You ever meet one of those MBA business bro guys who try to crush your hand in a handshake?

I grew up milking a cow morning and night by hand…

They were always fun.

Mix of different physically demanding jobs while I was building up money to pay for college. Farmwork, construction etc during the day. Unloading package trucks for UPS was probably the most energy intensive in the evening. Hand unloading 2,100 packages per hour an emptying 3-4 trailers in 4-5 hours was one hell of an aerobic workout. On a normal day I was burning 4-4500K calories in the spring and fall from the high level of activity working 12-14 hours per day. I had strongly defined abs and built a lot of muscle mass.

Winter however was something else. It was a very cold, -10F to 10 for most of the winter. It takes a lot of food to just keep warm when you are in those temps all day. I was outside enough I had to keep my house cooler (50-55F) as my metabolism shifted into high gear.

Eating 4,500-5,000 calories is pretty easy. Larger portions at meals plus a few calorie dense snacks easily gets you there.

That extra 2000-3000 calories is hard. Half a package of oreos or a dozen donuts when I woke up starving at 2am was what I resorted too. Lots of carbs and fat.

Tuapse was I believe the first time Ukraine went for the total destruction of the facilities. All the other hits have been at strategic targets that disabled key processes.

It’s sign of a massive shift in air superiority in favor of Ukraine.

I also suspect that Ukraine is getting very good at detecting and destroying the loitering drones. If the interceptor drone can take out a shahed, it can take out lancet.

I’m not an expert but from my understanding the soviet’s tactics were quite a bit different from Ukraines.

The soviet’s continuously threw away lives to stop the German advance. Constant attacks tossing way soldiers lives but slowly degrading the German supplies and manpower. The Soviet’s also lost most of their industry early on in the war. Most of it was located in regions that Germany conquered quickly or their airpower wrecked in the early months of the war.

The only reason they were able to stop the German advance at all was because of the massive amount of goods and weapons supplied by England and the U.S.

Ukraine has set up heavily defended kill zones with multi-layered defenses. Russia’s continuous attacks are chewed up in theses zones. Eventually Russia degrades the defenses enough that Ukraine retreats to the next prepared zone and starts over fresh. Ukraine has slowly lost ground but Russias entire Soviet era stockpiles have been decimated with these tactics.

I have had my table saw for 25 years. Still terrified of the fucker. Then again I had two teachers who taught me the basics of using them when I was a teenager… Both had missing fingers.

One had a scar from a broken jaw from a kickback.

When I worked a physical job outside in cold weather (sub-freezing temps) it was closer to 7-8,000 calories per day and I would still lose 5-10 lbs in 3 months.

I put it back on in the spring.

Then lost it again in the summer as the heat suppressed my appetite.

Then gained it back in the fall as the temperatures were more pleasant.

And repeat…

Been there, done that, three times.

It’s not fun.

The last time I used my severance plus a special program in unemployment to start my own business. It’s amazing how much more money you can make when you keep 100% of the revenue from your efforts.

Identical twins - one egg + 1 sperm that splits into two after fertilization aka clones. This happens randomly in the population.

Fraternal twin - Two different eggs + 2 different sperm from daddy. They are siblings that happen to share a uterus. This genetic in some families.

Semi-identical twins - One egg + 2 sperm. The egg splits before it is fertilized. The genetically identical eggs are fertilized by different sperm. Freaky huh…

They detected allozymes (differences in proteins) by electrophoresis in the 1970’s.

This could tell the difference between species and maybe if they were lucky large family groups. It wasn’t as exact as using DNA.

That sounds like a marker file. It’s a bit different than a sequence file.

Molecular markers are linked to specific sequences in the DNA. These markers are generally close by or in the gene of interest. All the extra columns described its characteristics and results. Anyplace in the entire genome where there is one nucleotide difference (polymorphic) can be another marker. There’s millions of these and they add up to massive files.

A sequence file is basically just a long boring sequence of nucleotides and are not that large. Now some of the files you use to generate the sequence. Let’s just say they had to wait almost 20 years for computers to get fast enough to process those files in a reasonable time. Those make the marker files look like childs play.

DNA sample of identical twin doesn’t work. It is identical. They started as one individual and split into two.

The only way to tell them apart is if one of the brother has a distinguishable difference in scars, dentistry, etc.

Ukraine hit them before but it was mostly strategic strikes that temporarily knocked out the facility with relatively small drones.

This year Ukraine is demolishing them. Multiple powerful hits that are taking out large amount do the infrastructure like Perm or Tuapse.

Russia’s air defense were mostly developed for the cold war type of air power.

Ukraine has had to develop air defense in the active drone war.

It’s a huge difference is focus, economy, and depth.

Agriculture in the U.S. is in a deep recession right now. Farmers are going out of business left and right due to disruptions in international trade caused by the orange moron.

Globally farmers are doing much better by taking advantage of the U.S. shooting themselves repeatedly in the foot.

As for fertilizer shortages, most of the northern hemisphere had already stocked up on supply over the winter in preparation for spring planting. So the effect there will be minimal.

The effects will be felt first in the tropical/sub-tropical regions as they rely on a more constant supply to match their planting seasons.

Next year is fucked globally however. The southern hemisphere will get it first starting in September This will send prices soaring during the northern hemisphere winter pricing/contacting.

Growers will cut back on fertilizer purchases initially but still do okay as speculation of lower yeilds will spike commodity prices. The spike in prices will hit consumers a little bit over the winter and really get going in spring 2027.

At 30k per month, it’s around 200k by the end of the year So around 1.5-1.6 million casualties by December.

That’s also when it hits around 1% of the Russian population is a casualty of this war. Combined with a below replacement birthrate and Russian population is experiencing negative population growth.

There is another a fundamental conceptual flaw in these studies.

Nutrient density in grains generally decreases as kernal size increases. This is due to the ratio of starch storage versus other nutrients. Elevated CO2 levels trigger more starch formation and larger kernal size in C3 plants. This is what all these studies are detecting (if they find anything).

There is a wide variation of genetically controlled kernal size found in all C3 grains. For example healthy wheat can be anywhere from 6,000 kernals/lb to 20,000 kernals/lb. Environmental conditions can also change kernal size by more than 40% for any cultivar.

What happens when a cultivar produces extra large kernals due to environmental conditions? The stalk falls over AKA lodging. Lodging decreases overall yield (molds, shriveled kernals, harvesting equipment loss etc.). Any variety that consistent lodges is discarded by growers. So rising CO2 levels will be compensated for by farmers planting smaller kernal sized cultivars.

Then there is the “quality” issues. Larger kernals sizes are often deficient in critical traits for their end use (protein, etc). This makes these varieties the lowest grade (cheapest price) and growers move away from them rapidly.

Well every so often something was likely wiggling around on it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0031182015001651

For most people, transplanting cucumbers is a waste of time. Reason: you generally don’t make the harvest any earlier than direct seeding. Cucumbers are finicky to transplant and it’s generally isn’t worth it unless you are geowinf them in a greenhouse and know what you are doing. Commercially almost 100% of open field production is direct seeded (100% of greenhouse production is transplanted).

If it is warm enough outside, transplant them immediately. Don’t worry about thinning them, give them a little bit more space per hill and they will do fine. Make sure to do it in the evening and water them well.

A landlord is almost always making money even if they are just “breaking even” on the mortgage.

If the landlord is still paying for a mortgage, the profit goes into their equity gain.

Once the mortgage is paid off, the profit goes into the landlords pocket.

This is how many people get started being parasites on society. They have other people pay the bank while they gain the assets of their labor.