Broken or just stubbed?

Hold on, you got a old broken tractor that hasn’t moved in 15 years up and running… You are seriously in the wrong spot. Nothing dull here.

Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.

What the techbros and billionaires don’t understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.

Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.

The “dead substance” for soil doesn’t exist on the planet. There is always something going on.

First off there is no “normal” level of soil microbial activity. Every native soil varies dramatically in species composition and activity. The highest species activity is usually undisturbed native soil. This is due the varied plant species producing a vast complex of chemicals that effect the microbiome & lots of plant material being decomposed (mostly carbohydrates).

All types agriculture causes massive environmental damage without exceptions. Organic agriculture is overall the most damaging to the environment per Kg produced. Next is conventional farming non-irrigated. Then is irrigated production in arid environments. The least damaging is protected culture (greenhouses, screenhouses etc) because of the massive increase in production/acre.

In agriculture the soil microbial activity and species varies dramatically with different crops and soil types. The amount of microbial activity is mostly linked to available carbohydrates and fertility. Soil microbial activity is only weakly correlated to agricultural productivity. High microbial activity can compete with plants for nutrients. Low microbial activity is usually linked to nutrients being unavailable.

FYI, Tillamook region is steadily a declining part of Tillamook Cheese. The main plant is a mega-dairy and farm outside of Boardman, OR. They have 93,000 acres of land (threemile canyon farms a subsidiary of RD Offut).

The reason: due to the arid conditions, hot temperatures, and access to irrigation water from the Columbia River, the region produces 2.5-3x per acre more feed than the cool, very wet, Tillamook area. In gross production of crops per acre, they are one of the highest production regions/acre on the planet. They use varieties developed for the southern Mid-west (113-120 day corn). However their average yeilds are 20% higher than the southern Mid-west.

Dairy farming in Tillamook is environmentally terrible. The large amounts of rain causes constant runoff and leaching of nutrients. Most of the nutrients from the manure they spread washes away with the winter rain. Because of the lack of heat units, they use varieties that are adapted to the northern Canadian corn belt (67-72 day corn).

I took a few MBA graduate level courses because a job was paying for them. The professors really didn’t like it when you trash the entire premise they are trying to teach.

Now the economics professor was fun. He had a better understanding of statistics and the inherent data integrity issues, biases, and heavy reliance on correlation that plagues the field.

You really need to read the Song of Soloman. It’s basically a dirty love poem.

“Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.”

“This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.”

" I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour."

In pre-industrialized nations the amount of resources it takes to raise each child is minimal. People have so many children because the resource requirement for each one is minimal or even a positive addition to the income of the parents.

In industrialized nations that math reverses. The amount of resources each child requires to become a functioning member of society increases dramatically (up to 10,000x more). Children are a pretty much universally a net cost to the parents not a source of income.

The birthrate is Japan and S. Korea have plummeted recently because of extreme wealth inequality.

S. Korea - the bulk of the countries economy is controlled by 5 families. The average 20 year old is in debt, working obscene hours per week and is barely making ends meet.

Japan - Has had 30 years of wage stagnation as the wealth inequality has steadily been growing. Young Japanese face the same issue as the S. Koreans. Long hours of work for little pay and no benefits.

As the standard of living rises, the birthrate initially increases. This was the boomer years.

Then birthrate falls because an industrialized society requires more resources per child. Eventually you reach a period of stagnation when the resources available match the number of children born.

Then in all capatilist societies, the standard of living declines which triggers the birthrate to free fall.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/japan/birth-rate

Japan peaked in the 1940’s, stagnanted in the '60-'70s and has been in free fall ever since.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/kor/south-korea/birth-rate

South Korea peaked in the 1950’s, stagnated in the '80s and 90’s and has been in free fall since.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/birth-rate

The United States peaked in the 40’s-50’s. Stagnanted from the 1970’s to early 2000’s (bouyed by 1st generation immigration) and is now in free fall (due to immigration idiocracy).

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/fra/france/birth-rate

France followed the U.S. due with an extended period of stagnation due to 1st generation immigrants. It also has had a much slower decline in the standard of living versus the other countries which has bouyed up the birthrate.

Not likely.

Fixing the birthrate is pretty simple in theory. The government needs to meet the needs of people having kids. The details are a little more complicated.

In order to have more kids in their 20’s people need:

A higher income in their 20’s. If they work full time they deserve to be able to afford a 3 bedroom place, food, etc…

A place to live - Build affordable housing that people can own and build a life. These need to be 3-4 bedroom places that one income can cover.

Medical care: free quality medical care to cover little things like birth cost and the doctor visits a child needs.

Time: Hard to make babies when you are working 60+ hours a week. Mandatory 40 or less work week. 2 months of vacation every year.

Childcare - Free or heavily subsidized childcare for working parents. Currently childcare for 2 children is more than the net average income for one person in many areas. Earlier retirement programs are also highly effective.

Quality schools and education: ban private schools, invest heavily in public schools increasing teacher wages and requirements, reducing classroom sizes, and providing quality educational material. Free college and trade schooling as well.

Hope: Stop fucking up the planet for temporary gains. If we started to reverse our environmental damaging behaviors more people would be willing to have kids

I setup a raspberry pi 5 minicomputer box with a small hard drive and Pi OS installed. I then browse to whatever pirate streaming service I want and use Firefox with the adblock installed. Works like a charm.

The RII K06 mini keyboard works very well.

I originally got the system to run tradeshow videos at the booth. It does that very well and is quick and easy to setup.

No expression is universal across plants. Genetically they are too varied and adapted to too many environmental conditions. So the expression of any issue, logically is varied depending on the plant species background.

That’s why anyone that works with or knows a lot about plants uses qualifying terms like “usually, generally, most common, etc”. It’s always an educated guess.

Browning of leaves could be a sign of root rot. It also could be a sign of salt buildup in the soil. Insect feeding on the roots, different nutrient deficiencies/excesses, herbicide/pesticide damage, or even reactions to temperature, light and humidity. Yeah…

Yellow leaves on the bottom of the plant is the most common sign of nitrogen deficiency.

This can be caused by lack of nitrogn availability or other things limiting the uptake of nitrogen into the plant.

Overwatering: too much water can create anaerobic conditions (No oxygen). Bacteria in the soil convert ammonia and nitrate to N2 gas.

Any disease effecting the root. This includes fungal and bacterial root rots. Letting the pot dry outcan help reduce the pressure.

Other species that feed on the roots. Fungus gnats, nematodes, and many more things can feed on the roots.

I think this is more metal fatigue due to time and use. This happens pretty routinely to metal handled shop brooms in my experience. I have done this with 2 or 3 of them.

In the normal use of these brooms you apply pressure from opposite directions constantly. This back and forth pressure eventually fatigues the metal.

Wooden handled ones tend to last longer.

It’s called Bi-color corn. It’s made by creating a hybrid between white and yellow corn inbreds. The seeds are all yellow. The resulting corn (F2 seeds) display a yellow:white ratio of 3:1.

The color has zero impact on flavor, texture or sweetness. It’s all for visual impact.

My first house was a bank repo. The previously owner was an investor who bought it at peak price in the 2006 housing and then got renters into the place. The rentors were reportedly severe alcoholics from the neighbors. Beer and wine stains on all the carpets. They had also left something on the stove that caught the microwave on fire there was smoke damage in the kitchen and laundry room.

When the housing market crashed the owner let the bank repo it and evict the tenants. It then was on the market for over a year until we offered 20% below asking price (70% less than the house sold in 2006.

I then worked my ass off for a year to get the place up to shape. All new flooring everywhere. New paint everywhere. I also redid all of the landscaping as it was mostly dead. After a year it was the loveliest home in the neighborhood.

30+ years ago in school I was tasked with writing an essay on Israel. In just a few days of researching I noticed that everything the Palestinians were doing looked like desperate guerrilla warfare against a superior force. Their tactics made no sense otherwise.

That’s when I asked… Why? And started researching what Israel was doing. Holy Fuck… Today it’s more obvious with their open genocide but they have been doing this shit for 50+ years quietly. This isn’t something new. This isn’t the current leadership. This is a fundemental cultural belief that they are superior and can kill, maim, abuse and steal from any other ethnic group. The zionist group is as bad or worse than any other extremist group around.

A-10 is live target practice for Iran’s domestically produced manpads. It should not be anywhere near this conflict. That they are using it at all shows massive incompetence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misagh-2

The survivor one was the best.

I took every history course this professor taught even though I was a science major.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Shapour_Shahbazi

Most of my college professors had very little impact on my life. His classes fundementally changed how I understand the world to this day.