A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.

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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Bamboo isn’t a magic plant. It requires specific combinations of conditions to grow: the right soils, the right level of water and sunlight, temperatures within their preferred range.

    Yes it’s a pain to eradicate when improperly planted and then ignored for long enough. But it’s just a plant that has specific needs like all plants do.

    Limiting factors are the reason. If you put a person in a hole and gave them everything they needed to live, except water, they wouldn’t survive long, as an example.







  • Things will get progressively worse for more Americans soon enough. Those who are hip to the scene already probably can’t accelerate the process of awakening that will come. We are all Cassandra here. It hella sucks.

    Economic doldrums if not depression, pandemics and a fragmented response in the coming autumn if not sooner.

    Accelerating assaults on due process.

    New public enemy groups generated at will.

    All them that know can do is build capacity to organize as the general realization emerges. It won’t happen soon enough for my taste. We are trying to redirect a high mass object and even in politics, the physics here is clear.

    My plan is to be as social as I know how to be this summer. It’s not escapism. I’m building my network.

    Hopefully also getting laid.

    The first rule of the rebellion is to be sure that at least the sex is good.