A while ago, I saw a post recommending people who wanted to try planting milkweed to use a tool that lists nurseries that source local seeds rather than ordering from a national place. This suggestion was made because many plants are fairly well tuned to their local climate. Even if you don’t intend to plant milkweed, I think this is a good tool to find a semi local supplier that cares about local heritage breeds. Most of the ones I checked take online orders and will ship. I’ll shoutout Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Sow True Seeds.

https://xerces.org/milkweed/milkweed-seed-finder#mwf_tool

The other resource I really love is a college near us has a good botany program and they put on two plant sales a year. Their prices are good, but the quality and selection is what really stands out. Plus most of the volunteers are students or faculty so when you have questions they either have a good answer or can walk you over to someone who does. That hasn’t always been my experience at nurseries. I think it would be worth checking if any universities somewhat near you have a horticulture extension office or public gardens program. Try searching for botanical gardens in your preferred maps app and see what shows up.

One last recommendation that perhaps doesn’t fit a houseplants community, but you got me monologing… John Scheepers/Van Engelen is my go to supplier for flowering bulbs. They import direct from holland and ship out to customers very quickly after the container arrives. The quality and size of bulbs I’ve gotten from them greatly surpasses any retail place I’ve tried.

The rebound makes no sense. Even if somehow no violence occurred after this date, enough infrastructure has been damaged and production taken offline to cause a significant supply shock that can’t be absorbed by reserve releases. The closure of Hormuz will take its toll one way or another.

Plus, Iran is now incentivized to further develop a stranglehold on Hormuz transits so they can extract tolls to fund their rebuilding efforts. Any attempt to frustrate that will just result in them mining the straits, possibly with Houthi coordination interrupting Red Sea transits.

None of the fundamental problems are solved.

Finally, some good news.

The latest Moody’s Talks Inside Economics episode covers the jobs numbers well and talks about some of thr concerning figures that undermine the headline job growth. Of note: total hours are down and labor force participation are down despite job openings increasing.

Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

As-is, yes, it’s essentially a goner. I would expect the existing growth to die off and a bunch of water shoots to emerge from below the wound. You could try to prune one of these shoots into a new central leader and cut off the old stem. You could try to get creative and cut strips of bark down to the cambium from the section above the wound and graft a bridge across the wound. But I would only do that if there was a specific attachment to trying to save that particular tree.

IMO you would be better off replacing it and getting trunk guards or making your own with aluminum window screen. Getting a healthy replacement planted will get you a healthier and bigger tree faster than trying to save what you have.

They still serve personalized ads in the podcasts. They aren’t baked in.

I don’t see the stock price not moving as evidence of the bubble collapsing.

In Q4 2025 only 5.5% of NVidia’s revenue came from gaming products. That’s revenue not profit, their other products have better margins than gaming. Also Nvidia already has 95% marketshare in gaming gpu’s. So for them to grow more, they would have to increase the number of people gaming on PC or get into desktop cpu’s or get a bunch of people paying a subscription for access to more profitable cloud services gpus.

Really I just see the stock price not reacting as an acknowledgement that nvidia and nvidia shareholders don’t care at all about desktop gpu’s. It’s a vestigial appendage to what is now an AI hardware and networking company.

I’m an animal, Greg, can you track me?

I’m getting pretty tired of the notion that gambling odds are better predictors than polls.

Cheaper inverters and batteries would be the real game changers at this point. At least for DIY home solar.

They need to come up with their own policy proposals and not rip-off Vermin Supreme.

It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

Berger is President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate and is the highest ranking member of the NC GOP. This is like John Thune getting primaried and losing.

Fix? No.

Focusing on ways to reduce neck and jaw tension has helped reduce the severity and hence disruptive force of mine though. Using a mouth guard at night helps my jaw tension and switching to a buckwheat pillow and posture improvements has helped my neck tension. Neck tension also frequently accumulates if I sit hunched forward and let my shoulders pull forward. Laying on my back on yoga mat with a small towel rolled up into a cylinder and lined up with my spine can help correct some of that. I will also sometimes run a pair of rubber lacrosse/massage balls up and down either side of my spine. I set them in place under me and scoot up down to roll them along my spine using my own weight to exert pressure. It hurts like crazy but releases tension more reliably than any stretch ever can.

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It happened to cellulose.

Idk if he shot himself in the foot. His family gained billions in net worth, and he’s still not in prison.

They definitely hamstrung the rest of us though.

The install instructions for the clip on band has you cut the original pleather and foam off the band and peel away any adhesive. The irreversability of that made me nervous for no rational reason. So I opted for a cover similar to these ones from wicked cushions.

https://wickedcushions.com/products/sony-wh1000xm3-xm4-headband-cover

There also seems to be plenty of similar options on aliexpress.

It just zips on which is a suoer easy and quick install. I liked that I could just quickly try this before committing to a biggger repair. My only complaint is that the zipper pull dangles and that could be annoying. I used a dab of liquid electrical tape on where the pull meets the slider to prevent any rattling. An unexpected pro/con is that the silicone grips my hair more. That can be a slightly uncomfortable annoyance at times, but it does help the headphones stay in place better when laying down.

I already bought 3rd party replacement pads, but I’ll keep that trick in mind for the future.

Sony parts prices are insane. The urethane pleather on my headband started cracking on my xm4’s. A replacement headband was half the price of a new unit. So I ended up getting a silicone cover that will hopefully keep the pieces from flaking off into my hair. I also needed new earpads. Oem pads were around $40 for EACH side. The pleather just has a certain degradation time and once it hits, it all falls apart at the same time. Replacing all the pleather parts on my unit would have cost just as much as a new headset.

I hate having something designed to be somewhat repairable but practically speaking it isn’t due to pricing.