Keep paying them but use it less = more profit.

Bacterial disease on crops are very hard to control. Traditionally there is not much l chemistry that can control them effectively. This is especially true on tree fruit where bacterial disease can cause a lot of damage. Bacterial diseases on annual crops from seed are usually controlled by phytosanitary procedures (like acid seed extraction in tomatoes).

So if you got an apple or an orange grown in the U.S. it likely had some antibiotic sprayed on it.

https://pnwhandbooks.org/node/30596/print

The traditional control has been copper. Copper unfortunately sticks around permanently and builds up to some pretty toxic levels.

https://pse.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/pse/2024/07/02.pdf

If you eat organic, it’s had a shit ton of copper sprayed on it.

Looks like a MT-LB has a max of 16mm of armor.

At point blank range the .50 has enough power to punch right through the armor but it depends on what type of bullets it was loaded with and the angle they hit the armor.

I doubt the ones dead on to the front did much. The MT-LB has a sloped front which likely deflected most of them.

The last bit of the video where they hit it in the flat rear area. That likely fucked them all up. That’s usually the thinnest armor and the lack of slope means no deflection.

I have been working through deleting reddit comments. Then reddit repopulates them because they are hit by a Google search. So so I go through and delete them again.

When reddit blocked my favorite mobile app, I bailed. So I am now on connect for Lemmy. It works almost seemlessly now with a few bugs. It’s basically the same user experience as the old Tapatalk for forums that they made almost 20 years ago now. A good user interface is a good userinterface.

My wife didn’t completely believe how my family treated me growing up. She just couldn’t comprehend the level of assholeness.

So I took her to Christmas with my family once. That’s all it took. She quickly realized that I was barely mentioning some of the larger things they had done. I wasn’t even mentioning all the smaller things.

There is a lot of changes for most people in their late teens/early 20’s. As teens make the conversion to full adulthood, life has a way of rearranging priorities and changing attitudes.

Because of this romantic relationships that form prior 18 years old have around a 90% chance of dissolution within 10 years.

So do yourself a favor, give yourself 4-5 more years to get through schooling, work, pay bills etc and then look at getting married.

My wife’s college roommate married the guy she started dating at 14. They went to different universities 2 hours apart. They lived together when she went to grad school. They got married when they were 26 and have been happily married with 3 kids for over 20 years now.

Yep, 10 years with a reseller. I have 5 lines now and my bill is $150/month. I always purchase unlocked phones so I have the option of swapping whenever I want. I only run midrange phones and run them for 3+ years. I also pay for cable internet for another $80/month. Can’t wait until the fiber company finally gets around to installing in my neighborhood. That will cut that bill down by 1/2.

It only works if you paid for the very first new vehicle in cash. Save up for 2 years and cash out the subsequent vehicles as well. Then the numbers pencil out.

If you to take a loan out it’s fucking stupid.

After 2 years at 10k miles per year, historically you have lost 20% or so of the value of the car. With a 5 year loan you have paid the principle down to around 63-64% of the original value.

This means you can trade in the car for more than what you owe on the loan. The difference is a partial or total down payment on a new vehicle.

Lenders strongly encourage this behavior. Due to the amortization schedule 2/3rds of the interest is paid during the first 2 years. So people who do this with loans are always paying the highest intereston their vehicle.

The best thing to do finacially is to buy a car with 20-30k then run it for as long as possible. Once the cost of a common major repair is more than the value of the car, get another low mileage used one.

Molecular biologist: repeatedly spike their samples and reagents to cause random failures. Eventually lack of sleep from running it “just one more time” will kill them.

My kids who are teens/20 year olds.

“Dad why are you always playing in a tank or a plane on BF?”

Me “Because I am old.”

I used to have reaction times like that made other people weep. I was constantly on watchlists for cheating and even banned by a few poor losers in private servers. Those days are well in the past now.

The kitchen, dining and living room being together is pretty normal in smaller places. I have lived in several that were open that way over the years. It’s not great but it’s doable. The lack of wall space so less cabinets/closets and overall storage is the usual problem.

However the bedroom… That’s a bit too far.

Slight clarification

A brix meter measures soluable solids in the juice. A major portion of which is sugar.

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

Changes in Brix does not slways correlate exactly with sugar content as other soluable solids are included in reading. Things like carotinoids etc. A little something to pay attention too when comparing varieties.

Allow me to hit you with my cane. The Manchester blast was fucking loud.

They hit 2 radars. The most expensive part of the system. Makes the rest of the launchers in the system unusable until the radars are repaired or replaced.

Eastern Skunk Cabbage.

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

The western skunk cabbage is yellow and quite pretty, from a distance.

The driver also timed the incoming drone and braked hard to make it overshoot them.

A bract is a modified leaf, that usually doesn’t look anything like a regular leaf.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinter_of_the_Mind’s_Eye

They were convinced enough it wasn’t that good that the sequel was supposed to be a budget film.

October 25th is the date that most stores pull down the Halloween stuff and transition to Christmas stuff. It’s not unusual for most stores to have zero Halloween stuff on the shelves on Halloween.

The seasonal arrival of Spirit in the many empty commercial buildings has made this worse. Regular stores bring in less merchandize and are often stocking Christmas stuff 2 or 3 weeks before Halloween in my area.

How about today’s, random complete freeze. Had to hard reboot then spend 30 minutes watching it trying to “fix the issue”. It then failed to find anything. So I had to force it to reboot to windows. Then it worked fine the rest of the day.

While it was down, I was working on my 11 year old, budget laptop running Mint.