15 belts of copper, 4 belts of steel, and 2 belts of plastic. I have two of these, so 30 belts of copper! My bot furnace can make 2900 copper plate a minute (64 belts a minute).

For 3000 SPM, it takes almost 2 belts of Low density structures. I like to have central production for all of my builds, but this is ridiculous!

Maybe I should have broke it up into a bunch of little builds, each doing 25% of a belt. Too late now, I already have made and supported two of these mega factories. No turning back now!

Thoughts? Do most of youse split these things up into smaller mini-factories?

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Ottawa, Canada recently passed some zoning reform to allow for low-rise infill apartment buildings with 8-12 units. Any other examples of this type of successful missing middle reform?

Edit: I'm looking to find codes from N. American cities that allow density in the range of 6+ units in low-scale residential neighborhoods.

Like its boring. I would love to have something to do. Like window shop. Like look at transit but no nothing to do without having to drive. Its fucking no wonder everyone is on the internet. What the fuck is there to do if ya not in a big city? Like there's nothing i can walk to. Nothing i could safely bike to. Everything i would enjoy doing is just too unsafe to get to without a car. I would attempt but i would suspect my mom wouldn't approve. But its so fucking boring. Just sit inside and the most interesting thing ya can do outside is walk around the neighborhood. Like theres nothing. No one loves this town. Oh maybe like 10 thousand? People like it her. But its a souless town. No true attractions beyond a beach. Its a town you live in. That's it. You have shops , restaurants , schools , dr offices and hospital or two. Thats it. Its a boring place. I borderline want to call it a suburb. I hate it here. What theres some parks. But thats it. Like i would enjoy being able to take 10 dollars walk 10 miles and drink tea at a Cafe. Or like get on a tram and go see the beach or window shop. Or many see if i can meet people who aren't classmates or peers. But no some lead paint chip enjoying mother fucker went. housing must be single family and shops must go hereeeee like recently they built apartments. But they are middle class. Like the town destroyed a old police station and gots empty feilds and some empty space in the city and we decided to built a new fucking un dense single family single use neighborhood. This town isn't worth saving. Better just bombing it and starting freesh. Car dependency ruined my life. I doubt ill be so depressed and anxious if not for this bullshit. Le who enjoys living in such a city? With suck density?

Sorry vent

I live in South Dakota. Around here it's a few people per square mile. I imagine the cost/utility ratio of implementing public transport would be difficult.

I'm curious if the car replacement strategy accounts for areas like mine, or if the discussion is mostly limited to cities. If I could use a train I would.

edit: to the people saying I should have searched the sub first; you're right. Sorry, I should know better.

There have been many proposals made to make suburbs more transit and pedestrian friendly — adding more transit lines, transit-oriented development, replacing strip malls, infill development, and more — but I am concerned that the low population densities of suburbs will limit the effectiveness of these solutions.

The problems associated with low population densities ultimately boil down to one word: distance. Most amenities, be they transit lines, stores, schools, public buildings, and others, require a certain minimum number of people to use them in order to be economically viable. The higher the population density of an area, the more amenities can be placed in it, and, in turn, the shorter the distance one will typically have to travel to reach them. You can try to make shops more pedestrian friendly, but this improved pedestrian friendliness might not do much good if you still have to walk 1 or 2 miles from home to reach them. Public transit lines would also have significant limitations, as they would need to be spaced pretty far apart, travel long distances, and have stops spaced pretty far apart.

Now the obvious solution to this problem would be to increase the population density, but that has significant limitations. In order to increase the population density of an area, you will need to increase its total population. This may work well for small areas, as you would only need fairly small population increases, but not for larger areas, as they would need rather large population increases.

With these things in mind, I can think of 3 possible approaches to this problem:

1. Keep the area, population, and population density constant, accepting the urban planning limitations that come with a low population density. Suburbanites would experience minimal disruptions.
2. Keep the area constant while increasing the population a small amount. Overall population density will increase, but may be mainly concentrated in small areas, like around transit hubs. This may slightly reduce the issues associated with low population densities while being minimally disruptive to people living in suburbs.
3. Decrease the area while increasing the population density a large amount. Total population may or may not increase. This would significantly reduce the issues associated with low population densities but would be highly disruptive to suburbanites, particularly those who live in neighborhoods that would need to be depopulated to reduce a suburban region's area.

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I have been suffering from AGA for quite some time, but even before it kicked in I used to have thin and not very dense hair. So, even if I manage to reverse my hair loss, my result will still probably look worse that some "before treatment" pictures in this group... Sometimes I feel like I should stop even trying and just buy a wig... And I can tell that in central Europe, where I live, quite some women have hair like that. And I wonder if it is reasonable to expect all women to have a mane? I remember that when I was a child some adults would comment on how thin my hair was and how lazy I must have been not to do anything about it. It did hurt. I did a lot of things even back then... Rosemary oil, onion (yep, another alternative remedy in my country), massages - as you can imagine nothing really helped. And now, my husband's family (of Mediterranean origin, all with gorgeous hair obviously) comment on my hair sometimes. And even though I know they have no bad intentions, it still hurts. Am I expected to shave my hair? Wear a wig? Put a ton of styling every day? I find it frustrating that many people who never had troubles with hair do not bother to learn that hair quality is determined mostly by genetics, and tend to judge people like me for being lazy... Yes, there are wigs and styling - but come on, it costs so much money and time! Having thin hair should be normal!

I like that pumpkin has roughly half the caloric density of oatmeal. I'm wondering if there are any good ways to prepare it into a savory porridge-like dish filled with veggies and warm spices (little to no fat).

I'm thinking I'll add some curry powder, spinach, and mushrooms. But maybe it would need to be thickened somehow to make it more porridge-like?

Thoughts and suggestions?

So, something we noticed a little while ago is that no matter the lot size, a low density residential building will generally only house the same number of people (about 15 without the realistic population mod, 5 with). So if you can force the game to only build smaller residential buildings you can get low-density residential zoning to support an actually quite high population density. There's a few different ways to do this; put your streets way too close together, leave gaps in the zoning grid, that sort of thing.

I'm working with SLA 3D printers for work, which involves using a lot of isopropyl alcohol to clean uncured resin off of printed parts. Naturally, as the IPA dissolves more and more resin, it gets cloudier and less effective at cleaning, eventually needing to be replaced with fresh stuff.

My goal is to minimize both how much IPA I go through and how much "dirty" IPA I have to dispose of. I've had some success at getting more mileage out of my tubs of IPA by pouring some of the used liquid into mason jars and leaving it for a few days, at which point the resin settles into the bottom. (I'm not sure if this is solid precipitation or just separation into aqueous solutions of different concentrations, or maybe a combination of both.) Once it's separated, I use a siphon to pull out the relatively clear IPA from the top to be reused, leaving a much more concentrated solution at the bottom to be disposed of.

My issue with this is that it's pretty clunky, involving stacking books to elevate the mason jar, and holding the siphon at the right level by hand, so I'm wondering if there exists any chemistry equipment for this purpose that might make my life a little easier? (And bear in mind, I'm looking for a solution in the realm of flasks and tubes, not like a $10,000 appliance.)

I've considered something like a burette that would let me siphon the densest part off the bottom, but unfortunately the concentrated resin solution has a tendency to leave heavy deposits/vestiges that don't pour well-- When I'm pouring the concentrated solution into the disposal container, I always have to rinse the mason jar with a splash of fresher IPA one or two more times to get it all out.

I just got the Crafty+ recently and I’ve looked at countless videos online of people reviewing it, etc and their vapor clouds are at least twice as dense as I can ever get mine. I’ve tried different weed, caps vs direct, slow vs fast pulls, full battery…but I can’t get my clouds dense. I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Any advice?

Hi I just started and I'm actually amazed that whole food plant based body builders exist. I'm four days in and feel like a huge sack of broccoli and sweet potatoes. I'm 6'4", male, reasonably active (weight lifting) and can burn up to 4000 kcal per day when lifting. I don't really like eating meat or eggs, maybe one 4oz serving a day or two eggs.

I have no idea how to eat mostly plant based people can eat this volume of food.

I think I might be able to get away with smoothies and packing in almond milk or lots of fruit but that feels like cheating. Any suggestions?

my hair falls naturally into a part and so the test to 'see if you can easily see your scalp' i was like ...yeah i can! it didnt even OCCUR to me that some people can just see their scalp 😂

I was so confused as to how my hair could be low density and still SOOO thick, even accounting for coarseness, i finally did the 'measure your ponytail' test and it was 4 inches, that made me dig a little deeper into what the hell was going on

Hey there! I'm 26yo, I have been diagnosed with hormonal/genetic hair loss in July 2021, and I've been using minoxidil 5% and taking spironolactone 100mg/daily since the 27th of July. I see some good results, but I would like to upgrade the aspect of my hair! My hair has curly and wavy patterns (curly in the front, wavy to straight in the back) and since my diagnosis I've abandoned my curly hair routine (curl cream - gel - hair diffuser) because I was scared of putting too much stuff in my hair and worsening my loss. Plus, I noticed that my hair loss is more visible when I style it this way...

Right now I'm using Nizoral shampoo 1x a week and Bioderma Nodé DS shampoo 1x a week too, and I condition with Noughty Pumped up Conditioner (it's great at giving volume to my hair but I feel that it leaves a whitish residue on my roots). I sometimes use Shea moisture's strenghten and restore mask, but it's really heavy with a lot of different oils. When I leave my hair air dry the front (that is the most curly on my head) really looks awful and frizzy, so I don't know if it's damaged or just textured because of my hairloss (the hair that is the most curly on my head is also where my hair is the thinnest and the weakest).

Does anyone have product suggestions for low density curls? Like really lightweight stuff or even products that you rinse. + if anyone has advice or styling techniques for thin curls I'll take it too!

I don't know what I'm going to do. I have osteoporosis. I am 22 and usually 71/72 lbs but it went up last night (couldn't take lax or exercise). I lifted a mixer while cooking and dropped it on my chest. Toughed out the pain screaming all night. Now urgent care c-rayed me and I broke my sternum. This pain is excruciating you guys. I am going to lose my independence for weeks. I can't exercise I'm on total bedrest, and it's hard to swallow lax. I'm so scared and so upset. I need someone to shower me and walk me to even pee. I can't believe this is happening. Someone please help me.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7585909/

Abstract

Aim: The association between small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (sdLDL-C) levels and carotid intimal medial thickness (cIMT) progression has not been evaluated fully. We assessed specialized lipoproteins, including sdLDL-C, with regard to cIMT progression in a prospective observational study in Japan.

Methods: Plasma total cholesterol, direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, LDL-triglycerides (LDL-TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), HDL2-C, HDL3-C, triglycerides, Lp(a), and adiponectin were measured in 2,030 men and women (median age 59 years, free of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and off cholesterol lowering medication). At both baseline and after a five-year follow-up, cIMT was assessed. Univariate, multivariate regression, and least square analyses were performed to examine the relationships between direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, and other lipoproteins with cIMT progression.

Results: The median cIMT at baseline was 0.63 mm and five-year progression was 0.18 mm. After adjustment for standard CVD risk factors, including age, gender, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL-C, smoking, diabetes, and hypertension treatment, only direct LDL-C, sdLDL-C, and the sdLDL-C/LDL-C ratio were associated with cIMT progression. ***Even in subjects with direct LDL-C < 100 mg/dL, who were considered at low CVD risk, elevated sdLDL-C were associated with cIMT progression (***P for trend = 0.009) in a model with established CVD risk factors, although the sdLDL-C/LDL-C ratio did not. Those correlations did not change by including triglycerides as a controlling factor or excluding premenopausal women from the analyzed population.

Conclusions: Small dense LDL-C has a stronger relationship with cIMT progression than LDL-C does; therefore, measuring sdLDL-C may allow for the formulation of optimal therapy for CVD prevention.

My friend is building a portable fire pizza oven, I have a basic understanding of thermodynamics but I could need some assistance. My understanding is that we need a material with low thermal diffusivity and high thermal mass, such as clay bricks and concrete, but also having low density. We have been looking into Ultra Light Weight Concrete, perlite and ceramic fibre blanket.

Does anyone have other suggestions? And please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.

How can I use a can of low destiny extending foam multiple times? I have a need for it, seemingly ongoing, but I don't know until I know and don't want to buy a new can every time.

I'll preface this post with a couple things:

• This is a very long read
• I did not take pictures as I did not have time in the mornings and there would have been far too many, lol. Instead I've written out results
• These were done over a course of ~2+ Months. I wash roughly 2-3x a week. I took breaks on weeks where my hair needed extra moisture (hair masks,  pre-poo, etc)
• A lot of this has short and succinct notes
• Obviously this isn't presteen academic scientific research, but I tried to be as consistant as possible

#Non-variables in both experiments:

Products used:

• Not Your Mother's Naturals Activated Bamboo, Restore & Reclaim Clarifying Shampoo
• Carol's Daughter Hair Milk Curl cleansing Conditioner
• Carol's Daughter Hair Milk Curl Enchancing style pudding
• Kinky Curly Curling Custard
• Aussie Head Strong Volume Mousse
• Shea Moisture Silicone Free Miracle styler leave-in treatment

Mechanical Application:

• Style up right
• Squeeze water out of hair until no longer dripping
• Rake in, up and away from head for: leave-in and Curl cream
• Scrunch squish for: mousse and gel

Wash Day Routine:

• Wash upside down
• Shampoo from roots to ends
• Comb through conditioner after shampoo to detangle, squish to condish
• Rinse out conditioner with cool water
• 90% air dry, Finished with Pixie Defuse
• Slept on Cast, SOTC in the morning

Refresh routine:

• Dampened with water
• Scrunch squished
• Excess water removed with Microfiber towel
• 100% air dried

Misc:

• Leave-in applied first and used in both experiments and all trials

#Experiment One: Number of Products Used

Base for all following trials:

• Leave-in applied, product(s) applied, microfiber towel used to squeeze out excess water
• Products applied in order listed

Trial 1: Curl cream

• Definition: Good, but subtle definition
• Volume: None
• Longevity: Poor, definition lost by the end of the day
• Cast: Extremely soft
• Ease of SOTC: Easy
• Frizz: Minimal
• Look/Feel: Soft, flat
• Refresh results: poor reactivation (difficult to determine), definition lost immediately

Trial 2: Mousse

• Definition:  Good definition
• Volume: Maximum
• Longevity: Poor, deflated by the end of day, waves still visible
• Cast: Hard/Crispy, stringy
• Ease of SOTC: Extra work needed to break cast, had to break individual clumps
• Frizz: Minimal
• Look/Feel: Stringy, hard strands, tangle prone
• Refresh results: Mediocre reactivation, same issues with SOTC a

Hey, i usually face this problem when i want to start to build my high density houses and just dont know what to put between them and the low density.

Sometimes i end up having small houses on one side otlf a road and tall ones on the other side. It dosent feel real.

Any advice what to build inbetween them?

Thanks.

Undergrad environmental studies major working on class project for my ecology class.

So I manipulated flower density (2 treatment groups: bundles of high flower density and low flower density). I observed how they effect pollinator visitation rates. I know the manipulated factor is the window into an ecological framework. But I'm having a hard time pinning down an established structure.

Does anyone in this community have any insight? Any publications you are aware of that are relevant?

Thank you!

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/1/33/htm

Abstract

Weight loss after bariatric surgery decreases the earlier expansion of the adventitial vasa vasorum (VV), a biomarker of early atheromatous disease. However, no data are available regarding weight loss achieved by very low calorie ketogenic diets (VLCKD) on VV and lipid-based atherogenic indices. A randomized clinical trial was performed to examine changes in adventitial VV density in 20 patients with moderate obesity who underwent a 6-month very low calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD, 600–800 kcal/day), and 10 participants with hypocaloric diet based on the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet, estimated reduction of 500 kcal on the usual intake). Contrast-enhanced carotid ultrasound was used to assess the VV. Body composition analysis was also used. The atherogenic index of plasma (log (triglycerides to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio)) and the triglyceride-glucose index were calculated. Serum concentrations of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1), and soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (sVCAM-1) were measured. The impact of weight on quality of life-lite (IWQOL-Lite) questionnaire was administered. Participants of intervention groups displayed a similar VV values. Significant improvements of BMI (−5.3 [−6.9 to −3.6] kg/m2, p < 0.001), total body fat (−7.0 [−10.7 to −3.3] %, p = 0.003), and IWQOL-Lite score (−41.4 [−75.2 to −7.6], p = 0.027) were observed in VLCKD group in comparison with MedDiet group. Although after a 6-months follow-up period VV density (mean, right and left sides) did not change significantly in any group, participants in the VLCKD exhibited a significantly decrease both in their atherogenic index of plasma and serum concentration of sICAM-1. A 6-month intervention with VLCKD do not impact in the density of the adventitial VV in subjects with moderate obesity, but induces significant changes in markers of endothelial dysfunction and CV risk.

“The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/Multisociety cholesterol guide- lines recommend adding a nonstatin if the low- density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) remains ≥70 mg/ dL in patients with high-risk atherosclerotic cardiovas- cular disease ASCVD,1 effectively creating a target of <70 mg/dL. The 2019 European Society of Cardiology/ European Atherosclerosis Society Dyslipidemia Guide- lines go further and recommend an LDL-C goal of <55 mg/dL for patients with very high-risk ASCVD and to consider an even lower goal of <40 mg/dL for patients with multiple cardiovascular events within 2 years despite optimal statin therapy.2 The advent of PCSK9 inhibition allows many patients to achieve even lower LDL-C levels. For example, evolocumab lowered LDL-C by 59% when added to statin therapy in the FOURIER trial (Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research With PCSK9 Inhi- bition in Subjects With Elevated Risk), reducing LDL-C from a median of 93 mg/dL to 30 mg/dL.3 Nevertheless, a key question is whether there is evidence of continued clinical benefit with lowering LDL-C below 40 mg/dL…

Over the last 2 decades, we have seen the guide- lines shift to lower and lower LDL-C goals on the basis of clinical trials demonstrating that lower is better. The European Society of Cardiology/European Atheroscle- rosis Society Dyslipidemia Guidelines have selected an LDL-C goal of <40 mg/dL as the next step in this pro- gression. Previous clinical trials have proven that such levels are safe,3 and we have demonstrated in this study that there is continued effectiveness even below 40 mg/ dL in patients with high-risk ASCVD.

In conclusion, these data support the European Soci- ety of Cardiology/European Atherosclerosis Society Dyslipidemia Guidelines recommendations and suggest that lowering LDL-C well below 40 mg/dL in a wider range of patients with ASCVD would further lower car- diovascular risk.“

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056536?download=true

https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2021.0042

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34918971

Abstract

Background: The objective of this open-label pilot study was to investigate the efficacy of a very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD), known as Nic's Ketogenic Diet, for 140 days on cardiometabolic markers in healthy adults with mildly elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Methods: Study assessments were conducted at Day 0, 28, 56, 70, 84, 112, and 140, and weight and blood pressure (BP) were measured and fasting blood was collected for analysis of plasma lipids. A DEXA scan was performed and body mass index recorded on Day 0, 70, and 140. Blood glucose, inflammatory, and thyroid markers were measured on Day 0 and 140. Compliance was assessed using weekly 3-day food records and daily blood glucose and ketone monitoring. Results: The results showed that body fat percentage decreased by 2.25% and 4.41% at Day 70 and 140, respectively (P  ≤ 0.012). Significant reductions in android, gynoid, and android/gynoid fat ratio and increases in muscle mass occurred by Day 70 and 140. Total cholesterol, LDL-C, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were increased and systolic BP and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were decreased at Day 140 (P  < 0.05). Following this VLCKD for 140 days was found to be safe and was well tolerated. Conclusion: The VLCKD showed beneficial changes in body composition and cardiometabolic markers in eutrophic and overweight participants in a 140-day study suggesting a future role for this diet in populations at cardiovascular disease risk. Future research with larger sample size in a randomized double blind clinical trial is warranted to confirm these results. Clinical Trial Registration number: NCT04195594.

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Open Access: True

Authors: Nikolaos Tzenios - Erin D. Lewis - David C. Crowley - Mohamad Chahine - Malkanthi Evans -

Additional links:

https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2021.0042

Hey there! I'm 26yo, I have been diagnosed with hormonal/genetic hair loss in July 2021, and I've been using minoxidil 5% and taking spironolactone 100mg/daily since the 27th of July. I see some good results, but I would like to upgrade the aspect of my hair! My hair has curly and wavy patterns (curly in the front, wavy to straight in the back) and since my diagnosis I've abandoned my curly hair routine (curl cream - gel - hair diffuser) because I was scared of putting too much stuff in my hair and worsening my loss. Plus, I noticed that my hair loss is more visible when I style it this way...

Right now I'm using Nizoral shampoo 1x a week and Bioderma Nodé DS shampoo 1x a week too, and I condition with Noughty Pumped up Conditioner (it's great at giving volume to my hair but I feel that it leaves a white-ish residue on my roots). I sometimes use Shea moisture's strenghten and restore mask, but it's really heavy with a lot of different oils. When I leave my hair air dry the front (that is the most curly on my head) really looks awful and frizzy, so I don't know if it's damaged or just textured because of my hairloss (the hair that is the most curly on my head is also where my hair is the thinnest and the weakest).

Does anyone have product suggestions for low density curls? Like really lightweight stuff or even products that you rinse. + if anyone has advice or styling techniques for thin curls I'll take it too! From shampoo, conditioner, mask to styling products 😚

Thank you in advance!

I like that pumpkin has roughly half the caloric density of oatmeal. I'm wondering if there are any good ways to prepare it into a savory porridge-like dish filled with veggies and warm spices (little to no fat).

I'm thinking I'll add some curry powder, spinach, and mushrooms. But maybe it would need to be thickened somehow to make it more porridge-like?

Thoughts and suggestions?