Ahh… Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.

Np, there’s companies who sell it as a wettable powder that you just mix in water and apply it with a sprayer. Works like a charm and doesn’t take much, think I bought a 25b bag like 4-5 seasons ago and it’s still at least half full.

Idk, if it wasn’t religion it’d be something else. Religion is a great tool to control populations, but it’s just one of many. Most human conflicts have a materialistic basis to them and things like religion or nationality are just used as window dressing.

I’d say the most destructive force on the planet is usually just rich/powerful dudes beefing over turf.

but do they actually let you have one?

Haha yeah that tends to be the real problem with the dill strategy. Typically if we actually want a dill for ourselves we’ll plant one in a hanging planter away from the rest of the garden, otherwise the greedy little guys will eat it as well.

We’ve also used fennel in the past as well, dill and fennel seem to be their favorite for some reason.

Ultimately, it was Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) which worked the best.

We’ve tried to step away from any kind of active pesticide, just because we get so many monarch butterflies where we’re at. Usually if they get on a plant we want to try and save we’ve had luck using kaolin clay. Which has a dual purpose as a sun protection during real hot summers.

A big GOP created “make work” program of security theater.

Less of a “make work” program and more of subsidy to keep the privatized airlines afloat.

Not sure how many people here remember the times immediately after 9/11, but a significant portion of the population were basically refusing to fly again for quite a while afterwards. Airlines were scrambling to get people to fly again and there were talks going around about them either going under or being socialized.

The TSA was basically a program meant to get scared Americans back on planes so airlines could maintain enough profitability to remain privately owned.

Lol, right?

My dad was in the Air Force so we moved all over the place, but whenever we were stationed in the South in the 90’s I would often be the first Asian person to ever go to that school.

Doesn’t really mean a whole bunch if the “normal levels” of empathy are inadequate to create a humane society.

This is why my garden has at least a couple sacrificial dill plants. A couple fat caterpillars can wreck a dill plant, the little guys love dill but it usually grows fast enough to satiate them until metamorphosis.

I think a lot of people get really attached to the plants in their garden and have a reflex to attempt to subvert nature by sanitizing it. But there’s an old rhyme that I like to remember when it comes to remembering that we are part of a working ecology, not the masters of it.

Four seeds in a row: One for the mouse, One for the crow, One to rot, And one to grow.

Basically, expect most of your plants to fail before harvest. That has been the expectation since agriculture has been a part of human existence. It’s only in modern times where we actually expect to reap all of which we sow.

i always assumed they were around much longer than that! /s

Not even a joke, but orthodox Judaism is an invention of modern times, and ultra orthodox Judaism didn’t come about until the early 1900’s and was popularized until after WW2.

Orthodox Judaism is only a couple hundred years let alone a couple thousand. It’s a modern practice and it’s ultra orthodox subsect is barely older than scientology.

There’s really no longer any kind of gatekeeping preventing people from just being a clown. The proof is in the pudding, you are a clown if you can do all the things a professional clown can do. Now turning it into a career you can pay rent with is the real challenging aspect, which is true of most performing arts.

My wife is in a professional dance company that focuses on aerial dance, and has performed around professional clowns in the past. If you want to just busk you don’t need anything but skills, but if you want to perform on stage or tour you will need to hook up with some kind of performing arts company or an artist co-op.

Same

The Iran situation only ended because America got involved.

Call me pessimistic but I don’t think the “Iran situation” is anywhere close to being over.

Israel was running out of air defenses and couldn’t establish air superiority over enough of Iran to stop Guerilla style launches

I don’t think air superiority was ever in question. If anything Israel might be running low on anti-air defense that currently allows them to strike without receiving any meaningful retribution.

When talking about achieving air superiority it usually refers to being able to provide combined arms air support for ground troops.

If the US ended support, Israel would have no choice but to capitulate and stop being a genocidal apartheid always picking fights in the region, or to activate the Samson option.

Maybe if it happens right now… but with trump in the White House I wouldn’t count on it. I think another three and a half years of support maybe enough to where they could mobilize to a wartime economy and commit it’s population to total war. Israel is currently trying to straddle a somewhat normal economy in the hopes they don’t spook the civilian population into unrest. But who knows how crazy they’re going to get in the next 3 years.

I mean, that’s a semantic dispute. Most genocides are perpetrated with the aims of seizing control over a territory or resource.

Pretty sure the real goal of Israel is to do enough damage so that even without the support of the US they can maintain control over the region.

With the recent attacks in Iran I’m not sure it will end even if America ends its support.

And there are some dudes who only want sex and aren’t willing to put any work into building an actual relationship outside the bedroom. My point being is that there are lots of different attitudes out there, but the vast majority of people are just normal people wanting healthy relationships.

I think social media has really segregated people from reality and has warped people’s interpretation of others. It feels as if everyone believes they are the last “normal” person in society and everyone else is just intrinsically antagonistic.

Not being a lazy bum or misogonyst is the bare minimum (as it should be).

Idk, just judging by any post containing gender discourse on Lemmy…seems to be a pretty big hurdle for a lot of dudes.

You have to jump over all of them. Everything below that and the other person will feel as if they are settling.

That may just be a product of being younger. By the time you get to my age both men and women seem to be wanting to settle down and are more likely to compromise with the idea of an imperfect partnership.

And if it’s not Rogan, it’s some other right-adjacent influencer. It’s fucking weird too. They’re regular dudes, helping old ladies on the street and supporting a neighbor. Then suddenly, they crack and share how terrible women are.

Yeah… Idk what it’s all about. A lot of the girls in the company have issues with dudes who like the idea of hooking up with a dancer, then as soon as they get in a committed relationship they want them to quit because they get insanely jealous of other people watching them dance.

The younger crowd of men seem to be super possessive and simultaneously believe that girls only have sex to get things they want and at the same time are massive sluts who can’t be trusted not to cheat…

They want something planned out multiple days a week and in exchange they’ll put up with you grunting on top of them.

Lol, women enjoy sex as well my dude. With an opinion like that it kinda sounds like you may be stepping on your own feet there.

I was lucky enough to get a speed queen washer dryer set on sale because it was a floor model. We’ve only had one issue with it, a water pump that was making a bunch of noise but was still functioning fine, they ended up swapping it out under warranty anyways.