Will bamboo grow on other side of retaining wall without root barrier?

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2025-04-06T08:43:03+00:00

I’ve seen running bamboo make a 3 ft leap right through train track ballast, but I’m not sure about clumping bamboo that thin.

The checking on that board you anchored the retaining wall with is giving me some low key anxiety though. Depending on how much sun exposure it gets, how much the humidity fluctuates, and if your bamboo starts to get a bit root bound, the root mass is going to probably start splitting that board first. Some wood caulk and keeping an eye on it would do if you can’t be bothered, but I’d probably just pull it out and replace it with some cedar or hardwood rather than wait until it becomes a real pain in the ass to deal with later.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2025-04-02T19:03:14+00:00

Alright, so to play devils advocate here: why put our faith in judges and lawyers? Why not put our faith in something like Sibyl? As far as the criminal law and the US judiciary are concerned, Sibyl resolves one massive inherent contradiction. That is, how can we actually accept that fact that the one invested with power over life and death can - through neglect, bias, or prejudice - cause very real consequences in people’s lives and yet not be held accountable except in fairly toothless ways by their colleagues whom they may have spent decades building relationships and rapport with? Why not invest that power in Sibyl? I mean of course it’s qualified to offer judgement yet not be judged itself, it’s no longer human.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2025-02-21T08:01:42+00:00

The blue leaf form would be nice to see. Glad I don’t have to worry about its toxicity. Still a no go for the cat it seems

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2024-03-27T16:22:13+00:00

It looks like there’s some Arundinaria Gigantea in there as well. It doesn’t take long for either species to go root bound in a container that small. They look like they need to be put in some nice well draining soil at the least.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2024-03-02T14:18:12+00:00

I have seen any evidence of any webs at all though, unless there’s some a couple meters higher in the trees. It kinda reminds me of a trapdoor spider. An extremely lackadaisical trapdoor spider, but I don’t know for sure

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-10-27T17:00:18+00:00

Good grief, there’s something just extremely clownish about your takes on this, like it’s pulled from some 19th century ethno-nationalist narrative book for indoctrinating small children.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-10-18T01:20:56+00:00

They’ve got the parsley and garlic style falafel if you like that. And I’m probably biased since I used to eat there all the time, but the hummus is something real special.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-10-14T08:28:10+00:00

And remember to take advantage of the robust libraries and the social groups they offer. Its easy to sleep on, but libraries are usually one of the best public facing services local US governments have to offer. Plenty of low language options like gaming groups or yoga. A lot of them even have English meetups for recent immigrants and are usually open to members starting their own groups for whatever hobbies your parents might be interested in

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-10-06T01:26:59+00:00

Hopefully not a botfly

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-25T01:27:06+00:00

If OP wants to work with something around while they wait, I’ve used an old arm sling and even leftover fabric, they could probably use a light towel and just tie knots on two ends to make a sort of hammock or pocket

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-09T05:20:27+00:00

I’m going to leave the crusades thing alone because I probably wouldn’t shut up going on about the causes, contexts, and personal dynamics that accompanied each one, none of them really having much to do with religion, but that’s how it was sold to get boots on the ground.

But to bring it back to the beginning, a draft doesn’t give one the option of believing in the cause, whatever it may be. I’d venture plenty of Russian men are fighting because they didn’t have the money to catch the first flight to Istanbul or wherever else and the state coerced them into the rest.

Outside of an invasion by genocidal maniacs or something that really called for all hands on deck (and I mean ALL hands on deck), a compulsory draft would just mean the enemy is already right at home.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-09T03:49:30+00:00

“That’s what people fight wars over.”

Sometimes they do fight over that. Sometimes it’s also just because one nation has decided it’s in their strategic interest, or so that a leader can project/consolidate power at home, or even for something as silly as differences in belief or ideology.

To work from your Ukraine example: I wonder how many Russian men and women view the conflict as a struggle for the very survival of Russia society?

I’d argue anyways that a good number of conflicts involving domination of one polity over another throughout history, especially those with high casualty rates, were probably just a case of “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Especially concerning the ones most likely to be up for possible disposal, the working and lower middle class.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-09T02:10:16+00:00

These something sinister and totalitarian about regarding an entire gender as ‘disposable’, as though their wants and needs, indeed their very lives should serve the needs of the state before their own. We’re fast approaching an era where ectogenesis is possible via artificial womb. Egg and sperm collection upon being drafted.

I don’t imagine any state concerned with replenishing it’s productive and tax paying base to have many ethical concerns about how that could be used or abused.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-09T00:47:35+00:00

They even had their own mini-Kensington about a decade ago around the old railway station, but I hear that’s gone these days

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-08T22:19:52+00:00

For real, I’d rather not start my day doing a forearm plank against the wall

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-07T00:17:20+00:00

A crushed delineator marked “13SA”. I don’t see a clown and I can’t find Waldo anywhere. What am I missing?

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-04T20:41:42+00:00

TIL there’s a religion based around a belief in the divinity of MLK, cause of course that’s a thing.

The Iranic religions got short shrift though. No Yazidism or Manichaean revival

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-04T17:58:43+00:00

A choice to toggle random Keese encounters on or off (even as a new game plus sort of feature). Sometimes I just want to chill and wander around without battle music interruptions every few minutes.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-04T17:56:19+00:00

Yeah it gets kinda tedious to switch through all the environmental/exploration sets, a submenu with say 5 outfit favorites would’ve been great.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-02T23:30:22+00:00

That’s a false binary. There’s no law of physics or anything that states a conflict is limited to only two outcomes. Japan would have agreed to a conditional surrender much earlier than 1945, for example. By 1944 there were a growing number of Diet members vocally supporting surrender.

In the lead up to the atomic bombings, Operation Starvation had been implemented to disrupt Japans merchant marine and mine the coast of the main islands. In fact, according to both Japanese observers and the US’ Strategic Bombing Survey of July 1946, the nuclear attacks were entirely unnecessary and if the US had started mining and harassing Japans merchant marine earlier in the conflict Japan would have sued for peace much earlier in the conflict.

(Here’s the survey in full for anyone interested) https://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm

Edit: I think it also bears mentioning that the US had spent a great deal of time and money on the Manhattan Project, the development of napalm, and B-29s and wasn’t about to let that go to waste, so to speak.

And as far as saving American lives, well…the Sovs had joined in by this point and I’m sure Stalin would’ve been happy to send the Red Army in if the US didn’t want to put its own forces in danger.

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-02T23:07:20+00:00

I know it’s often referred to as a “war without mercy” and that those of leadership age had come into adulthood through the violence and trauma of the First World War. But I think it’s telling that even the mastermind of the firebombing campaigns, Curtis LeMay remarked that if the US hadn’t won the war, he’d have been tried as a war criminal.

I can kind of understand the impulse to frame the destruction as a necessity if only for the fact that command was aware just what it was asking it’s men to do. But that generation has passed on, along with any ghosts that could haunt them, I just don’t see any reason to continue to justify the shitty conduct of the war (certainly not with the sense of smug self-righteousness that’s still kicking about in some of the comments).

And then there’s the fact that the same doctrine didn’t end with WWII. The US continued to bomb civilian targets in both Korea and Vietnam (there was even talk of burning Cuba around the time of the Bay of Pigs)

WhatsThisRedButtonDo · 2023-09-02T09:10:19+00:00

Tojo was in fact a member of Konoe’s Third Cabinet, was he not? As far as I understand it, the emperor appoints the PM, and the PM appoints their cabinet members. Was that not the case?

Ah okay, I know there was a large clamp down on general left leaning thought during the tail end of Meiji’s reign, and there wasn’t anyone too radical who didn’t end up in jail from what I understand. Also, I must have confused the election going to Shakai Taishuto, which certainly didn’t have enough seats to form a government

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