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Aww nice! Did you upload it to iNat?

Wow, incredible!

Wow, this sounds so cool!!! I made a faux black tea the other day using Chamaenerion angustifolium (I fermented it a bit as well). But it didn't really come close to real tea for me. Maybe I'll add something fragrant like you did to enhance the flavor a bit :)

What a nice post, thanks for sharing :)

Haven't heard of the new jersey tea plant before (I'm European) but it sounds so cool! Do you use it for anything in particular? Like making tea?

Oh, good tip, will have a look. Thanks :)

Oh wow, you actually did it!! That's so great to see :O I wish I had a blacklight, too. Would be great to attract some moths, too.

Ooh nice, would be nice if you could report back if you find anything :)

If you start looking for longer periods of time on any plant, you will see much more animals like spiders (and harvestmen) everywhere! :)

Wow, so cool!!

I just read in this fantastic book that many of the spiders "hiding" in flowers are actually brightly UV colored and even attract pollinators by giving the flower some extra shine. It may often seem to us like they blend in (because we cannot see UV light) but they might do something entirely different!

I've been using two different (refurbished) Pixel phones with CalyxOS for over 3 years now. It is a really great experience :) And the photos the phones can take are great, too!

Ah OK, really depends where you live. In Germany, for example, the liberal party is notoriously anti-left and usually allies with the main conservative, right-wing party. When it was founded after WW2 many Nazis joined it.

And it also depends what you mean by left vs right wing. In the US, the democrat party may be considered left leaning? But in comparison to many European left wing parties, it might be more of a centrist or even right-wing party. None of these terms can be really pin pointed down to an exact meaning and they are usually relative to other positions surrounding them. For me, defining liberal as market liberal seems like the most sensible definition, but then you might consider the US american Republican party to be liberal as well? Confusing!

And what is extremist left wing? Some people even consider human rights and medical care for everyone to be extremist left. Again, these terms always go in relation to other position like described via the overton window.

Cannot tell if this is meant sarcastically? Probably?

Just in case you are serious:

Often debated because neither is well defined and liberal is used by different people to mean totally different things. As I would use the term, liberals are in favor of liberating markets and nothing else. Leftists are people who are in favor of progressive and emancipatory politics. So for me, liberals are definitely no leftists.