There's a good chance you hallucinated this week without ever knowing it

Inverse ^ | October 11, 2019 | By Jack Barton on

[Silentgypsy]

Concur.

[Monkey Face]

:O])

[NicknamedBob]

"More immediate benefits of automation and networking in agriculture include water conservation, reductions in pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer use, control of plant diseases and pests ... and lower long-term costs."

Oddly enough, the guy who is supremely interested in getting humans to Mars, and presumably feeding them there, Elon Musk, has a brother who has worked on developing container-shipment sized facilities for growing food under controlled conditions.

I would presume that they will find a way to work together on Mars-colony food-growing procedures. But the goats and chickens are my contribution.

Likely T-c will want to send kudzu. (Woops, there goes another planet lost!)

[Tax-chick]

The greenhouse was super interesting. They offer many full-time jobs, we all observed, giving our teenagers the stink-eye.

[Covenantor]

[Tax-chick]

Awwwww.

[Covenantor]

[Tax-chick]

This is why we can’t have nice things ...

[Covenantor]

stage moms...

[Silentgypsy]

To clarify: the job description involved giving your teenagers the stink eye?

[Tax-chick]

No, the mention of $12/hr, full-time jobs resulted in several parents giving a dozen or so teenagers the stink-eye.

It’s quite a long way from here, though. A hypothetical brother who took a job at the greenhouse would be advised to find a place to live on the west side of Charlotte.

[Silentgypsy]

That’s the small kitteh backup system.

[Silentgypsy]

Apparently, someone found a means to control kudzu because it has disappeared from many areas here. You have reminded me to look that up. (Lots of weird stuff pops up when you enter “weed” into the search engine. You have to enter “weed science” to get what you want.)

[Silentgypsy]

Are any of the hypothetical brothers old enough to move out?

[Tax-chick]

Patrick is 18, so he’s hypothetically old enough. However, he won’t graduate from high school until May. We’re looking a few years ahead, especially for a line of work that could provide a career for James, who is reasonably clever, good with his hands, congenial, and outdoorsy.

[Darksheare]

Yes, Xagthrath the Grumbling Rug is a specific grumbling rug.
It is spelled correctly, yes.

[Tax-chick]

Got it. It’s been too long since we played Scrabble!

[Silentgypsy]

Oh, collecting options for the future—good plan.

[Tax-chick]

[Monkey Face]

That baby is so intent on whatever he sees that the mom-cat behind him is going to scare his little self!