In the US our colleges and universities typically have what they call extension offices that can tell you all about the local environment. Anything like that where you’re at?

From Gemini, but it’s factual:

A local extension office, often called a Cooperative Extension office, is a branch of a land-grant university that provides research-based information and educational programs to the local community. These offices are staffed by experts who offer guidance on various topics, including agriculture, gardening, food safety, natural resources, and 4-H youth development. They act as a bridge between academic research and practical application, helping individuals and communities solve problems and improve their lives.

Lots of great advice here! I’ve learned the most just by getting out in the woods and swamps and looking. Still so much I’m ignorant of! A great project for you, that I’ve been slacking on, is putting events into a calendar or tracking app. “May 15th, dragonflies are back.” “June 1st, banana spiders back.” Stuff like that.

Looked into beekeeping on and off and varroa mites are a top consideration in any source I’ve read.

That far north?! I never saw them in the wild until I moved to Florida. That’s blowing my mind, would have said it was impossible.

The ending of I Am Legend tells us all we need to know about letting focus groups dictate cinema.

Can you imagine a Tarantino movie being run through a popularity filter?!

My favorite all-time insult was laid upon me by my soon-to-be ex:

“Well look at you! You ain’t nothin’! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic and if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothin’!”

Never had an insult shut me the fuck up, instantly. I mean, that really hit home.

I loathe that woman’s goddamned voice. I think she’s trying to channel Barbara Walters. Second I hear it, off she goes because I know bullshit is coming into my ear canal.

satire or mockery

What about fair use?

Just commented yesterday that Alabama has the cutest small towns. Dothan seems nice but I don’t think I’ve ever stopped there.

Movies are so expensive I don’t want to gamble. I already know I’ll like 28 Years Later, and despite the last two flops, I’ll probably like the new JP. Not a huge Superman fan, but the trailer looks great.

No lie. If anything, this site reminds me that ChatGPT might handle a task for me.

That’s my understanding and experience.

What a succinct, compelling argument!

Depopulation is a problem for any economic system. You can’t run any form of government or economy when young workers aren’t contributing to the tax base and the aging population requires more and more care.

Sure as clockwork someone will come along and say tax the rich. That only works for so long in this scenario. The rich get rich off our backs. No backs, no rich.

Our old babysitter lost her insurance and was suffering. Ex-wife suggested the ACA, showed her how to apply.

“Thank you so much! At least it isn’t that damned Obamacare!”

These people exist, millions of them. And most Americans can’t fucking read and understand a novel.

Honestly did not know that. Don’t know how I would have, given the context in which cis is commonly applied. Context being: heterosexual male. Additional context: Often as an insult. See also: Breeder. (Was that usage archaic? More on that in a moment.)

So we really need a word to define 99.5% of Earth’s population? When we have a word to define the remaining .05%? Do you have any idea how silly that sounds?!

20-years, no one will be using it

Been there, seen that, done that. And fuck anyone who doesn’t like it. I’ve equated trans rights with civil rights since before most of you kids touched social media.

Wish I could forward you the article, been a few years. Yeah, that woke me. Russians, of whom I am not a fan, aren’t as dumb as they’re made out. They’re simply jaded as fuck.

People acting like gaming welfare is easy. Fuck me, it’s a full-time job getting anything at all.

For example: Been thinking about trying to get some food stamps. Wife works, I’m unemployed, maybe get a little of the tax money back from when I was making bank? Maybe get a pittance of unemployment? I can scarcely imagine navigating all the bullshit if I wasn’t technically capable. Kafkaesque bureaucracy indeed.

If OP got his last paycheck, done deal. Yes, he surely signed for it, but no laptop is worth the legal cost of a lawsuit.

SOURCE: Issued hundreds of laptops, of all varieties and prices, for multiple companies.

Fox News simply isn’t covering the genocide. There’s your explanation.

This is not happening in the wider world, not on any appreciable scale. Here comes lemmy:

“NOAW! People ARE switching in DROVES!”

LOL, the vast majority of people can’t spell Linux.