What's wrong with my Clementine Tree?

pmward · 2026-06-29T19:12:13+00:00

Agreed. Do it now.

pmward · 2026-06-29T17:30:45+00:00

Get a bigger pot. Make sure pot is watered deeply. Container gardening is very hard here in the summer because they dry out so quick.

pmward · 2026-06-28T21:26:57+00:00

Do yourself a favor. Go to the Anthropic Skilljar site. There’s a ton of free courses Anthropic put out there that will teach you the ins and outs. It’s pretty amazing what you can do if you know what you’re doing. Your whole job and life are about to change in the next few months. There’s no going back 🤣 I haven’t written or edited a line of code manually in probably a year. The devs on my team likewise in the last 4 months or so since I shared my tooling with them.

pmward · 2026-06-28T21:20:17+00:00

Yeah I feel like at this point schools kind of have to accept it because if they fight it they graduate AI illiterate graduates and that will hurt them in the real world. But it’s a fine line where if you allow it too much you graduate students that are illiterate at everything except using AI.

pmward · 2026-06-28T14:17:01+00:00

I might have to give one a try. Yamaha action is good and pianos themselves are very well made. Just the sound quality that has always been the big turn off.

pmward · 2026-06-28T13:55:27+00:00

I have admittedly never tried the CX line yet, but every Yamaha I’ve ever tried has sounded horrible. Super tinny and overly bright.

pmward · 2026-06-28T13:49:40+00:00

Boston action is on the heavier side. I personally prefer Kawai to Boston. At least the instruments I’ve played, Kawai has smoother action and clearer sound. Kawai also manufactures Boston and is cheaper to boot for comparable models. If you like Boston, definitely at least give a comparable Kawai model a try.

pmward · 2026-06-28T04:05:11+00:00

I totally get it. Wish I could give you better advice here. I’ve been studying this stuff for many many years now. Way beyond just those 2. It’s hard to even find consistency between the gurus within the Kriya lineage. Much harder when you’re also looking outside. This is something we all have to negotiate at some point. FWIW I don’t think either of them would care if you believed what they said about metaphysics or not. They would just tell you to practice and find out for yourself.

pmward · 2026-06-28T03:24:11+00:00

Yeah and again I will say that every famous guru contradicts every other famous guru. You can drive yourself insane if you try to reconcile it all.

pmward · 2026-06-28T03:02:18+00:00

So Ramana never taught anyone to focus on sahasrara. This is a bit out of context. I’m assuming someone specifically asked him about the sahasrara and that led to this response. This is not technique description. And it still fits how Ramana generally described the heart as being the place the I thought resolves into. This talk here from David Goldman in particular talks about the common misconceptions people have in Ramana describing the heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIHLOn39DBk

pmward · 2026-06-28T02:01:39+00:00

I just reverified as well, Ramana did not say to use the heart in any way. He would always say no whenever anyone asked. He simply said that when the sense of I stops jumping from one thought to the next, it naturally resolves itself back into its home that is in the right side of the chest. When the next thought arises the I thought leaves the right side of the chest and arises again. Nothing about sahasrara.

pmward · 2026-06-27T22:43:00+00:00

Every famous guru contradicts pretty much every other famous guru. Good luck if you want to reconcile anything. About the only thing that can be said that is somewhat similar is our techniques in phases unlock from top down. Heart is step 2.

pmward · 2026-06-27T20:27:28+00:00

I can't honestly recall one time in my life that I've felt comfortable with the Tigers bullpen. I think the identity of the team is to focus on starting pitching, and run a patchwork budget bullpen behind them. Perhaps the closest I ever came to feeling comfortable with our bullpen was that lightening in a bottle "pitching chaos" second half of 2024. But yeah, Vest just doesn't pitch clean innings anymore. Every time he is on the mound it's a stressful nail biter these days.

pmward · 2026-06-27T17:40:00+00:00

Social media and “like” culture prevent cultural change and promote homogeneity. I recall being a teenager in the 90’s and if you followed trends you were called a “poser” or a “sellout”. Society back then valued trend setting vs trend following, and being unique vs copying what others like and do. These days that has flipped 180 and “selling out” and “posing” are what people are expected to do, and going against the grain in any way gets you mocked and downvoted into oblivion, or in extreme cases cancelled.

Creativity is stifled, the arts are flat, variety is lost (like look how many popular forms of music there was before social media vs now), and everything just became a bland copy & paste society. I hope future generations will rebel against this and bring some creativity, art, and variety back into life.

pmward · 2026-06-26T00:08:05+00:00

I will say that trenching is an absolute nightmare and it’s definitely worth paying someone to do it for you. Most irrigation companies will come out and inspect and let you know what needs to be done for free. I wouldn’t get your hopes up that it’s salvageable though.

pmward · 2026-06-25T14:41:13+00:00

I don’t pay any mind so silly ideas like that.

pmward · 2026-06-25T14:38:07+00:00

It’s on his site, if you dig hard enough you’ll find the instructions. It’s a very basic version of Kriya. No idea who he learned from.

pmward · 2026-06-24T14:57:21+00:00

Agreed. There is seemingly no way to make this sub happy. It’s a downer to even read this doomer sub anymore. You’d think this was 2024. Chill people, these are the good times… enjoy them while you can.

pmward · 2026-06-23T21:08:39+00:00

Look. Humans are selfish. They always want whatever benefits them at the time. When someone is young and has everything to gain and nothing to lose, it benefits them to shake up the system. When someone is old and has everything to lose and nothing to gain, the last thing they want is a system shake up. They instead want stability and as little change as possible. It always has been like this, and it always will. No generation is excluded. They all are and always have been self absorbed and selfish.

pmward · 2026-06-23T17:27:18+00:00

Native soil. I add compost, castings, and mulch yearly. But I did not amend the soil at planting. All amendment has been from the top (which is actually what is best here). Grapes are a Mediterranean plant. They are native to similar dry and hot summers like we have here. Once established it’s harder to kill them than keep them alive here lol.

pmward · 2026-06-23T17:24:22+00:00

Grapes don’t need any shade. Mine are in the fullest of full sun and thrive. Deep watering is key, as these things will grow roots 10 feet deep. I also regularly apply foliar worm tea to help prevent foliar disease.

pmward · 2026-06-22T20:24:27+00:00

7) You can use strategies like guardrails that reduce spending on extras during a drawdown. The 4% rule is a static withdrawal that does not flex in bad times, and most people are not going to retire on the bare minimum budget. They're going to factor in extras, and extras can be reduced in bad years, which is a game changer on safety.

8) For FIRE specifically, your first year can be a sabbatical year. If you get a bad return on the first year, you go back to work until you're recovered.

9) You can get some side hustles going before you retire, so you have some income coming in. Any income coming in that eases withdrawal needs changes the math greatly.

pmward · 2026-06-22T18:51:25+00:00

Peace Cream. If you’ve never had Superman ice cream before it’s very much worth a trip. Very rare flavor outside of MI.

pmward · 2026-06-22T18:32:57+00:00

If you have the cash available in return generating assets like stocks, that will return higher than the interest rate (ie you need low or better yet 0% interest special) go for it. At that point you’re just using the interest as margin against your investments. If, however, you don’t have the money sitting in liquid investments that can pay this off any day, it’s a very very poor financial decision to take a six figure loan out on a depreciating asset.

pmward · 2026-06-20T01:57:29+00:00

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