If money is involved, there is always somebody who will trade.
When one party is untrustworthy, the other party figures out a way to mitigate their risks. Raising prices, reducing capital expenditure for the country, increasing insurance coverage, not offering credit (prepayment only) and diversifying their trading partners are common ways. All of these methods long-term fuck over the belligerent party.
The effects of this dumbfuckery will hurt the U.S. economy for 20+ years.
You can literally spend a lifetime researching the answers to your questions. Here is a very basic primer on the subject.
OP = open pollinated. This means that this is a population of related individual plants. These are produced by growing the parents in a large field and taking all the seed. Outcrossing, off types and variation is normal. Relative uniformity is maintained by roguing out off types.
Inbreds = are genetically mostly uniform (above 98%). These are used to produce OP’s or F1 varieties . These are created by self-pollination, sib-pollination or double-haploid techniques.
F1 = A cross from two inbred lines. Most varieties grown from seed will produce fertile gametes with very few exceptions. Seed can be produced if you know how to. The reason F1’s exist is because of heterosis or hybrid vigor. This makes the plants of some species (if bred corectly) healthier, more uniform, and produce more than OP or inbred lines. Saving seeds from an F1 will created and F2. F2 is the generation of maximum variation and the resulting plants will all be genetically unique.
Confusion of fertility of F1’s: Sex expression in plants gets complicated. All male or all female plants are common in nature. Plants can also have separate male and female flowers on the same plant and all sorts of varietions. You can also change the sex expression of a plant with the application of some hormones. Plant breeders often take advantage of these diffences in variety development. Only varieties that have an odd number of chromosomes (like seedless watermelons) are truly sterile.
Saving seed - each species has its own techniques to successfully save seed. You’ll have to research how to do it for everyone. Some are very easy to do like cantaloupes. Others can take specialized skill to save like lettuce.
Storing seed: Each species has its own storage requirements. You’ll want to look up the requirements for each one. There are wide ranges of temperature and humidity. Some species can be stored for decades. Other species are only viable for a year.
Economics/risks of saving your own seed. Yhis gets extremely complicated fast as well. Seedborne diseases, pests, genetics etc all are parts to consider. There is no one size fits all answer.
Let’s just say, they fall into the “annoying fucks to deal with.” on the professional level.
One of them I used to work at with the same company. He got banned from customer visits after pissing off too many large customers.
I can’t. I know a few people on their management team.
Took me a little while to figure out what was going on.
The first shot had the truck hit by a drone on the rear right side of the vehicle.
The drivers stopped because the tank was punctured and leaking a lot of fuel.
The black streak on the road behind the truck when it was stopped is fuel.
Then the second drone hits and the entire thing goes up in flames. The fuel on the ground lights up too triggering the drivers impromptu impression of a leaping gazelle.
Excessive Technology for students to use in the classroom is directly linked to lower test scores.
Reasons:
School work like any job has boring and monotonous tasks: Chromebooks etc offer endless opportunity for kids to avoid doing their work. Games, videos, or just random browsing.
Different learning methods of different students: For many students the physical act of writing letters etc on paper or reading from a physical book helps, them retain information better than a screen.
Slower speed - When learning something going slower improves retention and accuracy. It forces the brain to process the information more completely rather than skimming.
A change the view to “By Months”.
Then look at:
Artillery - last two months are the highest for the entire conflict.
MLRS - Last month is the highest in 2 years.
Anti-aircraft - last month is the highest in 2 years.
UAV - the last 6 months holy fuck… Ukraine is knocking a shit ton out of the sky.
Cars/trucks - the last 6 months Ukraine is absolutely wrecking these. Since soldier casualties are not spiking the additional destruction is logically not from assault buggies etc but logistics. So last spring averaged 3500 vehicles destroyed, so the likely 5,000 of the 8,600 vehicles destroyed in May were logistics. That’s a lot of burning vehicles.
Honestly since you have to water it anyways, I would kill off the lawn 3-4’ around the outside of the house and plant flowers.
Do a blend of species at about 4x the normal planting rate. You don’t want any space between the plants just mass to crowd out the weeds. I find. You can do a mix of annuals or perrenials.
Personally I’d just order in a good seed blend from a mail order company. Skip the big box store or the garden center.
So you need two cement trucks.
I personally like where Olev Vinn went with it.
Recently, paleobiologist Olev Vinn has suggested that the great filter may exist between steps 8 and 9 due to inherited behavior patterns (IBP) that initially occur in all intelligent biological organisms. These IBPs are incompatible with conditions prevailing in technological civilizations and could inevitably lead to the self-destruction of civilization in multiple ways.
I personally like to believe that life is not rare because life fucking finds a way and all that.
Intelligent life is likely not rare. On our planet there are several species that might be considered intelligent like elephants, whales, dolphins, covids etc.
Intelligent, extreme tool building life at a detectable technology level from space is extremely rare. I mean seriously, humans have only been detectable from space for less than 125 years out of the 400-500 million years with large multicellular life on this planet.
We developed the ability for a global extinction event from nuclear warfare 80 years ago and we are currently on pace for a global climate catastrophe in the next 200. At the current rate we’ll be lucky to be detectable from space for 200 years.
2 different airframes.
The full payload like the FP-1 made out of more durable materials and designed travel long distances and blow shit up
The “decoy” is made as cheaply as possible with a radar signature designed to look the same as the full-payload. They can travel long distances as well.
By daylight they look different, at night on radar they look very similar. A good radar technician might be able to spot the difference and not waste the ammo on a decoy.
So Ukraine puts explosives on the decoys and turns them into AA hunters. This forces the AA to fire on all contacts, expending their ammo rapidly. It also gives Ukraine a swarm of armed “decoys” to target any AA. Oh what’s better, announcing that they are doing it makes it MORE effective. The only thing that AA crews can do to avoid becoming a target is to NOT fire.
"These are decoys,” Vector explained during the broadcast. “We have sent hundreds of them. Some are empty, some carry a combat load. The combat payload is small, but it is enough to destroy air defense systems.”
So they send up “decoys” that are still armed. Not really a decoy then. I’d say they have specialized AA hunters in every launch. No wonder they are fucking up the Russians defenses. Everytime the AA goes active, the “decoys” start hunting them.
There was two trucks there. Three if you count the one being towed.
I especially like the part where the trailer was partially disconnected and went out exploring.
At least they rode to their deaths in style.
With a drone of course.
Hmmm… Iran has tens of thousands of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misagh-2
Like its predecessor, the Misagh-2 is based on Chinese technology,[4] and in particular is believed to be an Iranian copy of the Chinese QW-1M MANPADS.
Fucking lazy reporting.
That high rise looks to be very expensive. Odds are a few people that hang out there are associated with Russia’s invasion. This makes them a legitimate target already.
Putting anti-air on it is stupid because it clearly confirms it as a legitimate target.
Your great uncle used to be a farmer. Now he’s a parasite on other farmers as a landlord.
Let’s leave interacting with customers to an AI. It’s known to have error rates and decision making ability of a drunken frat boy/sor girl. I am sure nothing will go wrong with that.