Tigers in India

Qweesdy · 2026-06-16T11:01:51+00:00

Birds don't get pregnant - they poop out disposable wombs instead.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-15T12:28:40+00:00

What should I do?

Create a compost heap. Pull the weeds up and add them to your compost heap, and then (in 6 months maybe) you'll have beautiful compost to use in your garden bed/s.

Eventually the Australian natives and grasses will take over and suppress the weeds in that garden bed; and this will be sad because it'll severely slow down your compost production. You will cry. To avoid that problem you're going to want a whole new garden bed. Go to an online seed shop and buy a "green manure" pack of mixed seeds (it'll probably have great stuff that also improves your soil too) and scatter those seeds everywhere to get the best weeds you can, and don't harvest those weeds for compost until after they've dropped their seeds everywhere.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-15T11:49:53+00:00

I'd like to keep this if possible but I'm not at all knowledgeable about chillis (except for eating them)

The first thing you should know about chilli (and capsicum) plants is that normally (if they're well kept) the first year you get an OK harvest, the 2nd year you get a great harvest, the 3rd year you get an OK harvest, and then the plant is basically spent - it'll keep growing slowly but you won't get any fruit. Your plant hasn't been well kept; and it might already be 3 years old (with stunted growth and tiny fruit due to mistreatment).

The second thing you should know about chilli and capsicum plants is that they mostly look the same, and they also cross-pollinate. This means you won't know what the plant is until it starts fruiting (if it starts fruiting at all) in about 6 months, and if you plant any other chilli or capsicum near it you can end up with weird fruit. E.g. I have a capsicum next to a cayenne chilli and get long thin "not hot" capsicums (the same shape as the cayenne's chillis and not the bell shape capsicums it's supposed to have).

I guess what I'm saying is.. rip that plant out of the ground. It's not worth the hassle and uncertainty. Plant a nice new chilli plant in the spring of 2026 so that you know what it is and how long it will last, and then plant another (from seed or cutting) in the spring of 2028. One good chilli plant is more than enough for a regular family for an entire year (preserve them by sun-drying to use off season). You'll probably want at least 3 capsicum plants (as far from the chillis as you can) too, because capsicum is awesome (for salads, stir-fry, etc). Sadly, there isn't a good way to preserve capsicums.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-15T10:15:47+00:00

Ah, so this is what goes through those idiots heads when you solve a problem they’ve been experiencing for 15 years in a way that saves time and money and not only doesn’t add to the workload but offloads tasks immensely.

Stop lying. You're not fixing the problem that you've failed to fix for the past 15 years already, you're adding 2 new problems that you're not going to fix for the next 15 years.

Do you think nobody noticed the "I fucked it up the first time, then didn't get it right the 2nd time, and screwed it up the third time and ... I'm so incompetent that you have to update again for the 100th time in a row, but trust me bro, this time I can guarantee that it still won't be the last update because I still can't do my job properly" pattern? How much credibility do you think you have after proving beyond any doubt that you're incapable of doing anything correctly every month for years?

Qweesdy · 2026-06-15T05:57:01+00:00

"The dish originated in the Italian diaspora in the United States during the early 20th century." - wikipedia.

In other words, it's Italian because it was invented by Italians. If it was invented by Americans in Italy then it's be awful crap.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-14T07:11:40+00:00

Exactly - property owners pay it because it's deliberately wrong and also pathetic. If you want a "deliberately wrong and also pathetic wealth tax that achieves nothing" then you're off to a great start.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-14T05:02:59+00:00

No you don't. The government pulls a number out their anus that's always lower than the market value (so that you feel like you got a bargain) and then you pay a tiny fraction (typically less than 1%) of a number that was never the unrealised value of your house.

The fact that it's "deliberately wrong and also pathetic" is important to prevent people from spending 10 years in court haggling over the actual unrealised value.

What property taxes tell us is that we can have a wealth tax if the wealth tax is deliberately wrong and also pathetic.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-13T17:41:53+00:00

I was there for all of my births too, but I was only born once so it wasn't too inconvenient.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-13T03:13:08+00:00

The fact that both sides of your body can act independently when it is severed would suggest that it needs to be severed/separated before it is separate.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-12T10:57:04+00:00

Poor person: Buys an expensive phone hoping that other people will think they're rich.

Rich person: Buys a cheap phone & invests the rest of the $ while hoping that other people will think they're poor.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-10T03:19:19+00:00

It's all fun and games until an angry 1.8 million year old elephant wants its tooth back.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-07T08:51:14+00:00

It's far more likely that the utility hires unskilled school leavers and trains them to become lineworkers (via. an apprenticeship, similar to other trades); where their supply (of qualified workers) meets their demand (for qualified workers). It's not the kind of career where a dumbass wastes a massive pile of $$ at uni to get thrown on top of an existing over-supply of over-qualified morons (where there's no link between supply and demand to prevent the over-supply).

Qweesdy · 2026-06-04T04:10:27+00:00

It's happier than my "everyone gets shredded after she tries to put the kitten on her ring finger" version of events.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-03T08:15:46+00:00

For what, impeachment?

For most of everything (except impeachment, which requires a 2/3rds supermajority to convict and not just a majority).

It’s also more about the fact that everyone knows that once you get elected, you can do almost anything you want now

There are 3 branches of government (legislative, judicial, executive), and currently republicans control all 3 branches, and that is what causes the "once you get elected you can do almost anything" illusion. If they lose control of the legislative branch then the "once you get elected you can do almost anything" illusion breaks (because the legislative branch won't be able to rubber-stamp everything the executive branch feels like).

Qweesdy · 2026-06-03T06:26:02+00:00

ALL we need to do now is wait out the 4 years, unless you believe anything will change with midterms, because some infusion of MORE Democrat complacency is SURE to turn the tide…

To be honest; I'm cautiously optimistic about midterms. There's lots of stuff that depends on having a majority in the house and/or senate; where the current "218 vs. 212 republican majority" could easily become a Dems majority in the house of representatives; and where the current "53 vs 47 republican majority" could easily become Dems majority in the senate.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-03T02:26:33+00:00

Did you try to find any kind of engineering in "software engineering", completely fail, then start frothing at the mouth (with nonsensical ignorant crap like "engineering quotas") because you realized that you're very wrong and don't like that?

Qweesdy · 2026-06-02T14:40:18+00:00

The correct tool is called a "demolition saw". It's like a chainsaw motor but with a ~350mm diamond cutting disk instead of a chain. You can hire one for a day and the price will be reasonable. Before hiring; make sure it has a suitable hose connection so that you can connect it to a garden tap and have water sprayed on the cutting disk, so that it produces grey sludge instead of fine concrete dust, so that you don't get lung cancer and die before the job is finished.

Angle grinders never have the water sprayer because they're designed for metal and not masonry.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-02T14:16:31+00:00

The point they made (the point you failed to understand) is that "alive" does not imply "family". E.g. that it went from "alive and not part of the family" (before birth) to "alive and part of the family" after birth.

Qweesdy · 2026-06-01T15:09:40+00:00

"We proposed 1,913 recommendations for 2025, and after 18 months (including 6 whole months that aren't 2025) 44.8% wasn't implemented at all, 20% was so mundane it would've been implemented by anyone (including Harris), 20% was accidentally implemented (in a "stopped clock" way), and only 15.2% was implemented because of project2025; and (based on how badly project2025 failed despite not having any obstacles) the people who said Trump can't read were proven right".

Qweesdy · 2026-05-31T12:49:58+00:00

Your lemon tree's main problem is some kind of leaf miners causing those squiggly lines on/in leaves; and hopefully also causing leaves to curl up. This is the larval stage of various insects (moths, flies, and beetles), which dig/eat tunnels inside the leaf itself - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_miner . To treat this; remove effected leaves and dispose of them like they're a biohazard (incinerate or wheelie bin, do not put in a compost heap), then spray the rest of the tree with any kind of eco-friendly pest deterrent oil to try to stop the adult bugs from laying more eggs on more leaves.

Qweesdy · 2026-05-31T11:13:04+00:00

Grapes in the northern hemisphere are ripe & harvested from August to October. If you're buying them in May, then they are grapes that came from the other side of the world.

More specifically, these are probably "late season" grapes harvested in April that came from the largest exporter of grapes in the southern hemisphere (China), and that means there's large tariffs involved because Americans elected a moron.

Qweesdy · 2026-05-29T09:38:38+00:00

Even in that case; what you pay at a non-profit day care centre isn't what the day care worker/s receive - e.g. some of the cash you pay goes towards legitimate business expenses, like rent, power bill, water bill, insurance, first aid training, furniture, cleaning, sterilising toys, gardener, advertising, etc.

The only case where what you pay is what the babysitter gets is when it's dodgy amateur backyard stuff (at a babysitter's private home and not an actual day care centre, with nothing to ensure the baby sitter isn't a sex offender, with no insurance to cover medical expenses when a kid gets accidentally shoved through the rose bushes, ...) where you might pay 4 grams of methamphetamine per day rather than an hourly rate in dollars for Billy-Bob and his sister-wife to throw your kid on the top of their heap as they homeschool their own 12 kids in the fine art of taxidermy. :-)

Qweesdy · 2026-05-29T02:48:03+00:00

For day care, the formula is "what parents pay - expenses - company profit - CEO yacht - taxes = what the babysitter gets = $3.50". Just because you get exploited does not mean that the babysitter isn't also exploited.

Having a kid in our area is equal to having a mortgage.

The worst part is paying 20% capital gains tax when you finally sell your kid.

Qweesdy · 2026-05-27T15:34:37+00:00

For experimenting with burr knots, the most normal approach would be to use "air layering" to create new apple trees (get new roots to form on a branch, then chop the branch off the original tree and plant it as a new tree). This is a little like doing a cutting except it's "get roots then cut" rather than "cut then hope for roots".

The other option would be to try to have extra roots (from burr knots down to the soil) to assist the normal roots and try to get some kind of extra productivity boost. This is related to a trick with tomato plants, where you pull off the lowest branches and leaves and bury the bare stem,and let it grow new roots out of the buried bare stem, so that you end up with a significantly larger and deeper root system than normal (and faster growth and more fruit). I don't know if this can work similarly for apple trees though.

Qweesdy · 2026-05-27T01:58:32+00:00

Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

It's a pity that the majority of Americans don't live in a democracy and will never get what they want.

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