I’ve been the side guy in a similar date in a bar. But instead of calamari is fish eggs. The dudes deeply held belief was the flat earth lie.

“Any Man Who Must Say ‘I Am The King’ Is No True King” -Tywin Lannister

The president could never just decree peace to the whole world before, and now that Trump has destroyed all our soft power, its even less likely.

At this point we need to start the entire government over just to wash the farce of this regime off of it and to rebuild better gaurdrails to prevent this from happening again.

One I love and haven’t seen mentioned is Equalibrium, I’ve probably seen it 5 times, which is a lot of times for me. I see its ham fisted metaphors and raise you gun karate.

I love this fucking movie and noone else understands why, it’s nearly perfect. Even John Stewart is there with truly terrible acting.

My biggest disappointment with Tremors 2 was it was direct to VHS, and the movie deserved better.

I don’t think its particularly wierd, but everyone is always surprised they havent thought of it first.

I put Cheeze-its in my Chilli. I’m already going to put cheese and crackers in it.

Might as well make it cheese crackers and save a step (not really, I still put real cheese in it too).

My understanding of the original concept was you were essentially running a pokemon daycare, but for cats.

I have planted a pedestrian browsable food garden along a busy sidewalk. I’m probably 5 years out from actual full tilt production.

All my lawncare tools are manual or electric.

I ride my bike to work when I can, its only 5 miles and 4 miles of it are on a car-free bike path. Another half-mile will soon be on a protected bike path in 2027.

I have a subcompact car that gets ~42 mpg.

As a fellow sufferer of Covid Brain Fog, it is being dumb.

Even if it’s temporary, which so far hasn’t shaken out that way for me. I am currently the dumbest I have ever been.

The amount of things I used to do for fun that I now have had to quit or hire out to others because I can’t do it anymore is deeply demoralizing and frustrating. It feels like a part of my identity has been stolen from me.

You have to get a low bush variety, theres half-hybrids that get 3-4 ft tall, and High bushes that get 6-12 ft tall.

The acidic soil requirements are pretty stringent (PH 4.5-5.5), so I avoid watering with tap water (most tap water is alkaline), and I would test your soil before planting.

Low bush blueberries could do well there, unless its super steep. They stay low, only get about a foot tall and wide. They have great white flowers in the spring, blue-green foilage in the summer, plus edible fruit native birds love, and gorgeous fall color.

They do like acidic soil, so mulch with pine needles/wood.

Depends on where you are, how big your yard is.

If the maples are sugar maples I would deeply ask you reconsider ripping them out as they don’t tolerate road polution in urban areas.

I only have 2 trees. So I was hoping to boost my yields in a way that doesnt mean hand pollination or hanging a carcass (which I havent seen any hard evidence works, just some anecdotes).

And I thought if I could propose my idea to others and get them to try it, I might have some alternative methods that are less labor intensive options by the time my trees are ready to bear fruit.

I plan on doing the carrion-flower bed as I think its pretty cool but it might be an easier sell to my gf if it is a proven way to boost fertilazation, on the pawpaws.

I regularly liberate my neighbors tree of their mulberries. They’re not eating them, they think I’m crazy.

It’s a white mulberry though. It is unknown if the birds will deny me a red mulberry. I’m not too worried about it.

I have decided to attempt to convince them of 12 trees. I am planning to omit that they bear fruit unless asked. There are some oaks I can plant the pawpaws north of and can likely avoid needing to artificially shade them. And some sunny spots more that 100ft from any damagable property for the Black Cherries.

I found a local native plant nursery, so I have emailed seeking prices and availibility of these plants.

I am most unsure of the staghorn sumac due to their structural fragility, and thicket forming habits. But I may guerilla plant it in a recently cleared homeless encampment near my house to give them more cover next time they move in.

Morus Rubra (Red Mulberry) 2 female (known males in the neighborhood)

Asmina Triloba (PawPaw) 2 trees

Rhus typhina (Staghorn Sumac) 2 trees

Prunus Serotina (Black Cherry) 2 trees

Diospyros virginiana (American Persimmon) 1 female 1 male

Prunus Americana (American Plum) 2 trees

There’s a nicely gladed park near me that guerilla planting probably wouldnt work in, but I am considering trying to get official permission to plant some trees in.

I ended up with 2 pawpaw saplings, and a bunch of berry bushes. At this point I’m out of space for any more trees and probably anything that doesnt climb. Im thinking of filling out my fences with milkweed and/or grapes.

I am

I’m in the process of rebuilding my gut biome, I just got off a serious anti-biotic regiment.

I eat plenty of whole fruits and vegatables and maybe 1 hamburger a week. And no other red meat.

I’ll probably be fine in a week or two, but thanks for the advice.