Exactly this.

If not outright kill the entire Endangered Species Act.

Under the shadow docket, probably.

Don't worry I'm sure they'll pay a 40 dollar fine for illegally destroying a habitat or something.

Oh god, keep the bamboo and kudzu in their native environments. The ecosystem has been through enough!

Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don't think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

Oh no! Here comes Wisteria with the metal chain from the top rope!

My asshole of a neighbor planted a line of bamboo right on our fence line, so now once a week I have to go to my side yard and dig up roots or they'll choke out my ac unit within months.

Horseradish.

that bamboo is gonna be a clintcher

For everyone who wants to know why it's endangered (like i did): Because of a fungus that originally grew on the japanese chestnut variant (starting in the early 1900s), to which the american chestnut has no resistance - it is estimated that in in first half of that century, three to four billion tree died to that fungus. In the original geographic range of the American chestnut, only 4 mature trees remain. There are still some root systems that sprout saplings, but they get killed off by the fungus quickly. There are some enclaves in other areas that still have a few hundred, like in northern Michigan

Yes, that's correct.

Its not always bad. In areas that are already urban that scheme can be combined with fewer parking places near public transit and result in a larger overall supply of housing. And mixing poor families into nicer neighborhoods rather than clumping them together into a Housing Project can mean they're not in a food desert and have better-funded local schools and a better-maintained building, maybe be closer to where they work. As well as increasing neighborhood diversity and interaction in general. It's not helpful to profoundly destitute folks who need lots of services but it can help people who just need a home they can afford.

I don't think I understand, are you saying real estate developers are NIMBY, as well?

They are definitely going to either remove the Endangered Species Act entirely or just slowly keep dropping species from the list as and when it becomes convenient honestly

Still doesn't make him wrong. They will ignore it and receive little to no consequence. I also don't understand the hostility, infact it fits the "erm actually" meme so well I suspect trolling.

I think the word "relatively" in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

Nobody's missing how easy these are to plant.

The fucks planting data centres don't give a fuck though. The guy in the white house does not give a fuck. They'll bulldoze you and these plants for a nickel.

That dude was just corrupt. My wife has to deal stuff this exact stuff and they literally reroute, build in a different area, or have to take extreme precautions like not building at that time of year that will most affect the endangered species.

Wait the reporting of the endangered species is done by private companies???

Your father is a drunk and your mother the town hore is the literal translation.

Not if you're French apparently

All (most?) liqueurs we're medicinal products at some point. We just stopped drinking them for health and now just for flavor. They also changed some formulas to make them cheaper / sweeter

It tastes a little like a honeysuckle smells, but lighter and not cloying. It's a very floral taste, sweet, complex, fairly unique. You can get elderflower syrups or liqueur, or sometimes fancy sodas, and it's a very distinctive and unmistakable taste. One of my favorites.

That’s a hard question. It’s floral, which feels like “duh.” It has a fairly mild fragrance. Here it is almost always paired with lemon as well, so you end up with a kind of tangy, floral lemonade kind of thing.

It’s great.