the only non-conservative saturated part of the state besides madison/dane county, not to mention every other city in a state where weed is still illegal. little weird to just spread misinformation on the internet like that idk dude

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In the spirit of being a r/cth poster refugee forum I think a blocklist makes the most sense to emulate that, but federating either way will be a good step forward

not to dox myself too hard or anything but i literally write enterprise software that would definitely still have to exist in some form even in a communist society without regressing in technology, which is about as close as you can get to genuinely meaningful and helpful work in comp sci next to writing software for planes and MRIs, and there’s still so much bullshit to slog through. bureaucracy and excessive meetings about business and marketing that really aren’t that relevant to me writing code, it’s a lot sometimes, and even the parts of my job that aren’t bullshit are still pretty much busy work a lot of the time. anyway i really just want to say there’s more useful disciplines of engineering than building bridges, it’s a little reductive to limit being useful to society to just that, some of us going on the computer guys are still trying to do good work yknow? thank you

sure! something to remember if you’re not doing it already, it’s a good idea to fan your totes briefly with the lid or something else when you mist them, like wave it to get a good breeze going for like 20-30 seconds or so. it’ll help with FAE some, blow away some of that co2 that might be sitting there, which should help with getting a nice fruit phenotype. it also causes some evaporation, the idea being that evaporation simulates the conditions at the end of the mycelium’s life cycle and causes it to form pins more/faster, at least that’s the colloquial wisdom.

past that, a big part of getting good mushrooms is getting good genetics, by selecting mycelium for favorable traits on agar and making transfers, which can be a lot more involved and time consuming process, but that’s usually how you get flushes that form a nice canopy people will post pictures of online.

looking good, maybe try a little more moisture/FAE next time they’re a little long and skinny imo, but congratulations! it’s a bit of a tricky process to get right, so don’t feel bad about taking a bit to get started, and plus now you know what works for you next time! good luck growing more comrade

Sorry for the late response, you can sterilize substrate with an instant pot just fine. The problem is that an instant pot can’t reach as high of an internal pressure as a pressure cooker, so instead of 20 minutes with jars in a pressure cooker it would take three hours in an instant pot. If you already have the instant pot then by all means, but it may pose as a bottleneck if you plan on scaling up at all. If you’re just starting out though, it can definitely work just fine.

I actually have successfully grown mushrooms with the Uncle Bens method, several times before I moved to using grain jars in a pressure cooker. The problem people have with it is that it’s portrayed as a foolproof beginner technique that’s impossible to screw up, and then when people don’t take their sterile technique seriously and get contaminated bags, they get discouraged from the hobby when really they should’ve just done a little more research beforehand.

The idea behind using Uncle Bens bags, or microwaveable bags of rice in general, is that the rice inside is pre-sterilized, meaning it’s free from contaminants and ideal for making mushroom substrate. You can still sterilize your own substrate, other people in this thread have mentioned PF cakes, which are made from brown rice flower, vermiculite, and water, and can be sterilized using steam and a pan on your stove. Another method is using a pressure cooker, which is what I currently use. The process is pretty much identical to using a pressure cooker to can food in jars, fill your jars with grain, bring your pressure cooker to sterilization temperature and keep it there long enough until your substrate is sterile.

Following whatever substrate preparation method you choose to use, you need to inoculate it with your spores. You can purchase them online in the US, except for CA, ID and GA no problem. This is where people’s problem with uncle bens comes in. Inoculation is usually the most contaminant prone part of the entire process, and compared to other methods uncle bens can be more troublesome if you’re not prepared for it. Cutting open the bag and taping it back up after you inoculate takes longer and is dirtier than just opening up a jar and dropping in some spore solution, or whatever else your method is (look into agar if you really want to get into things).

In my experience, Uncle Bens can be perfectly as viable as any other substrate preparation method. There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to grow mushrooms. You can have better success rates with other methods, but if not having to sterilize your own substrate appeals to you because it’s cheaper and less time intensive, more power to you. You’ll still grow mushrooms if you get the fundamentals right. Where people compromise is with their sterile technique, and that’s what makes grows fail. I’ve seen pictures of mushrooms growing on books, cardboard, old towels, whatever on Shroomery, at the end of the day it’s still a fungus and it will try to eat pretty much anything. If you’re careful about contaminants, clean your workspace well enough, and use a Still Air Box, you’ll get mycelium in about a good six weeks if you’re patient. There are a few methods of producing mushrooms from said mycelium, such as using a fruiting chamber or spawning to bulk. A fruiting chamber can be faster, you’re just sticking the cake in a clean enough semi-closed air environment to introduce fruiting conditions and you have mushrooms pretty soon. The problem is that the yield is relatively low, you could get more mushrooms out of the same amount of nutritional substance if it had a greater surface area. To spawn to bulk, you mix your rice-mycelium with something like coco coir, which you generally let colonize a bit before fruiting. Compared to a fruiting chamber, greater yield because of the surface area, but a longer time because of the extra colonization. Personally, I spawn to bulk, but I would encourage finding the best method for you in each step of the process. This can change as you learn too, don’t feel bad if you get a few contaminants here and there, it’s all part of the process to having a cleaner process. Or you can just wing it and still most likely get mushrooms, just be mindful of the trade offs you’re taking and don’t be mad if you lose a good bit of substrate along the way to contaminants.

If you want to read more, there are a ton of great resources on the internet, you just need to know where to look, I just tried to lay out a general overview of the whole process here. The Uncle Bens subreddit is a great place to start, the guide I linked to has a great comprehensive write up of the whole process. The Shroomery.org forums have a ton of great knowledge resources, the link I posted is an aggregate of beginner resources, but there are literally twenty plus years of old forum posts for nearly any question you could think of, plus a still active community of mushroom growers. But like I said, there are a bunch of good websites out there, it’s always good to learn more.

If you’re on the fence about growing mushrooms, if you want some guy on the internet’s advice I’d say go for it. In my own anecdotal experience, psilocybin has done more for my mental health than antidepressants ever have. Psychedelics are a tool like anything else, for just allowing us to sit down and think. In my own opinion, visuals can be fun but are secondary to the overall idea of using psychedelics for their medicinal value, to allow us to better understand how we think about and understand ourselves, which is integral to the experience of bettering ones self and becoming a better person, and by extension working towards the goals of a communist society. The trick is learning how to use that tool effectively, and making it widely accepted by society at large, which is a tall ask. Anyway sorry for the wall, fell free to reach out to me with any questions and I’d be more than happy to answer everything I can.

fun fact, there’s actually a one act play that uses this as a setting, Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder. kind of a strange production imo but hey it’s on a train what more do you want

hmmm, yes, very wise

the sandman is the only comic run ive ever read in it’s entirety, this had better not be terrible

tell me how it goes, every time I try gummies they don’t really do much. probably just my tolerance heh 🙃

monster hunter is very fun that’s all folks

araki trying to be wacky artstyle

I clean my bong once a week with rubbing alcohol and baking soda, and change the water every day. Honestly after I clean it it’s probably the most immaculate thing I own. As for the glasses, I literally only drink water, coffee, and protein shakes, none of which I use glasses for, but I clean the water bottles after a few refills and my shaker bottle and mugs every time. Now psychoanalyze me.

It is! Great track indeed.

If you all didn’t know, Nujabes did the music for the anime Samurai Champloo, which is phenomenal on its own, and then on top of that you have a the amazing and atmospheric hip hop soundtrack. I cannot recommend either enough.

macintosh 420 and leftism actually go really well together huh

Driving back home right now from buying legal weed from the next state over, half an ounce ended up costing me $200 (guess where), like wtf. I really need to find a new dealer locally, guarantee it’ll end up being cheaper too.

to steal a comment from r/WSB, I’m going to fuck an alien or die trying.💎🤲🚀🚀🚀

I’ll try and explain as best I can to my understanding, but as always I’m no financial professional.

So, going with your example, let’s say at around June of last year, GameStop had its astronomically low share price of about $5, and some Wall Steet Firms (Melvin Capital) shorted it for let’s say, 75 shares. To do this, Melvin borrows those 75 shares at their current price of $5 dollars from a broker and sells them on the market. If the stock goes down, they get to buy those 75 shares back for less than they paid for them, and after selling them back to the broker they would earn a profit. If the stock goes up though, they still need to give those 75 shares they borrowed back to the broker, losing money in the process.

Back around the same time in June, WSB caught wind of this whole short scheme and started buying up GameStop stock and holding it, to the point where there were, let’s say, only 25 shares available in total. Remember, Melvin never owned those shares to begin with, and sold them on the market, allowing WSB to buy them up to the point where they collectively hold enough shares so that the number of shorts Melvin needs to cover is greater than the amount freely for sale, the difference having been bought up by a bunch of people who don’t want to sell.

Let’s imagine now it’s this Friday, which is the day that Melvin’s shorts have to be called in. They owe the broker 75 shares, but they can only buy 25 since the other 50 shares got bought up by WSB in the meantime. But, Melvin still owes the broker the 50 remaining shares that they shorted earlier, which is where the squeeze comes in.

Because they owe more shares than it’s possible for them to acquire, they making them have to offer more and more money until WSB finally relents and sells them the 50 shares they need, and that can be as long as WSB can collectively hold out for. If they aren’t able to cover the shares they shorted, they’re majorly on the hook from the broker they owe those shares to, and their assets and stuff like that can be seized to cover the difference, to the point of bankruptcy at least. The obligation to buy the shares from WSB is whats driving the price essentially.

Also, part of it is that the firms did something called “naked shorting”, which is selling shares to short that a broker doesn’t actually have and is super illegal, but that’s Wall Street for you.

I hope that was a good enough explanation.