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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said “those horses are praying to mecca” and my friend’s uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

    That’s hilarious.

    Also god damn I’m old, 9/11 happened when I was in college.



  • Yields from this sort of grafting will almost always be lower than a tomato plant and a potato plant alone. A plant has a kinda “energy budget” for growth; It uses this much energy for vegetative growth, that much for roots, some more for fruit, etc. A tomato/potato graft is trying to “spend” large amounts of energy both growing large tomato fruits and growing tubers underground, so you end up with mediocre yields of both.

    Even the tiny fruits a potato grows represent a small energy loss. Which (IMO) is why so many popular potato breeds don’t produce true seed, you get just a little bit more potato that way.

    Interestingly sometimes in potato breeding the opposite of this graft is used, a potato top on tomato roots. That way the potato greenery is flush with nutrients and can set a much heavier crop of fruits, allowing breeders to collect more seeds from their potential cross.









  • I can see! Man could you imagine spending a full twenty hours a week socializing with your peers, traveling, or (*gasp*) even exercising!? Why, I’d barely be able to hold it together for my daily hour long “Business meal”!

    God knows I’d never be able to soldier through like Musk, constantly promising things like “Mars colony in two years” every year (among other things)while still having the time to spend hours posting “!!” “Concerning” or “XD XD XD” until 3 am on Twitter. Why I probably wouldn’t even have the time to signal boost white supremacists and post dog whistles about we need more babies to stave off “the great replacement”.



  • Eh… I dunno. You’d be comparing the power consumption of the laser etching machine to the energy cost of shipping oil to make the plastic to make the label, shipping the raw plastic to a facility to actually print the labels, making the adhesive, then (probably) shipping the labels and adhesive to the packing plant and then adding in the power of the machinery to that actually sticks the label on.

    I have no real numbers here but I could see zapping a avocado with a laser being the more energy efficient one.