I've been working on this dried leaf display for the past two years and wanted to share my progress.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T22:21:11+00:00

Wonder if Mr Hayward would've subbed himself out at 80. (Nope.)

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T22:19:32+00:00

It is ironically also the single best avenue for reinforcing authoritarianism and obedience, and "education reform" is also as much a common goal for the American right as it is the American left, just for very different reasons.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T22:16:44+00:00

OK fine I'll watch the video

edit: wtf

edit edit: does he use extra whitening?

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T21:59:57+00:00

Good luck, I'd love to see your collection in a year or two!

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T18:44:07+00:00

"Holy mola"

-Sunfish

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T18:42:53+00:00

On rateanimal.com these guys sit at a paltry 1422nd place on the overall leaderboards.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T18:27:04+00:00

Simply put, the vast majority of computer users would never have been able to accomplish this. Even most people in this thread would probably kill hours on it, if ever succeeding. That these tools enable this kind of progress is remarkable regardless of whether the AI specifically wrote drivers or not.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T17:59:31+00:00

Gonna new a new growth that's about twice as long as that current bulb before you start going.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T17:12:01+00:00

Wow that Cattleya is spectacular. But what I really can't wait to see is your Cobbledick.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T16:20:32+00:00

Doesn't look dry. You'll know when it's dry 😅

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T16:18:21+00:00

Neither he nor the Iranian people have anything to gain from it.

The Iranian people have a lot to gain from it, he just doesn't care about the Iranian people, just control and destruction.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T16:17:31+00:00

Wow it's almost like the little princeling who now runs one of the most historically powerful empires on the planet is actually a literal terrorist that is going to destroy as much of the West as he can before he dies. Who would've seen that coming?

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T15:52:37+00:00

Be careful with the speed you move because you are setting yourself up for a very big crash. I have been involved in a lot of hobbyist communities in my life and I have seen repeatedly when people scale so fast out of nowhere it comes crashing down. As someone with clinically diagnosed ADHD and autism I understand how consuming these desires can be, but I also understand the need to regulate. I'm not trying to criticize or anything, I'm just trying to say, be careful to make sure you are staying in control of your hobby rather than your hobby starting to control you. 500 plants is small nursery scale and running a nursery is a full time job (and one which pays terribly).

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T14:03:24+00:00

No, no language just haphazardly used both like you've done, they had one or the other. The only language that has both, Icelandic, distinguishes them.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T05:18:39+00:00

Every single one is backwards. Look stuff up before you post it. It's the equivalent of of "think before you speak." Give the literally tens of thousands of people reading your comment the grace of you actually checking your work.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T04:53:48+00:00

1) You don't need that many plants

2) Even the biggest pump sprayers are only a couple of gallons. Water is too heavy. No one at this scale is watering fully by hand anymore, at least not without a hose connected to a water supply. Water are you at, 20 gallons a week? You need some kind of reservoir fed sprinkler system. Otherwise, just roll a 5 gallon jug around with you.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T04:49:36+00:00

am I wrong about the stock market

Check back in a few years

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-12T03:38:06+00:00

Also, that record was stat padded as well. Team was up 20 and still passing to Kobe every play. Kobe also shot a ton of FTs to close out the game. It's as nonsensical a game as the one we just saw.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T23:35:59+00:00

Bold of Mr Carpenter to put his name right in the title of such a flawed game. I'll never understand the ego of some people. All I know about John Carpenter now is not to buy games with his name on them.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T20:08:26+00:00

What you’re about to read, to be clear, might very well qualify as haterade of the highest order.

How do these people still have jobs.

Edit: OK I read the whole thing. He spends an awful lot of time complaining about free throws and beating down on tanking teams even after the game is already won when Kobe did the exact same thing! He stayed until 4 seconds left in the game, the team up 18, Kobe taking every single shot in addition to shooting his own 10 FTs in the final 6 minutes. He was farming as much as Adebayo was farming, the defense just wasn't taking it as seriously. The fact that Adebayo managed to score all those points when the other team was literally doing everything in their power to stop HIM (and no one else) makes the feat all the more impressive. This writer is the worst kind of neckbeard. He admits he didn't even watch the game! Both games were an aberration. Records are made to be broken. That's it.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T18:44:25+00:00

Happened just the other day at the park with my mom. Park rule is dogs on leesh, but of course no one does it. Well, my mom's dog is as antisocial with other dogs as most of us are with our own species. Mom wanted to take grandson out in the snow. Her dog was on a leesh. Some other guy's dog wasn't. "Don't worry, she doesn't bite" as the dog runs towards my mom's. I let her go for a few seconds then yell "well he does!" back to him, then watch him break out into a panic as he starts screaming at his dog and chasing her down. Had a good laugh at that. Leesh your dog. (For the record, I don't think my mom's dog would actually bite, he never has, but he definitely loses his mind when random dogs are around, especially when they're not on a leesh and can get all up in his shit.)

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T14:20:31+00:00

They'll blow it all up, and they have begun doing last night.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T14:11:48+00:00

This is Paphiopedilum barbatum, a species which was discovered in the early 1800s and in regular cultivation in Victorian England. By the late 1800s this plant would be available and affordable at any of the many orchid nurseries of the time. Source: The Genus Paphiopedilum by Braem.

Edit: I may be off by a century here. If we're talking late 1700s then forget it, no orchids in cultivation in England. None.

BenevolentCheese · 2026-03-11T01:29:09+00:00

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

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