the timing of the tassle and silk is so off for mine that most pollen will just fall off before the silk even came out

I’ve had this happen before too; I assume it’s too prevent self-pollination, but is super frustrating. As far as keeping the pollen from blowing away, I read somewhere that the best time to hand-pollinate is around 10-11am, which has worked well for me (but I don’t live in an especially windy climate).

I’ve had good success hand-pollinating corn. But a husk-less ear is definitely a new one.

Huge differences in response based on demographics. The article goes into it more in detail. For instance:

Among urban, suburban and rural residents alike, Republicans are consistently more likely than Democrats to want to live somewhere with houses that are larger and more spread out. For example: 84% of rural Republicans and 51% of rural Democrats prefer this. 55% of urban Republicans and 30% of urban Democrats say the same.

Reading the title, it’s obvious OP cucurbit off more than they could chew.

immigration hurts the environment

Never heard that one before

According to Wikipedia, Malta is the ninth most densely populated country in the world and it sees 3x its population in tourists every year.

No wonder it has the EU’s lowest birth rate–they’re already bursting at the seams.

We saw what happened when Internet platforms tried to be inclusive of differing viewpoints:

Nazis

I’m really confused what this could be referring to.

Because the folks who’ve been around the longest and remember the early days of the Internet are currently in utter dismay over how their fun international sandbox has become a Black Mirror-esque horror show, while everyone else seems to just shrug and obediently upload their face scans so they can watch AI videos of uncanny-valley cats playing cruel pranks on facsimiles of political figures in-between unskippable ads for applying to be an ICE agent under promises that it’ll be like COD but in your own backyard with living, breathing brown people.

The Good Place. Highly recommended if you haven’t seen it.