thank you!from the article you linked It does look like its probably thaInteresting. I didn’t know about major and minor workers, but it makes sense, very interesting thank you. Do you know if all ants have major and minor castes? or is it just some species?

That’s gorgeous! looks a bit like some kind of flying insect.

boiling water is the only method I know of that doesn’t leave any contaminants, though I never found a need to bake them.

I just plop my substrate in a bucket with boiling water in it, then give it a quick stir before spreading it thinly on a mat allowing the hot water to evaporate off, leaving the substrate dry.

If you flip it upside down, placing soil in the lid with the container resting on top, you can make a mini terrarium like setup for micro greens. Then you can drill wholes in the lid to allow for draining and place it on a saucer. (I have done this for a couple containers and it works)

Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the question,

The Australian 2024 national defence strategy says this: “Our Alliance with the US remains fundamental to Australia’s national security. We will continue to deepen and expand our defence engagement with the US, including by pursuing greater scientific, technological and industrial cooperation, as well as enhancing our cooperation under force posture initiatives”

US has these military facilities in Australia (and more secret ones):

“Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia. Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.” Wikipedia

US also has a Rotational U.S. Army, Navy Presence where they bring their submarines and provide financial benefits to many military services they can use (RAAF bases and the assisting in manufacturing of missiles and other weapons). There are 2500 US marines on permanent rotation

According to US gov “The United States is Australia’s defense goods and services partner of choice” and “The U.S. has over $27 billion in active government-to-government sales cases with Australia” most of Australias military equipment comes from the US including their nuclear submarines

Also most aggregiously

“As documented by CIA whistleblower Christopher John Boyce and several authors, including John Pilger,[7][4][6] as well as some Australian politicians,[8] the CIA allegedly backed Governor-General and representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Australia, Kerr, to dismiss Whitlam, due to Whitlam’s perceived left-wing policies[3] including Australian withdrawal from the Vietnam War, as well as his views on Australian sovereignty.[3] His conflict with the CIA is alleged[3] to have come to a head when he discovered several CIA-led operations occurring in Australia and overseas conducted by ASIO and ASIS, leading him to threaten cancellation of the lease on the Pine Gap facility, ending the US-led (nominally joint) operation, which was integral to the CIA’s signals interception operations in the southern hemisphere”

"In a statement to parliament on 3 April 1974, Whitlam said: “The Australian government takes the attitude that there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia.”

He was then sacked and replaced by a more agreeing pm by the CIA Wikipedia

There are also numerous traid agreements that leads to Australia relying on US for a lot of its financial security (though it relies on China and Japan as well). And also many Australian companys are US owned/funded

This is all the research I have time to do but there are many, many more examples of American interference and control.

Edit: also America controls most of Australian media including News Corp Australia (owns most newspapers and News Corp is also the controlling shareholder of Foxtel and it owns Sky News in Australia. And much more)

also the American controlled ABC is the most visited site In Australia. And controls a lot of other media

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-much-influence-does-the-murdoch-media-have-in-australia-20201015-p565dk.html

What a cute little vacuum cleaner

I mean if you chose a bamboo variety that loves it outside but hates it inside then it will be a big challenge to keep them alive inside (most bamboos you see growing outside won’t like it inside)

My Earina Autumnalis orchid flowered I have also got lots of other plants Im proud of, but I’m away from home so this is the only photo I’ve got.

Your terrarium is looking beautiful! I’m planning on making a large cooled terrarium for alpine plants sometime. All my current tereriums are small so it will be quite a challenge.

As the fungi are wood eaters and their bioluminescents is likely based on their metabolic activity (and is possibly related to the breaking down of lignin in wood) Im just trying to keep the rewarewa branches in conditions similar as to in the bush to be optimal for this fungi’s growth and metabolism. so I am trying to replicate the optimal conditions of the bush, humid, not to hot but still warm (to not encourage hot loving fungi taking over while still maximising metabolism of the fungi I want). I have had the branches in these conditions for a while now. While the mycelium of lots of different fungi are now present, non of it appears to glow.

also I haven’t had any mushrooms growing and some of our bioluminescent fungi only have bioluminescents in there stem (such as Mycena roseoflava) so yea no luck so far in finding bioluminescent fungi in the first place.

When I do find some I will have some petri dishes with Malt Extract Agar in them and will try and transfer it over, I don’t no if it will glow in these conditions but can always feed it sterilised branches if it needs to be breaking down lignin to glow.

All of this being sucsesfull is very wishful thinking on my part, It probably won’t work this time, but hopefully I will learn enough to get it to work eventually.

Plan B is to go after rain to one of our rainforests in hopes of finding some and transfering it to a Petri dish.

Wdym Australia last, they are practically controlled by the US already

I’m preparing to grow some enoki in autumn as they prefer the cool (autumn is pretty soon where I live), until then I’m trying to culture fungi found in the rotting wood of rewarewa (naturally fallen branches), as I have heard that bioluminescent fungi can occasionally grow in it. No luck so far, I guess I will have to look elsewhere

5 is probabably Asplenium monanthes due to the shape of the leaves and singular sori (info from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200004143)

Also your photos are so beautiful

Yea I was quite amazed when I found out about it to, ferns are so fascinating. Please share with me anything you find in your research, there is still a lot more for me to learn aboat ferns and I would love to know whatever you find.

It emerged from fortunate accident alongside a stream in the middle of a forest

Very difficult to know with it being so small and not in flower, as it may grow bigger. However as the leaves are so thin and silvery I’m leaning towards the genus Tillisandia (Air plants). Unfortunately Tillisandia is generally identified by its flowers (influorecence)

“[tillisandia] is distinguished from other genera by inflorescence with one or more spikes with distichous arrangement (distichous flower arrangement), or rarely reduced to a spike with polystichous arrangement, or even isolated flowers” source

And to identify its species is also almost always done by flowers, though I find if you are familiar with a plant you often can identify them based on other features. It doesn’t look like any of the tillasandia I know so that’s not much good.

Tillisandia is the largest bromeliad genus and I really don’t know more sorry.

I can tell you it’s not an orchid like the bot thought tho :). (though you already knew that)

Ideally yes, but in the real world this would be infeasible. Things can’t be tailored to one person specifically. there are so many countless factors that could lead to a headstart and it would be impossible to account for all of them.

Instead we find the ones that are the biggest factors and focus on them. Race is a big factor. But race is not the only big factor, and ideally all the biggest factors should be accounted for.

I am confused how your analogy is different to the original one? the original one was also not affected by prior races.

A headstart would never be fair if gone untreated.

that’s why the final results are calculated to eliminate the affect of anyone’s headstart.

I think I must have misunderstood something with your comment. If you dont mind could you explain what I missed?

The analogy would be more accurate if everyone started at a random time, but darker-skinned runners started later on average.

Yes, they started an average hour later meaning when an hour is deducted from the darker skinned People’s times, the results are more fair overall.

And even though for some indivules it is unfair, the starting situation is allready unfair and this alteration is a net positive for fairness.

It is not just skin colour that has effects on the starting time of course.

Don’t worry I wouldn’t have thought you were arguing, I’m glad you asked.

Woman’s rights required huge societal reform, from being a mans property to being one’s own self. I know we aren’t all the way there in terms of woman’s rights, but we have come a long way. (let’s not go backwards now)

I was also thinking that the current capitalistic system is also much better than a system where power is based on bloodline like in many old Monarchy’s but then I realised that if money is power, and money is inherited its not much different.

However one of our main societal reforms is using reason, logic and ethics over the supposed word of god. I have nothing against the notion of god (other than that it is objective truth), what I do take issue with is using God to manipulate people, people who think they must have faith in the word of god for them to be good people.

This puppetering of god by those in power and the blind trust of those below caused thousands of atrocities; the burning of witches, the rape of people, hundreds of conquests in the name of spreading gods word, and so, so many wars.

This again is not fully resolved in many countries. Such as Israel, were blind faith in the twisted words of god, twisted by a corrupt pollitition, has caused tens-of-thousands of innocent deaths.

But for the most part, developed countries have left gods word as secondary advice, and have not tried to manipulate the people by puppeteering their creator.

This is (imo) a crucial step for a more transperant society. Were you don’t feel you are challenging your creators ideals, but just the ideals of a snob in a suit.

Tell me if I’m wrong but I would like to clarify something based on what Rhynoplaz said above that I feel they meant,

to clarify: I believe the CRT and DEI can exist while having nothing to do with historical events.

(P.S. I don’t know how the DEI and CRT work currently, this is my own opinion on a hypothetical best solution. (Open to ideas if I’m wrong))

The DEI and CRTs purpose is not not about putting everything in reverse, giving the darker skinned man a time cut for every future race because of all the 100s of past races he had to wait.

it is simply about the situation now, the current race, the current job application.

the DEI and CRT should ideally only be about removing the bias of the judge for that specific event, so that the final scores represent each person’s actual time, there is not retribution, there is no repayment for past wrongs, it is only about making the current event, the current job market, fair for everyone.

So that when the scores for that specific day are finalized everyones time is what they actually ran.

The CRT finds what makes the specific event unfair, and the DEI fixes it so everyones time is what they actually ran.

It is only removing the current bias in the Official.

Poverty is a completely different (though somewhat related) issue.

Dealing with poverty isnt about removing the bias, it is about rebuilding the very constructs of our society into a place that does not rely on some working 24h to put food on there plate while others sit around ruling those below.

Capitalism does not exist without poverty, if everyone’s rich, nobody is.

The only solution to this while keeping capitalism is to ensure every person has access to their human rights free of charge, but then our rulers would complain that these people living free of charge are lazy and sapping up your precious tax payer dollars that you worked your but off for.

no government organization can fix poverty, the entire current system for every current country is flawed, in order to get rid of poverty we must rebuild these systems from the ground up.

We’ve done it before and made the lives of millions better. and we can do it again.

Edit: changed words in the second and third paragraph referring to the CRT and DEI Ideally have nothing to do with past events. Instead I believe it is fine for the CRT and DEI to learn from historical events and use that learning, but the actual actions will be determined by the current situation not the past. -sorry for the edit I just felt it is more clear what I think like this