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@ravensrod @weirdfolks Morning Raven

@PixysJourney Morning Cynni

Thanks I’ll pass that on

@MAJ1
You're very welcome and Fankoos

@si_irini @weirdfolks Thanks Irini

@amiserabilist We had a near death experience transporting a too large piece of plasterboard, cutting it up was eminently sensible!

You keep your larch to yourself - the nerve of some folk wandering around with their lath exposed!!

I’m assuming that you hired the stork because you couldn’t afford a crane for your home improvements?

@MAJ1

haha,

i got windows and floors to stop draught but it is still coming through the walls.

my mate is doing the work part time, so will be on the sofa till friday night.

i could stay at friends but that is too much of an imposition.

the stork is advertising stork roofing.

we had to detour as they shut the main road and turned town into a low emission zone.

@amiserabilist Ah I had a right job fighting the drafts in our house - I wish you luck with the renovations - I hope they all go to plan!

I like my version of the stork better

@MAJ1

the place is over 100 years old.

they were built to last.

well the ones that lasted that long were.

new builds are falling apart.

rubbish materials and workmanship.

building firms are folding like a house of cards.

it is a right mess.

i hope you won the battle of the drafts.

@amiserabilist Ours was built in the 60s & the extension even later - it’s the extension we have the most problems with.

The battle the drafts is mostly won.

@amiserabilist Who knew!

You are the Fediverse’s very own Wikipedia my friend!

@MAJ1

Crazylegs Crane (E01/16) - Life With Feather HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtYdwm5M_28

if i have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of google.

@MAJ1

i am also getting it wrong and have got detention 3x

e.g. https://beige.party/@glasspusher/114212206409849375

@glasspusher

every day is a school day.

@amiserabilist @MAJ1 you wanna fuck with the eagles, you gotta learn how to fly

@glasspusher

i love that i found out this comes from ...heathers!

i have not seen it.

@MAJ1

@amiserabilist @MAJ1 you need to watch that movie- STAT!

@MAJ1

Helium makes up about 0.0005% of the Earth's atmosphere. The reason this amount stays so small is because the helium that's released from the Earth's crust or your birthday balloon is constantly escaping into space. This low concentration in the air makes it inefficient to harvest.

https://www.britannica.com/video/Are-We-Running-Out-of-Helium/-280322

Helium can be easily retrieved from the atmosphere by fractional distillation. It leaks up into the atmosphere from the radioactive core of the Earth and forms naturally from solar radiation in the upper atmosphere, keeping atmospheric concentration high enough.

We get gasses like Argon and Neon the same way all the time. There is no helium crisis and there will never be a shortage in the next billion years.

The situation where Helium is much cheaper than Neon may end but there will always be plenty for industrial and science uses, even if balloons get more expensive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11993417

@glasspusher see you after class?

@amiserabilist @MAJ1

Ycombinator comments, always a fount of quality thought.

That comment is so comical I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to derive why I’m laughing

Pro tip from a chemical engineering perspective: try to start with a feedstock of your desired material that isn’t vanishingly thin on, if at all possible

Also there’s about a milligram of gold per cubic meter of seawater. Tell me why they don’t bother getting that out, either

@jhavok

a sculpture and a clever marketing gimmick.

@MAJ1

@jhavok @MAJ1

White Stork spotted in a field in Aberdeenshire

Hi.

Not sure where to post a sighting.

I know they are quite rare in the UK so I thought I'd mention it.

A single White stork in a sheep field just outside Huntly in Aberdeenshire. I got a couple of really rubbish photos on my phone.

I drove back passed about an hour later and it had gone.

https://community.rspb.org.uk/chat/f/the-tea-rooms/279795/white-stork-spotted-in-a-field-in-aberdeenshire

@Lstn2urmama Awwww thanks

@Rasta Thanks Rasta

Hope you’ve had a good day Mon Frére.

@Rana Evening Zee

Mrs S seems to be enjoying her day, we’re finishing it off with ‘Paddington in Peru’ some sparkling wine & some posh sandwiches from Bettys.

Hope you’re having a good day Lovely

@ldmay65 @weirdfolks Evening Donna

Thanks I think she has had a good day, & yes there’s lots of pressies and cake!

Hope you had a really good day Lovely

@Alison @weirdfolks G’day Ali

Thanks, I shall pass it on!

Hope that you had a super Sunday Lovely!

@skyfire747 @weirdfolks Awww thanks Puzzler, I’ll pass that on my friend

@amiserabilist Hmmmmmm I think that might be google maps messing with our heads!