Unfortunately, the problem is that the Americans who think America is better than everyone else and are always shouting it from the rooftops, are also mostly the people who think Trump is great and will approve of just about anything he does uncritically.
A lot of us are super fucking embarrassed about the way our country behaves and vote against it every time we can, it's just unfortunately a very difficult battle and the way our elections works makes it a bit easier for Republicans to win at the national scale, generally.
Yeah, they're both pieces of shit but Trump is fundamentally pretty lazy... remember when he rode around in a golf cart when he met with the G7 and they walked through Sicily?
Musk is doing a great job of taking the flak for super unpopular shit that Trump wants to do, AND he seems like he's actually motivated to put in the work.
Municipal worker just means you work for a municipality (i.e. a city/town that has its own local government). Waste management, city hall workers, people that maintain local parks etc could all be municipal workers.
You could call them wastefighters?
Have you eaten any fruit off your yuzu yet? It's about the only edible citrus I can grow outdoors in my area. I've thought about giving it a shot, but I'm also not psyched about the idea of spending years growing a tree just to realize I don't like the fruit! I used to live in Japan, really should have tried it while I was there. Much harder to find in America I think.
I also have an Apple TV and like it a lot. It's the only Apple device I use regularly, I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy, just heard that run well and there was a specific app they support that I wanted so I went with that. Only thing I dislike is the remote. God that touch pad thing is awful. My wife says she thinks it's because my hands are big, but idk. But other than that, great experiences with it overall.
And do what exactly? Having militaries intervene on political processes doesn't have the best history of turning out well.
Unless I misinterpreted your argument, it seemed like you were justifying this practice based on the fact that other animals besides us inflict pain and suffering on other animals. If that is the core argument, then to be logically consistent, you'd have to also be ok with us doing everything else I mentioned.
Animals also rape each other (and sometimes other species), kill the children of other fathers, urinate and shit wherever they want... To be logically consistent, you're also arguing that all of those things are fine for us to do too.
Every tech product update: "Exciting news, we've now incorporated AI!" Me: Cool, how do I disable it?
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Being able to grow mushrooms legally would be fucking sick and would make the next four years a bit less shitty.
Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.
Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps--the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven't been to in a while.
I'm having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I'm very skeptical.
More like spend the two days catching up on chores and honey-do's. Mostly the only time I feel fully rested after a weekend is when it was a three-day weekend.
I'm working on converting my entire yard to natives eventually, so I'll make sure to get a bunch of seeds or plugs for it when I do. Joe pye is so awesome. Absolute butterfly/bee magnet.
Have any of you seen hollow joe pye (Eutrochium fistulosum) in the wild? It gets absolutely enormous, I've seen it 8-9' tall and supposedly it can exceed 11' in height. I want to get some for my garden but I suspect unless I really crowd it like it would be in its native environment, it'll get really tall and get knocked over by the wind.
I remember wanting to be a forum mod when I was like 15 and thought that it would make me cool on the forum. As a grown adult... no way. I am so busy between work, grad school, and my personal life, I have no time for such silliness. I have a lot of respect for mods that donate their own time to run communities.
Indoor/Outdoor Cats
There are native mice all over the place. Yes, some are introduced/invasive, but there are also plenty of native ones too. If you live in the Americas, here's the subfamilies they make up:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_rats_and_mice
Mice serve as food for animals like owls, hawks, falcons, snakes, skunks, etc. Cats killing these animals' prey makes it harder for them to find food.
Indoor/Outdoor Cats
Humans are not an invasive species. We migrated to everywhere we currently live. Invasive species are usually defined something along the lines of being a species that was introduced somewhere (by people) where it didn't previously exist and is harmful to its new environment. We meet the harmfulness part of the definition but not the introduction part of it.