Given the way they’re describing it, US south/southeast. The pitcher plants that grow there grow in marshes and swampy grasslands are from there. Pitcher plants elsewhere in the world are a different type all together, and are generally epiphytes or close to it.

Except Australia and certain south American highlands. Or the pacific northest US. There are like 4 families of pitcher plants, only two of which are closely related (counting sarracenia and darlingtonia together with heliamphora in the family and nepenthes and cephalotus on their own).

Before it got jaws it was a glue trap. Venus flytraps are an evolutionary offshoot of Drosera, the sundews.

Another fun fact is the Yellow Trumpet pitcher plant’s (sarracenia flava) flowers smell like cat pee.

They can’t live in soil that’s got what they need because the nutrients burn the plants’ roots. They got so specialized for nutrient-poor bogs that they can’t live anywhere else.

Ah, the Harrison Bergeron school of parenting.

True beltalowda.

No, I drive a Volt when I drive my Volt that I own. It is not quite the rocket-powered go-kart that tue Bolt is, but it’s still quicker off the line than your average can and a lot of fun to drive. Chevy’s hybrids and EVs are totally decent cars that cost very little to operate.

I drive a Chevy Bolt for work and RAM drivers routinely roll coal on me.

You you?

Yeah, we call it sapphire.

Don’t buy an information vacuum if you don’t want your data sucked up. Definitely don’t buy multiple generations of information vacuum from the same company.

F2P ruined Halo: Infinite. When the game launched, it was broken and nowhere near feature complete with far too few maps and modes, but the cosmetic store worked perfectly.

And camera lens.

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Be the change you want to see. I switched things up and took a job where I work to feed hungry people. It’s pretty great and I feel good about myself and what I do. I’m not gonna fix the whole world, but I am making a difference for those who I reach.

The price is high and the person doing the work is paid barely any of it - the tip is where most of the money comes from for them.

Anyone who gets elected has a right to be in DC.

Don’t get me wrong: I think that Ron is one of the best politicians to ever have put their name on a ballot and that his continued work has been fantastic. But I also think people in their 70s shouldn’t necessarily be running the country.

We test old people who want to drive, perhaps we should have something similar to run for office.

He’ll be 75 next spring. He is and has been an excellent advocate, but I do not believe we should continue electing people who are that old. That goes for Biden, Trump and every other politician past 65. Get out of the way and let the people who still have skin in the game make some calls.

Ron’s great, but Ron is also getting on in years. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him retire soon.

Food bank worker here: though we have no such deal, money with no restrictions on use is just about the best thing to donate. It lets us buy fresh staples that otherwise are hard to come by, like eggs, butter and milk, or seasonally appropriate things like turkeys or hams (we had a total of 3 turkeys donated before Thanksgiving so we purchased around 50).

Next best thing to donate is whole cases of shelf stable foods. Individual cans and boxes must be inspected for best by date, damage to the packaging and complete labels, which becomes time intensive when you have 15 55 gallon barrels full of cans from food drives. Whole cases give you 12 packages of the same thing, all good to go from the factory.

Time is also great, but usually more needed the rest of the year. We don’t let people volunteer at our outreach center during the holidays if they don’t volunteer year round, simply because the people who only show up on the holidays tend to be doing a sort of poverty tourism that we find a little distasteful. Also, fresh volunteers need training and things are simply too crazy around the holidays to deal with it. If anyone is interested in food bank work, please find somewhere to volunteer the rest of the year. Feeding people is extremely satisfying work and we do need help the other 11 months of the year.