Jeepers. Yah that is crazy. Yah on the standards topic I refer to the Florida surgeon general, he is a lapdog for the governor despite being board certified. Its crazy.

Emphasis on medical professionals, not politicians or their feelings!

My general thought on this is as the world heats up from climate change or whatever you want to call it, plate shifting in general is going to start accelerating…simply from the thermal expansion as everything on this planet slowly heats up. I wouldn’t be surprised that we see more frequent earthquakes or earthquakes in areas that typically don’t have a high frequency of occurrence.

Circle of life indeed. Pretty close to the insect equivalent of a vulture. I hear the flies are actually pretty tasty to eat but yah, I have not tried that lol.

Thanks for writing this out, its my experience as well. Take the recent world cup for example, price gouging at every step of the way. The local MLS games are a little cheaper but still every food/beer/drink/snack vendor in the stadium is charging >$10 for one item. Its just crazy. Even a local baseball team that is in the junior leagues is that much now. Sorry this ended up being a rant about sports but its the same across the board. Look at malls, they are being bulldozed in our area for apartments. So what do you do for fun that doesn’t cost $100…there are outdoor activities in parks and local sports facilities if your town is lucky to have them. I guess this is just me rambling about how expensive even the cheap and fun things used to be. Sigh.

Thats per year, which is insane. here is a screen grab from Barnard, the first one in the list

I have nothing meaningful to contribute but just wanted to say thanks for sharing. Cool find!

Good to know and thank you for the comment. That helps me gage how much effort I need to put into keeping a screen going. Thanks and hope you have a great weekend.

Indeed…reminds me of another country that takes pride in skimming off the top of the budget while claiming to have the best military hardware. No doubt the Iranians have been preparing for decades…hence why no one has ever attempted this idiocracy.

Is Iran that good or does the US just suck? That is bonkers

Yah I follow a similar approach in addition to doing a simple search for well known malicious commands like rm -rf / and some others as well.

Thanks and I love the IFAS documentation. So much wonderful information there and I reference it quite a bit. I usually have the tropical milkweed mixed in with Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata) and that attracts a variety of native bees and butterflies as well. I’ll have to give those other milkweed species a try again…Thanks.

Pluchea odorata

Thanks. Yah I am in the southeast states, zone 9a, and it dies off every year. I’ve heard about the issues growing tropical milkweed relating to monarchs. I’ve tried cultivating/growing from seed other species of milkweed as well but they just cant handle the heat like the tropical does.