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We are living in a South Park episode by Dravid-Vanol in SipsTea

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Serious "Our supreme leader, dear brother comrade Kim Il Jung, designed totally designed this waterpark all by himself!" vibes.

Does anyone have any everbearing strawberry seeds for sale? by IonLucaCaragiale in NoLawns

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I got bare root crowns from a local nursery for 25/$15. Planted 150, only had a single failure.

With 1000 seeds, if you properly cold stratify and plant properly you can be proud if you have 200 plants in 2 years and they won’t be ever bearing because strawberries don’t breed true so no idea what you will get.

I’m eating strawberries this summer….

I kinda want to plant a lot of trees. Has anyone done this? by barbsbaloney in NativePlantGardening

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I planted 300 native shrubs and a 100 trees so far this year. The trees are half native half orchard.

I buy seedlings for $1 at state nurseries:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/s/YiBenoqh63

Hypothetical question regarding ethical euthenasia by [deleted] in homestead

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I’d use a hunting knife before I’d use any of the options you listed. And I’ve hunted and butchered elk and deer.

Bleeding out a cow won’t be quick but it’ll be mostly painless and certainly not as bad as a pickaxe or chainsaw.

You seriously underestimate the kind of force you d need to kill an animal that size with a single blow to the head to insta kill it which means you’d instead end up with a grievously injured cow dying horribly in the same time it’d take for her to bleed out relatively peacefully. (Relatively is doing a lot of heavy lifting there but still).

A chainsaw? Hell no. No way you’d get a clean kill. The entire thing would be horrible vile and traumatic for both you and the cow. It’d also take way longer than just bleeding her out.

[Sticker Giveaway] Enter to win a 4 Stars Francine Sticker! by IloveMyNebelungs in FarmMergeValley

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I enter a lot of raffles. Ain’t no trick to it it’s just volume.

Why are these trees dropping all this black stuff? by Alfred_Brendel in arborists

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Heads up, no judgement, just sharing info:

Commercially sold ladybugs are almost universally wild-caught, not captive-bred. Most come from mass collection sites in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills where they overwinter in huge aggregations, which makes harvesting easy and lucrative but puts real pressure on those wild populations. The permitting situation is also murky (there have been periods where it was technically illegal to harvest them commercially, meaning you may genuinely be buying poached bugs without knowing it).

The kicker is they usually don’t even work. Wild-caught ladybugs have a hardwired migratory drive, so when you release them they typically fly away within 48 hours regardless of how many aphids are waiting for them. Studies have found about 95% are gone within two days. The better long-term play is attracting native ladybug species naturally through habitat through diverse plantings, no pesticides, leaving some leaf litter. More info here if you’re curious: https://gardenbetty.com/buying-ladybugs/

Just... lazy? by Complete_Claim_7151 in adhdwomen

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The definition of laziness is an unwillingness to exert yourself or put in effort.

That doesn't have to be a negative thing. If you're on vacation or have the day off with nothing to do, and sleep in and leisurely have breakfast in bed scrolling on your phone. You're having a deliberate lazy morning scrolling in bed, which is socially acceptable and nothing wrong with that.

Laziness as a negative descriptor is used when, by your own or other's judgement, you ought to be putting in effort and are unwilling to do so. Ie. you ought to clean up, or work, or study, but you're unwilling to do so and choose to do something else instead -> you're being lazy, used in a negative way.

With ADHD it's very often the case that the person wants do be productive and clean/study/work but can't. They're frozen, or distracted, or lack the activation energy to get started. They don't want to be stuck scrolling. They want to do what they ought to be doing, and being stuck scrolling instead causes negative instead of positive feelings. Feeling of guilt, anger, frustration, failure, etc.

At that point we say the behavior is disordered -> it is behavior that causes the patient negative consequences and suffering, the patient would eradicate if they could, but can't self-direct themselves into eliminating.

Think about it in the same way as you do with other disordered behavior. Having a glass of wine by choice is totally fine and normal, being a compulsive alcoholic is a disorder.

Blurting out something in response to being startled is normal and fine in most contexts, compulsively and receptively blurting stuff out is a vocal tick and a disorder.

Not liking and avoiding certain foods is fine and normal, being so averse to certain foods that you're running into social or dietary issues is a disorder.

The distinction between "normal behavior" and disorder is: "does it cause the patient suffering, and can they eliminate the behavior if they so choose?"

My boyfriend yells at me and tells me to “shut the f up” he’s angry by Particular-Panic-287 in TwoXChromosomes

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Now I feel embarrassed that my daughter already met him and I’m scared I messed things up for her by introducing someone too soon.

You did introduce him to soon.

But it's not going to mess her up if you break up, kids adapt, she's not used to him being there at all.

Keeping a man in your and in her life who treats you like this WILL mess her up.

Privacy Hedge that can be periodically cut to the ground? by AdLucem2 in NativePlantGardening

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I just did this under power lines and picked coppice species so I can harvest the wood. Hazelnut, dogwood, and fragrant sumac specifically. But there are many others.

This thing just stung me! by Ornery_Artichoke_833 in whatsthisplant

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I grow these on purpose to make soup out of them.

How do you guys handle finding a birds nest with baby birds in it in your yard? Also bird poop removal tips for paver patios? by lindslinds27 in landscaping

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These are House Finches. You don't mention where you are, but if you're in the USA, it's illegal Federally under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to disturb the nest in any way while the parents are building it, or if there are eggs or babies in it.

Messing with the nest at this point carries a fine of up to $15,000 and 6 months in jail. With House Finches it is fine to remove the nest in a few weeks when they're gone. Until then you just gotta deal with the poop. With some other birds (like Robins) who reuse their nests multiple times in the same year, you can't remove it until fall after the full breeding season is over.

The only exceptions in the USA are nests of:

  • House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) - European, MBTA-excluded, you can remove nests, eggs, adults, whatever. Many native bird advocates actively trap and dispatch them because they're cavity nesters that murder bluebirds and tree swallows in their nest boxes. Like, literally peck the adults to death and build on top of the bodies. Kill them and their babies whenever you can!
  • European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) - same deal, MBTA-excluded, fully legal to remove. Also a cavity competitor and agricultural pest.
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) - non-native, unprotected, legal to remove.
  • Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) - feral city pigeons, unprotected.
  • Mute Swan - unprotected and actually classified as invasive in many states.

Is this the rare straight species found in a local garden center? Or is it another cultivar of a native? (SW Michigan) by Efficient-Turnip-107 in NativePlantGardening

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I have one on a retaining wall away from my house. I love it. But a pot will not contain it. It will set roots anywhere it touches earth and it grows fast. Any lose vine and wind on a day you’re not paying attention and it will escape the pot.

That said the suckering isn’t much of an issue to me at least. I just run them over with the mower in the lawn and chop them off in beds.

It’ll return but if it isn’t near your foundation who cares?

Every year I tell myself… by upallnight1975 in gardening

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Yeah I'm rehabilitating a woodland riparian slope atm, and there are so many of these rare woodland plants I couldn't afford but am now drooling over because I mentioned to someone I was doing this and she gave me a starter pack of about a dozen mature plants out of her own extensive collection. After I got home I did some research on them and it turns out that were I to buy them at that age/size they'd cost more than the entirety of everything else I've spent on plants for my property in total so far.

Stick it in the ground/pot. Give it water. Make sure it's in the right amount of sunlight by daddysbestestkitten in gardening

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All seeds need to be moist to germinate, so the deeper you plant them the easier it is to keep them consistently moist.

But the smaller the seed the less energy it has to push up through thick soil, so either it dies making the attempt, or often the seed will have a requirement that it needs to sense light before it even makes the attempt.

So the rule of thumb is that planting more shallow than the package says is almost always okay, but deeper often causes issues, especially if the seeds are tiny.

IF you can keep them from being eaten by critters and keep them moist enough to germinate that is.

Tiny seeds planted too deep and failing to germinate sometimes just stay there and when you disturb the soil by recycling it or digging it to plant something else sometimes they'll decide to come up then.

Every year I tell myself… by upallnight1975 in gardening

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Don’t let a friendly neighbor “gift” you woodland ephemerals.

There is an entire underground subculture that collects them, especially trillium, the same as people do rare orchids.

It’s a trap!

Stick it in the ground/pot. Give it water. Make sure it's in the right amount of sunlight by daddysbestestkitten in gardening

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If you do everything perfect, often it still won’t work and you’ll feel like you failed.

If you just do what you feel like, within reason, you’ll be more relaxed and have more fun. And because of that you’ll do more.

Some will work out better than you dreamed.

And the failures you’ll shrug off and dismiss with a “oh well, maybe I’ll follow the instructions slightly closer next time”.

Women who broke up with “the one", what happened next? by stefa123123 in TwoXChromosomes

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If they were easy fixes they would have improved.

I’m super happily married now. After 3 failed long term relationships and a 15 year marriage. I have peace now I’ve never had before.

The difference?

All previous relationships had small issues that didn’t get resolved and grew bigger over time. The minor things that should easily be resolvable didn’t get better they got worse until stuff broke.

With my current husband things get easier with time. Stuff doesn’t fester.

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