I’m so ready for a vacation to the Caribbean side of Mexico, I just don’t trust the world enough to do it. Like Pandora’s box, lockdowns and travel restrictions once seen stick with you.

We have Berkshire and Red Wattle. I’ve read a bit about Kunekune, the maturity time seems to be longer and the yield smaller. What is the attraction to the breed? What do they do well, and better than the others?

Skepticism is asking a dogma to offer provable facts to substantiate the ideals within the the system of beliefs. As a well versed childhood acolyte of the Christian faith, I’d be happy to have a discussion about this, though you should probably know going in that I may offer facts that fracture the foundation of your faith. I don’t believe there is ever a justified reason to move past skeptical analysis of one’s beliefs, even less so when the belief itself eschews critical analysis as blasphemous acts against its deity.

Generally skunks are a benefit to pest control efforts. The raccoons are a far bigger threat to our chickens. What are you protecting from the skunks?

I doubt fascism, ruthless dictators, or the corrupt governance seen in the US and the UK has much to do currently, or has ever had much to do with the will of the governed. The path to a population conquered by the governance is a long and intentional move with familiar waysides…phantom fears, mass disarmament, conditioned tolerance toward Machiavellian public policy.

I think R is really decent, though I have no experience with any other software for comparison.

I believe Putin will engage in nuclear war before he tolerates the Ukraine aligned with NATO.

The things we call character and personality are likely amalgamations of all possible mental illness on a spectral scale. It’s extreme imbalance that makes a characteristic mental illness able to be diagnosed.

Well, for my part I appreciate organic women. I appreciate organic men too. Use and enjoy what you’re born with. Maybe it will be different when your energy comes around again.

Stated by a man who committed suicide. What did he eventually see that led to that final solution? Was it final or just another step?

If it’s a nuclear apocalypse I hope I’m vaporized in the first wave. Trust me. Death is preferable to what will ensue.

Probably by trading labor for resources with those people. Probably killing them if an accord cannot be reached.

RFK isn’t a politician. Lawyer, sure. I’m sure his platform isn’t perfect, but I think he’s a step in the right direction.

Awesome. 👍

Hey just a canning note about tomatoes. You’ll want to ensure that the pH is below 4. Some tomatoes are not acidic enough to provide that and botulism can be a concern. In those cases, citrus juice, citric acid, or strong vinegar can bring the pH down to acceptable levels.

The rich do control the outcome today, and have consistently throughout history. Democracy leads to the majority overtaking the wealth accumulations of those capable of wealth production. I think the problem with our current governmental circumstance is the lack of incentive for the wealthy to be good stewards for the masses. There is no recourse for the impoverished, there is no guillotine to behead the corporate hydras that rule every country on earth today. Humans have always needed royalty for leadership, but that leadership served the people sufficiently or they were deposed violently. Aristotle advocated for a welfare state, Madison advocated for a republic represented by wealthy land owners, let’s just acknowledge that not everyone is capable of gathering or properly managing wealth and power. Our leadership should come from those who have proven the ability to do those things personally, not those who pander and provide accommodations to our global corporate industrial overlords. #RFK

I think probably more. My understanding is that no one knows exactly what caused the Permian Extinction event, it could have been volcanic activity, it could have been a massive meteor strike. We do know that a massive amount of carbon was captured by the life on the planet and subsequently sequestered away from the atmosphere in the earthen strata from that era. We also know that life on the planet is dynamic and evolves to accommodate the mean living conditions on the planet over time. It’s sudden change, the change that happens faster than evolutionary time that causes problems for existing life forms, particularly those with longer lifespans. If the food web crashed tomorrow flooding the atmosphere with hydrogen sulfide gas, the microbes would have those conditions adapted to in a matter of days. We would be wiped from the face of the earth as a species in hours. Managing global CO2 levels doesn’t mean moving away from hydrocarbon fuels, it does mean stop pulling them out of the strata at a rate the evolutionary processes on the planet cannot adapt to. The oceans are turning to acid as they absorb the CO2 we’re putting into the atmosphere with industrial activity, literally martyring itself for our short term survival. The tipping point is fast approaching. The corals say it all. We won’t survive a oceanic food web crash.

Aristotle and James Madison seemed to think so along with their contemporaries. Their solutions to the problems with democracy were different though.

Literally anything to keep zaps easy and flowing freely. It’s super important.

I can work in Linux terminal. I’m not familiar with Umbrel yet, but any Arch distribution is good.