I've got three and I've been trying to grow each from seed:
- Dawn Redwood because it has an incredible backstory, it is a true redwood contrary to popular belief, and It easily grows where I'm at.
- Giant Sequoia because they are massive, it is also a true redwood, and it can allegedly grow where I'm at.
- Cedar of Lebanon because I grew up in one of the many U.S. towns of Lebanon named for the trees as referenced in that religious book and I remember the original Cedar of Lebanon referenced in that story I linked.
Unfortunately, I can't get the Giant Sequoias past a few inches tall while even acknowledging their infamous 20% germination rate. The Cedar of Lebanon seeds I can't even get to germinate but I also haven't found as much academic literature on cultivating them from seeds.
Shoutout to the Ginkgo Biloba for being one of the OG trees, also.
That makes sense. I've long been frustrated by the realization that most American adults have reduced our politics down to a game like some sporting event. To so many it's just my team versus your team above all else with no real rational thought being applied to the candidates or policies being proposed. Sure, a lot of people will give you why their team is the side of good and the other team is the side of evil, but given the greater context, it's always seemed like a post-hoc rationalization. -When politics function that way, it's no surprise that children might poll along the same lines because voters are acting like and using the logic of children.
That is what "genocide" means.
In some states the major parties got certain candidates banned. Here in indiana the Green party is banned even as a write-in (try to make that make sense) but Cornel West as an independent is accepted and so is PSL candidate Claudia De la Cruz. In Georgia Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz are banned while the Green Party's Jill Stein is allowed. It's worth checking out each candidates website to see which states they have "ballot access"...
[addendum] I feel like i'm committing an injustice if I don't mention the Libertarian party which also has ballot access in every state, though I adamantly disagree with them.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
- Julius Nyerere
This could be a good opportunity to explore 3rd party and independent candidates that could really use your vote. There are some small benefits to voting 3rd party or independent over staying at home. Helping get a party to 5% popular vote gets them some public campaign funding in their next general election. It also shows the two Major parties that you are willing to vote, but you don't like their platform. -That's worth something. Lastly, politicians in the major parties like to co-opt policy ideas that originated in smaller parties. Did you know that AOC's previously proposed Green New Deal idea did not originate in the Democrat party?
Well, I ask because the implications of your previous posts in this thread seem to be that you think third party supporters should just vote Democrat and work to change the voting process to RCV at the ground level but you don't want to do it yourself. Then once they suggest you work on it...
“Am I supposed to do that for every cause I believe in or just the ones you say I should?”
so I asked if you believed in RCV, and anyways... There's this famous quote that says "If you aren't acting on your beliefs, then they probably don't exist." -maybe you don't subscribe to that but my experience voting for the Democrat party is that they like a lot of things that are nice ideas, but in reality they don't ever intend to act on them as if they believe in those ideas.
I'm disappointed that the article couldn't give specific examples even if there was variation in responses.
He alludes to sanctions being a factor but never clarifies on advice from his lawyers. ngl I don't like the look of it just from a transparency perspective.
"Am I supposed to do that for every cause I believe in or just the ones you say I should?"
Are you suggesting you don't believe in RCV?
Many Democrat voters do believe the propaganda, and I imagine it largely keeps them in line so they don't start looking elsewhere. I've heard multiple Democrat voting family members and friends specifically state this year that they think "The Green party only exists to siphon off Democrat votes" It's not just bots. Media is saying it because astroturfing works, unfortunately.
it's an outlier for sure. I don't think I have a specific use-case for it as a distro but I do find it more respectable than Android.
it's an alternative to GNU/Linux proposed by Richard Stallman. I use it because I don't want to write out as much and I still want to differentiate from my use of Android's OS which is also technically Linux but it's not GNU.
I was formally studying Software Development before I came here, and yeah, I've been a sort of techie for the better part of 24 years. Been a LiGNUx user for probably a combined 18 years. If it wasn't for FOSS I probably would have lost interest long ago, because when I recently tried out some new hobbies I was shocked as I was reminded how much other basic activities cost to seriously engage in. I also happened to migrate from that other website you mentioned, but that's not important. I really wanted to simply find other forums that weren't based on one centralized website. Lemmy is kind of a compromise with that for me.
Even if you don't have a Verizon version initially, when you switch over to them as a carrier, they may push an update to your phone thatt locks the owner out of a bunch of features.
I discovered this when my unlocked Galaxy S8 was moved fron Consumer Cellular to Verizon. -It sucks that after 20+ years they still have better coverage.
This would be like producing an engraving based on a altered photograph, and as I said earlier, it would be worth consulting with an IP attorney.
Well I agree with you on that but unless you have verifiable credentials as an authority on the subject then your judgement and seeming disagreement on the subject also doesn't matter. To go around cavalierly making unverfiable claims (like I'm also responding to) about the judgements over intellectual property law does nothing good for anyone, but leaves many susceptible (including yourself) to Dunning–Kruger and confirmation bias.
I'm gonna have to agree to disagree with you on that. There are far too many example of just that in everyday life.
being an impression or an engraving of photograph is pretty transformative. This claim is a loser in court.