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  • "Random crap" is what's used in agriculture as well, if you buy a big plastic tub, it won't leech more into the soil than your coke bottle already did. There's only so much plastic that can leech out and planters can be used for years, the plastic you're using around your house gets thrown out in a week or two and replaced. Much higher chemical content there.

    And you can absolutely use store bought potatoes, they are clones, there's no difference between seed and regular potatoes. At most, there might have been something done to prevent sprouting for a bit, but that's it. You can simply wait for them to sprout, if that's a concern. You know how I know? I've been growing "old" food potatoes in pots for years. Works just fine.

  • As I wrote in another comment: you can create your own soil with earthworms. You can get a small batch of worms in fishing supply stores for like 5€ (or collect them yourself), these guys turn almost any plant material into pure fertilizer.

  • You can get away with very little supplies, actually. Basically just a small shovel, the rest be salvaged.

    Pots can be made from old plastic bins/containers, soil/fertilizer can be made from food waste using worms, seeds can be made from surprisingly many fruits/vegetables. Pumpkin seeds are right inside the pumpkin, potatoes and beans can be put right into the soil, even tomatoes can be grown from store bought ones.

    And while it's a really cool hobby: you're right regarding the cost effectiveness. Unless you happen to have a significant plot of land, it won't make a dent in your grocery bill.

  • While I like gardening, unironically advising people to grow their own food to cut costs is just bonkers.

    It takes months to grow anything, and given the limited space, you can't grow much anyway. You'll be lucky to grow 20€ worth of food on your balcony while spending hours doing the gardening. That's not cost effective.

  • It could happen here is very hit or miss, unfortunately. For me personally, about 70% is garbage, the rest is pretty good.

    Their resident middle east anchor woman (Shirin?) and Andrew are just completely unlistenable to me, simply because of their voices. And there's a lot of USA internal politics, which just isn't all that interesting to me.

  • Say that to corporate. I'm perfectly willing (eager, even) to write actually good software, but I'm forced to work within a budget and on top of the pile of despair we call "tech stack". Everything is about 20 orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be, nobody has time to do anything properly and everything is always kind of burning.

  • Es gibt ja schon erste Schritte dahin, aber ich sehe da das Wahlvolk ein bisschen in der Pflicht.

    Wenn CDU, CSU, FDP wieder und wieder mit Korruption auffallen und die Partei offensichtlich nichts dagegen macht, warum wählt man die dann noch?

    Das gilt in anderen Bereichen eigentlich genauso: die Politik ist so scheiße, weil ein sehr großer Anteil der Bevölkerung grenzdebile Idioten und apathische Ignoranten sind.