@AmaraD25896 I agree. But knowing what I know now I’d skip the fancy rings and we’d just buy $40 Qalo silicone rings, because that’s literally what we wear now
The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.
Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.
Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.
The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.
Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."
They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.
If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.
This is a super important clip (linked timestamp) from @mattkratter that cyrstallized the entire issue between knots and core for me.
If you own Bitcoin, give this a listen.
Great show @knutsvanholm
https://t.co/Gk0HhUQzsi
I have some DMSO, got it for something else, but never used it because it’s concentrated and I wasn’t confident in application based on what I could find on the Internet. But I will break it out of my bathroom cabinet and ask AI about dosage and application.
Appreciate the insights.
Thus begins night 3 of sleeping on the couch due to uncontrollable coughing. Most of the family is working through it but in the only it keeps up coughing through the night
My ENT would probably recommend FESS surgery at this point.
I don’t know if I have an overactive cough response or what, but I do have an intense cough almost any time I got a cold or something, and then I think with my sinuses Things just don’t drain enough.
It’s super annoying and I can’t imagine having these symptoms when I’m much older, like a 70-year-old with pneumonia.
For that reason, I am strongly considering surgery at some point to open that up more.
There are times in my life where it’s been three months of coughing after getting a cold
@BTCWealthWar My tenant lost her job last month, has been late virtually every month the past year and is no 2 months late. Said she’d pay from a pension payout? We’ll see. Might have to take action this month, or get one of her boys who are working to contribute
LAC Lithium Americas.
DOE took a 5% direct equity stake plus another 5% in the Thacker Pass joint venture. The largest confirmed lithium deposit in North America.
$2.23B government loan backing it, with $625M from GM. 1,800 workers on site. First production late 2027.
Jesus wanted you to "monitor the situation" somewhat. Not too much, but you need to understand the "perplexities of nations" and "watch therefore."
Hard to understand all this without understanding the monetary system.
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