To be fair, I do love mockingbirds, and mockingbirds love mowed lawns :)

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I completely agree that second hand goods and clothing are a vital part of anything punk. Especially if there’s a particular brand or model that’s routinely found secondhand in good condition, due to its durability or whatever - that’s the sort of information we should share with one another.

I wouldn’t want to see too harsh a sourcing requirement for secondhand goods, even. It’s not like you can prove a statement like “I see these at yard sales all the time” even if you do. And even posts about things that are rare and difficult to find are valuable posts, because they let people know “hey, if you see this at a yard sale, you should grab it”.

Maybe require that every post has a sourcing statement - “this is where I got X” - and require that either the item is still sold or you acquired it secondhand recently indicating the item is currently available secondhand. That will disallow the “I inherited this refrigerator fifty years ago, they don’t build them like this anymore, I refill it with bootleg Mexico CFCs and it runs like a dream” kind of posts and still allow for secondhand and vintage stuff.

Instant Pots aren’t a fad anymore, either, so you can probably pick one up used cheap or on a buy nothing group.

I don’t use my instant pot for rice because a saucepan is simpler and easier to clean, but I’m happy with it and I’m sure it would work just fine for rice.

Frankly, no, it doesn’t.

I think there are two grades of cast iron pans today: the cheap, heavy, extra rough surfaced, relatively easily cracking generic Chinese cast iron you find in Walmart store brands, and everything else. Lodge is at the bottom of the “everything else” pile; it’s a little heavier and rougher than vintage Griswold or high end modern pans, but the difference is really not that big, and it’s still durable enough to outlast you and your grandkids.

And honestly, even the cheapest $10 Walmart skillet cooks just fine and will probably last for decades. Season the pan well and you won’t see or taste any difference in the final product.

The thing about invasive species is that they’re invasive. If you want to fill your yard with native species, you have to keep protecting those native species and removing invasive species before they get a foothold, for years, until the invasive weed seeds in the soil bank have run out and the native species are big and healthy enough to outcompete whatever invasive seeds blow in.

Any other advice people would give you depends on where your yard is. In desert climates sand or stone can be low maintenance. In wetter climates, there are low and slow growing native ground covers that can replace grass (I’ve heard good things about clover). In prairie states, seed your yard with prairie grasses and put up a fence with a sign saying “rewilded prairie do not mow” 😆

There’s a Sea Shepherd ship captain, Pia Klemp, facing twenty years in an Italian prison because she rescued drowning migrants. Because, in government terms, by bringing them to safety on land she smuggled aliens into Italy.

And she’s just one of the most well known cases in the West. A fisherman in Greece got 280 years in prison for piloting a single ship of migrants to shore after the actual smugglers fled the ship.

Saying the governments of Italy, Greece, Turkey, etc, don’t care about migrant lives understates the situation. They want migrants to die at sea, and they punish people who bring them to land.

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