There are times I hike out to the woods and find a nice spot where I can’t hear the lawn mowers, the car horns and tires, the barking dogs. I don’t smell the exhaust fumes and fertilizer. Nothing around me but birds, breeze, animals scurrying around, bugs in the grass.
These moments are so precious. I can turn the modern brain off for a bit and just be an animal in nature.
Yes, it is edible when young, but once the tail is brown like this it is no longer edible. Its core is composed of many tiny seeds covered in tufts of cotton-like filament that it uses to float off and germinate elsewhere.
Amish dudes at my work mock me for the eye protection, hearing protection and N95, but they won’t be laughing in 20 years when they’re suffering with COPD and lung cancer
Dude looks and acts exactly like my great grandfather who served in the navy kn WWII. He was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and hated Republicans until he died in 2017.
A Soviet man was feeling sick and went to the doctor. The secretary said that there were extreme shortages and that the doctor was booked far out, but would be available on the same date ten years from now. The man asked, Morning or evening?
Does it matter? she asked.
Yes: I have a mechanic appointment in the afternoon.
I remember old YouTube having these kinds of exchanges. I would get DMs asking for a five star rating on a video they uploaded about some relevant topic in exchange for a likewise five star rating. I miss those days