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[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Congrats! Thick leather gloves are fantastic for thorns, so that's what I would recommend. I'm a glutton for punishment, though, and when I don't have my leather gloves I'll still dig through thorny plants, albeit veeeery gently. That's normally if I'm just pruning small patches of blackberry or roses, though and also I'm a masochist lol.

If a ton of the thorny plants are blackberry, it might be a good idea to hire someone to clear it. I've never done so but they are voracious growers. You may know this, but any branch that touches the ground can put off new roots and grow even more and so on. Unless you can dig out all of the roots, just going through and cutting is a losing game, unless you get it cut back to where it's manageable and you don't mind pruning regularly.

As for garden clippings, composting is the way. You do want to make sure that you aren't getting any weeds in your compost, though, otherwise they will profilerate and your compost soil will just spread more weeds. Again, you may know this, but for browns, save any unbleached paper that you can. Torn up cardboard, newspaper, napkins,coffee filters, paper grocery bags, chopped up twigs/wood chips/shavings, dryer Lint. If you can shred your brown foliage that's great as well. If there is a farm/feed store somewhat close to you, you can buy straw for fairly cheap and that will last forever depending on the size of the compost pile.

Also, if you can look into native flowers for your area and scatter a ton of seed once you've cleared out weeds, they can help to eventually keep the weed population under control. Clover helps with this, too and can be good ground cover. Just wanna make sure it's not invasive in your area and it doesn't choke out your natives

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't really noticed that, but I also haven't dug into the comments too much recently. But, of course if thousands upon thousands of redditors jump onto this platform it's going to change the culture. Maybe try beehaw.org. they are.known for blocking a ton of instances but i think it's heavily moderated towards people being trolls.

It's my hope that a lot of the people who want to turn lemmy into reddit will get bored and leave since the interface isn't as convenient as reddit

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Experiencing one symptom of autism does not make you autistic.

I'd suggest exploring Embrace Autism and take some of the tests if you suspect that you might be. That would be a good jumping off point.

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

!stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works just found one, woo!

Www.lemmyverse.net rules when it comes to finding communities

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I checked out the UE website a while ago, it seems like they are a very democratic, radical union and I hope these workers succeed and see results. We're all so fucking tired of being exploited

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

This was happening to me on jerboa with my lemmy.ml account for a week or so; I think the app is still just wigging out due to the influx of users. I'd just wait it out and use the browser on mobile and it will probably come around as I don't have issues with that now. Or try reinstalling?

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.ml was just upgraded pretty substantially a couple of weeks ago with the first large reddit exodus, so unless there is a ton more monetary support from users, i don't really know that the problem will be solved. It's been like this since the 29th. Jerboa is all but unusable for me unless it's late at night.

Generally it is suggested to jump to a different instance and your performance may improve, lemmy.ml has been way overloaded for a long time

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

What exactly are you concerned about? Like are there any particular outcomes that scare you? I doubt that anything you take would make a huge, substantial, permanent change that you would notice, but again this is all just my assumption but I've taken reishi, kava, ginseng, all kinds of tea etc and I haven't noticed drastic changes after my body metabolizes it

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So as I've said before when introducing myself here, I'm not super familiar with theory and I do want to learn more. But, this does seem to come off condescending to me. It sounds like he really respected you and absorbed a lot of what you shared with him. Have you ever read any anarchist theory? If not, it seems really disrespectful for you to completely dismiss his point of view without paying him any respect to even try to read any anarchist literature. Even from a strategic standpoint, you could do some reading simply so you could come from a place where you could counter some of his beliefs. If I were your friend I would feel completely dismissed and talked down to.

Imo, if he is active in his community trying to change living conditions for people instead of simply larping as an accelerationist, it doesn't matter that he's an anarchist or communist. And trying to understand his point of view instead of dismissing him will go a long way to get him to come back around to your own politics.

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I signed up with beehaw first, but realized that they were defederated from lemmygrad, which I wanted access to. As I became more acquainted with lemmy and started looking into the "flavors" of the different instances, I joined lemmy.ml because they are unapologetic communists and won't defederate with lemmygrad.

As an aside, it's fucking insane to me that lemmygrad is so controversial yet there's crickets about exploding-heads and people are happy to be on instances that don't block them. Cool

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

THANK YOU for posting the full article!!

I really hope that actual concrete moves are made to initiate disbursement of reparations. I find it interesting, however, that they open the article talking about the failures of police reform. It's like after poloticians saw the power of the people after the George Floyd uprisings, they want to increase police militarization and just throw money at the people who created the movement to placate them. The kind of money they are talking about can be life changing, but it isn't going to solve the problem of police violence against black people. Both should be addressed.

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dang that's cool, I'll have to try some! Yeah, I mean they do affect how your brain functions in the moment, similar to coffee, green tea, alcohol, etc. But it seems that there may be more long term changes, if we look at the lions mane example. Sounds like a super interesting thing to do a deep dive on, though! Idk if there is a whole lot of scientific literature on them but I like to find peer reviewed scientific articles. If you read just the abstract and the conclusion you usually are able to get the info you're looking for

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