Helps reduce water loss which helps them keep for a day to two longer.

They store them at 13-14C. Anything colder causes chilling injury aka they turn brown now yellow.

Apples are non-climacteric. Ethylene gas causes degradation of the fruit not ripening. It’s a little technicality.

There are two different major categories of fruit. Climacterix and non-climacteric. Climacteric fruit ripen with the production of ethylene gas. Ethylene is a major plant hormone that triggers a cascade of other biochemical processes.

Bananas are climacteric so they are harvested green and stored in a cooled (13-14C) containers with an absorbent to remove ethylene gas.

Before delivery to the store they are gassed with ethylene to trigger uniform ripening. Once the ripening process begins there is no reversing it. The fruit turns yellow and softens and storage is limited to a few days.

https://agriculture.institute/production-tech-fruit-crops/storing-bananas-best-practices/

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.

Sadly the only qualification for becoming a parent is functional gonads not a fully functional and developed brain.

Depends on where you are. In Europe they are free and checks have a surcharge.

In the U.S. they generally charge a small fee or do other shenanigans. Example: Intuit puts the money in a holding account for 5-7 business days before delivering (guess who keeps the interest).

If sending an international ACH there is always fees even if they are hidden in the exchange rate.

It depends on where you are. Some communities operate mostly in cash. Other communities use other methods.

For example, when I am on rural agricultural communities, the local taco wagon is often cash only. The one in larger towns or cities almost always accepts card readers and now phones.

Larger amounts (more than $5,000) are usually checks and occasionally ACH or bank wire. Checks are free however so it is by far the preferred method.

In my small business I accept cash, cards, phones, ACH, International Wires,and checks. It all gets a little confusing at times. I highly encourage checks or cash because they have no fees.

Raspberry Pi 5 set up as a mini computer with the old SSD from my laptop combined with a Rii rechargable keyboard/mouse remote.

It’s the best streaming box I have had.

As a schoolteacher my wife has perfected the look. It works on kids, other teachers, admin, bus drivers, and even gang affiliated parents. Apparently it’s terrifying to most people.

The only person it doesn’t work on is me.

What’s fun is when she occasionally attempts to narrate it.

Her “I am glaring at you!”

Me “Oh I see your “come hither” looks, they are quite sexy.”

Her “You are impossible!”

Me “Darl’n control yourself, we are in public.”

This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.

That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.

FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.

It’s made some pretty significant additions lately that makes it a viable replacement for Nova.

Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.

What the techbros and billionaires don’t understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.

Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.

It’s called Bi-color corn. It’s made by creating a hybrid between white and yellow corn inbreds. The seeds are all yellow. The resulting corn (F2 seeds) display a yellow:white ratio of 3:1.

The color has zero impact on flavor, texture or sweetness. It’s all for visual impact.

No severance doesn’t effect your eligibility for unemployment. It does often reduce the number of claims however. Many people live off the severance until in runs out, then claim employment. You can also claim unemployment while still actively receiving severance pay.

Severance is usually tied to a non-disclosure agreement. If they want to enforce them, compensation is usually required in most states.

Tunis, Tunisia. The old town was something else.

Two lawyers got in a pissing contest on developing the land they owned.

My great-grandfather apparently had a story about it. It involved lots of booze, a prostitute, and a horse. Then again most of his stories had the same theme so the truthfulness of the story is up for debate.

Missoula is a bit odd on a few things. I attended Hellgate elementary - yes that’s the name of the school.

The question is two-fold. How secure do you want the password to be determines what system to use.

For example:

Banking - I never store a password or username for these. It’s always one I can remember. The password is lengthy, multi-factor authentification is turned on etc… I don’t trust any system.

Finanial webpages other than banks, , taxes, healthcare, etc, stuff that would hurt me personally if stolen, I use a stand alone password manager.

Anything else goes into Firefox password manager. Stuff I don’t give a fuck about if somebody hacks my password.

I went to a very small public university campus that a few years before was associated with a massive state university. They were still mostly independent but we’re getting all sorts of pressure to conform to the larger universities policies on research etc. At my school the professors all taught and did little to no research.

As part of their ongoing arguments they had all juniors/seniors in both schools take a standardize tests at the end of their core degree courses for a year. My tiny university averaged 90th percentile. The large university averaged 30th percentile. The difference having highly qualified dedicated teachers.

Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!

Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.