Those are skulltulas.

You would turn down free bread sticks and $7M? At least eat some bread sticks.

Just need to know if they’re heavier than a duck.

It’s an anxiety coping technique.

I’m not imagining any problems. The difficulties I’ve outlined are genuine issues that have to be addressed. I think you’d be surprised to learn how much difference there is between a thing existing and it actually operating efficiently.

“Based on an analysis we did for a large private-equity firm, we don’t actually see a scenario where in the next 10 years vertical farming will compete with field-grown at scale in North America,”

Vertical farming usually uses LED lighting, not direct sunlight.

That’s one method of bringing"sunlight" to plants. Another would be to grow them outside.

And I think the idea is that once the water is present on a given level it gets recirculated and reprocessed there, so it wouldn’t need much additional pumping.

Even if all you do is pump all the water from the floor of each level to the ceiling of the respective level, you’ve done the exact same amount of work as pumping all the water for the top floor back to the roof in the first place. Only you’ve done it with a hundred pumps and a hundred times the points of failure and repair rate as a single pump for the entire building.

You’d be so much farther ahead to just install a reservoir on the roof that gets filled by a single pump and let gravity feed the lower floors. Much the way we already do for flat farming.

And then you’ve got to make up for the inefficiencies lost in planting and harvesting. Vertical farming brings nothing to the table except a smaller footprint in a world where that’s not a real advantage.

A far better use of empty office buildings would be to convert much of the space into full-time living space.

When you have an enlarged amygdala, everything is scary. Ask any conservative what they fear most and they will never finish.

The problem is a constant fight against gravity. You’ve still got to pump the water effectively to the top of the building every day. And there’s still the issue of getting sunlight to the plants.

The question really becomes whether it’s more economical to just use traditional irrigation techniques upstream and ship the produce in vs converting a skyscraper into a very inefficient farm space.

What about Sammy Davis Jr?

Early Access karma whoring.

No, but it is raising some alarm bells.

Well in that case you’d still benefit from the change because overtime would kick in after 32 hours instead of 40.

“Overtime” doesn’t “kick in” when you’re working at your third job that only gives you 20 hours a week because they “can’t afford” to pay overtime every time you have to cover someone else’s shift.

Of course reducing inequality and putting more of the nation’s wealth in the hands of working people is a part of the project.

As we continue to move away from full-time jobs to a gig based economy, none of this applies to anyone that needs it. If you want to put money into the hands of working people, just put money in their hands. Capitalism is incapable of providing care for the members of society that don’t have capital, and trying to fix society’s problems with Capitalist tools is doomed to fail.

If it’s just an increase in pay, a lot of us are just going to work even more. Because now we get to survive. Let me know when you’re talking about real economic changes that help everyone thrive.

No, but I found Waldo.

I haven’t actually seen it, but I hear this was pretty awful.

Maybe it’s because I am a native english speaker but your reply is offensive and embarrassing to native English speakers around the world. You can do better, America. You just have to try.

I’m sure their moms didn’t miss it. 😜

I mean… They’re not fucking wrong.

Sure, “For an upgrade”. Whatever you gotta tell yourself bro. We don’t care when you go down, just upon whom.

Maybe it’s because I am a native english speaker but I read this as a pledge to murder all homeless people by cutting them in half 🤔