In any case it’s not an answer because it doesn’t have caffeine in it. Since the usual non-toxic Ephedra nevadensis doesn’t have any ephedra alkaloids in it either, I’m kind of curious what inspired people to start making tea with it.
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After reading all the alternative suggestions, I’d better start cutting back and practicing a new llorar:
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I like coffee. Other options lack appeal for me.
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Things are not looking promising in the near term. 
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Good thing that whole “climate change” thing is a libtard hoax, amirite?
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It’s a good thing they evacuated the village beforehand, a lot of lives could have been lost. The before-and-after is breathtaking.
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A tiny bit of good news;
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I hope they plant milkweed too!
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With the right kind of trackers, certain breeds of sheep and solar get along really well. Here in Australia, the panels are nice and shady for the sheep, and dew accumulates overnight, so the grass is always greenest under the morning-time lowest edge of the panels.
I’ve worked at a few solar farms that have sheep among the panels. After years of working in steam-based industrial co-generation - hot and loud and dangerous: being in a meadow watching sheep minding their own cheerful business while megawatts get pumped over the fence is amazingly soothing.
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Sounds like a win/win.
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It is, for the solar farm and the farmers. I don’t know if it’s a huge advantage for the sheep, but for the farmer it means the land now has two revenue streams instead of one.
I like to avoid the phrase “win/win” when talking about the energy transition though. Overall, it’s not a win/win - for the rest of us to have a decent future, one side has to lose trillions and change from a license-to-print-money industry and shrink to around 15% its current size. We’ll still want petrochemicals, fertilizers, etc. but we’ll consume nowhere near the current 90+ million barrels a day.
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Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves stunning milestone
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article307890215.html
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that’s a whole lotta boots!
python boots are some of the most comfortable footwear i have ever worn. i have had many pairs of pythons. not the most durable wearing boots - leave that for the shark and stingray boots - but for sheer comfort, python is hard to beat!
damn shame those bastards aren’t healthy to eat (very high concentrations of heavy metals in their meat).
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To put that in perspective, 20 tons — or 40,000 pounds — is a mound of snakes the size of a fire truck … or a fully loaded city bus.
#fuckYouMetricSystem
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given the average cavendish banana at 180g, 20 ton pythons is in the neighborhood of 4,064,000 bananas.
so, just look at that and yeah, #fuckyoumetricsystem
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