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That’s absolutely the original usage but that also died down as military vernacular (and analog clocks) became less and less prominent in the public. These days I usually see the “newer” usage, maybe because digital clocks are not only easier to read but also they are also far less useful as a navigation and positioning aid. Who knows?

Recognized, as in it was easy enough to tell she was autistic it was like looking at a clock to tell the time.

I want to make this abundantly clear that there are 11 registered trans athletes in the entirety of the NCPA and three of those exclusively participate in club (non-competitive) events. That’s what all of this was about.

I just realized my first reaction to this was “SURELY it can’t be this shady contractor that fucked up, it had to have been the US government” and the fact there’s a decent chance that this is correct is somehow still amazing to me.

Wait… they’ve been dumping bleach and hydrogen peroxide and who knows what in the pool, did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?

Especially with things like the dwarf tomato project, there are hundreds of varieties that dont get over three feet tall. That plus grow bags and the lightweight coco coir soil mixes that can be easily shipped and carried around it really doesn’t make sense not to.

In early February, a lawyer volunteering with the short-staffed office on ICE-related cases in Minnesota begged a judge to put her in contempt of court so that she could “get 24 hours of sleep.” They didn’t even fire her for this lol, she got reassigned to a different department. No idea if she has quit since then, but her full statements are pretty damning for the DOJ, and they still kept her.

The Experimental Farm Network store! Really cool stuff available there.

Honestly I just moved to a new house and I have a decent ish growing space, a 16’x60’ (~5x18m) and 30’x35’ (9x9.5m) plot in my back yard and a 20’x25’ (6x7.5m) room in my basement I’m turning into a hydroponics and indoor farm setup. With the move I’ve changed growing zones a lot and am now on the border of Canada so I don’t know how the plants will react yet. I was thinking a more Cave Johnson approach,but I’ll totally be the vault overseer doing agriculture experiments that decides the best way to get more harvest and save space is to double the plant per plant.

Basil is self pollinating so I’ll probably keep this one separate, maybe even indoors in a grow tent and probably take some clones from it. From that I’ll let a bunch of stalks or clones flower, collect the seeds, start a fresh batch and cull all the seedlings that do not exhibit the mutation. Get some healthy plants from that seed stock, breed them back with the original non mutated line to keep it from getting too inbred, harvest seeds, and start and cull those again keeping the desired traits. Eventually you should be able to get ~50-80% of the seeds to grow with the mutation. That’s a completely made up range but you can get mutations and crosses pretty reliable usually. The most difficult part is keeping them from crossing with other basils, but that’s just because they are very easy to breed and cross and bastardize. Which is how you get here in the first place, I suppose.

It’s a Mrihani x Opalescent basil hybrid, I have about two dozen of these started with a variety of mutations. Most of them have mottled green (as well shown by the plant to the left) and all of them have a beautiful metallic purple shimmer to them. This gorgeous seedling is a beautiful example of a whorled phylotaxy, having four leaves per node instead of two.

I’m going to try to see if I can get this mutation somewhat stable, as it’s double your basil per basil, and who wouldn’t want that?