I embarrassingly did something similar (lighted up a firework in my mouth and took a long inhale straight to lungs like a cigarette before throwing it away nonchalantly seconds before explosion) when I was young and stupid. But 41 cmon
And also I didn’t care about my life whatsoever unlike now but I was still stupid because there are less painful and quicker ways to go. I was too much of a coward to approach suicide seriously so I gambled with life seeing no value or sense in it all.
Still have burn scars from extinguishing cigarettes on my own skin, they are super ugly but also remind me of the long road travelled and how much better I am doing now.
What is ironic is that some good people that cherished life and were really, diligent and kindhearted are gone or on the streets or went insane. While I was desperately trying to fuck it all up and made a poor job out of it in the end. Just because I was given randomly better brain at birth that did what they diligently strived so hard for as if it was nothing at all or better parents or more money
How many openly queer farmers and ranchers are there? Does sexual orientation have any relevancy at tractor supply? I use a co-op most of the time because tsc is overpriced on majority of stuff
There are, also, a lot of queer farmers (raises hands emphatically). More than you might think, apparently. I have other options but I have spent a lot of money there because it was convenient - in the same area as a farmer’s market we used to sell at.
Not discounting small farms at all. Honestly thought anyone on more than a few acres wouldn’t shop at TSC unless they had to. But I’ll admit I don’t know a lot about that life.
Not surprised there are vastly more small farms than large farms, but what does it look like in terms of acres?
As bad as it sounds (in response to the “more than you might think, apparently”), it’s not as if the stereotypes have much overlap.
Not surprised there are vastly more small farms than large farms, but what does it look like in terms of acres?
Acres don’t actually matter, especially for people who (a) have little idea what an acre is; (b) have little idea what an acre can produce. It’s not uncommon for a small farm that sells direct to consumers to net > $25k per acre while a commodity farmer might be lucky to hit $1k. And that’s the problem with the USDA numbers around “production value” in that report - I need to find a source for this but when last I dug into it, it turned out they treat everything as commodities at wholesale value and don’t use the actual retail sale value because they don’t have that data. IOW if I sell potatoes for $2/lb cash they will tend to see it as maybe $0.75 / lb. Meaning production value for direct-to-consumer is vastly under-reported.
All this said, 45% of all agricultural land in the US is “small family farms”.
Interesting thought popped into my head. Is it technically fraud? The headline is intentionally misleading to get you to click, which will show you ads that gets them money. The only gap is the it isn’t your money they get.
Which, of course, ignores the fact that there are likely multiple people from various races, ethnicities, genders and other identities which are all about equally qualified and getting a black woman in an administration run by a white man could bring needed perspective.
I don’t know what to say to that. I didn’t say it matters, and I was trying to participate in the discussion thread.
My opinion is that the spirit of DEI is good, but sometimes I have personally witnessed first hand a decline in performance standards. I’ve worked for years with/near the federal government and I’ve seen what appears to be a particularly blatant DEI push at the cost of performance.
And an Asian colleague recounted to me that a school he was trying to send his child to had recently come under pressure to “loosen” their admittance test requirements because white and Asian folks were overrepresented. I’m sure you’re aware of the similar controversies at universities over the last decades.
When it comes to DEI, I’m not against any people or class of people, but it’d be intellectually dishonest to not recognize the inherent conflict here when you start considering people’s race as an admittance factor. Maybe the intention is to only give the minority an edge when performance with a white peer is exactly the same, but that’s not precisely what happens every time. It’s not something that makes me angry, and it may even be the right thing to do, at least in some cases. I only recognize it.
When it comes to DEI, I’m not against any people or class of people, but it’d be intellectually dishonest to not recognize the inherent conflict here when you start considering people’s race as an admittance factor.
…ignoring the fact that for over a century, whiteness has been the easiest way to get a job when there’s an equally qualified black person.
Of course that’s the spin this psychotic cunt is putting on it, but DEI hires are a real thing, and they don’t have to have a bad implication - let’s not let them own this phrase.
lol. They want folks to step aside so they can seize power and then use that power to subjugate the people they’re threatening violence against. But, you know, later it’ll be institutional violence.
Those fuckers deserve a drink. A Molotov Cocktail.
Heh. “On the house!”
Edit: Apparently I need to explain. I’m a farmer. Not one farm - not one single farm - I know will sell you either chicks or full grown chickens as some part of their regular operations. Mainly because it’s a pain in the ass and not profitable unless you are highly specialized and only producing chicks, in which case you are probably contracting with someone like TSC, using the cheapest feed imaginable and likely not making much money.
Now I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions to this. There are probably hobby-ish farms around that will sell you a few chicks for random reasons. And you might get lucky and some farm has an excess for some reason, but generally any farm that’s producing eggs or meat birds needs to keep those chicks. I mean, I’m not kidding, it’s a real struggle to make any money at all even with eggs at $7-8 a dozen.
But you are not, typically, just going to go down to your “local farm” (remember those?) and buy chicks. Go ahead, if you don’t believe me call around.
Uhhhh what? It sure as fuck does, in many regions of the world, and HAS for centuries. It even works that way in the US, in a lot of places - unless you happen to be in a weirdly cutthroat-capitalist area somehow.
I’ve edited my original post to explain why I say this. It boils down to this: it doesn’t make financial sense to raise chickens for sale to random people. If there is one thing you can count on, it’s that farms simply can’t afford to do things that don’t make money.
But go ahead and try it. Call the 5 farms nearest you to ask if you can buy chickens or full grown hens (roosters don’t count!) and report back. If you are lucky there is some hobby farm that doesn’t care about making money… but that’s gonna be the exception.
I tend to hope they were meaning getting accidentally fertilized chicks, which happens. I bet they could get a free cat or two while they’re there.
I assume you mean fertilized eggs or… just chicks? I suppose some might give them away. I don’t know why you would though. For anyone I know, myself included, chicks mean income. You are replacing expired layers. Or you feed them to the cats.
Wtf are you talking about? We often rent out or sell our layers all the time. We contract with Miller’s for our broilers and fryers as well. I’d be happy to sell someone who calls a setup. All they have to do is build their coop as that’s out of my purview. I’m not a hobby farmer either as my contracts pay my mortgage and fund my retirement savings and the kid’s college fund.
Well good for you, you are either solely or primarily a chicken operation although I suspect by USDA definition you are in fact a hobby farmer - no offense here, just pointing out the economics of it matter. The original comment here asserted people could just go to any random farm, show up, and buy chick(en)s. I don’t know a single commercial operation that would do that. And the funny notions people get about ag in general are, well, mildly annoying.
It’s the scale of realized profit over time. And I said USDA but meant IRS. If you were filing a schedule F I’d have expected you’d have been very aware of this, corrected me and understood that it’s important to get that right lest the IRS label you a hobby farm, aka “not-for-profit-farm” (not the same as 501c*) which has huge implications for taxes. That you immediately got offended is telling - being a hobby farm doesn’t mean you aren’t a good farmer or large-scale one but it does mean you don’t do it as your sole source of income or even necessarily for a profit, which is foundational to my claim.
My claim - and it’s only one simple claim - is not unfounded and can be easily verified: anybody here can call up local farms. I’d bet not 1 in 10 commercial farm (ie not a hobby farm) anywhere in the US would want to sell you chickens, and that’s being generous. That you are literally a small scale chicken farm that you run for extra income, if you are paying attention, aligns with my point. Edit: I should point out here that your sample size is 1. Mine is maybe 15 local to me where we’ve specifically complained about this to each other and another dozen or so around the country who’s sentiment about this I’m familiar with.
Alas, I wasn’t aware that I needed “credentials” to make this simple and again easily verified statement, but I have 20 years experience as a commercial farmer selling organic specialty crops retail and wholesale with farming being my sole source of income during most of that period. Production > 50-100k lbs annually. And yes, profitable… enough that I retired this year to save that last little scrap of my health I have left.
In truth this is a pretty stupid ‘discussion’. The only reason I even responded is because I’m a bit sick of the overly romanticized pastoral paradise view of farming that views farmers as country bumpkins and not a business. People have no conception that farming is fucking hard and we’re not there for your amusement. I got this type of call periodically - “hey will you sell me just one little pet goat/cow/chicken/rabbit?” or worse “can I come pet your goats/cows/chickens/rabbits?”. Even talking to these people costs me time I don’t have. It’s not an income stream it’s a pain in the ass.
So you don’t have any experience raising livestock or farming produce then. Noted.
It’s funny to me that you keep harping on “credentials” without ever addressing the substance of my argument. LOL.
But to your odd reply: I’ve done chickens, goats, sheep, and dairy cows but my main thing has always been veggies.
The fact that you clearly do not know what “speciality crops” means tells me you are not very experienced or educated in ag, in general. It’s a very common, well-established and frequently used term that really anybody in the farming world should know. It means more or less anything that’s intended to be sold directly to people for direct consumption and not processed, ie that isn’t a commodity, which since you may not know, is crops like wheat, corn, soy beans that are refined before being sold to consumers.
I think we’ve reached the point where you’ve demonstrated that your only rebuttals are “because I said so”, “I need to argue for reasons”, and “you suck” and that you simply do not have a good grasp of the fundamentals, hence your inability to make any point at all.
So have a nice day and maybe read up on some ag topics before attempting to engage on the topic.
Oh yes indeed. What an aggy you are. Do tell me more about these specialty crops I’ve not referred to at all. Or all your various farming you’ve done because of course there’s no money in specialized equipment or process.
Ya know for me, in my life generally, I love being wrong. I’m perfectly secure in my person, my experience and my sense of self-worth, so being wrong about things - and to be clear that means in essence being ignorant of something - is a wonderful opportunity to learn. I truly relish it and am very quick, when presented with anything even resembling credible evidence, to consider it and change my view if it’s compelling enough.
For example in this case, if instead of lobbing ad hominem attacks ad nauseam you had offered something substantive - even anecdotal - I might have learned that my view of this trivial topic is not universal and/or in other areas more people are wiling to sell chick(en)s to random people. It’s sad that didn’t happen and it’s kind of silly because anybody could have done it - just call some random farms or talk to farmers you know.
Since you were unwilling or unable to do that you demonstrate not knowledge but insecurity, which really makes it hard to take anything you say seriously.
I’m sure this article was meant to be negative, I would be more concerned if that was not happening. If people are worrying about Biden’s cognitive abilities, that’s who needs to be involved.
Unfortunately the most concerned with this will be Americans, who by and large do not seek medical attention unless something is already seriously wrong.
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