It’s less that Santa is on strike, and more that his sleigh is quagmired in a foot of melted permafrost

Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.

Like most unnecessarily-gendered things, this thinking falls apart under the slightest hint of logical scrutiny…

That privilege is heavily dependent on your maintaining a strong garlic harvest. The first year that slips (or your basil/oregano perform too well) you’re getting downgraded to nonbinary. Then there’s a three year grace period before you’re sent straight to full-blown woman. So make sure to fertilize your alliums well!

Traditionally it’s been similar to cooking:

Farmer/chef? That’s a man’s work.

Gardener/home cook? That’s a woman’s work.

Fortunately we’ve got shows like the Great British Bake Off and a myriad of popular YouTube gardening and home cooking channels featuring men to help shake this up, but sadly it’s still something that’s seen as gendered by way too many folks. Still, if spicy peppers and cacti (and on the cooking side dishes like pizza) help get insecure men in the door, that’s great. But I’m with TTF: it may not be a strong stereotype, but I’ve also observed it.

You only need to plant sorrel in your garden once. It’s the ultimate volunteer crop. Quite winter-hardy too, and perennial, plus it tastes like lemon. Halfway between an herb and a green.

First glance def had me thinking this was gonna be tampon related

Fascinating article, definitely worth the read. OP you should include it in the main post!

Top-of-my-head identification attempt, approximately left to right, top to bottom:

rhododendron, iris, milkweed(??), mushroom (???), trillium (?), can’t tell too obscured, narcissus(?), no idea, columbine, too obscured, no idea, random forest shot

Bothered me as well so I went and looked it up, because sometimes animals I associate with North America are present in Eurasia too.

Northern cardinal range:

So definitely a North America exclusive, and it seems all cardinals, the Cardinalidae family, are New World birds. Stupid meme made me go learn something.

(Also “desert cardinal – Hungary” should have tipped us all off that the country assignments were random)

Live in the US? Have a yard or balcony where you can grow plants? Then you should check out the Xerces Society’s plant lists for recommendations re: plants to support pollinators in your geographic region.

https://xerces.org/publications/plant-lists

For the curious, the original text says “cute” in Japanese (the infamous “kawaii”)

c/SocialScienceMemes

(Does this exist? It deserves to exist, if for no other reason than to encourage heated debates over where psychology memes should go)

Check pharmacies; most have been replaced by chains, but some independent pharmacies are still around, and will have a number of home staples.

Ethnic markets in general are a good option for finding locally-owned shops, but they’re going to differ in terms of what staples they actually carry.

To add to this, the “default” for a three-character ensemble in circa 90s kids media was: one (white) boy, one (white) girl, one (non-white) boy, for a 1:2 gender/race and 2:1 “diversity” ratio, which made the media feel diverse (back then this was generally considered a good thing) while still making male and white the default. In other words, a win-win that still was a setback to true diversity. Examples: Wishbone TV show and Harry Potter (if you count ginger as non-white).

Someone didn’t watch the Star Wars prequels

I haven’t seen a TV ad in years; who’s out there talking about Pueblo?

For NM I’d say Roswell; 5th largest city (48k population) but well known b/c aliens

Crazy thought, but what if it differed by industry? Something like blue collar jobs get Monday off, white collar gets Friday off. That way office workers can for example more easily stay home to get their cable serviced and plumbers can more easily meet with a mortgage agent. Obviously because of overlap it’s not perfect (office workers can’t meet with mortgage agent, plumbers can’t get their cable serviced), but there’s a huge issue currently with people working 9-5 M-F being unable to access services that are also only available 9-5 M-F, so this would at least distribute things a little more. (This kind of thing already exists for some industries like restaurants, where W-Su workweeks are common)