My big Agnes three person ultralight tent. It's big enough for me, wife, and two dogs to sleep in comfortably. Two doors for ease of access and does well in windy and wet weather. Light enough to carry by myself and the poles are easy to repair. Had a tear in the rainfly a couple years back and they fixed it for a fair price. Excellent tent

Thanks for your response, yes that is one of four theories. Geologists have not come to a singular conclusion as far as I know, however. So the four competing formation theories are that it was a laccolith, a volcanic neck or plug - and more recently that it could have been a volcano that came in contact with ground water (Maar theory), or a stock. If you have further research I would like to read it!

I'm glad you asked! Devil's tower is "one of a kind" because the formation of such features are rare. It consists of phonolite porphyry which is an intrusive igneous rock (meaning it formed from cooling magma inside the Earth). Most of the time when you see columnar jointing it is associated with basaltic igneous rocks which are much darker because they contain higher levels of Fe and Mg (mafic) compared to the more silica rich intermediate igneous rocks like the one in question. There are similar geological features, though, including some in Iceland and Scotland (see giants causeway) and as for the hexagonal shape it turns out nature just likes to naturally form them because its easy.
I guess to summarize, there are not many similar formations to compare Devil's tower to, but those that do exist were formed from different magma (more mafic) and did not erode as gracefully as this formation.

Fun fact: this is the remains of an ancient volcano. The tower that you see here is what is left of a magma chamber or an intrusion of magma into the surrounding sedimentary rocks that solidified, creating hard igneous rock pillars (columnar joints). The rest of the volcano then weathered and eroded over a very long period of time leaving only the hardest rocks.

Monbiat's frustration and anger really comes through with this opinion piece. I agree with him pretty much entirely. Our planet us reaching or already beyond its limits for several global systems and yet we are doing effectively nothing about it. The inaction, as he highlights, is primarily because the plutocrats think it will be bad for business. We need to be raising hell about this... we're running toward a massive collapse of modern human civilization.

I'm writing a thesis that has significant support that the United States is and has, with the exception of about 30 years of progressive policy, been a plutocracy. The divisions in put country are by design. Division among racial lines, political affiliation, religious affiliation, professions, etc. are used to prevent the unification of the laboring class and dissuade us from collectively recognizing and challenging the status quo. The working people of this country have far more in common than not, but the political and moneyed class sow division via these wedge issues to prevent radical change - which would likely shift the US toward Scandinavian style social democracy.

We've been parking boats down there pretty frequently for like 40 years. I made a week long port call there on a boat [SSN 711] around 2012 - it was in their [South Korea's] news papers. This is just North K. blowing hot air. We conduct joint exercises with them faily regularly in the yellow sea.

I want to just write lol, but that doesn't capture my actual laughter. I am glad to be here and hope these communities continue to grow and become a stable place that is unimpeded by corporate interests, data harvesting, and invasive monetization. But seriously, here's a rat.

Goblins have been overall a disappointing show in D4. They drop mostly useless shit - may as well just drop 200,000 gold and call it, because that's basically all they are.

The author makes several excellent points - the kind you would get from a humanities or ethnic studies course - that show how laws are enforced to target and oppress specific demographics. Initially these anti-"jaywalking" laws were put in place at the behest of the auto manufactures to remove pedestrians from the streets so cars can travel unimpeded, but as many laws in the Jim Crow era did, they targeted people of color, primarily in poorer parts of town. Removing these laws, followed by reclaiming these voids within our communities as public space, we will likely see improvements in our neighborhoods.

An interesting connection to this is community building through place-making. Streets and roads, etc. divide communities and removes what was once a common space and replaces it with a void of liminal travel lanes that pose a risk to everyone that is on it or even nearby. Removal of some roads and putting others on a kind of diet to slim them out and reduce their speeds can increase communal interactions. Increases in community interactions and development of personal connections has been shown to reduce crime and increase overall well being. That is without even touching the health benefits of reducing or eliminating car travel.

My brother is playing a druid and he absolutely smashes wt4. It was a rough start, but once his build came together he was shredding nightmare dungeons. I think you'd be fine playing a druid

The author is pointing out something we already know, that we are in the midst of what appears to be the buildup to societal collapse. I understand why he says we may be "better off avoiding the word 'collapse' altogether", but frankly that is the direction we appear to be heading. Jared Diamond's 2005 book of the same name, Collapse, shows how many past societies collapsed through failing environments, such as deforestation or soil exhaustion, and climate factors like prolonged drought. He also lumps in several other factors like political/social instability and warfare to describe how multiple factors contributed to their collapse. There are many parallels to these collapses when comparing them to our situation right now and the outlook does not look too promising. This is nothing new, but we are facing the potential for collapse on a global scale - which is new. Simplification may be our saving grace, but there will be much resistance to untangling the web of global supply chains and our dependence on import/export economies. In our lifetime, by many estimates around 2050, several of these issues will result in massive migration from equatorial regions to regions further north and south which will result in radical changes to our world as we know it. I am all for localization and simplification, but there is some selfishness associated with that on my part. Small scale agriculture utilizing water and soil conscious methods combined with small local economies can create a more resilient community - large population centers, like the Maya around 1300 CE, may fall into drought, famine, and war, but humans will spread out and simplify their lives. We just may get out of this alive

Can't say I have heard about those, but I sure do want to eat them! Growing up I had a huge wild blackberry vine and in the summer I would go down and eat fists full of berries staining my fingers (and cloths) in the process. What zone is this?

That is a fantastic set up!

That's a youngin! I have been seeing more black bears in my area - but on the flip side there have been more traffic incidents with them, too. I wish people would slow down when driving in their habitat. One of the best things we can do is secure our garbage and eliminate temptation to explore our homes, sorry to hear they keep getting into your trash/refrigerator!

Lovely! The poppies in my area have been thriving this year

You can't know everything, but someone knows what you don't. Build a community and talk with people - ask questions and form relationships with other gardeners because the passion you feel is shared among many others.

A volunteer! Basil is a hearty grower in my area as well, but I have never seen it come through concrete!

This was very helpful, thank you for sharing. I just went out to look at my tomatoes, they are indeterminant as it turns out and I will start pruning them accordingly. I am fortunate enough to live in an area with a fairly warm year-round temperature (11b) and there was no frost this winter so my tomato plants survived from last year. I have beautiful striped cherry tomatoes all over the vine! Hopefully the spider mites don't cause too many troubles this season

When considering how my posts were being used as source of revenue resulted in my looking for an alternative. I found a page that directed me to several lemmy servers and I joined basically the first one - lemmy.world. I have since begun a monthly donation (since I do not have the ability to run my own instance) and haven't looked back.