They don't always have to fire a gun. Choking people to death is just as effective. Sitting on them. Tazeing them repeatedly.

Common refrain from my perspective. No wonder kids don't like fruit. It's bred to survive picking and transport with minimal damage, often seedless, and have as long a shelf life as possible while looking attractive. It's picked under-ripe by a big margin.

It tastes like shit. Pithy, flavorless, sour, etc. Some vegetables even fall into this trap. They're big, pretty, and pithy. Dry. Hard.

It's been a noticeable shift since I was a kid, and I was spoiled by growing up in a major fruit-growing area. Could pick up a flat of fresh strawberries for $6. Fresh melons, tree fruit, berries...all were available during the summer. Didn't have too much cooler-climate fruit like apples though. That fruit was better than candy many times.

I've been making an effort to try to locate as much fruit or whatever to grow ourselves that tastes right, looks be damned. It's a lot harder than I thought. Many of the seeds found at stores around this time of year are hybrids that often fall into the same commercial trap - big, showy, and shitty. You've got to go places like Seed Savers Exchange and buy the older varieties that are less fucked with.

Like a greentext...just made up BS. Really, the "cowboy" was the only one dressed appropriately for weather?

Frittering my life away, latibulating on my corner computer, earning skins, frippery, for my gaming character, while wearing my haku...a gaming headset.

But according to Putin Russia is an awesome place. How could they need assistance with military hardware from Iran?

Running wires is expensive. That's why most people opt for wireless, and on top of that, the convenience systems like Ring offer with their app, no NVR/DVR, none of the typical security system hardware cluttering things up.

No, fuck the people that take the founding fathers as infallible - when it suits their argument. The FF did what they did, and at the time it was groundbreaking, but they didn't count on populist stupidity taking what they wrote and amplifying the worst parts of it ad nauseam.

You talk with someone and have an interesting discussion, somebody says something incredibly snarky/quippy instead of engaging “in good faith” and the other person gets dog piled on, or it devolves into a flame war and insults start flying.

TBF this is every Internet forum ever.

The solution is tight moderation. However, that ends up with the same old tired argument of limiting speech and the the user base because people don’t want to participate somewhere highly restrictive. We wind up with moderator fiefdoms because people are biased and some get over controlling when they get a little power. It’s a really hard balance to strike.

They’re selling the views. If they can’t show the house, it’s a dump.

To add on - the feed we give cattle exacerbates methane production in their gut.

Cattle fed high-grain, low-forage diets produce 42% more methane than those fed-low grain, high-forage diets (Boadi et al.,2004). Methane (CH4) is composed of carbon and hydrogen. The formulation of diet influences the carbon: nitrogen ratio of manure, which impacts the amount of methane released. Diets high in grain have higher levels of readily fermentable carbohydrates, which create methane to be released into the atmosphere. Grain type can also change the amount of methane emissions. During the finishing phase, cows fed a corn-based diet released less methane than cows fed a barley-based diet (Beauchemin and McGinn, 2005).

So there is nothing “natural” about the excess methane produced by cattle because if they were naturally foraging the amount produced is lower.

Haha…yeah. That’s how it works. 🙄

Right? The only people that seem to hate on the EU are the ones being prevented from profiting off of it the way they abuse Americans.