The D.C. Botanical Gardens are absolutely stunning and worth a visit, even if you miss the short window for smelling the incredibly wretched stench of the aptly named Corpse Flower.
Highly recommend a trip.
I was there without any idea that there was a special botanical event. Just wanted to see some plants.
That corpse flower is HUGE! The docent told us it bloomed 48 hours before we got there and that the smell lasted 12 hours or less. We were lucky to catch it in its three days of bloom, especially since apparently that plant was blooming for the first time after 18 years!
We have that as well in Germany.
Called “Titanenwurz” in german which translates to ‘giant plant/root’
And it’s a “common” (not just a single garden) attraction in various botanical gardens hereVery cool. It is enormous!
I live on capitol hill and often walk down the mall for my daily exercise. I don’t really follow the news so I had no idea the “state” fare was going on. What I did see was heavily armed guards and fences in a normally open area with loads of tourists specifically not going to the fare.
I think the armed national guard scared them off. Anyways, here’s a photo of the B2 that flew over that day.
FYI
A “fare” is a price you pay to go somewhere, for example a bus fare
A “fair” is an event with vendors and attractions and such.
You might have to pay a fare to enter the fair.
Although classifying anything this administration is doing as some kind of price we have to pay does feel kind of appropriate.
What’s a pale girl called, who also happen to be just, when she’s at the fair?
That’s Tammy. We don’t talk about her and her laissez faire lifestyle.
That would be a fair fair girl attending the fair. Or, if she really identifies with fair life, a fair fair fair girl.
What about the general assortment of things she’s selling at the fair? And how might one casually inquire as to how they’re doing? I know they’re reasonably priced.
I guess I’m trying to ask, since you’ve paid the fair fare, how do the fair fair fair girl’s fair fair fares fare?
That reminds me of the Buffalo Sentence Wiki Link
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They sure do. Tragic how bullying ends up being passed along like that.
Many men mend many mens amends
If she is selling transportaion or food - fare, other products - ware (but I could be wrong).
But was she fair to others by paying her fair share with her fare?
Is this the B1
I was down there for work two weeks back on an annual visit and thought I’d go see the sludge pool. The whole area for blocks around was chain link and military in squads if 3-5. Sirens from every 3rd vehicle through every intersection through the night. You’d think he’d already been shot and the city was locked down. Crazy times.
The Northrop-Grumman B-2 Doomerang.
They’re the ones driving past the mutilated White House on their day to day. The reminders of his awfulness likely hits harder for them because they get the full visual on his lack of respect for American things.
It really sucks to see the national guard everywhere, huge trump portraits hanging from buildings, and marching white supremacists.
huge trump portraits hanging from buildings
That’s so Stalin of him.
Looking forward to seeing those burn.
Post pics. Share your imagery.
huge trump portraits hanging from buildings
Erdoğan replaced what used to be pictures of Atatürk, the universally respected founder of Turkey with pictures of himself in even the most secular cities in turkey.
And this prick is stooping down to that level. Disgusting
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I believe you but do you have any links. This is wild
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I tried searching for it but I only see storied about Patriot Front KKK from the other day.
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What state?
That was beautiful. 🥹
the plant(amorphallus titan) is also rare and endangered, which along side the rafflesia a parasitic plant which is rarer sine it grow on specific vines and have a very unusual growth cycle, which lives in the same region also uses the same method to attract flies.
the corpse plant is related to you calla lily, and some other plants that produces a rotting smell.
I think I just heard George Takei say “oh my” off in the distance. Did anyone else hear that?
if your german based and want a variant of such a plant, dm me. i will send you seeds in autumn. they propagate quite fast, and i don’t want to throw them away.
i have not yet seen the phase where it blooms (and stinks) and i have them about four to five years…
Heh heh, phallus.
Edible you say?
at least once…
haven’t tried yet. fearing the day it will eventually bloom…
The plant smells better than the diapers
We love when this community is just US politics. Yes you elected a bad leader, we get it. Choose better next time.
plenty of other world leaders that are equally as embarrassing you could post yourself. but no, you be complicit in their corruption and just bemoan others actions.
Why would I be posting any world leaders on a science memes community?
I think op is suggesting we do science on, or possibly to, world leaders
maybe because the current US admin has disrupted almost $30 billion in grants to scientific agencies. and that’s just in the US. Imagine what the losses are in places like UK, Italy, Africa, Australia, etc where similar ideologies are being implemented.
maybe some researchers that lost their jobs or projects because they were part of the 2000 NSF grant suspensions feel slightly better when they see a post comparing Trump to a bloated rotting corpse butthole.
maybe it makes them feel not alone?
IDK, just throwing out some theories.
why can’t you just ignore the post and move on?
I don’t know what bumping uglies means, and I’m scared to ask…
Sex.
le sexo.
We’ve got one of those out here on the west coast. I think in Danville? Anyways you smell one corpse flower, you spend the rest of your life with lavendar on your face just in case you accidentally angel another
I like how that was paraphrased.
He’s also a common, overplayed asscrack.
That’s how much of a failure he is.
Weird thing to say about someone who became president of the USA, twice. He’s a liar, cruel, sociopath, conman… the list goes on. But failure isn’t one of that.
The Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
He will go down in history as the greatest embarrassment and corrupt president ever. Failing spectacularly is still failing.
Didn’t know Peter Principle applied to elected politicians.
Anyway, it says, ‘people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”’.
Would you say Donald Trump was competent before becoming a president?
No, I think he’s saying the entire US political system is ridiculously incompetent.
Competent at duping easy marks. The marks are begining to see the con, I hope.
I guess it depends on the definition? If he set out to scam a bunch of money from his supporters, become King Of the Racists, and rape children with Epstein, then yeah; he succeeded.
But he’s nearing the end of his natural life and he clearly failed to find joy. He failed to be loyal to his country. He failed to show empathy, and experience the happiness that goes along with it. He failed to be human and it’s too late now, he’s almost gone…
He failed to be human and it’s too late now, he’s almost gone…
Theres still a chance to become a hero like hitler and end it.
getting elected only means you ar good at winning elections, not necessarily being good at the job that the election lands you
He’s doing pretty well by the standards of Heritage Foundation.
you can succeed in achieving your goals and still fail. that’s not success, that’s life.
Lol have you seen him?
Anybody who allegedly has everything they want and is still miserable, after having been a huge cunt and burned their whole life to get it, and still can’t admit that what they’re doing didn’t work, isn’t working, and won’t ever work, is a loser and a failure of the highest order.
Little embarrassing we need to review this.
He’s definitely miserable. But he’s also accomplishing what his handlers want him to do.
I’m just glad that people can only be described in binary terms. Wouldn’t it be awful if they could be described in two different ways at the same time?!?! I’m so glad the world is so simple.
