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duckworthy36

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  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom is floating a federal tax boycott

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  • And county, and cities

  • Poverty garden update: less aphids!

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  • A few sources of free supplies for those who want to grow with less.

    1. Free seeds - look for a seed library- check with family owned nurseries at end of season, they have to toss expired seed, they still germinate. Save seed from food - tomato, potato, pepper, squash
    2. Free containers. Know anyone in a landscape installation company? Ask them to save you 5 and 15gallon pots. Make newspaper pots, sew felt bags ( get felt at a craft thrift store . )
    3. free fertilizer: coffee grounds from neighbors, guinea pig litter or rabbit litter if you know people with pets, bean soaking liquid,
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  • Is that a chickakey?

  • If someone gave you 5 billion dollars to improve the world in any way you see fit, what would you do?

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  • Exactly what I would do. Build tiny house communities for low income housing that sustain themselves.

    They would have some community features like a tool library and food garden and a dog area, and individual indoor and outdoor spaces for everyone.

    A portion of either the rent or sale price would be set aside for each person for financial advice or mental health support annually.

    Ideally built by a combination of master craftspeople and trainees from at risk youth.

  • Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US

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  • Any recommendations would be appreciated

  • Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US

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  • Ugh I really want to do this but it’s totally outside my skill set

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  • I totally agree with you-. It’s one of the reasons why I quit - I just couldn’t make things safer or change the attitude of leadership.

    I spent a ton of time trying to get the police to help protect my team. Or to get leadership to redirect the police. The police answer was, they didn’t want to enter the parks because it was too dangerous for police because there were plants and trees that made it harder to see danger. Yet They still expected the lowest paid workers to go there and work. I had a day when they basically ignored one of my employees who was getting racist threats as he was picking up trash and accused him of wasting police resources - this was the kindest hardest working 65 year old guy, who wouldn’t have called the police unless he was truly scared for his life.

    I basically realized one of my team would have to be killed for anything to really change. Unfortunately it almost happened to another team that handled janitorial services- guy got stabbed. They did start a special team to deal with encampments after that, but there was still no changes in the issues at the parks.

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  • It’s hard to stay empathetic about homeless when you deal with the worst of them on a daily basis. I worked in parks and my team was constantly getting attacked and cleaning up their urine and feces, blood and needles. There were people offering them access to services every week and the worst ones always refuse. Most people who work in parks are kind introverted people who love plants, and want people to enjoy green space . just seeing my team get punched in the face or their arm broken made it really hard to feel any empathy towards homeless. I really had to work at it.

    I mean most people don’t have empathy for the opposite political party, imagine trying to empathize with someone who shits on your desk every day.

    Some of them are obviously mentally ill, a few are just down on their luck, but also some of them are violent criminals who carry weapons. It was pretty typical to find some that had open warrants for arrest in other states.

  • Semi-Truck Spills $800K in Dimes Causing Unfathomably Annoying Cleanup

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  • I hear the accident was avoidable, if only the truck had been able to turn on a dime.

  • Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’

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  • My advice is if you need something electronic or mechanical and it’s expensive buy it now. I just replaced my hvac last month because I know this summer will be a mess. Most air conditioners are made in Asia. You want an e-bike, buy it now.

    The more parts something has the more likely it’s going to be affected by tariffs.

    Start growing some food if you can it’s a great way to be more resilient. I’d recommend buying things like coffee and tea and chocolate that are not easily grown in the US. There’s actually a pretty bad chocolate shortage right now I believe.

    Also for other stuff, buy used, in thrifts or on eBay. Not only are you recycling, most sellers are individuals rather than big corps. Also, if you have old stuff you are not using, it’s a great time to sell. My eBay sales are up 10% this year.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over

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  • It’s worse with instagram. I debated switching to Pixelfed at first because no one I know is on it. But then I realized I barely see friends content on insta, so it’s not really different, at least on Pixelfed I don’t see adds and only see posts from people I follow.

  • If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?

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  • There’s only one good answer to this question period.

  • New mini-dishwasher, made in France!

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  • There’s a Scottish product that is similar that ships to the us. It’s called Loch. It doesn’t need proprietary washing soap. Also has a UV and produce cleaning function. I have one in my tiny house.

  • California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs

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  • California is at the forefront of water conservation recycling in the US, and supports energy self sufficiency. The water issue is a problem, but not nearly as big as you might think. The state and water districts regularly fund new technologies and invest in storage. It would suck for a while, but in the long run, freedom from federal system might actually speed up changes that need to be made anyway.

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  • Personally I find real people and everyday life more interesting than the bland reboots and sequels of movies from my youth.

    I think it also makes me a more aware person to watch content from people whose lives are totally different than mine, in different countries, with different abilities.

    The only good movies and shows I watch are based on sci fi books or computer games that already did the work of building a plot and characters. And there’s a few really comedic writers that do great work- mostly on Apple TV.

  • [WIP] How's everyone's garden progress coming along!?

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  • Let’s not assume every garden has the same Eurocentric seasonal variation on lemmy.

    I’m mid season right now. Planting usually starts in October but our rain was super late this year.

    Lots of weeding and trying to get my summer veggies started. I usually stop planting anything by June.

    Gophers decimated most of my greens and peas, so I’m basically turning my vegetable garden into plant jail. Still have potatoes going they should be ready soon.

    I also have friendly raccoons who love digging up my plants, tossing them aside to look for insects. They got so mad about my plant protectors last week I heard them fighting trying to break in.

  • US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

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  • It’s definitely pesticide. Plus a lack of plant diversity. If farmers focused on building strips of natives bordering their fields honeybees wouldn’t even be necessary. Honeybees are an invasive species in the US. There are thousands of amazing American bee species that would pollinate our crops if we leave a little room for them, and stopped using pesticides and herbicides everywhere, all they need is a small amount of habitat.

    Where I live, in a very large city, there is a ban on roundup and we have no issues with a lack of bees, as long as there’s not acres of lawn.

    I’m an ecologist and I used to work at a botanical garden. we had a bee researcher who found 120 species of native bees, plus tons of wild honeybee colonies breaking off new ones every year. He believed it was the plant diversity in the gardens that contributed to the number of species.

  • China considers participating in peacekeeping forces in Ukraine

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  • You don’t think these plans are being drawn up at the request of Putin because chinas getting handsy with Siberia?

  • Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War

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  • The thing is, you can do plenty of damage just with gravity. Fly high enough and drop anything and it becomes a weapon. Theres a YouTuber I follow who tried destroying a car by dropping things with a drone. It was scary.