Can I recommend The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck? It’s historical fiction.

It’s a glimpse into life back then; focusing mostly on the affects of the dust bowl and how hard it was to find proper work. While not nonfiction, it may give you some ideas of specific things you can research more, like crop rotation and Hoovervilles/shantytowns.

Side note: I always think of the Great Depression when an appliance breaks. My history teacher said one of the causes was that things were built to last back then. When they say, “they don’t make them like they used to” it’s 100% correct. Now we make things with a shorter lifespan on purpose because, when things last forever, we don’t buy new ones.

Fantastic movie. Amazing use of slow motion.

Idk if this is on Shudder, but I enjoyed Sinister. Rolls into the problem you described, but it did it well.

Action… Darkness Falls was pretty good. The evil tooth fairy one. Oh! Th13rteen Ghosts is my favorite!

Enjoy your movie night.

Some of those little kool-aid squirters and you’re good to go

Washing dishes

The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

I’m using Memmy and there’s an option in the settings to block a specific instance or an instance with key words.

Most houses that you build yourself usually flow with the land.

Houses corporations build are for profit and usually come with more destruction for the environment.

I was at the giant copper mine outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. In the tour, they said, to appease conservationists, they basically relocate the mountain as they dig and add vegetation. So, the mountainous area that surrounds the mine is all man-made. Nature didn’t erode the rocks or push them up even though mountains are considered purely natural. It doesn’t really follow a beaver creating a new river because it built a dam either because it didn’t divert anything; it simply pushed it out of the way.

Man made = interfering with nature for profit. Natural = interference in nature for comfort.

Side note: I can’t help but picture a cartoon style in my head of a fat business tycoon with a shovel, yelling at the Lorax, “We’re putting it back!”

“What do you mean this password is too short? I use it for everything!”

An art project called r/place is active again. Basically, it’s a giant white canvas and users can change the color of one pixel every X amount of minutes.

Since we left Reddit, the community is torn between returning to post something in protest or staying away and refusing them traffic to protest. A suggestion there is to simply watch the twitch/YouTube streams of people who are there.

Some suggestions: “join-lemmy.org”, “API”, “Fuck u/spez”. There’s currently a French flag with a guillotine about to chop the head off a Snoo with u/spez as it’s blindfold. There is also clap back. Bots or the moderators are actively blocking pieces of protest with checkerboard patterns.

I hope this answers your question.

No one can take us. No one can make us give our rights away.

Nice! Thanks!

Awwww! What a cute shorthair putitback!!! They’re adorable but have a lot of energy. They’re best if you let them go in and out as they please. They will eat so many bugs. Beware of its hisses. They are a temperamental breed.

Thank you for the identifying info! Now I can google for what the parents look like. I’ll keep a look out.

Thank you for this!

I was very worried about it being injured since it hadn’t moved. This is no longer a concern. It hated the box and ran away really well! So I put the box where it could reach it and fled the scene.

The nest is too high up for me, but I did call a wildlife rescue through google. The lady called me back and suggested building a small nest for it out of a box to get it off the ground. I’m going to put it on a cinderblock. I hear other birds, but it seems like the closest rescue is a two hour drive away. So if it makes it through the night, I’ll give them a call during business hours.

Adding paper towel to the “nest”

Thanks!

I’m doing my part!