Wasps are super important, besides the direct pollinators there are those that parasitize various caterpillars, including invasive ones. I do as much as possible to make wasps at home in my area.

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Did you mean the Genoese navigator Cristoforo Colombo?

I think it is using Latin vs Greek suffixes

Probably related to why America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.

I see no reason why anyone could properly disapprove of a name derived from that of Amerigo, the discoverer, a man of sagacious genius. A suitable form would be Amerige, meaning Land of Amerigo, or America, since Europe and Asia have received women’s names.

This article is pretty good in that it points out that Thailand has regulations in place to limit who large quantities are sold to. As always the problem is not legitimate sellers, but illegal sales.

And of course illegal sales will happen no matter the regulatory framework. This just hurts legitimate sellers, and the exchequer through decreased revenue .

Durov is full of shit

https://istories.media/en/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-has-visited-russia-more-than-50-times-since-his-exile-in-2014/

Daddy Putin is not going to be happy if his Shahed drone source is cutoff

From the same source, Blacklight is really good.

https://themarkup.org/series/blacklight

Blacklight is a Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector. Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site

So you can see what’s happening on a site before you visit it

There must be some interesting behind the scenes to this, considering trump has repeatedly threatened their sovereignty in Greenland

The DoD had a plan to attack the U.S. and blame it on Cuba. Not an invasion, but attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

There is the 2A left, and the people who were active in places like weekendgunnit (broadly anti government, with a lot else mixed in) on Reddit that are both very anti Russia, or at least anti Russian imperialism. So pro gun doesn’t always equate to pro conservative.

I’m honestly not sure. I’ve lived and worked in developing countries, so I have seen what happens when someone gets sent to another country for work. Remittances are very high, and can lead to a better quality of life for those in the home country. That’s certainly not guaranteed though.

My comment was about addressing the barely disguised racism of “they’re stealing our jobs”

This is hardly a U.S. issue though. Dubai has south and southeast Asians, Malaysia has Laotians and Cambodians, Italy has Albanians, Argentina (before it went to shit) had paraguayans, Spanish Guardiennes have been a thing forever in Paris, on and on.

Murica, nothing says liberation like an occupying military force

I have had this argument so many times that I’ve given up.

Conservatives believe that once the job stealing immigrants are gone

• farmers will raise wages to at least minimum wage
• American workers will want to pick strawberries in the blazing fucking sun
• this will not lead to increased prices

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Nah, she seems sweet

Edit: Amazing how many images of this photo have Weinstein cropped out. I’m sure it’s a coincidence

Do you have problems reading this? On mobile I use ironfox, but I can read this fine with chromite too. I am in ‘France’ using Orbot. I also have tailored DNS blocking.

This is an honest question because I never have issues with the Guardian, with Cromite I occasionally get a ‘Please register/ I’ll do it later’ message. With ironfox I don’t even get that.

Isn’t it not just cheap rice, but cheap Japanese rice? People in Asia are very particular about rice. They should be, rice from Japan, China, Cambodia, Taiwan, etc. all have a different taste. Nationalism plays in to it, but they are different. I think rice might be the ultimate Terroir crop.

I have a friend who is First Violin who swears by The Firebird, the piano reduction, while on acid. I find it too much, but I’m not First Violin, and he’s done way more drugs than I have, so there’s that.

When they said it was going to be refloated and serviceable in a month. It’s basically scrap at this point. WWII ships you could salvage, modern stuff is kilometres of cabling connected to computers. Fix the hull and replace everything inside. Unless this isn’t as advanced as it’s made out to be.