Saw this at the store the other day, and it made me really happy to see. Good to know some management cares about how respected their cashiers are.
Don’t talk on the phone while you’re checking out at a store. If the phone call is really that urgent, step aside and let someone else go first while you wrap up your phone call.
Cashiers sometimes need to ask questions, which makes you being on the phone an interference with their ability to do their job. It can also hold up the line if you’re on your phone while checking out, creating an unnecessary inconvenience for those in line behind you. Overall using the phone while being rung up shows a lack for respect for both the cashier’s time and other customers’ time. Also many who talk on the phone when they’re checking out wouldn’t just be talking on the phone during any other type of interaction, so it can be taken as a sign that you don’t believe cashiers deserve your attention as much as other people do.
The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you
Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.
the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.
albino plants are basically vampires.
For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.
Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.
They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!
this is super cool! I had no idea
This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…
so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt
There are numerous species of plants that have just evolved to not have chlorophyll because they yoink nutrients from fungi or other plants. It’s pretty neat!
having the ability to stop, slow down, and think “wait, is there any physical reasons I feel bad actually?” is probably one of the most important skills one can have as a mentally ill/neurodivergent person or really just as a human being existing in the world in general
I’d always felt like those “stop! are you hungry? have you had enough water? etc etc…” posts from a few years ago were helpful but sometimes condescending because I really didn’t realize how much some people with emotionally negligent parents just were not taught those skills. It can come off as dismissive to be like “you’re actually just hungry” when someone’s upset but … There are a nontrivial number of people in this world who cannot function normally when they’re hungry and don’t even realize that’s what’s causing it.
Anyways if you’re sad and reading this go have a snack. Even if you have a real problem beyond being hungry you’re not gonna solve it on an empty stomach anyway so just go have a snack. it won’t hurt
If you’re upset, ask yourself: is this caused by SHREK?
Sleepiness
Hormones
Restroom
Eating
Kidneys (dehydration)
Also, friendly reminder that if you can’t drink water for whatever reason, you aren’t a bad person and you should drink SOMETHING. Juice, milk, sports drinks, yes even coffee and energy drinks - there is water in those things and some water is better than no water!
If your options are drink nothing or drink a sugary soda - drink the soda. Dehydration is no joke, and, again some water from a different drink is better than no water at all.
you could’ve just had the last one say “water” and make the acronym SHREW
but no you went for SHREK and I gotta respect that
dating an identical twin scares me bc what if i get them confused
i read a book once where this girl was romantically involved with this guy who had a twin and they would punk her all the time and be like which one is your boyfriend you have to kiss the right one and then it turned out one of them was evil and trapped her in a dungeon with a bunch of rats or some shit
