It reads exactly like the kind of work that goes into growing plant crops, which is good. It’s the sort of study that needs to be done if something is going to be considered for a possible major food source.

Taber addresses this in her videos and her sources are linked in the description. I highly recommend watching a few then drawing your own conclusion vis-à-vis something like More Perfect Union.

The TLDW on the suicide rate is that it sounds terrible when comparing occupations, but when compared with the cohort that mostly represents farmers, ie “rural, white men over 40 who own guns”, the rate isn’t exceptional. It’s a terrible statistic but it doesn’t say as much about farming as it does about mental health in general in the USA.

Regarding the economics, it’s terrible for everyone but farmers get a lot of attention because of how important the image of farmers is to Americans. That said, both personal and farm bankruptcies are still below pre-pandemic levels. Arkansas picked here because of the MPU video, but it’s pretty much the same story nationwide.

I agree with the MPU video that the farming economy is super broken, over-consolidated, and warped, but that kind of goes for every industry. Perversely enough, farmers make more income under Democrat administrations, but they make less in subsidies. So they tend to vote R. Taber actually ran for agricultural commissioner for her state as a Democrat but lost to the Republican incumbent.

They are chill, these headlines are never as devastating as they seem because farmers have a special class of bankruptcy that is designed to allow them to keep farming. Farmers in the USA, even non-corporate “family farms”, are much bigger and richer than many people think. The image of the struggling, poor, small family farm being the “norm” is promoted by the industry despite being outdated because it drives subsidies.

I really like Sarah Taber’s videos on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9A5_4tQw

I don’t think this is necessary in the USA. They can just execute you and say they felt like they were in danger, and then some dirt-digger finds out you shoplifted when you were 17 and that’s that.

In this universe he dabbled in Mormonism and briefly lived with the drummer from the Monkees.

Yeah, I fantasize about moving “sideways” often. Wherever I am, I wonder what that location is like in the untouched East/West + 1. Then I remember I have some medical metal in my body. It’s not critical, but it would be a little worrisome to jump back and see it sitting on the ground.

As someone who occasionally peers into the Bigfoot fandom, trans-dimensional, alien Bigfoot is a thing. As in, the reason we haven’t found him yet is because he can disappear into portals. Sort of like “The Long Earth” but instead of Terry Pratchett it’s poorly written youtube scripts with AI thumbnails.

Hah, this happens in Maya too. At some point some sort of on-save event was added that dirties the scene graph. There’s a command that reports the number of unsaved changes and since like 2012 it’s never returned zero.

Not quite the same thing as 3-in-ONE, but these folks are Canadian. For example ACF-50 gets used on snowblower augers.

https://www.learchem.com/products/acf-50.html

These folks are also Canadian:

https://krown.com/en/products

Based and The-Unparalleled-Adventure-of-One-Hans-Pfaall pilled.

Right… so bringing hundreds, or maybe thousands, of gallons of a fatty emulsion up to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time and then chilling it again. Also must be food grade material and will require frequent cleaning/sterilizing. Don’t forget the energy cost either. A lot more expensive than not doing any of this.

These raw milk people think the dairy industry just decided one day to start pasteurizing… an expensive process that requires special equipment… just for shits? People were fed up with watching their children die…

I’m also convinced these people have never seen the hind end of a cow.

Waiting for this gentleman to get a public apology: https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-after-heckling-prince-andrew-during-royal-procession-12695924

Investment money has basically dried up. Even indies need that, unless you mean the “one person in their garage working off Patreon” type of studio. For awhile Chinese companies were holding down the fort and trying to expand in North America, but they’ve largely withdrawn that strategy and focused on domestic production. That’s why so many indie studios working on their first game shut down in the last two years.

For this to reverse itself interest rates will need to come down, but for that to happen without catastrophic inflation we would need several years of un-fucked monetary policy. So basically it’s fucked for a long time and possibly will never exist again in the way it did. This is on top of all the other issues the vfx/game industries have with crunch, chaotic management, etc.

IDK, it’s fun to think about because maybe the 128 bit UUID is still being used due to 40k-like levels of technical debt, and also weird edge cases that cause ID explosion. Like maybe the 4000 year old spec says we need to track micrometeoroids too, sorry.

TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.

New Year’s Resolution: I’m going to “reform” my body by going from obese to morbidly obese.

I could see people in the USA reflexively denying this is true because of the dramatic nature of “kill line”, but if you used the phrase, “barely keeping my head above water” or, “treading water” they would agree it’s true.