Spirit and other airlines have been struggling with high oil prices that have pushed up the price of jet fuel. The company’s woes predated the war in Iran, though, as the company has struggled to increase post-pandemic demand.
Well yeah, the population that would normally fly Spirit are now unable to afford flying at all.
Do you happen to live in North America? If so I’d highly recommend checking out the Xerces society plant lists for recommended species that support local pollinators. The plant lists include timing info for suggestions on what would bloom the rest of the year, because as you mention lilacs are fairly short bloomers (might I recommend my namesake, the humble fireweed, which is a late summer bloomer?)
I’m pretty sure this is a typo, but something about “just deserts for Trump” feels more appropriate.
Star Trek? (Specifically the original series movies)
Guardians, absolutely. First was brilliant, second starts to fall to Marvel tropes, and by the third I just couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Glass Onion was disappointing?
I thought 3 was a deal better than 2. 2 was generic Hollywood schlock that dragged in the middle; 3 at least attempted some interesting things, and even bordered on artsy at times.
1 was, of course, the best. Haven’t seen 4 and 5.
Has the XKCD guy been nostalgia-watching *Bring It On"?
Yes, that’s the point (it’s an edit of an image Trump posted to truth social, then deleted after backlash).
Normally I call out AI slop too, but this one has “official” precedence.
The issue I’m raising here is that (again using an example from the newspaper days) you can have a singular strip that’s “complete,” with its own setup and punchline, that’s still part of an overarching story.
Imagine, say, Garfield, where on Monday Jon takes Garfield to the vet, Tuesday through Friday’s strips take place during said vet visit (each strip featuring its own joke that could be understood on its own, but is enhanced by the context provided by the other strips that week), and then on Saturday Jon takes Garfield home, ending the vet visit saga. Posting the “complete story” would require posting all six comic strips together, even though they were published separately and (more often than not) are still understandable (and hopefully funny) even without having read the other five strips that constitute the “complete story.”
I haven’t seen this mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it), but I want to question rule 2a:
Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
Even in the newspaper days, it was common for comic strips to have ongoing plots, with each day’s strip presenting the next part in the story (with the plot usually starting on Monday and being resolved by week’s end, although some were ongoing serials, iirc Dick Tracy was like this). So the way this rule reads, it sounds like you would need to publish all strips from the same storyline together.
I think the rule is intended to prevent someone from breaking up comics that were initially presented together and intended to be read in one chunk, or otherwise truncating a comic (e.g. the meme version of “this is fine”). If that’s the case, it’s a reasonable expectation, but the current wording is unclear. It’s hard to recommend alternative text since so many exceptions exist (what if the panels were originally posted one at a time? what about bonus panels? What if the bonus panel was only published to patreons? What if the strip was reformatted from a graphic novel for mobile-friendly re-publication? etc etc.) But maybe something like this would work: comics should be posted in their original format (e.g. multi-panel strips should not be split up). But this is already covered somewhat by rule 4a: “Comics should […] be unmodified.” So maybe rule 2a is unneeded and only causes unnecessary confusion?
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genuinely nothing worse than going bowling with people who are actually good. like why are you doing all that
There are fig wasps, of course. And other species, yes, that aren’t quite as good as bees at pollinating, but neither are butterflies, but no one has a problem with labeling them as pollinators. Plus there are the wasps that eradicate pests. The year I had a paper wasp family move in near my garden was a bumper year for my brassicas, because they absolutely annihilated the cabbage white caterpillar population. Basically, wasps aren’t just useless enemies.
Yes (but maybe you shouldn’t). See: https://lemmy.world/post/45251643/23076623
You can (very, very carefully!) pet the top of their thorax when they’re not flying, such as when preoccupied with feeding at a flower, although as TheTechnician27 outlined, it’s probably not good for them. Better is if you can find one that’s struggling to fly (semi-common this time of year, when things are still warming up) and then you can warm the little guy in your hands if they’re cold or chauffeur them from flower to flower if they’re hungry. Often this will help them regain the strength to keep flying, but sometimes they never do; I assume in these cases they’re dying, but at least I gave them some hospice care. It’s very strange to deposit a struggling bee on a flower, watch it feed, and then see it wiggle its little feet in the air like it’s calling the magic carpet back for another lift.
Asia, where they belong (and stay there!)
Edit: oops, still had wasps on the mind from another comment and was thinking of “killer hornets” (aka the Asian giant hornet), which thankfully has not naturalized in the Americas despite recent attempts. Killer bees, yeah, they here.
Wasps are pollinators too 🥺
Interesting, did not know it was a bank holiday. (Schools and such are still open.)
For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it’s $21.30).
*not counting Washington DC
Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.