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I get that that is how management types think, but Minecraft clearly demonstrates that both can exist side by side very profitably.

Is there a reason why any new launch shouldn't have a self host option from the start? Company servers can be used for tournaments, events, ranked matchmaking, anti-cheat, cross platform, etc. But why can't self-hosted servers be an option in parallel? Then it would be a non-issue for when the studio servers go eol.

A while ago, I saw a post recommending people who wanted to try planting milkweed to use a tool that lists nurseries that source local seeds rather than ordering from a national place. This suggestion was made because many plants are fairly well tuned to their local climate. Even if you don't intend to plant milkweed, I think this is a good tool to find a semi local supplier that cares about local heritage breeds. Most of the ones I checked take online orders and will ship. I'll shoutout Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Sow True Seeds.

https://xerces.org/milkweed/milkweed-seed-finder#mwf_tool

The other resource I really love is a college near us has a good botany program and they put on two plant sales a year. Their prices are good, but the quality and selection is what really stands out. Plus most of the volunteers are students or faculty so when you have questions they either have a good answer or can walk you over to someone who does. That hasn't always been my experience at nurseries. I think it would be worth checking if any universities somewhat near you have a horticulture extension office or public gardens program. Try searching for botanical gardens in your preferred maps app and see what shows up.

One last recommendation that perhaps doesn't fit a houseplants community, but you got me monologing... John Scheepers/Van Engelen is my go to supplier for flowering bulbs. They import direct from holland and ship out to customers very quickly after the container arrives. The quality and size of bulbs I've gotten from them greatly surpasses any retail place I've tried.

The rebound makes no sense. Even if somehow no violence occurred after this date, enough infrastructure has been damaged and production taken offline to cause a significant supply shock that can't be absorbed by reserve releases. The closure of Hormuz will take its toll one way or another.

Plus, Iran is now incentivized to further develop a stranglehold on Hormuz transits so they can extract tolls to fund their rebuilding efforts. Any attempt to frustrate that will just result in them mining the straits, possibly with Houthi coordination interrupting Red Sea transits.

None of the fundamental problems are solved.

Finally, some good news.

The latest Moody's Talks Inside Economics episode covers the jobs numbers well and talks about some of thr concerning figures that undermine the headline job growth. Of note: total hours are down and labor force participation are down despite job openings increasing.

Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

As-is, yes, it's essentially a goner. I would expect the existing growth to die off and a bunch of water shoots to emerge from below the wound. You could try to prune one of these shoots into a new central leader and cut off the old stem. You could try to get creative and cut strips of bark down to the cambium from the section above the wound and graft a bridge across the wound. But I would only do that if there was a specific attachment to trying to save that particular tree.

IMO you would be better off replacing it and getting trunk guards or making your own with aluminum window screen. Getting a healthy replacement planted will get you a healthier and bigger tree faster than trying to save what you have.

They still serve personalized ads in the podcasts. They aren't baked in.

I don't see the stock price not moving as evidence of the bubble collapsing.

In Q4 2025 only 5.5% of NVidia's revenue came from gaming products. That's revenue not profit, their other products have better margins than gaming. Also Nvidia already has 95% marketshare in gaming gpu's. So for them to grow more, they would have to increase the number of people gaming on PC or get into desktop cpu's or get a bunch of people paying a subscription for access to more profitable cloud services gpus.

Really I just see the stock price not reacting as an acknowledgement that nvidia and nvidia shareholders don't care at all about desktop gpu's. It's a vestigial appendage to what is now an AI hardware and networking company.

I'm an animal, Greg, can you track me?

I'm getting pretty tired of the notion that gambling odds are better predictors than polls.