Pests reproduce fast. Their predators reproduce slowly. That's why, if you spray chemicals in your yard, you'll always have pests.
After a broad pesticide application, aphids can rebuild a full population in a week, but the ladybugs that were keeping them in check will take a season to return, if they return at all.
A yard that gets sprayed regularly is always one warm week away from a pest outbreak.
King Memnon of Aethiopia was in the Trojan war and was killed by Achilles in a duel. He arrived at the war with his Aethiopian army to save Troy after Hector was slain
Atheiopia was a descriptive term for all of sub-Saharan Africa at the time
Homer describes the war as a global event with participants hailing from all over the world, specifically saying they spoke multiple languages
Troy itself was an Anatolian trading hub
The Odyssey can be adapted into a space movie and it would still be relevant. Adaptations is how we honor those works and the lessons within them
You are a small small man who views life from a lense that cheapens it
The absolute most amazing thing about Mamdani is that instead of saying “socialism is about a revolution that will upend all things,” he’s obsessed with how the state can improve people’s lives in tangible ways they can see and feel.
Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.
this is the real problem. all these poor animals died to feed someone, and instead the meat goes in the trash. this should be highly illegal on a planet w finite resources, and instead its an economic guarantee under capitalism
israel got a win by forfeit against lithuania even though they played the match and lithuania swept them
they got the win because they filed a complaint with fifae about one of the players playing for lithuania wearing a palestinian flag antenna during the match 😐