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Mom spent 30+ years raking the leaves out from under the bushes. That shit turned into solid clay and choked all of it to death. Entire house and backyard ringed in shrubs, 4-hour job to trim it, all dead.
Old lady down the street obsessively rakes her yard and burns the leaves. Guess what it looks like? No foot or vehicular traffic, still a wasteland.
Another old guy across the street from her does the same. His entire front yard looks like Arrakis.
13·18 days agoLet’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will
I see beautiful and common things that people around just shoulder shrug about.
Saw a black bear mama with two cubs last month, a coyote dancing playfully the next week. This week the water lilies are starting to explode across the local swamp. In that same swamp are hundreds, if not 1,000+, endangered pitcher plants and common sundews. Even at work there are several species of songbird in the garden section and raptors patrol the skies.
My great aunt explained to me as a child in the 70s that the moon was round because gravity pulled it into a sphere. This woman was born around 1890, educated in a one-room schoolhouse and lived on a Civil War-era farm in bumfuck West Virginia.
And then ya got what we have here today.
And the smaller the better.
And we didn’t realize there was more than one galaxy until the 1920s (I think?)
I’ll take Swamp Dinosaur roaming the steaming wetlands of Didjabringabeeralong. Hot damn that sounds fun!
Must suck to be a such freak of nature that even God turns his head from them.
The other 95% is gray mud, no life larger than multi-celled critters.
Been there, done that, roommate spit in a Coke can.
Easy money.
“It’s cold as fuck because a monster bolus of hot air hit the arctic from the other side of the planet, sent a chunk of the polar vortex down here. Heat directly caused this. Did you have a problem with the word ‘bolus’, or perhaps understanding the Earth is spherical? Was ‘spherical’ too big a word? I can dumb this down if need be.”
I knew my great-grandmother, few people do. My great-great-grandmother is an ancient picture on the wall of my dead grandmother’s house, from a time when photography was new, a scant few years past daguerreotypes.
4 mothers back is all I can summon, only remember 3.
Nope. The sun moves around, sunup to sundown, and changes over the seasons. There is one small spot by my house the sun never hits.
As I said, I’ve planted it in my own forest, light is killing it. And if you don’t want it around? A light tug will completely uproot it.
Never understood the problem with English Ivy. It only grows in the shade, you can see the line along my house where the sun never hits.
Never seen it in the wild, can’t imagine. And if you don’t want it around, rip it up. The root system is extremely shallow, couldn’t be easier to kill.
Planted bunches of it year before last at camp. It’s all either dead or barely hanging on.
13·4 months agoYep!
Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat.
Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that.
Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.
Grew up watching Sagan on PBS. After church let out. Isn’t that strange?
I have a deep-seated idea that dad (granddad really), went to church for social reasons, wasn’t a believer, but wanted his son to rise about religious thought. Some of dad’s dying, intimate thoughts, which my granduncle shared made me wonder. (I’m rather loose with my pronouns and family. Did that make sense?)
Anyway, dad encouraged me to learn about science and nature. Bought me a VIC-20, years of Ranger Rick subscriptions, and sent me to computer camp for two summers. Now I’m an atheist in my 50s and have an IT career. Go figure.
I’d kill to watch NOVA with him again.
Anecdotally, I’ve only heard women use that sort of argument IRL. Kinda falls in the, “This widget is 80% so I’m saving money!”
Well, no, not if you didn’t have to purchase the widget in the first place.
Men are hardly immune, but in my experience it’s more so women.
First one is the Montauk Monster?!