Yep. Literally some RD varieties display ‘spur’ growth - fruiting on short branches = less pruning, more light.

Still, no taste: “Overall Red Delicious can be quite a refreshing apple to eat, but its chief characteristic is that it has almost no flavor at all.” www.orangepippin.com/varieties/ap...

Yes. The Red Delicious now grown are ‘sports’ (natural mutants with altered colour and growth form). They have strong colouring, so they can be picked earlier (ie immature), and hence don’t (and can’t) really ripen fully.

Early picking means they stay crisp, for longer shelf life. But, no taste.

There is an energetics problem with vertical farming unfortunately
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Great overview! I’d add that high productivity involves ‘instability’: it involves ‘unbalanced’ growth & ‘unnatural’ development.

Hence, “Technology … should be viewed as insurance. The ability to ensure that every day is as close to the same as we can afford to make it.” (Christopher Higgins)

Is “satire” a new label for reporting reality? If so, more of this, please.

Nine months of feeling a mother’s beating heart does that, I guess.

Yep. Formic acid. Very distinctive.

We had an ants nest in the laundry wall, and the workers kept getting squashed and singed in the light switch. Got a whiff each time the lights was turned on. 😅

PS: I’ve also eaten red tree ant eggs. Same smell, and taste. Not great.

Agh! Dilemma. Like the post? Or not …

Do LLM’s use probabilistic spelling, perhaps? Or is this question so far into the tail of the distribution that the nodal weights are random noise?

I think I know someone who would. 😂

Irrigation is the management of life. The gardener who knows ‘how to water’ is both artist and engineer; a sage with foresight; a patient humble discerner of secret diurnal rhythms.

Should this tree survive another 37 years, to experience another move, it will be fruit of that masterful expertise.

Warm ferric brown tells us water is bringing oxygen to a soil. It is also the colour of clay, in contact with air.

Grey is the threat of cool suffocation to roots that probe too far, beyond the tree’s sustenance of their respiration by internal dissolved gaseous transfer by the root system itself.

The pale ferrous grey of anoxic clay is rarely as beautiful as this pit, freshly opened for the inbound root mass, illuminated from the windows above.

A layer of bitumen does several things. Excluding oxygen is one.

And below, a dark layer of muck, starved of air, will grab what oxygen it can.