I’ve been around tomatoes way to much. I get a rash if I touch the plants now.

Eggplants cause severe hives like poison oak.

For those that don’t know for fresh market tomatoes.

Indeterminate tomato vines can be grown for years if they don’t freeze.

Mexico has invested heavily in greenhouses, high tunnels and thrip-proof net-houses. These allow for year round production of tomatoes. This was done with government money.

Canada has also invested heavily in greenhouses to grow tomatoes and produce them year round. This was also done with government money.

Meanwhile the U.S. focused on open field machine harvested sauce tomatoes controlled by massive corporations. There are still some U.S. tomato growers that rely almost 100% on immigrant labor. In general they produce 1/10th the tonnage per acre at higher cost even with the cheap labor.

If only the dumbfucks with the stupid slogans like “love it or leave it” knew just how difficult and costly it is to legally move to another country. Unless you have money, work in a high demand job or have family connections it’s fucking difficult or close to impossible to do.

Most of the dumbfucks have no way to legally move to any other country legally.

Inflation caused by corporate greed kills people’s ability to take vacations for some reason.

It’s a storm runoff ditch. They are about 20-30cm wide and 0.5-1m deep.

Gotta pay attention when walking around them.

I know several people with dual citizenship Canadian/U.S. who have moved from the U.S. to Canada in the past several months.

I just figured out a path for me to gain Mexican permanent resident and eventually Mexican citizenship if needed. It will take some time but with how this country is going, My wife and I need an escape route.

Yes, I learned most of the fire starting methods. My grandfather used to run a pack train into some very remote areas in Montana.

Of course the method I stick with is a little more effective. I carry a little bottle of lamp oil with me when I go into the back country. It always lights up quickly no matter the conditions. Only takes a little bit to start a fire so a small bottle can last for a few weeks.

They both track

Older people (often with mobility issues from a sedentary lifestyle) obviously would object to more walking. Ironically more pedestrian areas forcing them to walk more would help decrease the number of them with mobility issues.

Lower income people see the argument as a waste of time that rich people worry about. They are too pre-occupied with trying to survive. They also consider the inconvenience of longer commute times if they work in the area. The extra 15 minutes walking time for their shifts at multiple jobs is a killer.

Hmmm… Did we have the same parents?

Apparently why I haven’t spoken to them or seen them in over a decade is a mystery. The next time I see them will be when they are in their graves. I’ll have my dancing shoes on.

50%…

Quick math - minus inflation, I am getting around 90% off.

Insulation only works if night-time air temps are significantly different than daytime temps - like in arid desert regions. Whole house fans are extremely effective under these conditions.

Say the night time temp is 16C and the daytime temp is 36C. Opening the windows at night and turning the fan on will cool the house down to 18-20C. Then closing everything up in the morning (windows and blinds) the house will only warm up to around 25-27C during the day. Hot but not deadly.

When the temps peak over 40C and the nighttime temps are 30C, people die without some type of active cooling. Especially if the humidity is high as well. Even a window unit that pulls the temp down to 25C at night can save lives.

In the Willamette Valley (main population area) most people have some type of air-conditioning. Just a window unit on some of the older construction. Around 20% of the homes have no cooling.

The state is pushing for heat-pump adoption on all newer builds or furnace replacements. Both for energy savings and to meet the cooling needs from increasing temps.

https://www.oregon.gov/energy/Data-and-Reports/Documents/2023-Oregon-Cooling-Needs-Study.pdf

Reality:

Prices go up for imported goods driving down demand for all goods both domestic and imported.

Retaliatory tariffs, increased cost of resources, and most destructively changes to purchasing behaviors drive down exports and kill domestic production further. These are long term effects as well. As competitive countries fill the niche left from the fucking idiot country who decided to shit on their own market.

A melon?

https://www.reimerseeds.com/ananas-melon-seeds

It is an old Soviet design. Many countries in the old Soviet block states have this. I just about did a one legger down them a couple times in Uzbekistan.

A greyhound dragging a 150lb person on a leash travels at a much slower rate.

That’s pretty normal for peppers. They take forever for the first fruit to be ready. Then a month later you are drowning in them.

Peppers also require large amounts of nutrients once they get going. Like 4x the amount of sweet corn…

Well, without cheap labor from immigrants, companies are either going to have to pay living wages or go under. I am okay with both.

This is why I buy my HVAC filters in bulk 4 or 8 at a time and replace them every 3-4 months (less if there is smoke). The difference it makes in keeping the house clean is very noticable. I get very little dust accumulation except in my teens rooms because they leave their doors closed.

No that never happens /S

I used to work with a supplier that hired a former Monsanto executive as their CEO. When his first agenda came out I told their sales team he was an idiot and to have fun looking for a new job a few months.

The CEO bailed after 2 years to start his own “consulting business.”

1 year later the company lost 75% of their market share and was laying off people left and right. They are still afloat barely.

After a couple years “consulting”, the CEO went to another company in 2023. He didn’t bounce fast enough and got caught on this one. He was fired 2 weeks ago and the company shut their doors except for a handful of staff to facilitate the firesale of the companies assets.