My climate zone recently went from 4 to 5. I am trying to grow zone 5 plants now. I am mulching heavily, to help keep them alive through winter.

We haave ranked choice voting in Alaska. At least for now. I love it.

We also have Eric haffner, running as a Democrat, in prison in the East Coast somewhere. Ratfuckery.

The not-senator Dan Sullivan has a platform, a website, responded to requests for information on his priorities, and has and numerous coherent thoughts, unlike Eric. So... Which one is the plant? The guy with a common name? Right-o.

They did a really nice job making which Dan Sullivan was which, by labeling the sitting senator 'incumbant', and using middle initials. I, frankly, don't feel bad for you misplacing your vote if you lack enough awareness about out political system to understand the vocabulary,or the give-a-shit to whip your phone out, or ask someone what that word means. Or to Google which one has what middle initial.

But yeah. What you described is the strategy. It's on their ads. 'pick your favorite Republican, rank the other two,and blank the Democrats. It's how Alaska wins' (while also running ranked choice voting repeal ads, because it's 'dumb, dumb, dumb' and makes voting confusing. The political ads this season are so fucked. And it's NON STOP.

There is Fujitsu their scansnap product.

It does exactly what you are asking for.

No, no. You don't understand. Ranked choice voting is Dumb! And confusing!

/S

So say the advertisements I have been subjected to for the last 4 months. (Some morons are trying to repeat it, again, and their advertising campaign is LITERALLY that it is "dumb, dumb, dumb"

They did a nice job labeling the different Dans. I early voted, and apparently, I am not Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, because I am 100% certain I was able to rank the Dan I wanted to, and not rank the Dan that is a giant PoS, as one was clearly marked "incumbent".

It is amazing,the difference between want and need. I quit them cold turkey, thought it would be hard, but turns out, no. Not really, they had nothing I had to have. I save money, and prevent waste. And avoid supporting Amazon.

Oh my God. Can the man not handle not being #1 so bad, he has to exonerate Nixon so he can be 1st crooked president in history.

I joke ... Sort of.

You might find a lecture bio a professor from Stanford, named Robert Sapolsky, entitled 'Neuro-biologu of trans-sexuality' interesting.

I had been a little while since I watched it, but the thing that stands out in my memory is:

When you look at the differences between biologically male brains, and biologically female brains, there is this part that has nodes (I don't remember exactly, sorry, nouns are not my forte) and they are always one size in male brains, and a different size in female brains.

In trans-sexual brains, these little nodes are the size of the nodes in the brain of their believed gender, not their biological gender.

People with similar experiences as a child certainly exist, and their and your experiences are valid, but there are many documented and studied experience that are different. Something like your experience, I would hope would be identified by the parents.

If you read all of the article, you will see that their stated intent is to restrict access to abortion pills. This is scary because a government agency is being weaponized to lay ground work to strip rights. Neither of the hormones in those pills are on a list of environmentally damaging things.

Given that the risk is restricting rights for a whole group of people vs an unproven. Risk to the environment, the prudent thing to do is test for the KNOWN harmful chemicals and focus on mitigating them in the environment.

I would be in support of researching and if, after research, it was discovered that those drugs are harmful, testing for and addressing them.

Tl;Dr There are big fish to fry in terms of environmentally damaging chemicals. Frying something that might not even be a fish, at the price of government intervention in a whole group of people, and, honestly, generation of children, is a terrible violation of privacy, and rights.

I once walked up on a sow Grizzly bear and her young adult cub while walking my reactive to everything puppy in the woods. We were alone because anything and everything would set her off and she would scream and carry on, and was upsetting my other dog, who I had, in part, to scare bears.

They gave 0 shits about me, and the puppy didn't notice them, despite being uncomfortably close, thank God.

My initial thought was 'oh shit' followed by 'yeah, I won't confuse them with black bears'. (Black bears can sometimes be brown, and I had always wondered how I could tell the difference between a brown bear, and a brown black-bear. The answer is: the desire to poop your pants is much greater with brown than black. Black bears, whole they technically kill more people, don't instigate the same fear response.

I still hike the same hikes, I just double up on deterrant methods, always go with a buddy, and keep my dogs leashed if there is bear activity. (Unleashed dogs on hikes where I live is a cultural norm) Everything has risk, and I live here because I love nature.

Every time.