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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Given the way they’re describing it, US south/southeast. The pitcher plants that grow there grow in marshes and swampy grasslands are from there. Pitcher plants elsewhere in the world are a different type all together, and are generally epiphytes or close to it.

    Except Australia and certain south American highlands. Or the pacific northest US. There are like 4 families of pitcher plants, only two of which are closely related (counting sarracenia and darlingtonia together with heliamphora in the family and nepenthes and cephalotus on their own).















  • Paralyzing is super broken in Skyrim. It doesn’t actually matter how long the target is paralyzed, because paralyzing them at all causes them to fall, starting a lengthy stand-up animation, during which they’re vulnerable. Hit them, they fall. They start to get back up, so you hit them more. Eventually, they stay down.


  • It made it into Venus’ orbit after its main engine failed during the orbital insertion burn and then ran past its mission end date in 2018. If Akatsuki is lost it is a tragedy, but if that is the case at least we know that orbiter had it where it counts.

    In the mission team’s prowess in cultivating a solution and the engineering and construction teams’ craft in building a resilient piece of hardware.