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Am from Atlanta and grew up reading AJC. Can confirm that the paper is pretty dedicated to investigative journalism and has uncovered some shit in the past (APS cheating scandal was the one that came to mind). Keep up the good work!

That's because you had a naturally ripened cantaloupe. Most of the fruit sold in supermarkets are picked in various stages of unripe and ripened through exposure to ethylene during the transportation stage.

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Most fruit do, to varying degrees. Ethylene sensitivity and ethylene production are important factors in packing and shipping fresh produce. For example, bananas are ethylene sensitive and apples, as you mentioned, are producers of ethylene. You never want to put apples and bananas in the same shipping container because of this, as the bananas will arrive too ripe to sell.

The thing that bugs me is to a lot of people, there is a distinction between social media spaces and "the real world." When you spend so much time and get so much of your information and worldview in virtual spaces, those spaces become very real.