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  • Can anyone recommend a tall plant for a small space.

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  • That's an interesting collection. I think I've previously looked at three of the six. I'll give them another look. If I had the space for it I'd love to do a naturalized patch like they describe. I've also looked at sunflowers but, like you say, they are annuals and it's a pretty windy spot and they're vulnerable to wind damage. I've seriously considered false sunflowers I'm just concerned that they wouldn't get as tall as I'd like.

  • Can anyone recommend a tall plant for a small space.

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  • I like the featheriness. I think that would look good there and maybe a thicker plant like that would convince the birds to nest in the plant instead of the awning.

  • Can anyone recommend a tall plant for a small space.

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  • I had looked at trumpet vines but was concerned about how big it grows. I hadn't run across a dwarf variety. Summer Jazz Sunrise Gold looks really good.

  • Can anyone recommend a tall plant for a small space.

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  • The fuschia looks nice. Not what I'm looking for but pretty. Hardy kiwi is an interesting suggestion. It looks like the Issai cultivar is a little less aggressive of a grower and self pollinates so I could get fruit with one plant. Definitely one to consider. Thanks for the suggestions.

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    Can anyone recommend a tall plant for a small space.

  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds

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  • The federal government already tried to shut this down with a wrist slap plea deal. The states involved in the lawsuit rejected it and forced the trial to continue.

  • English has too many words for animals

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  • Now do terrapin.

  • "God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board.

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  • Good ole boys are the political in group in small towns. Generally they have good jobs and are seen by locals as community leaders of some sort. Rednecks are basically anyone who enjoys things typically associated with rural living. Anyone can be a redneck and there are plenty of rednecks in jail for way less serious things than child abuse.

  • NSFW

    I BROKE THE SPEED LIMIT ON MY BIKE

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  • I'm not going to mess with anyone for not being able to hit a certain speed or anything like that. OP says that the limitation is the type of bike they use but even if it wasn't there's plenty of reasons that someone may not have the same physicality as someone else that has nothing to do with who they are as a person.

    I wasn't intending to mess with OP when I posted my reply either. We were a bunch dumbass kids flying down a very steep dirt road with no safety gear more than an hour from the nearest hospital. Looking back on my childhood and some of the ridiculous things that we did I'm surprised that we didn't have worse than a few broken bones.

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    I BROKE THE SPEED LIMIT ON MY BIKE

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  • This is the kind of thing that highlights the difference between a normal childhood and what the kids where I grew up had. I don't know the fastest that we ever went on a bicycle but you can get some pretty good speed going straight down from a hilltop mine. No motors or anything, just a good solid huffy mountain bike and you can max out a bicycle speedometer quick.

  • Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

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  • It kind of a tough balance. Yes, unrestricted tech use is an issue for young children but on the other hand using tech while young is the best way to make it a natural part of your experience of the world and tech isn't going away. If you go to the other extreme and say no whatever sort of tech period before a certain age are you setting the kid back against more tech literate peers? There's also the consideration that's been discussed around alcohol forever. By making it an "adult thing" and effectively a rite of passage to drink alcohol do you cause more problems and abuse in young adults than if it was always a part of their experience and the focus was on responsible use instead of total abstinence?

  • You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of

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  • Also it says that that many are exposed at some point. What does their test detect? Is it antibodies? Byproducts of the virus? The virus itself? Does every exposure result in infection? Can some people's bodies naturally clear the infection? How indicative of actual infection rate is that test?

  • Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might

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  • In a round about way they sorta did modernize western culture but not in a way that Hegseth would like. Before the crusades the most influential philosopher in the Roman Empire was St Augustine of Hippo and, basically, what he had done is to merge Platonic philosophy into Catholic theology. So the western world was underpinning it's reasoning on Plato. The Muslim populations, and especially the Moors in northern Africa, had preserved and in many ways embraced Aristotelian philosophy. Aristotelian philosophy is just plain better. Aristotle made far less assumptions and assertions and he focused on gaining information from the natural world in a much greater way. As a result the Muslim peoples that the west crusaded against were culturally and scientifically more advanced. They treated their prisoners better and could treat wounds that the crusaders believed were fatal. As a result crusaders returned from their crusades with stories of what they had experienced and writings from Muslim scholars and snipits of writings from Aristotle and his students.

    Thomas Aquinas gathered those writings and stories and begin something of a revolution of thinking in the western world. His major contribution was merging Aristotelian philosophy into Catholic theology. As his influence grew and more Catholic thinkers adopted Aristotelian concepts it culminating in Martin Luther a couple hundred years later. So, they didn't exactly usher in westernism but they were crucial to the western Renaissance and to the development of western liberalism. The real lesson is that the more western society has moved away from conservative ideas and especially conservative religion and the more western civilization has embraced science and diverse and secular thought the freer, fairer, and more prosperous it has become. Embracing the crusades is pushing us back toward the dark ages, the most important accomplishment of the crusades was pushing the Roman Empire, or at least a significant portion of it's population, into a philosophical position where they realized that the crusades weren't justified to begin with.

  • My mom tells me if I take medications for depression, I'm gonna end up relying on it even in old age... I mean I guess the alternative is being unmedicated and dying young lmao...

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  • They misunderstand what the change would be (y'know, happy)

    I love most of your comment but I don't like the common concept of antidepressants as "happy pills". It's the same issue as depression means you're sad. Depression is a complex illness with a large variety of potential symptoms. In severe depression people are more likely to describe themselves as numb or emotionless than sad because they've become emotionally exhausted. Sadness also isn't the only negative emotion linked to depression. People with depression experience higher levels of guilt, shame, agitation, and anger.

    For my subjective experience, I couldn't tell a difference when I started taking SSRIs. They were making a difference because family members told me that I was easier to be around. That I didn't snap at them or brood as much. I didn't realize that I had been snapping at them. Bupropion on the other hand made a big difference to how I felt almost immediately. It eased the physical symptoms of depression, gave me more energy, and made the agitation of dealing with people build slower. Neither made me happy, they made me less depressed.

    Feeling better about myself and being happier with my life took much longer and involved therapy and life changes. That's why I don't like "happy pills" concept. Antidepressants are just one piece of the puzzle. They're a tool but recovering from and/or managing depression requires a toolbox.

  • My mom tells me if I take medications for depression, I'm gonna end up relying on it even in old age... I mean I guess the alternative is being unmedicated and dying young lmao...

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  • About 60% of people prescribed antidepressants take them for a little over 2 years and less than 15% take them for more than 10 years. The recommendation is that they be taken for six to twelve months after major symptoms subside but there are exceptions to the recommendation depending on the particular diagnosis, persistence of minor symptoms, risk of relapse, etc. So you may be on them for a couple of years, maybe longer, maybe for life. Only a qualified medical provider who has evaluated you can tell, and even then they can only give you a best guess. Health is complicated and subject to change, mental health only moreso.

    From your comments I get the impression that you're not actively suicidal, it sounds like you're in that emotional spot where you don't want to die but just not waking up doesn't sound so bad. I'm pretty familiar with that spot. You should be aware that when antidepressants start to work they often restore energy and drive before their effects on mood brings your unconscious thoughts to a less dark place. That's why they list suicide as a potential side effect. It's important to have social and emotional support, maybe even be in active therapy, during the first couple of months after you start antidepressants.

    I'm not a doctor or therapist. Beyond recognizing your username I know pretty much nothing about you. I can't tell you what's right for you or your situation. What I can tell you is that antidepressants were life changing for me. I'll almost certainly be on them for life, and that was not a fun thing to deal with considering that I was born with multiple disabilities and medical anxiety/the thought of taking medication just to function close to normally everyday of my life was one of the bigger issues I needed to deal with. Mental health is no less real or valid than physical health. It's not weakness or failure to have an illness. Antidepressants, like any other medication, is a tool. Don't let social stigma or family pressure or your own anxiety stop you from picking up the tools you need to build the best life you can for yourself.

  • Is it reasonable to be concerned about security issues when switching to Linux?

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  • Sorry for the delay in responding, I was figuring out what device I was actually going to try setting Linux up on. I was originally going to just put it on the laptop that I use but I thought it might be better to test it out and learn on something else first. I got a Microsoft Surface that a family member was getting rid of to try it on. It's an older one, they think it's a 2017 model. It's got a 100Gb hard drive and a Pentium processor. Since it's a new to me device I'm not worried about saving anything on it so I can just overwrite everything and won't have to worry about partitioning or anything like that.

    I have not messed with the windows registry for anything. I think one AV would be fine, the redundancy was probably no longer necessary on windows, so I won't worry about replacing malwarebytes. I do prefer free software but I only hate giving corporations more money than I have to. I don't mind paying extra to shop local, I donate to the fedi instances I use, gog's preservation fund, Wikipedia, and a few other similar things. If the money is primarily going to the people who are actually doing the work or to the cost of equipment and maintenance then I feel a lot better about paying for something so I'm willing to consider paid software if it's better and will probably make some kind of donation to any FOSS projects I get software from if it's free.

    I'm not worried about keeping up with feature updates or always having the absolute newest version. I want it to be stable and functional so once I have it set up security updates will be the thing I'm most concerned about. I'm fine just setting an alarm and checking for updates every Friday or something like that. Background updates are nice but it's not a big deal to keep up with it manually if it's centralized into a repository. I use the desktop sites for discord and fedi so there shouldn't be any issues with those. I use open office because it's what I found when Microsoft started charging to use Office and it's always worked fine for me but switching to LibreOffice or something similar isn't a problem if it will work better.

    Thanks for taking the time to respond and give me all of these links. It makes the idea of switching less daunting. I've read everything you've sent me and will happily continue to do so.

  • Should I rev my shitbox car in my driveway and listen to power metal at max volume?

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  • Flu vaccines didn't work that well in the US, officials find

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  • 25-30% effective and what's considered successful is 40_60% effective. So about half as effective as what's considered successful. Yes, they got the mix wrong this year but that's still millions of people less sick than they otherwise would have been, thousands less deaths than there would have been, at least millions less spent on healthcare than there would have been. And that's not even considering the knock on effects. How many suffered and/or died during the pandemic because there weren't enough healthcare resources to treat everyone who needed it? Absent vaccines the flu has the potential to overwhelm our healthcare system every year. The 4th, 10th, 11th, and 17th deadliest pandemics in history were strains of the flu.

    At least 101 children have died so far this season. For those whose vaccination status is known, about 85% were not fully vaccinated against flu.

    85% of the children who died from flu this year were unvaccinated. A "not very effective" vaccine year is still a huge net positive. Get your flu vaccine every fall.

  • Homelessness

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  • Most buildings corporations have built or retrofitted for the past decade or so look like they were designed by prison architects.

  • Is it reasonable to be concerned about security issues when switching to Linux?

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  • I'm closer to the average user than someone who has built a fortress. I use Firefox with ublock, ghostery, and privacy badger. I use the free tier of proton vpn. I run avast daily and malwarebytes weekly.

    I think that I should already be close to best practices but I'm not sure how changing OS will affect that. I'm not really worried about being targeted for anything. I don't think that I really do much risky beyond the occasional torrent or downloading a patch for a game. I get games primarily from gog, don't open strange emails or click strange links, and use a password manager to generate secure passwords. One of the things that I'm most unsure about is keeping everything updated. Microsoft manages keeping everything updated for the most part on Windows and the last time I needed to find a driver anywhere except from Microsoft it came on a 3.5" floppy.

    I use my computer primarily for single player gaming, discord, and fediverse sites. I need a spreadsheet and word processer, I use open office for that right now. I do financial and work related things on a different device.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is it reasonable to be concerned about security issues when switching to Linux?

  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
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    Is there a community where it's appropriate to post ttrpg character concepts and ask for feedback?

  • B Movie Bonanza @lemmy.world
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    Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

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