Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers. Cacti are native to the Americas, and are well adapted to arid climates; however, they are still vulnerable to alterations in precipitation and temperature driven by climate change. The plant has been introduced to parts of Australia, southern Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa.
Prickly pear alone is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the fruit, but may also be used for the plant itself; in addition, other names given to the plant and its specific parts include tuna (fruit), sabra, sabbar, nopal (pads, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli, nostle (fruit) from the Nahuatl word nōchtli, and paddle cactus. The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus. The fruit and leaves are edible. The most common culinary species is the “Barbary fig”
Opuntia is regarded as an aggressive invasive species.
Distribution
Like most true cactus species, prickly pears are native only to the Americas. Through human action, they have since been introduced to many other areas of the world. Prickly pear species are found in abundance in Mexico, especially in the central and western regions, and in the Caribbean islands (West Indies). In the United States, prickly pears are native to many areas of the arid, semi-arid, and drought-prone Western and South Central United States, including the lower elevations of the Rocky Mountains and southern Great Plains
Opuntia species are the most cold-tolerant of the lowland cacti, extending into western and southern Canada.
Prickly pears produce a fruit known as tuna, commonly eaten in Mexico and in the Mediterranean region, which is also used to make aguas frescas.
Prickly pear fruit for sale at a market, Zacatecas, Mexico
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Some asshole thought he’d be white knight for Walmart and accused me of stealing.
I was doing a gig app delivery order and for some reason this prick was just standing in the self checkout area. When you do the orders you scan the items as you go and then go to the self checkouts and scan a barcode, bag the stuff and leave. Pretty standard stuff, even regular customers can do that as a scan&go order.
I hear this dickbag whispering to the woman he’s with while I’m bagging. Then when I start to leave he jumps in my way and goes, “Really?! You’re just gonna steal all that?”. I told him it was already paid for and a delivery order, pushed past him and left.
Why would anyone care that someone else is stealing?
This woman I work with complimented my fashion sense. It’s a small thing but it made my day.
Just had some opuntia yesterday. Also, unexpected find in Mexico City from this morning enclosed.
On a related note, my Spanish is really bad and I want to correct that. Does anyone know good places on the internet to use and practice Spanish?
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Realizing that my bare minimum effort at work is apparently above and beyond what other people are doing? So glad I stumbled ass backwards into basically working alone instead of having to work with these people regularly and fix their fuck ups.
Just what I learn from being forced to sit in on their meetings makes it sound like a constant shit show.
Had a liberal tell me that I am “purity testing” Bernie Sanders for not calling whats going on in Israel a genocide. I really feel there’s no point talking to these people unless its in person or you have a relationship with them
I really feel there’s no point talking to these people unless its in person or you have a relationship with them
I mean, pretty much, yeah. Think there’s a circle of trust effect, where people close to you are easier to sway even when they differ greatly from your view, and people online tend to be impossible to move from their position. At least if the discussion is at all formal, passive consumption of low effort content does seem pretty effective in shaping opinions online.
got passed over for yet another job, very cool and not at all pissing me off!
can someone ping me in the news bulletin when the US formally enters the war, I’m stunlocked refreshing the thread and i gotta take a break
Periodically I think back to a forum I was on over a decade ago, where someone had as their signature a political compass style 2x2 diagram. X-axis was technology, Y-axis was freedom. Lower left was “Egalitarian Hunter-Gatherers”, upper left was “Medieval Theocracy”, upper right was “Orwellian NWO”, lower right was “Resource-Based Economy”, with a historical trajectory in that order.
Though it always felt contrived, with a couple of changes it would be a lot more rigorous. Axes of “social development” and “material development”, with stages of primitive communism, slave society/feudalism, early and late (financial) capitalism, and advanced communism.
Sitting down in front of front loading washing machines with a big foam finger that says GO LAUNDRY hootin’ and hollerin’ watching the clothes spin around getting washed
Forming a fan club around which laundromat we like the most
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Liberals are just conservatives now, claiming that free bus service will cause violence.
The dems have wanted to be 90s era Republicans for sooooo long
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I got the job evening be excited
