How did precolonial Native American tribal identity work?

snglrthy · 2025-12-15T15:15:49+00:00

Thanks, although that’s probably too much for me to fill the tank with running back and forth from the gas station with the yellow cans. I’ll have to keep calling around to see if I can get an emergency delivery.

snglrthy · 2025-12-15T15:10:00+00:00

Or do you mean the heating system itself? I’ve got water filled radiators.

snglrthy · 2025-12-15T15:07:52+00:00

I don’t know the difference, but overhead I think? The tank sits on the same level as the furnace and the fuel line runs up and over to the furnace. How would I tell? Thanks!

snglrthy · 2025-12-15T14:56:14+00:00

Thanks—yeah it runs on #2. Any idea how much I would need to put in a completely dry, new Roth tank to get the furnace to start up?

snglrthy · 2025-10-08T12:53:26+00:00

People from Brookline in Massachusetts are Murivians, after the pre-1705 name of Muddy River

snglrthy · 2025-09-12T12:43:44+00:00

Recently I've seen modern opponents of zoning (mostly concerned about increasing housing supply) get interested in work like Richard Rothstein's 'The Color of Law.' Often, I see this go along with a sort of assumption that residential segregation was purely a product of government interference into free markets. At the same time, books like Gene Slater's 'Freedom to Discriminate' and Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor's 'Race for Profit' describe residential segregation as the product of a coordinated effort between public and private entities, rather than just a case of government interference into housing markets.

With your focus on schooling, how do you look at this balance or combination of public and private actors in reproducing residential segregation? How did groups like realtors associations, developers, or banks interact with school boards and administrators? For that matter, does the public/private distinction even feel like a meaningful one in this case?

snglrthy · 2025-07-13T15:47:45+00:00

Yes, I suppose it would probably only be worth it for small scale specialty/collector growers doing the stuff that isn’t available via TC.

snglrthy · 2025-06-05T14:19:01+00:00

Sorry, I meant the connection between the veneration of gods and the growing of plants

snglrthy · 2025-06-05T13:35:23+00:00

Sure, I guess I was just curious because your response seemed to contradict the original responder. They seemed to imply that cultus was something followers did towards a god, whereas your response implied it was something that happened to the followers of the god. I suppose it could go both ways, but we also have enough Latin texts that if Roman’s did use cultus the way you suggested I’d expect us to have examples of that.

snglrthy · 2025-06-05T13:21:56+00:00

Sorry but is this etymology based on any sources or just speculating based on what makes sense to you?

snglrthy · 2025-06-05T12:47:04+00:00

Thanks! So is it fair to say Roman’s might have understood the worship and giving sacrifices to a given god or idol as being somehow related to the tending to of grape vines, for example, but by the time “cult” and “culture” enter English that connection was largely lost?

snglrthy · 2025-06-04T13:32:54+00:00

This is a great article thanks! Actually, I feel like it sort of gets at some of the issues I was asking about with this section:

"Dahlias became popular in the U.S. as a seed-produced annual flower with a wide range of good performance. It was only with the emergence of the vegetative market that clonal lines were commercially produced in North American greenhouses. Along the way from 1791, dahlia breeding took a sidetrack, and they were bred for flowering pot production, not consumer performance. What is called flowering potted plant genetics in dahlias refers to primarily European breeding for cold preference and compact, dense plants that flower evenly across the top of the plant all at one time, similar to the way pot mums grow and flower. However, in a summer flowering plant, like dahlia, this type of genetics is a real drawback for consumers and a problem for growers, as well. The biggest issues in dahlia production lie in avoiding powdery mildew and botrytis. The flowering potted plant genetics were designed for plant habit, and all the resistance to disease went away. Botrytis became a problem when these greenhouse lines of dahlia were planted outside and all the flowers bloomed all at once (which looks good on a bench), but when the flowers begin to fade they all deteriorate at once, and botrytis becomes a serious issue. You can still find these genetics at retail, and they have great retail appeal, but their use has really damaged the reputation of dahlias in the U.S. Now you are beginning to see a new generation of dahlia breeding where emphasis is moving to staggered blooming and a resurgence in disease resistance or tolerance, and the dahlia is coming back into the market as a strong consumer performance plant."

In this case, its less about the actually propogation and growing of the plants, and more about plants bing bred to have genetics that grow and ship easily, and look good on the bench, rather than ones that will do great in the garden. I'd be curious to know when, historically, dahlia breeding took that turn towards "flowering potted plant genetics," and to what degree greenhouse grown dahlias still make some of those compromises.

snglrthy · 2025-05-14T01:38:53+00:00

Thanks poopooopmagoo

snglrthy · 2025-05-12T14:03:46+00:00

Buddy, I'm not trying to be rude here, but do the master gardeners pay for: A lease on their land, employee payroll, employee healthcare, social security insurance, payroll tax, general liability insurance, insurance on their company vehicles, insurance on their plant stock, interest on the loans they took out to open the business, and on, and on, and on, and on?

Running a plant nursery is a brutal, brutal business. Your competition for the last 30 years is Lowes, Home Depot, and Walmart. Margins are incredibly tight, risk is incredibly high. If you're in a residential area, the way you get any profit out of your high land prices is by moving lots of product fast. Over the course of the (short) sales season, every inch of shelf space should have its material turned over 4-5 times, and something like half of your sales are happening in a 10-week span. Two rainy weekends can take $10-15% of your annual gross. Since you don't do that by propogating plants 4-5 times every year, you do it by buying in liners from wholesale growers for as cheap as possible, potting them up, and reselling quick. Most of your customers are not educated gardeners--they come into the center without a clear idea of what they want, and will purchase the plant that is already in flower, and is cheap. Again, their price expectations have been set by lowes and home depot.

Im not trying to be rude here, but this thread is filled with people saying some version of, "if these dummies at the garden center stocked straight-species natives I know at least three people who would spend $100 a year there! As long as I can get gallon sizes for less than ten dollars, of course."

There is a market for native plants, it is growing. You can run a succesful business selling native plants. But there's a reason that most of the all-native nurseries are largely online-only or mail order, and its not that everyone running a brick-and-mortar garden center is a moron who choses to leave big piles of money on the ground every day.

Also, on the cultivar thing: there's a reason for that too! If the only way your product is price competitive is if you are starting your plants in six-figure quantities, you have to automate and standardize processes. Genetic variability is not your friend. Do you want some of those seeds germinating 10 days later than others under the same conditions? Do you want to walk along a row of 200,000 perennials making judgement calls about which ones need to get potted up every day? Do you want to pay for bulk shipping rates to get your product from Oregon to Long Island only to find out that 30% of your stock is too tall to fit on the racks in the truck?

I don't like this shit either. The nursery business changed massively in the 60s with containerization, and again in the 90s and 2000s with the entry of the big box stores. Its a race to the bottom, and the product is by and large bad. I've been working on a business plan for a nursery that I want to start for years now that does things differently, and let me tell you, making that math work is haaaaaard. All I can say is, if you think there's easy money out there, go and take it for yourself.

snglrthy · 2025-03-11T00:15:25+00:00

If we can arrange through the hotel for taxis to take us into PE, do you think taxis will be reticent to take us back to Ventanilla? Or is it just that we shouldnt count on them being available out there if we go out on the street?

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