Scaring immigrants and reducing both legal and illegal immigration is the stupidest thing any country with a declining birth rate and an increase in elderly population can do.

Who’s going to provide elder care? Who’s going to pay taxes to maintain the country?

The majority of legal and illegal immigrants are often skilled workers with foresight and drive to work to improve their lives. They are often escaping persecution corruption and criminal behavior and looking for peace and prosperity.

They regularly take the worst type of jobs, at low pay rates, even though many of them are highly skilled and educated. These are jobs many citizens do not want, harvesting crops, cleaning, landscaping.

Anyone white who doesn’t realize their ancestors were literally in the same boat and behaved like actual criminals , stealing land from native Americans and killing them with violence and disease, and/or owning slaves, is an idiot.

Many of the people who worry about immigrants are looking for someone to blame for their unhappiness, when the real problem is the rich (or themselves) .

Native people are the only non immigrants in this country.

A few sources of free supplies for those who want to grow with less.

1. Free seeds - look for a seed library- check with family owned nurseries at end of season, they have to toss expired seed, they still germinate. Save seed from food - tomato, potato, pepper, squash
2. Free containers. Know anyone in a landscape installation company? Ask them to save you 5 and 15gallon pots. Make newspaper pots, sew felt bags ( get felt at a craft thrift store . )
3. free fertilizer: coffee grounds from neighbors, guinea pig litter or rabbit litter if you know people with pets, bean soaking liquid,

I’ve been off it for over a month and I suddenly got an advertisement for Reddit in my weather app. They are thirsty

Is that a chickakey?

The main tools we need to focus on is education and community. Isolating women and children is the way predators and murderers get away with abuse.

If you have friends or family members, that are becoming distant with a new partner, keep in touch. If parents are isolating and indoctrinating their kids, be there - stay in touch even if you hate the parents politics and let them know there are other options in life.

Share your experiences with bad men even if it’s awful, because the darkness never disappears if you don’t shine a light on it.

Don’t let propaganda or men divide us. A group of angry women is a powerful thing.

Any recommendations would be appreciated

Ugh I really want to do this but it’s totally outside my skill set

IVG is possible- science is researching how to make sperm and eggs from any cell.

I’m 45 and feeling like I’m aging because I’ve had some health issues that limit my activities. I’ve always hated being in photos and on camera - super introverted.

Recently met someone I was on zoom with no image with. She was a little inappropriate- but basically said, I’m surprised you’re so beautiful you could have turned the camera on.

Made me feel a lot better- and to be honest, I have great skin and my eyes are pretty cool I have sectoral heterochromia so they are two different colors.

There is plenty of evidence that the full chemical formulation in roundup is toxic - which is why they try to focus on the “active ingredient” glyphosate.
Plus it’s already been linked to fatty liver disease.

walnut is overhyped juglone can prevent seed germination but it has little effect on plants over seedling stage. I have a massive shade garden under my Juglans Californica, and there’s plenty of mustard and grass growing under wild ones, so even the seed germination thing isn’t 100%.

I planted spicezee nectaplum- it’s a beautiful tree- dark purple leaves, self pollinating and has made it to fruit production faster than plums I planted a year earlier. Excited to taste the fruit this year.

Any everbearing citrus. It’s amazing that they fruit year round. The convenience of always having a lemon, can’t be beat.

Loquat. It just grows so well where I live, even if you don’t water it. Basically you can ignore it, and it fruits in a season when there’s nothing else. I just made a batch of loquat butter in my slow cooker.

I totally agree with you-. It’s one of the reasons why I quit - I just couldn’t make things safer or change the attitude of leadership.

I spent a ton of time trying to get the police to help protect my team. Or to get leadership to redirect the police. The police answer was, they didn’t want to enter the parks because it was too dangerous for police because there were plants and trees that made it harder to see danger. Yet They still expected the lowest paid workers to go there and work. I had a day when they basically ignored one of my employees who was getting racist threats as he was picking up trash and accused him of wasting police resources - this was the kindest hardest working 65 year old guy, who wouldn’t have called the police unless he was truly scared for his life.

I basically realized one of my team would have to be killed for anything to really change. Unfortunately it almost happened to another team that handled janitorial services- guy got stabbed. They did start a special team to deal with encampments after that, but there was still no changes in the issues at the parks.

It’s hard to stay empathetic about homeless when you deal with the worst of them on a daily basis. I worked in parks and my team was constantly getting attacked and cleaning up their urine and feces, blood and needles. There were people offering them access to services every week and the worst ones always refuse. Most people who work in parks are kind introverted people who love plants, and want people to enjoy green space . just seeing my team get punched in the face or their arm broken made it really hard to feel any empathy towards homeless. I really had to work at it.

I mean most people don’t have empathy for the opposite political party, imagine trying to empathize with someone who shits on your desk every day.

Some of them are obviously mentally ill, a few are just down on their luck, but also some of them are violent criminals who carry weapons. It was pretty typical to find some that had open warrants for arrest in other states.

I hear the accident was avoidable, if only the truck had been able to turn on a dime.

It’s also improving sales of used and handmade items from small businesses and craftspeople. My eBay sales are up 10% and I expect even more in the next few months.

Hopefully it will also alienate his big business cronies or accelerate the demise of their businesses I’m up for either.

Yep! I make mine with chocolate chips and pecans and add cinnamon nutmeg and cloves

I get like this when I’m avoiding dealing with a bigger issue. I get in a routine of distractions from dealing with something it’s kind of a bland purgatory.
Most of the time these days I face whatever it is and things get bettter. Occasionally it’s something I can’t tackle alone, right now I’m talking to a therapist.

As far as time speeding up, I have a recommendation. Do something out of your comfort zone at least once a month. If you aren’t doing new things time speeds up. Work is usually so monotonous it makes time speed by. I’ve been happily surprised at how much time seems to have slowed down since I quit my job and I get out and do new stuff more often.

It’s the infection from cat bites that will get you. You could lose a limb.

Look for bareroot trees if you want a better deal.