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    Food service workers, what's the strangest kitchen request you ever saw someone order?

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  • My wife had a friend who said she hates onions. We never changed our recipes and put onions in them. She would always love the food and wonder what was the secret. IT'S THE ONIONS!!!

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  • Exactly. They can move very far on wind currents as well as the fact they are useful plants for people. It would be very easy to carry some seeds or an entire plant with you when you move somewhere new. As well as the fact they are small enough to get caught on pant legs, shoes, clothes etc. to hitch a ride

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  • You think that human developments didn't occur in the Americas before European came in?

    Dandelions are a very human centric plant which makes sense that they traveled with humans as they traveled around the globe. This travel could be accidental or brought on purpose like many other different plants.

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  • If you have a dandelion problem I would recommend you mulch / mow the dead dandelions you pull back into your yard. Dandelions are a dynamic accumulator which means they are very good at pulling up vitamins and minerals from the soil which they incorporate into their roots leaves, etc. This means dandelions will contain those minerals when being mulched and mowed back into your yard. If you are having a dandelion problem it likely mean your yard needs one or more of the minerals that they accumulate. So my mowing it back in you will feed your lawn and reduce their appear in the future

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  • The gist from what I have read (mostly from Native American herbalists) is that there is a oral cultural tradition for using dandelion for both food and medicine in North America. These oral traditions have various uses for the plant that likely predate European settlement. The basic concept is that Europeans never considered that a plant that they had in Europe could appear in North America unless they brought it. It was never considered to be native in both places even though the people who used in North America have a long tradition of use back by an oral tradition. However, since this was an oral tradition no one thought to consider it valid since it wasn't written down. Since this has been suggested there is some genetic studies that back up that concept.

    I found most of this information on the Dandelion section in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings. They have a good description and I have seen it mentioned now in a few other books.

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  • Dandelions are now basically considered native around most of the globe. There is compelling evidence both ethnobotany and genetic that dandelion are native to both Eurasia and North America.

  • What's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?

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  • Typical double click request is as follows:

    Manager: Leadership wants a "double click" on the numbers on slide 8.Doer: What do they want to see.M: Well they wanted to see more about the numbers on slide 8 they thought it was interesting.D: What number? Interesting how?M: They want a double click? Does that work? How long will that take?D: ummm a week?

  • What's the worst "corporate speak/buzzwords" that you absolutely hate?

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  • Because it's new and awful. Also implies that these massive new work is just a simple tasks. 0/10

  • We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica

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  • What is the worst streaming platform and why?

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  • Don't forget that their ads have a section about adding it to your amazon cart. Its awful

  • What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?

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  • Please don't choke people during sex even consenting people. If you need the sensation just put your hands on their collarbone and don't actually cut off their windpipe.

    After reading some kink books that give detailed instructions about how to suspend people, to give people piecing, fake cutting people as well as convince your sub that you have a loaded gun in their mouth with the disclaimer about how dangerous choking is really puts in perspective. There are tools to safely cut off air supply don't choke someone

  • I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing

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  • I loved my EEEPC. I used while study abroad before smartphones were common. It was great to carry on me at all times. If I needed directions or to check on a website I would sit at a café / restaurant / bar to have a coffee / wine / beer to grab the wifi. It was great and small enough that I could carry it open if needed. I loved it. I thought it was the future until the iPad took over

  • If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?

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  • Well I have a long term plan to become a Slash worker. I want to be a day job / Herbalist. So have some ideas about how to the last part in a much slower timeline. Need to keep the day job but don't want it to be my only thing but its mostly talk at this point.

  • If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?

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  • All the things I do for fun and hobbies I would do a lot more. Which would likely be the following:

    • Exercise (running in the warm months and skiing in the cold)
    • TTRPGs (I might move from 1 day of the week into two, and assuming everyone else has the same deal play in-person instead of digitally)
    • Reading (books and more books)

    But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.

    • Do a lot more herbal formulation and
    • Maybe open the small apothecary to sell things at Art fairs and other makers markets.
    • Turn my urban yard into a full food forest to help grow some of my own food, and herbs. (I want to have an urban oasis of edible trees, bushes and other useful plants)
    • Volunteer more a local prairie restoration group that I have worked with in the past
    • Finally spend some time gorilla gardening on open lots and sides of alleyways around my neighborhood to spread the plant love.

  • What is your favorite way to Jazz up cheap ramen?

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  • Sauces, Sauces and more sauces. I never user the flavor packet (Or just use a little bit) and add my own sauces. Soy sauce, fish sauce, hoisin, oyster sauce, miso etc. They are just sitting there ready to be used to make it delicious

  • Smithsonian begins removing exhibits, artifacts from African American History Museum

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  • Also the examples listed here the artifacts are going back to their original owners who have already protected these items for years or decades. I think the curators and other museum people would rather have the items in safe private hands instead of unsafe public hands.

  • Why hasn't bamboo taken over the world?

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  • I guess my advice was much more specific to traditional "weeds" which are annuals/ biannual / short lived perennials which thrive in disturbed land and in gardens. Bamboo is woody and might not full under that category. These traditionally "weeds" would be plants like creeping bellflower, motherwort, pigweed, plantains, dock, etc. which are human focused plants who only really thrive around human intervention. Plants like these are ubiquitous around humans (in our gardens and lawns) but can't penetrated less disturbed areas or at later stages of succession. These are our traditional garden weeds which have a long history of use as food sources and medicinal uses with human cultures. If anyone is interested in learning more I would recommend Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants which does a great overview of weeds and their spread.

    Those plant that get fully invasive outside of human contact like Purple loosestrife, Tree of Heaven or other invasive noxious weeds are a different story. These are typically garden escapes, have a longer lifecycle and can outcompete and dominates landscapes. I think bamboo might fall closer to this than traditional weeds.

    P.S. added the book to my to read list

  • Why hasn't bamboo taken over the world?

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  • There is competition between some plants for minerals, light and water. In the a pot the space is really limited that can be the case. It's true though that some plants work better together.

  • Why hasn't bamboo taken over the world?

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  • I think an important thing to understand when talking about plant populations is to understand how they compete against each other. all kind of understand how animals compete because its dramatic with claws, fangs, speed and eating. They also compete more subtle with birthing rates, eating all the food faster than others but they are behaviors we can see. Each animal has it own ecological niche which they thrive

    Since plants cannot move (mostly true) they compete against animals and other plants in other ways. They use chemicals to poison others, alter the soil for their own needs or attempt to shade out other plants. They also compete in a different timescale than animals. They may only grow for a few months of the year before anything else grows or have a super short reproductive cycle and flower multiple times per year or play the long game and invest into woody structure to grow taller and live longer than other plants. These are their own niches which include everything about temperature (both highs, lows, days at certain temperatures etc.), soil conditions, nearby plants, animals to help or hurt them and timeframes. These are plant's niches. This means a plant community is never static. It is driven by a process called Ecological Succession

    The things about garden and yards is that we don't have a stable or natural ecosystem which means they are more unstable. We artificially keep it in a early stage of succession with mowing, fertilizers and pulling of weeds. This leaves plenty of open niches for things like bamboo to exploit. That is why pulling or poisoning of weeds just keep coming back since nothing is there to stop it from filling that niche again. So something like bamboo is almost impossible to remove without something else to outcompetes it in its niche. If we did nothing the bamboo would likely take over most of the grass and garden but eventually (in timeframes of years or decades) something else would eventually take it over or others would fill in around it. Usually plants growing creates additional niches alongside it. The succession would take over and alter the ecosystem.

    This means that for something like bamboo we should attempt to control it in our garden setting with rhimozone barriers so it doesn't run wild. Having things like native perennials or other perennials around it should outcompete any newer sprouts can help as well. Moreover, if you have weeds in your garden they will always be there unless you have something else already there. Any bare soil is just open ground for volunteer plants (a.k.a weeds) to take over to fill the empty niche. So to remove something you might not want you need to both pull it and have something else to replace it.