Yeah this is a big problem I see often. You have underground utilities? Tree planting becomes a huge thing. And in a lot of these walkable areas, places you'd want trees, folks tend to also prefer not to have the wires overhead with telephone poles everywhere, and so they've been backed into a corner.
I did just sit through a presentation by my local environmental commission where they addressed the issue. The solution seems to be trees bred for the specific environment: deciduous provides shade but doesn't drop a lot of leaves; can grow tall but the root ball grows in a certain way so as not to interrupt sidewalks and utilities; hearty and resilient. I can't recall the trees, but they were described as essentially not naturally occuring.
I go on Reddit and come here and I nod along and I'm like yes, yes, and then I leave and sometimes it feels like coming up from being underwater. We are quite literally surrounded in propaganda. It has never been easier to disseminate opinions, especially when the majority of our communications (mine for sure) come via text on a screen. It is in every single facet of our lives.
And so I talk to my brother and he always tries to get me to think more, he's a smart guy. He says things like "Who benefits the most" from whatever, opinion I've talked to him about, and so frequently it goes back to corporations. I don't want to get overtly political, but personally the best way I try to think about things is linearly: this thing we are talking about, trace it to its logical end point and origin. And then feel helpless again.
Well, what are the fundraisers for? They have them by me, for PTO, for the band, for sports, etc. Extracurriculars. We're not fundraising for school lunches and books (yet).
That's how it is for me in the summer, and Jersey ain't exactly tropical. But it's kinda nice being able to just turn on the shower and get in. The cold water is likecold in the summers, and it's usually humid, so a shower with no hot water ends up very refreshing.
It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn't a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.
You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking "humanoid" for example, you get something that isn't presenting itself as a human. But I didn't come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
Bitte (had to check the spelling, but I knew how to say it)
S'il vous plait
Pleeeeeeeeeease
Por favor
I dunno about Japanese.
I can also say it in sign language.
For reference, I am a 37 year old dude from Jersey. I took French in middle and high school (we got to go to Quebec in the eighth grade because someone thought that was a good idea). We have large spanish and Portuguese speaking populations, and my mom's stepmother was also from Cuba, so we got some lessons early on. My high school girlfriend did the German thing so I picked up a little (ich haba einen bruder). Wife speaks pretty fluent sign language. Can also say Kurwa, but that's neither please nor thank you.
Yes, he knows when I'm in that deep sleep like 30-60m before my alarm goes off, so that when I give him the boot I don't have enough time to go back to bed for any meaningful sleep.
I love two towns over from Manville, which was the asbestos capital of America, and I can unequivocally say those morons would vote to bring asbestos back if they could.
Ehh, I dunno. Back in high school and the years shortly after, we'd take trips down 287 to Rutgers to visit the Grease trucks for one of their famous fat sandwiches. The name tells the tale, the sandwiches are absurd, but great late night drunk food. Fat Darrel was my go-to, chicken fingers, mozz sticks and marinara, French fries, on a sub roll. They had a variety of sandwiches, and they'd even name one after you if you could eat three in an hour, which even back then, when I swam competitively, smoked a lot of weed, and was a human garbage disposal, eating three period was a tall order.
I will say, the French fries were probably the least important ingredient to most of their sandwiches, but it was a package deal, you get what you get.
I think that definitely sounds reasonable, and I think, if there's any hope for these tariffs to actually meet their stated purpose, the government of the US would need to just say, if working conditions don't meet the same standards, there will be additional tariffs. I think that's exactly where tariffs ought to be applied, when some country takes advantage of, essentially, human rights. We don't have the right to stop them, but we do have the right to tax their products for it, to the point it's not worth it.
Yeah this is a big problem I see often. You have underground utilities? Tree planting becomes a huge thing. And in a lot of these walkable areas, places you'd want trees, folks tend to also prefer not to have the wires overhead with telephone poles everywhere, and so they've been backed into a corner.
I did just sit through a presentation by my local environmental commission where they addressed the issue. The solution seems to be trees bred for the specific environment: deciduous provides shade but doesn't drop a lot of leaves; can grow tall but the root ball grows in a certain way so as not to interrupt sidewalks and utilities; hearty and resilient. I can't recall the trees, but they were described as essentially not naturally occuring.