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Look, this is an EXCELLENT joke. 5 stabs.

BUT, I am concerned that many of you might actually think that the salad was named for Caesar Augustus and not the Italian/American chef Caesar Cardini who fled to Tijuana, Mexico to avoid prohibition in California and ended up creating the Caesar salad there on the forth of July in 1924.

I just…wanted to share that with you in case you didn’t know. 👀

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Me, already vibrating from the dopamine and adrenaline: Let's talk about espaliers

okay, so espaliers are beyond sexy, they are so unbelievably productive

The basics are just... pruning growing trees so they are more 2 dimensional, usually placed against walls. It takes a few years to form/ raise, but they are much easier to maintain than free growing trees in the long run.

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Not only is it more accessible, easier to harvest fruit, but the design has a double purpose; the walls hold and release heat that can keep warm-weathered plants alive during Northen winters!

There are people who use this method to grow avocado, fig, etc trees outdoors without electricity in -20C weather.

So when I woke up, I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And instead of measuring out chocolate chips, I counted them (and suffered a lot of odd looks from my family for it).

Activated charcoal “flushes out” orally ingested medication. This is why it can “flush out” E pulls and birth control pills. It cannot “flush out” injected T or E, it cannot “flush out” a depo shot, and it does not impact it if you use something like T gel or patches.

My friends who have genuinely never been homeless, ever: ....that is not normal, holy shit!?!?!?!?!

Me: ...okay so I guess I was homeless, then.

Anyway, this is a reminder that homelessness encompasses more than just "lives in a box under an overpass." Like, yes, that is definitely a real experience with homelessness, but it isn't the only one. Homelessness can look like couch surfing, living in your car, living illegally in a rented storage unit, living in a tent at a campground, living in a motel room, or any number of other things.

Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.

Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.

And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.

How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.

Tourism has been severely impacted by the war with almost non-existent foreign tourism, along with the decline in national mood.

“The damage in combat zones is more serious, but the damage to businesses is across the country, with almost no sector spared,” Amir noted.

He pointed out that “the damage is very great in all aspects for the Israeli economy,” explaining that “in the end, when companies close their doors and do not have the ability to repay debts, there is also peripheral damage to customers, suppliers and companies that are part of its working system.”

“Apart from companies closing their doors, there has been a sharp decline in corporate activity in various sectors since the beginning of the war,” he added.

Amir confirmed that in a recent opinion poll, about 56 per cent of commercial company managers in Israel said there had been a significant decline in the cope of their activities since the beginning of the war.

“We estimate that by the end of 2024, it is expected that about 60,000 companies will close in Israel. For comparison, in 2020, the year of the Corona crisis, about 74,000 companies were closed.”

He pointed out that Israeli companies face “very difficult challenges represented by a labour shortage, declining sales, a high interest rate environment and high financing costs, transportation and logistics problems, a shortage of raw materials, and inaccessibility to agricultural lands in combat zones, as well as the lack of customers involved in combat, flow difficulties, and increases in acquisition costs.”

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