Yeah the sg is a nice playing guitar, but much harder to keep in working condition than a strat. Glued neck, angled headlock, fretboard binding. I always thought they made the neck too long after the joint. Kinda wobbly and unstable feeling. But in a cool way?
Hah the bridge thing is a problem with strats. I just lock mine down cause screw whammy bars. The strat don't dig into your ribs and elbow tho. It's a big deal if you gotta wear it for hours imo :P
Sure. I'll discuss this with you further if you'd like, but I don't want to lose sight of the apples here.
Both apples and potatoes are excellent durable crops, but are best suited to different growing regions.
Within good apple growing regions, choice of variety should take many factors into account -things like resilience to present climate conditions, staggering harvest timing, maintaining genetic diversity, providing fruit for different uses (eating, cooking, juicing, fermenting, etc.), and good storage/shipping durability. Whether these factors are prioritized by individual growers in a market or by some central planning authority, I argue that durability should not be undervalued. Red delicious apples really are amazing in their rot resistance, and should be celebrated as such.
I am optimistic that in our lifetimes we will see new better tasting apple varieties eclipse the red delicious as a durable, long-storing staple fruit. We should not have to choose between variety and abundance, but we should also be realistic about our agricultural capabilities. In my estimation, capitalism is a huge hinderance to the development and widespread adoption of new apple varieties. The university breeding projects are often underfunded, and when they do produce promising scions/rootstocks, the legal right to grow and market them is restricted by unnecessary and counterproductive intellectual property claims. I dream of a communist future with greater apple abundance and variety for all people in every season of the year. Will you join me, comrade?
Uhh major apple regions tend to be in places where the soil is too poor to grow potatoes. It's a thing you can do in places with harsh winters, rocky soil, and steep grades.
The recent cosmic crisp out of WSU is promising, but harvests so far haven't been large enough to see if they can keep like reds in the real world. In the last couple of decades most years only reds are available in August before new crop. Another development has been new varieties bred to fruit very early -first week of August early. There's a few of those, mostly licensed to individual growers through modern fruit intellectual property agreements. Early varieties reduce the need for long storage, but increase the risk of crop loss to late frosts and early spring moisture.
Reds keep in nitrogen storage better than any other apple. Honeycrisp is notoriously biennially bearing, pest susceptible, and difficult to pack without damaging. Are you trying to feed the people, or are you more concerned with having the most pleasurable apple eating experience? Because they both look the same coming out the other end.
That's not exactly true either. In order to be issued a credit card without sufficient credit, you need to pay a security deposit to the creditor. This deposit acts like an interest free loan. Those of us that have no credit or bad credit and are poor don't have access to that method.
Listen, all ARVN that could flee in 75 did flee. The ones who failed to get out faced brutal treatment in the reeducation camps. The South Vietnamese battle flag -not the flag of Vietnam- flies over every pho shop in the USA now. The ARVN fought for royalism and capitalism. Does that make them "bad"? Maybe so; that's for you to decide. I find it doesn't matter much. They will be dead soon. Their children and grandchildren are our peers, and their political allegiances will eclipse those of the refugee generation soon enough.
So we can post screenshots of money management apps and say "look comrades! I'm no longer poor because of my personal fortitude and this app!" And everybody will cheer and still be poor and buy more apps?
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This. Worker coops are very good, but ultimately insufficient at a societal level.