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Invasive worldwide are going to be such a wrench. The simple fact is there's no going backwards, and accelerating forward (with importing biocontrols) takes a lot of time and research to make sure you're not making the problem worse.

In the middle we're simply delaying. And each plant x biome has slightly different advice. We had a hard winter last year, and the damage done to autumn olive here in West Michigan was excellent. If we had consistently cold winters it wouldn't be a problem this far north, alas climate is going the other direction. If we had a native fungus like we have for our swamp alders, or a disease to prevent sprouting, the alders and the ash would out compete it.

As it stands the "best" way to remove large trees is via tractor due to its shallow roots, with dry summer tricloyr sprays on the root edge resprouts. (and never, ever backhoe it out, the disjointed root system splits and no longer spreads the triclopyr). And we have to worry about the permaculturists introducing things like seabuckthorn, another Elaeagnaceae that will probably be worse.

"that's an economically load bearing pedophilia ring, best not touch that"

Oh but HN is so much more interesting to watch. Recently someone built an app to find property near public lands, and to watch an infantanlized, largely urban population be pendanticly confused at an ungoverned existence.. its like having an ant farm.

That seemed to be my story as well, which is good. I'm low on nannyberry and ninebarks, and it missed tamarack and poison sumac which grow together, and sweet gum which is endangered, but overall good.

For people with degraded ecology though this is a great resource.

I dont think the kids are gonna get the reference.

Here in rural Michigan its bipartisan against flock. Sheriff rolled it out on Monday and ended the 90 day trial on Friday. Next weeks road commissioner meeting revoked the permit for em on the right of way.

Which is to say our cops are pro-flock but they've gotten too much heat from them from a largely uneducated public.

Meanwhile I've recently seen a rural Tennessee sheriff drop their contract when they found they were lied to about the data sharing.

wana see private security for a pharmaceutical beat a guy on a bike for taking a shortcut through their parking lot? oh right, no bodycams there.

cops protect property. rich people got a sweet deal right now as our taxes pay for them. but rest assured if we did manage to defund the police, you'd see private security replace them. then maybe you'd understand who has power without the obfuscation of "libertarian" bs.

Reddit-tier comment, says the guy whos never had his face smashed into the hood of a car by a sheriff deputy. We got something in the US and it often wears robes and badges, but it's not law written by legislatures.

Its like you need a list of laws rules and enforcement "we" people have built to stop "them" (corporations/governments/groups of lobbyists) from working together.

I'll point to the gun rules, where gun owners prevented the state from building gun registries, forced gun sale records to be kept on gun store premises, and then largely purchased from small independent gun stores. They ensured the background check was on the person and not the gun. All intentionally with the understanding that someone somewhere was going to attempt to grab the power of who had what guns.

You can avoid giving any single person or group too much power. It does take effort.

I think I could collect enough weight of books on "civil disobedience" at my local library that I could crush you underneath them, even if you didn't bother reading them.

you get downvoted because to most people we don't care if its tyranny.gov or tyranny.com. "don't give powers to the government" just means they buy them from corporations. see: cellphone location data.

the solution is not to have the power exist at all, anywhere.

I think this runs into a basic issue that all large software systems that enforce the law contribute to locking down a society because laws tend to need be broken to be changed.

That a system can be avoided offends the investor who want their products to be ubiquitous.

The system that is not perfectly enforced offends the engineer who dislikes broken things.

Yet both are required if we as a society are to grow. I think the thing that it might be good to learn is when to say "I've done/had enough."

"when the game is rigged its justified to flip the table"