How utterly random. Love it!

Anslem from Anheim was an Arachnid who dreamed of Arrakis. His mother was all joy because he was a boy, an apostasy sure to antagonise.

I was not planning on that little poem going the Frank Herbert route. All I can say is there might have been Spice in my coffee this morning. I suggest you get that huntsman a Stillsuit.

Haha yeah, I used to be able to do it in my younger days, but strangely as I've gotten older they've gotten quicker! Mostly I'll just make a feeble spectacle and then say "oh no, it's gone behind the fridge, I couldn't possibly catch it now!" And then 9 times out of 10 we never see them again anyway. 😜

The bigger useful container you can find, the better, I've found. That way there's less chance of hurting them when covering them to take them outside.

And kinda flimsy too. I prefer to just leave all spiders alone, but if the wife or kids refuse to allow it I'll catch inside spiders and release them outside - unless it's a huntsman. IF you can even manage to catch them and wrangle them, by the time you get them contained they've usually only got 3 legs left so you've basically killed them anyway.

Obligatory insurance company ad featuring everyone's favorite spider.

Had one slooowly stick its legs out from where the dash met the driver's side door one day while I was driving 100km/hr with the wife.

"Ok honey we just need to pull over for a second somewhere to sort something out 😬"

Mine are Anslem. I forget why.

Big spiders are so cool, watching them in the video in the article is almost mesmerizing honestly

There are different certification bodies with widely different standards.

USDA certification is a rubber stamp. The best of the best in the US is probably the Oregon Tilth badge.

The bedroom ones generally get a name, Bob, Fank, Margot, etc

It is not trivial to be get certified in Australia. At least it wasn't when I studied organic farming over 25 years ago. I don't know if the same requirements are enforced for imported organic products. I doubt it.

Forgive my US centric perspective but here the organic label doesn't require much scrutiny, allegedly it is trivial to become 100% USDA certified organic while still using pesticides and fertilizers. I honestly haven't dug into it much but based on how everything else works here I assume the organic label is just a way to charge 2x as much for the same product.

What's dumb about the way we define organic food?

I'm sure every aussie has had one run across their windscreen at least once whist driving. They come outta nowwhere, run straight past your face and disappear into god-knows-where while you're doing 100 on the M1.

They will also sit in the corner of your bedroom ceiling and not move for 3 days straight.

Fucking hell why did you post this.

Now crosspost to other communities, it shouldn't just be us who suffer

I thought no-till was a thing because soil erosion was becoming a crisis, the co2 storage just seemed like a bonus. The research focused on commercial corn and soy farms, the insane amount of pesticides used probably say more about commercial farms than about no-till in general.
Then they reference some meta analysis that has mixed results about co2 storage.
Idk man, imma put this one in the keep an eye on it until a subject matter expert chimes in pile.

Edit: so Dr. Eldridge that wrote the article has a PhD in soil science, so I assume he knows wtf he is talking about. I still think the takeaway here is commercial farms are run by greedy bastards and maybe the way we define what counts as no-till is just as dumb as the way we define "organic food".

Yeah, its the first time I've heard a defence of tilling. Pretty strong defence in the end. Its thrown that question wide open again from a pretty settled position for me.

Dear Lord. So these guys are huge AND fast?? At least they're not aggressive?

I had read over and over again that no-till farming is best but the argument in the article is really interesting. And it will be helpful in my vegie patch too.

'No Kill Cropping' is a good line

Overall, it seems conventional farming methods are better for the soil than no-till practices. But that’s only if farmers plough the soil without relying on herbicides and other harmful chemicals.

Current evidence suggests these chemicals are damaging, both for the soil and our health. So we need new ways of producing food without chemicals. “No-kill cropping” – which involves sowing seed directly into dry soils without any artificial chemicals – may be one option.

But we urgently need more research to know if such alternative ways of farming will actually improve the health of our soils, communities and agriculture sector.

FYI, the entire post being pasted into the summary is either a LinkedIn or Lemmy quirk. All I posted was the URL, title and a link in the body text.

Seems a sensible use for electric - last mile short range stuff with lots of stop/start, predictable max mileage, and return to base each night. Much better use case than linehaul or other long range stuff - I can't see that being sensible without a lot of infrastructure investment. As long as they have chargers sorted at the bases it should work (barring people forgetting to plug the thing in which will happen but hopefully not too often).

The range on these is still a bit low for a full days work even in short range urban delivery (claims up to 200km, so maybe 150 you can rely on) so I wonder if they're planning on spruiking for fast chargers at the bases - could fit in a morning and afternoon/evening run that way.

Sad fact that these trucks are running on coal in the end.