Northern Idaho was heavily polluted by mining lead and zinc in those areas . I remember whole swaths of land was devoid of all life near the mines.

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/24/bunker-hill-superfund-silver-valley-lead-poisoning-469222.html

There is some pretty fucked up people in the area with several mental issues from it.

Relatively easy to do with strawberries. Look up pictures of greenhouse cultivation of strawberries. You’ll see that the fruit all hang over the edge of the beds/trays.

All you need is a robotic pickers with a color sensor on it.

Once you get high enough in corporate hell, all work is meetings and e-mails about meetings. There is nothing else.

For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.

The court’s decision also introduced the concept of systemic failure, which holds providers liable when they fail to adopt preventive measures or remove illegal content. Now, platforms will be expected to establish self-regulation policies, ensure transparency in their procedures, and adopt standardized practices.

Pretty sure this would cover Lemmy and most traditional forums as long as they have a written policy and standards that are consistently enforced.

The rate of divorce is strongly associated with the age the relationship started at.

Two 18-20 year olds while still barely adults have a very low chance of being successful. Once they reach 24-25 the rate of divorce declines dramatically. By then they are usually making adult-ish decisions.

FYI - In .y experience it’s a bit small for a good seed collection.

The proper size would be around 1/2 of your house.

Study was done by watching YouTube videos.

Anybody else have phone camera that inverts the the image during processing? I have had a couple over the years.

Aphids and other sucking insects can cause leaves to roll. Look for them on the underside of the leaves.

Fo there are no bugs or signs of damage it’s probably physiological leaf roll.

https://hortsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/fact-sheet/tomato-physiological-leaf-roll/

Organic farming releases as much or more “poisons” than conventional. Just because those poisons “natural” doesn’t mean they are not harmful. Coppersulfate, pyrethrins, spinosad, neem etc are all indesciminate killers. Rotenone is a banned organic pesticide because it’s linked to Parkinson’s.

The 3/4 number gets a lot worse when you know we really don’t need to farm as much land as we do. If we stopped subsidizing idiotic farming practices and invested heavily in infrastructure, we only need to use 1/4 of the land we do. That includes feeding all the animals. If we migrated to a plant based diet it would be around 1/10th the current land usage.

We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.

GMO are a tool.

Some GMO’s are a good idea. Virus resistance for example was the first GMO I worked with in the 90’s. Papaya ringspotvirus is an excellent example.

Some GMO’s were a mediocre idea and an overall failure. Like all the efforts with SAMase for improving shelflife. Aka the GMO tomato.

Some GMO’s are downright stupid and irresponsible. Like the RR in corn, soy, alfalfa, etc. Its lead to a massive over-application of one chemistry. Creating resistant weeds in all production zones. Or dicamba resistance is soybeans that’s fucking up all the remaining trees, shrubs, and forbs.

Yeah, only half of that statement is correct. Organic is overall more damaging to the environment for most species. The lower yields = more acres needed for cultivation.

Yeah no. Those are tyvek suits that are used for pesticide application. To complete the outfit they need some nitrile gloves and a fitted respirator.

For pollen isolation there a whole bunch of different techniques depending on the species. None of them involve getting dressed in one of those uncomfortable monstrosities. I used gel caps when I bred cantaloupes and honeydews (the types used for medications). Slap one over the top of a pollinated flower and it keeps the pollinators away.

Capitalism exploits cheap labor everywhere around the world. It’s a feature of the system.

Mexico and Canada have been investing in agricultural infrastructure for decades now. The only reason that the U.S. farmer can compete is due to shenanigans in import requirements. Imports are held to a much higher standard than domestic production. It’s why the majority of foodborne outbreaks are from American production.

American farmers have been conditioned to rely on cheap labor and expensive equipment. There’s been only been minor infrastructure investment since the 1970’s.

Without government subsidies and cheap labor, the majority of the farmers business models in the us is not sustainable.

The grass can be grown with minimal runoff. Unfortunately everyone tries to follow the recommendations of sports fields/golf courses in their yards. All their methods are designed to meet the requirements of the sport, not the needs of the grass.

Farmers in the Midwest are by far the worse offenders. They frontload their nitrogen application using anhydrous ammonia in the fall or early spring. The ammonia is converted to nitrate by bacterial activity. Part of it then runs off early in the season with snowmelt or rain (that’s when the tile systems are usually draining water from the fields).

The solution is well known. Use of polymer coated slow release urea at planting or side dressing with straight urea at V4/V5. It’s more expensive per lb apllied but it takes up to 50% less N applied to achieve the same result. Especially compared to fall applied anhydrous ammonia.

Combined with winter cover cropping nutrient runoff can be significantly mitigated.

It’s a relatively easy fix but it costs more money… So the pollution keeps running off.

I work for myself now and late June early July is the slow season. I have 2 days of work to do in the next 6 weeks.

I have the very important task of getting my fishing boat out today.

Hmmmm… Maybe I should supplement my income with the pikeminnow bounty.

https://www.pikeminnow.org/

Good dishwashers have a heating element on the bottom. . It turns on and dries the dishes in a cloud of steam. There is also a button on mine that’s for high heat (sanitize) that I leave on. This ensures that the dishes get completely dry.

FYI - What you just experienced is cultural sexism. It’s extremely common in many cultures around the world.

It used to drive my coworkers nuts when we were traveling internationally. They would enter a meeting and everyone would still be speaking their native language. I would enter a few minutes later and everyone would switch.

The only place they didn’t switch languages at all was France. They don’t give a fuck equally.