If water had no polarity, life as we know it could not exist

Do you ever hit a meme that causes you to realize you’ve been scrolling too long and ask yourself what the hell you’re doing with your life?

Yup! They live for 1-2 years as larvae in the ground, and they require moisture to survive. Keeping the leaves down and undisturbed raises the moisture level of the dirt underneath and provides habitat for all sorts of things the larvae will eat. You’ll also find the number of lighting bugs you’ve got in your yard varies with how much moisture your yard had the previous two years. You can have a bumper crop of adults in a drought year, but two years later could have a rainy year with very few

1. Create habitat for lightning bug larvae. Set aside parts of your yard to go undisturbed, leave the leaf litter there year-round, leave a couple logs out to rot, plant a few woody perennials there to provide some shade and retain moisture. You can do this and still also retain some lawn, if you want to.

2. Turn off the lights outside your house. You don’t need that floodlight on all night. Get a motion sensor if it’s important enough to you. The artificial light disrupts their mating cycle, meaning the next generation in your yard will be smaller or non-existent. Reducing outdoor lighting also helps migrating birds find their way more effectively and allows you to see more stars.

3. Never use pesticides, ever. Also tell your neighbors about how yard treatments intended to kill mosquitoes are much more effective at killing lightning bugs and bees than mosquitoes. The company selling you a mosquito treatment will straight-up lie to you about this.

Could wrong, could right

Ok, but this has pretty much nothing to do with unexplained disappearances, especially given the large homeless populations in other cities that are not showing on here. But really, this map cannot be relied on since we have no idea where the data is derived from, and we can barely even see it due to the poor resolution

Are silverfish dead to you

Playing the long game, plant some trees that will eventually give you afternoon shade!

Search “aluminum awnings” and you’ll get a ton of results like these

The entirety of western psychiatry and psychology is based on the European version of mental health issues…

I’d be interested to read that…the characteristics of someone’s hallucinations or delusions are 100% culturally bound and linked to their personal experience, but I don’t know if it’s as cut and dry as kinder and funnier in non-developed countries. I’ve encountered many folks with schizophrenia in the US who experienced psychosis they did not find in any way distressing, for example, and abuse and trauma also absolutely happen in all countries and will similarly contribute to fearful/frightening psychotic symptoms in all countries.

I just looked at that article and it lists examples from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, and the Middle East…

Farina is cream of wheat, not flour. Also afro-latin is the dominant culture in the Dominican Republic, so I don’t think this is stereotyping in the way you think it is, or in the way it would be if a white-dominated corporation used this branding

The energy generated by commercial solar installations is then sold, generating income. No one’s expecting parking lot owners to do this out of the goodness of their heart

There are solar generating facilities literally everywhere now. To mount them high enough to park under is a miniscule cost difference. There are also already massive parking lots with covers all over the place. We have probably 5,000+ covered parking spaces at the airport in my city, for example

Costs that have dropped precipitously over the past 20 years

This article is literally about shading the asphalt

This doesn’t really work, since, you know, Biden’s already been president for three and a half years. The lettuce was set up for Liz Truss on day one

Not even slightly, the overwhelming majority of protests were 100% peaceful, and the rare incidence of violence received wall-to-wall media coverage. Here in Austin, TX, I saw a crowd of people protesting like I had never seen before, thousands of people matched from an HBCU here to the state capitol without incident. That one and the hundreds, maybe thousands like it barely made the news.

The “liberals” this bullshit graphic is trying to demonize were the ones doing the marching.

If I only had the noive

A pack of 10 guavas is $2.37 at my grocery store in Texas. $3 for 1 is crazy