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I've been around tomatoes way to much. I get a rash if I touch the plants now.

Eggplants cause severe hives like poison oak.

For those that don't know for fresh market tomatoes.

Indeterminate tomato vines can be grown for years if they don't freeze.

Mexico has invested heavily in greenhouses, high tunnels and thrip-proof net-houses. These allow for year round production of tomatoes. This was done with government money.

Canada has also invested heavily in greenhouses to grow tomatoes and produce them year round. This was also done with government money.

Meanwhile the U.S. focused on open field machine harvested sauce tomatoes controlled by massive corporations. There are still some U.S. tomato growers that rely almost 100% on immigrant labor. In general they produce 1/10th the tonnage per acre at higher cost even with the cheap labor.

If only the dumbfucks with the stupid slogans like "love it or leave it" knew just how difficult and costly it is to legally move to another country. Unless you have money, work in a high demand job or have family connections it's fucking difficult or close to impossible to do.

Most of the dumbfucks have no way to legally move to any other country legally.

Inflation caused by corporate greed kills people's ability to take vacations for some reason.

It's a storm runoff ditch. They are about 20-30cm wide and 0.5-1m deep.

Gotta pay attention when walking around them.

I know several people with dual citizenship Canadian/U.S. who have moved from the U.S. to Canada in the past several months.

I just figured out a path for me to gain Mexican permanent resident and eventually Mexican citizenship if needed. It will take some time but with how this country is going, My wife and I need an escape route.

Hmmm.... Did we have the same parents?

Apparently why I haven't spoken to them or seen them in over a decade is a mystery. The next time I see them will be when they are in their graves. I'll have my dancing shoes on.

Reality:

Prices go up for imported goods driving down demand for all goods both domestic and imported.

Retaliatory tariffs, increased cost of resources, and most destructively changes to purchasing behaviors drive down exports and kill domestic production further. These are long term effects as well. As competitive countries fill the niche left from the fucking idiot country who decided to shit on their own market.

A melon?

https://www.reimerseeds.com/ananas-melon-seeds

For 7 years after left my parents place my only form of transportation was a bike. I rode all through college and my first job.

Toward the end I could do 40-50 miles a day and not even think about it. I think my record was 75 miles in a day.

After a 20 year break I pulled my old bike out to ride 2 miles mostly downhill one evening. Holy shit I was sore. I could hardly move the pedals in my old cruising gear.

It is an old Soviet design. Many countries in the old Soviet block states have this. I just about did a one legger down them a couple times in Uzbekistan.

Well, without cheap labor from immigrants, companies are either going to have to pay living wages or go under. I am okay with both.

This is why I buy my HVAC filters in bulk 4 or 8 at a time and replace them every 3-4 months (less if there is smoke). The difference it makes in keeping the house clean is very noticable. I get very little dust accumulation except in my teens rooms because they leave their doors closed.

No that never happens /S

I used to work with a supplier that hired a former Monsanto executive as their CEO. When his first agenda came out I told their sales team he was an idiot and to have fun looking for a new job a few months.

The CEO bailed after 2 years to start his own "consulting business."

1 year later the company lost 75% of their market share and was laying off people left and right. They are still afloat barely.

After a couple years "consulting", the CEO went to another company in 2023. He didn't bounce fast enough and got caught on this one. He was fired 2 weeks ago and the company shut their doors except for a handful of staff to facilitate the firesale of the companies assets.

Cliestogamy - flowers that pollinate themselves.

My newest computer is 5 years old. I see no reason to upgrade anything.

I use my 11 year old laptop with Linux mint on it as well. I maxed out the RAM on it and swapped in a Sata SSD, it boots in under 40 seconds and does everything I need it to do. It's one of those cheap underpowered Celeron processors as well.

Don't forget the standard "Use Mommy and Daddies money to buy an existing small business." Then run it into the ground.

What's even better, they got his deputy as well. Normally the deputy either gets a promotion, serves as the interim head or transitions the new incoming replacement.

Getting them both means the new replacements are coming in blind. Mistakes can be made due to lack of knowledge for the next year or so.

That's pretty much the point of the chart. Better public infrastructure decrease the deaths from cars.

For me, stopping, getting out, and getting some coffee wakes me up for 2-3 hours. I also listen to audiobooks as I drive to keep my brain working. A good engaging story is better than a nap for me.