Manjushri

My thought is that I am not likely to trust a self help book written by someone with a ten minute old account and posting in the wrong community.

Do you mean the Gros Michel banana ? It went commercially extinct in the '60s due to a fungus. So, yeah, probably not coming back. Sadly, the Cavendish banana is also subject to the same fungus so may also get wiped out at some point in the future.

But Race 4 (also known as TR4 or fusarium wilt), the new version of Panama disease that started affecting crops in the subtropics in the 1980s and wiping them out, has since moved to infect crops in the Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, India, Mozambique, and Australia. In 2019, Colombia declared a national disaster when it was discovered there. As it inches closer to Latin America, the likelihood of losing the Cavendish increases.

It successfully got a false positive that resulted in a black kid getting swarmed by police. Job well done, amirite?

It wasn’t even in his hand.

The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

This was a good kid who crumbled up the bag and stuck it in his pocket instead of littering, and he gets traumatized by a bunch of cops for it. Hell, he could have lost his life if an acorn had fallen at the wrong moment.

Like, for example, when Google’s AI told users to add Elmer’s glue to the sauce to keep cheese from sliding off their pizza. And it got the information from u/Fucksmith in an 11 year old Reddit post.

SNAP benefits are still cut off so needy children are suffering, but at least rich people can still buy their toys.

The complaint, based on internal Meta documents the states’ attorneys obtained through subpoenas, alleges that Meta periodically presents young users with “psychologically and emotionally gripping content,” including violent content, to increase engagement.

Intentionally showing graphic violent content to young users in order to drive engagement is a vile practice. That Meta has a history of manipulating people’s emotional state for profit is bad enough. Doing it to children should be a crime.

Earlier Wednesday, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue and Caldwell Police Chief Rex Ingram said the FBI, not ICE, led the raid. In a joint statement, they called the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s statement that gave ICE credit for the raid “completely false and a serious misrepresentation of the facts.”

So now they’re arguing about who gets credit for abusing and violating the civil rights of children.

it is perfectly normal for girls and very young women to be married and bare children

Yes. Bare children. Just the way the GOP likes them.

Because their the ones who will be prosecuted under the law if they allow a kid to play on the wrong team.

OP must have noticed it on tons of far-right web pages.

Portable compressors can’t really handle the volume: they take forever and overheat.

Do you specifically mean battery powered compressors? I have a portable one that plugs into the lighter socket and works fine. I end up using it periodically when the weather turns cold and the pressure in the tires naturally drops. I’ve never tried putting more than a five or six pounds of pressure in though.

A 10,000 mAh power bank with attachments to jump start your car or charge your phone. Also has a built in flashlight. It’s come in handy on a few occasions now.

I understand that there are new ones now that also have a built in air compressor for pumping up your car tires, but I don’t know how good they are.

If you live someplace where weed is legal, eat a quarter to an eighth of a gummy. Not enough to feel any sort of high, but it really worked well for me for work related stress.

Hah, beat me by 17 seconds!

Yet? What kind of idiot would imagine that X would or could provide actual secure communication?

What is the justification for pointing guns at people who are just minding their own business?

It’s a performance piece. ICE acts like this because they are pretending that they are actually the ones under threat. That they are really fighting to survive in a lawless land where every man’s hand is against them. The truth, of course, is that the main threat to anyone in the area is ICE itself, but they have to maintain the optics otherwise the media might wake up and realize that ICE’s main opposition in Portland are people dancing around in inflatable frog costumes.

Plants need us animals to turn that oxygen they produce back into carbon dioxide for them.

The only way this makes sense is if he’s planning on never leaving.

This is Idaho in 20 years. If they successfully spread this madness, it could be the whole US.