My succulent is flowering! There’s something about it that makes me think little shop of horrors. I don’t normally grow succulents, was gifted a little tiny bit a couple of years ago, left it on the dashboard of my van and it thrived. It’s outdoors now for the summer and seems to be loving it

Yeah you’re spot on, we all gotta work with what we have. I know people who have no growing space at all but do kind of guerrilla gardening stuff in public spaces. I’m lucky really that I have room for plant pots. Yeah no worries I’ll do some updates.

Thanks for reminding me of that! Yeah I’ve had some success with copper in the past, more than I did with beer traps etc. I’ve also tried planting suicide crops - marigolds are a good one, slugs fuckin bee line to marigolds. But I’m never quite sure if this distracts the slugs from my sunflowers or if my marigolds bring all the slugs to the yard!

Yeah maybe I should try copper again next year, don’t have any copper wire right now so I’m just trying to put pots with vulnerable plants high up where slugs gotta work for it until the plants are well established. A mature sunflower has a kinda hairy stalk, anti slug protection. The challenge is keeping them safe until they reach that stage.

Tbh I feel like last winter was too mild and didn’t knock the slugs back hard enough.

Lol that is not a new joke. Part of my family comes from a travelling community, and I first started living in vehicles maybe thirty years ago. You can joke, but it’s more sustainable than bricks and mortar. My electric is solar, my heating reclaimed wood. No part of the land had to be concreted and built on so that I could have a home. It’s not right for everyone but I believe in sustainable community living and I put my money where my mouth is. You?

“I’m a criminal and now black people can relate to me!”

FFS

It’s to prevent a small child from falling arse-first into the crapper and causing a blockage.

Oh well.

This used to be the case with glass bottles in England back in the 80s. Seemed to work well, certainly I and a lot of other kids used to return as many of those bottles as we could to supplement pocket money. These days all the bottles are plastic and there’s no returns policy.

A pretty early chatbot called Eliza simulated a non-directive psychotherapist. It kind of feels like they’ve improved hugely but not really changed much.

Well no, not over. But it’d be a good start.

Do they want to burn her at the stake for witch craft like it’s fucking 1724

That is a bit further down the path they’ve started down with criminalising abortion. They’ve got to decriminalise violence against women before they can actually start burning them. They’re getting there, though.

Yeah, this is why capitalism should be treated like a dangerous dog and kept on a short leash. It can kind of work out for a while when a government restrains it, ensures that legislation exists and is enforced to protect workers, the environment, and consumers. Strong unions are a good sign. This never seems to last though, because the governments get bought eventually.

You’ve just solved drowning for humanity, you’re a genius! Imagine how many could have been saved if only someone could have thought of that millennia ago.

Really? Wow, that’s high grade scum.

Europe isn’t depending on the US for their defense. The countries in Europe have their own militaries and two - three if you count Russia - are nuclear armed. They just don’t have as high a percentage military spending as the US does. Many of them prioritise stuff like healthcare for their populations.

True, that. Building mutually supportive communities is really beneficial if shit goes bad. It’s something most of us can do on a local level and it’s something most humans are pretty good at.

I am still furious about Brexit on a personal level. Freedom of movement was amazing. It meant that I could just decide to go live and work in an EU country whenever I wanted. I had previously used this to spend a couple of years in Spain and maybe a year in France. I’d been planning a move to Portugal when Brexit took this away from me. All those opportunities gone because of dumb fuckers who didn’t even realise we had them. Ignorant bigoted wankers. Goes without saying I voted remain. I’d be delighted to rejoin, and if it means we adopt the euro that’s fine with me. It won’t happen for at least a decade though, and at my age that’ll be too late for me.

I don’t think he’s capable of just shutting the fuck up. Like his daddy trump, it’s physically impossible for him to stop gibbering out bullshit.

It is not a terrorist organization to go out and cause terror and trouble.

Did you not notice the events that started this recent shit? Hamas certainly engages in terrorism, as does the IDF.

Breed them and produce an asshole in perfect homeostasis.