So you don’t have anything of value to add?

I noticed we’re not required to take out shoes off any more, proving that was entirely theater to begin with.

Unless they choose to dragnet style round everyone up.

They aren’t afraid of showing who they are, because they believe (incorrectly) that they are in the majority.

Just had a conversation with someone at the airport who was talking to the people around him about the state of things and how we need to be better as a society, have to push back and overcome the worst of us screaming their way to the top.

I thanked him for saying things that needed saying in public and out loud for all to hear. I old him if we all can keep it up we’ll drive these chuds back to the rocks they were hiding under.

Awesome, you first. Show us how it’s done!

Thank you. Getting ourselves evicted and losing our ability to feed our children isn’t going to accomplish our goals.

But but but… Chickensuit Man in Portland was already identified as the antifa leader!

Thank you for a much more constructive comment than doom and gloompants back there.

Thanks! I didn’t know they were large until we had a visit from the local fish store for some maintenance help with the marine tank. 12 and 13 inchss puts then at the top end for tank raised dojos, so we’re doing something right.

They’re such fun fish. They’ll swim right up to your hand and let you pet them.

soil amendment that contains beneficial fungus (the sort that works with plant roots to increase nutrient and moisture absorption, rather than trying to consume the plant)

I’ve looked into mychorizal innoculations to help new trees get established when we’ve planted them. Hadn’t considered it for preventative maintenance to freely dump aquarium water, though, so thanks for the idea!

Yeah, deep substrates without someone rooting around in them to aerate can be a time bomb. I got (un)lucky and have a massive malaysian trumpet snail population that keeps the bottom well churned. They’re considered a pest but I’ve recruuted some assassin snails and we have a spotted congo puffer that loves his crunchy snacks.

All the little white shells you see along the bottom here are trumpet snails. My substrate is a writhing mass:

I have a video of it moving but lemmy wasn’t letting me copy paste it like I can with pics.

On vacation with no pics of the sump on my phone but below are Fishadelphia (where It’s Always Sunny) 75g, Lady and Her Shramps 20g, and the School of Rock 125g:

A deep substrate can also help filter ammonia. My 75 gallon freshwater tank requires very little in filter cleaning and water changes thanks to a good cleanup crew, lots of surface area for bacteria, deep-ish substrate, and lots of plants.

Our marine tank is similar. That tank also has a second smaller tank beneath, called a sump, where there is extra rock and biomedia for beneficial bacteria. That tank has a second lighting system set to an opposite photoperiod from the main tank and has a specific type of macroalgae (chaeto) which gobbles up phosphates during the main tank’s night hours.

It can be a delicate balancing act getting it all working well, but when tanks get established it gets to be fairly routine keeping it all going.

European education is incredible by comparison to the US. We only learn solid, liquid, gas, and maybe plasma.

I have told my kids not to participate in that jingoist ritual. Fortunately they seem to have stopped in our school district.

Stop causing priapism.

Probably not. He gets 2 minute videos of shit blowing up. I wish I was making that up, but that’s what he’s getting: a highlight reel of explosions.

Edit to add: pick a source https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+iran+video+briefings&noai=1&ia=web

Thanks for reminding me that we should know if our hearty fig tree made it through winter. We’ve had hearty hibiscus for several years so I’m optimistic.

Nice! I do dump my buckets into some of our garden beds on occassion. I was a little shy about using it after I watered a houseplant and it grew some kind of fumgus on the soil but that cleared up. I’m guessing that might be the kinda gross you mentioned.

I really hope to get some raised beds for food plants this year but already have a greenhouse needing that needs to be built.

They call those setups aquaponics. It’s a really cool system and one I would love to have as an indoor farming setup some day when I can finance it.

Currently I die a little inside when I do aquarium filter cleaning and water changes. The amount of nutrientns I cannot re-use is saddening. So much good fish poopy going to waste.

Another cost consideration is the food safety licensing and whatnot you would need to have.

I read a really fun new age book titled something like “the most attractive place in the universe”. It was all kinds of woowoo psuedo-judeo-christian but there were fun ideas in it.

What follows is a rough summary of some of those ideas an in no way represent my view of the cosmos.

Stars are angels and solar radiation is the method of sending divine instructions to creation. Our sun is Lucifer and our solar system is an experimemt in free will which makes it a desirable place for our celestial selves to choose to be incarnated. It is supposed to be a school as well as experimental lab of sorts but because free will is so attractive souls keep reincarnating here which is causing issues.

There was a whole lot more going on but this was like 30 years ago that I read it.