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MickBurke
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I thrive in incomprehensibility.

My son is gifted.

After building my own pump driven Flood and Drain hydro setup for my winter garden a few years back, I decided to try a the packaged hydro kits I heard mentioned on an episode of The Survival Podcast. I found it on Amazon (affiliate link - https://amzn.to/47lVzWF on sale at about $20 off right now) and put it all together with ease.

After completing that, I realized I did NOT want to do my first test start with 100 of anything, so I disconnected the lower two layers, covered the excess holes to prevent evaporation and algae growth and plumbed it to a bucket.

Only problem I found with that is that the last pipe didn’t fill as high as the first two, with water barely touching the bottom of the cups on that pipe. I expect that was because the exit is to a drop off, rather than to a small pipe leading to the next large pipe, so the water didn’t get ā€˜backed up’ before being able to exit.

That was easily overcome in my case since I had all the other pieces from the bottom sets, I just added a L piece at the top so I could tilt up and down to adjust the level of water in the last pipe. Since I’d already put an L into the bottom of the drain, I was still able to aim it into the right spot on the bucket.

I got everything started yesterday, and so far no leaks or problems. The pump is TINY but seems to do the job well. It has its own timer system, wherein you can set it to run for 5, 15 or 30 minutes and then be off time for 30, 60 or 120 minutes.

So I’m starting with lettuce, and should be able to grow all the lettuce I eat (two salads a day for the wife and I) and likely can get much more than that with relative ease, then we can expand out and see what else we can get to grow in it. Seems like there’s a lot of potential…

The previous obnoxious clown vs murderess (trump vs Mrs. clinton) election was a hoot and all, and if they were only gonna let trump win one election, I'm glad it was against her, but there were still people who tried to claim it was rational to vote for either one. I think the best thing about having binden v trump again, is that a number of people, likely only a few, maybe thousands across the us, but some will look at this system and say "How the fuck did we get here?!?!?!" Anyone who is still sane and moderately rational, finds many terrible answers to that question, but life from that point forward improves greatly.

That is what the two utterly despicable human beings can do for america: make sane people understand just how fucked everything is.

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Monkey Fight season is coming, get ready to enjoy the show and place your bets.

I think I'm a Minarchist... I just like the hairdo.

My wife sent this to me (and the four other members of my band) yesterday... I think it has merit.

#WeedSter

NO doubt. As people with 'title' always seem to.

Ramsey's good to help you get out of debt (or at least he was last time I payed attention to him), but beyond that, he's got nothing of value.

And the people who put a million in it when he said this, didn't 'turn it into nothing'... so far, they've turned it into $50M

Nothing new. I haven't entered a mcds in DECADES as someone who used to get a big mac, fries, chocolate shake and hot apple pie every saturday night at my grandparents place... Yea, everything has gotten MIUCH smaller.

So just how stupid is local government? They ban plastic bags so you no longer have a once used bag from the grocery store to RECYCLE and use as a trash bag in the bathroom or for a poopy diaper. So you have to BUY bags who's ONLY purpose is to be trash...

The most amazing / unsurprising thing is that they've changed NOTHING.

"Hey, our behavior has burdened future generations of (other peoples) children with a trillion dollars of debt. What should we do?"

"Let's just keep doing the same things!"...

"Hey, our behavior has burdened future generations of (other peoples) children with five trillion dollars of debt. What should we do?"

"Let's just keep doing the same things!"...

"Hey, our behavior has burdened future generations of (other peoples) children with ten trillion dollars of debt. What should we do?"

"Let's just keep doing the same things!"...

"Hey, our behavior has burdened future generations of (other peoples) children with a twenty trillion dollars of debt. What should we do?"

"Let's just keep doing the same things!"...

...

(If you drive a car, car) I'll tax the street

(If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat

(If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat

(If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet

Taxman

Shame on me... yet again, I ignored the most important election of my lifetime.

"Fiat is what it is, and I will utilize it to the extent that it benefits me.

To me, the point with bitcoin is that I now have a second option of what to hold my value in other than dollars and things denominated in dollars which means I no longer have to go down with the fiat ship as it continues its intended, and mathematically necessary, plunge into ruin."

#ExitFiat