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You know what they say, even a broken potato is right twice a day.

Speaking of dumb takes... Nothing I said had anything to do with private property rights and you are completely wrong on hunting hogs. Whatever it takes, except actually being informed I guess. I'm not going to distract the thread further after this post, but hunting pigs piecemeal actually makes the problem worse by widely dispersing the ones that get away. These breed and form new sounders in their new location. Like most things they do, the Lege has made the 100% wrong decision, and made the problem worse. Texas isn't going to change it, because hog hunting makes a lot of money for some connected folks. https://www.popsci.com/feral-pig-problem/ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-has-a-feral-hog-problem-hunting-them-makes-it-worse/ The only reasonable solution involves large scale corral trapping as many entire sounders as we can. A competent government would see that this is a state level problem and it needs a state level solution. The state should be doing it directly and also providing free traps and bounties for the public to do so as well.

I'll reiterate something I said elsewhere. If the hog problem is really that bad, and I think it is, that's a government problem that the Lege should be working to solve, not leaving it to individual land owners to deal with it piecemeal. Take the money that Abbott is wasting on his pointless border stunts and spend it fixing the fucking hog problem, or the electric grid problems, or the mental health care crisis in Texas, or anything else that actually has some value aside from boosting Abbott 0.3%, leaving him tied with "Someone Else" in the Presidential primary polls.

I'm so tired of having to shoot 30-50 of them in my yard.

If a Senator does not do EVERYTHING in his power to end Trump and the rise of fascism in America, he is NOT a good man, he is a piece of shit only interested in his own short-term self-preservation. I emphasize short term, because don't think for a second that the evangelicals won't turn on Mormons as soon as they don't need them anymore.

If y'all are considering growing, you should do it. It was very rewarding and the ability to customize it for your own preferences is awesome. I'll be much more aggressive with pruning and trimming earlier next time, my plants were pretty crowded at the end. Here's some pics of the first two batches I harvested. It's really hard to get good pictures using a macro lens, so the pics don't do them justice. All of them were in a Deep Water Culture hydro setup. Two plants are Dolato (Dos-I-Dos crossed with Gelato). They were each under a Diablo side by side in a 2 x 4. They yielded 14.5 ounces of flower and ~10 ounces of trim. I could have squeezed more flower out of the trim, but I'm going using the trim for edibles and pain creams, so the extra potency boost is nice. I figured 14.5 ounces of trimmed flower is going to last me a really long time. I screwed up a few things I want to nail down next time, but the taste, terpenes and effect are are as good as any medical products I've ever had. Better than almost all of them. It stinks up the whole room and came out smelling and tasting like icy lilacs. It's great on pain and inflammation, relaxing, but not sedating. I haven't had it tested, but it feels 25-27-ish percent THC content and the terpene profile is phenomenal. I pulled it a few days early, so there would be less couch lock and I'm glad I did. Considering it was my first attempt, and I screwed a few things up, I am beyond thrilled with how this batch came out. It's easily in my top 2 strains along with Durban Poison. The second batch was a Motorbreath crossed with Purple Punch. One of the plants in the second batch got too cold and died, so I spread a single plant out to fill a 2 x 4 under 2 of the Diablos. I'm still drying/curing the second batch, so don't know the weight, but I'm guessing around 12 ounces of flower. Don't know how it will vape yet, but the terpenes are strong and it reeks of fuel. Now that I have some experience, I'm going to try homegrown Durban Poison soon.

I'm nowhere near thunderlounge's experience level, have only grown 2 rounds, but I did a bunch of research on this last fall when I was starting up. The best advice I kept getting was to get a high quality light. Growing is a fuckton of time, money and labor. Make sure it pays off for you, you don't want to put all that time, money and effort into it only to grow mids. Most people recommend LED lights these days. They are more expensive initially, but much cheaper to run and produce considerably less waste heat than older tech. The diodes should last a very long time. Lights with Samsung's 301B and 301H diodes are commonly recommended. Cannabis is very light intensive, it can use up to 1000 PPF without CO2 supplementation. To chose a light, look at dollar per watt for purchase price, but don't forget to consider efficiency. Higher efficiency means lower bills and much less waste heat you will have to deal with. They both add up quickly. It's worth it to pay a bit more for a higher quality, more efficient light. Stay away from Blurple (red + blue only) lights, go for full spectrum. Blurples are old tech. The different colors of light have different properties based on their wavelength, plants do best with a natural spectrum. You can easily supplement Far Red/UV, so don't make that your deal breaker. Look for a light with a dimmable detached driver that can be mounted externally to further reduce heat in your tent/space. If you want to watch some great Youtube videos on light spectra, efficiency, or anything else having to do with lighting, check out Bruce Bugbee's Youtube channel. He's a horticulture prof at Utah State. Easy to follow and very knowledgeable. Migrow is another good channel, run by a guy that makes his own line of lights, though not quite as efficient as the ones I mention below. I ended up going with multiple HLG 200 Diablos which use their top of the line 648 Samsung 301H diode Quantum Boards. The lamp covers a 4 x 4 space for vegging, and is a beast for a 2 x 2 flowering footprint. It runs right at $1/Watt for purchase price, which is a good upfront price. Where they really stand out is efficiency, 2.9 - 3.2 PPF/W, depending on the specific Quantum Board. Undimmed, it's ~600 PPF per lamp. This was the most efficient light on the planet last fall when I was researching. Probably still is, or is close. Lots of the cheaper lights are much less efficient and will fuck you in the long run with electric costs and waste heat. The only thing I don't like about this particular Diablo lamp, it is only dimmable with a screw driver. I would prefer a dial, would be much easier to use. The lights are compact, but have good spread and are extremely bright. You want to wear eye protection if you're in your tent/room with them. They dissipate heat reasonably well, so they can get really close the plant, as little as 12-18 inches from the plant canopy. Light intensity decreases proportional to the inverse of the distance squared. You lose intensity quickly the farther the light is from the bud and these can get right up on it. Use the inside of your forearm to test the heat at the canopy level. If it's too warm on your forearm, the lights need to dim, or move up. I especially liked that the individual lights are more future proof. If I want to scale up to larger grow spaces later, I can use multiple lights, each one covering a 2 x 2 area during flowering in any configuration I want. I currently run 2 side by side in 2 x 4 tents. Another advantage, on a multiple light board, if one goes out, you are kind of fucked. With these, I can replace the individual board with no effect on the others in the same space. https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/products/hlg-200-diablo?_pos=26&_sid=1811b18a8&_ss=r Unfortunately, it's sold out right now, but worth catching if they come back in stock. If you're mechanically inclined, they sell the Quantum Board alone for $129. You can buy your own heat sink and driver. This would be the way to go to get a dimmable driver for the board that's easier to use. I've considered switching out my drivers, but I am happy with them the way they are. If I was doing it from scratch, I'd get the board and buy a heat sink and dimmable driver. Light spectrum is below. I'll also second thunderlounge's AC Infinity recommendation for fans. I originally purchased an AC Infinity and a Spider Farmer. The AC infinity was stronger and considerably quieter. I ordered a second AC Infinity and sent the Spider Farmer back. AC Infinity sells a model with integrated bluetooth, which will push everything to your phone and also calculate your Vapor Pressure Deficit to make sure you are in the right range for optimal growth. I used that feature a ton when I first got it, until I had a more intuitive sense of the proper humidity/temperature ratio to shoot for.

That quote is from January and she didn't even say June 30, she said first half of the year. It's a clickbait article by Newsweek.

Spot on. Like everything else with them, it's about control. Just like their views on government, they don't value a functional public education system. They want to destroy it, while enabling GQP oligarchs to profit handsomely off the destruction.

The only time there has been a realistic shot to end Trump was the immediate aftermath. They should have impeached him immediately after certification was completed, or the next day at the absolute latest.

Robin Ventura

100%, GRUHorn is fooling no one with this fake liberal persona.

That is where we disagree. This is a definitive statement and it is definitely wrong. State law does not "control" on federal land, federal laws do. State laws also apply due to a regulatory decision, but full control of nearly all federal areas is retained by the feds. The regulations, rules, permits etc are all done by the feds. In our case, I doubt the state even knew we were there. Your post is clearly implying that the Feds could not build abortion facilities on BLM land, because those lands are somehow controlled by state laws. This is 100% false and even if that were true and those state laws conflicted with federal laws, the federal laws have priority due to the Supremacy clause.

Get your fucking hands off me Jesus. I wanna go to the Capital.

The Cuyahoga River has caught on fire 13 times, going back to 1868. Supreme Court 2022 - Rivers catching on fire are protected, because they are deeply rooted in this nation's history and traditions.

I understand and we're on the same page on that part. The BLM administratively agreed to enforce state laws on BLM land, because there hasn't really been a reason not to. Some of the other federal agencies also did so. Where we disagree is where you said state law controls on BLM property. It doesn't. Federal law "controls", state law is also allowed to be enforced. That's an important distinction. I'm also saying as someone that has directly dealt with the BLM in multiple states, that this is done as a courtesy and has little practical effect. The state has zero role in our permitting process. They are federal permits agreeing to follow federal laws on federal land. The specimens are all curated in federally regulated repositories. The federal government laws "control". The state has nothing to do with it and has no say in the process. The extended courtesy means if one of the crew broke a state law, the state could also charge them, but the feds are very much in charge of who does what and when on their land. Further, this courtesy of also extending state laws to BLM lands could be modified, or rescinded with a meeting, or executive order from Biden.

I've never had a single interaction with a state official for any of our BLM permits. All employees we interact with, all documents we sign, all laws we agree to follow, and all permits we file are federal. No mention of the state, or any state laws in the process at all that I can recall. It is federal land and they make all the decisions. My understanding is that the BLM allows state laws to be enforced on BLM land, but this is a courtesy they extend and there is nothing requiring them to do so. The Constitution pretty clearly gives the authority to regulate BLM land to the feds, not the states.

Hey, they're letting them have prints! That's nice. I thought it would be primary colors only. You ladies must be so excited.

I agree with this with the addition of them jumping on specific instances, out of context usually, if that helps them advance their narratives. Example being them jumping on the Committee for not proving "primary testimony". They extrapolate from that to discredit everything else Hutchinson said. Then move on to the hits: China, inflation, gas prices and Hunter Biden.

They had Jonathan Swan of Axios on earlier. All of them, including him, were super aggressively angry earlier at the committee for putting Hutchinson's "second-hand testimony" about the Secret Service interactions without presenting "primary testimony". They neglected to mention that Meadows is refusing to provide said "primary testimony".

No. She's a dean at a bullshit Christofascist profit and indoctrination center founded by, and still run by, Pat Robertson.

Going to be pretty tough to top citing Michelle Bachmann as a credible source that Dems are going to make Hillary the 2024 nominee.

Yes, that's from today. Also, if there is one person I trust to know the ins and outs of internal Democratic politics, it's Michelle Fucking Bachmann.

Repeatedly trolling and inflicting unwelcome, ignorant, medieval, bullshit views about controlling women and what they can do with their bodies on a University of Texas message board looks out of place too, but that doesn't seem to stop you.