Thank you kind stranger. I will look into it.

The only heartbreaking part is that before we moved in there were perennial flowers planted along the edge of the garden, I guess it was a flower garden for the previous owners, and I’m not sure I can save them before I go scorched earth on the rest of the area.

My bad. Probably auto correct messing me up again.

I’ll update my post. Thank you kind stranger.

My current grass is patchy, I’m certain there’s little or no nitrogen. I’ve been meaning to pick up a small bag of clover seeds and at least augment my lawn with them to make it a bit more green at least.

I’m fortunate that I was able to get a battery electric mower for my home shortly after moving in. So there’s no inconvenient gas fetching and mixing, just a pair of bigass fuck off batteries that live on the charger between mows.

The real problem is that we have a garden in the back that I want to set up as a vegetable garden and I just haven’t had time to do the work and it’s currently over run with weeds. I’ll get to it eventually. I’m planning on killing everything currently in the garden with some kind of weed killer, not sure what yet exactly, but I’ve seen some places recommend a soap/brine mix that seems effective. Then cover it with that black landscaping/gardening fabric so shit doesn’t grow for a while, if that’s successful, build raised beds and fill them with fresh, untainted soil and grow veggies there… It’s going to be a project and I have no idea how I’m going to find time or money to do it, but the way things are going, I can’t afford not to do it.

Anyways. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I guess?

Frick. I moved into a house from being in apartments for many years and I have to say, lawn and Garden work, suuuuucccckkksss.

I hate it. I have too much to do to deal with your… Growth.

Can I replace my lawn with an emo lawn so it cuts itself?

I think you’re right. There’s another post here that shows the actual lineup from the set that fork is from, and there’s another fork there with longer tines and no fancy cutout in the middle. That would be the “regular” fork, and this one would be the desert fork… Or it could be a salad fork? Seems short for salad tho.

I have to say, the other fork from that collection is quite attractive as well. No offense to your preferred fork, but the other fork there would be my pick.

Those long, slender tongs… MMM.

For metal forks, the tines could get all bent out of wack, or one could break off… The fork could rust or become stained or otherwise unsafe for eating.

I had a friend that when he first moved into his own place, he bought the cheapest flatware he possibly could. He left them to soak in the sink overnight and they were showing signs of rust when he finally went to clean them.

That sucked for him, but he kinda asked for it by buying cheap metal flatware. At least get stainless steel. Doesn’t have to be good stainless, just something that’s stainless.

I know a lot of people have summer cabins and whatnot, so I wouldn’t want to really crank up the costs until you have 3+.

I figure anyone rich enough for three homes for themselves can afford the extra costs, and anyone looking to buy a home as an income property will get fuckered.

At least, that’s the idea.

If someone wants to buy one home for themselves and one to rent out, that’s acceptable losses IMO. It at least limits how many homes are going to become rentals.

But I’m being silly. I’m addressing the underlying issue of people buying up all the affordable housing so they can rent it out at a premium… That’s not what the government wants to do. They want to give money to their construction contractor buddies, who can give a small discount to their property management buddies who will buy up all the homes and rent them out.

Everyone wins in this situation… You know, except the poors.

But who cares about the Poor’s. They only pay for everything through taxes because the rich can afford to dodge all the taxes they would otherwise have to pay, and we have no wealth tax, so they’re getting away Scot free, and the rest of the population is left footing the bill.

Let me say this, as an “elder” millennial. This isn’t the first time government puppets have touted some plan for affordable housing.

You know what I’ve seen throughout all of those adorable housing plans? Prices going up, property sizes shrinking, materials becoming cheaper and less durable, houses becoming less unique.

So you “get to” buy a smaller home, that looks like every other home, that was built poorly and will need repairs sooner, and for all of this, you get to pay more for the “privilege”.

I hope I’m wrong, but I’ve heard this song before.

The only way you will ever get an affordable home is when someone you know, who owns a home, dies, and leaves it to you in their will.

If that happens to anyone, my advice: take it, keep it, fix it, and never leave it. You’ll only fuck yourself over if you do. I don’t care how much the house is “worth” on the market. Never sell. It’s literally the only way you’ll own a home outright, without killing yourself with working overtime to afford it.

Politicians keep saying “affordable housing” then have zero scruples about selling a large portion of whatever housing they make, at bargain basement prices, to landlords.

I’ve seen this play before.

How about this, if any one person owns more than two “single family” dwellings, their property tax on the third property is 1000% increased… And add a zero for every additional property.

It won’t fix the problem, but it will sure as shit make it harder for a handful of people to own a nontrivial percentage of the residences in a city.

This is why I demand work from home.

I hate commuting.

This was my thought.

Mfers be out here debating whether the thing depicted is actually a “two sided” dice, meanwhile coins just be chillin over there getting ignored.

Y’all be trippin.

Thanks, I hate it.

Last time I checked, people didn’t found their core belief system around whether prisoners of war existed or not.

Even so, there’s tangible proof of him being there, by his physical body being there, when it happened. This can be proven by science. Obviously that’s not able to be proven after he was released from the camp, and yes, we have to take the scribbles on a page to know it happened.

I will give you that.

For anything that is a universal truth, like gravity, chemistry, the properties of light, electricity, and all the principles behind electronics engineering, etc… All of that is provable. Lived experiences, history, sure. We have to accept that what we’re reading is true or not. But that’s a choice.

Science, which defines pretty much everything that’s happening, why is happening, and how it can happen, is immutable.

The idea of “God” has no basis more reliable than someone’s report of it happening. For something so universal/omnipotent, the fact that the only “evidence” that it happened is in a book, yet this God has a plan for you right now, but you can’t know it because God won’t tell you, nor do anything outside of what physics/Science says can/will happen, isn’t evidence of the existence of such a deity, regardless of what someone calls “God”.

All other things that exist, the forces that act on those things, and all of the possible outcomes of that thing existing can be proven by science. God cannot be proven, by science or otherwise.

Even history, to some extent, can be proven, because the evidence still exists. You can visit auschwitz, and see where history happened from WW2. You can see the damage from bombs and gunfire in structures that were standing when conflicts happened. There’s still evidence for a lot of that. And again, the same cannot be said for any book about any deity.

Personally, I would argue that taxing them is helping the economy.

Basically, even with only a 2% wealth tax, that’s money that would otherwise just sit in some account as shares or something that would only serve to make the wealthy more wealthy.

By moving the funds to the people by way of taxes, the money can be utilized for social programs, like housing and healthcare for the poor for example. Which would then give those people an easier path to sobriety (if needed), a “fixed address” so they can enroll in job training or simply get a job, since most jobs require you to have a fixed address for seemingly no good reason…

My point is, the money could be used to enhance the lives of all citizens. Rather than just people like that asshole.

These people have the same revenue as a small country, so I can see where they’re coming from.

I still think we should use their bodies as fertilizer.

We should mulch them. I’m not into cannibalism.

I would eat the resulting food from using their decaying biomarker as fertilizer tho.

You see, the steamer depicted may not be the exact subject matter they’re referring to. They might have just googled female streamers, or loaded up Twitch and looked for the first girl on camera and snapped a screen shot.

With all that being said, I understand the appeal of wanting to watch something that you think is pretty. Hell, that’s the entire reason I played cyberpunk as a female character despite being very cis, and male.

For 90% of game play my gender doesn’t matter. Until cutscenes where I get to watch my avatar interacting with others.

Outside of cutscenes, I’m looking first person, so what difference does it make?

I think that at least 7 people didn’t understand what you were trying to say.

I did. Well said. I can’t see any problems with your argument.

Though, I think that maybe the green text was more about female streamers in general, not just the one that’s depicted.

Whichever. Be well.

Originally, that’s probably how they started putting those words together in that order.

I’m talking about the idiom of it being applied to anything that isn’t a literal slope that’s slippery. Like using it to describe that doing thing a will very easily create a situation where another thing is likely to happen.

Eg: smoking weed is a slippery slope to using harder drugs.

(It’s not, but I’m sure we’ve all heard some version of the above before.)