LanyrdSkynrd

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I learned a cool thing about oak trees. About every 10 years oak trees somehow coordinate to drop a much larger than usual amount of acorns. This is so that squirrels and other caching animals will store more acorns than they can possibly eat. This sort of tricks the squirrels to spread and plant the acorns.

If the trees didn't coordinate, or dropped the same amount every year, the population of caching animals would rise to an number that could consume all of the acorns. By separating by a decade, it ensures that any increase in population from the bumper crop of acorns will have receeded by time the next one comes around.

Nobody knows how they coordinate this. It's not on a set schedule like cicadas, and doesn't happen on the same year for trees in say, Maine as it does for trees in Virginia. It could be some kind of weather trigger, or even some kind of tree to tree communication.

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Dobson fly because you get to be a creepy looking hellgrammite and a big beautiful quad-winged fly.

My town has been converting old school buildings into non-profit housing. The two they've completed are really nice, they converted the playgrounds into gardens and green space, they're energy efficient, and they don't change the character of the neighborhoods they're in(not that I think that matters).

The biggest project yet is starting next year. It's getting pushback from reactionary dickholes because it's going to have, gasp, 30% of the units dedicated to low income housing. The "Muh property values!" dipshits would rather have a vacant rotting brick building in their neighborhood than have 10 poor families get affordable housing.

The stupidest part of this pushback is that this town is an absolute shit hole, it's one of the poorest towns in the state. It's has tons of low income housing as it is, it's just not subsidized. There are so many dilapidated multi family homes being rented by absentee landlords who don't pay their property taxes. The tenants live there because the rents are below market, but they have to move if something breaks, because these landlords are just syphoning cash until the town takes them for nonpayment of taxes.

It's accurate in describing how Google ranks pages, but it's been doing most of these things for ages. They are crawling everything AFAIK, but many pages get ranked so low that they don't show up in search results.

Part of the problem is that there's a whole industry of SEO(search engine optimization) firms that game the various algorithms Google uses to rank pages, making their clients higher in the search results. Which makes it harder for small blogs and non commercial sites to break through.

That's not to let Google off the hook, they're a monopoly that doesn't need to care about the quality of search. In fact it's in their financial interest to make search worse. They'll do better if it takes you more than one search to find what you're looking for, because you'll view more ads. They can also sell more ads if search is doing a poor job, because sometimes it's cheaper to buy ads than do SEO.

If Australian politicians fail to be lap dogs for the US, the CIA reminds them of that time they couped the Australian PM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

I've taken too much kratom and felt like my eyes were rapidly twitching side to side. Made my vision blurry and gives me motion sickness. I don't know if that's what you mean by "wobbles".

I take kratom every day. It's good as an opiate maintenance med, keeps me from getting back on opiates, and it helped me when I was in a bad depression. I just wish it had a longer half-life, it's inconvenient to take when I'm not at home and I'm looking for a job right now. I'm tapering off just so I don't have to worry about that hassle.

I'm kicking myself for not getting a Suboxone script when you could still get them via telemedicine in my state. I asked my psych about it recently, but they won't give me one unless I'm in active addiction and get a positive drug screen to prove it. Pretty dumb that the system requires me to have a relapse to get the meds to prevent a relapse.

You should put some systemic herbicide on the stems you cut, something with triclopyr. Vines store a lot of energy under ground, they will almost certainly come back and be harder to kill because they'll spread out.

I don't like using herbicides but this is one of those places where it will really help, and doesn't run much risk to other plants. Apply it with a brush to the freshly cut stems.

I saw this. It was crazy looking, but by the time I found a spot to take a pic it was already clearing:

If God had intended burgers to be square, he would have made square cows.

McDonald's burgers don't start very hot, so I'd imagine that's just as cold as the fries by the time you get it.

It shocks me people order that shit delivery. I get feeling lazy and ordering in occasionally, but if you're already paying the outrageous doordash fees, kick a couple extra bucks and get something good.