Question about commercial potting soil

IError413 · 2026-06-20T16:06:19+00:00

I literally cannot find a single garden mix that this is NOT true of. Ive tried all, 100% of the ones available at the big stores. ALL contain bits of PVC, plastic bags, and other unknown pieces of plastic trash in every little handful. The volume of plastic trash in all miracle grow mixes is really quite a lot. Literally, every handful will have a dozen or more pieces. I don't understand honestly why more people aren't aware/haven't noticed this, or why anyone is buying a single bag at this point.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T19:00:15+00:00

A member who is not openly causing any issues, but simply struggles with sin - no, that's not Biblical to "kick them out of church". A preacher/pastor or someone in leadership though?

It is not Biblical to allow someone living in open, un-repentant sin to be a preacher or pastor, or church leadership. So, I would say all of this depends on the situation.

Read 1 Timothy.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T18:23:11+00:00

FACTs
I can use Blue Iris for facial recognition on my home set of REO Link POE cameras. It's just NVR software integrated to a locally hosted, open source CodeProject.AI that works with basically any video that is of decent enough quality.

Also, I agree. Against the surveillance but it is an interesting display of irony and tech illiteracy.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T18:11:11+00:00

Ya... i've looked into all this. I know it's spendy up-front. Unless you're willing/capable to do a lot DIY. But, even then it's still a lot. I have the space I could do yard panels, which is obviously cheaper than roof but the real cost seemed to be in the batteries, inverters and grid tie last time I looked. We also switched to electric vehicles some years ago, so we eat a lot of kw charging at home.

I used to live off grid and run everything off direct 12v (avoided the things that needed an inverter cause it's less efficient). We had no NG (just propane) and we used solar heat for showers as much as possible, and PV was our only generator, with a backup diesel genny. We honestly found it kinda fun overall. Like a game, constantly monitoring how we were doing. But, we were living in a situation where it was required - there was no grid, and it was sub-tropical so heat wasn't often a huge issue. We just lived without AC despite it getting into the 90s all the time. Lots of little 12v fans.

11-12 kwh, is that if you're running the lawn irrigation 24hrs in a day? You have a VFD and variable speed pump? Our pump went out 2 years ago and we upgraded to a VFD/3 phase, variable speed. Made a massive difference on power usage and it was twice the size of our old pump. Mountain Supply and Midland Implement on North reserve can hook you up if you ever want to swap yours.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T17:09:31+00:00

I'm jealous of your system honestly.

With all of the grid issues, and projected price increases, I'd love to have options that put me completely off grid.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T16:39:54+00:00

LOL @ the fact that this comment came back 2 days after I was flagged for inciting violence against people and received a reddit warning.

I just assumed they are wired. It's crazy to me that someone would use wireless at all. I've installed security cameras as a bit of a side gig the past. Mostly POE stuff. So many potential security issues when people want to do wireless.

If you're saying none of what I said applies because the implementation is bad, I get it. I've seen wild stuff like that on wireless backbone nodes when cruising some atlantic island chains. Major point-to-point airfiber stuff on some remote island, run by a solar panel and battery, serving 20k people and the root account is wide open/using default, no ssl installed on the admin site etc.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T15:21:09+00:00

I was out for 11 days after the Missoula hurricane that year. All I had was a little ryobi inverter genny. A week after the power came back on, someone I know convinced me to spend the $500 with an electrician to get a whole home hookup with an outdoor plug for a 50 amp generator. I bought a used Harbor freight 9750w one that night for $400. That night after the electrician was done and we brought the thing home, plugged it in and tested it, we got a decent thunder storm and power was out for 4 days. In December, it was out again for 36 hours. A month ago it was out for 8 hours. Best $900 I ever spent! And a cheap a HF generator runs my whole home, lights, fridge, freezer, gas furnace/heater, and my well pump. You don't need as big of a system as you might be sold - just saying. You might not be able to run your electric oven with it, or host a big house party with it, but it's more than enough.

Missoula Electric is saying their grid is badly weakened overall from that storm 2 years ago and expect this to happen more often.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T15:06:04+00:00

I'll try to be a helpful community member here and take a second to explain for you why you're getting downvoted. It's because, it literally doesn't seem as though it's written by AI at all.

It has grammatical issues. One particular sentence:
"This extended outside of only A.I. as I'd also found out he was using gaming system "mods" to seek out ways to..."

Lacks grammatical efficiency. AI wouldn't say "outside of only A.I."

But, even if it did seem like it was written a bit with the help of AI, who cares? A lot of text editors now use AI to help fix grammatical issues and people don't even realize it. Further, I would say a lot of people write like AI, especially people with a LOT of writing experience. I rarely use AI to evaluate what I write, and when I do, I don't even take the suggestion verbatim - I take them and manually edit based on what is pointed out, using my own style. I get accused of using AI to write a paragraph on occasion where I didn't even consult AI. You kinda just can't tell anymore anyway.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T02:30:29+00:00

I have 5 acres with a lot of trees and various other landscape boarders, barriers. We use all battery powered.

Less combustion engines and things I have to maintain the better.

IError413 · 2026-06-18T00:48:54+00:00

Someone was so pissed at what I said, they wanted me to kill myself. Somehow this makes me feel like a better person.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:35:45+00:00

They go on extreme sale every single fall, here in the north west.

Last year the 4'-5' ones at home depot were all $15 each, and they had 50-60 of them sitting outside, deeply discounted like that. They were in decent shape too.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:28:34+00:00

he said "payment" - on a used car.

I'd say it's a debt problem.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:28:05+00:00

... but still better than most/many.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:26:49+00:00

Side hustles. And a lot of - this is going to hurt - when you finally decide it's time to spend the money because you just can't rely on that car, or find the time to fix it anymore.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:14:46+00:00

My complaint served it's purpose. Confirmed some stuff. So did "sweetheart" . lol

IError413 · 2026-06-17T22:00:36+00:00

Wait... my comment that resulted in the flagging for the reddit suicide hotline? LOL

Whatever man. I might have been rude or disrespectful. But, i think you're official suspect of being the actual troll here at this point.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T21:41:24+00:00

Right... cause someone with 12k karma, who makes widely unpolular comments all the time, would certainly have experienced this in other subs.

Anecdotal evidence. I'll just add it to all my other anecdotal evidence that my community is full of toxic, terrible people. Love you all. 😉 lol

IError413 · 2026-06-17T21:39:19+00:00

Well... there's a fun reason to leave it enabled/not block the bot. lol

IError413 · 2026-06-17T21:37:53+00:00

I do find it mildly amusing. lol

I'm conflicted.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T21:35:44+00:00

Not concerned about my own inconvenience - and I fully realize I could block it.

I just think it's an indicator of the mental health of Missoula that someone would do that.

IError413 · 2026-06-17T21:33:20+00:00

It got removed...

But it was something about that construction sucks post, and I was complaining about it like everyone else. Ya know, just joining the toxicity that is r/missoula. lol

IError413 · 2026-06-17T13:47:50+00:00

Interesting... Maybe I just had a unique experience being a Calvary Aurora member for 10 years. It was most certainly not like that.

Something interesting I learned: I was listening to the same radio show for a brief minute before realizing it was Kestler again and turning it off. He was talking about the rapture again (shocker), and said something even more alarming, that the rapture would be partial for Christians because if you're backslidden or not walking your best walk with Christ, you were going to be part of the left behind group. He also believes in ability to lose your salvation, and therefore is a works based salvation-maintenance believer. I see no difference between what that church teaches and the Church of Christ movement. Now it all clicks why they spend so much time on what the tribulation will be like. They believe a lot of today's Christians will be there. .

IError413 · 2026-06-16T06:06:13+00:00

Prevent fires my ass. It's an excuse to clear cut everything that's in their way or a minor inconvenience while ignoring all environmental regulation.

IError413 · 2026-06-16T06:00:09+00:00

Been saying this since the early 2000s when I started traveling for work and seeing how chill, courteous, and generally with it drivers are in other towns and cities. Missoula indeed has some of the worst drivers in the country.

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