I've never had luck propagating lavender from seed, but plenty of luck from seedlings. I find it bushes out pretty quick (over 2-3 years). If you aren't having luck with seeds, I suggest buying starts in 2" pots and going from there. It's a perennial so you can get good deals buying and planting it in the fall after the normal gardening season is over. Some nurseries will unload their ugly stock at the end of the season for cheap.
I want the genocide to stop. There are different forces that could stop the genocide.
In a perfect world, the genocide wouldn't have started at all because it would have been stopped by the decency of the israeli people carrying it out. That clearly hasn't happened.
In a just world, the genocide would have been stopped through application of international law. However, because 
, institutions of international law are not stopping the genocide.
In a somewhat just world, the genocide would have been stopped through the resistance of the people being genocided. Despite phenomenal courage and some amazing successes amid the horror, those being genocided have not imposed a sufficient cost on Israel to stop the genocide.
In the unjust world we live in, where neither Israeli decency, international law, or the resistance have been sufficient to stop the genocide, the only thing I can see stopping the genocide is force. Iran isn't striking Israel to stop the genocide, but if their strikes either degrade Israel's ability to execute a genocide or draw their forces away from Palestine, then so much the better.
I don't celebrate these retaliatory strikes for their own sake, but because in the face of a sociopathic Israeli society, empty and racist international law, and resistance that to date has been insufficient to stop the genocide, they are the only foreseeable act that has potential to stop the genocide.
If you note the episode description, they recorded the episode after Israel's unprovoked attack and after that wave of drones was launched but before all the missiles.
he's a chud for sure but not as rabid as some. he's had a lot of good takes about ukraine-russia. his best are about military logistics imo
over the course of israel's last 20 months of rabid attacks, have they struck targets in iraq? I think so but I don't recall. I'm trying to figure out if they've hit 7 countries or 8 since oct 2023. I count palestine, lebanon, syria, jordan, egypt, iran, yemen and maybe iraq also?
for the general burger brained public, it's image, but there are legit opsec reasons to disallow strike footage. read some of @[email protected]'s posts - even just some person can glean a lot of information from simple pics/video. presumably when one is an analyst working as part of a team with state backing, there is more to figure out
Surge pricing for genocidaires
yes it's disappointing. 2 years ago as the genocide in gaza escalated, a western-iranian friend of mine was pretty anti-palestine and I was bringing them around to a more historically coherent, anti-genocide perspective. after the attacks yesterday I reached out to offer support and they've veered off into blaming religion. it's pretty disappointing. I can only imagine the level of iranian chud discourse right now. I hope that after the shock of this vile attack wears off that I can talk them around to a more materialist understanding that differentiates zionism from judaism
that nitwit ukrainian nazi/ukrainian nazi apologist came on the news comm recently and she was apparently a mod there? they're not sending their best, folks.
This is a good article on the challenges of a negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine. It is in the vein of winning the war but losing the peace. https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/after-victory
The jist of it is that despite Russian wins on the battlefield, there are tremendous impediments to a negotiated settlement that materially functions. One challenge is that the longer the attrition war continues, the less likely it is that ukrainian government exists as a functional state instead of a failed state. Another is that there is basically no amount of territory or attrition that is sufficient to realize Russia's stated security goals, especially in an age with cheap, effective, largely homebuilt drones. A third is that a lot of Russia's demands require non-ukrainian institutions to do something, and in political terms they are not directly party to the war (even though materially they are).
Thus “[Russian] victory,” even if defined in this very narrow way, actually turns out be a very complicated objective. In effect, three things are required. One is an authority capable of ordering surrender, a second is an actual decision to do so, and the third is the capability to enforce it. It’s not clear that any of these actually exist [in Ukraine] at the moment.
Hey I'm not saying it's just, just that nuclear war is bad
Could it have come from Azerbaijan over the Caspian?