Let's imagine a hypothetical scenario where a wealthy landowner taps you to help them regenerate a broadacre swath of degraded farmland in a regenerative way. For argument's sake, let's say 10,000 acres (4050 hectares) of land in Colorado or Wyoming, someplace with hills and valleys. The landowner wants to eventually convert the property to a community with lakes, trails, hunting, fishing, Bed and Breakfasts, etc..., but know that he needs to increase the biodiversity to accomplish this.

The primary purpose is to have something like a productive green space to support the community and provide a surplus for the surrounding area, but knowing that will take some years, what would be your plan for regenerating the land? You can use well water for the early stages, but eventually, the property should be water neutral or positive at about 15 inches of rain a year and about 20 inches of snow.

My first thought, after establishing some water retention features, was to simply move a herd of cattle across in a rotational grazing system and seed each occupied paddock with whatever native perennial seed you wanted to establish to let the cows trample it in and fertilize it. This would provide the income from the beef as well as kickstarting the biodiversity, but what else could be done over a 10 or 20 year time span to restore a functional ecosystem?

I’m also a traveler currently. We got to talking and she revealed she was a RT manager at one of the largest healthcare systems in our state. I asked her every question I could think of about the current situation with staffing and wages and traveling. She is the 3rd manager I’ve come across who doesn’t know what the hell senior administration is doing. The manager that replaced her quit within a month. They are trying to pay us more but it’s not allowed, but they are allowed to hire travelers at massive rates. In her old department of 50 RT’s there are 4 left and over 30 travelers. She said she doesn’t expect this to change for 5+ years.

If you are able to travel it is financially irresponsible not to. If you can make money now you might be able to shave a few years off of retirement. And with inflation at 7% you are getting screwed if your pay isn’t going up to match.

On the plus side, free pizza lunches for the next few days, but I do hate the hoops I have to jump through to find a food to price ratio I find acceptable.

It seems increasingly like they should just charge everyone £25, and you can just basically choose any quantity of food you like.

I have just started doing some game development and have come across ECS. I can see how ECS helps game development. It also seems like it could be used for game servers, or large servers that deal with a lot of different entities in a system.

For example, with Discord, each guild has multiple people, each person has different information attached to them which determines how they can interact with the guild and with each other. Also, there are bots that can be created which interact with people and guilds, etc.

Would an ECS be a good fit for something like that? If not, what insights am I missing?

I'm a sucker for being able to do a lot of different things in RPGs besides the standard fighting and questing. Crafting? Yup. Building a house? Sure. Fishing? Count me in. I find it really helps to keep the game from becoming stale for me. That also applies to combat related mechanics, like the fusion system in Persona or SMT games or the spellmaking system for Oblivion.

So I'm kinda looking for games like this, with a big variety of in-depth systems, each of which takes you a while to master or just finish working with. Take the hearthfire DLC for Skyrim, for example. Going after different types of things to build your own house? It's really fun. On the opposite side of the spectrum I'd put the crafting system from Persona 5. I get that it's not supposed to be anything out of this world (and keep in mind, I love that game to bits) but it kinda disappointed me how bare-bones it is.

In a sense I guess I want to be overwhelmed. Instead of doing the usual spiel RPGs are known for, I want to spend a couple of minutes just marvelling at the plethora of options I have.

For reference, here's a couple RPGs I played and enjoyed:

• Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim (played to hell and back, even with mods)

• SMT III, IV, IV:A (don't have a switch so I can't play V :/); Persona 3 FES, P4G, P5 and P5R.

• Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4 (same about the mods)

• Underrail

• Mount and Blade Warband

• Played Baldur's gate 2 back then but somehow it didn't click with me

• Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition

• Terraria

As for consoles, I have a PS4 and a relatively good PC as well as the means to play most games of most previous generations.

Hello! Just looking for any helpful insights when creating a Work From Home Policy for this current and upcoming exodus of on-site employees to remote employees, using Citrix (Remote Access and Workspace) on personal devices. Any unforeseen, and/or surprising, obstacles? The Citrix official documentation is great, but I am hoping to hear stories of similar policy creations. Thanks for any time you're able to offer!

China and the US don’t have universal healthcare. Russia does but it is pretty bad. India has borderline universal healthcare but at the same time not really. I’ve heard skeptics say that Nordic countries have good systems because they’re small countries, and if America wanted Medicare 4 All it would need to be run on the state level. You’re neither socdems nor neoliberals, so what is your outside take on that?

I'm a green bean at a location with no drive thru, so the answer might be obvious but I have no idea and I'm really curious.

At a lot of places, like Mcdonald's for example, if you get a large order they have you pull up to an area up ahead after you pay so the other cars with shorter orders can get through. Starbucks despite going all in on drive thru doesn't have this, why? Wouldn't it be easier for both the baristas (less pressure to get their drink out ASAP so drive thru times don't get fucked) and customers (faster line, don't get held up by people ahead of you as much)?

My guess is it would be too stressful for a barista to go out and hand the drinks to a car pulled up forward since everyone's overworked as is, but I dunno.

Let's say nothing in the universe exists except Voyager and the solar system. Voyager is very much not considered in orbit around the solar system, but my intuition says that two body systems are either in orbit about a common point, or are on a collision course on large enough time scales (ignoring dark energy). Are parabolic and hyperbolic trajectories all eventually elliptical?

Sorry if this is a weird question haha. What I’m wondering is would consumers boycotting paying their hospital bills (like on a large, organized scale) put it out of business with fewer consequences to the local population and employees than other methods of protesting?

I have zero opinions or idea how that would play out, so I’m interested in hearing others analyze.

I always wonder what the most effective but least damaging method of protesting for healthcare reform in the US would be.

I use the Toronto Public Library, which has about 100 branches. On weeknights, most branches close at 8:30 PM. Some close earlier; none close later.

I think it would be good if one or two small downtown branches would open a few hours later than normal, and would also close a few hours later than normal, at least one day per week. This way, night owls — and people who work late — could go to that branch in the late evening to borrow items.

If a patron tries to enter any other branch just before closing, the staff can tell the patron: "Sorry; we're closing for the night. You can go to such-and-such branch instead; they're open tonight until 10:30 PM."

Do you know of any public library system in the world which has had one branch open later and close later than all the rest? Was this variation in hours a good thing?

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/u/TemperatureTight465 writes in a comment: "Staff-less [late hours] might be an easier sell. But the equipment and security, including isolating staff areas, is not cheap. They'd probably have to do layoffs to afford it."

Some small branches in some large systems are already only staffed part-time. And, in fact, some of these small branches are already set up for staffless service during certain hours. (Example.)

Maybe these branches would be the cheapest ones at which to offer late hours. Since the self-service equipment is already in place, there would be little extra cost to increase the number of self-service hours. In a big city, health and safety might be major issues. But, in the town of Foster, Australia, 24/7 self-service access works fine; please see this comment.

An alternative idea would be to build a Little Free Library just outside each popular downtown branch. (Based on this source.) Or maybe even a bigger free library, like this one. Weeded items, and unwanted donations, could be redirected to these free libraries. Patrons could ta

Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, 2nd edition, page 22

I have a school with a rundown greenhouse with terrible soil, mostly seed starter type stuff. We also have a food school and wood working class. The food school, local coffee shop and brew house will provide ample green material. The wood working class uses untreated wood. I was thinking I could use the wood shavings as carbon. I would only use a little bit at a time as it is carbon dense material. My thinking would be to use a tumbler system to start the process and move to 2 pens following. How much and how quickly do you think I can compost material? I want to know how big a system I should plan for. If I start the material outside in the tumbler and then move it in the green house to do the last two pens will the smell be too much? Will there be enough bacteria? Should I add worms to the bins if they are indoor? HELP?

Like the title says lighting the large caves below y 0 is a pain there should be a block that can cast light over a very large area. For balance you would Brabant need 4 or 5 to light a large cave though.

I know data centers, IT rooms, museums, libraries, surgical suites are the traditional uses of this system but any other suggestions would be great. Located in Chattanooga home of the fastest internet in the west.

My wife and I have a very rural 40 acre property in a colder climate. I am looking for systems that can monitor our property lines and provide clear imagery. We suspect there are folks trespassing and want to put an end to it, we also have livestock and will soon have equestrian facilities and want to provide the additional security to watch for potential thieves and any predatory wildlife.

We've thought about basic trail cams, but seeing as we get feet of snow it isnt always ideal to roll out and swap SD cards, swap batteries and get photos in the winter time / spring (mud season).

We don't need to start out large, however the system would ideally be scalable to add more devices in the future.

This is my first post here, if you require additional information please let me know.

I had this idea for a seafaring vessel that hangs a few meters above the surface of the water by way of an active enchantment with water-repulsive properties. But the methods of keeping this enchantment going would generate large amounts of static electricity, so the crew of the ship would need to keep themselves grounded with a thing I'm so far calling a "Boatsman's Tail," a metal wire that hangs from their belt and is kept in constant contact with the vessel itself. But what I'm wondering is, would the static have any bad effects on on-board electrical systems like automatic guidance, marine radar, sonar, radiocommunication, etc.?

It is already well-known that George Lucas's Star Wars Synopsis of May 1973 contains word-for-word copying from the plot summaries in Donald Richie's book The Films of Akira Kuroswa. (See my post here.)

It can now be revealed for the first time that the first ever attempt at a Star Wars story, the two page "Journal of the Whills" from early 1973, copies extensively from the first chapter of the 1931 Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Fighting Man of Mars.

Here follows a comparison of the first page of the "Journal of the Whills" (only a few short fragments of the second page have ever been released) with the opening paragraphs of "A Fighting Man of Mars".

 

[Note: The "Journal of the Whills" is in bold. Burroughs is inset in regular text.]

 

This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi, as related to us by C.J. Thorpe, padawaan learner to the famed Jedi.

> This is the story of Hadron of Hastor, Fighting Man of Mars, as narrated by him to Ulysses Paxton:

I am Chuiee Two Thorpe of Kissel. My father is Han Dardell Thorpe, chief pilot of the renown galactic cruiser Tarnack.

> I am Tan Hadron of Hastor, my father is Had Urtur, Odwar of the 1st Umak of the Troops of Hastor. He commands the largest ship of war that Hastor has ever contributed to the navy of Helium, accommodating as it does the entire ten thousand men of the 1st Umak, together with five hundred lesser fighting ships and all the paraphernalia of war. My mother is a princess of Gathol.

As a family we were not rich, except in honor, and valuing this above all mundane possessions, I chose the profession of my father, rather than a more profitable career. I was 16 I believe, and pilot of the trawler Balmung, when my ambitions demanded that I enter the exalted Intersystems Academy to train as a potential Jedi-Templer. It is here that I became padawaan learner to the great Mace Windy, highest of all the Jedi-bendu masters, and at that time, Warlord to the Chairman of the Alliance of Independent Systems.

> As a family we are not rich except in honor, and, valuing this above all mundane possessions, I chose the profession of my father rather than a more profitable career. The better to further my ambi