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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Depending on your garden you sort of do crop rotation anyways in many setups.

    Like if you have four quarter plots of a 48ft2 piece of lawn and do a different crop in each quarter, then rotate the next year. Makes it easy for even yourself to harvest. Easier to notice where your ripe beans to harvest are when they aren’t mixed in with your corn plants.


  • Depends on the location. Mosquito control is done all over, but I’m only somewhat familiar with north america.

    It’s pretty widespread in the United States where it’s done by government employees at the municipal and county level I believe. They do use a fair bit of aerial spraying in certain areas though as I understand since there is a high concern of certain diseases being spread in certain areas.

    In Canada it’s mostly done by private companies (ironic I know) with a few areas being done by the government, and it’s mostly done just because of nuisance and negative economic effects from outdoor workers and tourism so aerial spraying of chemicals is pretty much not done at all except for one major city which is phasing it out.

    If you live anywhere in north America that’s nearby a river, coast, swampland, or significant snowmelt into he spring, you may have a local mosquito control program.

    I never even knew the control programs existed until I came across the job postings and got hired, but they are fairly wide spread.



  • We don’t use aerial spraying, which can cause harm to other insects.

    We only use a bacteria that’s put in standing water which only harms mosquitos in their larval form (or biting black flies) and is totally safe for pretty much everything else since it needs very specific biological conditions for it to become toxic, which is only found in the stomachs of mosquitos and black flies.



  • the entirety of people’s sensitive private information in centralized databases controlled by the government, and on people’s phones, “client-side.”

    But things like drivers licenses are already held in government controlled databases? I don’t see the issue.

    Are they attempting to do away with physical cards or add the functionality of people being able to store them digitally on their phone?

    I can see it being a possible issue if they are trying to get rid of the cards completely, since you may not always have your phone on you and charged, but if it’s just adding the ability to have a digital card as well I don’t see the issue.

    Article isn’t opening for me.














  • Words become slurs as soon as assholes start using it in a derogatory fashion. It doesn’t need to make sense, it’s just how it is.

    Retard used to be a medical term. Then assholes used it as an insult so it became a slur. Then it needed to change to mentally ill. Now mentally ill is started to go out of fashion.

    The n word used to just be a term to refer to black people, then assholes used it as an insult. Then assholes started to just use the word “black” as an insult so we needed to switch to African-american.

    Language evolves, and assholes ruin things all the time so we have to continuously evolve and change so we don’t use the same words as assholes.