I‘m a lazy gardener in a comparative climate, I think. For the lawn: I use a motor scythe 2-5 times a year to keep my lawn from becoming a forest. That way you get a meadow with more diversity and living space for insects and small animals while it stays walkable.

Vegetables/fruit: If you combine pumpkin, corn and beans, those will not compete for nutrients, cover the ground and require less water because evaporation is lessened. Strawberries are also nice, because they’re tasty, spread quickly and also cover the ground. Having an apple tree is also a good idea, but dice I’ve inherited my trees from the former owners, I can’t provide you with knowledge how to care for a young tree. Bet there’s good content in the internet on pruning and such. You might want to select a kind that’s good for storage, because eventually you’ll get more than you can use at once.

I‘d say that caring for yourself is an important step towards caring for others and having the strength to do so.

There is a great song by the German punk band „Team Scheiße“, „FA“, with the refrain „Bist du anti Antifa, bist du Fa“ which translates to „If you’re anti Antifa, you’re fa[shist]. A bit simplistic but true.

Yeah, if you wanted something a bit more legit, https://www.highlandtitles.com/ offers to become a „Lord/Lady of the Glen“™️. And they are open about it being just for fun. They state:

**You will be addressed by your choice of Laird, Lord or Lady of the Glen by us and within our 300,000+ strong community. Please note you cannot buy a noble title. This is for enjoyment purposes only. *You obtain a personal right to a souvenir plot of land. Highland Titles remains as the registered landowner and manages the land on your behalf.

But you get a nice printout and some trinkets as well…

In my town there ist one restaurant which offers this as smoker’s breakfast, including coffee.

As part of the woke crowd, what I want to see is the „mainstreamification“ of respect for and safety of the people in sex work. You know, because they’re people.

I‘m at least adjacent to this group. I have this drawer where my mail goes after reading. So there’s a bunch of stuff in there which is quite important and waits for the day the drawer gets full and I finally have to file it.

I think it’s great!

You should check the documentation in your local capitalist agency office for when you signed up. Maybe your minimum term is soon ending.

As a young adult, last year in school and first year out I kind of had this. There was a bar in our town where we went to, not every day but very often. It was a great time!

I found it hard to find where the cost comes from in this article. I found this other article (in German) that gives more detail.

https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/oekonomie/jedes-auto-kostet-die-allgemeinheit-5.000-euro-pro-jahr-13375828

They identified 23 factors, among them

• buying the car
• maintenance
• gas
• insurance
• public infrastructure
• pollution
• acceleration of climate change
• noise pollution
• drivers license
• public space
• impediments for non motorists

Good to know, that I should be rich, since I don’t own a car. 👍

On the one hand: Two cats are better than one! 😻 On the other hand: Every time I did that in the past, the cats hated each other. I still had two cat friends instead of one. But that’s just my experience, I know of a lot of cases, where this worked out fine. Just make sure to check with your landlord first and that you are able to deal with the possible cat drama.

The „Ibis“ trilogy, set in the time of the opium war. Heard about that in the great Podcast „Empire“.