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Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

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Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

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Post by telesilla »

Definitely AI written, though it got the point across and it wasn't terrible to read and it was new information to me so I was glad to read it.

At this point what news site isn't AI written? Except for the few remaining human blogs (which are a delight and a pleasure). Why I detected AI: it said "The honest footnote.." at the end. That's how Claude always ends our long-rambling discussions.

Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

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Post by albumen »

telesilla wrote: post #11

Definitely AI written, though it got the point across and it wasn't terrible to read and it was new information to me so I was glad to read it. At this point what news site isn't AI written? Except for the few remaining human blogs (which are a delight and a pleasure). Why I detected AI: it said "The honest footnote.." at the end. That's how Claude always ends our long-rambling discussions.

Lots of news sites aren't AI written; or if AI is involved, it's not as blatant as in this article. The 'papers of record' largely remain AI-free. You increasingly have to pay for good journalism.

Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

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Post by metalman »

Tade0 wrote: post #10

Using nitrogen-fixing bacteria is not a new concept and it's the life's work of Dr Mariangela Hungria, who recently received the 2025 World Food Prize for her achievements in the field: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/20202026_laureat...

"Hungria" cant have a better name for food research. Nitrogen fixing is one of the more frustrating things to work on as there is such a massive ready supply of unfixed nitrogen to work with everywhere on our planet and all in all we need such a tiny proportion to dramiticly improve agriculture.The whole thing is so finly balanced that herbivors can likely smell the diference in plants that have been given nitrogen fertiliser and raid our crops and gardens for the fixed nitrogen that then facilitates there own internal bacteria and thereby achive better nutrition for themselves. But to my frustration and anger, nothing eats alder bushes, which are a never ending problem in taking over fields, but when after employing machinery to uproot them,( it bieng the only way to kill them), reveals there bright orange knobly roots, that host the nitrogen fixing bacteria that they contain. There is enough nitrogen and other nutrients in alder that the area's where they are piled and burnt will remain significantly more fertile for many years after. One of my(many) projects is to experiment with "terra preta" and build a charcoal kiln, primarily for alder and hopefully be able to retain a greater portion of the "good stuff™" that is otherwise lost to rotting or combustion.

Re: Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

#18

Post by teekert »

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #17
GaryBluto wrote: post #15

Is the letter 'g' designed to appear as if the bottom loop is missing, or is that a rendering error on my end?

It's just how the font looks: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Syne

Haha, feels indeed like the bottom of the G is overlapped by something. A bit weird.
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