Congratulations, changes your life, driving does.

1. Change all your fluids, Oil + filter, flush the radiator, do a 4x drain and fill on the transmission. So, drain the pan, fill with new fluid equivalent to what’s come out. Take her for a spin, get it warmed up. Drain and fill again. By the time you do this 4 times, you should have basically all brand new fluid in it.

2. Replace the cabin and engine air filters.

3. Buy a floor jack, always have a scissor jack in the back along with the spare. But keep a floor jack and a set of stands at home for when you need to work at home.

4. Do easy jobs yourself, firstly gaskets and seals as well. Valve cover gasket replacement kit is an easy job. You’ll get a look at the valves then and you can see if you need to do a little engine flush. PCV valve can make a big difference too and that’s usually very simple to get to.

5. Get someone who isn’t mechanic looking to make a few quid about the state of your brakes. Pads and rotors are easy peasy stuff.

6. Buy a code reader, a decent one, or any bluetooth one that will let you read live data from the ecu. You probably won’t need it now, but as you learn more your car and common issues, you’ll want one to be able to give you a clue about why something is happening.

7. Get underneath and check the bushings on suspension parts, lower control arms, trailing arms. That stuff just goes one day. But, if you see a bushing is starting to tear, or seize. you can find the replacement part and avoid being stranded.

8. Because you’re in the UK, get a few rebuild kits for alternators and a/c compressors. They are BIG TICKET items and they will fail on a 20 year old car. You can follow a guide to rebuilding them, replace brushes and seals and you’ll save yourself £££££.

9. Look up community formus (not reddit) for your car specifically. They can be a big help in finding common issues and answering questions about maintenance and upgrades.

10. Check out Chris Fix’s youtube channel, he’s got very comprehensive guides from beginner stuff up to replacing internal engine components. Would recommend as someone who learned how to fix their car using Youtube.

Almost like there’s a market for people who want to consume the single most popular (still largely in many places) illicit substance in the world. Crazy.

It’s actually a name. Pajeet is a genuine Hindu name. It’s a pejorative, in the same way “Paddy” is both an Irish name and used as a slur for Irish people.

Unity, Largest Trading Bloc in the World, Largely Socialised Healthcare, Culture, Best looking and let’s not forget. Actual Fucking Privacy Laws!

Grifters gotta grift

Counterpoint. Musk was the sacrificial lamb, just like Thiel did to him at Paypal. Tesla was the most popular electric car company in the world. Their whole business model was based on reaching net zero. What if this was all done on purpose to stop adoption of electric vehicles. Fossil fuel industry is a huge player in this. Copenhagen Atomics is set to deploy their first thorium salt nuclear reactor in 2027. That plus electric cars means no need for fossil fuels. As it stands, in two generations, our planet will be basically uninhabitable due to climate change. The whole techno dystopian future big tech want with their freedom cities would be way easier to pull off, if the environment outside is totally inhospitable. Wouldn’t that make sure forced adoption of brain implants like neuralink, or Meta, or Valve’s brain chips a much easier sell? If it was that, or imminent death from exposure and air pollution. Peter Thiel is a transhumanist who believes we can ascend humanity through merging with machines.

Curtis Yarvin said that he would virtualise non-useful people as a humane alternative to genocide. Doesn’t that make generative AI make way more sense? You don’t want to adopt the surveillance state in your head, fine, live out the rest of your life as you slowly die of dehydration and hunger. If Trump is impeached we get Vance, whose entire career was created by Thiel. It all makes too much sense. Meta are now a defense contractor, Britain has said it will rebuild its military using “outside contractors.” Palantir already have Israel and America. Big Tech want control of the world’s armies, fighting proxy wars on their behalf. Once your military requires their systems, they can turn them off if any opposes them. This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.

Counterpoint. Musk was the sacrificial lamb, just like Thiel did to him at Paypal. Tesla was the most popular electric car company in the world. Their whole business model was based on reaching net zero. What if this was all done on purpose to stop adoption of electric vehicles. Fossil fuel industry is a huge player in this. Copenhagen Atomics is set to deploy their first thorium salt nuclear reactor in 2027. That plus electric cars means no need for fossil fuels. As it stands, in two generations, our planet will be basically uninhabitable due to climate change. The whole techno dystopian future big tech want with their freedom cities would be way easier to pull off, if the environment outside is totally inhospitable. Wouldn’t that make sure forced adoption of brain implants like neuralink, or Meta, or Valve’s brain chips a much easier sell? If it was that, or imminent death from exposure and air pollution. Peter Thiel is a transhumanist who believes we can ascend humanity through merging with machines.

Curtis Yarvin said that he would virtualise non-useful people as a humane alternative to genocide. Doesn’t that make generative AI make way more sense? You don’t want to adopt the surveillance state in your head, fine, live out the rest of your life as you slowly die of dehydration and hunger. If Trump is impeached we get Vance, whose entire career was created by Thiel. It all makes too much sense. Meta are now a defense contractor, Britain has said it will rebuild its military using “outside contractors.” Palantir already have Israel and America. Big Tech want control of the world’s armies, fighting proxy wars on their behalf. Once your military requires their systems, they can turn them off if any opposes them. This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.

Counterpoint. Musk was the sacrificial lamb, just like Thiel did to him at Paypal. Tesla was the most popular electric car company in the world. Their whole business model was based on reaching net zero. What if this was all done on purpose to stop adoption of electric vehicles. Fossil fuel industry is a huge player in this. Copenhagen Atomics is set to deploy their first thorium salt nuclear reactor in 2027. That plus electric cars means no need for fossil fuels. As it stands, in two generations, our planet will be basically uninhabitable due to climate change. The whole techno dystopian future big tech want with their freedom cities would be way easier to pull off, if the environment outside is totally inhospitable. Wouldn’t that make sure forced adoption of brain implants like neuralink, or Meta, or Valve’s brain chips a much easier sell? If it was that, or imminent death from exposure and air pollution. Peter Thiel is a transhumanist who believes we can ascend humanity through merging with machines.

Curtis Yarvin said that he would virtualise non-useful people as a humane alternative to genocide. Doesn’t that make generative AI make way more sense? You don’t want to adopt the surveillance state in your head, fine, live out the rest of your life as you slowly die of dehydration and hunger. If Trump is impeached we get Vance, whose entire career was created by Thiel. It all makes too much sense. Meta are now a defense contractor, Britain has said it will rebuild its military using “outside contractors.” Palantir already have Israel and America. Big Tech want control of the world’s armies, fighting proxy wars on their behalf. Once your military requires their systems, they can turn them off if any opposes them. This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.

No, he was just gathering it to hand over to Palantir. Once again, Peter Thiel, the real CEO of paypal is the shadowy puppeteer.

Consider this, JD Vance is Peter Thiel’s Acolyte, who desperately wants to bring about a global technocracy. What if all of this hasn’t been a genuine attempt yet. What if it’s merely theatre that has been setting the stage for Vance to take over. Trump gets to enrich his family beyond their wildest imagination, then he peaces out and the real horror begins.

This Bill is just a lie to spy on (mainly) Canadian Citizens and residents. It gives Canada Post the ability to open your mail for any cited reason. It requires your ISP to log and keep track of all your devices and online activity and require it be turned over at the governments request. It’s also gearing up to turn Canadian Border Officials into ICE. We’re cooked.

The Guardian fired their journalists and replaced them with AI. I’d like to raise this point and see if we could be more selective with News? I think That the co-opting of our news media is just about controlling the Overton window and I would hope we could find and support independent media like Al Jazeera. Who have 15.8m subscribers on youtube and whose videos went from getting 10s of millions of views to majority under 10k in the space of a year.

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https://archive.org/details/PlantPropagationPrinciplesAndPacticesByHartmannAndKesters8thEdition

Probably close enough. This is the guy I used in college though. Anything from 5th edition up and you should be golden. Biology doesn’t really change that much, Universities just like to recharge you for the same information. I completely agree with you on the AI slop. I use a flip phone and a library card. Any dumb-dumb can get ChatGPT to create an article online to sell you something. University text books are dense and boring and the only place I would look if I wanted to learn a completely new skill. Good luck with the babies bro!

There’s a University text book you can get really cheap second hand called “Plant Propagation and Practices.” If you read through the sections on the structure of flowering plants, herbaceous plants and olericulture, You will know more about cannabis cultivation than any youtuber, influencer, or cannabis themed company around. The internet is not a good resource, because most of the information is put out by seed companies, nutrient companies and purveyors of cheap grow lights. It’s not all awful, but the fact is they don’t exist to ensure that your plants are great and you produce lots of cannabis with very little effort. They exist to sell you their below commercial quality equipment, at an insane markup, when you can get identical, or better equipment from Alibaba. Advanced Nutrients has made an absolute killing splitting up N-P-K over and over again and selling it back to you at 300% mark up. The mermaid with the big tits on the bottle, isn’t for the plant, it’s for you!

Simplicity is everything. Light is a different school of thought. For indoor growing if you’re not adding Co2 a PAR of around 800 is sufficient, if you’re using a PAR meter. You can get away with a Lux meter (30 euro about) with a reading of about 70,000 if you’re using white LED’s, so, full spectrum grow lights. For the blue-purple LEDs you have to use a PAR meter. Which is substantially more expensive than a lux meter, but you can get a cheap one for a couple hundred euros. If you’re not at the stage where you want to buy a meter to measure the light. Just keep it at a distance so the plant doesn’t bleach. That’s the breakdown of chlorophyll which is the green pigment responsible for photosynthesis. If it’s natural light, just leave it be.

Also, sorry, just to add. Over-watering, having the medium wet all the time. Will massively reduce growth. You want Co2 at the leaves and oxygen at the roots. If it’s wet all the time it just won’t grow, you gotta let them dry out between fertigating. Pick up the pot, if it feels light, water it.

No worries buddy, I usually just lurk but I saw someone suggesting AI and I went ‘nope’. Correct, it all comes down to roots. You have 3 types of meristemic tissue, which are you bread and butter for growth. if you like. It’s where undefined cells are sent to gather and form new structures/tissues. The ground mersitem at the roots, the apical meristem at the nodes and the Procambium which is what creates your phloem and xylem, your transport tissue. Undefined cells are produced at the root meristem and then sent to areas of the plant for growth by chemical messengers called auxins. So, if your pH is out, the plant can’t bind essential nutrients and it looks deficient. If you’re oversaturated with salts/fertiliser it damages the root and diminishes the capacity to produce new undefined cells to send to these areas and again, it looks like it’s deficient. It also changes the priority of where they’re distributed, because now they’re also trying to limit damage that’s occurring at the root bed. You’ll notice that it’s the tips that get consumed first, that’s because leaves are energy stores. So, because it isn’t getting the nutrition from the transport tissue, because of root issues, it depletes those stored in the leaves to try and make up for it. That reduces the ability of the plant to photosynthesise, reduces the binding of carbon from Co2 using RuBisCo, which lowers the rate of cellular respiration, damages the ability of the plant to utilise nutrients from the feed and further slows growth. So, it’s like a knock-on effect.

Not True, that was the case with light water reactors, which were initially, only ever conceived for nuclear submarines. They were never meant to be scaled up. But, the US government canned research into Thorium and Natrium Nuclear reactors. Which can produce 1/1000 the amount of nuclear waste and can be fueled using spent nuclear rods from lightwater reactors. They create longer, more complete and sustained fission and we have had these designs since the 60’s. But the fossil fuel industry spent billions trying to demonise and delegitimise nuclear power because that would be the end of for-profit energy production. Now private companies like Copenhagen Atomics and Bill Gates’s Natrium are producing vastly more efficient and in the Case of CA, modular nuclear reactors. Like, the size of a 40 ft shipping container modular. It is super exciting stuff.

It’s not a grass either. But, giant, annual, Asiatic flowering herb is less catchy.