If this isn’t your neighbor’s first garden, I’d assume they’re correct, cucumbers can definitely grow like this. There are even heirloom varieties that always grow round, they’re also more yellow than common cucumber varieties. Easiest way to tell would be to cut into one.

Then it’s not a solar power race, it’s a manufacturing race? Of course we lost that, we gave that up like 60 years ago!

Neat! Unrelated, but neat!

Not being in a race is a sure way to neither win or lose and just kind of do your own thing. With sunshine, this is exceedingly easy.

They’re not stealing the sunshine from us, it hits them over there. We can still make more solar panels, we haven’t lost anything irretrievably.

I didn’t even know we were racing. What are the results, are we, like, not allowed to do solar power now? What does China get for winning, a free car or something?

Seriously, why does everything have to be framed as some kind of zero-sum international “race”?