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In the US there are frequent recalls on lettuce usually romaine or packaged salads for salmonella or some other bacteria. Example of most recent: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...

The yellowing leaves suggest you might be watering the plants too much. This seems to be among the more common issues with houseplants.

A burlap sack would probably work in a similar manner, but not sure how long it would last.

Another example of a seed with long germination time is the coco de mer[1], coming in at 2 years. It also happens to be the largest seed of any plant.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodoicea

While I agree that modern society requires significant energy inputs, there is a middle ground. For instance, if cities or the suburbs were more pedestrian friendly, walking, cycling, etc. would be a viable option meaning less use of fossil fuels by driving.

A use case for glasses like these with the heads up display would be while riding a TT bike in the aero position. The bars are not conducive to mounting a bike computer and it is a regular occurrence for it to fall off during a triathlon. With these glasses though you could just put the computer in your shirt pocket or wherever and not have to look down.

Important to note that the interest rate needs to be fixed. A variable rate could be increased and cancel out that erosion.

> Every business, from tiny boutiques to online giants like Amazon, tell you exactly how much each of their items costs. Why shouldn't it be the same when we're shopping for a job?

This is the opposite to how a job should be thought about. Shopping for a job seems to imply a business already owns my time, skills, etc. when they are really the ones searching. And transparency would further exacerbate that idea, as the job candidate is now bounded without even being able to show what they are capable of.

On the flip side, my employer is fully transparent about salaries from the c-suite all the way down and nobody seems to mind.

I recently watched a documentary that showed how they create these nature scenes. Especially for insects and small animals, it is not nature rather a professionally created set in a controlled environment.

From the article: “In economic terms, sunk costs are costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered.”

It wouldn’t be a sunk cost if if going to the concert was still valued at $50 or more.

Peter principle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I would add that the ease with which we can access food is also a main culprit.

I don’t think it would be fair to ban all motorbikes. It’s only certain types bikes, generally choppers (e.g. Harley Davidsons), crotch rockets and dirt bikes that are loud. Most of the other types are fairly quiet. Although the type of bike probably matters much less than who owns it—-I had a crotch rocket for a while and you couldn’t even hear it a block away.

> Most Silicon Valley CEOs severely restrict their own children’s access to phones and screens.

Is anybody aware of the source of this quote? I hear it quite often but have never seen the evidence to support it. I am starting to think that it might just be convenient to throw into an argument about technology.