in related news, water is wet. It’s almost like moncropping sod or grains with high inputs isn’t the way to go

Hey, I get it. The internet is full of trigger words, and implied meanings behind them. We try and say things on the internet against a dictionary backdrop full of hidden meanings, and people fight in the corners about what those meanings are. It’s like trying to send a messenger through no-mans land in WW1.

I don’t know how it all came to this, where everyone fights about every little nuance in wording, but it’s tiring (not pointing fingers at you). Why can’t people just have a normal conversation, and give others the benefit of the doubt? Again, not directed at you. I just miss people having honest conversations online, without it devolving into slapfights. Everyone is SO dug into their opinions.

I’m showing my age, aren’t I?

I’m probably more centerist than your average punk. I am definitely liberal, but not hard left. That’s beside the point when it comes to violence.

On violence - you can post whatever “fuck the government/system/police” memes you want, but you can’t post 'hehe got my local MP a little surprise for Christmas 🥰😘 picture of pipe bomb" style content here. You cannot call for people to hurt other people, even if you’re ‘joking’.

Personally, I don’t see violence as a means to an end. I don’t see it as acceptable because it just perpetuates itself, and once it starts the lines of morality get very blurry very fast. If anything, it just entrenches the opposing side and strengthens their resolve.

Not my thing.

I’m more into the femme fatale thing - a woman who won’t try and fix me, but try to make me worse, or promise my demise.

Trying to get Wendussy is right in that second camp

Guy in comic: … Is… Is it pink?
Wendigess: … It’s green, and natuery and natural
Guy: … Yeah… Yeah that makes sense…

Awkward silence

Solar punk leaning memes. We aren’t hyper picky, and welcome shitposts from all walks of life provided there’s some sort of connection to solar punk, nature, or ecology.

Anarchism also fits here, as that’s an aspect of solar punk, but it’s not as good of a fit, as some of those memes can be a slippery slope with regards to rebelling against existing systems. By all means, rebel, but calling for violence is off limits as it can indirectly implicate the larger community.

Awww they got married

Honestly, I don’t know. I just dredged it up out of my meme folder.

Nothing, really, other than fitting the vibe to a degree. I don’t want to post it to comics, because they are picky about OS artist credit, it’s not a science meme, it could go in shitposts, but I post just about everything else there, and it’s not a microblog meme.

Oh, we’ve completely fucked ecosystem balance. That said, that doesn’t mean human managed ecosystems are bad, or that actively managing ecosystems is bad. It’s just a lot of work, and you have to figure out what you want that ecosystem to look like and what function it will have.

Arguably, self sustaining (e.g., natural) ecosystems are ideal soley because we don’t have to manage them.

There is also value natural ecosystems because that’s how they evolved, and everything fits nicely, but we’ve long since impacted all ecosystems to some degree so the point is kind of moot.

I agree with a lot of what you said.

We are pretty boned though. Look at COVID - it was actively killing people right in front of our eyes and we still bickered about what the right approach was and squabbled even when we knew it.

Climate change is a slower poison, unfortunately, and humans don’t do well with things that are tomorrow’s problem

I was thinking the other day, we need to get drone tech caught up to the point where we can use it in forest management to catch fires early.

I know forests need to burn, but we need to be able to control them, and manage them with prescribed burns.

We use Hori Hori knives or other fixed blades to poke around the pit. I was partial to the wood handled Mora knives early on in my career. They were about $10 - much cheaper than they are now. I found a good substitute in the later part of my career which had a blunted point. That held up pretty well.

Old.slrpnk.net is shutting down? Awww. I’m on mobile about 80% of the time via voyager, but use the old.slrpnk when I’m on a desktop simply because that’s where I land when I enter slrpnk.net into the address bar, but also because I like the layout. How do I access the new front end? I don’t really love photon so I’m interested to try the other option

I was this close to banning you lol.

A - topsoil Horizon. This should have a modifier, but for some reason doesn’t

E - Eluviated horizon - means stuff washed out

Bhs - subsoil with accumulated organic and sesquioxides (Fe and Al oxides)

Bs - subsoil with more sesquioxides

Bw - subsoil - minimal soil development

Normally there is a C horizon, which indicates parent geological material, but I don’t know why they didn’t call it here.

Its a classic now.

Also how am I that fucking old already.

Young Sarah Jessica Parker made me feel funny when I was just a trowel, not the mighty shovel you see before you.

5000 live cricket

Cattail fluff would do a fantastic job

Euufh. Yeah that’s not great. If you busted things up you’ll probably be ok. Easier to decompact beds like that than an in situ garden