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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It's called compost honey, look it up.

But seriously, composting, no till, stop spraying R0undup aka glyphosate, plant trees in fields, more cover crops, more green mulch, more pollinators, more ponds, more pastureland, more aquaculture, more polyculture in general. The problem is the desert style of farming that led to the dust bowl and will lead to the next one. This comes from a very new (<3 years) farmer who has read a bunch and microfarmed for three years on 5 acres.

The problem is people got sold a bunch of lies about machines and chemicals and those lies are now coming home to roost. Organic and no till and permaculture are probably the way out of this. You can absorb nitro from the atmosphere but that's one way, nature has been doing it another way for eons.

Comment · 5 years ago
Underground. Under the sea. Under the ground under the sea. Pfffft. The sun was already trying to kill you that's why living underground is smart anyway. Frankly there should be no expectation of privacy for things you can observe from space...
Comment · 6 years ago
permaculture. google it. the answer is of course BOTH.

naturally regrowing forests by using ancient technology to understand the best way for things to be arranged physically for optimal soil regeneration.

the Amazon was cultivated by humans for thousands of years. we can do this all over the planet

Comment · 6 years ago
Red flags: ask if they have a standard operating procedure document or employee handbook. Basic stuff like where to go for healthcare, who to talk to about sick leave etc. This sort of logistical stuff is a weight on employee's to have to constantly be asking direct reports about. It's a bad sign when a company can't take the time to do a basic doc like this.
Comment · 6 years ago
HA! Try growing or raising animals and not using Amazon...
Comment · 6 years ago
Grant will be missed. I was definitely influenced by him at an early age. He gave me a glimpse of what being a roboticist and engineer looked like. And that was enough to propel my career forward.
Comment · 6 years ago
The hardware heroes we need. Amazing and the best laptop design in years.
Comment · 6 years ago
Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just to answer. None of your concerns are covered by the license he has (Special Occupation Tax aka SOT). With a SOT7 + one of the other ones you can own and transfer machine guns and Destructive Devices legally. This is the same license a gunsmith will get to manufacture and sell(transfer) firearms incidentally.

No this is not a license to kill.

Comment · 7 years ago
yeah that wiki thing never amounted to anything more than being the ninth most popular website.
Comment · 7 years ago
Sorry, this article is propaganda for BigAg and BigChem.

They looked at one meta study and one study that was ESTIMATING the effectiveness of organic based on land usage.

Organic farming is needed to increase top soil depth which results in increased carbon sequestration and water absorption.

Organic farming isn't specific enough. It's permanent agriculture which is needed, usually in the form of organic agriculture.

Comment · 7 years ago
why regulation capture is bad in a nutshell
Comment · 7 years ago
I hope they do a kit.

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