It’s not just the loss of public funding. It’s also AI enshittification.
“The way major tech companies, especially Google, have integrated AI into search engines and apps means people are presented with AI-synthesized information before individual search results. This has led to a sharp drop in referrals to NPR’s website; in some cases they have all but vanished.”
So much good cheap wine is available in France I think there’s something else going on. A global wine glut has been in the news here in California as well. There’s a whiskey glut as well (might be distilled spirits in general). Could it be because cannabis is more available? Or perhaps more people are on meds that limit their intake of alcohol?
Naoero if the referendum passes
He’ll never believe the human again about being a goodboi, only seek approval from the cat
Part of that was the recognition that, even if she had committed the worst crimes, the potential infant would be innocent at birth (except of course for Original Sin) and deserved to try to live long enough to be baptized. So a pregnant murderess wouldn’t be executed, for instance, until after the birth.
And it was normal for a midwife to be called to assist.
In non-criminal situations the mother’s life was generally given precedence over the fetus’s in a crisis. Partly because she could have more, partly because she was more likely to survive long-term if the intervention succeeded.
Does it smell nice when you drive over it? Does it allow rainwater to percolate? Can your vehicle get sufficient grip and support?
I guess maybe you’re worried it will dislodge the rocks and make the surface uneven? Because otherwise it seems like a non-problem. If you make a point of squashing the tallest bits each time you won’t even have to cut it.
Yes, police have been known to use the Waymo camera footage for reconnaissance.
It’s okay Spidey, she’s not Black Widow
I thought of something you could run by your FIL. He’s obviously loving the idea of a green lawn the kiddies will enjoy. But maybe he’ll be open to allowing the addition of some California wood sorrel amongst the pointy grass. If mowed it stays at about the same height as the grass, it’s nice and green, it’s soft to sit on and the kids can hunt among the three-leaf clovers to try to find a lucky one with 4. If it gets the chance it will make pretty yellow flowers and then nifty seed pods shaped like miniature okra, when they are ripe you can twist to make them pop seeds everywhere. It also handles drought well. And it can help crowd out non-native weeds. But it could possibly take over the whole lawn. Which will make him mad if he thinks of it as a weed rather than a chosen inclusion. So if you think he might say yes, ask him. If you know he’ll say no, don’t bring it up. It’s legitimately possible for it to start growing in the lawn all by itself because it’s so prolific, and you don’t want to be blamed. Especially if you did surreptitiously scatter some seed…
At least with the bag, it’s a reminder to tired parents not to let the child put the bag on its head, to tell the child about the danger, and not to leave the child alone with the bag because they’ll test it.
If they leave the child alone with the bag and a cat, the child will learn 2 3 lessons: fur helps prevent plastic bag suffocation, and claws/teeth can penetrate both the bag and human skin. Also cats prefer to choose whether and where to be enclosed.
Fair enough. If your house has the water heater far from the bathroom you can also collect a few gallons of the “waiting for hot water” at the tub spout. I don’t have a yard but I have a big balcony garden using that water. Maybe do native flowers around the edges since FIL will mow short anything on his turf
If he were truly progressive he could already have done most of what he’s proposing out of his own pocket instead of spending it running for Governor.
Is Steyer really a Democrat though? Or just savvy enough to run as one?
Great. I don’t want the guy who’s buying the job with his own corrupt money either. And I don’t want a Republican either. I like Katie Porter but does she have a shot?
70s moreso
If you don’t live in an actual desert, there’s probably some local plant you can use as a groundcover which will cushion your kids when they fall. In my area for instance carex pansa (sand dune sedge) is popular. You might be growing some local sedge or ground over now, only you think of it as a weed. The first thing to do is to stop thinking of a uniform surface as the goal. Think meadow rather than lawn. If you painted a picture would you have a swath of flat green without nuance? Even if your kids are playing sports out there, so you need to trim it to a few inches all over, it’s still better for the environment to use native plants. And even tolerate the non-natives like dandelions rather than spread poison. Obviously you don’t want poison ivy or puncturevine, anything that can harm your kids.
If your wind power charged a battery and you hooked up to it nightly with your electric car, it could. Certainly if the municipal grid uses wind power.
If you can’t afford that, a simple tray can work wonders. The point is to define a space and make it clear those items are deliberately placed there.
But that’s a really nice corner étagère OP, love the lighting.
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