I was watching some of my native plants and noticed a fair amount of house flies crawling on them. So, I looked it up. It turns out that flies as a group are the second most important pollinator behind bees as a group.

Okay, but European honeybees in the US aren’t exactly new afaik. That would be like if all of the sudden, 80% of wild horses up and die and the answer is “well, they’re an introduced species, so it only makes sense”.

I’m convinced that this is it. There’s a dual track effort to defang leftists through first heavily propagandizing the success of “pure” non-violent movements by removing them from their context, then by aggressively stamping out the groups that move past that. The first part is why you see so many people saying “well, why don’t we just march again and wave more signs?” The state has done a very, very, very good job of convincing people that peaceful assembly without the threat of unpeaceful assembly behind it means a goddamn thing.

And throwing. “Well, at least they’re over there. If they come closer, I’ll fuck them up.”

… “Did they just yell ‘Heads up, shitass’? What the fuck, is that A FLYING ROCK”

Okay, I’m going to acknowledge that there are protests, yes, but probably what OP is thinking of something more like the BLM protests during COVID where shit started to get real. There’s a few things going on here:

First: People don’t have the time off like they did during COVID. They also aren’t locked up and less able to ignore the news.

Third: Resignation. I think this is the bigger of the three parts. I know for my part, I consider this a complete loss of the federal government. Even if we somehow avoid a dictatorship and get control of the government back, the damage that’s been done is so deep and complete that we’ll likely never fully recover from it, we’ll just have to move on with things as they are. My efforts are now focused on organizing balkanization. If Texas wants to be a fucking stupid theocracy with prosperity gospel televangelists and the antichrist at the top, who am I to get between them and a good time? Maybe without having to hear about what Daniel the terminally addicted Fox News viewer thinks about Critical Race Theory, we can get some shit done, fix healthcare, get some fucking trains and bike lanes put up.

Second: Lack of organization. The federal government has spent the last 100 years stomping any serious leftist movements both here and abroad. There is almost no living memory of what a real leftist movement looks like, or how to get one going, so we’re all having to roll them from scratch, and there’s still a lot of the old high-roading instincts that were implanted in us over the decades. It’s just going to take time.

WOAH WAIT A MINUTE THERE BUDDY, IS THAT A NON-COMPLIANT SHADE OF BEIGE?!

Make poop disappear? You’re thinking of a porta-potty or like the toilets they have in national parks that are basically just giant pits that get pumped out by shit trucks every so often.

You could use it as a camp or festival ground with very little upfront cost, especially if you plant some trees.

God damnit, Johnson, he keeps funging it! We’ve got to find this guy!

Tbh, starting a sustainable timber operation seems like a pretty good idea if you can afford to wait 15-20 years for the investment to start to pay off. Idk, I guess you could offer it as a camp/hunting ground in the meanwhile.

Put, like, three single family homes on it.

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Can’t be, I don’t see shrimp jesus

Also, they’re all looking through him, not at him. Plus, in a real picture, not everyone’s looking at the same thing always. The composition is also nonsense when you think about it. Dude is way off from the truck, by himself, stacking eggs on a table surrounded by a crowd of old people. That is not how aid distribution works.

Also, related to composition, someone once mentioned that AI images always look overcooked because it doesn’t know when or how to stop cramming in more detail, and I find that to be pretty true. It’s really hard- but possible- to get it to make an image that isn’t just over-detailed to death.

One of my win11 machines can’t even open the file explorer. It worked right up until I got an ‘update’, and I’ve been unable to open it since. Got to access all my files through the command line now, which, I mean, I can do, but it’s still a PITA.

Bro, my win11 family gaming machine can’t even properly display the game icons or open the file explorer

Tbh, the only problems I ever had with gaming on Linux was:

• Nvidia driver bullshit
• Couldn’t do multiplayer on one indie game

Gaming on Linux is like 98% of the way there imo. It was overall a good experience, and we’ve got plans to switch the big family gaming computer to Linux when MS starts pushing their live service windows 12 crap

Are you just wanting to back up save files? I agree with the other person here, just backup the files that matter to you onto an external drive and then install Linux

I’m assuming that there’s no issue with print-on-demand and manufacture at POS; I know pretty much what I’m getting if I order a 3D printed dingus.

I’m out of the loop, what’s drop shipping and why is it bad?