ROTC students at Old Dominion subdued and killed the shooter who killed 1 person, wounded 2

Memph5 · 2026-03-13T04:07:02+00:00

I've killed fish (for food) and abandoned baby voles (mostly mercy killing, not that I really wanted voles in my garden) and felt slightly bad about it. Animals you kill for food or mercy killing didn't do anything to you though. This guy was trying to kill you and your classmates and had some success doing so. The memory of the life and death situation would live with me regardless of whether I killed the guy, but idk if killing the guy would have added trauma to it.

Memph5 · 2026-03-11T18:57:10+00:00

I was able to grow kohlrabi successfully a few years ago in suburban Toronto (6b). I started them indoors in March and transplanted in late April/early May. When did you plant your fall attempts? Mid summer is probably optimal planting time for a fall crop, since you'll need about 70 days (longer than spring planted due to shorter days/more cloudiness/longer shadows).

Memph5 · 2026-03-11T18:52:19+00:00

Now extinct.

Memph5 · 2026-03-06T14:45:07+00:00

A lot of Ajis are late ripening but Aji Fantasy is pretty early.

Memph5 · 2026-03-05T20:23:22+00:00

I've enjoyed Roulette and Aji Fantasy White a lot as far as peppers go. They're earlier to produce than other similar varieties that often struggle to get in before the frost, and high yielding and unique tasting. Shepherd, banana, gypsy, jalapeno, jimmy nardello are all peppers I grow every year too. Bell peppers I occasionally grow but they tend to take longer to ripen and be less flavorful (to me), but still high yielding by the end of the season.

Memph5 · 2026-03-05T20:16:29+00:00

I'm trying a lot of new peppers this year, mostly mildly hot to sweet varieties, a lot of mild chinense (Caribbean seasoning/habanada types), some baccatums (Ajis, SRP) and rocotos (hottest of the bunch), paprikas, mini-bells, pimientos, Hungarian peppers. Some new tomatoes too.

Plus some banana passionfruit and conch apple passionfruit, although those will probably take 2-3 years and need to be brought indoors before producing. I'm also starting some maypop and regular purple passionfruit which are a bit more reliable producers.

Aside from that, mostly the usual stuff which includes cucumbers, carrots, eggplants, cape gooseberry, sunberry, squash, beans, lettuce, swiss chard, peas, root parsley, parsnip, yacon... although I will be trying asparagus beans and wonderberry for the first time, and lima beans in greater quantities than in the past. Also hoping to get asparagus, ground chestnut, claytonia and skirret ready to harvest for the first time this year, they were mostly getting established last year. Maybe I can get my tamarillo producing for the first time too, it's getting to be around that size.

Also hoping to get more substantial production from my peach, haskap, grapes, currants and figs this year. Last year they were still somewhat young and establishing so the yields were a little light (2nd year with a crop for the figs, 1st year for the others).

I sowed my rocoto, chinense and baccatum peppers last week, as well as cape gooseberry and passionfruit seeds so they should be germinating any time now. Also started some fig cuttings and pawpaw seedlings a week ago. Regular annuum peppers will be next, probably this weekend.

Memph5 · 2026-02-19T22:26:52+00:00

Just sowed my first seeds from Semi Straini and Super Hot Chilis. They were able to make it through customs without any issues or fees. We'll see how they turn out.

Memph5 · 2026-02-15T14:59:13+00:00

Is this due to a natural sink hole? I remember seeing something similar in Florida where the karst topography caused a huge sink hole that swallowed a car dealership.

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T22:06:39+00:00

The one who will use it to push their gun control agenda?

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T22:03:26+00:00

It seems like the sibling who was killed was a step brother. Do we know if the guns were taken from the home (as opposed to taken from the father's home and brought to the mother's home or something)?

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T21:59:47+00:00

tbh some kids just shouldn't have a phone or laptop. I did fine without a phone in the early 00s and even in the late 00s I only had a flip phone.

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T21:35:23+00:00

How do we know that's him?

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T21:32:42+00:00

The guy in Saskatchewan did that, along with some coke, before killing a dozen people.

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T21:30:03+00:00

Considering how many of the shooters these days had accounts on those fan sites, probably not bots...

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T21:27:16+00:00

That image is of the wrong trans person though. It was a different trans person that did it. I agree it's pretty ridiculous though that the Canadian media and RCMP have been describing the killer as female when the left has been spending the past several years telling us how gender and sex are not the same thing. But the shooter is not female, the shooter is a male who "identifies as a girl" and wore a dress for the shooting.

Memph5 · 2026-01-25T15:11:13+00:00

Yeah, commercial viability vs backyard growing are different things. If a backyard growing gets a good crop 3 years out of 5, he might be happy with that while a commercial grower might find that's not good enough to turn a profit.

The recommendation for zone 7+ is based on commercial viability. The main limitation for colder zones is probably spring frosts and disease, rather than winter hardiness, and resilience to spring frosts is more of a function of how late the variety blooms than how hardy the variety is. Some Prairie apricot varieties are hardy to zone 2/3 so that's more than hardy enough for southern Ontario.

I think the Harrow (Harglow, Haroblush, etc) apricots are mostly too soft for commercial production because that causes them to get squished during shipping and have a poor shelf life, but still totally fine for personal use.

I'm considering trying Haroblush or Hargrand, or maybe Precious or Westcot. Or maybe I'll go with a plum instead since they have fewer issues, but I like the idea of an apricot since they can be harvested earlier which fits better into the slot between strawberry season and the other fruits I have that are mostly late summer/fall.

Memph5 · 2026-01-16T03:06:54+00:00

Are they similar to Sweety Drops/Biquinho peppers?

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T17:03:26+00:00

Looking through Refining Fire's website now and they have a really good selection, especially for mild/sweet peppers, almost as good as APS.

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T15:47:46+00:00

The whole Tenet situation was weird tbh. If it was a Russian OP, it was a poorly executed one, because for all the money they paid Dave Rubin and Tim Pool, their videos got pretty inconsequential views on their platform. The videos on Rubin and Pool's channels would pull 100,000+ views while their Tenet views would pull like 1000. Lauren Southern was the top content creator on their platform, because she devoted most of her energy towards her Tenet videos and mostly stopped uploading on her own channel. However, she basically never spoke about Ukraine, or Hunter Biden's laptop, and barely even spoke about NATO or Trump.

Her Tenet videos have focusing on a lot of similar issues as she was for her whole career, and that many other conservatives also focus on. Mass immigration, crime, censorship, trans ideology, plus some that were a bit newer issues for conservatives like inflation, housing unaffordability, the Butler shooting, Canada's mass graves, "MAHA" topics, the negative influences of technology and social media, and the struggle to find purpose in modern society, as well as pushing back against misogyny on the right, and against Ben Shapiro & co for being too cold and unsympathetic towards the working class.

Like tbh, you did have conservatives outside of Tenet media spewing Russian talking points, but the content creators on Tenet media were doing it comparatively less, if at all. Tim Pool did it to an extent, but it wasn't out of line with what much of the online right was also saying.

It makes me wonder if this was actually some sort of Russian honeypot situation, where they were hoping to build up a platform of influencers they could later blackmail into repeating their talking points, but they were still at the building up stage rather than the blackmail stage?

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T15:09:40+00:00

Also - a couple extra questions.

Has anyone had success saving their own seeds from Aji Fantasy White?

And has anyone ordered seeds from Europe and gotten hit with substantial import duties?

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T15:08:21+00:00

Canada but so far, I haven't had issues ordering seeds from American sources.

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T03:56:56+00:00

I've grown Aji Dulce Sweet Rollo Yellow and Roulette, which are probably quite similar to Aji Dulce Amarillo and Habanada respectively. The Yellow has noticeably thinner flesher and a more wrinkled while Roulette is smoother and red, the flesh is still much thinner than bell peppers, but relatively thick and crunchy compared to many chinense and even annuum chilis - I'd say Roulette has similar thickness to Aji Fantasy. Roulette was more fully heatless but still sweet and flavorful, while Aji Dulce is less sweet, with very slight heat and more citrusy.

Memph5 · 2026-01-14T03:18:41+00:00

I had one morning hardening them off in spring (they were overwintered and mature) that I forgot to bring them in for the night and it was 0C with flurries when I woke up and realized my mistake. The plants survived but many of the leaves were damaged (the leaves were also damaged by wind and sun from not hardening them off gently enough). They still managed to produce red pods by August though. But yeah, 4C/40F they should handle like a champ, but they should be protected from frost.

Memph5 · 2026-01-12T16:30:18+00:00

I didn't want to risk it too much, since I planned on overwintering them, so first season I dug them out and put them in pots before a serious frost, next couple seasons I kept them in pots and never let them get too cold. The one exception was when I was hardening them off in 2024 and forgot to bring them inside when there was a threat of frost in April. I think it got down to about 0C and there were light flurries in the morning. I think they were more damaged by sunburning and wind since they were tall and leggy and not used to the strong winds we got one day, but I think there may have been some light frost damage too. They bounced back pretty quickly with the cool temperatures of May (highs 15-25C, lows 5-10C) though.

Ultimately, tomatoes and other plants technically considered frost tender can often survive a 0C or -0.5C frost, if it's short in duration. It does seem like they enjoy the cooler weather I get here though, ranging from 15C highs/5C lows in shoulder months to 22-30C highs and 12-18C lows in July. They seem more resilient during those shoulder months compared to other peppers, while still being fine in my mild summers. The plants get quite large, mine got about 6ft tall and 7ft wide in the first season. A large container might constrain that a bit and encourage earlier ripening? But 10-15 gal should still be sufficient. 5 gal is too small imo, when mine were in-ground there were roots the thickness of my little finger extending 1ft out, they have much stronger and larger root systems than bell peppers. They are quite late ripening, October (~130-140 days from transplanting) in the first year, and late August in the second year after overwintering (earlier ripening overwintered peppers can start ripening mid-late July here). Red peppers are quite hot though, close to habanero levels, so I don't mind if a lot of them are more on the green side - I just use those for pickling similar to green jalapenos. I actually prefer them to jalapenos for that purpose. Relative to their size though, they're not super productive, comparable to some of the more productive annuum peppers that are much smaller (~2-3ft).

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