protist

What do you know of this person? I can only assume you made this up with no knowledge of him, based on what I'm seeing. For example, according to Wikipedia:

In August 2023, Bartov was one of more than 1,500 U.S., Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian academics and public figures to sign an open letter stating that Israel operates "a regime of apartheid" in the occupied Palestinian territories and calling on U.S. Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation in Palestine.

Bartov has said that Israel's 37th government brought "a very radical shift", adding, "I am a historian of the 20th century and don't make analogies lightly" before recounting how the movement of fringe politics into the mainstream in Europe led to fascism, and emphasizing: "This is the current moment in Israel. It's terrifying to see it happening."

In January 2024, Bartov said that Israel had repeatedly expressed genocidal intent against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. By August of that year, having visited Israel again in June, Bartov said it "was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions". On April 24, 2025, Bartov said: "It's a misnomer to call it a 'war'. [...] This is an occupation by the IDF designed to take over Gaza. There will, of course, be resistance, but it will be guerrilla resistance." He also noted the violence had escalated beyond Gaza to include the West Bank.

Sure looks like a fruit to me. Will probably be small, cause your stems are still small. Some folks would probably recommend cutting it off to direct growth back to the stems, and pruning the stems to direct a single stem upward, and only letting it branch off higher up. How much sun are they getting? They want a lot and will grow faster with more. They also do well with way more water than other cacti, but still don't want to have wet feet

When someone says "billionaires," you can go ahead and include in that figure all those whose net worth is between 8 and 12 digits

Yes. Greenhouses add significant cost, that's my point.

Pi is well known, up to many more than hundred digits.

They're asking how this is known...

Shipping from Mexico isn't very far, fyi. Mexico is closer to the entire southern and western US than those areas are to New England. To be clear, I support eating/buying local at every opportunity, but as international trading partners go, shipping from Mexico is about as efficient as can be.

Hydroponics and indoor farming add significant cost, also

Given that tomatoes suffer when nighttime temperatures start going below 55°F (13°C), there is pretty much nowhere in the continental US where they can be grown successfully year-round without some sort of environmental control or protection.

I can't wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.

I don't know if I'd frame it as being "used," but this person is clearly toxic. He's miserable all the time and is trying to bring you down with him. He'd probably do that to anyone who lets him. Don't let him.

If you want to remain in his life in some capacity, you can put up strict boundaries, e.g. the conversation ends if he insults you or anything about you, and there is to be absolutely no "comforting" if he complains, and you should require he go to therapy. Alternatively, you could just stop seeing him entirely.

Yeah I usually at least try to read an article I comment on, but not in this case lmao

"Australian Broadcasting Company's Bluey" would be more accurate, Disney just has distribution rights in the US.

The comments on that YouTube video make me want to vomit