Ozzie
387 posts
@aeolustalks
history buff (Ancient Greece, Tang dynasty China, ren Italy, etc), aesthete, painting & sculpture enthusiast, and occasional shit-talker just for some spice.
🚨 Illinois Democrats pass bill banning junk fees, saving voters over $3,000 per year. 30 Republicans voted no.
@asciibug @carleven3 @plantbasedagony Why isn’t it called global warming anymore?
@LibertyJen @MarkMurrah A 2011 Toyota with 200k miles on it is 10-20 grand depending on the model. You're an out of touch moron.
Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. propublica.org/article/vitami…
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
Here it is, the project that I have been working on for over a year: A heraldic map of Europe
