Farmer family friend has an out of control mint problem around one of his greenhouses because he had a potted mint plant that he set on the ground and it grew a tendril out of the pot which touched the soil and grew roots.
It had never occurred to me before that a potted plant could escape.
When I was in elementary school we had a ton of mint growing under a bush in our front yard and once I found out it was mint and edible I fucking devoured ALL of it in a week and it never came back
I was gonna make a “x finding mint” post or something and when I googled animals that eat mint I got this and…
Excuse me?! I did not expect to be angered over slug slander today but here we are!
Unfortunately one look at animalpeek.com tells me the entire website is AI generated due to its many “off” statements and tangents; the first thing I looked at was “80 animals that eat seaweed” and it includes animals that it claims never eat seaweed, but might if they’re desperate, and seaweed contains potassium which is good for your heart, but sadly these animals could have heart disease! You know from not eating potassium rich seaweed! And so on. A tremendous volume of these “articles” that aren’t terribly useful or interesting, all over the map in accuracy, and no human ever could have had the time or motive to really write.
On its own it’s funny and the dumbness of the writing is cute to me because these mindless stupid programs are TRYING to understand words, in a purely inanimate unconscious sense, but yeah clickbait not even written or inspected by a human being is going to be dominating all search results soon enough 😞
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they’re not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
As an American, the times I’ve gone abroad I’ve felt free and open in a way that made coming back to the US extremely jarring in a way I couldn’t fully describe. This is an aspect of it—a sanitized, dead culture entirely composed of constant advertisements and guns.
I’m confused how art with genitals in it can even get hand wringing? that’s just in every gallery? How do you even sanitise that without carving out some really significant parts of art history?
anyway this is really what America is like. the right wing is currently weaponizing this against gay and trans people by accusing them of “grooming”. it’s really interesting to me to watch Europeans discover the reasons WHY Americans are all insane. like we didn’t get this way by accident there are extremely powerful stressors acting on us from before the moment of birth that causes epigenetic syndromes, chronic illness and derangement lol
at this point I wish advertising in general was just literally illegal. Word of mouth only. Maybe exceptions beneath a certain net value like if you’re a startup or a family run business but if you’re already making a billion dollars then making even one single commercial or banner campaign should be a crime and I mean a crime like the CEO gets investigated on national television and goes to prison forever and everyone agrees they’re a sick fucked up maniac
Not only do conservatives believe that insect flour or other insect based foods are a political conspiracy against them but they’ve now started to circulate a myth that human beings cannot even digest “bugs” (what did they think shrimp and lobsters were??????) or that chitin is harmful to your health (are they aware it’s in more than just arthropods?)
Worse, they’re circulating videos of horsehair worms to scare people because they don’t understand that all animals have parasites and that parasites are not interchangeable between hosts.
I love sweets and treats! I love baked goods! I even like to make them sometimes!
So a Shy Guy, wearing a chef hat, creator of pastries? This is a Kin Emergency over here!
This is such a perfect character and appeals to me so much that I’m even willing to look past the fact that he’s French-coded!
Cooking is one thing, baking is another, and pastry-making is an intensely delicate science! But we can clearly see that Shy Guy (Pastry Chef) is a master of the craft! Just churning out treats with reckless abandon! You know they’re good because good food is guaranteed to make a woman close her eyes and smile while putting her hand on her cheek. After every single bite! I can’t tell exactly what every pastry on display is, but those certain ones in the wobbly stack in Shy Guy’s right hand… could they be flans? How I hope so!
Shy Guy (Pastry Chef) takes great care to ensure that no hairs or dandruff or scales or whatever covers a Shy Guy’s scalp will end up in your food. He is wearing three whole articles of clothing on his head! That’s so difficult to do without the hat falling off! However, the big ol’ eye holes of his mask do mean that Eyes could potentially fall in your pristine tarts. But with such a prestigious fellow as this, that would be an honor!
The delight keeps on coming because Shy Guy (Pastry Chef)’s signature kart is the Carrot Cart! I love this so much! You know I love Carrot Aesthetic! A carrot is not what I would have chosen for a pastry chef (I would have chosen a rabbit, so good thing Nabbit shares this signature vehicle) but it can represent carrot cake, and of course that little frosting carrot they always put on top of it! I bet Shy Guy (Pastry Chef) is SO good at drawing a carrot out of frosting. It would look so much like a real carrot that you would bite into it expecting it to crunch and hurt your teeth. In a good way though.
Our patissier pal is not the first Shy Guy chef we have seen in the Mario franchise, though he is the most lovingly crafted! In Mario Party 8, Shy Guy’s Perplex Express has chef Shy Guys in the train’s kitchen, who are simply regular Shy Guys with hats. They stand on crates to reach the counter, which is cute, but also sad, since this train was evidently made for humans and not Shy Guys… hopefully someday the hardworking crew will be able to make the kitchen more accessible! Also the heat vent can suck people onto the roof, and that’s pretty dangerous.
I don’t think there is any chance of Shy Guy (Pastry Chef) being made playable in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but I think he should appear as one of the Shy Guys in cars in Coconut Mall. He came because he heard they were doing Donuts!
If you don’t feel worthy of playing as Shy Guy (Pastry Chef), that’s okay! It is important to be yourself. And with the Pastry Chef Mii Racing Suit, You, yes, You, can be his apprentice! This is one of the few racing suits not based on something ubiquitous from the Mario series, and I think that is wonderful, because it means they love Shy Guy (Pastry Chef) that much, or at least they love the concept of Pastry Chefs. I love both! Anyway, the chef hat of this outfit is a rigid helmet and that delights me.
Just as each driver in Tour has favored courses, so do Mii Racing Suits! That’s right, when you wear one of these, you are not yourself! What YOU want does not matter anymore, and you are at the mercy of your fashionable and practical outfit. Would you put on such a racing suit, knowing it would warp your mind, making you drawn hopelessly to the likes of Paris Promenade 2 R/T Version, even if you would not think much of the course otherwise?
Mii Racing Suits are scary! The helmets control your mind and zap your brain if you try to resist! The suits move your limbs for you! Have to go to the bathroom? Too bad! Your suit has other plans, you’re going to Donut Plains 2 and you’re going to like it! Have fun in the Mii Tour coming soon to Mario Kart Tour.
I wish “muppet” movies had genuinely caught on as like a style and medium instead of a brand. There are homages and parodies but I wish all sorts of movies were done with silly puppets just as an artistic choice rather than specifically either a reference to The ones. What I mean is I should be able to rent a sincere horror movie where the monsters are obvious muppet style puppets or an all muppety drama and not as just a joke or irony.
How do you make krab salad the way they make it for sushi rolls? Is it just mixed up with a tiny dash of kewpie mayo or something else?? I’m one of those people that loves it all by itself.
are u using real kewpie mayo or the fake american kewpie mayo that isnt actually kewpie mayo
I say it all the time but I’ll say it again I DESPERATELY want a real zombie apocalypse but where the zombies are harmless until they get shot at and then every bullet makes them go faster