knightly the Sneptaur

No need to cut the broken culms off, though you can cut away any dead portions as desired.

If it’s a matter of aesthetics, then definitely let the new culms reach full size before you cut away the broken ones.

When the bamboo cluster gets too big for your pot, you can cut it into four pieces for repotting.

It used to be awful, I’d end up repeating the last thing I said in my head over and over 'til there was something else I needed to process verbally.

I’m still hoping for another season.

This is the correct response.

You’re still at this? Pathetic.

I came across an image that reminded me of our conversation and figured you might benefit from its wisdom.

And who is punishing someone? I’m asking you to simply assign some blame to those responsible- nonvoters.

The only point of blame is to demand punishment. That’s what you’re asking for.

If that is “punishing” someone, then you yourself are “punishing” Democrats for their failure to garner more votes.

And they have already punished themselves, as evidenced by the fact that they don’t hold the presidency right now.

So moronic.

Gotta have analysts. Can’t fill up a nondescript office block without analysts.

You could very well be right. My memory is like a sieve sometimes. XD

I’d work for Lockheed.

Well…, “work” is a strong word. I’d cash their checks for as long as it takes them to realize I’m only pretending to work and fire me. XD

Unless it was like, weather satellites or some other non-military space tech. I’d probably actually do that but I’d be conflicted about it.

I’m literally here telling you to stop playing the blame game and go do something, and you’re getting mad at a random stranger on the internet.

Physician, heal thyself.

People like you are why the Democrats don’t even bother trying, too wrapped up in their own sense of self-righteousness to do anything that might shift the status quo:

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

-“Letter from Birmingham Jail”, MLK Jr. 1963.

Im pointing out excusing nonvoters never works, as evidenced.

I’m not asking you to excuse them, I’m asking you to stop casting blame to try and feel better about this sorry situation we’re in. Doing something to help someone who’s hurting right now will make you feel much better

Maybe if nonvoters ever came out

“If only” is the trap of grief. Denial, anger, and bargaining all rolled into one. We’re all grieving for the future we could have had, and you deserve the chance to grieve in your own way, but lashing out won’t lessen your own pain.

Why is that so hard to agree with?

Because it’s an impossible demand that tries to blame a hundred million people for failing to overcome all the various impediments to voting. You might as well blame the moon for all the good that will do.

if progressivism is so popular then why can’t people turn out and overtake the Democrat party?

Because the Democrat party is more conservative than it is progressive, but the opportunity to change that is right now.

I am doing something. Im fighting against this idea it’s all Democrats fault when they were barely given any power to begin with and no one cared to vote in primaries for Anyone better.

What primary? The Democrats didn’t hold one this election…

You aren’t fighting an idea. Ideas can’t be fought, we either hold on to them or we abandon them. If you want people to abandon the idea that it was the Democrats’ fault then you’re going to need more than just blame, you’re going to need evidence so overwhelming it can blot out people’s personal feelings on the matter and a culprit with meaningful culpability.

Stop with the excuses so that no one ever feels THEY are responsible for all this horseshit we see today.

You’re doing that right now, making excuses for your own powerlessness by casting blame. I had 10 years to come to terms with what you’re feeling today (including a six month prepper phase before I reached the last phase of acceptance), so trust me when I say you won’t feel any better about it until you get away from your screens, get out of your bubble, and go make a difference in someone else’s life. Everyone else who’s suffering right now feels alone and helpless, even the smallest gesture of solidarity might be the boost they need to pay your kindness forward tenfold.

You have far more power than you know. Don’t let the horrors lull you into despair. Let them radicalize you into being the change you want to see in the world.

Again, I’m not telling you whether or not I went through with it. You’re assuming that I didn’t vote and getting very angry at me instead of at the people who had actual power to do something and chose not to rock the boat.

Divisive rhetoric like playing the blame game is not productive and serves only to help the fascists waste our time. Being mad at people isn’t going to convince them that they voted wrong, it only cements the opinion that you can’t be reasoned with.

What we need now is Truth and Reconciliation, and to get that we have to have power, and to get that we have to have organization. Take all that disparate, individual rage and point it in a useful direction. Go join a union. If there isn’t one at your workplace, start it.

Don’t misunderstand, I live in a solid blue state. Whether or not I made good on my threat to abstain from voting is an entirely moot question for the presidential election. As far as the electoral college is concerned, my voting power went to Harris.

Yeah it’s working! Everything is burning down. It’s great!

And it’s been inevitable since the DNC decided to fuck Bernie and push establishment candidates back in late 2015.

It’s a waste of rage to blame the voters for their obvious response, as every election since then was cynically forseeable. The party would fuck around in 2020 and win anyway because Trump was awful, continue fucking around during their administration because “bipartisanship”, and now we get to find out if we get to have elections again or how long it takes America to descend into it’s own unique brand of fascism.

But Im sure people like you think we can just undo all this calamity in a few years huh?

Of course not, but the Democrat Party chose this future. They had every opportunity to avoid this path, but they have always preferred the negative peace that is the absence of tension to the positive peace that is the presence of justice.

There is no undoing this now, the American Empire is over and just hasn’t realized it yet. We have reached The Cool Zone™ and the only question that remains is how we’ll organize to survive the years ahead. If the Democrats won’t lead the resistance then we’ll have to do it ourselves.

Reality is this current backwards turn won’t be fixed in our lives, let alone progressing forward. Dumbest fucking gamble ever.

I agree, and so do a lot of people who are unhappy with the Democrat party these days. They gambled on another pro-establishment, “everything is fine, nothing will change” campaign when they know they win when they run a “hope and change” campaign. They lost, we get to pay the price, and too much of the party leadership joins you in blaming the voters instead of taking responsibility for their own leadership.

But hey, at least the new chair of the DNC is starting to point in the right direction, and might not even stomp out a popular candidate this time: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/dnc-chair-outlines-pro-worker-union-focus

You’ve got that precisely backwards.

It is not the job of voters to vote correctly, it’s the party’s job to convince the voting population that they are worth voting for.

The Republicans are really effective at this because they can lie and cheat and overpromise on anything and their base will love them for it. Democrats are remarkably ineffective because they can’t promise anything that might raise taxes on their campaign financiers.

If you want the Democrats to stop losing, then they need to fear losing your vote more than they fear offending billionaires. The only way to do that is to threaten to withhold your vote.

And it’s working! AOC and Bernie’s rally tours have more people excited about the Democrats than there have been since Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC kicked Bernie out of the 2016 primary. AOC is a front-runner for the 2028 election, the campaign for which appears to have already started.

I agree. Whether it was ignorance or arrogance, the Democrats are entirely responsible for driving so many people away from the polls and squandering what could otherwise have been a shoe-in for Harris.

“Didn’t vote” always beats out the votes for either candidate, though. A small downward shift in the numbers is probably the fault of Democrats dividing their own base by endorsing genocide.

So, not any different from any other presidential election in the USA?

I did, I do, and I’m calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that’s required to operate it.

BlueSky “lets” people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.

So, it’s not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.

Dang.