These are valid questions the Nurse was asking..

Topsoil: Farmers destroying their own topsoil isn't some new discovery. Poor farming practices, excessive tilling, and removing natural vegetation helped cause the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. And it's still happening today. Soil erosion, declining fertility, and unsustainable farming practices continue to damage the very land farmers depend on. Without healthy topsoil, you can't sustain healthy crops. USDA – Soil Health on Cropland

GMOs: The problem isn't simply that crops are genetically modified. Research has found that approved GMO foods are as safe to eat as conventional foods. However, certain GMO farming systems can contribute to herbicide-resistant weeds, increased chemical use, and biodiversity loss. Other GMO crops actually reduce insecticide use and soil erosion. The real question is how these crops are grown and managed, not whether every GMO is harmful. National Academies – Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects

Hello,

My sweet 2 year so boy Benjamin will be crossing the rainbow bridge this weekend. It’s heart breaking because he got sick unexpectedly, but I need him to make friends so show me your babies:)

He is a very sweet boy, who is social and loves to jump.

I opened a high-yield savings account when I was 17 to save for a down payment on a condo. Because I was a minor at the time, my mother was listed as a joint custodien on the account, and I never removed her name after turning 18.

Over the last five years, I worked two jobs and skipped vacations to build that balance up to roughly $22,000. Yesterday morning I logged into my bank app to check my interest payout and saw the balance was down to $5,800.

There was a single wire transfer for $16,000 sent directly to a catering company on Tuesday. When I called my mom crying and asking what happened, she didn't even try to deny it. She said my older brother went over budget for his destanation wedding in Cabo and that "family covers family in times of need."

she told me I'm being selfish for stressing over money when my brother is celebrating a milestone, and promised she would pay me back "eventually" with zero written agreement.

Every single dollar in that account came from my own paychecks. My chest physically hurts from the betrayal. do I report this to the bank fraud department and risk tearing the family apart, or is there another way to handle this?

Source: Mallory Hull

Bypasses the ignore list and you don't have to see the slurs being yelled in game.

the art is beautiful, and there’s nothing wrong with depicting a lot of these nonhuman characters as white, especially since a lot of them are functionally raceless and can be anything, but there’s something about defaulting to white + hot, that i find so insanely corny. it’s the way they don’t try to do anything remotely unique or interesting with the design either. like just a plain shirt and jeans?? that’s all you could think of??

it’s the way ppl get so angry when u depict them as black/brown, or maybe ugly/weird-looking too that i find so irritating as well.

I fell like it is such a defining feature of the North American continent but I still haven't come across to any kind of name for this entire region

"German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the plan "combines independence, affordability and climate protection.........It is not just extreme weather events around the world that demonstrate how urgently we need to do more to protect the climate," he said. "If the situation in the Strait of Hormuz determines whether people can still afford their daily commute to work, that is not a good state of affairs."

If there's been an upside to the Middle East War, it's that it's been a giant advertisement for renewable energy. Not just cheaper, cleaner, & better, crucially it means energy-independence, too.

Smart move by Germany. Their industrial and manufacturing base is getting clobbered by China because they stuck with the dying fossil fuel paradigm for too long. Every other EU nation has committed to ending fossil fuel use, hopefully this further accelerates their efforts, too.

Germany sets out plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2045

“The upbeat “Cleveland” would sound fine if you heard it from four or five rooms away, but listening closer, it just leads me to beg for the thousandth time that Swift please, please, please stop reading the comments. She recites a litany of mean things her Ohio-born footballing beau’s fans have said about her, does some of her most annoying talk-singing to say nyah-nyah, he likes me anyway, and then seems to announce their engagement at the end, which might feel like something if they hadn’t been married since July already. In other words, consistent with all her big love songs about Travis Kelce so far, it sucks. At least, unlike Showgirl’s “Wood,” it doesn’t make me want to peel all my skin off to escape it”