My problem is that I never have it in me to thin seedlings aggressively, so depending on the plant, I might end up with a few seedlings in a single cell. For example, I planted 12 cells of a particular variety of pepper, and I ended up with 23 sprouts. Rather than kill them, i separated them into new cells, and now i have 23 plants. As I prune things like tomatoes, I stick cuttings into water, so those are multiplying, too.
Tamara Rubin is a grifter with no expertise who bought an XRF gun to use to scan random objects as fodder for her blog where she gets money from affiliate links. Her wikipedia page talks about a few of her financial crimes. I wouldn’t worry anything she puts out.
he had used gender-neutral names to the point where it was never clear, but also didn’t matter anyway.
He almost does that. He uses a lot of made-up scifi names that aren’t obviously gendered, but then point out that the character is male.
He does get a lot better over time, though.
Yeah, I think he actually admitted that he didn’t really know any women when he first started writing until he met and then married his wife, so he avoided writing them. It is weird though cause his writing style (from what ive read) is not very character focused, anyway, so a lot of his male characters could easily just be declared female and no one would spot the difference.
Multiple people recommended it to me and wanted my opinion of it, but all I could say was “I’m glad you enjoyed it”.
I like a lot of what ive read from him, and he had a lot of views that were ahead of his time (on social issues as well as scientific), but he absolutely could not write women. You could read full length books of his without a single named female character.
the book you HAVE to read to understand why Americans from the flyover states like Trump and why they would vote for him.
It sorta does that, but indirectly, I guess? To me, it was all about what’s not in the book. It was marketed as being written from the perspective of “omniscient narrator explaining why those people are the way they are”, but really it’s more “unreliable narrator explains his worldview”.
I read it probably around the same time as you, and it really just made me angry more than anything because basically the whole thesis is “poor people are poor because they are dumb”.
The fact that Purdue pharma made a pill that they claimed would last for 12 hours, when it was more like half that, so people had to either take them way more frequently (or take way bigger doses at 12 hours), and then proceeded to sell them to towns in Appalachia by the hundreds per capita is never mentioned.
There’s a whole bunch of structural problems that he just breezes by that he probably should recognize (cause I do think he’s probably intelligent), but your average person from the region may not. Basically, it’s just propaganda.
It’s fun irony to try to have a bunch of angsty teens read a book about an angsty teen. I bet it would come across very different to read it as an adult.
Forestry management is a fascinating topic.
Many commercial forests are treated like row cropped “farms”. If you are looking to grow a bunch of trees with straight trunks that grow quickly and all become harvestable at the same time, a tree farm is the way to go.
I have no true numbers to point to (though I’d love to see some), but you could imagine that if you needed to go harvest 1000 trees to send to the mill, and you have to find them in a non-plantation forest, you might have to search through 50 times as much area to get the trees you need. Logging equipment causes a lot of disturbance to underbrush, so you might get less impact on the environment as a whole by just dedicating a smaller area to the crop.
It’s the same reasons why we plant food crops in rows rather than intermingled in a forest.
Similar to food farms, tree plantations often take species from completely different geographic areas, so it’s important not to treat, for example, radiata pine plantations in new Zealand as wild spaces because they are no more wild than cornfields.
There are different styles of management for different purposes (e.g., pulp wood, construction lumber, hardwood) and the goals of the landowner (e.g., a logging company may want to maximize long term production, while on your own property, you may want to maximize continuous biodiversity).
There are also considerations for terrain and local climate. Hilly country may have bad erosion risks if there is a clear cut. Fire risks play a part. Wildlife may even benefit from clear cuts depending on the situation.
The act that they performed this under is the “International Emergency Economic Powers Act” which allows the president to declare a national emergency and take some other actions if there is an:
unusual and extraordinary threat… to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States
It specially says the powers:
may not be exercised for any other purpose
The Powers include:
(1) At the times and to the extent specified in section 1701 of this title, the President may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise— (A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit— (i) any transactions in foreign exchange, (ii) transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to any banking institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments involve any interest of any foreign country or a national thereof, (iii) the importing or exporting of currency or securities, by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; (B) investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and.[1] © when the United States is engaged in armed hostilities or has been attacked by a foreign country or foreign nationals, confiscate any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, of any foreign person, foreign organization, or foreign country that he determines has planned, authorized, aided, or engaged in such hostilities or attacks against the United States; and all right, title, and interest in any property so confiscated shall vest, when, as, and upon the terms directed by the President, in such agency or person as the President may designate from time to time, and upon such terms and conditions as the President may prescribe, such interest or property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States, and such designated agency or person may perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or furtherance of these purposes.
Noticeably absent from that list is tariffs. Under the major questions doctrine, the fact that congress did not specifically delegate that power to the executive branch means that it did not do so.
They actually can’t take tariff powers away from him because he doesn’t even have tariff powers. He has power over the people who would collect tariffs, and he has instructed them to collect them.
The end result is the same, but I think it’s important to keep noting that he can’t legally do this.
It’s like instant pulled pork
I think mint just likes to be constantly moving into a new frontier. I can keep it going in a pot year to year, but it gets super root bound. If I pull the plant out of the pot, and chop it into thirds with a shovel, and repot, I keep getting high harvests.
brings back a good degree of manufacturing
The idea that manufacturing ever “left” is propaganda. Union factory jobs have gone down, but the US is producing more than ever. They just want to dangle the carrot of good jobs over people who don’t realize those jobs have been automated.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2583/industrial-production-historical-chart
Deer have lept fences and climbed stairs to get to my plants, and they’ll eat anything, including stuff that’s supposed to be “deer resistant” like tomatoes.
Pipikaula is the Hawaiian equivalent to biltong, and it’s really good.
“Meat floss” is a disgusting name in my opinion, but it’s the translation of the Asian equivalent of machaca.
That’s actually the original way chili would have been made. Vaqueros would have access to salted, dried beef, and dried peppers.
I’ve made pemmican with peppers in it, and rehydrated while camping. It worked out all right. I ended up adding cornmeal so the fat didn’t end up like an oil slick on top. I could basically melt it down and dissolve the cornmeal into it before adding water.
Married women would have a tougher time meeting proof-of-citizenship requirements if they took their husbands’ name
Yeah, that all definitely sounds reasonable to me. It’s just weird that if that’s the point the article was trying to make, they should have supported it a bit.
This article mentions that they are trying to disenfranchise people with the citizenship proof requirements, and it also mentions that they specifically want to disenfranchise women, but it doesn’t draw a connection between the two. In order for those to be connected, women would have to have more difficulty in producing that proof than men (which may be the case, but the article doesn’t show that).
To actually answer your question, though, at least from the conservative women I’ve talked to, they are fine with that. The conservative women I know are weak, and they essentially want to give up responsibility in exchange for freedoms. They actually want women to be second class citizens because it means that they don’t have to worry about anything (but they do have to just do what they are told).
There are old, conservative women who spent their lives as housewives who feel threatened by working women, so they want to maintain/go back to the status quo of women staying in the home (ignoring the fact that working class women have always worked). On the other hand, there are young, conservative women who do work, who yearn for the pretend vision of white, upper-middle class 1950s, where they get to just stay home and do what they want all day.
TL; DR: They essentially want to be like children, worry-free in exchange for less freedom.
P.s., there are definitely plenty of conservative women too stupid or unwilling to admit to themselves that the conservative position is women as second class citizens, but I wanted to respond with the perspective I’ve heard from people who seemed to be more honest.
Wow, someone actually explaining the problem correctly. I’ll also mention that part of the fix should be on the demand side. Using your home as a thermal battery can load shift HVAC needs by hours, and with a water heater, it works even better. That’s not even talking about all the other things that could be scheduled like washer/dryers, dish washers, EV charging, etc.-
And before anyone bothers you about the impact of turning fields into solar farms, I’ll add that we (the US) already have more farmland dedicated to energy production (ethanol corn) than would be necessary to provide our whole electricity demand.