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- Comment on Sprout 🌱 19 hours ago:
That is a picture of cucumis melo.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
The moron cut a critical organization when a major threat was known to be migrating north.
The agency needed a massive influx of resources for an expanded effort to control it this year.
No the root cause is not his fault, but his dumbass decisions the the fucking morons who voted for him are absolutely at fault for the shitty response.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm… Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?
98.5%, 99% or 99.5?
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 2 weeks ago:
So you need two cement trucks.
- Comment on Extremely common red dwarf L 2 weeks ago:
I personally like where Olev Vinn went with it.
Recently, paleobiologist Olev Vinn has suggested that the great filter may exist between steps 8 and 9 due to inherited behavior patterns (IBP) that initially occur in all intelligent biological organisms. These IBPs are incompatible with conditions prevailing in technological civilizations and could inevitably lead to the self-destruction of civilization in multiple ways.
- Comment on Extremely common red dwarf L 2 weeks ago:
I personally like to believe that life is not rare because life fucking finds a way and all that.
Intelligent life is likely not rare. On our planet there are several species that might be considered intelligent like elephants, whales, dolphins, covids etc.
Intelligent, extreme tool building life at a detectable technology level from space is extremely rare. I mean seriously, humans have only been detectable from space for less than 125 years out of the 400-500 million years with large multicellular life on this planet.
We developed the ability for a global extinction event from nuclear warfare 80 years ago and we are currently on pace for a global climate catastrophe in the next 200. At the current rate we’ll be lucky to be detectable from space for 200 years.
- Comment on Dinner for one 3 weeks ago:
These wounds, they will not heeaal!!
- Comment on I have a busy morning planned 4 weeks ago:
What douchebag corporate manager only beats around the bush for 15 minutes? Their defining characteristic is long-winded bullshit ramblings.
A 10 slide presentation takes 2 fucking hours and it obvious the manager has no fucking clue what they are talking about.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 4 weeks ago:
It’s nothing but an existential hatred of existence. Damn things are suicidal. There was always a few that managed to kill themselves every year on the ranch.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 4 weeks ago:
My ass and legs disagree after a gander latched on to my ass and beat me with his wings when I was a kid on the ranch.
Next time he came at me, I had a baseball bat. Roasted gander for dinner.
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 4 weeks ago:
Shetties fall into the pure evil category. It’s not on the chart because the little shits are extra sneaky about it.
- Comment on Banane logic 4 weeks ago:
Helps reduce water loss which helps them keep for a day to two longer.
- Comment on Banane logic 4 weeks ago:
They store them at 13-14C. Anything colder causes chilling injury aka they turn brown now yellow.
- Comment on Banane logic 4 weeks ago:
Apples are non-climacteric. Ethylene gas causes degradation of the fruit not ripening. It’s a little technicality.
- Comment on Banane logic 4 weeks ago:
There are two different major categories of fruit. Climacterix and non-climacteric. Climacteric fruit ripen with the production of ethylene gas. Ethylene is a major plant hormone that triggers a cascade of other biochemical processes.
Bananas are climacteric so they are harvested green and stored in a cooled (13-14C) containers with an absorbent to remove ethylene gas.
Before delivery to the store they are gassed with ethylene to trigger uniform ripening. Once the ripening process begins there is no reversing it. The fruit turns yellow and softens and storage is limited to a few days.
- Comment on Mint 4 weeks ago:
Mint is succeptable to all sorts of fungal pathogens. Some pathogens like fusarium can remain in the soil doesn’t for over 30 years as well.
BTW, experienced gardner here and I planted my mint in the ground. There comes a point where you no longer fear it and can control it.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
Identical twins - one egg + 1 sperm that splits into two after fertilization aka clones. This happens randomly in the population.
Fraternal twin - Two different eggs + 2 different sperm from daddy. They are siblings that happen to share a uterus. This genetic in some families.
Semi-identical twins - One egg + 2 sperm. The egg splits before it is fertilized. The genetically identical eggs are fertilized by different sperm. Freaky huh…
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
They detected allozymes (differences in proteins) by electrophoresis in the 1970’s.
This could tell the difference between species and maybe if they were lucky large family groups. It wasn’t as exact as using DNA.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like a marker file. It’s a bit different than a sequence file.
Molecular markers are linked to specific sequences in the DNA. These markers are generally close by or in the gene of interest. All the extra columns described its characteristics and results. Anyplace in the entire genome where there is one nucleotide difference (polymorphic) can be another marker. There’s millions of these and they add up to massive files.
A sequence file is basically just a long boring sequence of nucleotides and are not that large. Now some of the files you use to generate the sequence. Let’s just say they had to wait almost 20 years for computers to get fast enough to process those files in a reasonable time. Those make the marker files look like childs play.
- Comment on DNAddy 5 weeks ago:
DNA sample of identical twin doesn’t work. It is identical. They started as one individual and split into two.
The only way to tell them apart is if one of the brother has a distinguishable difference in scars, dentistry, etc.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 1 month ago:
Depends on where you are. In Europe they are free and checks have a surcharge.
In the U.S. they generally charge a small fee or do other shenanigans. Example: Intuit puts the money in a holding account for 5-7 business days before delivering (guess who keeps the interest).
If sending an international ACH there is always fees even if they are hidden in the exchange rate.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 1 month ago:
It depends on where you are. Some communities operate mostly in cash. Other communities use other methods.
For example, when I am on rural agricultural communities, the local taco wagon is often cash only. The one in larger towns or cities almost always accepts card readers and now phones.
Larger amounts (more than $5,000) are usually checks and occasionally ACH or bank wire. Checks are free however so it is by far the preferred method.
In my small business I accept cash, cards, phones, ACH, International Wires,and checks. It all gets a little confusing at times. I highly encourage checks or cash because they have no fees.
- Comment on dont do it 1 month ago:
The new ones for AI etc. are nowhere near a bank level security.
Pretty easy to knock a hole in a concrete slab wall and have full access to the goods if somebody wanted too.
- Comment on Yummy yellow thing 🌽 2 months ago:
It’s called Bi-color corn. It’s made by creating a hybrid between white and yellow corn inbreds. The seeds are all yellow. The resulting corn (F2 seeds) display a yellow:white ratio of 3:1.
The color has zero impact on flavor, texture or sweetness. It’s all for visual impact.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The survivor one was the best.
I took every history course this professor taught even though I was a science major.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Shapour_Shahbazi
Most of my college professors had very little impact on my life. His classes fundementally changed how I understand the world to this day.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Tunis, Tunisia. The old town was something else.
- Comment on It hurts. 2 months ago:
Two lawyers got in a pissing contest on developing the land they owned.
My great-grandfather apparently had a story about it. It involved lots of booze, a prostitute, and a horse. Then again most of his stories had the same theme so the truthfulness of the story is up for debate.
Missoula is a bit odd on a few things. I attended Hellgate elementary - yes that’s the name of the school.
- Comment on Should I use a "proper" password manager instead of Firefox? 2 months ago:
The question is two-fold. How secure do you want the password to be determines what system to use.
For example:
Banking - I never store a password or username for these. It’s always one I can remember. The password is lengthy, multi-factor authentification is turned on etc… I don’t trust any system.
Finanial webpages other than banks, , taxes, healthcare, etc, stuff that would hurt me personally if stolen, I use a stand alone password manager.
Anything else goes into Firefox password manager. Stuff I don’t give a fuck about if somebody hacks my password.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 months ago:
I went to a very small public university campus that a few years before was associated with a massive state university. They were still mostly independent but we’re getting all sorts of pressure to conform to the larger universities policies on research etc. At my school the professors all taught and did little to no research.
As part of their ongoing arguments they had all juniors/seniors in both schools take a standardize tests at the end of their core degree courses for a year. My tiny university averaged 90th percentile. The large university averaged 30th percentile. The difference having highly qualified dedicated teachers.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 months ago:
Farmers are price-takers not price-makers. The prices they receive are driven by speculation on the commodities markets (even for crops not traded on the market).
Since they can’t control the price they receive for their crop, they are very sensitive to any change in the cost of inputs. Determining how much to spent on inputs is the part of their profitablity they can control. So widespread behavioral change is usually pretty close to immediate.