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Dad gets emotional in the stands after finally seeing his son make it to the big leagues

Studies show farmers who plant strips of wildflowers through their crops need less pesticide, and often get better yields. A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%. The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew. In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%. The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise. This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up. The predators show up too, and they get there for free. Our fields were never supposed to be monoculture.

@CrubersGate Happy Birthday! Wonderful story, a girl gets a pony!

Today is my birthday I am 57 years old… 53 years ago right here, down in the holler at the old cabin I was four 🥹 and daddy got me a scruffy pony. I remember it like it was yesterday! His name was shorty and no telling how old he was but I thought he was the most beautiful pony in the world. I think it was all a plot to get a plow pony because daddy plowed the garden with him 🤣🤣🤣. That pony would get to the end of the row and just look mad while he waited on daddy to tell him which way to go. Everyone in the pictures is pretty much gone now. My cousins found these sweet pictures and gave them to me. Anyway… I been here (in these woods) pretty much all my life and I am so very thankful to be here now. I hope everyone has a good day, I’m off to go get the cow milk with pop pop!!!

@0hour1 Their donations depend on racism, so yeah. 🫥

These are the people who distribute money to the KKK. Fucking wild right

@Kiradavis Between cousins too! My cousin's wife and I got into a dispute about Charlottesville. They haven't talked to me in... nearly 10 years. 🥺

The SPLC thing is so much worse than corruption. Charlottesville is a lie that tore this entire country asunder. In the face of loneliness epidemic post-COVID, some of the most important relationships in American society were severed for this lie - parents and children, brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends. And a country divided against itself cannot stand. That is civil war. You're not angry enough.

@20th_Centurygal Sade

Name a band with 5 or more members, any genre. Let’s see how many we can come up with.

@KimKatieUSA That "All About Kids" skool bus driver doesn't care about the kids safety.

Video of an 18-wheeler almost crashing into a school bus that pulls out right in front of it and blocks the whole road. I’ve had buses do the exact same thing to me. I totally understand the anger, especially when you’re behind the wheel of something that big and heavy.

@atensnut Due East -->

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@TheEXECUTlONER_ Nice job, and fast.

This guy has an asphalt and sealcoating business that his dad started 23 years ago. He went to sealcoat this driveway and the customer told him that they weren’t paying because he did it too fast. He says just because he has perfected his craft doesn’t mean it’s cheaper work and doesn’t mean it’s cheaper in cost. Do you think this customer had a right not to pay them since they weren’t there very long? If you were the customer, are you paying for a result or for the time?

@gotrice2024 Had that happen to us last year, the lower freezer door was dented. The retailer got us a new door panel; I put it on. Their cost was about $400. $500 may be fair for this door, or ask them to send you a new door.

This ma ordered a new fridge for $1000 from Lowe’s. When it was delivered, the delivery men accidentally dented the right stainless steel panel on the door. The fridge still works great, but there are three unsightly dents. He reached out to Lowe’s and they took $500 off of the total price, so he ended up getting it for only $500. Would you have taken that deal and saved $500 or would you have taken the fridge back and had the give you a new one that was not damaged?

🚨 VIRGINIA VOTERS — THEY’RE TRYING TO STEAL YOUR VOICE AGAIN! In 2020, we did something historic. By a 2-to-1 LANDSLIDE, more than 2.8 MILLION Virginians amended our Constitution to END partisan gerrymandering and create a bipartisan redistricting commission. Both Republicans and Democrats cheered: “Voters should choose our politicians — not the other way around!” Now, just a few years later, the political class doesn’t like the results… so they want a do-over. Today’s referendum is a mid-decade POWER GRAB. It would scrap the 2020 reform and ram through a congressional map with 10 Democrat-leaning seats and just 1 Republican seat. And it’s being bankrolled by nearly $50 MILLION from fewer than a dozen out-of-state left-wing organizations. This isn’t “fair maps.” This is election rigging dressed up as reform. Virginians already spoke. DEFEND OUR VOTE. VOTE NO TODAY on the referendum! #Virginia #StopThePowerGrab #VotersDecide #NoDoOver

@paul_zoell68952 Let's go Virginia! Vote NO today, last chance!

🚨 VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVES 🚨 Too many people sat on their asses during your governatorial election. You ended up with communist for governor because of it. If you sit on your ass tomorrow, you are making yourselves irrelevant. You are not irrelevant! YOU COUNT! VOTE NO!

🚨 HOLY CRAP! If Virginians don't storm the polls tomorrow, Democrats will succeed in creating the most blue Congressional gerrymandered map in AMERICA Current map: 6 Democrats — 5 Republicans New map: 10 DEMOCRATS — 1 REPUBLICAN GLENN YOUNGKIN: "This is going to be close. They poured $70 MILLION into this! To try to fool, trick and deceive Virginians." "A 'NO' vote is for the fairest map in America." @GlennYoungkin STORM THE POLLS! Final stretch!

@GenTXer2 The Fixx

When I transition to the 80s, I want to showcase as many albums as possible. So... Please name ONE 80s album that is little known but you love & are sure others will too. I'll highlight one per day. Here's to discovering new music together!

When they are calling for softball sized hail amd your truck doesn't fit in the garage, you get creative. Bags of dirt for the win!!

When Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte came to the mound to take Mariano Rivera out for the last time.

@LeesiBB I'd like to see a ban on HFCS, seed oils and "natural" flavors.

i’m no fan of RFK jr. but can we stop pretending that swapping out dyes like red 40 and yellow 5 for healthier options is some sort of travesty. america is so addicted to being fat.

@WallStreetApes "Product is measured by weight, not volume" Literally says this on every cereal box.

Another product weight scandal American buys a brand new box of Aldi brand cereal. The box says it has 12 cups of cereal On camera she measures out the entire bag by measuring cups. It has less than 9 cups Americans are being robbed blind This is a federal crime. This falls under laws prohibiting the sale of products with less net quantity than what is declared on the label Laws broken: - Fair Packaging and Labeling Act This requires accurate net quantity declarations on consumer commodities (including packaged foods). Labels must state the net quantity in terms of weight, measure, or count (here, “cups” as a volume measure). Packages must not be misleading. - Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act A food is misbranded if, in package form, its label fails to bear an accurate statement of the quantity of contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count.

@wacky_doodle @StuffWorthSee Yes, it connects to the wifi, needed.

@robcox @StuffWorthSee Do you need wifi at your house where the bulb is?

😳 I’m sold, this is the easiest way to get home security.

@blueskykites Yeah I had that on an Avalanche, great feature. Also love the Toyota SUV electric rear window

Dealbreaker feature?