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1rre , in In a world where nothing comes free...

Green peppers are unripe and so the seeds generally don't grow into anything

catlover ,

also the second generation of plants are mostly way worse than the first (which produced the fruit that you buy)

Daft_ish ,

I don't get this statement. Like is there some ancient pepper plant that all seeds come from?

fireweed ,

From PSU:

It is important to know that not all vegetable varieties are suitable for seed saving. If the variety you want to save is a hybrid, seeds from that plant will not produce genetically true fruits. Most likely, the plant will produce a fruit that resembles one of the plants used to create that hybrid. To avoid this, choose heirloom varieties, ones that have been around since grandma's time or earlier. [...] Heirlooms will produce offspring that are identical to the parent.

https://extension.psu.edu/saving-seeds-from-your-garden

Jackcooper , in living that suburbpunk lifestyle

I was just thinking not enough of my income goes to bank profits

Excrubulent , in living that suburbpunk lifestyle
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This was written by a mortgage broker.

HooPhuckenKarez , in living that suburbpunk lifestyle

2.25% bitches. We ain't goin' nowhere for another 26 years.

SpaceNoodle ,

Damn, how'd you get that sweet deal? Mortgage rates bottomed out at around 2.7% in Q3 2020.

nick ,

I put a ton down (the entire sale price of my last house, which I owned outright) on mine to get 2.2. Plus my credit is like 810 or something.

Not bad for a dude who had his house foreclosed on in 2013.

nick ,

hell yeah brother, 2.2 here. Fuck moving now!

mayonaise_met ,

1.53 here. But only for 7 more years before it goes back to whatever the market is.

PP_BOY_ , in living that suburbpunk lifestyle
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That might just be the ugliest roof line I've ever seen

TropicalDingdong ,

The house equivalent of a receding hairline with a comb-over.

cerement ,
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big empty attic with awkward beams and spray-in insulation, dust and flocking floating everywhere, a couple cracked 1×6 planks run across the rafters providing a precarious path between the undersized access hatch and the shutoff switch on the side of the HVAC unit …

EmiliaTheHero , in IRL Lorax

One could argue that Tolkien is an enemy to the trees. [Warning unverified sources and very rough maths lie below]

  • The LOTR Trilogy has sold 150 million copies, and the Hobbit has sold 142 million source
  • Each LOTR book has a (very rough) average of 430 pages, while the Hobbit has ~360. This totals to 115,620,000,000 pages printed
  • The average tree creates ~20,000 sheets of paper source

This means Tolkien is responsible for the deaths of at least 5,781,000 trees. The Ents would not be happy

Urbanfox , in reject college. embrace apprenticeship

UK here, on an apprenticeship and earning £40,000+ a year.

Recognise I'm exceptionally lucky but no idea how anyone could afford to complete a degree while living independently in current times.

Agent641 , in replace nuclear with hydro

Solar is better than Nuclear because it uses fewer UPS.

aprilmay , in replace nuclear with hydro

Nuclear is the only one that can actually satisfy base load demand, we don't have enough batteries in the world to make up for solar and wind. Nuclear is also the safest.

Fosheze , in replace nuclear with hydro

Dam based hydro is way worse for the environment than nuclear. Nuclear is also safer than dam based hydro.

Pretty sure tidal is still safer and more environmentally friendly but you can't really use tidal just anywhere.

Shurimal , in flocks are social right?

That would be a murder, and yes, it's social.

Touching_Grass , in reject college. embrace apprenticeship

Cool leave all the executive and judicial positions for the children of the rich. They'll make ethical decisions that benefit everyone

morphballganon , in the circle of life

Conservatives* make tough times

Peaty , in high speed rail go brrr

China has the advantage of not having to care about the citizens' desires in regards to be relocated to make the rail possible.

Peddlephile ,

They also provide apartments to live in permanently for those displaced in the development.

Meanwhile, the US has not built high speed rail and has tent cities.

In the case of national infrastructure, China wins hands down.

Although it's kind of ridiculous to compare California with an entire country...

sweeny ,

Honestly not that ridiculous of a comparison considering California's size and GDP, we could be doing a lot better

xenoclast ,

I don't think America gives any shits either. They let the world's most useless CEO dictate their future

nucleative , in high speed rail go brrr

Giant infrastructure projects are a weakness of democracies. It's tough to get everyone to agree and pay for huge projects that take long term vision and planning.

Or you could call it a strength because it's stable and can't be changed too fast by one guy with a short term bad idea.

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

see NEOM

It's an unbelievably stupid idea that's really going to happen. The prince of Saudi Arabia knows that their oil economy is going to wither away soon, so he's trying to make SA appealing to people with money and have them move there. How? By building a city that's a line 160 km (110 mi) long and 200 m (660 ft) wide...in the middle of fucking nowhere. The whole idea is based on technology that we don't have and is just terrible city planning. Look into it to get a laugh.

nucleative ,

Hahaha yes you're right. This is an example of ill-advised big infrastructure.

Comment105 ,

No, you don't get it.

It's blessed by god so it'll be good no matter what. God is good to his faithful. Lamborghini Akbar.

Akasazh ,
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Mainly in the US, though. The automobile lobby successfully undermined many attempts at mass transit infrastructure. And the existing rail network is privatized into oblivion.

Roosevelt showed that there is a way of tackling infrastructure in the US. Only his approach has a minute slither of what can be framed to be socialist, so it'll never happen again..

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