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it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything:
a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance")
b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure)
but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table
learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting 
I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair.
I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! 😫
I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.
But I forgot that nature sucks... 🥲
For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling.
Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.
Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.
The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.
The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic.
I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.
I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.
Also, I began to hate soil even more than before.
I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them.
There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.
The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.
I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me.
The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.
Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.
Sorry for the rant. It had to be.
What should I do?
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Catching “Maximum Overdrive” (1986) Steven King…although it seems more like Mel Brooks 😂
I’ve never seen this movie—>and probably won’t watch it again unless it’s on Mystery Science Theater 😂
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Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:
1) You're growing too many different kinds of plants in a small space.
2) You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
3) Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:
1) Get a clutch of ladybugs from your local nursery or plant stores. This should be available almost everywhere in the US.
2) Although I don't want to advocate for this because I love local pollinators, get a pheromone trap for the stinging insects. They cost about $10, and don't lure honeybees, but WILL kill local carpenter bees and yellow jackets.
3) For the aphids, get a soap-based spray, or make it yourself. It's pretty much just dish soap and water, but there are guides online. Spray EVERY MORNING AND AFTER SUNSET. This plus the ladybug clutch will make quick work of the aphids.
4) I see you have Basil in containers, move that AWAY from the plants that are infested with scale or aphids.
5) Depending on where you live, your nursery's may sell Mantids. Get them. They are beneficial, but ruthless in eating and killing anything in their grasp, including wasps.
6) If you have wasps around, there is a nest nearby. Inspect your building awnings, trees, or under anything shaded and find that nest. It's not two doors over, it's within 100ft of where you got stung. Find it, set a pheromone trap around your plants (not where you think the nest is), then after a lot of them are dead, go find and remove the nests next.
Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.
Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.
Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.
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You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
Funnily enough, my weed is pretty much the only thing (and chillis) that isn't much affected.
The willow is the worst one, and the pepino second.
Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
Those larvae pictures are already a bit older, maybe two weeks?
They probably got killed by the ants or wasps, because I rarely see them around anymore.
I also rarely see any other aphid eating insects anymore, only ants and ants carrying carcasses 🙁
Okay, so why are you coming here with this dire plea, but not giving up to date information?
Makes me think you don't actually care and might be lazy....
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The world is always ending according to some pundit or other. But after thousands of years of spectacularly false predictions of the end of the world, why are people still listening to these dissem…OffGuardian
Right, Commodore is probably a unicorn in that respect.
As opposed to the "RCA" brand painted on flimsy universal remotes.
Multiple people hurt in Kentucky church shooting; suspect dead, police say
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The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump.Lucas Nolan (Breitbart)
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We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks.
This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.
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Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitismEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.
The UK’s steady decline continued today with reports that water companies are looking to introduce ‘surge pricing’ in order to ration demand.David Shipley (The Spectator)
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I wouldn't say really positive. But it changed a daily slightly negative into a daily slightly positive.
At work I regularly need to take short notes. I like to fill the page to the full. But it gets messier and more complicated aa the day goes on. So I'd strike through and cross out notes I don't need anymore.
The thing is, crossing things out triggers a feeling of making mistakes. So instead of crossing out I started using check-marks (Dutch-style)., which feels like a succes and is also a quick fun flourish to draw. So small annoyances have turned into small victories.
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.
Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.
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This to me smacks of "retard"
Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.
Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.
So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".
It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.
Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.
Shit talk is eternal.
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Kimmel PRANKS Trumpers, EXPOSES them with 'patriot test'.www.facebook.com
“Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings, Stephen. Cry harder,” the California governor's press office wrote.Pocharapon Neammanee (HuffPost)
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By: Mousa Alsadah On November 1st, 1954, a Monday evening, 1,200 Algerian fighters launched simultaneous attacks across various conflict zones throughout Algeria. The fighters were relatively underarmed, possessing approximately 400RepublicofPalestine (Republic Palestine)
Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'
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Right, "error". They sure make a lot of "errors", for such a "great" army.
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Six children waiting for water are among those killed in an Israeli air strike, emergency service officials say.Rushdi Abualouf (BBC News)
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I found on my Linux or Android systems, magnitudes more power can be saved by minimizing I/O consumption, like "data saver." This brings down by magnitudes those CPU wakeup interrupts. I also found increasing the time between flushing the write data to storage helps too. A quiet I/O bus is a power saving I/O bus. Displaying seconds uses orders of magnitude less power than wifi or cell phone modem wakeups.
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GOG.com announced on Thursday that both of Playdead's grim but beloved titles, Limbo and Inside, will be leaving the DRM-free platform on July 17th.Delisted Games
Israeli media confirmed multiple soldiers were wounded in Gaza amid intensifying clashes with Palestinian resistance groups.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Researchers found that psilocin—the compound your body makes after ingesting psilocybin—helped human cells live longer.Ashley Fike (VICE)
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Durham Miners Gala: Applause and abuse
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"The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class. The event had well over 100 thousand participants. I marched with Teesside Radical Bookfair collective and we joined the Palestine
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"ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farmworkers and our agricultural community," said U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, who was denied entry to one farm where he was attempting to provide oversight.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
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While Texans mourn hundreds of dead from a flood catastrophe, JD Vance and family vacationed at Disneyland.NewsHound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
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Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)
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“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July 13, 1985.OC (Openculture.com)
Suicidal Philanthropy.
No other race does this except White Europeans. A fatal flaw.
Fun fact: a screenshot of Super #Mario Bros (256×224×6bpp=43008 bytes) is larger than the game itself (40960 bytes).
This is definitely not true of later NES titles, the largest of which (Kirby's Adventure) is a staggering 1048576 bytes.
Nor is it true of the first SNES Mario game, Super Mario World, whose screenshots are only slightly larger at 256×224×8bpp=57344 bytes but the game itself is 524288 bytes.
“Our military operations remain directed exclusively at Israel," Muhammad al-Bukhaiti told Drop Site. "Should the United States reengage in the conflict, any escalation will be met in kind.”Shuaib Almosawa (Drop Site News)
Native German speakers: I'm looking to find a name for a sort of mythical creature, a "hunter dragon" — that is, a dragon used by its master to attack specific targets, much as a falconer would use a bird of prey.
Is "Jägerdrache" correct German? Thanks for any help.
My biggest fear is having spent 18 months devoting every waking second to making Enigma Heart, and then having it die on the vine, leaving me a broke failure with no employment prospects, because I didn't do enough(or proper) PR or the algorithm fucked me.
I need this to be a success. Games are the only thing I've ever wanted to do, ever since I was a wee lass. And now I'm finally making one.
I don't need it to make me rich or anything. I just want it to fund food, shelter, and my next game.
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French President Macron announces 6.5 billion euros in extra military spending in next two years
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This is America.
ICE smashed the car window of a US citizen who is also a disabled veteran, pepper-sprayed him, and disappeared him. He's been gone for days, and no one will tell his family where he is.
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Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.Josh Haskell (ABC7 Los Angeles)
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An Israeli airstrike on Sunday morning killed at least 10 people and injured several others at the Nuseirat Refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.Iran Press
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