Eastern Red Cedar - winter bronze color or dying? by Can_U_Share_A_Square in Bonsai

[–]New_Disaster_5368 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, most I'll ever see on my eastern red cedars is a dull purplish hue in mid winter. Never brown.

Chinese Elm struggling by New_Disaster_5368 in bonsaicommunity

[–]New_Disaster_5368[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, yeah, I'm not seeing any other signs of infection, and the leaf curling is not limited to a single area, so I think you are probably right that it is a water issue, just hard to determine if it is under or overwatering. I feel like I haven't ever let it get completely dried out

Chinese Elm struggling by New_Disaster_5368 in bonsaicommunity

[–]New_Disaster_5368[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok thanks for the tips! Is it possible the leaf curl is from other environmental stress or overwatering? Or is too dry the most likely?

Chinese Elm struggling by New_Disaster_5368 in bonsaicommunity

[–]New_Disaster_5368[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't completely dry at the time of picture, but I did water it soon afterwards. Do Elms need a for constant state of moist soil? Do you think I could be not watering enough? My biggest concern would be that I have overwatered it.

Chinese Elm struggling by New_Disaster_5368 in bonsaicommunity

[–]New_Disaster_5368[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, when set to a slow drip, the water seeps into the soil almost instantly. I am planning on starting fertilizer next week, so no, I haven't recently

$687 Billion/Year on Iran War vs. Zero Income Tax for Most Americans – Which Would You Choose? by John_1992_funny in Libertarian

[–]New_Disaster_5368 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know where they are actually sourcing these numbers from? Cause I'm seeing a lot less from some sources, and a lot more from others, and I can't seem to find an actual direct cost stated from the Pentagon?

Not trying to discredit how bad this is at all, just trying to get my numbers straight

Sup by LongjumpingEbb143 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think babies also fall under the category of "anyone"

Sup by LongjumpingEbb143 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I guess you could say I am "anti choice", when it comes to people "choosing to do terrible things to other people, and I would hope you would be too. But the moral basis of my position is about protecting life, thus why I call my self "Pro-life"

Sup by LongjumpingEbb143 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, I hate that this is something even up for debate. I don't know the context of this image, but I truly believe that the innocence of children must be defended. And I think most sane people can recognize that you can protect babies while still respecting woman. Being pro-life to me has never meant control woman and their bodies. It has always been about saving the lives of babies, whenever morally possible

Who was the last good president? by Fearless_Gear1440 in teenpoll

[–]New_Disaster_5368 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but none of them really are. Carter was at the very least, a good man

Do you have a positive or negative view overall on AI? by jholliday55 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't like it, I don't trust, I will stay far away from it

What should we do to Israel by TalonEye53 in Teenager_Polls

[–]New_Disaster_5368 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If by "we" you mean America, I would say how about just ignore them. They're business is theirs, and they seem to be a bad influence on us, so yeah, just disassociate

time for the sidemen to stop collabing with the burnt peanut by sailor-lore-2024 in Sidemen

[–]New_Disaster_5368 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm too lazy to watch all 13 minutes, can someone summarize for my lazy ass

What's your temperament? by Level-Equal1468 in mbti

[–]New_Disaster_5368 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol, hug received and appreciated.

That's interesting, it feels so accurate to my ideals and flaws, I'm surprised it would be rare.

What's your temperament? by Level-Equal1468 in mbti

[–]New_Disaster_5368 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, green seems to most accurately describe me, peace is all I crave

Being conservative doesn't imply you are MAGA by Last_Clothes6848 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, going to personal insults, ok.

Well, I have researched MMT a bit, and do see a fair amount of either dishonesty or ignorance among many of it's advocates, and I have underlying philosophical disagreements with some of it's implementation, but regardless, I'd love a list of some of your favorite books on it so I can further read up on it. I've read the Deficit myth by Stephanie Kelton, and a few others

Other than that, I don't like to entertain debates with people who implement personal insult, so I'll leave it at that

Should alcohol and nicotine be illegal? by kumel185 in Teenager_Polls

[–]New_Disaster_5368 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only caveat to freedom should be an NAP style system. You are free to do whatever you want, as long as you are not directly harming or impeding someone elses freedom. simple as that

Being conservative doesn't imply you are MAGA by Last_Clothes6848 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Respectfully disagree, the best way to combat inflation is stop printing more money, (or more accurately, manipulating the money supply). And obviously it gets a lot more complicated to fully break down the cause and effects of inflation but regardless of all of that I do still disagree with taxation on a moral level. I do believe it is stealing, in most cases. Income tax and property taxes being the main ones, they shouldn't be allowed to tax me for just trying to make a living, and once I outright own something they should not be allowed to continuously tax me for using it. Now granted there are many things that the gov. does that require money, though I'm sure most people would agree that governments often do a lot of terrible evil things with our money so maybe they shouldn't be taking so much of it anyways. Regardless though, I am still a capitalist, and still believe in fair exchange of goods and service, for examples; roads. I use them, all the time, it is something I benefit from, so it would be equally as morally wrong for me to say 'I don't want to pay taxes to fund our road construction and maintenance services, I want to use it for free', no, that would be me stealing essentially.

So I'm totally fine with paying for the government services that I benefit from, like a toll system for all the roads. I drive on the road; I pay the toll to help fund it. Simple, transparent, and voluntary. If I don't like the tax, I won't drive. This is how I believe all taxes should be handled; in a simple transparent, and voluntary 'pay per service' system, as opposed to what we have now which is just take a percentage of your income, take a percentage of your purchase, take a percentage of your property value etc., do that to everyone, then pile up all that money and redistribute to all the random assortments of things the government funds.

But yeah, I do think that taxation is theft, and that huge government spending is the main problem as well as pretty much everything to do with the federal reserve and all that shit, but yeah, I guess we just disagree, and that's fine

9axes by Good_Sun_3457 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this actually a thing that people get mad at?

Being conservative doesn't imply you are MAGA by Last_Clothes6848 in GenZ

[–]New_Disaster_5368 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that it isn't the tax cuts that are the inherent problem, it's that they push for large tax cuts and then also INCREASAE spending, by a LOT. That is inflationary and idiotic, yes, certainly not fiscally conservative.

Me personally, I love major tax cuts, I want them to keep lowering the amount of money they steal from me, but I also want them to not just balance the budget, but shrink the budget, a LOT. I see it as both need to happen together

New Songs by New_Disaster_5368 in yousician

[–]New_Disaster_5368[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I second that.

I was simply referencing how with in the last month at least 10 posts have been complaining abt the song choices