@darius I'm sure you could get similar results by growing from seed if you had a good growlight and a germination/heating mat. (Other useful things: A gentle fan on a timer to keep the seedlings from getting leggy, and possibly something to keep the humidity a little elevated.)

You might also try getting a mix of varieties and growing them all together and saving seed, letting them cross. Do some selection and pretty soon you'll have a grex that's adapted to your growing practices and local climate. :-)

@darius this happened to our tomatoes too. The seeds grew like crap and died, the starters from the local supermarket absolutely blew them away.

@darius think of it as succession planting. The bolted ones will soon be bitter, so pull them up so the seedlings get more light and you'll soon be harvesting them

@darius oh, sure. back in aught-nine is when i first tried the sesame-shiitake, and let me tell you, salad ain't been the same since.

@darius I'm just enjoying the implication that the other 24 states have such lax food safety standards that they just let people eat poisoned salad dressing

@darius Or as Paul from acting calls it, his "wetness"

https://clickhole.com/an-oral-history-of-newman-s-own-salad-dressing-1825122827/

@darius BOTIDEA without TIDE is BOA

@darius earth without AR (augmented reality) is ETH (etherium) so keep playing pokémon go

@darius I allow myself a little giggle every time I see FRIENDS OF THE EAR truncated on my bank statement.

@darius depicted: the average car driver

@darius Darius.

@darius that’s horrible, I was just thinking of a story I heard once about a rich couple who had so many pairs of shoes for their baby that they never even used some of them

@darius plz like this poem of u cry everytyme

@darius ‘i’m in the thinkfantry’

@darius I work at a think tub

@darius I like the idea that local communities get a full picture of something, but that outsiders deliberately get a filtered view. That seems like a healthy tool to have around.

@darius I mute a lot of bots. If someone boosts a bot that I have need, that respects my mute. If someone replies to a bot, that respected my mute. If someone posts a link to a bot post “quote tweet” style, that does not.

Is there a reason to build a “quote tweet” style for bots rather than just use existing replies to bots? Still some fun ideas of how you could style Bot replies differently from non-Bot replies, but it doesn’t also serve to route around mutes/blocks.

@darius I bet @cwebber would enjoy this

@darius Seems to overlap in purpose with the semantic web proposed a few years later, which has never quite reached fruition.

@darius

Well, in 1 of the past 10 ActivityPub meetings we did also talk about how to “Describe Potential Actions of Objects” natively in ActivityPub cause Evan and James already thought about it for AS …

Please note the CFP for upcoming FediCamp https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fedicamp-2022-call-for-proposals/2510

@darius it's not, I've only actually moved over my personal faves, but I have thought about adding it as well

@darius i'm intrigued but i don't think i'm capable of grilling corn without making elotes. i think it would happen automatically and i would only realize my mistake after eating all of the corn.

street corn best corn

@darius rookie numbers 😉

@darius ;____; oh no

@darius
🚫 inbox zero
✅ inbox five thousand

@darius doesn't their email server do this for them?

@darius i think that's the default favicon before Google 31 has fully loaded

@darius I think there might be a backup (and actually, higher resolution) favicon that always shows "31" (which it used to show every day), and it might have shown that until it completed loading the new one

@darius glitch in the matrix