You had luck that the thing was dead (fired most of their stinging cells) and that bluebottle doesn't sting normally if pick by the floater, but a several hours dead jellyfish is still perfectly able to scar your arm for life.
Some jellyfishes can left easily permanent scars, including nasty keloid scars that keep growing for years. A small encounter with a bluebottle can left marks visible five years after.
But you can add a lot of variations depending on the crop. A few don't mind to have their feet submerged permanently. Other are from dry climates and can be watered once in a blue moon.
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A big point is economics. As space, seeds, pots and materials are expensive, home growing vegetables are expected to be more expensive than mass produced market vegetables. Sun space is specially valuable in a city. Too much shadowing.
The newbie strategy will be to grow the easiest crops, but these are also the cheapest. A better objective could be to grow the most productive and expensive product possible instead to waste your precious balcony space culturing 100 pots of lettuce
It should be also organic. Because chemicals make the bill skyrocket, and because if you want vegetables with pesticides the market is plenty of the same, but bigger and for less money so eating good food without plastics and poisons is what make the effort worth it
Secondary goals should be to save time and gas (less travels to the supermarket), and to have full control over the process so you know what you ear, and to enjoy the process of having vegetable "pets" at home. In that sense lettuce can be competitive again, because the success ratio is high and can be used daily. Just don't spend 3 dollars in stuff to obtain a 1 dollar lettuce. Is 90% water.
Your goal should be to produce good food without the added waxes, plastic envelop, and pesticides, not to grow the biggest and most perfect vegetable in the planet.
And another thing to consider is that some crops taste much better when fresh harvested. Freshly picked sweet peas or baby carrots taste much better than those put in a fridge or left for hours in a market. Apples or tomatoes are a totally different world also.
In a balcony use the vertical space with climbers (zucchini, scarlet beans). Pumpkins will grow well also, but some are very heavy and you must assure that none grow in a way that can't fall to the street, over somebody. Tiny pots give tiny crops.
"the collision occurred after one train stopped on the line unexpectedly due to an Automatic Warning System fault causing it to brake. It was then hit from behind by the second train that had passed a red stop signal protecting the stationary train in front"
The train collided rear-end into the rear carriages of the other train and derailed, which also resulted in the three rear carriages of the first train to derail
- This was Białośliwie train collision (Poland) in June 2026
The front of the train crashed into the back of the first train that stopped for unknown reasons. Thousands injured, seven dead. 8 November 2026. Egypt.
Just one day after Putin meeting with the president of Egypt at the 2026 Russia-Africa Summit. What a year...
Also because nobody feels profitable to use Waymo to seed chaos and create riots. In that case the situation will change drastically in a couple minutes.
People would still blame Waymo, not the government, so there is not any gain unless you are a Waymo's competitor.
Hum, I wonder just right now if allowing the train to go to full speed (and giving priority to the restart over other trains) was related with the pressure of carrying a prominent politician. Have the team of the ex-minister pressed RENFE with the need to arrive urgently so "just ignore the protocol this time"?.
Is speculation of course but at this moment we must evaluate every hypothesis.
Politicians are the kind of people that are caught in the highway driving at 200 Km/h, just to arrive in time to a meeting in a 20 people's village. Could explain the strange control behavior.
You had luck that the thing was dead (fired most of their stinging cells) and that bluebottle doesn't sting normally if pick by the floater, but a several hours dead jellyfish is still perfectly able to scar your arm for life.
Some jellyfishes can left easily permanent scars, including nasty keloid scars that keep growing for years. A small encounter with a bluebottle can left marks visible five years after.
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