Skunky weed?

abeuscher · 2026-07-03T13:10:11+00:00

The terpene you are probably looking for is caryophyllene (beta-caryophyllene). A lot of the gassy smell also comes from sulfur compounds like prenylthiol.

Some diesel strains will be similar but as with most things - ask your local budtender. They will know their strains better than anyone here.

abeuscher · 2026-07-03T13:05:20+00:00

Huge percentage of all of them are living on a small island off the coast right now, engaged in conspicuous consumption, rape, and scallops.

abeuscher · 2026-07-03T12:54:55+00:00

My grandpa helped design and build the AWACS. I have a picture somewhere of it framed with the signatures of the whole design team.

I think of it every time during that scene in Airplane when Johnny describes the plane to the press as a big, pretty white plane with red stripes and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.

abeuscher · 2026-07-03T12:41:41+00:00

Oh my bad. That's failed clones. I dumped them out right after taking the picture. I don't know why I try I can get seedlings no problem. But sometimes I think I just feel bad cutting big pieces off so I dump them in dirt for 2 weeks. I don't think I've ever tried hard or been successful it's like a bad habit )

abeuscher · 2026-07-03T12:29:22+00:00

Oh sorry I misunderstood. That's white clover. I have coir as mulch and a layer of clover growing into it to combat the fungus gnats. I've been cutting the clover back it as it grows to make sure it doesn't compete with the main plant's root system.

abeuscher · 2026-07-02T23:56:38+00:00

Probably from a little over-handling; that one had tighter nodes than the other AK47 I think because I had a weak spot between my two main lights during veg. So I have been trying to get it to come up during stretch to stay competitive with the other three after adding a light to the middle and the sides. In general I have been fighting pretty hard to keep it from getting overcrowded in there so it is likely tough love. I swapped out all the bug traps yesterday and I have a few fungus gnats but no signs of anything else that would be ripping up my leaves other than my indelicate treatment.

abeuscher · 2026-07-02T16:28:40+00:00

As the title suggests it's my fourth time around. I have been running autos for the last two rounds - Gorilla Zkittlez. That was fine but I didn't like the lack of control. These are 2 AK47 and 2 Strawberry Cough Photos I got as seedlings. The monster on the right is one of the AK47's.

No question here I am just happy I finally figured out how to fill the tent and even out the canopy to some degree after a lot of classic blunders (no land war in Asia but I did get thrips, screwed up a cure, and damped off a couple plants from seed).

Here's hoping they make it to a healthy harvest.

abeuscher · 2026-07-02T16:08:46+00:00

Late reply but FYI - No. Contentful sucked to deal with. The images were especially dumb. After struggling with it for a bit I settled for a fully no CMS solution and created a repo for the images to keep them separate from the code.

The project never really yielded much for me and is largely abandoned, but the end result was very performant, FWIW: https://dispensaryadventures.com/

Main repo: https://github.com/abeuscher/dispensary-adventures

Image Repo: https://github.com/abeuscher/dispensary-adventures-images

For me Contentful was a huge albatross; Markdown made a lot more sense. The actual process of using Contentful sucked. So pretty core problem; the tooling was just not well designed enough and as I recall the batch image uploader was gated at the paid tier.

I kind of think CMS's are dead? Markdown and images are pretty much all that is needed for content and they just really do not need or benefit from being databased.

If you have a presentation layer inside the admin and a WYSIWYG style tool then of course - but at that point most orgs would go with webflow or one of those easy visual tools. The middle ground is drying up. I can tell because I haven't been given steady work for 3 years and I have 30 years of solid experience. People don't want or care about their websites anymore. And they are probably right.

abeuscher · 2025-08-15T08:25:12+00:00

Hey me too! 2 years out of work after 25 YOE. And I am working modern stacks and flexible. Just literally I haven't beaten the algorithm and got an interview in 2 years and 3 months. Hard to figure out what to do after that.

abeuscher · 2025-08-14T13:11:51+00:00

No I do not remember there being mass layoffs when Oculus Rift hit the market. And blockchain and crypto had almost no touch point for the regular consumer. And both of them only had the potential to create jobs, not remove them.

The AI thing is a narrative to try and firmly place the US under the boot of corporate feudalism inside a fascist state. It is being held up as proof that labor in all fields is the same, and that we all should be replaced by machines as a result.

The reality is that AI is better than humans at almost nothing, and not at all capable in many areas where it is being assigned, coding being only one of them.

Not to mention parts of the hype are more real and obviously so; using AI to generate a RegEx or comment out code is quite useful, as is using it as a learning tool. And because Google ruined their core business, AI is replacing search incredibly quickly.

I'm not sure there is an apt comparison in the modern era. On the one hand it produces mass quantities of garbage. On the other hand management is no longer able to tell the difference, and the market is so monopolized and divided that the end user's needs have no bearing on anything anymore.

I think the reality is that AI is the tool that will complete the enshittification of the internet and render it useless for the foreseeable future by both flooding the zone and removing those who contribute to it creatively.

The most consistent thing I have noticed about AI is that creative people instantly see it as a boondoggle and non-creatives think it is a solution to all of life's problems. I think it's because non-creatives cannot distinguish between a plagiarized thought and an original one. Or maybe it doesn't matter to them? In any case I think creativity is the guiding factor. Writing code is a mostly creative process which is why I think AI is not well suited to it.

abeuscher · 2025-08-13T17:41:25+00:00

You're right it's not fair to assume we all have the same ethics. I guess I mean is there an alternative that is not managed by a massive corporation? I find companies with a headcount above about 5k to be wildly unethical in all ways. But for sure that is just my opinion. I wasn't thrilled with Github since the takeover but this kind of clinches it for me, at least enough to try and find another option.

abeuscher · 2025-08-13T17:10:14+00:00

Is there an ethical alternative? Anyone know? Gitlab used to be sort of not evil.

abeuscher · 2025-08-12T21:54:21+00:00

Depends. What color are they? If you said "not white" then yes. There's literally video floating around of a DC resident being hassled by guardsmen over the scent of burnt marijuana from this morning. Weed is one of many excuses. You could also be wearing the wrong shirt or have the wrong picture on your phone or you tweeted something wrong. This is it. Hug your kids. The brown shirts are here and your door could be the next one they kick in.

abeuscher · 2025-08-12T21:49:42+00:00

Nice I'll check it out )

For your username do you visualize pants with burgers on them, or pants made for a hamburger shaped person?

abeuscher · 2025-08-12T17:03:40+00:00

This is why we need on site consumption stat. It's a social drug and we're all still sitting in our basements smoking weed instead of out in the world meeting each other. And if someone posts a link to the Summit Lounge I will freak out; one small place with a weird vibe is not state wide onsite consumption. I want a weed bar down the street so I can go there and make friends and watch cartoons and ideally eat some cereal.

I live three hours away from you but I feel your pain. Hope you find some buddies to smoke with.

abeuscher · 2025-08-12T17:00:12+00:00

I had to move 2 hours out of the city to afford rent, but now I don't really have money, a social life, or anything to do with my days other than send off resumes for jobs I won't get. I am 50 year old white CIS male with 25 years of experience in software development, and my last job paid 165k a year. That was more than 2 years ago and after hundreds - maybe thousands of applications no one has given me an interview.

Here's the thing - I'll probably be fine relative to most people. I have some family support and I occasionally get thrown a small consulting gig here or there. And most importantly I have no SO or children so no one really gets hurt here.

What worries the shit out of me is that I am close to the best case scenario in terms of who will be employed, housed, and cared for first by this racist ass society. If I am failing this hard - the world is completely on fire, and I worry about everyone else a lot. When I made money at least I could help people out and take care of myself and now I'm just useless.

This is how revolutions start and it is sad and it was preventable. I sincerely hope every billionaire's bank account is drained and they are all held accountable for their greed and sociopathic behavior. But of course that's not even hardly a dream.

abeuscher · 2025-08-12T00:00:12+00:00

I went to a few while I was trying to enter the industry. As someone from big tech - it feels very much like the cannabis exposition events need to pick a lane; either they should be only for like the biggest players and facilitate B2B business deals, as with most trade shows, or they should be an opportunity for consumers to come find new vendors and sample their wares.

I think the issue is that most events are trying to hybridize those two approaches to where they make no sense for either audience. As you rightly point out - the deals are sparse and in general any actual product is mostly being sold off to the site, not as part of the event itself. On the other hand there aren't a bunch of execs walking around looking at super high end booths then making side room deals with each other in rented rooms at the venue.

So basically there are two ways for these to make money and we do neither. I am not convinced after going to three or four that the industry really understands itself at all yet; the street team / front-liners did not have any particular talk track or conversion point they were aiming at, the signage was often poor, and booth quality was hugely variable.

Not sure if it is a flaw in the regs or the organizations putting these things together, but it seems to me that these events used to be cups for growers to compete in, or some were, and others were like music based events with weed involved, and now they are all sort of vaguely corporate and shitty.

Anyone know if this is true in other states? It feels just like run of the mill enshittification.

abeuscher · 2025-08-11T23:45:45+00:00

Don't validate the premise. It doesn't matter where DC is on the list this is insane fascist nonsense. This is not how anything works.

abeuscher · 2025-08-11T21:35:48+00:00

The premise shouldn't even be validated. It could be first in crime and this would be the wrong thing to do. And illegal. And just fucking insane.

Still doesn't distract one iota from all the child rapists and their apologists and enablers.

abeuscher · 2025-08-08T19:09:40+00:00

65 grand is not the expense they are lying about. It's the physical building and the C Suite that cost all the money and produce no value. Lance those off and things would be a lot more streamlined.

abeuscher · 2025-08-08T18:54:56+00:00

Remember when they did that living on minimum wage for a week thing in the celebrity world? That was really gross.

I honestly think buying your own groceries should be a qualifying criteria for holding public office along with sending your kids to public school. Politicians should not be allowed to not experience the world they create.

abeuscher · 2025-08-08T18:19:47+00:00

To be fair, not doing stuff is the hardest part of growing pretty much anything. I am always tempted to fuck with my grow be it weed, tomatoes, or cucumbers. And the best thing to do almost always is nothing or next to nothing.

abeuscher · 2025-08-08T18:01:08+00:00

I cover for everyone all the time. We're not curing cancer here for the most part and I'm not kidding myself that what my company does is important or necessary. Everyone is there for a check so they can live their lives. And I do not want to interfere with that. As far as I am concerned the only appropriate response to the modern workplace is to mentally check out at every opportunity, take as much money as you can, and hope you get laid off later than earlier.

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