This won’t work for all flowers, but some seeds will still ripen off the bush. You could try cutting just some of the spent blooms, maybe with a bit more stem or even some supporting leaves, but I don’t know if that matters. Pile them somewhere nearby/accessible to birds and just check back in a couple weeks to see if they ripened on their own. Weeds do it all the time and some native plants, like aster, evening primrose, or mustard families may do the same.

I’m not sure what specifically is meant by phonics. My grandma taught first grade for 30 years, ending around 2000. She said when phonics came in “that’s just teaching reading” and when phonics went out “well, obviously we still have to teach how the alphabet works” and when phonics came in again “eye roll”. So, whatever the school leadership says, my guess is kids are learning phonics.

I don’t have any suggestion off-hand, but I understand your request and actually have been reading so much less the past couple years just to avoid the heightened emotional tones that seem so pervasive. I want to read to learn and understand but I don’t need calls to action or tugs on my heartstrings or the sort of smug outrage and moralism that is everywhere – those come from all the rest of life.

Remember that the stories you hear are always going to be the ones that are most controversial, otherwise they would not be news. The day in day out work of the FDA is enormous and most of it, I believe, necessary for the level of trust in what you find on the shelf, what you’re doctor recommends, what your pharmacist hands you, that we enjoy.

I don’t want to have to know my farmer, my chemical compounder, my importer, my distributor, my restaurant chef, etc, etc, for every stupid thing just to avoid eating lead or feeding hepatitis to my kids.

The loudest complaints-- selling raw milk is technically illegal? they allow red food coloring as long as you list it in the ingredients? they may or may not allow you to call oat liquid a “milk”?-- sound pretty small to me, and also even these issues are reviewed and discussed more or less transparently in response to people’s concerns.

Set “office hours” and stick to them. She can make a list of things to do. Maybe it needs to be 20 min every evening, or maybe just once or twice a week. My partner has a similar (but more minor) problem, and this has worked both increasing self-help and making the time spent more enjoyable. Though I’m sure it helps that the needy person doesn’t live with us. Good luck

Dude, this just makes me mad about the big box stores, you’ve got aisle after aisle of poisons, herbicide, pesticide, weed n feed, moss off, etc. I know the agriculture use is bigger, but the home/landscaper market has big margins for these companies and they push hard to make it seem normal. The suburbs could be a haven for insects and songbirds instead of a dumping ground for chemical waste.

Yeah, in the yard, though, not the driveway, that’s all.

I once thought so, but in my experience with maples and fir needles it works really well. Much easier than raking for wet stuff. Of course, the correct way is to wait until all of the leaves have fallen (enjoy Autumn to its fullest) and then round them up once for the whole season. Every week or two is why everyone hates leaf blowers.

Lol, Apple thinks it’s user base is annoyed by the length and subtilty of headlines. AI to the rescue!

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Some people just want to be criminals. They are gamblers or just enjoy feeling superior

Of all the times to worry about being perceived as opportunistic “on the way out”. After a year of worrying about perception “during the campaign”. And three other years of “reaching across the aisle”. Like trying to choose a place to eat with my family except it’s the direction of our country in a time of rapid global change.

I thought I would miss things or be tempted by them so much more than actually happened. My own cooking is still not as tasty to me as before, but I’ve got enough of a repertoire of good meals to be comfortable with it. Main thing is I am pretty much never excited about restaurants anymore…

Ok, but you don’t get to act disappointed if you never had any expectations.

The world will get warmer and the weather crazier, but there are still upsides to intelligent predictions and coordinated response. You should prepare for the worst, but the not-worst also requires preparation.

I understand this take–it’s what my dad always said: why put low-flow toilet in his house when most water is wasted industrially, it’s just theatrics, whatever.

But, I hate it. And the whole “virtue signaling” thing. Yes, we sometimes communicating our values through performance. We also demonstrate our commitment through real changes in our habits and life choices, even when the results don’t add up to much.

In the end we are asking representatives and leaders and business owners and little VPs of whatever to stand up for these same values and the fact is each of them can make the same excuse as my dad: sure, I could put up a sign to say “bring your own take home container” but look at those boxcars full of Styrofoam every day – it makes no difference.

What I saw with carbon footprint is business starting to cater to people who wanted to avoid unnecessary plastic, live or work in efficient buildings, etc. Now I feel like things are snapping back as the pressure from consumers is off. The plastic in grocery stores is for me the most visible thing-- it’s just gone crazy.

In many ways, you are free to live in compliance with the laws you seek now. And doing so helps prove it is possible, enjoyable, and popular way better than whatever letter to the editor you are planning to write.

I think it’s pretty clear extreme fatness (and the resulting dependence) was either intentional to keep everyone basically sedated for 700 years, or the natural side effect of that sedation.

Any trading afterwards doesn’t effect their bottom line at all.

I’m no expert, but I think this really depends on the company. They often retain a significant percent of shares, and once public they are governed by a board of shareholders who can and do direct policy with the company. Not to mention a widely held belief that public companies are legally bound to protect their stock price, which affects decision-making throughout the company.

The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937.[3] In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war.[4][5] As a result, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Israel took control of West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone. Jordan took control of East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank, annexing it the following year. The territory which became the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt but never annexed. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, both the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip have been militarily occupied by Israel, becoming known as the Palestinian territories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

Basically from the beginning until 2014, that has been the basis of every proposal.

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