Northern Idaho was heavily polluted by mining lead and zinc in those areas . I remember whole swaths of land was devoid of all life near the mines.

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/24/bunker-hill-superfund-silver-valley-lead-poisoning-469222.html

There is some pretty fucked up people in the area with several mental issues from it.

Relatively easy to do with strawberries. Look up pictures of greenhouse cultivation of strawberries. You’ll see that the fruit all hang over the edge of the beds/trays.

All you need is a robotic pickers with a color sensor on it.

Once you get high enough in corporate hell, all work is meetings and e-mails about meetings. There is nothing else.

Bullshit - it can’t be done.

1st rip get the water heater and all the recommended parts.

2nd trip take the parts that don’t fit back and get the “right” ones.

3rd trip take the “right” ones back and get the part you really need.

The 4th trip so the worst. You stop go to a local hardware store because you need a special part and pay out the bose for it.

For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.

The court’s decision also introduced the concept of systemic failure, which holds providers liable when they fail to adopt preventive measures or remove illegal content. Now, platforms will be expected to establish self-regulation policies, ensure transparency in their procedures, and adopt standardized practices.

Pretty sure this would cover Lemmy and most traditional forums as long as they have a written policy and standards that are consistently enforced.

Study was done by watching YouTube videos.

Anybody else have phone camera that inverts the the image during processing? I have had a couple over the years.

Aphids and other sucking insects can cause leaves to roll. Look for them on the underside of the leaves.

Fo there are no bugs or signs of damage it’s probably physiological leaf roll.

https://hortsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/fact-sheet/tomato-physiological-leaf-roll/

Organic farming releases as much or more “poisons” than conventional. Just because those poisons “natural” doesn’t mean they are not harmful. Coppersulfate, pyrethrins, spinosad, neem etc are all indesciminate killers. Rotenone is a banned organic pesticide because it’s linked to Parkinson’s.

The 3/4 number gets a lot worse when you know we really don’t need to farm as much land as we do. If we stopped subsidizing idiotic farming practices and invested heavily in infrastructure, we only need to use 1/4 of the land we do. That includes feeding all the animals. If we migrated to a plant based diet it would be around 1/10th the current land usage.

We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.

GMO are a tool.

Some GMO’s are a good idea. Virus resistance for example was the first GMO I worked with in the 90’s. Papaya ringspotvirus is an excellent example.

Some GMO’s were a mediocre idea and an overall failure. Like all the efforts with SAMase for improving shelflife. Aka the GMO tomato.

Some GMO’s are downright stupid and irresponsible. Like the RR in corn, soy, alfalfa, etc. Its lead to a massive over-application of one chemistry. Creating resistant weeds in all production zones. Or dicamba resistance is soybeans that’s fucking up all the remaining trees, shrubs, and forbs.

Yeah, only half of that statement is correct. Organic is overall more damaging to the environment for most species. The lower yields = more acres needed for cultivation.

Yeah no. Those are tyvek suits that are used for pesticide application. To complete the outfit they need some nitrile gloves and a fitted respirator.

For pollen isolation there a whole bunch of different techniques depending on the species. None of them involve getting dressed in one of those uncomfortable monstrosities. I used gel caps when I bred cantaloupes and honeydews (the types used for medications). Slap one over the top of a pollinated flower and it keeps the pollinators away.

I work for myself now and late June early July is the slow season. I have 2 days of work to do in the next 6 weeks.

I have the very important task of getting my fishing boat out today.

Hmmmm… Maybe I should supplement my income with the pikeminnow bounty.

https://www.pikeminnow.org/

Good dishwashers have a heating element on the bottom. . It turns on and dries the dishes in a cloud of steam. There is also a button on mine that’s for high heat (sanitize) that I leave on. This ensures that the dishes get completely dry.

Think positively, ejecting doesn’t mean the pilot survived. Historically around 10% pilots die. That number is lower for newer aircraft, but not for the old Soviet ones.

Just like the airplane in WWI, drone warfare is evolving rapidly. We are going to see all sorts of new drones and drone defenses invented over the coming years.

I wouldn’t say it’s ineffective, it’s does give the vehicle a chance to escape a drone attack.

From the videos, Ukraine is knocking out equipment by sending multiple drones. The first few take out the drone defenses, clearing the way for later drones to hit the armor and destroy the vehicle. If the vehicle can escape before the drone defenses are breached the defenses are definitely worth it.

In 2025 it would be anything above 3.6 million. It’s a ton of money but here’s a list of a few people that hit it.

https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos

Now if they added in a progressive tax rate for corporate taxes as well… Say anything over 500 million in net profit is taxed at a 90+% rate. That would solve all sorts of issues. Suddenly investors of all these mega corps would be pushing hard to divide up the companies into smaller entities.

Wealth tax in the modern age could be an inheritance tax. Anything over the median life earnings of individuals could be taxed at 100%. So median earnings in my area is $65K * 45 years (20-65k) = $2.93 million.

Taxes can go either way. It depends on how they were written.

The tax code after the Great Depression allowed for massive expansion of public projects in the U.S. It was 63% for the top earners. During WW2 the top tax bracket was at 94%.

When the boomers were all born the tax bracket was above 70% for the top earners. This high tax bracket is what fueled the creation of a large middle class, public infrastructure, schools, research, space exploration, and the massive military buildup and wars. It also acted as an effective anti-minopoly/oligarchy system because the tax system discouraged it.

Then in the 80’s Reagan slashed the taxes for the top earners down to 28%. its never gotten above 40% since then. Most high earning companies have so many exeptions today that the real tax rate is often 0%.

Because of it the infrastructure built during the 50’s-70’s is degrading and falling apart. Public services are declining and the middle class is shrinking as people become more impoverished.