There is some truth to this. Your immune system requires challenges to be strong. People who live overly sanitized lives are often very susceptible to disease.

Oh, this is something I love doing IRL. Love getting in there and pruning and shaping until things have been restored. I love being the chance to rejuvenate a neglected apple tree over the course of a few years.

The lack of focus is fucking me up.

I’m surprised at many things. Why am I surprised this time?

Do you change the emphasis? da-ko-TANT?

When they are in Kill Mode they are absolutely vicious. They’d reach through the fence and pull the chickens’ heads off.

I’m no Dahlia expert, but I’m offer some thoughts.

Transplanting is a bit traumatic. Did you give it lots of water?

It’s interesting though because the leaves and the buds look pretty good (not water stressed).

It may just that it was a bit stressed and have to on that flower.

Is the flower stem damaged in any way?

Oh man, this guy wrote a lot of hymns, many of my favorites! They’re singable and tuneful. I’ve seen his name so many times, and wondered about him. I learned he was Welsh, given his evident love of Welsh folk tunes and his last name.

I maintain that we have a battle of world views going on here. In some ways it’s about the myths we believe in. Most environmentalists believe in what I call the Hobbit Paradigm: we live in a beautiful garden, and if we grounded ourselves in relationships with our communities (including nature) we would have a good and sustainable life. Many technocentrists believe in what I call the Star Trek Paradigm: humans are limitlessly ingenious, technological solutions will save us, and Nature is viewed with an anthropocentric utilitarian ethic.

I do not believe in the Star Trek Paradigm. It’s hubris. I also don’t think it’s a very pragmatic paradigm. We live in a world we evolved to live in. Not worrying about this world because we think terraforming other planets and setting up space bases might be a possibility is not comprehending the Good or risk very well, IMHO.

I suppose a third paradigm is cold-blooded, individualist Realpolitik; It’s a dog eat dog world, fuck you, I’m just trying to get mine as hard as everyone else is. In this case Space Colonisation is just a beard to disguise a callous and usurious relationship to the beings is this world.

That makes the conflict one of story, of myth, which means no one will have their minds changed by facts. They’re belief systems. We need to expose those fundamentally short -sighted or selfish beliefs. We need to tell better stories, and expose the ridiculousness of the other stories.

Judith is a beefcake! She has a neck like a bull.

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Not sure you’ve given us enough context. Why would I feel the need to defend myself when someone asks me directions.

I have a suspicion you’re asking if someone questions my actions or something.

I’m going to drill a bit deeper on this because I feel sympathy for people who are mired in systemic poverty, and stray into budget poverty in impulsive attempts to experience something nice.

It’s the people who buy $50k vehicle they can’t afford because they want to “fit in” that I have no sympathy for. For me it’s not about Puritanical judgment over how tightly utilitarian someone ought to be, but whether or not someone went into poverty for the sake of conspicuous consumption.

My brother and I certainly thought it was hilarious at the time. I believe 4% is pretty harsh too. Is it because it’s mocking all these racial stereotypes? John Leguizamo’s energy in this movie is so manic.

Is this comedy, or cross-cultural miscommunication? “I’m afraid,” leaves half the thought unexpressed. It relies on a cultural understanding of being afraid of the shame of saying, “no,” to someone.