Blossom end rot.
Most commonly this is due to insufficient levels of calcium, which can be caused by too little available calcium in the soil, pH of the soil being out of range, or too much of other competing ions on the soil, amongst other issues.
Most often, this can be fixed with the addition of a little lime (i.e. calcium powder lime, not the fruit) added to the soil. Will take about 2 - 3 weeks to resolve if that’s the issue.
YOU DON’T KNOW HOW LITTLE I CARE ABOUT PUSSY THOUGH
Dozens of accounts, yes. But probably only like 3 or 4 real human people if we’re being generous.
It will be interesting to keep an eye on this.
Granted, if I had a dime for every article I’ve read in the past 5 or 6 years spelling out the signs of impending economic doom, I could easily buy a tank of gas for my car.
Having barely survived the aftermath of 2008 myself, it does stress me out to realize that it could happen again and soon and worse. I’d like to think I’m better positioned to handle things now, but as they say in France, shit happens. And it’s stressful knowing that other people will have to go through what I went through and worse.
It’s also unfortunate that official data makes things sound stable(-ish), but on the ground and admittedly in my own little bubble, people are not so optimistic. Manufacturing plants have shut down, people are getting laid off left and right, budgets are getting cut to bare bones, all while prices on daily things like food and energy have spiked.
On the topic of the title: In my own case, I didn’t even pay all of my debts, all it took was to pay off my student loans. My credit score dropped 30+ points from that and has never recovered since.
And to all the liars who said some variation of “it’s just a temporary drop” … You are liars. That is simply not true, at least not for everyone, and you lied. Maybe consider stop giving advice about things when you’re clueless.
And to anybody who might consider listening to those clueless liars, please note that a whole lot of the advice you might read from people online is coming from clueless liars.
Okay, I’ll end my rant there.
Two birds feeding at the same time is pretty typical for the species in my area.
The males, which control prime feeding locations like feeders, will definitely share with potential female mates. And the females, while territorial to some degree, are much more focused on feeding than they are fighting.
Additionally, early in the morning and late the in the day, pretty much all individuals are much more desperate to fill their stomachs and less apt to fight. During these times, the dominant males often end up losing control over the situation and seemingly give in to feeding side by side.
This is a variation of an idiom that goes something like “if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will think it’s stupid”.
But as someone who used to raise killifish, I actually found out that there is at least one species of fish that can climb trees.
That’s a spicy meat-a-ball.
In all fairness, it was yesterday. But still.
Howdy “relative” neighbor.
I’m also in the southeastern USA and I’ve driven by the peach more times than I care to count.
Is failing. Has failed. Same difference I suppose.
A broken clock is right twice a day. At least that’s a saying in my part of the world.
There’s already a term for this, it’s called moonlighting.
Every full-time salaried job I’ve ever had prohibits moonlighting, and specifically calls it out in the employment contract I’ve had to sign when starting the job.
Having said that, I am unemployed directly and entirely because of Donald Trump. Although I have no plans to return to work in the immediate future (because I was privileged enough to be in a position where I was able to save for a rainy day like this), when I return to work I am considering doing this.
As long as I’m making my deadlines and producing quality work, my employer should not give a crap whether I have other jobs. Period. I’ve spent my entire career so far working with bosses that tell me I’m family, but treat me like dirt and discard me at the very first sign of an economic downturn. They are all the same. So, when you treat people like disposable cogs, don’t be surprised when and if those cogs fit a variety of different machines.
I’m skeptical.
A lot of the people whose minds are supposedly “changing” or who are allegedly “beginning to leave” have the memory of a goldfish and the emotional capacity of a fire ant, in my experience.
It’s anecdotal, but the people I know of who voted for Trump in 2024 did so with full knowledge that Trump is truly awful on a personal level and that the GOP is doing terribly undemocratic things across the board from top to bottom.
They willfully and joyfully admit these things. So long as they feel like they are “winning”, they don’t care. So long as the schools aren’t allowed to put litter boxes in the classrooms for kids to use, everything else is acceptable. Think about gas and egg prices. This time last year, it was all Biden’s fault. January 2025 comes along and suddenly, those same voices understand that the president doesn’t control the prices of those things, and actually it’s bird flu and the wider economic conditions worldwide causing price hikes in the USA.
And those are things that actually affected everyday voters. The Epstein client list has virtually no bearing on the vast majority of our lives, one way or the other. It IS the distraction for the goldfish and fire ants of the world who will move along to the next ankle as soon as a new threat is presented to them.
I’m sure it’s performative. I would not be surprised if the plan is to add some other reprehensible stuff to the final bill so that Democrats have to approve the terrible stuff simply to get the cuts canceled or they have to vote against it and be labeled as anti-Medicaid. Because it seems so often, that is the way it goes whenever Republicans appear to maybe be doing something good for the common folk.
Oh, that’s awful.
My uncle also had very few allies left in this world, he was just the embodiment of an asshole to pretty much everyone. My dad and aunt were the only people that would even bother to try to communicate with him. Fortunate in some way, they’d talked on the phone the day before my uncle passed, and he agreed to let my dad stop by to drop off some food the next day. Meaning, he’d been dead less than 24 hours before my dad found his body. Otherwise, it very well could have been weeks or longer.
But the house? Total loss. My uncle had become a trash hoarder. Fueled by depression, but also by his beliefs that the government was tracking him (and would go through his trash if he were to set it outside). My dad and my cousin tried to locate some family memorabilia like photos and things, but they gave up. The house was literally bulldozed and the remnants hauled away, it was in such bad shape inside and out.
Welcome to mental illness. Many people are perfectly functional, yet still deeply sick.
I had an uncle like this. He definitely held it together okay-ish (though that’s up for debate) for most of his life. But the conspiracy bullshit was a consist sign that he was not well.
And then when his wife passed, he also lost his ability to be functional, so the sickness took over entirely, eventually even took over his body. Nobody could help, not even his children.
To a certain extent, this is why I am trying to stick with a mission driven career, choosing opportunities that I feel actually make some small part of the world a better place. Granted, yes, I’m ultimately doing the job because I need the paycheck since I prefer to have food, shelter, and some degree of freedom/control over my life.
Not everybody has that luxury, though.
And expecting people to play pretend all day as though it’s anybody’s life dream to be typing up OBMC reports because that’s their passion in life and that the people they work with are family and that the ultimate goal of being the dominant player in the disposable widgets industry is for the greater good of humanity – yeah, whatever that’s just subversive mind control games. Glad some people can live in that and deny reality, but for the rest of us, you want me to work, then pay me.
People hoping that are likely ignorant of what AI actually is. It’s incredibly unlikely that AI “ends”, at least not if/until things get really bad on a societal level to the point where our species loses its ability to produce and use technology altogether.