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  • Classy Classy 2 months ago 100%

    You must be confused, or perhaps you're not talking about the same species that I am thinking about. Huckleberries, genus Gaylussacia, are definitely in the same family as blueberries, Vaccinium. They're both Ericaceae, in the subfamily Vaccinioideae. Gaylussacia is definitely not in Solanaceae.

    Two species of blueberry as well as cranberry grow natively in a few bog habitats near my home, and huckleberries are also sympatric with these species.

    ETA: I saw some context from other comments in this chain that somebody else already beat me to this. I, too, didn't realize that there were, if you were, "false" huckleberries in the nightshade family.

    To add to both of our shared confusion, there is even a false huckleberry from within the blueberry family, but instead the Ericoideae subfamily: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/553849-Rhododendron-menziesii. I have no experience with this plant, or even really this subfamily, as it isn't exactly endemic to my neck of the woods.

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    FLAC isn't too bad on disc space.

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  • memes Memes the future capitalists will take from us if we let them continue destroying our planet
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 44%

    There isn't any. Just the typical 14 year olds railing on about the same ten commie phrases as if it was ever funny. Looking forward to more diverse meme communities coming to Lemmy so I can block the communist stupid.

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  • nsfw NSFW deep throat [GIF]
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Got a source?

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating Thanks, I hate it! (image description inside)
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%
  • youshouldknow You Should Know YSK: Flossing your teeth is only uncomfortable when your gums are unhealthy
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I imagine that a floss pick is better than nothing, but string floss is the best way to go about it. Proper flossing technique requires you to be able to have a small amount of slack so that the floss can wrap around the contour of your tooth and slide past the "triangle" between your teeth. The floss picks are too taut to be able to do that adequately.

    I'll also say that I completely agree with OP: picking up a good flossing regiment helped my mouth health immensely. It also helped improve my gum health and made my teeth feel "tighter" in my mouth, not like they were always a little bit loose.

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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Same, my 90s HP is a damn tank and it accepts knockoff toner carts.

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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I'm so rich, the majority of my cooking is with ghee!

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What games evoked emotions for you? Which ones really hit you in the feels?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    SOMA gets me pretty good. To the Moon, too.

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it.
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I accidentally came upon this same system messing around during long periods of boredom, and now I do all my counting this way. I also include the base joint of each finger so I can count 4 per digit

    1 2 3 4 | 5 6 7 8 | 9 10 11 12 | 13 14 15 16

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Smash Mouth wasn't lying when he said "the years start coming and they don't stop coming"
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I'm wearin' myself a T-shirt That says "The world is my ashtray" Our hearts pump dust And our hair's all gray And I just got a message that says "Yeah, hell has frozen over" I got a phone call from the Lord sayin' "Hey, boy, get a sweater, right now!"

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  • adhd ADHD Do you watch your citric acid intake before/after taking stimulant medication?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    When I took Vyvanse I couldn't eat grapefruit. It made me throw up and then I developed an aversion to it, and even now almost a decade since I stopped taking it I still really dislike grapefruit. I'm not sure if it's because of the citric acid content or what else, but oranges didn't ever bother me in that way.

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  • pics pics Dragon Fly from last Summer
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 0%

    Looks like it's a species of meadowhawk, this one is called either a red-veined darter or a nomad (Sympetrum fonscolombii). Great pic! Dragonflies are a lot of fun and a great challenge to photograph.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements [Update: Failed again] Update to 0.18.1-rc.1 tried and rolled back
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    In the meantime I've migrated over to Connect for Lemmy on Android, and it is working significantly better than Jerboa did.

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  • android Android What's your favorite alternate launcher?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 50%

    I've been rocking OLauncher for a few months now, I love it. Cutting down the extra noise on my home screen felt good.

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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 96%

    Oh my god if JDL made Sync for Lemmy I would buy it yesterday. I was a Sync Dev user for like 5 years, such a great app and the developer is amazing.

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    Lemmy.World Announcements Classy 1 year ago 100%
    timeout error

    Every time I look at a post on here (Jerboa, android) it will work for a few seconds then the screen will go black and say "timeout".

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    greenspace Nature and Gardening My 3D printed succulent planters.
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Nice K. diagremontiana! Mine grew so damn big I had to chop its head off.

    Yes I did a bit of color correcting, it was for a joke about Etsy posts and I can't find the original now

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I've always joked with my coworkers that I'm so efficient because I'm lazy as hell. Why cut one piece of trim at a time when you can build a jig that allows you to cut 5 at once?

    The upside: I look like a wizard with all the work I can get done and nobody wants to do my job, so I have plenty of security.

    The downside: I get a lot of extra work and I can feel burnt out sometimes.

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  • curlyhair Curly Hair Curl friendly alternatives to Head and Shoulders?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I'm a guy with extremely curly, long hair (about 20"). I use goat milk soap and it's been fantastic for my hair health. Before that I used the brand "Pattern", which I also liked but it was very expensive.

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  • music Music What song is currently living rent free in your head?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    My brain has been churning through a Father John Misty's catalogue. Currently stuck on "Kiss Me (I Loved You)" but this last week it's been various tracks from Fear Fun and I Love You, Honeybear.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is anyone else getting tired about the UI/UX craze where everything needs to be designed like it's meant for braindead users?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Reddit.

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    Fitness Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Favorite casual workout challenges?

    I am semi-reguarly going to the gym (2-3x per week, depending on the week), and I decided to try a home workout challenge this week, adding 15 pushups every single week from Monday. At first I was doing sets of 15 but I've changed my style with time to minimize sets and maximize intensity. Monday: 15 Tuesday: 15+15 (30) Wednesday: 15+15+15 (45) Thursday: 20+20+20 (60) Friday: 20+20+20+15 (75) Saturday: 20+20+15+15+10+10 (90) Today I gotta do 105 and am considering how I want to approach it. Or, I can cap it at 100 and try to just do 100/day. Do you guys feel like it would be better to do 100/day or continue trying to increase my reps? Or perhaps I should start incorporating different pushup techniques (narrower hands, diamonds, lower hands, etc)?

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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 0%

    That's nice, what region were you in? I apparently live on the northern boundary of where it is commonly sited (according to iNaturalist), and I don't believe I've seen one before.

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    Music Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Spring Sycamore — original guitar piece www.youtube.com

    I recorded this a couple of weeks ago and haven't decided if I like enough to consider for a new album. What do you guys think? For any guitarists out here, I tuned the guitar to a very unusual tuning: CGCGGC.

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    lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Where is a good place to advertise new communities?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks. It's wild how quickly this post got replies lol

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    Lemmy.World Announcements Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Where is a good place to advertise new communities?

    I have been working on creating a few communities that fit my proclivities (I just made c/Spiderbro and am likely going to make a couple other communities in the next few days) but I'm not sure where I should post links to it so that others can be made aware of their presence. Is it inappropriate to just shill them here?

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    spiderbro Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Bronze Jumping Spider, Eris militaris

    What a fun little guy. I love jumpers: you can just pick them up and carry them around with you and they'll flit about your fingers exploring you with no qualms about it. I saw this guy on an outdoor playset at a local park.

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    greenspace Nature and Gardening Eris militaris, bronze jumping spider.
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    https://lemmy.world/c/spiderbro

    Just started the community up, let's get it going!

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    spiderbro Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Long-Jawed Orbweaver (Tetragnatha)

    The story of how I discovered this beauty was unfortunate, and a borderline Community Guidelines point 2 violation on my part. I was kayaking down a rather wide river with some friends, and I was getting into the habit of gliding underneath dead branches overhanging the water so that I could hunt for insects and plants to photograph (I enjoy studying naturalism). By accident, I knocked a spider out of its home, and I proceeded to absolutely freak out and ended up killing the spider. Upon learning it was an orbweaver I felt bad, because I know that they are typically harmless to people, but hey, it's all a learning experience.

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    spiderbro Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Grey Cross Spider (Larinioides sclopetarius)

    I saw this creepy little fella at work a couple of months ago. I work at an RV factory, and as such I have to deal with my fair share of skids. I was lifting one up and getting ready to move it when a large, grey blob fell out between a couple of boards. When I saw that it was a giant, hairy spider, I did the only natural thing a spiderbro could do, and scooped it up in a box to take it home and get some good photos. Turns out it was a grey cross spider (AKA the "bridge spider"), *Larinioides sclopetarius*, which is in the Orbweaver family. They tend to live in anthropogenic environments, especially bridges, under porches, street lights, etc. I released it into my front porch once the photoshoot was done.

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    oldschoolminecraft Old School Minecraft We should make a Lemmy beta server for this community!
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Man I haven't gamed in a long while it feels. I miss the old days of minecraft. I see updates about it and it's weird how much it's changed. I joined in Beta 5.3, I believe.

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  • greenspace Nature and Gardening The internal struggle whenever I'm making plant tags
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    That's always fun.

    "Hey, check out this binomial name!"

    "Uh, can I get that in English?"

    "...... I dunno"

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  • greenspace Nature and Gardening lenticular cloud over the rocky mountains
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    That's something I noticed a lot, too. I've used Reddit since maybe 2014 or so, I forgot when I made my first account, but even back then the hostility was so much lower. There are so many subs full of hate and I'm not sure where it comes from.

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  • guitars guitars Not as expensive as the other guitars in this community, but this is my main axe and I love it to death!
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    I own a $3000 US Guild Jumbo, a $4000 handmade acoustic from a local luthier, and yet I still always, always come back to my baby, a maybe $150-value laminate-top Sigma DM-2 from 1982.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Let's get one going.

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  • greenspace Nature and Gardening Hello, fellow nature nerds! I will introduce myself with a cute pic of a lace bug I saw a few days ago.
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Yeah it was such a fun little surprise. It was on my hiking pants which are light tan, and so it blended in pretty decently. I was able to spot it because of its funny little wobbly gait.

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  • reddit Reddit Reddit blackout: Subreddits to go private on Monday
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    208 as of a few minutes ago, 15:40 EST.

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    Nature and Gardening Classy 1 year ago 100%
    Hello, fellow nature nerds! I will introduce myself with a cute pic of a lace bug I saw a few days ago.

    I am a very green convert from Reddit Sync, and am still internally dealing with the sadness of having to leave some great communities on there... This place already seems like it'll be a lot of fun, even with how small it is yet.

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    pics pics Bumblebee on a thistle
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  • Classy Classy 1 year ago 100%

    Gorgeous photo! Looks like an eastern carpenter bee on perhaps a sow thistle?

    Time to get a good solid botanical society going on this platform.

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