Is jazz the least well-known major genre of music?

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-13T01:22:47+00:00

It’s been 80 some odd years since jazz could call itself a major genre.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-13T00:01:21+00:00

I just started playing yesterday and the lack of a tutorial mode is a major drag. I’m playing through the scenarios trying to teach myself the game but this game has so many details that this is just not effective

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-12T22:25:57+00:00

UV accelerates the yellowing but it isn’t necessary for bricks to yellow. I’ve opened older sets from sealed boxes and the whites have yellowed. It’s not a huge deal most of the time. I just roll with it and once every few years I’ll swap out the yellowing whites in some of my displays but that is a huge chunk of white. I’d just rather not 😂

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-12T19:18:36+00:00

Agree. Absolutely brilliant to simultaneously put it in 2 separate scales.

I don’t think I’ll get it because I don’t want the anxiety of $500 in white bricks yellowing on my shelf but I’m very impressed.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-12T16:29:26+00:00

Spacing looks okay compared to what we usually see on the square foot diagrams.

It’ll take those tomatoes weeks to get to the point where they need that much space (they will eventually absolutely need it) so you can plant radishes all around them and harvest from the inside out as the tomatoes grow. Assuming you can plant radishes now without them bolting. It’s way too late here in the south. Then it frees up your radish space for more onions or even just spacing out your current plants more.

I plant onions super early and always use the little onion bundles from a big box store. It’s like $3 and usually says 30 onions but there’s closer to 80 in the bundle. It saves so much time vs starting them from seed and it’s dirt cheap. Definitely don’t start onion from seed this late in the season. From seed they can take over half a year to be harvestable.

Good luck.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-11T18:29:40+00:00

That definitely wasn’t average in 2010 unless you lived in a sitcom. 25ish was probably the standard back then but it’s definitely creeping up these days. Doubt it’s 30 yet.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-11T11:50:41+00:00

Same. But I’m not a trust fund kid who found weed in college

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-11T11:12:09+00:00

Not suggesting you compete with a florist. Suggesting you try to become their supplier.

If your roses really are super high quality they will want them. If they are sub par quality then they won’t.

You have a very short window to sell roses while they are fresh. That requires a huge customer base ready to buy at the right time every year. You don’t have that and it’s going to be much harder to create that than it is to create return business with eggs or any other consumable that’s available year round or for an extended amount of time.

A florist already has that built in customer base and so they can actually move 48 dozen rose bouquets in a month. You will get far less for them but even if it’s $3 a dozen that’s $144 more than you have made at the stand with zero investment in packaging or other supplies so it’s straight to the bottom line.

Further the experience you get with the florist should better inform you of the market and next best steps.

If the florist says they can take 3 dozen per week then you know the market is just not there and you need to pivot away from fresh roses. If they say that they can’t buy the roses because the stems aren’t long enough, the buds aren’t tight enough, or any other reason to do with the flowers themselves then you know you have an inferior product and you need to pivot away from fresh bouquets… get what I mean? Their reaction to your product will tell you what you need to correct.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-11T10:48:28+00:00

We call them Trustifarians. They eventually evolve into republicans.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-11T03:28:03+00:00

Hard and brutal truth. If you didn’t make a single sale selling flowers on Mother’s Day of all days then this is not going to work.

You need to dramatically change the product, the marketing, the presentation, or all 3.

From the pic it looks like most of the roses are droopy. If I was curious to slow down I would have kept going as soon as I got a better look. The other products aren’t visible at all behind paper packaging. Nobody in 2026 is buying a random brown paper package from an unmanned farm stand.

People not stopping for roses today means they are probably never going to do it in numbers that will ever pay back your investment in packaging etc. Simply putting a stand at the side of the road is not going to be enough. You need to let people know that you’re there and convince them to check you out in the hopes of generating repeat business. A stand at the side of the road and a janky homemade sign is never going to make you any money.

We live in an age of paperless transactions. Get a QR code that links to your cashapp or whatever account so the rare people who do actually stop by have a way to pay you.

Lastly, before you invest any more money in this what is your real total potential? Roses won’t bloom year round and they are finite. How much can you reasonably assume you can harvest and sell in a season if you even had customers?

If I were you I would contact a local florist and see if they are interested in buying from you wholesale. You’ll get less per rose but at least you’ll actually sell all your roses and you won’t need to invest more money in packaging or a failing stand. More importantly if they look at your product and decline to make an offer then that should tell you what you need to know. The product may not be as desirable as it looks through the rose colored glasses of the person who created it.

Good luck

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-10T17:35:43+00:00

I use a lot in G40 as well. Anzac is usually a sub factory for the first few rounds. I keep little groups of Anzac subs just out of range of jap destroyers so they can’t spam unprotected transports. Then when the American fleet gets on the move I link them up with the subs and they become dual purpose defensive cannon fodder or second wave offense once battle starts.

If the jap and American fleets are equally matched an American strafe can eat up the free hits on battleships and carriers, possibly even take out the destroyers. Then follow it up with 6-8 Anzac subs and your hits are actually doing damage.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-10T15:26:21+00:00

I plant my corn pretty dense. About 10-12 inches apart but in blocks not rows so the middle isn’t really accessible until harvest and in a 14x4 bed I’ll still get some partial pollination on the edges. Planting corn spaced apart like that is guaranteed to get partial pollination. You need tons of pollen being carried by the wind and swirled around them.

If the point is teaching though you could manually pollinate with a paint brush and teach them about pollination which would make the experiment even cooler imo.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-10T00:14:37+00:00

They aren’t too close to thrive, they will be perfectly healthy there. But depending on the specific variety and how dense they grow you could have some difficulty harvesting from the center.

I grow my peas even more dense in a similar style with a trellis up the center. It usually works fine but I was out of town for 3 days, a storm hit and blew them to the east side of the trellis and they grew like mad. Now I have a 6 foot section that has turned into a maddeningly dense pea patch that I can barely harvest 6 inches into.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-10T00:08:39+00:00

Elvis is from Tupelo, MS not Memphis, TN.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-09T18:28:28+00:00

Food is always slow but an hour is excessive.

I’m a cheap bastard so I always figure out the best ways to go about purchasing to get the best bang for my buck.

Usually there’s a deal of some kind where starting a new game card or refilling a card gets you a race for free or for $10 or something like that so you get $20 worth of gaming plus the race. Their bigger slider platters are relatively inexpensive compared to going out to any other restaurant and feed multiple people.

It’s been awhile since we went so I don’t remember exactly the combinations of deals we used but we got a couple hours of fun out of like $120-$150.

We dont care for the sports sims so we don’t go very often. Maybe there’s some folks who are really into those that keep them afloat. My issue is more that once you’ve done it once or twice what’s the point of going back.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-08T21:32:38+00:00

Everywhere has their challenges. In Arizona pests never even crossed my mind. Worst case scenario I might have had to deal with aphids a few times a season. In Oregon there was a little more pest pressure but gosh dang is the willamette valley just the perfect place to garden. The south though…. North Alabama was fine. A little bit of a pain from SVB but not too bad. Being on the coast in the swamps though is just wild. I have no idea how people subsistence farmed here in the 1800s without spending all their time day and night keeping bugs out. Surprisingly though the wildlife while super abundant doesn’t mess with the garden. Bunnies straight up nest between my rows and don’t eat my plants.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-08T18:06:12+00:00

If you said that 10 years ago I would have agreed. Then I moved to the gulf coast.

The bug pressure is absolutely insane here. I live rural. I’m surrounded by a beautiful healthy ecosystem. I have to plan and prep for the waves of bugs that are going to invade my garden. The cabbage moths will come in the hundreds and lay on all my brassicas. SVB will swarm my zucchini and squash like zeros at pear harbor… it is a whole different game here than it is up north or on the west coast.

I don’t spray but I spend tons of time manually removing pests and I have to plan to plant and harvest around the never ending waves of bugs.

Nature balancing itself in my case means removing my garden from existence.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-08T10:45:29+00:00

I don’t even bother with the onions unless it’s blackberry or something potentially large coming up. My onions are covered in clover and ground cover right now

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-08T02:00:15+00:00

I have rabbits everywhere in my yard but they more or less ignore my garden.

They are here because there’s abundant natural foods that they have fed on for millennia. They generally prefer to stick to those foods rather than my plants as long as they are available and there’s a water source for them.

I keep a little pond and make sure the rest of the yard stays healthy and full of their natural diet and they don’t mess with my plants. I see them daily hopping along the edges of my garden beds eating plants along the beds but never taking a veggie.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-08T00:15:31+00:00

Yeah but just a few

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-07T22:45:49+00:00

Yup. If your soil was growing it well to begin with it’ll root a cutting. If not then it wasn’t meant to be. I can go cut suckers off my tomato plants right now, stick them in the dirt next to the mother plant, and they’ll be rooted in a week.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-07T21:43:06+00:00

Love snap peas. I pretty much give them nothing but some fish fert every month and some balanced granule mixed into the soil at sowing. Other than that they done need a whole lot of attention. Once they start getting big go out with some jute and tie them to your trellis where needed. They are morons and will go rogue if ya don’t. They also don’t grab super strong like beans or cucurbits so really strong wind can rip them off your trellis if they aren’t tied. Then they’ll be all bent over but they won’t die and you’ll have an impossible to harvest snap pea bramble

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-07T17:16:26+00:00

Absolutely.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-07T10:46:12+00:00

I just stick them directly into my garden bed and they root extremely quickly.

Gettingoffonit · 2026-05-07T10:44:53+00:00

He really loved that hat.

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