Well... I mean, have you looked at Mistral models on a Pareto frontier graph? Or even just a benchmark graph?

It's like they're living in a different era.

The USA has always operated as a oligarchy. Abolish the electoral college and we can talk about democracy.

If it's a first amendment right why do you have to buy a business license to exercise it? I don't think that's how it works.

It's ok that you can't sue a politician for fraud when they say they support something and don't vote for it, but you absolutely should be able to sue them when they promise to vote for something and don't. When they make clearly falsifiable statements they should be actionable. That they are not is part of how we got here.

If it makes you feel any better, America was always shit on the inside

Most people don't know he's also basically an adopted Getty. He's scum from multiple angles.

"Google adds that similar management tools will be coming to Googlebook, but they're not available yet."

This is the biggest clown shit ever. Are they trying to hand education back to Apple?

Fuck off Nazi

They were doing dynamic pricing already. Now they are using another tool to do it. So?

If they were doing this for the first time it would be news, but "company does automated thing with different automation" isn't.

Ask your beloved AI if you can't Google it

This isn't about homes, their focus is on commercial buyers, who want to e.g. include bananas in fruit salads and whatnot.

Man, you must be... at least mid-70s? Even my parents are too young, and I feel old ;)

Anyway, congrats on living this long, and I hope you have many more good years ahead of you :)

(And yes there are, you can order them from rare fruit growers, if you're willing to shell out for it ;) )

I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about. Are you maybe talking about PEPC binding of bicarbonate and dissolved CO2? That's a replenishing / balancing pathway for the citric acid cycle to make up for the plant robbing from it when it sequesters nitrogen (and to restore pH). It contributes at best 1-2% of the plant's carbon, and that's only if nitrogen uptake is very heavy. And bicarbonate and CO2 (they form an equilibrium) are not "soil carbon"; they're not part of the soil, they're just gas dissolved in soil moisture; the same applies equally whether the plant were grown in rich fertile humus or totally inert sterile perlite. Humus is inert and decay-resistant (that's why it persists).

A couple other guesses as to what you mean. Scavenging of free amino acids from decaying matter? Plants do that to capture nitrogen. Any carbon captured inadvertently in the process is completely irrelevant in scale. They can also pick up very tiny amounts of sugars - not physiologically relevant.

Or are you saying that soil matter rots, CO2 returns to the air, and then plants "breathe" it in? I mean, it's... technically true? But it's still atmospheric CO2 at that point, in an atmosphere shared with all life.

If not, I'm baffled. Maybe you're confusing "corn is a heavy feeder" with thinking that means carbon? (that's about fertilizer). Or perhaps you're confusing how effective corn is at capturing carbon and depositing it in soil with thinking that that's coming from the soil? I'm just guessing here.

That necessity is based on what I said it's based on, so clearly I know all about what you brought up. I do live here, you know.

I would have left long ago if I could afford to. Alas I misspent my youth when I had good earnings.