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Tikiporch ,

It’s cute! I wouldn’t make my back porch more inviting to disease vectors though.

Tikiporch ,

Tangential to the topic, these photos choices are wild. The out of focus grammy photo bomb, and what does tobacco farming have to do with the problem?

Tikiporch ,

You’re a good person.

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If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t goin’ home.

Tikiporch ,

Your efforts would be more sincere if you used complete sentences.

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Your guess is very generous.

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I can only accept your resignation in writing, but this includes email. It’s all speculation until then.

Visitors to Greece appear ill informed about heatwave risk, warn rescuers (www.theguardian.com)

Over the past week, three search and rescue operations have been started for tourists who have gone missing during treks on far-flung islands, including one for the popular TV presenter Michael Mosley, who was found dead on the island of Symi....

Tikiporch ,

No, but they live in LA where it is still hotter than it was in Greece.

Tikiporch ,

What’s a face watch, and why does the camera want to cut it?

Tikiporch ,

And yet Smart cars are legal.

Tikiporch ,

I get all that, but the individual I replied to only related small size to safety. I was merely pointing out that size isn’t a factor.

I appreciate your post, and agree completely! A Kei truck would satisfy all my requirements for a utility vehicle.

Tikiporch ,

Potomac?

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Kind of frustrating the article doesn’t link to any of the evidence Trump said these things.

Is Craigslist Dying?

I went to Craigslist in my local area for the first time in awhile. I used to like “best of” Craigslist because some of them were great, there still are some, but its just not the same. A community I used to visit had about half the number of posts as I remember, and of jobs and things for sale, I would say roughly half the...

Tikiporch ,

You have to pay to sell things on there now as well. Might as well use ebay or letgo or something like that.

Tikiporch ,

Might just be for cars and farm equipment? Went to sell a lawn mower and it asked me for money.

Tikiporch ,

She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb- Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum! She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come! Maryland! My Maryland!

Tikiporch ,

How much does the USA have in assets? I’m willing to bet more than $34,000,000,000,000.00.

Tikiporch ,

The paper trail of purchasing from a reputable company seems too risky for laundering. The Dev gets a cut of each store transaction, so maybe that’s the plan?

Tikiporch ,

Man, it’s always felt like that to me as well. Even the little guys make no sense sometimes.

Tikiporch ,

I’ll only try poly-employment I can quiet quit one or all my jobs.

Tikiporch ,

I’ve had this issue for four years with text messaging, and ATT does not care. It is still an issue today.

Tikiporch ,

Lots of games use “paper” maps, so it’s probably not as dire as you think.

Tikiporch ,

I don’t think they’re that disparate, and my background isn’t ant different than yours. I work in ArcGIS every day and have played video games and ttrpg for 30 years now.

Tikiporch ,

It doesn’t matter if I say I use the maps I make, your mind is made up.

Tikiporch ,

I said I use the maps I make, you assume I’m a liar based on the fact I won’t provide exponentially more evidence than your own for the basis of my opinion. I’m not going to dox myself nor write a dissertation for you. This isn’t a discussion. Your mind was already made up when I disagreed with you.

Tikiporch ,

CEOs haven’t been a thing for hundreds of years, but many come to mind for most folks. In fact, I’d wager most can probably name more “CEOs” from the 19th century than they could musicians. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Ford. Some say they were Captains of Industry, others may, more accurately say Robber Barons. Good or bad, we remember them.

Tikiporch ,

I disagree it’s an unfair comparison, but don’t care to argue about it. That said, I’m glad we can agree 19th century musicians and titans of business are equally recognizable.

Tikiporch ,

Letting your grass get tall is great for all the birds your cat will absolutely murder this spring.

Tikiporch ,

You misunderstand. I hate birds.

Tikiporch ,

All good. Don’t take it personally, my comment was a bad joke.

Tikiporch ,

Are they Samsung?

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George likes his chicken spicy.

Tikiporch ,

No, it works under the faucet. You’re just impatient because it didn’t turn on after 1ms, so you move your hand closer and it turns on so you think it’s nearsighted.

Tikiporch ,

Yes, their evil plot finally laid bare. Copy what Mastercard and Visa have been doing since the 80s.

Tikiporch ,

Man, you really like your steak rare.

[US] I'm hesitating launching my own business because I'd lose health insurance for my family. What are my options?

I have everything pretty much ready to launch full time. Time, skills, customers, support from family. But I’d leave my current job behind and with it my family’s health insurance for the foreseeable future. I can’t afford any of the options I’ve seen. It’s the one thing holding me back. Any ideas for affordable health...

Tikiporch ,

Depending on the state, you may be able to get access via the health insurance marketplace.

Tikiporch ,

Western Maryland has tried several times to secede to West Virginia. They could never afford it, and West Virginia can’t either. I imagine it is the same situation here.

Tikiporch ,

I live in a decent size county, and our three animal control agents only works four hours a day six days a week and all calls go through 911. So if animal control aren’t available, I could see 911 sending a cop…although he had an animal lasso, so maybe they do both jobs in that city.

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I have a remote job with a defined “territory”, which my job never requires me to explore (think regional manager that doesn’t report to an office). Five years ago I asked my boss to move, they said no, I moved anyway and just never changed my address in the system. I have a permanent mail forwarding set up, and file an additional state tax form every year (one to reclaim taxes from the state my employer thinks I live, and one to pay the taxes to the state I actually live in), but other than that it has caused me no problems.

Tikiporch ,

It’s bad, but is it?

Tikiporch ,

Bugs don’t care what type of green you have in your lawn. You can even mow.

Just don’t spray insecticide on your lawn.

Edit: also, why the fuck would you remove existing lawn to replace it with new growth? That’s like indiscriminately bulldozing every home in a city to rebuild them with whatever is the current trend in sustainable housing. Where do people live in the mean time? Please don’t let this person, or me for that matter, inform your opinion.

Tikiporch ,

I’ve seen a lot of opinion pieces about the matter, but they never cite any research that definitely pins substantive loss of biodiversity on lawns. It’s an issue globally, but as usual the individual is the scape goat instead of the exponentially greater impact of corporations.

Tikiporch ,

We knew dinosaurs were scaly, too. Everything deserves further study, and it’s foolhardy to advise everyone to rip up their lawns and plant…what, exactly? White clover, another invasive species.

Tikiporch ,

Oh, you didn’t need to do that. You won’t find a study supporting your argument, I’ve looked thoroughly before. Case in point, the study you shared. It actually opposes your argument, by finding suburban lawns support a diverse and abundant bee community. Of the three mowing frequencies they studied (one, two, and three week intervals), they actually found every two weeks was optimal for the bees.

Like I said to begin with, I just don’t think what species of green you plant in your lawn matters nearly as much as not using insecticide.

Tikiporch ,

It would be easier to just admit you didn’t read the whole thing before you shared it. It’s a shit study, like I said, and you’re wasting your time trying to make it support your opinion.

You can throw more copy pasta at me, if you want, but their results are what they are. I’ll reiterate…

Suburban lawns support a diverse bee population: “4.1. Diverse and abundant suburban bee communities. For this study, we documented 93 species of bees collected from the lawn-dominated yards (Appendix A1). These 93 species represent roughly a quarter of bee species recorded in Massachusetts, include 14 Massachusetts county records, and featured the highly abundant Lasioglossum illinoense, a species not recorded in Massachusetts since 1920 (Lerman and Milam, 2016). Other urban bee studies have also amassed impressive species lists (e.g., Baldock et al., 2015; Fetridge et al., 2008; Matteson et al., 2008; Pardee and Philpott, 2014; Tommasi et al., 2004), dispelling the notion that cities are “biological deserts” and support findings that bees can be abundant and diverse in urban settings (Hall et al., 2017). In addition to being primarily native species and soil-nesters, the majority of the Springfield bees were small-bodied (Appendix A1), suggesting that these short-distance fliers took advantage of the floral resources in the study lawns, especially yards mowed every two weeks.”

Mowing more frequently was better for the bees: “Mowing frequency altered the evenness of bees within suburban yards, though the patterns we observed did not fully support our hypothesis, in that lawns mowed every week and every three-weeks had higher evenness (Fig. 4d) and richness (Rarefaction curves; Fig. 2) when compared with the two-week treatment.”

Tikiporch ,

Sure, about $785,000 each should do the trick.

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Some leaf blowers are also leaf suckers but it can get a bit messy since they usually mulch the leaves, too.

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The petroleum industry as it stands today wouldn’t exist without human rights abuses. It’s almost a prerequisite for large scale success in the capitalist reality in which we live.

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