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Just saying.

Likely a lot less than somebody sitting at an office asking AI a few questions a day.

They still find a way to delay the first flight out. You know gotta start the day of right.

I used to fly over 400K miles per year. Now I avoid it like the plague. It’s truly gotten terrible. It started with the checked baggage fees and has only gone downhill from there.

How about the Citric Acid Cycle then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(journal)

I probably should work on getting the bush type plant mutant into the giant pumpkin germplasm again.

The first tests were had a 400lb pumpkin into a 8’x8’ plot. They split and cracked however.

No manure is a waste product for crop production. It is extensively utilized in conventional agriculture. Organic production unfortunately uses it inefficiently.

There are some pretty complicated biological processes to explain this but I’ll try to keep it short.

First off manure is a not balanced fertilizer. It’s got two much of some nutrients and not enough of others . This imbalance causes two issues: it delays the release of nutrients and causes excess unused nutrients to buildup in the soil.

The nutrient composition in manure varies widely as well. There are many variables that can affect this. It’s pretty wild when you get the laboratory test back.

Most of the nitrogen in the original food source for the animal is lost by denitrification before the next years crop can utilize it. There flat out is not enough N in the manure to raise our crops without synthetic fertilizer

Application of manure acidifies the soil. Acidic soil locks up nutrient via chemical reactions.

The most efficient and environmentally friendly way to fertilize crops is with a combination manure, compost, synthetic fertilizer and covercrops. The addition of synthetic fertilizers allows farmers to reduce the amount of manure they apply and balance out the nutrients ratios. It also reduces the total need of synthetic fertilizer and increases the soil microbial activity. The covercrops capture and hold nutrients over the winter and minimizing the runoff and inputs for the following year.

First off generally these diseases are limited by environmental conditions and available vectors. So starting with clean seed/stock can permanently eliminate the need to worry about many of the diseases. A good example of this is SQMV. It’s spread mostly by the spotted cucumber beetles. These are only found in some states of the U.S. and Mexico.

As for how to deal with the disease depends completely on the pathogen. You can clean up many diseases by proper sanitation and crop rotation techniques. Historically leaving a field fallow was a method to reduce disease pressure.

Others are not so easy to get rid of. For example, Fusarium species can persist in the soil for up to 30 years. Once you get it, you are not getting rid of it. It’s such a large issue that commercial growers in highly infected regions have gone to grafting resistant rootstock of a different species.

Potatoes are grown from both seed and tubers.

Plant breeders develop new varieties from true seed. These plants are in the diploid state. They then convert them to the tetraploid state by application of colchicine. After conversion they are only replicated via tubers.

The first generation is completed in the laboratory by cell culture. This ensures the starting point is free from diseases. Then they go to small sterilized plots where a few potatoes become more. This process repeats for several years increasing in quantity until the first pre-commercial potatoes are grown. During this time all fields are carefully inspected for diseases and contaminated productions are sold for consomption.

The potatoes are finally sent out to growers for commercial production. That’s where they pick up all the lovely diseases and then are sent to the store.

Only among people who attempt to overcome their innate bias and come to rational conclusions based on evidence.

The Raspberry OS for now. Using Firefox.

Yep

Lol, you KNOW do you. That sounds like a religious belief. When you come to a conclusion based upon a belief and then try to force facts to fit it.

Yep that doesn’t work for me.

Did you read the paper?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6cd5/pdf

It’s a pretty decent one but there are others that I find better done. I posted the world in numbers one because its got nice graphs and is well cited.

I’ll post more if you would like to discuss it futher.

As for your question on nitrogen/phosphate runoff it’s pretty simple. Organic fertilizers like manure take time to break down by microbial action into the exact same molecular chemicals as synthetic fertilizer. Say you have 4 months of production time when the plants can use nutrients. Microbial action on manure can take up to 6 months until it releases all of the nutrients. The excess nutrients that are release when no crop is growing runs off and causes environmental damage.

As for my comments on disease and seed, I can give you references to all of them except the SQMV. That’s unpublished data that I used to convince some idiot C-suite types to release some capital investment. Gave a pathology tech a very bad few weeks one summer.

You are under the impression the all synthetic chemistry and GMO’s are bad. This is flat out not true . They are technology that can be used for very f Good and stupid uses. Example a very good GMO is virus resistance (PRSV in Papayas). A fucking stupid one is Roundup resistance.

Your reality sadly isn’t the real one. It’s far more complicated.

https://ourworldindata.org/is-organic-agriculture-better-for-the-environment?ref=goodoil.news

The problem with organic farming is it is too simplistic of an approach. It’s tenants are based upon a guess not scientific data and enforced regardless of if it makes logical sense with what we known now.

This weekend I setup a raspberry pi 5 with a spare M2 PCLE card I had sitting on my desk. I connected it via Bluetooth to my soundboard and presto the best fucking streaming box I have ever had.

On Monday I have a mini keyboard and mousepad the size of a remote arriving.

Up next, another one for the downstairs. Just got to figure out the DAC+ HAT sound setup so I can connect it to my speakers.

What’s even better, I now have a perfect little box for running the slideshow at my tradeshow booth this winter. Makes it an official business expense and deductable.

That’s because organic producers toss the most severely damaged produce away before it ever gets to the store.

The loss of production due to disease and pests is one of the major reasons organic production overall is more damaging to the environment.

Aka how to spread diseases to your home garden.

There is extensive processes to minimize the spread of diseases from seed stock. Unless you know what you are doing it’s a great way to turn your home garden ground zero for the local plague.

For example -

Tomato- seed needs to extracted with acid or a peroxide to kill bacterial canker.

Pepper - TMV virus is ubiquitous in commercially grown peppers. The seed needs to be treated with TSP (Trisodium phosphate).

Watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydews and others. Seed needs to be treated with peroxide to eliminate bacterial fruit blotch.

For the cantaloupe and honeydew up to 80% of the fruit grown in some regions are infected with SQMV. The seeds of these fruit should not be saved.

For pumpkins/squash the seeds are almost always infected with ZYMV. Seed plants need to be grown in protected culture to prevent this.

Potatoes - since potatoes are a tuber every single major disease is transmitted from one generation to the next. This includes virus, fungi and bacterial infections. If you want scab and blights and viruses riddled plants this is an great way to do it

Last move was was a full house, 900 miles. I had started the new job 2 months before and was flying home on the weekends to my wife and 2 kids.

We hired a young college kid who was on summer break to help us pack up for 2 weeks. She got pretty much everything I to boxes. We then had a regular shipping company drop off a semi box trailer. We hired 3 movers to load everything from the house and pack it into the trailer.

The trucking company drove the trailer up to our current place. We hired an other 3 movers to unload the trailer.

All together it was around 1/4 the price of what the moving companies quotes where asking. Hell it was only a few hundred bucks more than the u-haul rental would have been.

In my first job I had like 7 different passwords to access different systems. Each one had different schedule of password reset. They each ended up being on a different reset schedule. I had to reset a password once or twice a week.

Yeah, everyone had their passwords on a sticky note on their monitor. I once got praise for being the one person without it. I of course had an abreviation for the system with what number series the password was on posted on my monitor.