationship for a short whole but agreed it wasn't going to work out so we just remained good friends and spoke often to each other over video call for a number of years.

When we first met, I found it super easy to talk with her because I was able to read her emotions from her facial expressions. She had a very expressive face which made it easy for me to understand subtext with her compared to other people. When we started talking over video call, I was still able to read her face so the conversation quality didn't drop any noticeable amount.

About half way into 2020 she moved to another country and wanted to have voice calls as her living conditions changed. Between standard voice quality loss in modern technology, my brains voice audio processing issues (voices in noisy backgrounds are muffled or garbled but I can hear a coin drop in a noisy automated manufacturing plant) and the loss of using video chat felt like ~~I couldn't talk or understand her anymore.~~ I was using more mental energy to talk with her.

Without video, I could no longer read her face. I could no longer understand her. She did not want to express her feelings verbally to help me understand things which didn't help. It was a very confusing experience at the time because I didn't understand what was happening until I was able to piece it together at a later time.

Turns out I hate phone calls because I can't read a person's face to help build extra context about what a person is saying. I may not always get context right in face to face conversations but any little bit of information really helps. Facial expressions, body posture, tone and whatever else a person does while talking is all super useful information for me and a phone call strips all of that away.

Eye contact is pretty bad but I'm more self accepting of bad eye contact. The loss of all those visual cues due to a phone call is stressful for me.

We may never know the true intentions behind the attacks because we aren't Orcas. That should not mean we must escalate the situation between humans and orcas. Using more noise and susbtances to fend off one species may have unintended affects in other species or ecosystems.

If they are targetting objects that are luxuries of humans (for example a boat or yatch) then we humans should consider just not participating in those activities. We should not be introducing more sophisticated solutions which may come with even more unforeseen consequences. In this case, I believe less is more. The less we humans invade their space, the less likely either human or orca is to be injured or killed. If this is just an Orca cultural fad then it may mean this destructive behavior will disappear quickly if they are left alone.

Human enjoyment or satisfaction does not have to come from distressing or endangering other life. Sentient or not.

Regardless of Orca intention or perspective, I'm still rooting for the Orcas. It's their home. We humans have caused way more damage to their homes than they have to our boats and yachts. Their damage to our stuff is totally justified in my eyes.

I don't think it has to do with a "whales are sacred" mentality. Humans with our modern technologies are invasive, loud and destructive. We travel across the whole world in loud, dangerous, harmful and polluting vehicles. We also take from this planet far more than we return with absolutely no respect for the complex and diverse yet fragile ecosystems we live within.

Here we have a species of dolphin that are working together to try and stop another invasive species from threatening their home. Humans have a long and rich history with the sea but we are still land animals that are invading and disrupting their home and way of life. These Orcas are defending themselves. As humans, our reaction should be to acknowledge their right to defend themselves and leave their home alone. We should not escalate by introducing even more noise and substances. Instead it would be wiser to look within ourselves and see that our luxuries should not be causing so much distress to other sentient life.

I personally believe the Orcas and any other wild life have the right to defend their home just like any indigenous people who want to live in balance with nature. We should be stewards of this planet and respect the life it gave us by respecting the life around us. We should not be waging active or passive wars on everything above or below the waters.

This year I built a vegetable garden and purposely seeded the top soil with clover. The garden has become more wild and "overgrown" looking but I think it adds a bit more wild beauty to it. There's a list of reasons why I chose to add clover as ground cover including:

• Clover bringing nitrogen into the soil
• Clover roots to help loosen the soil to make it easier for my crops to spread their roots
• By creating a barrier to retain moisture in the soil
• To promote a place for microfauna to live within the soil. Healthy soil is alive with small bugs like springtails who feast on mold and funguses and poop out nutrients that are easily absorbed by plant roots
• To promote a place for larger insects like isopods and beetles to help break down organic material. Similar to springtails, the waste, as well as old molts and waste from dead insect bodies help feed plant roots.
• Clover roots will help loosen any compacted soil allowing crop roots to spread easier
• When planting new crops, you can simply dig up an area of clover and mix it back into the ground. By doing this, you are turning that clover into fertilizer as it gets broken down by insects and microfauna
• All parts of clover are edible. Strange to even think of it as a weed in my personal opinion

Something important that modern agriculture seems to overlook is soil health. Healthy soil is alive with microfauna and microfauna is diverse and complicated like any other ecosystem. The soil will be more like a desert without ground cover because there's no safe places for all the tiny life that gets easily overlooked. I even added some large stones and stepping stones because insects love hiding under things like that. My goal is to promote enough life to ensure a healthy, living soil that won't rely heavily on outsourced fertilizers. Composting would be a great compliment to my garden if I got off my ass and built one.

Modern agriculture and farming/gardening practices rely too heavily on outsourced fertilizers and seems to disregard soil health altogether. It's quite sad to see how damaging and nutrient draining monoculture crops are to our precious top soil.

The whole idea of using clover as ground cover is a mix of knowledge from indigenous histories, my bioactive terrariums I have as a hobby and other random bits of knowledge gathered from the internet over the years. This is the first year I've tried using clover as ground cover so I have yet to see how effective it all is but it's a beautiful experiment in progress at least. Since I added fresh compost and horse manure this year, everything is growing great so I won't be able to properly assess things until next year or the year after but I look forward to it.

The supervisor in question definitely trash talked all of his "subordinates" but I don't think it was particularly effective in this instance. He is past retirement age and his interpersonal skills are completely lacking which made him universally hated among workers and management. But he always said yes to management. So that makes him a useful idiot.

If I worked in the office, I could definitely see this tactic being more effective. It was very common to see trade supervisors battling it out with other trade supervisors. The workers were all united through misery.

The majority of the trades people I worked with were hyper focused on their masculinity by focusing their lives around marriage, children, cars, property and expensive things to express themselves. All those things require money. The people I worked with always needed money.

So when all the answers to your problems is more money, how do you understand and treat someone whose motivations are not driven by money? How do you react when someone challenges authority and is still not motivated by money? Even when I plainly tell them why I am acting the way I am, they truly have a difficult time understanding me because money is so important to them.

They also believe that change is impossible so I'm an idiot for trying. Personally, there's nothing more motivating to me than being told I can't do something.

Reading articles like these really makes me believe I am autistic. Fortunately I have a doctor appointment soon to see about a proper diagnosis.

I was terminated a year ago from my last job for speaking out against the abusive behaviour of management as well as all the hate and bigotry from the tradespeople working on the workshop floor. That didn't go over well so I went to corporate and was assisting them with an investigation into the abuse at my company. Unfortunately that investigation had to be halted as my company fired me conveniently after I made a call to the employee hotline about all the abusive behaviour. I was advised to call the hotline by corporate so they weren't too happy with my company. So unhappy that they refused to represent them at the labour board regarding my wrongful termination case.

I think what was interesting about the whole experience was that many of my coworkers could not comprehend that I did all this to help my fellow coworkers. I wanted change so we could all be treated with dignity. Even now with the lawyer involved, they think I'm in it for the payout. I do not care about the money. I want change. I want accountability. Fortunately I have a couple people in my life that understand that and are encouraging me to follow what I think is right. Everyone else thinks I'm an idiot and there are no words to describe how confusing that truly is.

!Terrariums@kbin.social would fit under hobbies.

I'm hoping in the future it can grow and expand to other communities like bioactive. It's one of the niche communities I miss from reddit.

I agree. And to add to this, you can usually find portfolios of an artist's work through their shop website and/or instagram page.

I spent about 4 hours looking up shops and their artist's portfolios before finding a style I thought best fits me.

Personally, I like to give a concept, idea, or a few elements for my artist to work with. She in return will tell me her perspective or understanding of what I said along with additional suggestions. She's been great so far so I haven't really had to ask for changes in her designs but the option is always there. Your skin, your body so the final design choice will be up to you.

I've also tried looking up tattoos using search engine and websites for generating ideas but it seems these days there are an over abundance of pictures, it gets overwhelming. I find it easier talking directly with the artists.

I said 'could' because written history of Australia wasn't really a thing before Europeans arrived and starting documenting their findings. At least as far as I understand.

However I watched this video which talks about aboriginal land management and references European perspectives of Australia when they first arrived. It seems it was often described as a "gentleman's park" or "a landlord's estate." This video also provides quite a few sources.

This paper talks about indigenous land management and how it was disrupted after the arrival of the British. However it's main focus is in Tasmania and not the main land but still shows the destructive nature of the British newcomers.

To me it seems like a lot of this greener Australia perspective comes from a book called The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia which is referenced in the video I linked. This article briefly talks about the book and gives a little insight to aboriginal land management, European knowledge and their misconceptions.

In the end, I'm just some person on the internet and could be wrong about anything. I am basing my knowledge off my experiences and youtube videos. I did have the opportunity to live in Australia for two years and was able to speak with aboriginals and aboriginal supporters while living there. That alone gave me a new and meaningful perspective of the indigenous people of Canada, there place where I call home.

On a personal level, I believe over the course of relatively recent history that indigenous culture, history and knowledge has been irreplaceably destroyed by those who sought power and ownership. I wouldn't consider this unique to Europe and it's history with colonization. However, I can't speak more confidently about the treatment of indigenous people and their land from other parts of the world such as Russia, Asia (broadly speaking), or Africa for example, as I haven't come across much of that material.

A similar story could be said about Australia. It used to be lush and green because the indigenous people there had worked with the land to help make it that way. That all turned to the famous red desert outback after it was colonized. All the ancient knowledge of the land was destroyed and all that work had come undone.

QR code error correction

I was curious about this a while ago but there are a bunch of features including error correction for damaged or partial codes. If I remember correctly, it was created for automated manufacturing so it makes sense to have redundancies to minimize delays and downtime.

I spent a few years of my life backpacking in a few countries and learned how how to manage my stuff in order to live out of a 35 litre backpack. I had to be mindful of what I took with me with such limited space.

I've since carried that approach to my life at home and tend to be proactive in dealing with what I buy and own. One way I try to be proactive is to make a list of stuff I want or think I need instead of buying it as soon as possible. Most times something sits on the list for a long time and I'll just remove it. It's a good indicator that I don't need to buy it and it will only cause more clutter. This is sort of something I made up over time to work around my adhd impulsiveness so it may or may not help others.