Wondering if the pocketpod team is here and see it. I loved their personal podcast but seems they have pivoted to build the studio for creaters. Wonder if they can share their learnings and reasoning behind the pivot. Also if anyone has suggestion on alternative of it which can be used for personal news podcast, please share.
it's not that difficult and no need to use pestisides. As long as you grew healthy plant in good soil, they can resist pests. And yes, some times you do get failure, but if you grow enough stuff, some failures won't be noticable given you have other stuff growing. And gardening is also a skill, the more you do, the better you get at it.
When we bought home, we got it with bunch of fruit tress (cherry, peach, orange, strawberry guava, lemons). And our previous owner grow 3 tomato plants for us before they left. It was a big yard with lot of fruit trees and plenty of empty space. In few years, we started growing some vegetables starting tomoato, okra, egg plant. And now in few more years we stop buying tomatos from grocery. we build bunch of raised beds and started growing more and more food and got bunch of okra and bottle guard. This year we build more raised bed by replacing/transplanting existing flowering plants and put raised bed there. And almost all the work done by us.
You never believed but when you cook food from home grown vegetables, it tastes a whole different than the bought one. Give it a try and you can feel the difference.
As long as you enjoy doing it, you won't feel all the pain that it comes with (i.e. hard work).
Start small and as you go ahead, you will add more and more as you find it more manageable. But worth trying as long as you have space in your home (you will find time)
"You never believed but when you cook food from home grown vegetables, it tastes a whole different than the bought one"
I was always aware that store bought tomatoes had no flavor, but never had any interest in gardening. One time I took one of those store bought tomatoes and planted the seeds and what do you know, it actually sprouted and grew some more tomatoes? I don't think it's supposed to work that way, but it did. The thing I remember that always grew without any effort was rhubarb.
I think it's definitely supposed to work that way. My first year in my house, I tore out the previous owner's rose garden and planted tomatoes. Had so many that quite a few of them ended up falling off the plants and rotting into the soil. The next year, I scaled my intentional planting back but ended up with even more tomato plants because of the seeds from the previous year's decayed tomatoes. I'm not even going to plant this year, just water and hope that the same thing happens again.
I think they were surprised that store-bought tomatoes had viable seeds. I would have been kind of surprised by this too, but a quick google suggests that while some commercial fruit and veg is deliberately made sterile, it's probably much less common than I thought.
The seeds might not be sterile, but you will probably not get the same breed of plant. A lot of mass-produced veg is grown as an F1 hybrid, and the next generation (ie, from the seeds) will not have the same desirable characteristics.
Pretty much every vegetable seeds bought from store are viable, it just for some vegetables (i.e. bottle guard, okra), store bought vegetables aren't ripe enough and so those seeds won't able to germinate. To germinte the seeds of any vegetables, the fruits has to be matures (some times on the plant, sometimes on the shelf) before seeds become viable to germinate. I don't know a single vegetable that will be sterlite. I know some Mangoes (coming outside of US) do get sterlite and so their seeds won't produce plant even if the seeds are mature.
that's how exactly it works. We got one Italian Tomato (heirloom, indeterminate) from a neighbor and grew it. It grew 10-12 ft tall and bushy. My wife loved it so much, she saved seeds from couple of tomatoes and next year, we grew only that Tomatoes along with other vegetables. And we grew enough to store for the entire year. We are still eating those tomatoes (Frozen) and hope it will last till our this season tomatoes will start coming.
Cool. Fruit cocktail trees are also awesome because they have multiple fruit varieties on a single tree via grafting. If you know how to do grafting, you can add additional fruits without planting more trees.
Now, if only I can figure out how to start an avocado pit or a pineapple top because several experiments have failed.
We just upgraded our Apple 6 to Pixel 2, due to it having some Network Not Found issues. Tried all tricks available on internet, but none worked. Eventually asked Apple and they aggreed to replace it with similar phone given we pay $300. I said, why buy again the same phone which probably have some hardware issue which apple is not agree to resolve. As ppl know, they are having the same issue with higher version. I asked the customer representative, and they mentione, hold the phone. If they get enough complaints, they might look into it and offer a free repair. I think most of the users of old phone might have upgraded to new one and so i am guessing not enough ppl will compain and all those phones will go to waste.
Instead of taking tablets, try adding as an ingredient into your daily food. I think that will make it much easier to eat. Try cooking any Indian curries and turmeric is 90% of time default spice.
I wasn't achieving my weight goals like I hoped so I threw my arms up and said "FUCK IT chicken and sweet potatoes for lunch from now on."
I've been eating curry-powdered baked chicken for maybe 3 months straight for lunch nearly every day and somehow it's fine. Mostly I'm craving the massive amount of protein it gives me so maybe my body is overriding any "boredom" of the food?
Your body gets used to what you are eating and you actually start to crave that homemade stuff if you go on holidays. I've been eating chicken curry, rice and broccoli for the past 7 years. Only eat something else on cheat days twice a month and the occasional times I buy minced meat.
Not really that hard. Tastes great and honestly if you mind too much how the food taste your goals are somewhere else and/or have depleted your mouse buds. Even steel cut outs taste great with only little added salt.
Huh, well, I do! Sometimes I might add either Cock Sauce, or Green Sauce, or Orange Sauce. Sorry that's so unspecific, that's literally how they're labeled in my work fridge, in otherwise unbranded bottles >.<
Which is why you change up the blend. For example I recently got sick of toasted black mustard seeds, so I stopped putting them in my beans. I might leave out clove, or add some allspice, etc. etc.
You've really got to change it up to keep on top of your spice game.
There's way more than one type of curry and more than one way to enjoy a spice. For tumeric, fry some pulled aubergine with tumeric, garlic and tomato, for example.
For bad throat, I usually had it in night, raw (if you can) (1/3 tbsp) and in the morning you will see the difference. Most of the time, my bad throat gets much better in morning, which usually opposite if i didn't take it.
It's so easy to identify those fake comments by just looking at few. I figure this is one of the comments that seems fake. Why is it taking long to identify there are lot of fake comments in it?
'The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.'
You’re right that it can be easy to spot comments that may be fake, but to have confidence that certain comments are fake requires further analysis. One reason is that the mere use of identical text in multiple comments (even large numbers of comments) isn’t necessarily evidence of misconduct – many public interest groups use web forms with pre-prepared comment text that people can fill out, or they circulate petitions for people to sign to provide consent to having the same “form letter” comment submitted on their behalf. So we look to other attributes that are shared across certain comments to help us determine if they’re likely fake. While we’ve already gathered enough evidence to conclude that a million comments are likely fake, we’re still analyzing others. And of course, it would be much easier and quicker to identify which comments are likely fake if we could analyze FCC records showing the source(s) of comments (which we would keep confidential given the possible identifying information), but the FCC refused to respond to our repeated requests over many months.
I would say that this comment is "real" - in the sense that it was actually wordsmithed for the position it supports, but that it is likely that the purported person's name and address are fake/misattributed to the comment.
This wordsmithed position likely came from some partisan political action web site gathering automated signatories; you go to it, fill out your info, and it posts to the FCC input form/api or whatever.
Similar ones exist as well for the opposite view ("for net-neutrality rules").
At that point, it's a matter of generating the information and pasting and sending (the actual text is usually pre-filled on the form, sometimes with allowances to allow a real user to edit the form).
For instance, I looked up my name on the AG's site - it found several hits. Most of them were "against net neutrality" - essentially with the text you posted - but the addresses didn't match my address.
But a couple were posted "for the current net neutrality rules" urging the FCC not to change anything; even so, I didn't post them, and the addresses didn't match.
Curiously, one of those two comments had a small sentence tacked onto the end, reading "Don't fuck this up!" - which is something I would never put into a public comment to a govt agency or request. So even though I agreed with the position, it still appalled me to see that vulgarity applied to the comment.
All comments though were fake - I never sent any of them in to the FCC.
> All comments though were fake - I never sent any of them in to the FCC.
Or your name isn't that uncommon. Have you ever tried being the first google result for your name, as an SEO experiment? It is hard!
I say this as someone who shares a name with a minor league baseball player, numerous facebook/linkedin/etc profiles and a baby whose life/death was covered by the BBC.
I don't go around accusing all of these people of being fake.
