rekabis

Mixed zoning is what makes neighbourhoods walkable and liveable and truly desirable for a much wider range of working-class people from all backgrounds and family sizes; not just the white, upper-class, monoculture-focused, and conformance-obsessed NIMBYs.

My own property is being extensively reworked to produce a majority of our vegetables. We have already put about 185m² 2,000ft²) under direct cultivation in the back yard, and intend to wrap that garden around the entire property to the full 400m² (4.300ft²) available.

In the end, I don’t expect to have a single blade of grass on the property. It’ll all be flowers, fruiting trees and canes and bushes, and vegetables. All done in a modified Ruth Stout method, with a variation of flat-ground Hügelkultur thrown in.

Let’s just say that Bylaw is already pissed off with me, and I’m not even halfway done yet.

Spot Ads, […] says the advertisement does not violate its standards.

There are rules, and there are ethics.

Is it lawful to put up a sign like this? Sure.

Is it right? Nnnnnnope.

We should make things as financially painful for this company as possible. Scope out all of their signs, then do a blitz across their clientele, accusing them of going with an anti-Canadian advertiser. Try and make this hit the news, with those other businesses being “interviewed”. Hit them right in the pocketbook.

In order for markup to generate a correctly-formatted bullet list, it needs to see the asterisk as something other than an italics mark - so you put a space between the asterisk and the text.

So going,

*text

Makes the system think you want italicized text.

Going,

* text

Makes the system realize that you want to generate a bullet point list. All you have to do is leave one blank line before the list proper,

• and
• the
• list
• will
• be
• bulleted.

You can format bullet points better by having a space between the bullet and the text.

Actually, that is how you trigger markup to create a proper bullet list.

With no spaces, you have to explicitly put a blank line between every “bullet point” item to keep them from paragraphing into one large block. With the spaces, proper formatting will take over and no blank line is needed to keep each individual bullet point item on it’s own line.

plants grown from seed don't bear the same fruit

Temperate-zone seed fruit like apples and pears rarely look, taste, and feel like their genetic parents.

Temperate-zone stone fruit, on the other hand - think peaches, apricots, cherries, etc. - are quite different. You plant one of those seeds, and it will bear fruit that is (usually) indistinguishable from the parent tree that the seed came from.

Now, Apple and pear trees are grafted for both cloning of the fruiting section as well as good rootstock. But most stone fruit grafting has cloning only as a secondary consideration - they are grafted mostly to be joined onto well-proven, high-quality rootstock that can produce lots of sap and confer resistance to certain diseases.

Source: am orchardist.

I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.

NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.

I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.

That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.

And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.

Finally, someone has crunched the numbers.

Now,

• go for all massacres under 6 people
• extend to Canada
• extend to America

This should be crowd-sourced for added financial support.

When the cost of disobeying a direct order during “wartime” is prison or even execution, most soldiers will obey.

Especially since most of the American military is deeply conservative and ChristoFascist in the first place.

And so his purge of bipartisan and democratic leaders of the military allows him to ensconce lackeys that won’t question or refuse orders to invade other countries, like Canada.

People keep on saying that America won’t invade other countries, like Panama or Canada. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO.

The only copyright I would ever support is for a content creator to “own” a piece such that they can claim the exclusive rights to say “I created this”, and for them to directly profit off of that work so long as they were adequately servicing demand for that work.

So if a novelist kept their materials in print - or, at least, had a contract with a publishing house that would ensure that anyone could purchase a copy at any time - that novelist wouldn’t have their work return to the public domain until they died, or until a decade after initial publication, whichever happened last.

But any work could be “challenged” by having a separate individual or org put forth a request for a limited production run, in order to demonstrate any shortfall in supply. If that run doesn’t demonstrate shortfall (with the current producer keeping production unchanged), they would have to hand over all profits to the current rights holder. But if there is a shortfall, they can become an authorized second producer, capable of keeping a slice of the profits. And if no demand is being satisfied at all, the work can be returned to the public domain for anyone to satisfy market demand without restriction.

And note: any and all copyright could only be held by an individual, or by a group of individuals who were all directly involved with the creation of the work. Companies would be wholly ineligible for owning any copyright. And copyrights could not be pre-transferred by any workplace agreement… only post-creation agreements could be made on a per-creation basis, and would need to be ratified by an anticapitalist, bipartisan clearing institution. Creators could lease said creations to their employers, but would have extra protections against revenge actions by their employer.

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm