No one asked but I think the secret to making the enemies-to-lovers trip work is respect. They can loath each other, but they have to loath each other as equals. Like “sorry but no one else is allowed to murder this man but me” + “it’s an honor and privilege to despise you.”
they planted berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, herbs, all sorts. they label each plant and the sign said “free to take, leave some for others to enjoy!”
and people did. they took a bit, but left some for others.
it also fed the homeless people living around there.
bearing in mind this is a tourist town, so i half expected to see the plants gone. but nope, there’s always some left.
people aren’t naturally selfish, and they will share. the initiative works
And honestly? Most people who don’t need it won’t bother to stop and pick fruit. It’s only people who actually need it who will devote the time. People with money still have grocery stores.
[Image description: tweet by Black Botanist @CreativeTiana: transcript follows]
I was talking to someone about planting food and fruit trees in public spaces and they were like “Why so everyone can steal the food?”
And I was like “See, that’s the problem right there. Why should taking food off a public tree be stealing?”
To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa. So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.
Luanda, Angola
Agadir, Morocco
Lagos, Nigeria
Cairo, Egypt
Port Louis, Mauritius
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Algiers, Algeria
Tripoli, Libya
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tunis, Tunisia
So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.
I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…
the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾♀️
Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures.
As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”
These are great!
A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.
This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.
I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv
Los Angeles, California
Hartford, Connecticut
New Orleans, Louisiana
Camden, New Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
McDowell County, West Virginia
Flint, Michigan
Washington, D.C.
Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?
This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that
Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.
I am in full support of Vincent and Lovely becoming a sexy vampire power couple now. Return of playboy vampire prince Vincent but now with his equally flirtatious partner and they are Terrorizing the town
Some intel from this morning’s COVID call. The head medic for the hospital chain walked us through a model built by epidemiology experts awhile back. Note: since its creation, the model has called every twist and turn right on the money, right down to the month. So there’s good reason to think that what the model is projecting ahead is what will happen.
The next “large scale surge” will ramp up in November and will peak in mid January. Waning immunity in those who aren’t boosted to the latest Omicron booster will play a big role in this, along with not masking and the usual winter/holidays drivers.
If a new “novel variant” (e.g., omicron is a “novel variant,” different enough from previous variants to change the game) is going to emerge, it’ll show up on the radar in mid February 2023.
As a sidebar, he talked about the upcoming flu season. The southern hemisphere (Australia and South Africa) had a bad flu season, and history shows that the northern hemisphere’s season tends to map to what happened down south. Besides the usual flu drivers (people indoors in close quarters, holiday get togethers, etc), the flu season will be exacerbated by all the people not wearing masks anymore, and “vaccine hesitancy” which is extending from COVID to ALL vaccines.
You all know what to do. Wear your mask. Wash your hands. Watch your distance. And get the latest booster as soon as it’s available for you.
