Sadly the only qualification for becoming a parent is functional gonads not a fully functional and developed brain.

Until you get too many middle managers vying to climb the corporate ladder. Then it’s all meetings about the meeting in six months, that you’ll need 3x daily meetings to prepare for. After the big meeting you have to do follow-up meetings for the next 6 months until they come up with an idea for another big meeting. All while creating and sending reports about the meetings to other managers and the c-suite. Which then triggers yet more meetings.

Oh and you must have weekly meetings with your subordinates to update them on results of the other meetings. Those meetings can’t be at the same time as the safety meetings (you are doing those weekly right) or the corporate wide meetings that are called at least monthly.

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.

Eventually when I retire, I am thinking of doing a little backcross breeding on OP tomatoes. Pulling in all the modern disease resistance package into the older varieties would make growing them much easier.

The hardest part is finding a pathologist to run the screens. I could also speed it up a bit with molecular markers but you can never completely trust them. You have to run the pathology screens.

Don’t bother, those varieties are still pretty bland. They were still bred for shipping AKA firmness. So they were very slightly better than the ones you normally find at the grocery store.

Store tomatoes are bred for firmness.

The original cardboard tomato contained the rin gene. This completely shutdown the production of ethylene. These tomatoes never turned red until ethylene gas was applied externally.

These types fell out of favor when varieties with down regulated ethylene response and production were developed. These types will turn red but are always firm and mostly flavorless.

These types of buildings are used mostly for storing apples. They remove the O2 so that molds and fungi stop growing. It’s not really to stop ethylene production which apples do not produce. Apples are harvested in August to October then stored and shipped year round. If you go to the store right now the apples you are getting are around 9 months old.

If they don’t sell all of the apples before the next years crop, they dump them to diaries and feedlots.

Well consumers can eat them fresh, but they don’t taste that good. They are slightly sweet with very firm flesh and that’s about it. There’s pretty much no peach flavor and often bitter flavors when you get close to the pit.

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.

The plant is still there and can process them but the demand has evaporated. The reason: Del Monte was fucking stupid.

Peaches are climacteric. When they ripen they naturally produce the plant hormone ethylene. This triggers a complex ripening process where aromas and volatiles are produced (aka flavor). It also causes rapid softening of the fruit and makes canning them much more difficult.

So what are clingstone peaches. These are peach varieties that have been selected for the down regulation of ethylene production and response. They are hard, sweet, but mostly flavorless, and do not separate from the seed (stone). They ship and process well because of their firmness but taste like shit.

So Del Monte produced good looking but shitty tasting product (extra tin can flavor) and the demand dried up over the years.

Why? Did this happen and why did they go bankrupt? They were allowed to become a regional monopoly.

Raspberry Pi 5 set up as a mini computer with the old SSD from my laptop combined with a Rii rechargable keyboard/mouse remote.

It’s the best streaming box I have had.

This was implied but not spelled out.

Critically important part of the story: if it wasn’t for key government assistance at the right time, the story is would be very different.

First time home buyer - a government program that allowed us to put 3.5% down instead of 10-20% for traditional mortgages.

2009 - First time home buyer tax credit. It was $7,500 If I recall correctly. It was more than the 3.5% down. We were also able to claim it immediately after purchasing the house. We we received the money 3 weeks after closing. (How did we get $7,500? We cashed out every retirement plan we and had a small insurance payment from our apartment being robbed.)

Unemployment insurance was extended from 26 weeks to 2 years. This gave me time to apply for the higher paying jobs. It took me over year to get the higher paying job. We would have likely lost the house without assistance.

There is no effective way out of poverty without a helping hand.

It wasn’t really that bad as long as you were reasonable on your debt to income ratio. It absolutely stupid easy to get a loan in the boom before the bust. The contrast is why people remember it being “tight”. We had no issues with getting a loan.

I did know some people who were all pissed off that they couldn’t get a home loan but they had $120K in debt between car, furniture, and student loans. They had to have their parents help them out with rent every other month.

2008-12 financially was some of the best years for my wife and I. In 2007 we were both working full time and barely able to cover our rent and expenses when it started.

Housing prices crashed and my wife and I were able to buy our first place with payments less than our rent in 2009. Because of tax credit programs, I had my entire down payment refunded.

Car prices and interests rates fell so we were able to replace our vehicles with ones that were 30% cheaper than a few years before the same year.

My wife got laid off in 2010 but she had unemployment for 2 full years. She was able to stay home with our kids while she looked for work.

Because she was laid off, I kept applying to higher paying jobs. I ended up landing a new job and increased my pay by 90%. She stayed home with the kids for the next 8 years and got her master’s degree after the unemployment ran out. She was then able to work from home for the next 7 years.

They went after the brain eating one for shock value, when the most common one is ameobic dysentery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebiasis

Copywrite like patents originally was a short period to give the creator time to capitalize on their work. It was meant to drive innovation but not stifle it with monopolization.

Then it was slowly changed from that to generational ownership and monopoly. Life plus 70 years is fucking stupid.

Another myth. It sounds reasonable unless you know how roots grow.

It’s not the shape of the hole that matters. It’s how much effort it takes for the root to grow and the reward it gets for doing so.

So if you add in softer, easier to grow soil, high in nutrients the roots will stay in it until the nutrients are depleted. Only when the nutrients are depleted will the plant even attempt to grow out of the soft new soil into the harder surrounding soil. This can often be several months or even years later.

First off most of the guides you find online or even from nurseries show the wrong way to transplant shrubs and trees.

Filling the hole with new dirt is pretty much the worst thing you can do. Water and roots follow the path of least resistance.

When you have soil with higher porosity surrounded by soil with lower porosity, water collects the higher porosity soil. It has more room for water and collects it from the surrounding area. This often leads to drowning the plant or root rots forming.

The roots also are not going to push through the harder more compact soil when nice soft porous soil is available. So they circle around the hole you dug. You end up with rootbound plants long term.

You functionally create a pot in the dirt when you add in the “better” soil that you purchased.

The best way to transplant into the ground.

Bare root or minimal soil is recommended for the plant. You really don’t want to be adding too much around it.

Refill the hole with the dirt that came out of it. Pack the dirt as you fill it to match the surrounding soils compaction level. Don’t be shy, make it good and firm.

If you want to fertilize at transplanting add a very small amount around the top of the hole when filling it up, not at the bottom of the hole. You want the nutrients to leach down to the roots with water. If you want to add in more fertilizer/compost. Dig some small shallow holes 5-10cm from the outside edge of you hole and add in fertilizer. This will reward roots that break through the edge of the hole encouraging them to grow further.

#1- Have your Vitamin D levels checked with some blood work

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8912284/

It’s the most common underlying cause of sleep issues. I work outside in the sun regularly. I still came up Vit D deficient.

#2 - Have your Doctor check for other underlying sleep issues. There are many and they can be very dangerous to your health.

Then do all the others.

That’s why answering machings had speakers on them. It was a great way to screen calls. If someone you wanted to talk to was on the line you just picked up.