Add a splash of lime and a salted rim to make suero.

Add lime with muddled mint for fauxjitos.

That app is awesome!

Midwest Native Plant Society is a good resource for going with native plants.

Depending on the drainage in your yard some rain gardens or dry creek beds might be an idea for filling some of the bare patches.

Clover and walkable thyme (wooly and several other varieties out there would work) are good for walking areas. Clover is fairly easy to get started replacing grass: just overseed it in the fall, seed on top of the last snow of winter, and overseed again in the spring. I have 3 or 4 types of thyme in my yard that look great in their little spots but could easily be planted and allowed to spread into ground cover.

Sedum/stonecrop is great drought resistant ground cover that looks cool. If you have enough shade: consider moss for less trafficked areas.

I’ve used Sedum Tiles in several gardens around our yard and the walkway up to our house. They grown in well and will spread out well.

I’ll try to remember to take some pictures when I get home.

When did their music get so political?

/s

It is something I’ve seen asked.

Lot of good suggestions.

I would add wet dry shop vac for cleaning big messes of all kinds.

Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks,
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

I do think it depends heavily on inflection.

It’s got to have that friendly familiar drawn out “fuuuuuuck you” that connotes “yes, you’re right”, “I disagree”, and “fuck you” simultaneously.

Fuck you

Ugh yeah

That’s a really good description.

Absolutely. The wealthy in the USA fail to be able to see a profit margin from empathy or humane policy.

Someone got the reference!

There’s dozens of us!

Voice is not a weapon like a gun or knife. Voice commands people. It’s like speed hypnosis/mind control achieved through voice manipulation.

Yes.

The Navidson Record

We demand our Tom Bombadil!

Going over the wikipedia article as a refresher and I totally forgot about how he (author Richard Matheson) had some cool biological explanations for the vampirism.

From Wikipedia:

Neville additionally discovers that exposing vampires to direct sunlight or inflicting wide oxygen-exposing wounds causes the bacteria to switch from being anaerobic symbionts to aerobic parasites, rapidly consuming their hosts when exposed to air and thus giving them the appearance of instantly liquefying. However, he discovers the bacteria also produce resilient “body glue” that instantaneously seals blunt or narrow wounds, explaining how the vampires are bulletproof. Lastly, he deduces now that there are in fact two differently reacting types of vampires: conscious ones who are living with a worsening infection and undead ones who have died but been partly reanimated by the bacteria.

In the book (short story?) the protagonist dies and the reason he is legend is that he was the last human and was like a boogeyman because of his hunting and killing them.

Dune.

Turning the Bene Gesserit power of Voice into some weird gun was fucking stupid.

Edit to add: first film adaptation from the 80s. The latest movies have been good.

Oh yeah, the military-industrial complex has been an issue since Eisenhower’s warning was ignored on his way out. Then again, he could have done something more about it while in office. JFK had a speech about it and wanted to curtail it before getting assassinated.