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Does fermentation reduce the… unfortunate effects of Sunchokes?

I see Castellucci. I upvote Castellucci.

I am currently living out of my Tom Bihn Techonaut 45. It carries my 17" laptop and everything else I need and I’m pretty sure it will outlast me. That said, I’ve heard that the company was recently sold, so I have no idea if the quality is still there.

Internal Family Systems therapy and meditation.

The happiest song I know! Thanks for reminding me of it!

This is a great take on the subject. In my area the Jerusalem artichoke would mostly be competing with Asian honeysuckle and Bradford pear trees which have already escaped captivity and killed everything else, but I completely agree that releasing virulent species into any kind of intact ecosystem can be very damaging.

Yeah. I gotta say I came in here to see what the problem was. These things support a ton of weight and, while it may not be beautiful, it isn’t going anywhere.

While studying permaculture and regenerative agriculture I came across this thread on native species and it stuck with me. I’m now in the camp of, “the world is changing and what grew in an area before night not be the right thing to grow there now”.

Typically wildflowers in an area are synonymous with weeds. They shouldn’t have any trouble growing if you break the current grass monopoly even a little. Most people have a hard time getting them to NOT grow in their yard. I had good luck including Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) in my yard. They are HUGE when fully grown and you will basically need a flame thrower to get rid of them but the birds and bees love them. They also spread risomatically by sending out root runners, so they break up compacted soil. A combination of those and sunflowers would basically be a 2 meter tall flower bed. I don’t think you would even need the cardboard.

I have not seen this film, and on your recommendation I’m not going to, but I have to say this is the best film review I’ve read in a long time! The movie might have been boring, but I happily read the entire review!

I’m also interested to see how these hold up in the long run. I have a 2017 BMW ev and really the only maintenance has been tires and a cabin air filter. One of the main reasons I have avoided buying cars like a Porsche ICE vehicle is that, once you have purchased it, there are large, ongoing maintenance costs and it feels like I’m signing up for a subscription service for my vehicle. If these are fast, cheaper, and also have low ongoing costs I might be in. I’m also mildly concerned about all of the telemetry they gather. I would really rather have a dumb car that I can hook to my smart phone and display Open Street Map or something on it. Then I get to make my software choices to a greater extent.

I think one of the keys is that they have to be able to be constructed relatively cheaply and with off-the-shelf components. If it costs $5000 and you need an engineering degree to build the final product it isn’t really a leveler, more of a toy for wealthy land owners.

Some relevant projects I found:

[1]: GitHub - AutoRoboCulture/Nindamani-the-weed-removal-robot: Nindamani …

[2]: GitHub - BrandonAllan/Weeding_robot: The Weeding Robot Project is a …

[3]: A Development Platform for Autonomous Weeding. - GitHub

[4]: anida16/Autonomous-InterRow-Weed-Removing-Robot - GitHub

[5]: GitHub - rahularepaka/Project-Cyclops: Weed Detection and Laser …

[6]: Agroecology-Lab/Open-Weeding-Delta: Open Weeding Delta - GitHub

[7]: GitHub - brycejohnston/awesome-agriculture: Open source technology for …

[8]: [2405.12596v1] A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

He’s right, though. The reversal DOES make the situation more uncomfortable…

I generally like this idea, although I think calling it, “mentoring”, might attach an unnecessary connotation. I’m also not sure what else you would call it, so that might just be my own bias talking. I’m interested in working out the logistics of using Shapley Values to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative company and want to work through some messy, real-world examples. If this sounds like fun, let me know and I’ll sign up. Thanks for doing this!

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

I’m going to recommend, in addition to meditation, that you look into IFS Therapy. You can see an actual therapist about it, but you can also just read a book on the subject and do it yourself unless you have really deep trauma or addictions to deal with. The guy who invented it has several books, but I recommend Self Therapy by Jay Earley as it is based around working on your own and is basically like meditation with the purpose of resolving your inner issues. My ADHD brain has improved a ton since I started doing it. Feel free to message me if you have any questions. This is my current Hyperfocus, so I’m already way down the rabbit hole on research. 😁

And a very happy Void-Scream to you as well!