Hey, great job 👍. If you want to protect again insect damage and prevent bolting, use row covers. Makes a huge difference for me.

Wait you guys have $200?

Tech needs a union. Yes, tech workers get paid pretty well. But we really need more say in how the products of our labour are being used. I don’t know how to work in this industry and be an ethical person anymore, and “change from within” doesn’t work when you don’t have a seat at the big boys’ table.

When I started my career, I thought the internet would bring knowledge and enlightenment. It was a just cause. I guess I was just another brainwashed tech utopian. Now it’s getting hard to find a job building something that isn’t an obvious scam or a way to fuck over the working class.

Corporate America sues reality and wins. More at 11.

Sure but have you considered abandoning the cities and starting Ewok-style villages in the forest?

I feel that. Normal day to day life: a million things to juggle and I don’t even know where to start. Crisis: one thing to worry about so I go all hyper focus–100% of neurons are all engaged toward singular purpose.

So just stop oil then. Who are they asking to “just stop oil”? The people getting rich from it? They’re not gonna stop because you ask nicely. You’re gonna have to make them.

These people don’t respond to public pressure. They only understand that the line is going up. If you want the line to go down, you’re going to have to increase costs. These industries have a lot of very expensive poorly guarded infrastructure so it really isn’t that hard to increase costs.

I’m sure most people know that, so again, why don’t you just stop oil then. I’m adverse to long prison sentences so if you’re so passionate for the cause, go nuts.

But they won’t. They’ll protest and make a fuss and then drive home in their cars like the rest of us. And that’s pretty annoying.

Aren’t they all?

A prodigal sourcer too.

We could die a little faster if it helps.

Do you love mass shootings or just hate having healthcare?

Yeah but you guys still have the guillotines in storage or something though, right? Might be time to dust them off.

And when their powers combine, they form megaorca, eater of cruise ships.

Then there would be fewer of them, which is objectively better for all life on this planet. Seems fine tbh.

It’s a combination of factors. That could be one of them. There’s also the onset of an El Nino climate pattern, the reversal of the aerosol cooling effect from changes to low sulphur shipping fuels, spiking methane emissions, some effect from the water vapour injected into the stratosphere by that underwater volcano a few years back, and we seem to be speed-running past tipping points. It’s a lovely potpourri of doom we have wrought.

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function” -Albert Barlett

Yes, and it works great. However, it only has potassium, as well as trace minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, etc. It’s not a general purpose fertilizer though… You need the N and the P in N-P-K too. K (potassium) helps plants grow big roots and fruits. But before the plant can do that you need lots of N (nitrogen) to grow leaves, and some P (phosphorus) to make flowers. I’m generalizing but you get the idea.

So if you’re fertilizing potatoes after they’ve flowered, it’s great because it helps the potatoes bulk up. Same with strawberries, fish fertilizer tends to make them grow new leaves, seaweed helps grow big berries.

I typically use fish fertilzer early in the season, then switch to both during flowering, then seaweed only for late season. Apply according to the instructions on the label. They vary in concentration and may include other chemical and/or organic fertilizers to balance the N-P-K.

I personally like using liquid fertilizers. You have to apply more regularly (every 1-2 weeks) but if gives you better control. Using solid organic amendments can be tricky because you typically add them once or twice per season, so you’re kind of locked in. Chemical fertilizer works great but is bad for your soil and the environment long term. You can also burn your plants if you’re not careful. With organic liquid fertilizer you can support the soil microbiology, quickly correct any nutrient deficiencies, and you won’t burn your plants.

All that said, what works best for you is a combination of climate, soil type, pest pressure, crop type, cultivar and a whole lot more. There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to gardening so you’ll just have to experiment and figure it out, which is half the fun. And hopefully the other half of the fun is eating 😋

So until ~2030 then? 😅

Why are so many leaders in the USA not just evil, but like cartoonishly evil? Like bond villain level evil. If this is the result of a free and fair democracy then maybe democracies are overrated. It is basically a popularity contest, which when you think about it, basic means who ever has the most money is probably going to win.

That’s not a plug for any other “-ism” btw so all you tankies can settle the f*** down.

It’s just that you never just see a normal Joe on the podium. They’re always the same kind of person. The same wide smile, charm, and smooth talk. I’m starting to think that we as a species need to evolve to the point where we savagely kill people like that on the spot.

That’s obviously a joke, but also, why are humans so bad at spotting the most egregious grifters? Why are we so compelled to follow a “leader” anyway? Do we actually need one or is this just a hangover from the last few thousand years of monarchism? Maybe we’re not as creative as we think.

People sometimes say that democracy is a bad system, it’s just that all the other ones are worse. I think that’s convenient for those people because you don’t have to think any further than that. If you do, you start to wonder… Semi-modern humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years at least… And during that period there have been some very clever humans, surely many that aren’t in the historical record… Is this really the best idea we have on how to get large groups of humans to work together toward common goals?

I don’t buy it. Look I’m not saying I have the answer. But this has all gotten so ridiculous. America, please get your shit together. If you haven’t noticed it’s getting a bit hot in here and we have some very real common goals (like not going extinct) that we need to address, and like soonish m’kay.

PS. Gay people exist. Trans people exist. It’s fine. The bible is just a book. All your politicians serve one master: money. It isn’t a conspiracy, they’re pretty open about it. The earth is round. Water is wet. Reality is here folks, it’s all around you. Put down your phone and go outside.