I wish I didn't understand the last comment.
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do you mind explaining ? my botany is rusty (as is my my lycanthropy)
On the internet, everything vaguely dog-like has a big, thick penis with an even bigger, thicker bulb at the bottom of it. I've heard it's perfect for prissy subs everywhere as you love-fuck them into a drooling mess only to 'tie' them at the end as you howl your alpha-dominant status to the echoing world of your 10ftx10ft, $1500/mo ~~room~~apartment.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I still don't understand though. Does this explain the name "knotweed" ? I looked it up and it seems to be a real plant.
Oh, lol, sorry. I thought you meant how the 'knot' and 'weed' fit into current internet culture. A lot of plants have names that probably don't make much sense to us. Apparently in its native Japan, there are 689 terms for it! Damn. I noticed that another english name for it is Donkey Rhubarb, which immediately makes me think of other things, and I'm now realizing I spend way too much time on the internet. /facepalm
As an aspiring gardener, I have successfully killed mint and blackberries. :(
They need them some goats. They will clear out every damn thing.
You can rent goats. :)
Oh shit. This isn't marijuana. It's knotweed! That explains everything!
My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease in my experience of seeing how difficult it is to get rid of.
Maybe the previous resident of the house was a scifi writer actually worth their salt and they created the plant royale to observe what that part of the earth would be uniformly covered in after the wild ecosystems are gone.
What am I kidding scifi writers only care about serious man topics like space war and space politics and the specific kinds of engines on imagined starships...
looks down at the unfolding mass extinction
nothing to talk about here but electric sheep..
I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.
Is that too much to ask?
You could write it?
I think I'm gonna have to write it.
I think Ian M. Banks ('The Culture' series) already had that, unless that's specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn't a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren't from the wake of humanity.
I think this is what I'd call close but no cigar. My main difference is I want humanity to be the ancient machine mind makers, with said machine minds being in the image of man, but molded to our old beliefs regarding gods. We made many minds for the many gods, and they outlasted our species. Now it's just the gods maintaining what humanity left behind, maybe interacting with new sentient species that have found the remnants of humanity and are studying them. One of these days I think I'm just going to have to write this big messy bastard out myself
I'm not very knowledgeable in existing works, but Stray is an incredible game that explores this idea I think. I haven't finished it but what I've played so far is fantastic and immersive in that sort of world
Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire...
No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/210854/the-world-of-bonfire-the-background-story
https://hallgames.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-world-of-Bonfire_web.pdf
Is this Vancouver island? If it is, add english broom, morning glory and kiwi vine :p
Kind of sounds like it doesn't it?
Gotta say I love those big Himalayan bkackberries, though... despite the lacerations harvesting them!
We had blackberry vines in the backyard when I was little along a fence bordering with a neighbor (I think they originally started on their side of the fence) and I cried when they cut them down. They were so delicious!
Definitely not the UK because you can't even legally sell a house with knotweed in the garden!
The mint and blackberries are native, but the rest is invasive. Better add some loostrife, caragana or knapweed for good measure
i'm pretty sure that is named nut weed