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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I use mosquito coils, they are very effective.

I also have an electric bat, although it's more for the phycho fun of killing than helping reducing bites. They are just too many.

I tried lemongrass as a natural deterrent but had the impression it made no difference.

What works best for me is: slapping those you can while not caring about the rest. Because once you start to scratch it's a vicious cycle, so I don't touch stings and usually then forget about them shortly after.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Maybe they are different. I live in Asia. From what I heard there are many mosquito species, but the majority not blood sucking or at least not human blood sucking. Only few species carry disease, if I recall correctly.

To be fair, when I'm preoccupied, I also don't feel them always. Or I feel them but my hands are busy, so I can't slap them. I often have this at night, when I'm playing PC games and my feet get stung up. It'll be like "ouch, my foot! Gotta slap that mosquito, but first I finish this in game. And then this." Procrastinating until it's too late.

I believe ankles are prime for them due to thin skin.

One mosquito died, writing this comment.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I disagree. I live in mosquito land and get bitten a lot. I'd say the majority of mosquitos biting me, I feel when they land, before they bite. Probably half of those I can either slap or miss and they take off again and try again. There are some spots though where I don't feel them land. The annoying ones are those I feel touching me but they don't land, they just fly around. Those are hard to slap.

Unrelated question: does anybody happen to know if the biting time matters for transmitting disease?

2 mosquitos died on me while typing out this comment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You're right. I didn't even notice the second jeep before. It looks like this was done on purpose, which is kind of stupid, especially on the jeep driving behind the other. The grill is there to protect the radiator from debris. Once the radiator gets hit by a a small rock and starts to leak, which can happen quickly, as they are usually made of very thin metal, you'd have to constantly monitor engine heat and fill up cooling water regularly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think this would improve cooling, as the bottleneck of airflow is probably the radiator, not the grill.

All I can guess is that the grill was damaged and removed.

Edit: accidentally commented this twice due to poor mobile data service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, sorry I misread your first comment.

First: acriculture is a major greenhouse gas contributor, globally.

The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is significant: The agriculture, forestry and land use sectors contribute between 13% and 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Source: Wikipedia

I'm not sure how they affected by climate action. I can only assume it's a sector, where it's very difficult to remove emissions, unlike other sectors without impacting the crop amount? Like reducing farm animals or fertilizers and machinery?

Here is a short breakdown of emissions in agriculture from "ourworldindata.org".

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately my hardware is too old to play games that are like that.

But I've noticed the same with mobile games. My policy is: if that single player game doesn't start without internet access it gets deleted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you enjoy disliking Seagal, you might enjoy "Space Ice"'s movie reviews on YouTube .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I would go even further and say that the perception of the voters outweighs reality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ironically education is a good way for people not to radicalize, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

I see. Yes I watched the debate and he really didn't do well, like he was on some medicine and partly asleep. My favorite part was when they discussed who is better at golf. Was a very important thing to get clear for people like me, that are worried of climate collapse.

But this isn't new to Biden, is it? Confusing names and numbers has always been a Biden thing, I think, it's not necessarily a health decline. Like my favorite American president quote is "America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: ashofootnae ehfoot, excuse me, at the foothills in the Himalaya..."

That's why I thought the democrats had a meeting after the debate and saw that Biden's campaign is not going well and the public thinks (doesn't matter if rightfully or not) Biden is too old and mentally declining. Maybe, in order to save the sinking ship, it's best to play a rather risky move of changing the nomine just a few months before election. Or maybe he was also peer pressured.

Anyway, if it was Biden's initiative he does deserve a lot of respect for it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm not from the US. Is it really his choice? I thought it would be more democratic and the party members would vote for who they run, how they run, etc?

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