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Yeah I have friends in San Jose and Methdesto they say the water situation is pretty grim. Not exactly a concern here.I’m planning on setting up an automatic watering thing on the balcony, but that’s more to do with laziness than water conservation.

Basically my situation is that I have to start plants inside and get them up to a decent size by mid may. I then have until mid September at which point growth is basically at a standstill due to the cold. First hard freeze usually comes in early October.

They’re always up to shit like that. They like derailing cargo trains in Scandinavia too.

It’s also very satisfying growing things up here that really aren’t supposed to grow here. I’m going to try growing watermelon this summer.

Ok where I live is essentially a town built into the wilds and every spring the wilderness threatens to reclaim the streets. The sea, however is heavily polluted from commercial shipping and tourism so cutting down on things brought in from other places is more of a burning issue for me. The local farms supply all the meat and potatoes you could ask for but, pretty much all veg is shipped in from places with longer growing seasons. The chillis I buy are grown 2000 km away for example.

Meadowscaping is just not gardening. A more environmentally conscious idea is to grow your own vegetables, to cut down on the fossil fuel used to transport food and reduce the amount of money going to agribusiness.

Even if you don’t have a garden, you can grow things like tomatoes and chillis in pots if you have a window that gets good light. Anything you can grow yourself helps.

Fucking Russia.

Not if those chonky frontline dogs have anything to say about it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The most fucked up episode of robot wars so far.

Because Russia doesn’t go after strategic targets. Only civilians and because (at least in Europe) the vast majority of people fucking hate Russia. Especially countries that share a border with them or used to be part of the soviet union. Nobody hates Russia more than Russians who have managed to get out though. I had a russian colleague who basically gave up on seeing his family until after the war was over and he has no intention of ever living there after.

Because whatever causes it, it’s a difference in synaptic connectivity that can’t be medicated or trained away. The only effective way to remove autism from society is removing autists from society and that’s exactly what rfk jr wants to do.

Kek

Fuck all most likely. You’d have to have an extremely steady hand and do it as the plane was landing. But the pupil of a pilots eyeball is an extremely small target.

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I’m no Marxist. I’m also not American. But I’m pretty sure it’s more about the erosion of human rights and the rise of an autocratic regime. Shit looks pretty bleak for Americans. To get an idea of what’s coming next Elon musk and Donald trump want to follow the insanity of Curtis yarvin. JD Vance and Peter Thiel want to follow project 2025. Neither end well.

As a European, it actually saddens me that America has gone this way.

The left have been warning about exactly what’s happening for years. Practically screaming it into traffic. Noone has listened, noone has taken us seriously, noone has thought to actually stand up to the oligarchs.

After a while you have to stop treating them like children who don’t know better and come to the realisation that they want the cruelty and oppression. They just don’t want it to happen to them.

Once the extrajudicial deportations start, anyone still onboard with it is by definition hostile and an active supporter of fascism. These people can’t be reasoned with.

Pretty sure it’s not about money.

I’m pretty sure the rise of fascism has a tendency to get the left riled up. So technically you are correct.