I wish this advice was more thorough and sensible. All that is offered is how to get rid of powdery mildew without mentioning at all how to reduce or avoid it entirely.

The Hogfather

The Hogfather

I might not appreciate being reminded of my age, and I’m old enough to have had most of these things happen, I’m old enough to remember when we appreciated people attempting to be courteous and considerate.

I often wonder if there is a correlation between lottery ticket purchases and anti-science Covid-deniers.
Lotteries are taxes on people who are bad at math (unfortunately like OP in this respect ;-P). It seems like there could be easy overlap on that Venn diagram.

To badly usurp Oscar Wilde, ‘To lose one decimal place is misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.’ LOL

“has already killed 700,000 Americans, or about 1 of every 5 of us”

Seeing Run, Lola, Run image as the banner reminded me of another film that played boldly with time. Released 3 years before, Nick of Time is a movie I’ve enjoyed watching and recommending for years.

OK, I find grammar A-holes as annoying as anyone, but I’ll drop two misspoken phrases that irk me here.

I don’t know it’s possible to do a movie with the simple charms a show like Fantasy Island, or it’s television universe companion The Love Boat, today.

Your choice of adjectives and dismissive attitude toward criticism of the movie miss the point. If the movie had posessed a superior storyline with characters that energized the audience to anticipate, no crave, more along that line, then the vocal minority would not have been shouting to silent opposition.

All too frequently, I see half-baked advice about soil and gardening here. I’ve countered it in a few cases and am glad to see someone else cares enough to correct bad advice. Misinformation teaches people bad growing methods. Bad growing methods produce inferior results.  Inferior results turn people away from…

FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT.
The whole point of growing tomatoes is to let them ripen on the vine. They definitely do not taste the same ripening off the vine says every tomato bought in a grocery store. This is not really the same theory as pruning your tomatoes, because different nutrients are at work. Growing branches…

I’ve long been an advocate for terraforming Venus and discussed it in previous threads.

Your mixture sounds right. I do warn people considering using chicken manure. Chicken manure is very concentrated and can burn sensitive plants when not used in moderation and mixed with other buffering elements such as you recommend.

Lots of herbs are easy to grow from scraps or cuttings. The problems you list with growing them in water are good points. One of the reasons growing in water produces such unsatisfying and non-nutritive results is they are basically growing from the stored energy in the cutting.

You are right about unreliable narrator, though it seems easier to do wrong than right. Of course, unreliable narrator gets a permanent hall pass for comedy.
Lots of people confuse a mislead/uninformed/blinded narrator for an unreliable one. 6th Sense, for example is a fine example of that done well. Most other M Night…

I haven’t seen Inherent Vice, but the unreliable narrator does work well when it is USED well and I think that is the problem. There are times when the concept is used simply because the story wasn’t all that great or the writer wrote himself into a corner and it was an easy way out. Memento is an excellent movie and…

Wow, what a mixed bag. As someone who has loved low-brow, cult, and the kinds of things MST3K lovingly lampooned for decades, as well as high-brow art, classic, and foreign films, I have far fewer genre, taste, culture, or other barriers to appreciating good and enjoyable work of cinema. I’m eclectic and not snobby.

Cats!!!??? Were drugs and/or alcohol involved in that choice?

I wanted to see whether you included the nitrogen leeching effects of microbes beginning to decomposing wood. I figured you’d either not know/mention it since it contradicts your headline or would include it in some sensible fashion such as separating the newly decomposing wood from well rotted wood which is an excelle…