I’m just trying to point out that it doesn’t make sense to classify a plant as a monoculture because monoculture is a planting style that can be applied to any plant, and any plant can also be planted as part of a polyculture.

Three sisters companion planting begs to differ. Any plant is a monoculture if you plant it alone, and isn’t if you don’t.

No nukes yet, but there’s still 4 months left in the year…

For anyone who doesn’t know, MSP stands for Managed Service Provider, which is basically an independent contractor IT company that stands in for businesses’ internal IT department if they’re not big enough (or can’t be bothered) to have their own.

Also green.

A lot of old writing refers to the sky and the sea as green.

It’s only flat below a certain level, there’s still a c-suite to which the majority of Valve employees are subordinate to.

It’s not a good idea at all. The problems it creates are greater in both number and difficulty than the problems it solves.

Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

The Vietnam war began with majority support and slowly became unpopular over time. The Iran war started with the majority opposing it, and is the first war where that’s happened in US history. It’s a very different political climate from the Vietnam war era.

I think you’re underestimating how gen Z would respond to a draft. There has been no generation in US history less supportive of war. I think a significant number of gen Z would gladly turn their weapons on the general that asks them to commit war crimes without hesitation, and that’s if they even manage to drag us kicking and screaming to the front.

I fucking dare you to try it bitch. The backlash would be legendary.

You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they’ll never know the difference because it’s the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that’s helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology.

Looks like an American suburb but without yard space.

This is the logic behind conversion therapy and they actually do this (albeit with the addition of electric shocks and all sorts of abuse).

You’re connected to someone by a time thread like in Your Name and you just ruined someone’s life.

I think my desire for a small electric pickup truck might override my caution in this case, we’ll see if I get burned. At the very least I’m not going to preorder and will wait for real critical reviews after it’s released.

What I wonder is how exactly are they going to enshittify it? It’s extremely barebones and modular in a way that anyone can design add-ons and accessories for it. I can see them doing subscriptions and the like for various add-ons but you can always just get the base model and get add-ons elsewhere.

They’ve been promoting it recently and have several working prototypes that they’ve been driving influencers around in. There was one video with Marques Brownlee and they even let him drive it himself.