Fevers always work out great for me. I’ll be all shivery and crash under a pile of blankets. Wake up a few hours later, soaking wet, I mean really, truly gross, and it’s over, all better.

What are the population densities and technology levels among these magical indigenous peoples? This is the Magical Negro trope all over again.

Those are nothing compared to the damage done by other means, not even worth the sweat.

I laugh if that whole thing started again in this thread.

Discworld science right here.

I used “cubiclewombatpoop” as an example of a solid password in my security presentation. :)

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I want to know what lifting it is like. Say just a beer can of volume. Depleted uranium is freaky dense!

Math may be off:

7kg

15.4lbs.

Freaky!

That line was actually Trump being his narcissistic self. In context he’s saying, “Nobody knows how important magnets are but me.” And then he mumble fucks around about magnets being in everything.

Somebody whispered in his ear that China halting rare earth exports is going to fuck up a broad range of industries. His dementia locked onto, “Magnets good. China has magnets. China no give magnets.” He then goes to mumbling how he’s threatening and begging Xi.

That also explains his idiot rant to our Navy in Japan week before last. He’s explaining that we need to get away from magnetic aircraft and ordnance lifting systems and go back to steam.

He’s trying to explain all this without admitting that he poked the tiger and the tiger poked back.

We don’t have them in NW Florida, but I dated a girl down south, and yeah, they fall out of trees when it gets cold (for Florida values of cold). She told me about this and I couldn’t stop laughing. “Seriously?! They just plop in the yard and on people’s heads?!”

Anteaters also seem pretty popular with mammalian evolution.

Time lapse video on those things are a trip. They expand noticeably by the hour.

There are fewer everything. I’ve commented on the ecosystem collapse many time, don’t have the energy any longer.

At least my yard is coming back. Our house is the reason the block has frogs, dragonflies, etc.

Huh.

Here ya go.

Look buddy, I’m a simple man, I can follow the first one just fine.

The staple foods we’ve chosen to cultivate are all energy dense. Overheard a client talking to another guy he hadn’t seen in years, “Yeah, got diabetes. Can’t eat any white foods. :(”

That really got me thinking. Rice, potatoes, wheat and corn. The core desirability is energy.

Add something like beans to fix nitrogen and add missing nutrients, you’re all set.

Always wondered if women were naturally not as good at math as men or if it’s a social construct. Easier to believe the social construct thing, but there are differences in how we think. Hell, there are differences in our very vision. But math? Dunno.

What’s the latest science on this? Anyone? (And yes, I too can find articles supporting any view I choose. Got any solid science?)

if the other land-owners around don’t do it as well

My fight with fire ants in the South. Insect populations have tanked over the last 4 years, but the fire ants are on the rampage in the surrounding forest. I poison my neighbor’s yards, it’s still a non-stop fight.

For any Southerner’s coming along; I don’t use any insecticides or herbicides except hydramethylnon. Yeah, it costs more, but a little dab’ll do ya. Amdro is a popular brand name, not sure who else uses it.

Totally different ecosystem here in NW Florida, but I am also getting great results. 75% of the yard hasn’t seen a lawn mower in 2 years, the 25% that has is still fairly wild. Lots of wild plants, lots of non-native but compatible plants, plenty of surface water. We planted a few “ponds”, 150G and smaller. Thought they would take a year or two to take off. NOPE. The 150G I buried last spring was teeming with life in 2 weeks. Maybe I cheated by throwing water plants, from the river and creek in there, along with their native mud. :)

We’re the only house in the hood with; frogs (deafening last spring), hummingbirds, pollinators of all sorts (forgot to make a bee hotel this year), dragonflies (hope to have shitloads when the adults come after 2-years underwater), fewer mosquitoes, butterflies, can’t remember what all.

The insect population is worse than it was 4 short years ago, drastically worse. That scares me more than anything I’ve seen. Even in the hundreds of acres surrounding the hood, not much, not like it was. Hoping I can turn things around in my tiny part of the world.