NW Florida. Not legal to grab them, but I’ve moved some to my swampy camp in the boondocks. Growing some in a buried trashcan pond, getting seeds to spread around.

Worked tech support for an ISP. The tech side was well managed and smart. (Left when that changed.)

The customer service side fielded TV and account related calls. They were driven by average calls times. What a cluster. Guess who straight hung up on customers when the call went too long? Some people would call be 4-5 times.

Meanwhile, we could take all the time it took to resolve. A 1-hour call is way cheaper than rolling a truck. Yet some assholes would roll trucks for nothing, then bitch there were no trucks left.

I water all my indoor plants with rainwater, makes a stunning difference.

I’ve seen both conditions with pitcher plants, don’t know what to think.

The swamp down the street is packed with nutrients, has to be, and that’s where I’ve seen them thrive. OTOH, I’ve seen fields of them where it’s marshy, but I’d guess the soil is thin like everywhere else around here.

Western Left: Terrified of guns, won’t touch one, thinks we can vote our way out.

Me: Ready for when Red Shirts come.

“NO! It won’t work like that!!”

Women, LGBT and minorities are the largest gun buying demographic:

“NO! Not like that!!”

The Ukrainians got a clue. Do you?

Used to mean hygienic care. “Performing your toilet” in the morning used to encompass washing your face, brushing your teeth, whatever it is that a given person does to clean up. Makes a good generic term for all that, without including particular acts.

In the Discworld books witches are much like local doctors. There’s a young witch that can’t convince a family to move the privy away from the garden, which is making them sick. She tries to explain there are tiny, tiny animals that are coming from the poop and that’s what’s making them ill. They smile politely and don’t change anything.

The old witch comes along and it explains that the problem is the goblins in the outhouse and to move it far away from the garden. They happily do so.

We are solidly on the same page.

LOL, you’re vastly overestimating company’s IT abilities, funding and give-a-shit motivation. As to money, now you gotta hire people to watch people. No matter how automated, there’s a cost and additional personnel need.

And if the corporation is technically competent enough to manage all that mess, that’s probably a company with skilled workers who will leave under such conditions.

She’s the most beautiful woman in the world is who she is. Alien? Fine by me!

Buried an 80G trash can in the yard, made a water garden. Took a slightly smaller plastic window box, drilled holes in the sides and bottom, screwed it to the side.

Transplanted Sarracenia and sundews are going nicely crazy. (I know, not legal to grab them out the wild, but I’m working on growing more and have reintroduced them to my swamp in the boonies.)

BONUS: We got dragonflies hovering around! And the trees frogs are back! Love me some insectivores, plant or animal.

Pitcher plants and sundews aren’t nearly as picky as fly traps. Those things evolved in a very particular environment, whereas pitchers and sundews are more forgiving.

I kayak the local swamp, and sundews and pitchers go nuts in everyday direction of light. Serious. I was trying to judge which direction they thrived in, don’t matter. They grow robustly on every side of the stumps, north, south, shady, full sun, whatever. Just gotta stay wet(ish)!

I’ve got some I stole from the local swamp and the tops are way higher, in full sun. Working on spreading them around in the wild.

Agreed that they’ll turn more color with more light! But OP is doing great with that in a window.

You’re a bit mixed up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

There was a thriving black community in the Greenwood district. The whites resented “thriving” and “black” being in the same place. Read on and draw your own conclusions.

Same age. Dad taught me to always clean the windshield when we filled up. Yeah.

How odd that it’s only old men! Being that minorities, women and LGBT people are the largest gun buying demographic, you would think they’d be carrying as well.

I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.

It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.

🤔 I water mine regular, and they’re happy campers.

Could a reply be any more perfect?!

Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

“Woe is me!”

I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

“Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”

“1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”