I live in a decidedly different environment, but have also let my yard go to native plants (the HoA is mad, but the state passed laws protecting my native plant yard so they can get fucked) and it took a couple years for there to be a bug balance.
I had a ton of aphids the first year, but the second year the aphid wasps and lady bugs knew where I lived to handle them.
Lots of us raised in the 80s and 90s are riding the trauma wave of parents who were raised by people who lived through the depression and a world war or two.
You are not allowed to want things. You are not worth it. Everyone else is though.
In an alternate universe you wedge your iScan device into your butt cheeks so it maintains constant positive biometric contact with you as your token for authentication.
We’ve never seen a system that hasn’t had these problems.
The Chinese “communist” system exploits a “labor class”, hell they expose a labor class to external capitalist systems.
The western “capitalist” system exploits a “labor class”
The fantasy that human nature disappears under different systems is the biggest myth we tell ourselves.
Our nature is baked into us by the oven of nature, we are prey animals that have intelligence to take us past scarcity but incapable of being comfortable in it.
The military is not going to do a violence to protect the country unless ordered to do so (by the executive branch) OR a violence is done to them first.
If they’re to be believed they’re honorable / noble enough to want to protect the nation from the president then they’re honorable / noble enough to not act first. So, double edged sword and all that
I live in a decidedly different environment, but have also let my yard go to native plants (the HoA is mad, but the state passed laws protecting my native plant yard so they can get fucked) and it took a couple years for there to be a bug balance.
I had a ton of aphids the first year, but the second year the aphid wasps and lady bugs knew where I lived to handle them.
Nature will balance itself if possible