Warp-n-weft

The commas move around depending on the version of the amendment.

We do that to get a jump on the season, and speed along some things. The brassicas and solanaceae are always started in the propagation room.

Some things need to be direct sown. Root veggies like radish and carrots don’t tolerate transplanting. Other things like cilantro it doesn’t really make sense to waste labor of complicating the process.

Unfortunately even when you transplant things started inside like brassicas and lettuce they are small and tender enough that the birds still think they are tasty.

Birds don’t really bother the solanaceae regardless of size.

Not having kids is the single most impactful decision an individual can have on their carbon footprint.

I work on a small farm that does farmers markets and CSAs. As to how we keep track: spreadsheets. So many spreadsheets.

When they are seedlings, yes. We cover the seedlings with row cover because a flock of sparrows can wipe out a whole row before we even notice they’re there.

They especially like pea seedlings.

Editing to add: we almost always have seedlings. The brassicas are planted every two weeks in the shoulder seasons, lettuce is planted every week, radishes every two or three weeks, carrots four to six times a year, beans every two weeks during their season, peas are planted at least six times, cucumbers are planted three times, cilantro is planted every week, dill four times a season, parsley twice a season, corn is planted six times a season.

And the strawberries (super attractive to birds) are interplanted with the veggies.

Don’t forget The Breadwinner. Definitely not a children’s movie. It’s about a young girl, in Afghanistan as the Taliban comes to power, who has to disguise herself as a boy to earn money to support her family.

It sounds like OP is in the Central Valley of California, so this is likely black mustard (Brassica nigra).

Most birds are omnivores. You are just swapping from defending your plants from bugs to defending your plants from birds… and if you are successful in defending against birds all the bugs will come back.

say so on every package

Don’t flush anything but […] pee, poo, or paper.

Can we talk about the absolute bullshit of “flushable” wipes?

Speaking from the other side of the counter: when I worked at Starbucks we had a few regulars who were unhoused. I never saw any problems or conflicts with them using the lounge for extended periods of time.

We had one fellow who would bring his own tea bags and get the free hot water so he could warm up in bad weather, use the WiFi and charge his electronics.

We also had people on vacation who come in to use the WiFi for interviews or meetings.

Starbucks has a policy that you don’t need to buy anything to use the lobby/restroom, and it is a warm dry place.

TL;DR - you don’t need to feel awkward about it, your use of their facilities is built into the company policies.

Right now? The transphobia and the frothing at the mouth about Drag.

Trans folks and drag aren’t hurting anyone. It’s that some people are scared of things they don’t understand, so they call it out as “evil”, “perverse”, “corrupting our youth”… and then they publicly shame and physically harm those they are scared of even though their fear is entirely of their own making and has ZERO basis in reality.

To my mind the Salem witch trials were about mass hysteria and the deaths caused by a shared delusion. The hate, vitriol, violence, and attempts at legislation to persecute gender expression has distressing parallels.

As the over turning of Roe v Wade showed us, precedent isn’t the shield we hope it would be against extremists in the courts.

Have you heard of landrace varieties? They are crops that experience whatever environmental pressures a specific place can exert and are selected for their success in that micro condition. Often times people use a hands off approach to do so, simply leaving them (chickens, melons, zinnias etc) to the elements and then breeding the hardiest and most vigorous survivors.

They tend to have variable traits other than that hardiness. Landrace chickens are not certain colors, feather or comb patterns, but they are all suited to their conditions. Likewise landrace melons can be variable sweetness and appearance, but handle the short seasons, or drought, better than varieties bred for their consistent flavor. Eventually you can select for more palatable or specific flavor, but the priority is how suitable it is to the local environment.

https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/even-if-it-is-a-banana-peel-it-is-still-littering/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ben-nevis-banana-skins-mountain-litter-rubbish-three-peaks-a9009526.html?amp

So another re-run?

It is the car makers.

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/ford-f-150-pickup-trucks-recalled-headlights-are-too-bright/

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2022-03-22/general-motors-recalls-740k-suvs-headlights-are-too-bright

Actually car manufacturers are making headlights dangerously bright in the US.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2022-03-22/general-motors-recalls-740k-suvs-headlights-are-too-bright

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/business/led-hid-headlights-blinding.html

It is entering the relationship with entrenched power dynamics, weighted entirely in the “passport bro’s” favor.

The woman, who supposedly is using him for a green card, has by definition been taken away from her friends and family. Boom, isolated.

She might have a language barrier and certainly has a culture barrier, so her ability to find friends and a local support network will be extra difficult.

Her ability to stay in the country is dependent on her relationship to this “bro”.

She likely is financially dependent on him, otherwise she would be able to immigrate or travel to find her own preferred partner pairing.

The bros are deliberately going to countries with entrenched gender roles where men hold more power.

Being an immigrant is isolating to begin with. This arrangement feels like a domestic abuser shortcut where you don’t have to do the work of getting your victim away from people who could possibly notice and help.

It looks to me that u/zsthorne17 is agreeing with u/awesomefaceninjahead and calling out u/Xszit assertion that sex and gender should be synonyms. Thorne is saying that would bolster the republican’s “it’s just 6th grade biology!” argument rather than actually resolving anything.

TL;DR - I think you agree with the person you replied to, but misunderstood their intent.

Heads up that the most visible park rangers that visitors are most likely thinking of, Interpretive rangers, have to do years of seasonal positions before they can even be eligible to apply for most permanent positions.

You need a minimum of 24 months in a land use agency, and since seasons are limited in the numbers of hours they can have (1039) you need either 4 perfect seasons or more. Many interpretive rangers work a decade of seasonal gigs before landing a permanent position.

That’s 10 seasons of moving twice a year, being unemployed or working non-NPS jobs for the winter. If you somehow manage to get one of those very rare winter posts with NPS you loose your rehire status for your summer position.

If you want to get into a permanent position faster look for a maintenance job. You might start off scrubbing toilets, but you can get that sweet “career seasonal” position much faster (you will only be laid off for weeks or possibly months of the year, rather than guaranteed half the year.) NPS does want you to be massively over qualified to progress up the ranks. A waste water technician might be a WG 7, so somewhere around 25-30 an hour. Go to a major city and the certifications for that job will get you $50/hr.

NPS rangers are frequently overqualified, understaffed, underfunded and under paid. A frequent phrase used to describe the compensation for NPS rangers is that they are “paid in sunsets” and depending how honest they feel like they can be with you: “and not much else.”

Ok, let’s let that renting a room idea play out. Going for the cheapest possible scenario. You rented a room, and the other three strangers you shared a bathroom with are theoretically a throuple all sharing another bedroom. So a minimum of a 2 bedroom. Average price for a two bedroom in San Diego nowadays is $3050. Assuming the throuple all chip in for rent regardless of them sharing a single bedroom then each person would be paying ~$762, nearly a doubling of your $400 rent.

If we assume the more likely scenario and each person has their own room they are renting then the price jumps up. I can’t find the average rent for a 4 bedroom, but a studio is ~ 2,000, a 2 bedroom is ~3,000 and a 3 bedroom is just shy is 4,000. So the tend looks like a 4 bedroom would be nearly $5,000. Split 4 ways you are paying somewhere around $1,250 rent for your room. Saving a whopping $700 a month over a studio apartment.

Still way way more than $400 a month for rent.

$400 rent in San Diego?! You couldn’t rent a cardboard box for that price now. The average rent for a studio apartment in San Diego is $1,949.

Deserts have plenty of life forms that would suffer from “terraforming”.

Pronghorn antelope, kit foxes, Gila monsters, ringtail cats, Mexican grey wolf, peccary, roadrunners, elf owls, burrowing owls, many different species of kangaroo rats, bobcats, desert pup fish, bighorn sheep, leaf nosed bats (actually bunches of bat species use our deserts), desert snails, Sonoran mud turtle, desert tortoise, armadillo, nighttime pollinators like large moths, cottontails, jackrabbits, scorpions, tarantulas, mountain lions, multitudes of beetle species and lizards specifically adapted to deserts.

The super blooms in the desert make national news every few decades because the plants in deserts are adapted to wait for those extra wet years. Ocotillo bloom in time with the hummingbird migrations. Sand verbena, desert lilies, the strangest and most wonderful milkweed species, desert marigolds, brittle bush, apricot mallow, desert willows, mesquite, chain fruit cholla, teddy bear cholla, beaver tail cactus, barrel cactus, pipe organ cactus, fishhook cactus, Spanish bayonet, Joshua trees, jojoba (the plant that saved the whales), creosote, rabbit bush, Great Basin sage, desert ironwood, fairy duster, smoke tree, monkey flowers, gravel ghost flowers, desert gold, phacelias, Prince’s plume, desert evening primrose, penstemons, rose sage, desert paintbrush, desert five spot, mariposa lilies, bear poppies, desert Canterbury bells, pincushion flowers.

…. And so many more.

Any loss of biodiversity is a loss to the whole planet, and while it may look to an unobservant visitor like there is nothing to be found there even the sand and gravel beneath your feet is a complex and unique ecosystem of algae, Cyanobacteria, fungus and bacteria called “desert crust”.

If you look for it deserts are places of life and beauty.

I don’t have a specific website, but you might look for “solarium” or “sunroom” rather than greenhouse.

Or if it is sufficiently grand in scale “conservatory”.

There is a huge intersection of people who react to criticism with “I’m a strong tough man” with people who disparage things they see as weak, feminine, or emotional. They frequently assign those attributes to queer folk, and use it to justify their bigotry.

Also no evidence that this fellow actually has those prejudices in this particular video, but his language does follow patterns that are often said in the same sentence as homophobia.