Easy question. Big money wants, and needs to control the news for power and profit. Mastodon is not so easy to control.

Not only flowers are appearing because of the heat, but new diseases will be likely showing up.

It doesn’t help that big corporations promoted 100% hydrogenated Crisco as a healthy alternative to lard or the drug Thalidomide that caused horrible birth defects.
People need to be informed but many are swamped with the task of making a living and constant social “guidance”.

A good example is Crisco, a 100% transfat cooking oil that corporations pushed for decades.

Also, there are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters.

This is my experience so don’t rely on it: Most mushrooms won’t kill you but some will make you so sick that you wished you died. Even a small bite of the deadly Destroying Angle will most likely not kill you. Only eat a very small amount of a new-to-you mushroom because even safe ones may trigger a fatal allergic reaction, also “safe” Morel mushrooms have killed people who really, really over consumed them.
Get a real “National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms”, book and download the “Seek” app for your phone. Find a person who experienced and go slow. NEVER get careless or over confident.

It’s been mid 70s here in the day and mid 50s at night just about all summer so far. Bought two window air conditioners but never bothered to install them. We open windows at night and close them in the day.

It isn’t failing, Musk is failing.

I like a cold glass of homemade pineapple kombucha - family love it too.

Things are going to change fairly soon. That’s why the GOP is so frantic about getting voter suppression and their agenda in place before the demographics change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4FqqVzH8-0&t=22s

Coconut oil, peanut butter or almost any type of edible oil works to remove adhesives.

My teeth were tight too. Broke even the thinnest floss but keep trying. Eventually it became easier - broke s lot too. We use those little Plackers flossers and floss while watching TV or watching birds.