During the last housing bubble, you could rent the same place for less than 1/2 the cost of buying it. Renting and investing made more sense then.
Currently buying a house is overpriced but rent is even more so.
The best financial decision right now is to live with your parents your entire life. If you don't have a parent you can stay with, then a tent and cardboard boxes in the park it is.
First off generally these diseases are limited by environmental conditions and available vectors. So starting with clean seed/stock can permanently eliminate the need to worry about many of the diseases. A good example of this is SQMV. It's spread mostly by the spotted cucumber beetles. These are only found in some states of the U.S. and Mexico.
As for how to deal with the disease depends completely on the pathogen. You can clean up many diseases by proper sanitation and crop rotation techniques. Historically leaving a field fallow was a method to reduce disease pressure.
Others are not so easy to get rid of. For example, Fusarium species can persist in the soil for up to 30 years. Once you get it, you are not getting rid of it. It's such a large issue that commercial growers in highly infected regions have gone to grafting resistant rootstock of a different species.
Wow they decided to push with armor today.
Russia hasn't lost that much in a day in a long time. Looks like this past January was the last time Ukraine slaughtered so many of them.
Once Pandora went in the shitter, I moved on to self-hosting. So I have never used Spotify. As long as you take a little time once in a while to discover some new bands and add them to you collection its great.
Potatoes are grown from both seed and tubers.
Plant breeders develop new varieties from true seed. These plants are in the diploid state. They then convert them to the tetraploid state by application of colchicine. After conversion they are only replicated via tubers.
The first generation is completed in the laboratory by cell culture. This ensures the starting point is free from diseases. Then they go to small sterilized plots where a few potatoes become more. This process repeats for several years increasing in quantity until the first pre-commercial potatoes are grown. During this time all fields are carefully inspected for diseases and contaminated productions are sold for consomption.
The potatoes are finally sent out to growers for commercial production. That's where they pick up all the lovely diseases and then are sent to the store.
Only among people who attempt to overcome their innate bias and come to rational conclusions based on evidence.
Lol, you KNOW do you. That sounds like a religious belief. When you come to a conclusion based upon a belief and then try to force facts to fit it.
Yep that doesn't work for me.
Did you read the paper?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6cd5/pdf
It's a pretty decent one but there are others that I find better done. I posted the world in numbers one because its got nice graphs and is well cited.
I'll post more if you would like to discuss it futher.
As for your question on nitrogen/phosphate runoff it's pretty simple. Organic fertilizers like manure take time to break down by microbial action into the exact same molecular chemicals as synthetic fertilizer. Say you have 4 months of production time when the plants can use nutrients. Microbial action on manure can take up to 6 months until it releases all of the nutrients. The excess nutrients that are release when no crop is growing runs off and causes environmental damage.
As for my comments on disease and seed, I can give you references to all of them except the SQMV. That's unpublished data that I used to convince some idiot C-suite types to release some capital investment. Gave a pathology tech a very bad few weeks one summer.
You are under the impression the all synthetic chemistry and GMO's are bad. This is flat out not true . They are technology that can be used for very f Good and stupid uses. Example a very good GMO is virus resistance (PRSV in Papayas). A fucking stupid one is Roundup resistance.
Your reality sadly isn't the real one. It's far more complicated.
https://ourworldindata.org/is-organic-agriculture-better-for-the-environment?ref=goodoil.news
The problem with organic farming is it is too simplistic of an approach. It's tenants are based upon a guess not scientific data and enforced regardless of if it makes logical sense with what we known now.
That's because organic producers toss the most severely damaged produce away before it ever gets to the store.
The loss of production due to disease and pests is one of the major reasons organic production overall is more damaging to the environment.
Aka how to spread diseases to your home garden.
There is extensive processes to minimize the spread of diseases from seed stock. Unless you know what you are doing it's a great way to turn your home garden ground zero for the local plague.
For example -
Tomato- seed needs to extracted with acid or a peroxide to kill bacterial canker.
Pepper - TMV virus is ubiquitous in commercially grown peppers. The seed needs to be treated with TSP (Trisodium phosphate).
Watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydews and others. Seed needs to be treated with peroxide to eliminate bacterial fruit blotch.
For the cantaloupe and honeydew up to 80% of the fruit grown in some regions are infected with SQMV. The seeds of these fruit should not be saved.
For pumpkins/squash the seeds are almost always infected with ZYMV. Seed plants need to be grown in protected culture to prevent this.
Potatoes - since potatoes are a tuber every single major disease is transmitted from one generation to the next. This includes virus, fungi and bacterial infections. If you want scab and blights and viruses riddled plants this is an great way to do it
Last move was was a full house, 900 miles. I had started the new job 2 months before and was flying home on the weekends to my wife and 2 kids.
We hired a young college kid who was on summer break to help us pack up for 2 weeks. She got pretty much everything I to boxes. We then had a regular shipping company drop off a semi box trailer. We hired 3 movers to load everything from the house and pack it into the trailer.
The trucking company drove the trailer up to our current place. We hired an other 3 movers to unload the trailer.
All together it was around 1/4 the price of what the moving companies quotes where asking. Hell it was only a few hundred bucks more than the u-haul rental would have been.
I have around 12,000 tracks, 70GB.
This one looks to be a doozy of a big explosion.
Officially - 3 dead & 30 injured, 20 of them severely. This also hits the main explosive production location of the plant.
I have "purchased" thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.
They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It's a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.
Because of all your explanation, Terminal should never, ever be touch by the average user. The historical reliance on terminal is the reason that Linux adoption rates have been low.
Linux is a far better system to use for most home users that windows or Mac but terminal is beyond the capabilities of 97% of people.
I have a 11 year old low-end laptop running Mint. All I did was max out the RAM and pop in a SATA SSD. It's stable, easy to use, and fast.... until I have to hit terminal. Then it's hours of looking up commands online, trying to figure out how to get something done that should have an easy GUI. I'm not a programmer by any means. I'm just cheap and don't feel like tossing out perfectly functional hardware. So I push through it until I get it working.
Yes most of the 3% of people that use the Linux can mostly use terminal easily. For the 97% of people who are not using Linux, terminal is way beyond their capabilities.
In my first job I had like 7 different passwords to access different systems. Each one had different schedule of password reset. They each ended up being on a different reset schedule. I had to reset a password once or twice a week.
Yeah, everyone had their passwords on a sticky note on their monitor. I once got praise for being the one person without it. I of course had an abreviation for the system with what number series the password was on posted on my monitor.
The largest issue I have is the randomness of all the different security setups. One requires MFA by e-mail, one requires an authenticator, most require sms, some push to require using their app, and this random page requires a code by phone call. Now they are pushing passkeys and that is a complete cluster.
What's ironic is that most of the webpages that push these things don't reach the "Do I give a fuck?" threshold. The security is usually there to protect against unauthorized use of user stored credit cards. Since I am not liable for any fraudulent charges to the credit card, I really don't give a fuck about securing the account. Yeah I am reusing passwords, keeping them in plain text in a word doc etc..
When I worked for other companies, I moderately gave fuck about there security. Not enough to inconvenience me. If they made me change the password constantly, they got the number changing series at the end of the password - $tupidPass#01 Seriously that was my actual work password for over a decade.
Now my bank account and financial logins. You'd better believe those have every security feature they offer setup. I do not fuck around with those. I give a fuck about those.
A fixed wing carrier makes a lot more sense. They can loiter/glide at higher altitudes for days.
U.S. car standards today are determined by the size of the
bribecontribution to the politicians superpac fund.