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  • First, this is not a Sequoiadendron giganteum, i assure you. Not even Sequoia sempervirens nor Metasequoia glyptostroboides — all of them are simply called redwood, hence mistake is understandable. Could be a super rare form of this plant i’m not aware about, but it’s doubtful. [UPD here, now i can even tell with what exactly you’ve mixed it up — wasn’t it Taxodium distichum you’ve thought about? However, leaves there have more feather-like placement]

    Interestingly, llms also made some identification mistakes (some confirm that it’s Sequoiadendron giganteum, some just “The plant in the image appears to be a Juniperus horizontalis, likely a cultivar such as ‘Copper Harbor’ or ‘Good Vibrations’ which can exhibit copper or bronze coloration seasonally or under stress.”) — Juniperus is very doubtful, since some of the species do have similarly looking branches and leaves’ (needles’) positioning on them, for example, Juniperus chinensis. But: branches of different age look differently (younger having small needles sitting close to branches, so they look like threads, and older ones looking much like yours. In other words: The leaves grow in two forms, juvenile needle-like leaves 5–10 millimetres (1⁄4–3⁄8 inch) long, and adult scale-leaves 1.5–3 mm long. Mature trees usually continue to bear some juvenile foliage as well as adult, particularly on shaded shoots low in the crown. This species is often dioecious (either male or female plants), but some individual plants produce both sexes of flowers. Nice facts to know about Junipers. Now, it’s for sure Cupressaceae family (no mistake here, since it also consists of Subfamily Sequoioideae, among others), now the correct subfamily in this case is Cupressoideae, one of the biggest survived species list among Cupressaceae family. Next step is genus identification. Here i can speed up the identification process and just select few genuses, which (along with their forms, if there any) are including common decorative species: Chamaecyparis, Juniperus and Thuja. Problem for identification: they are also the biggest genuses in Cupressoideae subfamily.

    Now, in my opinion (which is unreliable) and after quick image search if it’s thuja, that’s probably T. occidentalis ‘Golden Tuffet’, but shrub silhouette itself isn’t quite like yours. If it’s juniper, that’s probably not Juniperus squamata (it’s more dense), more like some decorative form of Juniperus chinensis. Of course, there’s also Chamaecyparis, it easily could be some form of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana or Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Boulevard’ (nah, “soft needles”, yours visually aren’t). But i would not fuck with tens and hundreds of decorative forms. And i don’t think it’s Chamaecyparis or Thuja anyway. Now it’s important to identify all the stuff before treating it.

    My opinion about it’s state: maybe, it was damaged by cold weather and it’s simply already dead. But they are quite resilient to weather conditions i’d say. So i, as i always do, would suspect the worse scenario — disease. Probably not parasites. Maybe virus or bacteria (worst possible, specimen quarantine immediately, no contact with other plants, especially of the same species; check for sure and if tests are positive — terminate the whole plant (burning is preferred) and make sure not to re-use soil it grew in or treat it with appropriate chemicals beforehand (if you have a license and can acquire them). Now, not the worst, but very common and troublesome enough scenario are fellow shrooms (fungal diseases or, simply, rot). Strong professional fungicides required, so, respective certificate probably too (depends on country, region or particular state). Theoretically, you can care about it blindly, not knowing exact species and disease. But result will be unpredictable. Here’s some useful [i hope] info on that matter: Example of common rot diseases for… Common diseases affecting Junipers include Cedar-apple rust, which causes galls on twigs, and Phomopsis blight, leading to tip dieback and browning of needles. Other issues include Cercospora needle blight and various twig blights caused by different fungi. Common diseases of Thuja include Arborvitae needle blight, caused by fungal pathogens like Pestalotiopsis and Phyllosticta, and Kabatina twig blight, which affects the tips of branches. Proper management includes pruning infected parts and applying fungicides when necessary. Chamaecyparis trees, like the Port Orford cedar and Lawson cypress, are susceptible to several diseases, including root rot caused by Phytophthora lateralis and Phytophthora cinnamomi, which can be fatal. They can also suffer from nursery blight, which causes tip dieback, and foliage browning due to environmental factors like dry seasons. Chamaecyparis genus’ species: Four species (C. lawsoniana, C. obtusa, C. pisifera, and C. thyoides) are of considerable importance as ornamental trees in horticulture; several hundred cultivars have been selected for various traits, including dwarf size, yellow, blue, silvery or variegated foliage, permanent retention of juvenile leaves, and thread-like shoots with reduced branching. In some areas, cultivation is limited by Phytophthora root rot diseases, with C. lawsoniana being particularly susceptible to P. lateralis. So after finding out which exact plant, or, at least, which exact disease it is, go on with treatment.

    As for naming… it’s actually a common mistake to mix up plants called redwood. Many species of different subfamilies of Cupressaceae family are called so. But they are different species.




  • I’m surprised too, since last time i’ve travelled by plane, if i recall it correctly, all passengers were asked to turn off their devices and there was nothing like “enable airplane mode”. But it’s only for taking off and landing. Maybe it’s different in different countries. Maybe my memory is hallucinating tho But i do have some questions about this mode and why it’s still called like this, not some other way. Well, your case just makes a good example of how outdated some things’ naming is.




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    Something is missing tho. Meme oversimplifies real historical experience. In the second part no one stands behind production machine. While it is usually a state’s henchmen who control specific production and make reports to respective authority. Basically, second option is state-owned production. Leftism enjoyers usually declare that there’s difference, since it’s not just “state”, but “people’s state”. Well, in practice naming is one of a few major differences, coz some people are representing state anyway – difference is which exact people are representing “state” — in most cases they control state and their position using brutal force and fear. Clearly, there’s a naïve demonisation of some stereotypic capitalist and at the same time also naïve idealisation of community presented in this meme, which is understandable, considering target audience of this content (honestly, idk why i’m seeing this, since i have a very strict limitations on any extreme left or right content on the homepage; they just constantly manage to somehow leak into my feed and i don’t like this phenomenon, especially bot posted and boosted content). That is to say, meme doesn’t really introduce anything new to our lives, so it’s worth is rather questionable. While in the first case entrepreneurs have more control over government (because there is actually no historical example [i’m aware about], in which they’ve fully controlled government — curious to see how international multi trillionaire corporations’ states would’ve worked). Since their main goal is constantly growing gains, surely, that can lead to various social issues (especially if there are no moral restraints, and it usually gets so). Many people may happen to suffer and die — that’s bad. And so it’s done the same in communist state, just in a bit different ways. All the goodies people allegedly produce for themselves and others may be expropriated for the sake of “distant future’s probable greater good you will never live to”, war purposes, or just to acquire nice civil goodies produced in evil capitalist states, like huge batch of fancy cars for party members as part of barter exchange while leaving population to mass starvation. That is bad. So, this is it, 5 year plan for 4 years, then 3, 2 years. People work like crazy for the sake of they don’t even know anymore. And it’s relatively peaceful and possible to even exist in such a state as a regular citizen… if state is ruled just by regular thieves. But just wait until some crazy militarists get into intelligence and state’s most important positions. Ooof, then it’ll quickly escalate into something very blood red and blue violent, not roses’ romanticism and pussy juice horny poetry. Preference to production of military equipment, also throwing civil tech and comfort in absolute oblivion. Remember: people still rule the state. People are usually egoistic and easily corrupted abusers. Those who aren’t egoistic ignorant pieces of shit will be fiercely exploited just to get no part of the share. And criminal infrastructure exists in every state, regardless of it’s global ideology. They shit on laws, system and order of things. This is how they get power and become state themselves and further dictate some impossible to follow rules.

    So in both cases some fucked up terrorists rule over others.

    Some people make a distinction between economical and political spheres in case of capitalism and socialism and few even propagate balance between two in both spheres or domination of first one in one sphere and second one in another. Such balance is very fragile tho. Some people want all countries to be like china economically, but they usually avoid political stuff like sweatshop conditions (usually less than no working conditions standards), infiltration of society by really big numbers of agents that report any dissident thinking, add to that mass repressions, extermination, strict censorship of this and other stuff. Some countries already adopted or still implementing chinese way of things, but with a small remark that they do it only politically (no economical percs) — this country truly is a new tyrant mass surveillance tech testing sandbox of training data extraction for dictatorships. Totally useful for em bastards.

    Let’s hope all existing regimes of nazi-commies and commie-nazis in all countries will just collapse by themselves or with somebody’s help and there will actually appear space and possibility for something else to exist and maybe even prosper in a normal way. Sometimes it’s also about current state of things — when something new actually appears, people find out new ways of thinking, working and even living, not existing through, their lives. Mhm… much text.










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