Actually I’ve seen scientific papers that did just that - hydroponically kept a root alive until full colonization. I wouldn’t attempt that, I have plenty of actual living forest to mess with this extremely complicated system in a jar, knowing it is possible feels enough, pushing it further is not worth the effort. At least now.

They actually sell seedlings inoculated with mycorrhiza I think. My wife speculates, that too vigorous mushroom as they get in monotubs will totally turn from symbiotic to predatory, as is customary in this world.

Yeah, was surprised as well, but it looks correct and they grow locally a lot. I’ve seen fruiting body growing smaller than normal in my constrained growing experiments (but also larger than normal sometimes).

Nah, it’s like salt - vampire would stop to count and read all entries and scroll to the bottom.

Are you implying it’s one per voter?

Technically, I have PhD in Chemistry from Rice University, but things are waaaay more complicated.

France has large scale high vacuum gear, Finland makes all for ALD (and I tried to sell chemicals for it, to no avail, as expected). Swiss and Germany have fine robotics for backend welding, Poland is good at making casings, Hungary and Bulgaria are good at putting this stuff together. Random shots, there is more and more, and our friends Ukraine and Israel have almost all of this themselves. Team power!

And design will just immigrate, that’s the simplest part. We have some, but we’ll have all of it soon probably.

Aaaand, one very important thing, - if, for some reason, regular chips would become unavailable, there is a chance that new, arguably better - but certainly better in some applications - machinery might emerge. Like proper photonic processors! I had a dream vision of photonic logic and even power lines, with smaller losses and better wireless transfer, safe sockets (due to total internal reflection in absence of matching prism), low crosstalk and signal leakage, no corrosion, etc. And very, very fast chips. To cross the death valley, competition with transistors should be won, and that’s no small deal, unless something happens.

Omg how did they release so much arsenic on ree mine? That’s just incompetence bordering with intentional harm.

Just end of dumping from other manufacturers relying on less ethical labor and/or subsidies produced by less ethical labor than we have. Most of equipment for those fabs is made here anyway, one way or another. And we have plenty of people who know exactly how it is done, including me (yeah, I had 8nm tech in my hands before Intel, and they didn’t hire me, so if you manage to get the economy of this - you know where to find me). Once we are ready to start paying fairly for things (from food to chips), they become local. Magic!

As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it’s one among many), but genuine, I’ve heard it IRL.

“Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай”

This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that’s close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it’s lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it’s not just an empty word, but you mean it.

I’m a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood’s special interests.

Honestly, “mind your beeswax” is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.

Mighty Shai-hulud!

They can’t; government here is mere servants of society. We’ve seen socialists dropping welfare when it was needed, now this libertarian government raised VAT. No matter what ideas drive the party, they actually listen to analytical people doing their math. And of course they’ll be replaced in a few years by some kind of reds (maybe with greens, maybe with something else), similarly powerless, as any government should be.

The only strong power in our politics is Swedish language party that always has 5-10%, any coalition, and just one line on agenda - swedish language. Awesome mockery of serious politics IMO (and at the same time more serious politics than most).

One surface, one edge, one gender

The nest box has limited space to minimize bees energy waste for environment conditioning. When the colony (and their… our food reserves - we trade honey I need for sugar they depend on in winter so that they do not need to fly out to poop and freeze to death) occupies all space, I slap another box on top of column of boxes that is their home. To help them start and guide their work, I attach wafers of cast wax molten from old frames to new wooden frames. They build honeycomb there from sweat of young bees, that’s whar wax is. I do not know yet how exactly that affects temperature, but I think that honeycomb construction noise is just too loud, and also with more surface area to dry honey they have easier time air conditioning.

Bees are amazing. They allow you to work together with them and their industry is full of knowledge and technology they share with us.

Well, at least in the nest box, temperature sure influences the buzzing. I’ve recently found that the pitch goes down a lot when I give them more blank wax wafers to build on. Here is my IoT sensor project, let me know if you want to join http://apiologia.zymologia.fi/

It is unregulated capitalism. That’s the idea of the ruling party now. Of course, they are very limited in power.

Finland. It’s full of paper machines constantly on sale as market goes down since fall of USSR which consumed most of paper at some point. There are so many companies here that I can’t name one lol. Not clear how to get the good stuff in retail, Finnish companies suck at marketing worse than you can imagine.