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OK baizuo posted:You see these around Denver occasionally and they do indeed look like poo poo. Luckily xeriscaping supported by spot drip irrigation for larger ornamental plants is becoming very popular here I spent a summer working around this stuff and the shards of plastic will bake in the sun and become brittle, breaking into millions of pieces when trod upon in a few years
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Apr 17, 2022 20:43
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mawarannahr posted:parts shortages that bad? Stews and pulled pork are the only things I've figured out. Turns out well. Whole-chicken soup is my fav so far
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Apr 17, 2022 20:47
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Enfys posted:I'm really not a fan of lawns, but fake lawns have suddenly become extremely popular in the past couple years in my area and it is bizarre and awful Yeah thats a good one to read
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Apr 17, 2022 20:51
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Man, we went to the park to feed the ducks and geese some seed, and we did and it was really fun until some families showed up and let their kids chase, harass, and throw things at the goslings until all the geese were crowding the pond and honking nonstop. My husband said "hey, those birds are federally protected, please don't chase them" and the parents completely ignored him like he didn't exist while either laughing and filming the kids or just ignoring them entirely on their phones. I half expected the response I grew up around, "YOU DON'T TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MUH KIDS" but nope, we may as well have been ghosts. Welp that's it that's my story I'm gonna go back to my own little porch garden and try to enjoy it. I planted lots of my favorites (different varieties of milkweed, bee balm, schizanthus, snapdragons, etc) that happen to also be great for pollinators so that makes me happy.
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Apr 17, 2022 20:53
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Hubbert posted:hey guys tell us about your cool spring projects im going to finally develop mental health problems from reading about all this poo poo and go into supermarkets to scream at cheesy puffs in plastic bags
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Apr 17, 2022 21:41
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do you think I ingest more microplastics from food or from chewing on pens at my work desk?
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Apr 17, 2022 21:53
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i am the plastic man!
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Apr 17, 2022 22:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2f7O5cDVU lol 7m sea level rise by 2070. i must really be behind the times because i was thinking it would be 1.5m by 2100 max lmao
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Apr 17, 2022 22:44
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brakeless posted:im going to finally develop mental health problems from reading about all this poo poo and go into supermarkets to scream at cheesy puffs in plastic bags finally, someone in this thread is doing something productive 
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Apr 17, 2022 22:59
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FacelessVoid posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE2f7O5cDVU owns
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Apr 17, 2022 23:30
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don't sleep on the rest of that thread, wowie zowie https://twitter.com/Alexander_Lees/status/1508117868491255813
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Apr 17, 2022 23:53
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/29/nurdles-plastic-pellets-environmental-ocean-spills-toxic-waste-not-classified-hazardous Grandfather Nurdle
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Apr 18, 2022 00:42
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slaanesh just sits back and laughs
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Apr 18, 2022 00:47
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Enfys posted:I'm really not a fan of lawns, but fake lawns have suddenly become extremely popular in the past couple years in my area and it is bizarre and awful they have the right idea in that it needs to be a vacuum cleaner, but the wrong idea in that anybody wants a huge boxy piece of poo poo
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Apr 18, 2022 01:18
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holy lol that pic of the dead fish full of plastic
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Apr 18, 2022 01:20
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I wonder if throwing away all your garbage after a picnic was not that all bad before plastics and petroleum products
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Apr 18, 2022 01:50
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there's a turtledove at the pond also guess what mahershalalhashbaz posted:loving council dumped glyphosate on my native lilies!!! mahershalalhashbaz posted:look at this! the other places where council sprayed glyphosate are so poisoned now that, six months later, when i plant a thriving eucalyptus sapling there it dies within three days. they sprayed all the way from my verge right down to the banks of the river. masterful waterway management 
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Apr 18, 2022 01:52
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Lawn maintenance aggravation ongoing Lawn mowing aroma obtainable
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Apr 18, 2022 01:57
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Like most "aromas", Oil!
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Apr 18, 2022 02:00
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Plumps posted:i will rediscover the ancient egyptian method of building with thousand ton blocks of stone. the method was slavery
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Apr 18, 2022 02:10
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Hubbert posted:hey guys tell us about your cool spring projects Put up a chicken fence and built a coop this weekend. Now just gotta get some witch to make me a charm to ward off bird flu.
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Apr 18, 2022 02:12
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:the other places where council sprayed glyphosate are so poisoned now that, six months later, when i plant a thriving eucalyptus sapling there it dies within three days. they sprayed all the way from my verge right down to the banks of the river. masterful waterway management the solution to pollution is dilution, the waters of the earth are infinite after all
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Apr 18, 2022 02:13
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Sex Arse of Calais posted:Man, we went to the park to feed the ducks and geese some seed, and we did and it was really fun until some families showed up and let their kids chase, harass, and throw things at the goslings until all the geese were crowding the pond and honking nonstop. My husband said "hey, those birds are federally protected, please don't chase them" and the parents completely ignored him like he didn't exist while either laughing and filming the kids or just ignoring them entirely on their phones. Thankfully you always have the option of resorting to violence 
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Apr 18, 2022 02:22
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My father at Easter dinner said both "imagine what would happen without police" and "with what's happening in the world we can't address climate change right now". I have bellowed and roared myself hoarse, my blood is largely bourbon, and the amount of curses damnation and doom I have ascribed to the world as we maintain it may have echoed back in time and in fact brought us to the very course we're on. Edit mb that
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Apr 18, 2022 02:54
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:there's a turtledove at the pond hopefully in a few months it'll be good to plant there again, glyphosate is very relatively short lived in the soil. I'm surprised after six months you're still having trouble with it. In the meantime, make a loving stink about this with whatever contractor/org did the application
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Apr 18, 2022 03:29
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actually it shouldn't be affecting any transplants at all, since glyphosate is mostly mobile thru the foliage. Have they been spraying other poo poo there too?
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Apr 18, 2022 03:33
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Hubbert posted:hey guys tell us about your cool spring projects I planted 16 stone fruit trees, installed 1k bees and am raising up 15 brahma chickens. Next weekend will be deer fencing and irrigation for a new garden patch. Then I'm gonna burn a lot of dead trees I removed and that's the cheapest way to process it. Sure that's more carbon for the sky but lmao who the gently caress cares now.
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Apr 18, 2022 04:24
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Oglethorpe posted:this is why you do not use a soda can to smoke weed sending this message back in time to my slightly-less-brain-damaged teenage self
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Apr 18, 2022 04:44
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Hubbert posted:hey guys tell us about your cool spring projects my gardening projects have been strangled by a dominant family member's insistence on planting non-edible (often poisonous), non-native, and drought-intolerant plants on every square inch of flat land on our admittedly inhospitable bit of property. they've spent years putting roundup on everything and pouring literally thousands of dollars into two lovely patches of lawn that are not used for anything other than walking across and mowing. i hate them so loving much and they refuse to even entertain the prospect of change. my project is not killing myself and some cilantro.
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Apr 18, 2022 04:50
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jesus christ
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Apr 18, 2022 04:50
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Fly Molo posted:jesus christ whats cool is knowing there were lots of people present who are ostensibly morally aligned with you who did not act to stop this, or who were shouted down by their peers while trying to prevent the crime e: this is not a specific attack at fly molo, we are all complicit every waking moment but this is a peak
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Apr 18, 2022 04:53
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mawarannahr posted:parts shortages that bad? how you make the lentils?
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Apr 18, 2022 05:01
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Chard posted:whats cool is knowing there were lots of people present who are ostensibly morally aligned with you who did not act to stop this, or who were shouted down by their peers while trying to prevent the crime it’s real hard being called a loser nerd
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Apr 18, 2022 05:02
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Fortunately I hadn't gotten around to building a chicken coop yet. I was trying to decide if the run should be roofed or not. Looks like the answer is a definitive "YES!" now. The local farm supply store has had a sign for the last 6 weeks next to the till: "No chicks available until October". Might have to decide if I want to futz with rare archaic breed bantams or just get some fertile mutt eggs from one of my neighbours. Just got out of the hospital after some minor surgery. I'm not allowed to lift, twist, or strain for several weeks so this year's planting season is going to be interesting. The local Costco had several varieties of dwarf sweet cherries on Gisella-5 rootstock (the good stuff) for $30 each so I have three more that need planting next to the single $80 one I bought two years ago. I love Costco. We had good crop of cherries last year on our semi-dwarf trees but they ripened during the heat dome when the heat drove the birds deep into the woods. They were still around but they weren't coming out to raid our orchard. I'm not going to start relying on heat dome protection, I should be able to protect the dwarves with netting and salvage what I can from the big trees while the birds pig out. mahershalalhashbaz posted:the other places where council sprayed glyphosate are so poisoned now that, six months later, when i plant a thriving eucalyptus sapling there it dies within three days. they sprayed all the way from my verge right down to the banks of the river. masterful waterway management Yeah, this shouldn't be a glyphosate effect. I need to do some more reading and get a microscope. Higher animals don't have a metabolic pathway that glyphosate could impact, fungus and other microorganisms do though. The more I read about the interplay between plant nutrition, roots, and mycorrhiza the more I wonder if treated plants transport and exude glyphosate through their roots impacting the microorganisms in the immediate area and affecting the nutrients available to succeeding species. For you glyphosate defenders - ignore me, I'm just pulling hypotheses out of my arse. Wouldn't surprise me though if "there's always more, and it's always worse" also applies to better living through chemistry.
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Apr 18, 2022 05:09
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i touched a dolphin on a family trip when i was single-digit aged and its both a cherished memory and source of deep shame they're just a little rough, not slimy, and firmer than you might think. it was obvious even to a child they did not want to approach us but they were not given a choice
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Apr 18, 2022 05:19
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LionArcher posted:how you make the lentils? lentil soup is a pretty popular turkish dish my friend taught me. i use this recipe: https://yemek.com/tarif/lokanta-usulu-mercimek-corbasi/ run it through google translate and it's fairly accurate "fame" is mistranslated, it means flour the "for the above" stuff is for the sauce (optional, i skip it) the real trick is to run it through the blender before serving. i use a hand (immersion) blender and it works great
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Apr 18, 2022 05:23
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Hubbert posted:hey guys tell us about your cool spring projects Slowly removing a black plastic layer that was probably put in 20 years ago. I'm on year 3 and I think im reaching the end. Slowly terracing my yard using giant fuckin logs from a health tree trim off my huge big leaf maple. Planting a bunch of sword ferns n poo poo. Working on killing ivy going down to a ravine/creek. Porch is rotting through so gonna replace that this year too and murder another chunk of bamboo along with that project. Composting as much as I can. I quit my job so this is basically all im loving around right now till my brain gets right. I need to get better at propagating ferns. its so obnoxious because if I leave random rear end empty posts of dirt on my deck ferns will just appear but never where I intentionally want them lol. Seeded a ton of miners lettuce (also native) that I hope to enjoy in some salads through this year.
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Apr 18, 2022 05:29
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https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1515510103679463430?t=aGdgOS3IV--X_Jko6EgyLg&s=19
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Apr 18, 2022 06:20
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silicone thrills posted:
Miners lettuce is good as hell and full of vitamin C. It's also the first edible green after the snow melts (save for overwintered kale). Seeing the miners lettuce pop up year after year is like greeting an old friend. It's amazingly good at self seeding. I use the greens for sandwiches and salads, but I should really try pickling it into some sort of sour kraut because there's just so much of it.
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bag em and tag em posted:https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1515510103679463430?t=aGdgOS3IV--X_Jko6EgyLg&s=19 Hmm I wonder why. . . quote:Once a maze of marshes sometimes called the Everglades of the West and well suited to fish, the basin was partly drained and the water diverted by the federal government, starting in 1906, to create a sprawling network of canals and ditches to serve incoming farms and communities. Oh. quote:When zero water was allocated to farms last year, members of an organization started by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy threatened to use force to turn the water on. Nothing came of it, but since 2001, when a group of growers used crowbars to release supplies and U.S. marshals were called in to protect the waterworks, tensions have been high. Direct action gets the goods.
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