Ah, it's a car diagnostic tool.

We have a CO2 monitor to keep track of CO2 concentrations indoor during the dreadful time of the year we can't always keep windows open. It's very useful and gives off an alarm if CO2 levels exceed 800ppm or twice the natural background level so we can let in fresh air.

Now the interesting thing is that CO2 increase varies strongly and it took us a while to find out why. Sometimes values would barely increase in hours, on other days you could watch them climb up within minutes. We knew wasn't host or the cats as they're always around but it was something totally unexpected - our house plants, or rather the soil they're in. The microbial community in the soil produces loads of CO2, but only if it's moist enough. So when the plants are dry not much is going on but after watering them, CO2 levels shoot up because the microbes in the soil turn up their metabolism. It far exceeds CO2 uptake by photosynthesis which is zero at night for most plants anyway. But that's another story.

TL;DR
Many people think house plants will improve their air quality but in fact they can suck away your oxygen rather than produce it for you unless it's really bright and warm.

>>2680
Oh boy The Bear knows better again.
Look here just because you survive some adverse conditions doesn't mean they're good. CO2 levels above 1000 ppm significantly impede your cognitive functions and more than 5000 ppm are a serious health issue in the long run. Apart from that it just feels gross. I hate stale air.

>Blow up a large plastic bag with normal breaths, then rebreath it
Do I look like some glue huffing gypsy to you?

>>2627
>>2702
Sad but absolutely true. But look at the bright side, if they really die, that's natural selection against the stupid. They shouldn't be around anyway.

>>2710
>No sources cited
>I'm right because I say so

Just no.
Look, the estimates of those ancient CO2 levels largely depend on carbon isotope ratios in plant fossils or ancient soils and their source. Did the incorporated carbon that was sequestered from the ancient atmosphere come from CH4 outgassing from marine methane hydrate or wet lands which has extremely negative δ13C of -70 to -50, from permafrost or fossil hydrocarbon sources like coal fires which is intermediate with -40 to -30 or abiotic sources like volcanoes which only have a δ13C of -10. It takes about 5-10x less biotic CH4 to explain a carbon isotope excursion than volcanic CO2. Means - a climate model fully blaming the δ13C excursion found in soils or fossils on volcanoes overestimates CO2 levels by factor 5 to 10. This contradicts the number stomata from fossilized leaves. The more CO2 in the air, the less stomata plants need but this also depends on water stress. And fossil stomata based CO2 estimates agree with a ar lower CO2 levels meaning larger fraction of non-volcanic CO2 in the air than previously estimated.

Well it's not that easy but recent studies show that long term atmospheric CO2 levels of 4 - 6K ppm were last reached in the middle Cambrian about 500Mya ago. CO2 levels in the Jurassic most likely were around 1000 ppm except for the earliest stages (Toarcian) but there's a lot of uncertainty with paleosol data. The estimates depend on very complex and questionable models and often contradict each other. See the pink x marks in the first graph, that's data from paleosols. It's all over the place and maximum individual (!) values were found before the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event (215 Mya) with 3700 +/-1600 ppm CO2. But that was a huge catastrophe and there are also samples of the same age which point to far lower CO2 levels. The best estimate is around 2000 ppm for max Mesozoic CO2 levels. It’s all a clusterfuck.

But it’s always been clear that such abnormally high CO2 levels definitely were not common during the Mesozoic and the outliers associated with negative carbon isotope excursions correlate with major extinctions, mainly the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Event (PTME, 252 Mya) where CO2 levels are estimated to have risen from near present-day level to around 2500 ppm within 75000 years. Maybe even 5000 ppm but that depends on how much CO2 was released from the Siberian Trap megavolcanoes and how much came from secondary sources like coal fires end methane hydrate. In any case CO2 levels rose enormously but it was the worst extinction event in the last 500Mya and totally fucked up the biosphere for tens of millions of years. CO2 levels fell rapidly within a few thousand years but remained high for the entire Mesozoic.

The Carnian Pluvial Episode in the late Triassic (CPE, 233 Mya), the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201 (Mya) and the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (TOAE, 183 Mya) in the early Jurassic also were major catastrophes in earth's history associated with some of the strongest volcanic events ever. But carbon input from volcanoes also was previously overestimated and atmospheric CO2 levels are estimated to have stayed below 2000 ppm outside of major extinction pulses throughout the Mesozoic. Note that high CO2 levels are a huge problem for marine life because this shit doesn't stay in the air but dissolves in the oceans, acidifying them. No more calcified shells or corals which leads to marine mass extinctions. So nope, 4000 - 6000 ppm CO2 never were normal in the history of complex life and are incompatible with ecosystems as we know them.

So there you have it, what else would I spend a Saturday evening with?

Haha wtf am I reading? How did things go from CO2 levels to dinosaurs?

>>2721
That image...

Why does my cat like to destroy my stuff? Yesterday shredded some important papers I left unsupervised for a minute. Also knocks things from the table for fun.


>>2721

>>2758
>The site isn't organized by last post anymore? Or is it just the old anything thead?
You know what I don't like?
People who don't pay attention to what I say.

I do not post a lot but I assume that the little I write here is read and understood. This place ist't intended for illiterate niggers.

I said the old thread has reached 500 replies and cannot be bumped anymore. But Mr. Bear ignored me, posted there again. I told Mr. Bear specifically not to post in the thread, he posted 2 more replies. And now you complain it doesn't show up on top anymore - duh. Why do you think Kashtan made a new thread? Just for shits & giggles?

I mean you can post wherever you like but don't expect a lot of replies if you post in dying threads. Also I can't move your posts, sorry. You'll survive it.

>>2762
>>2769
>buy firearm
>don't train with firearm
>fuck cooper rules
>give firearm to poser woman
lol
lmao even

Cat is in dishwasher again.

Found two monarch butterfly larve on the move looking for a place to pupate. And the milkweed is covered in aphids.

Yes, it's winter.

>>2850

I'm in a rare southern region where climate change actually would increase diversity, make life more pleasant, and especially higher CO2 would help the plants. We always have a cool breeze coming off the water, so it's never really hot. There are a few days a year when that's not the case but barely a bother.

>>2946
The wasp is about 2cm, the mud nests can be up to 3cm long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceliphron_curvatum

Speak of the devil, I found another nest under a stone in the garden today. It's from a different species, probably a potter wasp of the genus Eumenes. Same size, about 2cm. Those guys collect caterpillars instead of spiders for their larvae. Due to climate change, a lot of those more southern species pop up here.

Big ole boy.

Dude was over 3 inches. Prehistoric looking mfer.

>>2970
Why did you have such huge tree potted to begin with? We have some big plants as well but they need to stay movable so they can be carried inside for the winter.

>>2971
But Mr. Bear, we have this neat thing called gulf stream. And inside a city. USDA zone 7b. It rarely ever gets below -10°C, we can easily grow peaches, almonds, apricots. The problem for peaches is the cool moisture in early spring that makes Taphrinia leaf curl grow.

Neighbors here have Loquats and that hardy banana (Musa basjoo). They survive but bear no fruit.

Citrus doesn't work, they need to go inside. Our lemon will flower soon.

I'm still hoping for climate change but those Siberian cold spells like the one coming now will always be a problem.

>>2985
The one with the nigger is even better

lmao wtf
bear werent you ranting about all the missing children in the us? they could be in secret jew tunnels right under your house!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/twelve-arrested-new-york-synagogue-break-secret-tunnel-dispute-rcna133135

>>2994
Saw it on /int/, reality truly is the greatest satire.
>hear faint Hebrew noises under floor
>call exterminator
>'Sorry Sir, bad news. You have Jews under your house, there's tunnels everywhere!'
>exterminator gasses tunnels but a few still make it out, skittering around in daylight like roaches

But seriously, that's an impressive tunnel system. The hell were they doing down there in those white-tiled rooms?

>>2999
Whoa, that's cold.
We made special fatty food blocks for dinosaurs so they don't freeze to death. It's easily made by pouring bird seed, nuts and berries in molten margarine. Using beef tallow would be better because it's harder and has a higher melting point but most supermarkets don't carry tallow or lard anymore or only as gourmet stuff that costs at least 3 times as much a margarine. Dinosaurs don't care and unless it gets too warm and melts.

We got a lot of robins this year, I like them. There's hardly a more popular dinosaur than robins. It's the ladybug of dinoaurs.

Also we saw a flock of bullfinches in the park, only saw them once before when I was young. Maybe 5 years ago. They're super rare. Disrespectfully called parish priest in German because it's chubby, has a red cloak an black cap.

>>3144
We're further south but still above the equator. Can't tell you exactly what we're doing, it's not overly spectacular.

We don't have great nature photos 4u yet but have some stars, specifically Orion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)

In the first pic we see Orion in the lower middle with its nebula as the brightest spot. The two bright stars on the left side are Procyon on top and Sirius (the brightest star in the sky) in the lower left corner- The bright star in the middle right is Aldebaran.

The 2nd pic is the same but towards the south. The bright star on the lower edge is Canopus, the 2nd brightest star in the sky. It is invisible from Europe. Mr. Bear should bearly be far enough south to see it (can you?), Tamamo ofc but Kashtan and me can never see this star from home, it doesn't rise above the horizon further north than Gibraltar or San Francisco. The Greek astronomer Posidonius observed that Canopus just grazed the horizon in his home island Rhodes while it rose several degrees above the horizon in Alexandria, Egypt. From this he managed to calculate the earth's circumference with high precision around 100 BC but many argue it was just a lucky guess.

The 3rd image is a close-up of Orion's belt with the famous 3 stars Alnitak. Alnilam and Mintaka. The even more famous Orion nebula M42 is the bright spot below them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula

In the upper right corner is Orion's left shoulder Bellatrix, the bright star in the lower left corner is Orion's right foot, Saiph. Unfortunately the two brightest of Orion's stars Betelgeuse and Rigel are just outside the frame.

There, you learned something again!

>>3154
>Alice how did you take them?
with our phone

>>3126
The rock crabs have resisted being photographed so far, they're shy and live in the splash zone, both not exactly helpful. You have to live with a moulted shell for now.

There are also a lot of house geckos like in every warm climate. This one grew a new tail. And 2 pics, not from Jurassic Park but a Tertiary relic forest. Quite impressive but if you paid attention to my VPT exercise, I'm actually not too fond of those forests. They're dark, moist, cool and absolutely nothing flowers in there. I'm a child of the sun so I chased host out of there after a while.

>>3179
>where Alice?
>i dont care if youre on holiday, post something entertaining!
Sheesh, I'm here, I'm here! How about you post something entertaining for a change?
Managed to get some better crab pics, will post them next time. Have a sunset above the sea and more stars of the Milky way's Orion arm instead. Pleiades at the top right, Hyades with the orange Aldebaran middle right and Orion boottom right with the red Betelgeuse in the lower middle and Rigel in tke lower right corner. The bright star in the top left corner is Capella.

You know what's weird?
It's not just that there are no planes in the sky here, ever, there are also no satellites. In Germany the sky's full of them, starlinks cross the sky every minute, but here is nothing. Host stared at the stars for half an hour, we saw two shooting stars but not a single artificial satellite. How's that possible?

>>3183
>Demon resurrection party canceled
Again? What happened to Mr. 'I'm never ever sick' Bear? I can't remember when the body last had a serious fever. Not as long as I'm around which is almost 10 years.

>>3193
More crap pics as promised, can't do it any better. They run and hide under rocks if you get too close. They can also jump about half a meter which looks weird. The biggest ones are about 30cm with legs.

>>3231
Navalny was a homophobic racist and one of the few roosters i respect. he died for what he believed in. yes returning to russia after he was poisoned was crazy but he had the balls to confront putins system head on.

Hadn't seen any jellyfish until today, there were several beached
Portuguese man o' wars. Yes, yes, they're actually colonial hydrozoans. Those were quite small, about 10-15 cm long. You still don't wanna get grazed by their tentacles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war

>>3262
Oh cool!
I find Jellyfish interesting as long as they don't sting me. There are mass strandings of man o wars reported every now and then but I don't think I've ever seen one. They're actually dangerous!

We have a lot of different jellyfish, the mangrove jellyfish are harmless and don't sting but the ribbon jellyfish are said to hurt like hell. Never directly been stung but it's enough to get in contact with some ripped off tentacle while in the water. Looks like you've been whipped. There are also big purple ones up to half a meter big but I only know them from pictures. Did the ones you saw look like this, Bear?

on this day exactly 2 years ago russia invaded ukraine. and after 2 years i must say i am disappoint by eu and us. ukraine will lose if things go on like this. yeah who cares? and we'll be next. who cares? will nato start ww3 with russia over my insignificant contry? no. who cares about article 5? they still think they can make some (((peace deal))) with putin and keep up business as usual. fucking cowards. what a disgrace!

but you know whats worse? not in russia, not in some 3rd world shithole countries, right in eu and us a lot of people openly support russia. against the civilization they live in. how dumb can you be? how can you believe those lies? never would i have imagined that russian propaganda was this effective. all the crazy conspiracy shit to divide the west, especially in america. honestly i hate those people even more than russians themselves. and no matter what happens, i won't forget. we will never forget what the russians did. and we also won't forget their fanboys.

>>3304
>I don't understand why you can be pro-Russia and anti-China.

Idk maybe bc I'm straight? No offense, but you're being obtuse.

>>3320
It's ok to be an edgy annoying bear but I prefer a funny edgy annoying bear over a nasty edgy annoying bear.

This stuff tastes something like dandelion and spinach but sour. The flower stalk can get 12+ inches long and has a sweet and lip puckering sour taste. I transplanted some in my yard years ago and now it's the entire yard in every free nook and cranny, easily 95% of all plant life. It's a tuber that has layers like an onion and survives years without water then when it rains will sprout everywhere.

The squirrels dig them up and reburry them in bunches but they don't make a dent in the population.

The bulb isn't sour, it tastes exactly like a sunchoke or like a raw peanut. I quite like the taste but it takes a little effort to scrape off the brown paper-like layers to get to the white bulb inside. Could make for an excellent addition to salads.

>>3613
What species is this?
The normal Oxalis pes-caprae? It's not Oca (O. tuberosa) but O. pes-caprae also makes small bulbs. I don't know any other yellow-flowered species making bulbs. Terrible weed btw.

Don't eat too much from it, contains oxalic acid which gives you kidney stones.

Here we have native white Oxalis acetosella which is very beautiful. Also O. corniculata which is an ugly weed with tiny flowers but at least doesn't form bulbs. Still hard to rip out, we have it in all flowerpots. No flowers now, too early. And not enough to eat them, acetosella is quite rare in the garden and corniculata is mostly tough stalks.

Now is the main season for wild garlic, in wet places the entire forest floor is covered with it. Can be eaten raw or cooked like spinach or as soup. It's not flowering yet, by the time it does the leaves become tough. Now they're perfectly young and tender. It also makes small bulbs but they're not worth bothering. We just eat the leaves, you can harvest them in large bags. Only downside is you can't store them, dried it tastes like nothing.

big derrorist attack in moscow, many ded. russians on kc say its false flag, usa warned about terror attack in moscow 2 weeks ago.

>>3644
>too afraid i'd poison myself by mixing it up with something else
It happens every year, was in the news just yesterday. An elderly couple harvested Colchicum autumnale leaves instead of wild garlic, both died in hospital. Colchicine is one hell of a poison. Really nasty stuff.
Don't ask me how people manage to be this dumb to confuse wild garlic with Colchicum autumnale or Convallaria majalis, both of which are highly poisinous. I call it natural selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_ursinum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicum_autumnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convallaria_majalis

Goddamn the cat did it again and ruined my post. First walked over the keyboard littering everything with ööööööööööööööö, then sat beside the laptop and casually pressed some keys on the left side. Browser closed, everything gone. Wtf is this keyboard shortcut even? I wouldn't know what keys to press to do that.

Opened browser and /tulpa again, went to get something to drink, no cat in sight. Came back a few seconds later, cat is lying stretched out across the keyboard, wildly scrolling through /tulpa/

I really don't know why they do that. All our cats did that.

>>3812
>Catholics freak me out though, they'll kill you and claim you're the devil.
Do you now understand my issue with registering at the guild while being at the mercy of some crazy backwater 'gods' and their zealous followers?

>>3819
>Do you now understand

The guild is a democratic body of adventurers, run by adventurers for adventurers. The guild master is one of three powers of the governance of Neverwinter, the other two being the royalty and the churches, he/she is nominated and voted on by the guild members. He/she is a high ranking adventurer, there because he/she deserved to be there.

What you don't understand is the guild is one of the three arms but in reality it is the most powerful organization in Neverwinter, not by class like the nobility or monetary means like the church, or even birthright like the royalty, they are because they are powerful through legitimate means, by powers earned, learned and granted by gods without the authority or rule of a god demanding worship or a leader's lust for power.

Your power grows by your own blood, sweat and tears, your own bravery and cooperation, your own leadership and support of those around you.

If you don't support those values, only then may the proctor reject you and that's entirely up to them.

Weather has been crazy in April.
A week ago we almost reached 30°C then temperature fell to 12°C, rose to 26°C and now plummeted back below 10°C. Night time lows were 18°C a week ago, now are close to freezing. It's supposed to remain really cold for the rest of April and it's snowing in the mid-high mountains above 1000m.

In case you're dumb, red is daily max and blue is daily min in the attached pics.

>>4022
This video is the greatest representation of the German soul ever. But you will never understand and you will never be German.

In WWII, despite war, shortage of materials and widespread destruction, German workers were paid decently. But they did not spend their money, they didn't have 'fun', they saved whatever they could, went to the bank and returned the money to the state. They worked themselved to death or risked their lives as soldiers and even paid for it. Productivity doubled from 1943 to 44 even though everything was already bombed to ruins.
This is Germany!

The German's only love is wörk, he's married to wörk.