OllieFromCairo
OllieFromCairo OP t1_jdmccu6 wrote
Reply to comment by mrsrtz in Any place to get green peanuts for boiling? by OllieFromCairo
Yeah, that’s very true.
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OllieFromCairo t1_ja7soqn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine
The article says “She was shot and killed by police,” and gives context for why—she was shooting at the police, the police claim.
The ARTICLE is actually pretty good. The headline is not.
OllieFromCairo t1_ja7sg5w wrote
Reply to comment by myhouseisabanana in Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine
No, I am not. The headline writer might have forgotten the part you’re thinking of. I’m just editing what they wrote.
OllieFromCairo t1_ja7k7di wrote
Reply to comment by BlueBunnie5 in Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine
Information they certainly could have chosen to include in the original headline too.
OllieFromCairo t1_ja7hxjk wrote
Reply to Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Pittsburgh’s St. Clair neighborhood by byzvntine
I really wish news organizations would stop with that baloney phrasing.
"Police kill woman in Pittsburgh's St. Clair neighborhood," is what actually happened.
OllieFromCairo t1_ja6awww wrote
Reply to comment by DarkKnyt in Looking for a place to Roller-skate by CommissionVisual4869
Fair warning—the trails TO the point suck for skating, but the park itself is nice.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9j7a9b wrote
Reply to comment by HobgoblinKhanate1 in TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions. by argh-ok
Lions are smaller than tigers. There’s no magic there.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9fla9u wrote
Reply to comment by FloweringSkull67 in TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions. by argh-ok
You’re responding to something I didn’t say. I didn’t say anything about fruit variety propagation. Malus sylvestris crosses with M. sieversii, M. coronaria and a bunch of other species just fine, producing fecund offspring.
Whether you get a palatable apple from the cross is an unrelated question.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9fgq0o wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions. by argh-ok
Not true. Sometimes the hybrids do just fine, like in the case of tilapia, or apple trees.
It can also be highly sex-dependent. For example, you can cross a domestic cattle bull with a bison cow, and the female offspring will generally be fertile, and the male offspring generally will not be.
However, those hybrid cows can reproduce with male bison, and now almost every bison herd in North America has some fraction of domestic cattle genes in it.
Yak bulls can produce fully fertile offspring of both sexes with Bison cows, but not the other way around.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9ffdip wrote
Reply to TIL that ligers (the offspring of a male lion and female tiger) are the largest big cat because, unlike lionesses, female tigers do not possess growth-limiting genes to counter the growth-maximising genes of male lions. by argh-ok
That headline is a little vague.
Cats inherit a size-limiting gene from each parent, but the one from the father is ALWAYS shut down. Cats' size is limited by the gene they inherit from their mother. Female tigers have this growth-limiting gene. The issue is that the tiger growth-limiting gene does not send signals that get received in Ligers, so the gene doesn't work.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9alchr wrote
Reply to comment by mrsrtz in Looks like Spring is right around the corner.....Gardeners of Pittsburgh, what do you have planned for this year's growing season? by NineFootEightWeight
Sure!
RemindMe! 1 year
OllieFromCairo t1_j9ajdbe wrote
Reply to Looks like Spring is right around the corner.....Gardeners of Pittsburgh, what do you have planned for this year's growing season? by NineFootEightWeight
I have a little urban orchard of six apple trees. I just got some wild Kazakh apple seeds, the ancestor of domesticated apples, that I’m cold stratifying in my fridge, and I have half of them stashed to plant in the fall if the cold stratifying fails.
OllieFromCairo t1_j9afahu wrote
Reply to Where to get fresh spices? by trail-coffee
Salems and Penn Mac will, between them, cover most of your spice needs.
OllieFromCairo t1_j88iz51 wrote
Reply to comment by ZookeepergameOwn1726 in TIL that the EU has a blacklist for airlines they consider unsafe, even if they don’t fly within Europe by humanesadness
Literally the third and fourth airlines are in the Middle East.
OllieFromCairo t1_j6y1w8x wrote
Reply to comment by periphescent in What happened they literally just finished building the upstairs hand out spot? by Dismal-Bumblebee4932
In college, I called this the "$10 pizza theory." (Adjust as necessary for inflation.)
You should never pay $10 for a pizza. If you're buying pizza, you either want cheap, greasy crap, or you want something really good. $10 never buys you a pie that's good enough to justify buying something that costs more than a Little Caesar's Hot-N-Ready.
OllieFromCairo t1_j28slgf wrote
Reply to comment by myhouseisabanana in Trader Joe's take SNAP? by Equivalent_Alps_8321
We do. You got mad about fraud that doesn’t actually exist, and then when you got called on it you said “I’m just talking about fraud in general” instead of owning up to the fact that you didn’t know the law, as if that comment made any sense in the context of the conversation.
OllieFromCairo t1_j27b0xe wrote
Reply to comment by myhouseisabanana in Trader Joe's take SNAP? by Equivalent_Alps_8321
So, you just randomly walk into conversations and say “Fraud is bad, actually” without knowing anything about the context of the conversation.
Weird hobby.
OllieFromCairo t1_j279jr5 wrote
Reply to comment by imadv8r2 in Trader Joe's take SNAP? by Equivalent_Alps_8321
Deli foods prepared for immediate consumption are SNAP eligible. Calm down.
OllieFromCairo t1_j2798bj wrote
Reply to comment by myhouseisabanana in Trader Joe's take SNAP? by Equivalent_Alps_8321
Except it’s not fraud. You just don’t know the actual law.
OllieFromCairo t1_j2794un wrote
Reply to comment by ___Dan___ in Trader Joe's take SNAP? by Equivalent_Alps_8321
You should probably educate yourself on the SNAP laws before you hurt yourself.
It’s perfectly legal if the food is cold.
Stop being a jerk.
OllieFromCairo t1_iyd8osx wrote
Reply to comment by westinghousesghost in Does PA Have Enhanced Licenses? by idekbruno
Important caveat--EDLs are acceptable documents for ENTERING the USA. You'd have to check with the Canadian government about whether you can enter Canada on an EDL. A number of private websites say you can, but the official English-language Canadian government website lists it as an option only for Canadian citizens. Oversight? Seems likely, but not guaranteed.
OllieFromCairo t1_iycyqzm wrote
Reply to comment by tkast08 in Am I missing something, here? by CurrentSingleStatus
There's a place in Ecuador called "Country Chicken al Horno" that makes, easily, a top 5 pizza I've ever had. The toppings weren't incredibly exotic, but the sauce had some local spice melange that was out-of-this-world.
Mayonnaise was an option though. They put mayo on EVERYTHING in Ecuador.
OllieFromCairo t1_iy99ftz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL the small Pacific island of Niue uses legal tender coins which depict characters from Disney, Pokémon, Peanuts, Star Wars, and more. by CeasarYouLater
They’re legal tender, which is an important tax workaround. (Tl;dr for tax purposes, they are worth face value, rather than market value; this is not legal advice; consult a certified public accountant or financial attorney.)
There is absolutely no way any of these hit circulation.
OllieFromCairo t1_jdouczk wrote
Reply to comment by Material_Cable_8708 in Easter weekend - is Pittsburgh open? by One_Coffee1618
Mediterranean places will also generally be open, as their proprietors will either be Orthodox (so it will be Palm Sunday) or Islamic.