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Nimrod

@ Nimrod @lemm.ee

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  • Question about hybrid vegetables

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  • That’s what I’m sayin! Goofy ass world we live in. Either that or me and “v” are the same person, and we have split personality disorder and can’t remember the password to each others lemmy accounts…

    Shout out Oregon, btw.

  • Question about hybrid vegetables

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  • Damn. That’ll happen.

    Nice work getting out of the business. Corporations can really crush your soul. I bailed on my plant breeding background because I prefer the data side.

    What kinda seed you selling these days?

  • Question about hybrid vegetables

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  • Hahaha!

    I was trying to keep it simple enough to answer OP about vegetables in general. But you are correct with regard to onions. I actually work for a vegetable breeding company, but I try to stay vague enough to protect my anonymity. It’s a pretty small word in the plant breeding community. (Even smaller in veg seeds specifically.)

    You know your stuff, so I’ll have to assume you work for one of our competitors. And based on nothing other than assumptions made in bad faith, I will now consider you my lemmy nemesis.

    Edit: wait… it’s somehow BOTH of our cake days? Are you actually me?

  • Question about hybrid vegetables

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  • True Hybrids (F1) will be identical. But the catch is that you can’t have a “true hybrid f1” if your parent lines are not true breeding. Usually this involves selfing the parental lines 6+ times to obtain purebred (all genes the same allele) lines.

    Lots of breeders are loose with that step, so you can occasionally get some variation in your F1. But that’s usually because selfing 2 parents 6+ times, then making the hybrid cross is at least 7 generations. In an annual crop, or even biannual (onion/carrot) this can take 7-14 years.

  • Choosing violence

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  • Not true. VFTs prefer nutrient poor soil. In fact, the main reason owners of these plants fail to keep them alive is not watering them with pure enough water. You’re supposed to use water with a TDS below 100ppm. Rain water or RO water preferred.

    The reason these plants can survive in such low nutrient soils is because they evolved a different mechanism for obtaining nutrients.

  • The climate case for mock meats is clear. But who can afford them?

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  • Imagine the government paying you to not eat meat… the dream!

  • More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

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  • Oh for sure. But they’ve pretty much dictated the development of my yard since.

    1600gal pond with massive up flow filtration. 10x8 custom coop with pond integrated to previously mentioned pond Home automation routines to protect and secure the flock and make it easy for friends to care for them while I travel.

    But if it rains heavily, ducks will find mud. And they will DRILL! Leaving a massive muddy pit. Luckily I love those dumb birds, and don’t mind the mud.

  • More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

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  • Yeah, I actually got ducks for eggs soon after I purchased my house. But after getting the little dudes (in the mail) and watching them grow into full sized birds— I was reading and learning as much as I possibly could about how to best care for them. But this sort of research leads you down the path of agriculture literature. And the more I learned, the more it disgusted me. So my birds are full-time pets. I don’t eat their eggs, and I’ve tried to cook them and feed them back to the hens, but they don’t eat them. So now I just give the eggs away to my friends/family so they don’t have to purchase eggs. My logic is that doing this reduces the overall demand for factory farmed eggs.

    (I have 4 hens and one drake. They are the most spoiled ducks to walk this earth.)

  • More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

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  • I am a mighty hunter of the most dangerous game: tofu.

  • More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

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  • Yup. Learning about animal agriculture was what made me vegan.

  • More than 4 million chickens to be killed in Iowa after officials detect bird flu on farm

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  • Same thing that happens to all the male broilers: meat grinder>dog food.

    “Certified humane” doe

  • ‘Swamp Creature!’: Trump Gets Shouted Down as He Begs for Libertarian Nomination

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  • Yeah… we’re gonna need a source on that. In my small town there are zero libraries, and about 200 fast food joints. I’ve never lived in a city with more than a few libraries, and those with more than 1 are college towns.

  • Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

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  • This is an instance where I think the folks at nobu casa (paid branch of home assistant development) could dedicate some resources to hardware. Instead of the prebuilt SBC stuff like HA-blue, or yellow or whatever. Create an esp device that just has a reliable microphone, and crank them out. I’d buy one for every room in my house!

    I’ve got an esp army in my greenhouse that runs wLED, and one of them has a mic for doing the sound reactive display stuff, but it’s running wLED, not ESPHome… I wonder how easy it would be to just slap a digital mic on some of the other esp things I’ve got floating around?

  • And Debian is supposed to be the stable one

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  • Thanks for this. I guess I should have expected that answer. Bluetooth in general already tests my patience, so I’m not sure a new project revolving around things that already piss me off would be a smart move for my already rising blood pressure.

    I’ll stay tuned to that protocol though, as it could probably help me in some other less complicated projects I’d like to tackle.

  • And Debian is supposed to be the stable one

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  • I’ve never heard of someone doing something like this before, but it sounds like it could have some pretty cool downstream applications (thinking Bluetooth speakers)

    With your setup would it be possible to pair your headphones to your phone (iPhone in my case) and be able to pass audio from different computers to a central one that my phone could then relay to my headphones?

    I often walk around my house/yard while listening to something playing on my laptop/desktop. And if I get too far from the source, it breaks the Bluetooth connection. So I usually end up having to drag my laptop around the yard with me. A much nicer solution would be to have my phone on my person, and use the wifi to keep connected to my “audio source” without needing proximity to the actual pc playing the sound.

  • Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat

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  • Yeah, that might be the case. I’ve never purchased any, so I’m no expert. Wonder why it was used in the fake cheese to begin with.

  • Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat

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  • Eh. I get your sentiment, but there’s a pretty big difference between “edible” and having a certification from the FDA claiming “generally regarded as safe”

    The better question is: why is kokum butter not GRAS? It’s sold everywhere. Has no one filed with the FDA?

  • Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat

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  • Do you have a source? This is the first I’ve heard that claim. Seems a legit reason to disqualify something from a “food” competition, but I’d like to verify before judging.