“"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in #California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin #Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.
California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and recyclable.”
The plastics industry is thrilled their financing of these legislative programs. The elimination of “single use” shopping bags now means people who need poop bags or small trash can liners now need to purchase bags that can cost many times (IIRC, 30x) more.
@GottaLaff really wish they’d ban the thicker “reusable” plastic crap. Nobody reuses those that I’ve ever seen. If you’re gonna reuse bags people get decent ones. I’d rather the option was paper.
@Snowshadow Someone in replies called me out for publicly spotlighting trolls after I block. I explained why I do, am currently waiting for a mansplain.
This was after someone else told me it was "uncool" to have spotlighted 1 who told me Voter ID was 👍🏼, even after I explained in detail why it was 👎🏼. He didn't think I was fair bc the guy was, he said, a conservative farmer who barely toots. I told him conservative farmers understand my reply as well as anyone. The "farmer," btw, was suspended
So you shell out 8 of your own hard-earned dollars to buy a recorder and then spend two and a half weeks practicing the theme to the Rockford Files just to surprise the co-host of the Two Hundred a Day podcast only to find out that that SKYPE FILTERS OUT THE SOUNDS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!
@cavedueller I just ordered an alto! I wanted to see if I could get through this one song before I commit to another instrument, but I definitely hunger to be less squeaky.
"To my friends in Nebraska, that one electoral vote could be the difference between Harris being president or not and she's a disaster for Nebraska and the world" -- Lindsey Graham on Meet the Press calls for Nebraska to change its election rules before November 5 https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DAORx-8ArIH
This study challenges previous assumptions about orchid seed dispersal. While birds were thought to be the main dispersers for Cyrtosia septentrionalis, civets may play an equally important role. Civets' larger home ranges suggest potential for longer-distance seed dispersal compared to birds. This research adds to growing evidence of diverse seed dispersal strategies in orchids, highlighting the complex interactions between plants and animals in forest ecosystems.
Suetsugu, K. (2024). Further evidence for endozoochory in a mycoheterotrophic orchid Cyrtosia septentrionalis: seed dispersal by the masked palm civet Paguma larvata. Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13718
Or read free on ResearchGate: https://botany.fyi/z9w80c
While Russia has been bombing Ukraine every single day, we have now been discussing whether Ukraine is allowed to bomb military targets inside Russia for 942 days.
@SJohnRoss Ugh... there's no quicker way to ruin a candid camera show than adding "narration." It's even worse when the TV network picks the dullest, most unfun person they can find to do said narration.
“House GOP leaders unveiled plan to keep govt funded for 3 mos after Speaker Johnson’s opening gambit to avoid shutdown failed due to oppo from GOP
Contin’g resolution, result of bipartisan negotiations in House & Senate, wd keep govt funded at current levels thru Dec. 20—setting up a holiday funding fight
The 3-month timeframe is shorter than opening offer of 6-mo stopgap..notably excludes Trump-backed measure requiring proof of citizenship to vote” https://apple.news/AWbjng007SM--QW8pcgKFTg
@Esoteria@horror did you finish season 2 yet? You could hurry and then when season 3 is done you could get the free trial of MGM through Amazon and binge watch before your trial ends.
The secret to human and planetary survival is an immediate about face over land use. This entails dismantling billionaire wealth networks, especially when it comes to land. Paving over part of the planet and sterilizing half the earth’s land mass for industrial food production is a central driver of extreme weather and is sustained by burning fossil fuels.
Basic plan for the rose beds is to predig the holes, build a small retaining wall (out of landscape timbers) that I'll level out to create the beds, put some gravel into the filled holes and prep them to be lined when the roses go in (box method), fill with mixture of the (hard) clay soil, planting soil, composted manure, and coir.
That'll let me then run the irrigation system over it easily enough. To install that I'm going to need to dig a trench -.-