Your tax dollars at work! Do we need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure? Nah we need to save that money to tear down what little we have.
I planted mine already but maybe it was a mistake. We’re past the chance of frost but experienced gardeners are telling me the soil is too cold still. Also it was hailing torrentially yesterday lol. We’ll see how it works out I guess.
It’s a small garden so if they don’t make it I can always try again.
They usually use a coring device. In theory it should survive just fine although I don’t know that long term effects are well-studied.
But I mean this is one reason some big old trees have such bogus ages reported. Either they’re too big to reasonably core or they don’t want to risk any damage. Or sometimes the middle of the tree is too rotten to count the rings. It’s OK to say we don’t know the age rather than making something up.
It’s the main accurate way, at least for living trees. By the way, I’m including cross-dating here since even though it’s slightly different from ring counting, it uses the same basic idea just extended to a wider group of trees.
There are other methods but none really have a proven track record of accuracy the way tree-ring based methods do.
For well documented trees that coexisted with literate cultures, historical records can be used, though these records can sometimes be wrong. Some trees have ages from oral tradition too but these are difficult to verify.
Overall, I view non-ring-based methods with skepticism and some are outright preposterous, especially the common claims you see online which have no methodology listed. But even some published estimates using alternative techniques seem dubious. Perhaps they will be replicated and proven in the future but the evidence is tenuous today.
Also, if you didn’t count the rings then you don’t know how old the tree is. I don’t care how old your uncle thinks it is. You have no idea how often this comes up and how many completely implausible tree ages are just posted as fact on the internet.
So you think people just happened to decide on a narrow range of positions that are highly convenient to the ruling powers in society?
Modern propagandists have realized it doesn’t matter if the truth is out there—you just need to make your narrative the loudest, most available, algorithmically boosted option and most people won’t put in the effort to question what you put in front of them.
Free will is an illusion and this completely ignores the near monopoly they have on the media and information people are exposed to.
Also, this isn’t saying they cause all problems, just a lot of them in our current society.
But that never happened. We never decided that. No one even asked me. Again, I never opted in and there’s no realistic way to opt out. I’m far more afraid of the state than I am from my neighbors, and if I had a real choice, I would opt out immediately.
I think there can sometimes be tension between these two ideals, as with any two disparate goals but I think they are often more aligned than people think. Freedom from terror and violence is an important freedom as well.
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As U.S. braces for Trump, it could learn a lot from the Global South about what "resistance" really means
(www.piratewireservices.com)
I’ve got my work cut out for me. But the timing should be perfect with thanksgiving.
As promised, a more difficult nut for today!
I will give this one 3/5 difficulty.
Photo credit: Lior Golgher, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hint:
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This nut is named for its most common country of origin.
Answer and some fun facts about this nut:
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It's a Brazil nut! Brazil nuts are fairly unique among nuts one might commonly see in a grocery store. They are not a domesticated crop like most other nuts, and are mainly wild-harvested from the Amazon rainforest. Some have advocated this as a model of a sustainable economic activity in the rainforest, but other studies have noted that in areas where nuts are heavily harvested, the regeneration of the species is poor.
Tune in tomorrow for more nutty knowledge!
Despite their drab color, I find these quite beautiful!
I expect this one will be fairly easy, so the next one I post will be a bit harder.
Need a hint?
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It's in season right now, and is often cooked in a seasonal dish...
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Photo by Geo Lightspeed7 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Click here for source and answer.
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Study shows reduced inflammation in residents after adding trees to their neighborhoods
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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Study shows reduced inflammation in residents after adding trees to their neighborhoods
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
(www.scientificamerican.com)
Needs less head before crab.