I think it’s obvious that was coming, they probably thought they had a bit more time but as far back as last year there were articles saying that the Kurds will need to ally with Assad because otherwise turkey will crush them.

The article is kind of stupid the top 20 are all oil extraction firms. It doesn’t really lead to any insight on what industries are using the oil and where it can be reduced.

Bird poop is usually the carrier for seeds. That being said you will mostly just get invasive species if you do this

There is probably a bit more to this story, I would guess the kid comes from a broken household and or has mental illness and therefore is very distributive and disliked by teachers. Someone saw this as an opportunity to get rid of her and it escalated out of control, because the legal system isn’t really designed for this and honestly works poorly for most people.

That’s shitty brilliant, chilled but not too cold

Probably not, none of the insect houses really work. They hatch out and go wherever unless you have a method to contain em

rased beds are in my experience are a bit of a Nussance in the summer. They trend to dry out faster and require more constant watering. Also the edges 6” near the wood become unusable.

Mulch is great you need I think around 2” to be effective. There are myths about it sucking up nitrogen- fake news, based loosely on fact. That being said if you Mix a nitrogen source in it will break down into useful stuff faster.

In case you don’t already notice the internet is a wasteland of information on gardening and all the content is a mirage , but there are a few oasis of information.

https://www.gardenmyths.com/ Is fantastic

The university extension information is interesting but hard to consume at a small scale.

The rusted gardener YouTube is ok. There are a few other sites I found that’ we updated mid 2000s, but there is just an ocean of crap out there. If you find any gems let me know.

Step 1 is to figure out how much sun you are going to get. The house, fence and trees may block a lot may block almost none. Step 2 is to order a truck worth of compost 3-4 yards aught to do. Btw don’t order the stuff that the uses organic matter from the city waste bins, that stuff sucks has glass and plastic in it and drys out if you look at it for too long.

Step 3 order a couple yards of mulch ideally with manure mixed in for cover.

Step 4 figure out irrigation. Drip irrigation doesn’t work well unless the plants are mature use spray systems and a timer.

Step 5 figure out what you want to plant and how to manage pests, but the supplies ahead of time. You won’t have time to contain the problem otherwise

Oh and btw by the time you graduate your wages will be slashed maybe in half, because medical costs are not sustainable and Medicare for all will mean that at best you will get reimbursed at Medicare rates. Good luck buddy, you are going to need it.

Of all the recent 737 articles this one is probably the least factually correct. They combined information and ideas from multiple other articles and they lost a lot of the important details from the original sources.

Dog breeding practices in the us are absolutely abysmal. Breeders do such a halfassed job tracking and understanding genetics that it’s basically no way to get good pedigrees. This is more of a fault of the kennel clubs not enforce standards and being run as agonies for graft and personal looting as opposed to organizations that breed healthy dogs.

That being said the doodle cross is absolutely a fantastic idea when done correctly and yields some excellent dogs that are highly suitable for modern day city living.

Pence 2020? Better or worse?

That’s was true in 2001 and 2008 so yeah. You can often see a couple years of crazy bubble blowing at the very end that makes you question your sanity. That’s also why you have trouble finding a time to get back in because once again you question your sanity and can’t figure out what’s real. For example 2010 the economy had started bouncing back but nothing had fundamentally changed in the real enconomy it really threw me for a loop.

The base loves it and CNN will get some more viewers but beyond that it’s all a circus that will distract from larger issues. Good for Biden bad for warren and sanders as this will distract from actual campaign issues. Though not sure Biden will come out super clean here either

Which is probably near impossible to do with the political systems currently in place because the people writing the rules are the same people who are supposed to be dragged kicking and screaming to the finish line. Meanwhile half the players don’t have to follow any regulations at all.

My biggest fear with all this climate stuff is that the western World ends up regulating itself to into an increasingly lower standard of living. We keep setting up more and more roadblock and regulations on domestic producers but allowing foreign ones a free pass, thereby getting rid of domestic jobs and eventually domestic knowledge. Countries like China will just cheat and use that as another competitive advantage.

I dont worry about the actual climate change as much because that tipping point was reached probably a decade ago. It’s happened, it can’t really be stopped though it might be slowed down a bit. Resources would be better spent developing better trees, seeds and farming techniques than trying to setup a international regulatory framework for carbon in hopes of slowing down warming by a little bit. There are things like bunker oil burning that should straight up be banned but at the same time we shouldn’t go all climate nutter and ban natural gas heating.

Should have used Justin Bieber or Britney Spears , any of the Disney kids would have worked in the analogy. Korean idol girls are another great example of teens getting used by large corporations

The speaker is not an independent agent and is a proxy for a different group who’s motives are not clear, that should immediately raise some eyebrows. In any honest discussion of the agents message we should be looking at the agency behind the agent and trying to figure out what their angle is.

Is climate change a problem, sure that’s pretty well established, but there are lots of groups out there that see it as an opportunity to make money or entrench their interests and we have to be highly cautious of that. Lots of the climate money is chasing ineffective solutions at a local level that have little impact to the overall climate change problem but add significant cost and regulatory burden. I have no idea what this Astro turf group is aiming to do but I would put money on climate change being simply a convenient vehicle for their objectives.

Oh come on, Greta Thunberg is the molly Cyrus of climate change. An Astro turf construct of a climate change advocacy corporation called “We dont have time” . Shes 16year old being manipulated by large and powerful international institutions and interests not some sort of child prodigy. Instead of giving these people press we should be shaming them for manipulating our kids and using teenagers as pawns.

Don’t kid yourselves the climate change debate is about money, not saving the planet. Different industries are throwing their weight around different positions based on if they think more or less regulation is profitable for them. That’s really all that’s happening here.

If I were him I’d kick that can as far as it could go, or at least as close to the next administration as possible. The chaos of the trump administration is not equipped to handle global chaos in the market. The world of economic manipulation is full of unintended consequences and the current administration has not been great at anticipating them.

“Our” enconomic future... you aren’t immune either, but yeah that sums it up. I’m not sure we will be much better off if status quo joe gets elected but at least his advisors might be somewhat more coherent.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that 2019 is fundamentally different than 2007. Back then we were still mostly a nation of with ridged laws so there was an expectation of how things would go down based on the structures in place. By 2009 that was no longer the case, everyone knew that the rules would change as soon as we had an abnormal situation, that the fed was not bound by the limits of its charter and that even things like recovery priority in bankruptcy would not be maintained. Now after 8 Obama years and 3 trump years the rule of law has been degraded even more so you can bet that even the basic limits of power no longer apply in a crisis situation.

You can be assured that during the next crisis the fed and the president will be making up the rules as they go along, picking winners and losers as they see fit. The market is likely to move based on the expectations of fed and presidential actions and not so much on fundamentals.

Too early, look at June 2007 as a time period that rhymes. That’s the month when bear sterns failed

You have to imagine that the order has come out that nobody big can be allowed to fail before the election but that’s over a year always and trying to prevent liquidation is going to dry up liquidity. The fed probably has mechanisms in place to do stealth bailouts but banks don’t magically become good just because they got bailed out.

The repo rate is supposed to be a risk free loan it’s backed by collateral and is repaid the next morning. It’s like if you wanted to borrow 3 bucks from me and you gave me a fresh gallon of milk in return. My household can easily consume that milk so if you paid me back the 3 bucks and a penny then great not a big deal. The problem comes around when you want to borrow 3 bucks and you have a carton of freshly expired milk, because now there is a chance the milk won’t be any good if you choose not to play me back, and really if all you have to offer for collateral is expired milk perhaps you won’t come get it tomorrow, now I might want 3.50 tomorrow to compensate for the risk.

Sounds like you are referring to this article. Which btw was a fascinating read http://www.globalcoral.org/_oldgcra/reef_restoration_using_seawater.htm

This is really wacky stuff, As far as I understand the only reason this would happen is if there is no cash on hand at the banks or if the securities offered for repo were bad. I find it hard to believe that there was no cash available to lend so the likely scenario is that someone showed up on the repo market with some really toxic securities. Just like bear sterns some large firm is about to go boom.

The one thing against that is that once somebody shows up with the toxic assets everybody else knows that implosion is imminent so panicked selling should follow, but that didn’t happen in June 2007 so maybe the market isn’t that in tune or the smart money knows how to not spook the big payday.

You should help them understand that they basically have no privacy rights or will have to waive them as part of the application. The bar for “real” refugee is really high currently and they need be squeaky clean unless they can afford a high price lawyer.

That means they need to create a Facebook profile and only use it for official purposes. Help them understand that that is their brand and the government will look at everything as part of the application.

Cross linked databases are a real thing that they should be aware of. Everything they buy everyone they call, every email IM text etc can all be seen by INS as part of the application. Really break it down how much data is logged. From digital to physical location all that stuff is being recorded at any moment, and some or most is being shared.

Growing corals can be big business, the cool looking ones can be highly valued for people’s fish tanks and harvesting is very sustainable if done correctly. If ocean acidification accelerates though it won’t matter, most corals are very sensitive to ph and water temperature. If the water gets too acidic or too hot most will die out and in general low ph significantly reduces growth.

Do you really need much more than a smart phone to get started?