Stolen from Reddit. Original description:
There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs.
How many more versions of Tron do we need?
For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it's $21.30).
*not counting Washington DC
Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.
I feel like I had what wasn't quite a stroke, but perhaps a minor brain bleed while reading that.
inb4 this user reads up on indoor air pollutants
This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket.
Whenever I see this I think "wow, cool idea, wish we had something like this in the US." And then I think "it's just asking for a discrimination lawsuit so unlikely." And then I think "well we should be making public transit free for everyone anyway." And then I think "until we get our housing affordability and mental health crises resolved, free transit proposals just becomes a fear magnet ("roving homeless shelters!!!" "crime train!!!"). And then I get sad.
Disability protections are generally a great thing, and the US is significantly more accessible than many countries for them, but I've watched a lot of cool, creative ideas get torpedoed because of them. Instead we're stuck with car dominance because "everyone can drive, not everyone can walk/bike/take the bus" (inb4 "wtf that's not remotely true" ... I know, but car brain doesn't).
For sure, I didn't mean to negate your comment (more of a "yes and"). However I do think it is important in these conversations to acknowledge that clover isn't a great option for yards when it comes to supporting pollinators (native or otherwise), just a better one. That said, for folks who have to have a grass yard (for rental agreement, HOA, etc reasons), clover is a great add-in. I prefer the native self-heal myself, but it has similar purple flowers and growth pattern to the invasive creeping charlie, so clover is probably the appealing, stealthier choice of the two in many places.
This triggers a memory!
Once when I was a kid, I went with a friend to McDonalds while they were doing some Disney promotion or another. We got the "girl or boy toy with your happy meal?" question. We were both girls so we automatically answered "girl toy." After eating we looked and saw that we both had Jasmine from Aladdin, and if we had said "one of each please" we would have had both Aladdin and Jasmine, which would have been a lot more fun to play with while we waited for our parents to wrap up whatever they were doing. So we decided that next time we would ask for one of each. Well the next time was toward the end of the promotion and all they had left were the girl toys, meaning we ended up with four Jasmine figurines.
Sometimes growing from seed requires patience. It similarly took the self-heal* I spread in my yard a couple years to pop up, but it's doing great now.
*Not a nitrogen fixer like clover, but unlike clover it is native in my area (iirc it's native to most of the globe) so I generally prefer it.
Buffalo and Blue Gramma grasses are definitely more drought resistant than clover. They don't grow very tall either, so you can stop mowing toward the end of the season, let them go to seed, and that will naturally fill in any gaps that might have formed due to drought, damage, etc.
Unfortunately the thing about opossums, as well as chickens and guinea fowl, being tick control may not be empirically supported.
https://extension.psu.edu/do-chickens-guinea-fowl-or-opossums-control-ticks
I would love to be proven wrong if anyone else has other info :(
Clover is non-native in my area. I've witnessed native bumblebees visiting clover, but they show a much stronger preference for larger forbs, both native and non-native. For one, they can't nap on clover (too small, I assume, even when allowed to grow to full size). Additionally, I haven't seen pollinators other than honeybees and bumblebees at the clover, whereas other flowers attract dozens of various species (as well as their predators, creating a fuller ecosystem).
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
どく・どく・もり・もり
Doku Doku Mori Mori
Poison Poison Forest Forest
by Segawa Noboru
An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.
Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.
Dedicated to everyone who woke up today hoping that the fight would continue to escalate, leading to some major tea spillage seriously incriminating one or both parties.
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Screenshots of reddit.com/r/all on mobile as it appeared immediately after loading (did not scroll), taken at 12:34 and 12:40 PST; look what suddenly disappeared from the #1 post spot! That's a rather specific "server error"...
I happened to take the first screenshot (12:34) because I thought it was suspicious enough that they were suddenly dealing with an unspecified "error" right as bad news about the site hit the top of r/all. Then a few minutes later (~12:38) the site didn't load at all. A few minutes after that, the bad press post is gone from r/all. If you go to the post now (https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1jl6smd/elon_musk_pressured_reddits_ceo_on_content/), it says "Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/politics" (marked as "off-topic").
I love seeing random instances of vaporwave influence. I stumbled across this example in the sci-fi/fantasy webcomic series Ava's Demon. It's only for two panels and has nothing to do with the plot at all, but I thought it was a neat cameo.
I want to try something different to encourage more engagement on this community.
Let's share what we're reading and watching this month! Whether you're one or one hundred chapters/episodes deep, whether you love it or hate it, whether it's a new series or an old favorite, this is the place to share what comics and/or animation you've been consuming lately.
Friendly reminder that this community is specifically for folks 30-years-old and up; you can still participate in this discussion if you're younger than that, but please mark your comments with "under 30." Thanks!
Second panel of the original comic (posted here) amended to track better in 2024 based on the first panel's dialogue
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American here. I've always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don't poop at least once a day on average.
As mentioned in other comments, the United States' climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher's explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.