Brian Just

It’s harvest time in Florida. Each bag contains fruit from a single plant that has been crossed to a specific other line. Seed will be extracted and plants grown from it will be evaluated in the next cycle. Chances are, it won’t be good enough. #plantbreeding

Lobe count in bell peppers can range from 2 to 5 or more. It is determined by a combination of genetics and environmental conditions at the time of fruit setting. It has nothing to do with the sex of the pepper! More on that later... #bellpeppers #peppersex #supermarketbotany

@feelsdesperate Have you been to Sinaloa?

@feelsdesperate You have never had Sinaloan seafood, it seems. I’ve been all over the world and I stand by my opinion that Sinaloan seafood is the top cuisine i have encountered.

@RamonaRichey @johncardillo @GovRonDeSantis No. Which is exactly why they will want to raise revenue in some other way.

The paid morons are against elimination of property tax for homesteaded properties in FL for one reason and one reason only. It’s a @GovRonDeSantis policy. Totally a paid op. Pretty much all the paid agitators live out of state and have no horse in this race.

@BenStrine2 @DearOldState_16 @TrynaBeLogical @JordanSchachtel That would be a great outcome.

Only 36% of property taxes come from homesteaded properties in Florida, so the entire shortfall could be made up by raising the millage rate on non-homesteaded properties by 56%. People selling their secondary property can be seen as a good thing, as it brings more non-primary resident single family homes back onto the market, mitigating price increases.

There is clearly an orchestrated effort targeting major influencers (who almost unanimously happen to be located outside of Florida) to demonize Governor DeSantis's effort to abolish property taxes in Florida. It's not gonna work.

@FlimflamSlim @TrynaBeLogical @JordanSchachtel I won’t vote for it until I see the plan for the other tax increases. Devils in the details. Sure no property tax sounds good, but what is the alternative? Will disproportionately affect low/mid income families? I can be convinced, but they need to sell it by being transparent

@TrynaBeLogical @JordanSchachtel we still have an entire year for the actual constitutional amendment to be put up for a vote. if it sounds like a good deal, vote for it. The reality is that there will have to be offset tax increases to cover the revenue loss along with guarantees against confiscation.

@jonbrooks @RonDeSantis That’s exactly the point. Show me the alternative. You have to know this in order to vote yes.

@RonDeSantis ok so your plan is to have the State give money to counties, how will these funds be distributed? do counties have to go beg for money out of tallahassee? give us exactly what it looks like if we vote yes. I'll do my YT on it. or you're welcome to come on and explain

The Florida sales tax rate won’t change at all — the state doesn’t get revenue from property taxes. In fact, the state’s surplus enables us to backfill fiscally constrained counties and also to help out other localities. Also, it is a mistake to take as given that local budgets must remain the same; the state’s FAFO audits are demonstrating that is not the case.

@flanders_tim Apparently it’s affecting some productions now from what I’ve heard. Did it all start in the nursery then spread to the production? Or did some of the field infection start from inoculation from field sources?

Choanephora infection in pepper transplants. This disease has definitely changed its habits in the last year.

@psimatrix @Suzierizzo1 It’s just misinformation. Many reasons why the field would be left unharvested (disease, low market price). Most farm workers are here legally on H-2A visas.

@Suzierizzo1 So this farmer has only been viable using slave labor. No sympathy.

This is another farm that had all its crop rot on the vine and this was Watermelons! This is all thanks to Trump and his ridiculous Policies! There’s nobody left to pick them now since he had the immigrants deported and the Tariffs are costing more than they can be sold for now.

@Suzierizzo1 There are many reasons a field would be left unharvested. This happens sometimes when the price of watermelon is too low to make it worthwhile to harvest (caused by overproduction usually). Most farm workers are H-2A visa holders and not illegals and are still here and working

Are these actual existing gene edited products or just ideas of them? Wasn’t aware there were many products available after all the hype. Would be cool if it actually delivered.

@Rainmaker1973 I usually top off the toothpicks with wood glue

How to create grip for a screw inside wood.

@davidpattersonx Try automating bell pepper breeding. I feel safe in my career for now. The amount of specialized equipment and software needed would be incredible. I have been hearing about robotic harvesting for over a decade with little progress. Harvesting is one tiny piece of the puzzle

Many people find it hard to believe that AI will replace all jobs by 2030. To understand the speed of the transition, consider self-driving cars. Once autonomous driving is safer than human drivers, all driving jobs will quickly be replaced. Companies that continue to employ human drivers at vastly higher costs will go out of business. Existing companies will rapidly adopt AI to survive. Once AI can save lives, it will become immoral to let humans drive. Governments will mandate AI for all cars, just as they did for seat belts and airbags. By the end of 2026, AI will be better and cheaper than human drivers. Its rapid improvement will create growing moral and economic pressure to adopt. Now imagine a similar transition happening for every job at the same time.

@DarcangeloJim @VladTheInflator Our financial systems and Ponzi schemes such as housing and social security won’t function properly with an extremely low fertility rate as we have. Need immigrants of some sort to prop up asset prices. Why this particular group? Probably because many will stay and be productive

@VladTheInflator Why?

Trump to flood US colleges with 600,000 Chinese Immigrants WOW what a fucking scam

@davidpattersonx I’ll begin to maybe believe it when I get a good automated telephone menu. Still not there after decades of trying (?). Hell, my oil change still takes 3 people.

@davidpattersonx Utterly wrong. Get out from behind your computer screen. 2030 is less than 5 years away. So in 5 years all the stuff that people do will already have a robot that has been designed , tested and perfected? No one even really understands what I do somehow I’m going to be replaced?

By 2030, all jobs will be replaced by AI and robots. Easily. The US labor force is about 170 million workers. About 80 million of those jobs include hands-on work. Automated systems can work four shifts a week. Replacing all physical labor would require about 20 million autonomous systems - including autonomous vehicles, automated equipment, and robots. That can be accomplished easily in the next four years. People saying it's not physically possible to build that many systems in four years are delusional. For comparison, 16 million cars were sold in the US last year. Cars are 20 times the mass of a humanoid robot. If robots were sold at the same rate as cars, that would be 320 million robots per year. Even a tiny fraction of that would be enough to replace all human manual labor.

@GP_HTR @unusual_whales Awful idea— inordinate burden on low income earners who don’t hold assets but spend a high % of their income.

@unusual_whales Sales tax should replace ALL taxes. Then, we keep all our earnings and only pay tax when we make spending decisions - NOT the government taking our money before it even lands in our pocket.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has said: We need to completely abolish property taxes. It forces us to pay “rent” to the government on property that we own, but if we don’t pay property taxes, the property that we own gets taken away from us.

@unusual_whales A shell game. It would have to be offset with another tax— most probably a consumption tax that will hit lower earners harder than anyone else.