Btw if you're in North America, planting squash even if you don't like to eat it provides a vital food source for squash bees, which collect pollen exclusively from (you guessed it) squash flowers. And if you DO like to eat it, then you're getting food for yourself while also providing food for a very specialized native animal :)
Watch out for cucurbitacin toxicity if you plan on replanting your own naturally pollinated seeds, though!
Pretty much all squashes can hybridize with all other squashes, and wild squash is inedible and highly toxic, and if you're in North America there is a decent chance that any squash you grow may get pollinated by bugs that are also feeding from wild squash.
Fruit from first generation pollination (taking domesticated squash and pollinating it with wild squash) will always be safe, but the ones you plant from the seeds of that same squash MAY have high levels of cucurbitacin, which can be fatal in severe cases.
The good news is that cucurbitacin is incredibly easy to detect - if you're eating a second-generation squash from a plant that MAY have been pollinated via a wild plant in the past and it tastes unusually bitter, that means cucurbitacin levels will be high, and you won't want to consume large quantities of it.
my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government
this is getting really popular so iād like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade
Miraculous Ladybug is about what if you gave a girl with extreme anxiety the superhuman capability to actually prepare for every scenario of What Could Go Wrong
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnāt care which VPN you use, only that itās still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows āsurveillance softwareā.
Two things back that up:
Thereās no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleās advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidās works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereās activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: āItās impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].ā Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Kory being violently protective of the people she loves is always awesome. The other Titans will be at the mercy of one villain or another and be like āyou donāt understand, if you hurt me in any way youāre gonna regret it.ā The villains always take this as a threat rather than as an earnest effort to save them a trip to the intensive care ward, blissfully unaware as they are of the ultraviolet glow rapidly building in the distance behind them.
i just have this persistent feeling of āiām not doing enoughā combined with āi donāt have the energy to do anythingā and it just really fucking sucks
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