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  • It's not terrible, but it's also not great. Fruit trees by their nature produce just mountains of fruit for a single tree. I came from a large farming family and we had a few fruit trees. So much of it ends up on the ground and rotting (which, not so bad since it was in a field, a nightmare if it were in the suburbs).

    If you really want one, you NEED to maintain the tree. That means cutting branches to make sure the tree doesn't grow up and instead grows out. It also means constant maintenance to make sure branches aren't overloaded (growing out means they have a higher risk of breaking).

    Regular trees are already a PITA to take properly maintain, fruit trees are another level.

    And even with all that, you'll still end up with a bunch of rotting fruit on the ground. Birds, insects, etc will nibble at your fruits. You'll simply miss the 50 fruit the ripened early or late. It's just going to be a headache no matter what you do.

    And it's a lot of fruit. 1 tree can easily make enough fruit for 20 people. That comes in all at once.

  • Capitalism rule
  • What actually raises the price of milk is the farmer uses his profits to buy up other local dairy farms consolidating their position in the market. They then sign exclusivity deals with both grocers and further milk processors (who are also consolidating) to prevent competing in the market, driving their competitors to either sell for cheap or go out of business. https://theconversation.com/americas-dairy-farms-are-disappearing-down-95-since-the-1970s-milk-price-rules-are-one-reason-why-237439#:~:text=Across the country%2C the dairy,per farm – has been rising.

    Because "farm Inc" has a massive horde of wealth, they can stamp out competition by either buying them out, cutting them out, or driving them out of business with prices a small farmer can't handle. After that, they get to set and raise prices at will with the now smaller pool of big name "farm Inc".

    This literally happens every time a market is poorly regulated and businesses allowed to grow too big. It's the natural end state of capitalism.

  • Empires fall
  • Yup, they deliberately ran it into the ground. They took out loans against Kmart to buy Sears and sold Sears and Kmart properties off to give themselves money via stock buybacks.

    And what's worse, because it worked, you can see similar actions happening to other major retail outlets. Target, in particular, seems to be following directly in the footsteps of Kmart.

  • CNN's Tapper, Bash Urged to Apologize for 'Reprehensible' Lies About Rashida Tlaib
  • It's racist.

    They are literally only doing this because it's protests for Palestinians. When you put negative attributes on an entire group of people based solely on their race, we call that racism.

    These CNN bigots are every bit as bad as the lynch mobs killing black people because a white woman said they raped her.

  • PSA: Don't just eat peanut butter
  • It'll sound counter intuitive, but one way to avoid problems with oxalates is to consume calcium rich foods with oxalate high foods. For example, a glass of milk (soy milk counts) with a PB&J.

    The reason this works is the calcium binds with the oxalate in your stomach and not your liver/kidneys.

    For this to work, you have to consume both at the same time.

  • Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof
  • The UN statistics on deaths in Gaza have not been updated in months. Do you know why? Because israel has killed everyone that can count the dead and israel is not counting the dead.

    Israel does not have numbers on how many people they've killed because they frankly do not care.

  • Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof
  • To sum up the reports here. Hamas is in the west bank, ACCORDING TO THE IDF.

    And if you read any of the articles you actually posted, you know that there are a lot of problems with just verifying what the IDF claims as true. For example, Wissam Khazem's death where the IDF quickly hid the body and hasn't allowed any 3rd party verification.

    Or the fact that in the very same article about Wissam Khazem's death, it goes on to talk about how snipers killed elderly and disabled people in the region.

    You see, Israel likes to play this neat trick where every person they kill is suddenly hamas. So, excuse me for not believing israelie intelligence sources when we have crystal clear evidence of them massacring civilians.

    But again, are you going to answer my question. How many hostages are in the west bank?

  • Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof
  • I once saw a hamas at a wendy's. I was so ascared that the hamas was going to get me. Then the hamas just told me to stop starring at them. When I ever so politely yelled at them for hamasing around me, they just kept saying "Fuck off, I'm Mexican", which I think is a new hamas antisemitic slur.

  • Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof
  • You did not answer my questions.

    But I'll answer yours. Hamas is not in the west bank you dolt. There is no "pretending" about it. You actually have to be mentally ill to think that somehow "Hamas" has spread out of one of the most heavily guarded regions through Israel and into the next most heavily guarded regions, the west bank.

    I guess if you've now taken israel's definition of "hamas" which is all arabs, then yeah, hamas is literally everywhere in the region.

    Now, explain why fighting "hamas" involves desecrating bodies and bulldozing homes? How is that counter terrorism? Oh wait, you don't think arabs are human so I guess that makes it ok, right?

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