Well perhaps the president of Puerto Rico ought to have done something about that.

It’s one big maple in the front yard, and it only killed the grass in a circle under the thickest part of the canopy. Come spring we had a brown circle that only dandelions were growing in with grass doing just fine outside the circle.

I do think part of the problem could have been the extremely wet fall & winter we had. Felt like the rain never stopped.

See, I did the whole “leave the leaves” thing last year and it completely killed the vegetation under my big maple tree. It was kind of nice since it gave me a chance to replace that grass with clover, but now I don’t want the clover to die.

It’s been a year and we still have maple leaves from last year that haven’t decomposed. Not quite sure what I’m supposed to do.

Half as much cheese and saute the onions and that looks absolutely delicious.

Always sit, are you kidding? No way I’m peeing standing up with the lights off.

Why not tax on a regular basis based on the current value, just like we do with houses?

Homes are taxed based on assessed value. They are already a form of taxing unrealized gains.

Most of the population either has:

1. no unrealized gains
2. gains in a retirement account that we can’t borrow against
3. gains in real estate that are taxed, but can be borrowed against
4. a combo of 2 and 3

I think it’s fair to ask that the rich play by the same rules. You can either borrow against your gains and pay taxes on them, or not pay taxes and not be able to borrow against them.

Could be a lot of places. Washington is full of them, too.

“Ualabis”? Is that supposed to be “wallabies”?

As best I can tell from searching, that’s kind of the Spanish word for “wallabies” (translate gives “ualabies”). Seems like a weird choice.

Clearly they all stem from the same triconsonantal root. Though I couldn’t find one for رجن (assuming the Egyptian pronunciation).

I think I’m probably less proud of the US than you, but I generally agree with your sentiment. Although I don’t think that sentiment necessitates a nationalistic action like flying a flag in a yard or on a car. Especially when that type of nationalism tends to be associated with a mindset that is anti-immigration.

I make a lot of assumptions about people flying regular US flags in their yard, and I can’t really say any of them are positive. Could be a regional thing? I’m in a pretty heavily left-leaning area and the people that are that outwardly patriotic are typically far right. Not universally, but enough for the assumptions.

The same kind who have a separate variable for ignore-wordlist-regex that’s just another list of users almost identical to the first one.

Gen Z slang really pushes my descriptivist tolerance.

Relevant PBF

*Except cheetahs.

Sorry. Age gets us all! If it’s any consolation, depending on when you started reading we may not be more than ~10-15 years apart. I remember the 2004 ones being new and I’m in my early thirties.

I’ve been reading them for something like 2/3 of my life based on the first one I remember reading new. I feel old.

Sheesh, now I feel actually attacked a little. I was being mostly hyperbolic, but you can do really useful things with complex figures in presentations. For example: revealing elements sequentially to build up to the final figure or altering opacity of different elements to bring the audience’s attention to specific parts of the figure.

This sequencing can sometimes very subtly alter the size of the figure as you change elements, so the default positioning will slightly change from one slide to the next. Most people won’t care or notice when a figure slightly drifts by a pixel or two during these sequences, but it bothers me tremendously so I add adjustments to keep every variation of the figure aligned on the slides.