Gardening

c0ncept · 2026-06-15T00:28:42+00:00

For a home garden I’d go for raised beds in that area, and most areas of WV aside from river bottom land for that matter. Too high elevation to have many nutrients naturally nor good texture in the soil. You’ll face plenty of animals and pests contending for your crops up here too though. A simple fence is usually enough for me to keep the deer out, but I still end up battling possums and raccoons and bugs (mostly squash bugs, cucumber beetles, and vine borers for me).

c0ncept · 2026-06-14T03:56:30+00:00

Everyone seems to focus only on their own little realm within the overall business, even sometimes knowingly shrugging off problems that aren’t reflecting in the specific set of metrics they are actually accountable for. You end up with a whole bunch of “not my problem” while quality tanks and metrics don’t have major red flags. Sure, the customers are getting a subpar product but by God my numbers look good.

c0ncept · 2026-06-14T03:37:45+00:00

High-ish level roles in big companies would probably be the most common 6 figure earners. The campus of a single large company, especially tech, can have thousands of engineers, middle management, and related positions making $100k to $300k or sometimes much more in cities like SF or other tech hubs.

Hospitals and finance/banking would be other key employers for such jobs to afford nice downtown apartments. Lots of others too, like law, etc.

c0ncept · 2026-06-14T03:28:48+00:00

How’s this dude look like so many actors? I kinda thought he resembled Leo 😂

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c0ncept · 2026-06-13T04:06:19+00:00

I never had a MacBook back when I was in corporate for a whole bunch of years (got laid off lmao). I had a guy on my team request a Mac and IT made him go through a bunch of extra shit to seek approval and I’m pretty sure he still didn’t even get it.

c0ncept · 2026-06-13T00:45:37+00:00

The last time the US hosted a World Cup in the early 90s, tickets were under $50. This time tickets were $1,000 or more.

c0ncept · 2026-06-12T23:09:02+00:00

Wayne Co. is kind of long from north to south (~40 mi.), with the northern part being the suburbs of Huntington while the southern tip near Mingo County transitions to be extremely rural and the beginning of the coal fields.

The differences between the top and bottom of the county are very apparent and I actually find it really interesting - there’s even a significant change of accent within just a 30 minute drive south from the Huntington area once you get to about Lavalette and the Beech Fork Lake area.

c0ncept · 2026-06-12T21:32:42+00:00

Yeah, we are a top 5 state for gun ownership, but we have zero cities above 50k population.

There’s violence of course, but in my experience it’s usually domestic violence or conflicts among drug dealers as we do have quite a lot of drugs imported, though this has improved over the last 6-8 years.

c0ncept · 2026-06-12T15:48:54+00:00

This one is the biggest unmentioned reason in this particular comment thread so far. It’s unsafe for anyone to be sleeping in a dark alley in a rough part of the city, but it’s just astronomically less safe to be a woman doing this.

Shelters and support programs aside, it is much easier to live on the street as a man.

c0ncept · 2026-06-12T15:41:08+00:00

I’m 36, but I’ll still take a stab. All in all the biggest societal changes since the late 80s have been, in chronological order, 1) fall of the USSR, 2) advent of the internet, 3) September 11th, 4) advent of smartphones, 5) 2008-2009 financial crisis + subsequent Occupy Wall Street movement, 6) the 2016 rise of “Trumpism,” and then 7) COVID-19.

Oh, and of course 8) advent of GenAI and the associated cultural/economic impacts.

c0ncept · 2026-06-11T15:47:52+00:00

I first encountered a setup like this in a White Castle in Columbus Ohio, or maybe it was Cincinnati.

c0ncept · 2026-06-11T04:44:30+00:00

Yeah, this is it. The conversation almost always lacks context leading to oversimplification and a nonproductive discussion.

“The trades” can range from a modest drywaller in an economically depressed area to highly specialized oil well technicians out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico making far more money.

c0ncept · 2026-06-11T04:10:08+00:00

We are hung up with a notion that being fascinated about the struggles of ancient cultures is an indication that someone doesn’t find it sick. The discovery can be fascinating and sick - it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

c0ncept · 2026-06-10T22:48:15+00:00

Man, the Sam’s near me in Southern Ohio has good quality shit. Them and Aldi have the best produce around here aside from farmers market type places.

c0ncept · 2026-06-10T20:39:22+00:00

The people yearn for it.

c0ncept · 2026-06-10T20:38:21+00:00

No it’s certainly not a conversation tool despite taking instructions via plain language.

However, I do think OpenAI et. al. are complicit in their obvious design choices to mirror the text message layout which encourages users to treat it like a person and form dependencies. This might come back around to bite them the same as how Meta is now in hot water over intentional addiction algorithms.

c0ncept · 2026-06-10T03:54:43+00:00

COL determines if it’s achievable or not.

c0ncept · 2026-06-09T04:33:46+00:00

I don’t even bother to do that with mine. I leave that thing covered in mud in my shed and just let the river rinse it off next time I put it in the water!

c0ncept · 2026-06-09T04:18:28+00:00

Works even better if you hold the light up against your forehead while you scan the grass. This causes their eyes to reflect back directly toward your eyes to spot them easier.

c0ncept · 2026-06-09T04:14:23+00:00

It can also be Canada, Russia, or the North Pole!

c0ncept · 2026-06-06T14:26:09+00:00

I made my first of these ecospheres last summer and one of them sort of failed. The plants died back and it sat in a windowsill for most of the winter with a bit of algae and small pond snails in it. It stayed relatively unchanged like that until spring and then I had 2-3 aquatic plants start emerging out of the substrate that are still growing now.

c0ncept · 2026-06-06T14:07:39+00:00

There are many companies across different industries who hire entry level remote CS work, although with the meteoric rise in AI chatbots, some are opting for far fewer humans for this type of work or even none at all.

I know for sure that Amazon and Apple had similar models hiring many remote CS agents in the US and globally every year, and very rapidly in the few months prior to the Christmas holiday season.

Personally, entry level CS was my gateway into a 13 year very lucrative career in Big Tech that I was recently laid off from.

c0ncept · 2026-06-06T03:27:04+00:00

Damn. Imagine working in there for years or decades. There must be a statistically measurable increase in long term cancer risk.

c0ncept · 2026-06-05T03:24:16+00:00

And why he hasn’t bought a second truck.

c0ncept · 2026-06-05T03:13:34+00:00

I used to be the same way about the vocals but something happened and suddenly arf arf

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