Helps reduce water loss which helps them keep for a day to two longer.

They store them at 13-14C. Anything colder causes chilling injury aka they turn brown now yellow.

Mint is succeptable to all sorts of fungal pathogens. Some pathogens like fusarium can remain in the soil for over 30 years as well.

BTW, experienced gardner here and I planted my mint in the ground. There comes a point where you no longer fear it and can control it.

You ever meet one of those MBA business bro guys who try to crush your hand in a handshake?

I grew up milking a cow morning and night by hand…

They were always fun.

Mix of different physically demanding jobs while I was building up money to pay for college. Farmwork, construction etc during the day. Unloading package trucks for UPS was probably the most energy intensive in the evening. Hand unloading 2,100 packages per hour an emptying 3-4 trailers in 4-5 hours was one hell of an aerobic workout. On a normal day I was burning 4-4500K calories in the spring and fall from the high level of activity working 12-14 hours per day. I had strongly defined abs and built a lot of muscle mass.

Winter however was something else. It was a very cold, -10F to 10 for most of the winter. It takes a lot of food to just keep warm when you are in those temps all day. I was outside enough I had to keep my house cooler (50-55F) as my metabolism shifted into high gear.

Eating 4,500-5,000 calories is pretty easy. Larger portions at meals plus a few calorie dense snacks easily gets you there.

That extra 2000-3000 calories is hard. Half a package of oreos or a dozen donuts when I woke up starving at 2am was what I resorted too. Lots of carbs and fat.

Tuapse was I believe the first time Ukraine went for the total destruction of the facilities. All the other hits have been at strategic targets that disabled key processes.

It’s sign of a massive shift in air superiority in favor of Ukraine.

I’m not an expert but from my understanding the soviet’s tactics were quite a bit different from Ukraines.

The soviet’s continuously threw away lives to stop the German advance. Constant attacks tossing way soldiers lives but slowly degrading the German supplies and manpower. The Soviet’s also lost most of their industry early on in the war. Most of it was located in regions that Germany conquered quickly or their airpower wrecked in the early months of the war.

The only reason they were able to stop the German advance at all was because of the massive amount of goods and weapons supplied by England and the U.S.

Ukraine has set up heavily defended kill zones with multi-layered defenses. Russia’s continuous attacks are chewed up in theses zones. Eventually Russia degrades the defenses enough that Ukraine retreats to the next prepared zone and starts over fresh. Ukraine has slowly lost ground but Russias entire Soviet era stockpiles have been decimated with these tactics.

I have had my table saw for 25 years. Still terrified of the fucker. Then again I had two teachers who taught me the basics of using them when I was a teenager… Both had missing fingers.

One had a scar from a broken jaw from a kickback.

When I worked a physical job outside in cold weather (sub-freezing temps) it was closer to 7-8,000 calories per day and I would still lose 5-10 lbs in 3 months.

I put it back on in the spring.

Then lost it again in the summer as the heat suppressed my appetite.

Then gained it back in the fall as the temperatures were more pleasant.

And repeat…

Identical twins - one egg + 1 sperm that splits into two after fertilization aka clones. This happens randomly in the population.

Fraternal twin - Two different eggs + 2 different sperm from daddy. They are siblings that happen to share a uterus. This genetic in some families.

Semi-identical twins - One egg + 2 sperm. The egg splits before it is fertilized. The genetically identical eggs are fertilized by different sperm. Freaky huh…

They detected allozymes (differences in proteins) by electrophoresis in the 1970’s.

This could tell the difference between species and maybe if they were lucky large family groups. It wasn’t as exact as using DNA.

That sounds like a marker file. It’s a bit different than a sequence file.

Molecular markers are linked to specific sequences in the DNA. These markers are generally close by or in the gene of interest. All the extra columns described its characteristics and results. Anyplace in the entire genome where there is one nucleotide difference (polymorphic) can be another marker. There’s millions of these and they add up to massive files.

A sequence file is basically just a long boring sequence of nucleotides and are not that large. Now some of the files you use to generate the sequence. Let’s just say they had to wait almost 20 years for computers to get fast enough to process those files in a reasonable time. Those make the marker files look like childs play.

DNA sample of identical twin doesn’t work. It is identical. They started as one individual and split into two.

The only way to tell them apart is if one of the brother has a distinguishable difference in scars, dentistry, etc.

Well every so often something was likely wiggling around on it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0031182015001651

Until you get too many middle managers vying to climb the corporate ladder. Then it’s all meetings about the meeting in six months, that you’ll need 3x daily meetings to prepare for. After the big meeting you have to do follow-up meetings for the next 6 months until they come up with an idea for another big meeting. All while creating and sending reports about the meetings to other managers and the c-suite. Which then triggers yet more meetings.

Oh and you must have weekly meetings with your subordinates to update them on results of the other meetings. Those meetings can’t be at the same time as the safety meetings (you are doing those weekly right) or the corporate wide meetings that are called at least monthly.

Depends on where you are. In Europe they are free and checks have a surcharge.

In the U.S. they generally charge a small fee or do other shenanigans. Example: Intuit puts the money in a holding account for 5-7 business days before delivering (guess who keeps the interest).

If sending an international ACH there is always fees even if they are hidden in the exchange rate.

It depends on where you are. Some communities operate mostly in cash. Other communities use other methods.

For example, when I am on rural agricultural communities, the local taco wagon is often cash only. The one in larger towns or cities almost always accepts card readers and now phones.

Larger amounts (more than $5,000) are usually checks and occasionally ACH or bank wire. Checks are free however so it is by far the preferred method.

In my small business I accept cash, cards, phones, ACH, International Wires,and checks. It all gets a little confusing at times. I highly encourage checks or cash because they have no fees.

The major long lasting effects was the introduction and adoption of Japanese autos because of their better gas mileage.

For close to 2 decades fuel economy was an important selling point. At the time there was no viable alternative to gasoline engines. Today there is so whole markets are likely to change-over to majority electric.

This was implied but not spelled out.

Critically important part of the story: if it wasn’t for key government assistance at the right time, the story is would be very different.

First time home buyer - a government program that allowed us to put 3.5% down instead of 10-20% for traditional mortgages.

2009 - First time home buyer tax credit. It was $7,500 If I recall correctly. It was more than the 3.5% down. We were also able to claim it immediately after purchasing the house. We we received the money 3 weeks after closing. (How did we get $7,500? We cashed out every retirement plan we and had a small insurance payment from our apartment being robbed.)

Unemployment insurance was extended from 26 weeks to 2 years. This gave me time to apply for the higher paying jobs. It took me over year to get the higher paying job. We would have likely lost the house without assistance.

There is no effective way out of poverty without a helping hand.

It wasn’t really that bad as long as you were reasonable on your debt to income ratio. It absolutely stupid easy to get a loan in the boom before the bust. The contrast is why people remember it being “tight”. We had no issues with getting a loan.

I did know some people who were all pissed off that they couldn’t get a home loan but they had $120K in debt between car, furniture, and student loans. They had to have their parents help them out with rent every other month.