Pretty sure that was factual reporting masquerading as satire.

Keep paying them but use it less = more profit.

Bacterial disease on crops are very hard to control. Traditionally there is not much l chemistry that can control them effectively. This is especially true on tree fruit where bacterial disease can cause a lot of damage. Bacterial diseases on annual crops from seed are usually controlled by phytosanitary procedures (like acid seed extraction in tomatoes).

So if you got an apple or an orange grown in the U.S. it likely had some antibiotic sprayed on it.

https://pnwhandbooks.org/node/30596/print

The traditional control has been copper. Copper unfortunately sticks around permanently and builds up to some pretty toxic levels.

https://pse.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/pse/2024/07/02.pdf

If you eat organic, it’s had a shit ton of copper sprayed on it.

Looks like a MT-LB has a max of 16mm of armor.

At point blank range the .50 has enough power to punch right through the armor but it depends on what type of bullets it was loaded with and the angle they hit the armor.

I doubt the ones dead on to the front did much. The MT-LB has a sloped front which likely deflected most of them.

The last bit of the video where they hit it in the flat rear area. That likely fucked them all up. That’s usually the thinnest armor and the lack of slope means no deflection.

I have been working through deleting reddit comments. Then reddit repopulates them because they are hit by a Google search. So so I go through and delete them again.

When reddit blocked my favorite mobile app, I bailed. So I am now on connect for Lemmy. It works almost seemlessly now with a few bugs. It’s basically the same user experience as the old Tapatalk for forums that they made almost 20 years ago now. A good user interface is a good userinterface.

My wife didn’t completely believe how my family treated me growing up. She just couldn’t comprehend the level of assholeness.

So I took her to Christmas with my family once. That’s all it took. She quickly realized that I was barely mentioning some of the larger things they had done. I wasn’t even mentioning all the smaller things.

There is a lot of changes for most people in their late teens/early 20’s. As teens make the conversion to full adulthood, life has a way of rearranging priorities and changing attitudes.

Because of this romantic relationships that form prior 18 years old have around a 90% chance of dissolution within 10 years.

So do yourself a favor, give yourself 4-5 more years to get through schooling, work, pay bills etc and then look at getting married.

My wife’s college roommate married the guy she started dating at 14. They went to different universities 2 hours apart. They lived together when she went to grad school. They got married when they were 26 and have been happily married with 3 kids for over 20 years now.

Interestly, its not really inattentive car drivers that make motorcycling so dangerous.

Because of their small size, single headlight and rapidly changing speed, the human brain can’t accurate identify, and track them. Especially at night or in adverse weather conditions. So drivers cut them off all the time because the brain does not process the information correctly.

Combine that with the average aggressive driving, speeding, tailgating, and other dumbass dangerous behaviors that I see motorcyclist do daily and the death rate is shockingly low in my opinion.

I spend a lot of time driving and have seen around 20 motorcycle accidents happen over the years. Only one was another drivers fault and not caused by the absolute stupidity of the motorcyclist.

Yep, 10 years with a reseller. I have 5 lines now and my bill is $150/month. I always purchase unlocked phones so I have the option of swapping whenever I want. I only run midrange phones and run them for 3+ years. I also pay for cable internet for another $80/month. Can’t wait until the fiber company finally gets around to installing in my neighborhood. That will cut that bill down by 1/2.

The end color the peppers change into is genetically controlled and a wee bit complicated.

https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/11/2156

However it usually shifts from green to the final color directly.

Molecular biologist: repeatedly spike their samples and reagents to cause random failures. Eventually lack of sleep from running it “just one more time” will kill them.

My kids who are teens/20 year olds.

“Dad why are you always playing in a tank or a plane on BF?”

Me “Because I am old.”

I used to have reaction times like that made other people weep. I was constantly on watchlists for cheating and even banned by a few poor losers in private servers. Those days are well in the past now.

The kitchen, dining and living room being together is pretty normal in smaller places. I have lived in several that were open that way over the years. It’s not great but it’s doable. The lack of wall space so less cabinets/closets and overall storage is the usual problem.

However the bedroom… That’s a bit too far.

This is what happens when the main tap root is pruned on a carrot. Look up nematode damage on carrots and it looks very similar.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/plant-eating-nematodes-and-the-key-to-fighting-them

If that carrot was from the grocery store, you’ll not be successfull in producing seed without another OP plant. Hybrid carrot seeds are produced using a cytoplasmic male sterility gene. This gene mutation blocks the pollen formation on the plants flowers.

In order to produce viable seed, you need another plant without the CMS gene to produce pollen.

In commercial production they use three lines: male line (OP), Female line (CMS) and the maintainer line (OP). The female line and maintainer line are around 99% genetically identical in the nuclear DNA. They use the maintainer line to cross with the CMS female line to produce more female (CMS) seed. They then cross the female line (CMS) with the male line (OP) to produce hybrid seed for sale. The hybrid is CMS like the female line.

Looks like damage from a probing insect. Something like stinkbug.

Leave it alone and and it will heal up on its own.

Hard to positively identify the species but it’s looks a type of winged aphid.

Spray them off with a hose first to clear off the ones your can. If they do have wings you’ll need to do some chemical control. I would apply pyrethrin or neem for longer control.

I really need a better picture of just one bug to positively identify it. Try taking a shot at maximum resolution (DPI) and maximum physical zoom.

Slight clarification

A brix meter measures soluable solids in the juice. A major portion of which is sugar.

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

Changes in Brix does not slways correlate exactly with sugar content as other soluable solids are included in reading. Things like carotinoids etc. A little something to pay attention too when comparing varieties.

It’s a bit worse than just mean. Mormon theology quietly embraces narcissistic behavior and violence.

In Mormonism having one cigarette or a cup of coffee = going to hell.

They also have a toxic belief of avoiding the “appearance of evil”. Aka it also a major sin if you let people think you are okay with taking part in the activity.

For children under 8 years old, if the parents fail to correct their kids, the sins they do become the parents responsibility.

Beating your child is perfectly acceptable and an approved method of correction in Mormonism.

Sigh… Thanks for the shitty memory unlock.

First off my parents were extremely Mormon growing up and the religion bans tobacco use.

When I was about 5 ran up to one of these machines and started to play with it. I had a grand time for about 2 minutes until my mother spotted me. A quick smack to the side of the head to knock me down and around 20 spanks ended the fun. I then got a 30 minute screaming tirade about touching the evil devil machines on the drive home.

And my mother wonders why I haven’t spoken to her in over a decade.

Allow me to hit me with my cane. The Manchester blast was fucking loud.