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@dragongirlsnout your trick is required

2011-2016 honda CR-Z

2026 is gonna be the year of banging your head against a wall. in 2027 maybe we can do other things

why do americans think everyone on the internet lives in the same place as them. just saw someone say honeybees are "not native". not native to where????? the entire planet?????

saw a photo of garlic mustard somewhere on the internet once and americans in the comments were like "fun fact this plant is invasive so you should definitely tear out any you see, WITH THE ROOTS so it won't spread!" whole fucking time i'm living in garlic mustard native range. i don't think i will be doing that.

This drives me absolutely up the wall in r/birdfeeding. Every time there's a picture of a house sparrow, the entire comments are filled with americans talking about them being invasive and how they should be basically killed on sight. But often OP has not provided a location, and house sparrows have a HUGE native range. Here in the UK they're not only native birds, they're on the decline, they need our help and protection.

Me every time I see a post saying that you should destroy your lawn and cram a bunch of native plants as closely together as you can instead. Look, I'm not saying lawns are native to Australia because they're not, but our native plants evolved to burn; they are dry, their leaves are dry, and they're full of oils. If you plant native plants the way Americans tell you to that's a fucking fire hazard and you are endangering yourself and your neighbours next time we have a Black Summer.

My friend @ryttu3k linked me a great PDF on planting a native Australian garden in such a way as to reduce its status as a fire hazard!

tapping onto this, Ry's guide is for a specific part of NSW. Australia is a very very big place and there is a lot of biodiversity. So don't take one guide as The One True Guide because I used to be a ranger and lemme tell you, trying to stuff native plants in terrains they are unsuited for just creates a mess for everyone. Honestly, just google "native planting <your council> " and they will have a guide that is specific to your area.

kids these days don’t know how lethal stagnant water is

If you’re exploring an abandoned building and find stagnant water your next sentence should be either “I am equipping my respirator” or “I am leaving”

ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

my credit card is about to go to collections and i need to pay $219 for the next three months to stop that, i’m waiting for my substitute credentials to go through so i can start making a living again. any help appreciated!

Transfem adventurer being forced to keep her dps build even though she's really interested in becoming a support. Her party members won't stay around if she respecs but it's okay she's been a dps for years she guesses it won't kill her to keep going.

Well of course there’s no shade its the Mojave

The biggest roadblock to Linux on the desktop is any critique of poor UX being shut down by dudes who think Vim is user friendly

Learned people keep getting "GNOME'd" by trying to install a VPN, failing to notice it wants to install a bundled GNOME extension, and thereby letting it install the entire GNOME desktop environment as a dependency. Somehow, this is user error.