me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken ppl from farm country: haha I know right

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Wanted to help this escape Reddit containment: Farscape is popular in prisons (and in my house.)

The Pinky Guard #9 youtube.com/shorts/XS53L...

IT'S FINALLY POSTED. If you've ever wondered -what the Ballerina Farm dynasty is up to -if their meat is worth the $11/lb+ pricetag -how the trad hype stacks up against the real live Mormon women of the 1800s I got you covered youtu.be/yLZUWoDq9QA

We even have a real-life experiment that proves paying farm workers a fair wage can be done. And prices went up so little, PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE. In 2005, tomato pickers in FL struck a deal with Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, & others) to guarantee higher wages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...

put all the "we had anti-slavery regs for farm workers & Trump got rid of them back in June" videos in one place youtu.be/J8zit-g86v8

Alas, nope. 96% of US farms are family farms. Most of the so-called "corporate" farms are family farms. The families that own them just happen to be wealthy & have a lot of capital.

Did a thing on the Charlie Kirk shooting. Some thoughts on growing up LDS & how it can prime people for any & all kinds of radicalization. And how quick the right wing was to turn on Mormons. youtu.be/coJF2wq5BHY

If you think farmers voting for Trump was a bad decision, yes it was! I'm a farmer. Let's get into why so many of my fellow farmers STILL love this guy who ran on destroying us... again. youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8

Reading Keegan's excellent book "The Face of Battle." One of the most striking parts is when he talks about how, in general, it's hard to get people to kill each other, even in a combat setting. Especially true in the modern regular soldier era where looting and kidnapping are illegal.

patron of Old Joe's rag-and-bone shop faces criticism for recent comments about Ebenezer Scrooge's death: "If you want people to have kind words when you pass, you should say kind words while you're alive."

We have a big problem- for a big breadbasket nation, the US now grows surprisingly little food. We're now dependent on imports for basics like potatoes, ketchup, and even peanut butter. youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA

For those who want to joke about it, remember: "There are worse things than bad taste, and that is to live in fantasy...at least with the Thatcher death parties, you had some kind of recognition of reality" youtu.be/jreoohRcs0Q?...

love too arrive at a very specific marker of middle age, angrily making charts about trade deficits

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

Reading another book that claims, as if it's obviously true, the Soviet space program was ahead of the US. I spent a lot of time reading in this, and I just see it as zombie propaganda. The only reason the USSR even had an *apparent* edge is because it became fashionable to strap humans to rockets.

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Claude the Alligator at the Academy of Sciences yn wondrous San Francisco ys TURNINGE 30. We heare ynogh about the wretched Gen AI named Claude, but heere ys a Claude to be trulye celebrated, on a large *scale*! HAPPYE HATCHDAYE CLAUDE! www.calacademy.org/claudes-hatc...

"We had actually imposed red tape on ourselves. We had added all sorts of procedures, all sorts of bureaucracies that were not required by law, and those had actually been pushed by corporate interests." Lina Khan suggests abundance and antitrust go together:

My biggest concern about packing our health and social care services with people from abroad is the loss to their countries. Perhaps the UK should pay those countries for the education and healthcare…

Update I finally was told when I need to pay the rest of my room (that +350)! Bad news I need that 350 by fucking Tuesday [email protected] is my paypal.... Damn it damn it damn it this is gonna be a bad day

In fact, the history of working-class rebellion often intersects with tailors and shoemakers. Shoemaker Thomas Preston advocated for common ownership of land & democratic equality between sexes. Shoemakers were also behind the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy, where they tried to kill the Prime Minister

Reminds me of Lee Marvin, WWII Marine sniper and actor, pissed off that cops arrest gay ppl in bathrooms

Did a lil raw milk Q&A. "But they use raw milk in Europe and it's fine! Because they're clean artisanal dairies, not the factory farms we have here!" Nah... Europe still has outbreaks from raw milk *all the time.* At least two big ones in the last year alone. youtu.be/_nt98kxOjaE

well, thanks to CRISPR...

Right? It's real easy to make fun of how people used to boil the life out of veggies. But given the inevitable "poop everywhere" situation if you're on a small farm raising both veggies & livestock....there's a reason they did that.

MW's Words First Used In Print in your birth year is your personal We Didn't Start The Fire: commoditize compact disc core inflation de-stress closed-captioned first world problem female genital mutiliation laser disc laser printer hip-hop space elevator ... www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...

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Counting, and therefore numbers, depends on what is considered the same and what is different; what is included in the set of things to be counted and what is excluded. All decisions with political import.

I'm actually reading a novel right now about a time-traveling doctor who's marooned in the 12th century, and in order to hide where they're from, must use period-accurate healing methods I'd recommend it, but it's an unpublished manuscript written by a family member XD

A book is the medium in which, uniquely, another voice entirely occupies your inner monologue for hours at a time. You are not looking in, you are looking out through someone else. Not just any someone else either, but with the right book, some brilliant person at their best.

the original Harry Potter books were written in 1922-1926 and called "Harry's Wizard Japes."

All these British Wodehouse men have nicknames that belong to purse dogs. Bingo. Bertie. Tuppy. Boco. Biffy. Bonzo. Gussie. Oofy. Stinker. Beefy. Chuffy. Stiffy?!? Barmy. It’s amazing.

I was on a call earlier today with an incredible fire fighter who said “in order to do the big easy, you have to do the small and complex.” Exactly right.

I find it delightful that Nazi Germany kept asking scientists in other European countries for The Penicillin Strain and everybody just kept intentionally sending them useless strains instead.

Well, everyone, I've found it: the academic paper with the worst pun title possible. The search can finally end. This cannot be beat.

i don't think the average american would believe me if i told them there's a state in india that's like 80% christian and specifically baptist

never forget this conversation between President Johnson and his tailor

What I’m thinking when you tell me you used A.I. to accomplish a task.

I started wanting to really understand how the atomic bomb was built. I ended up wanting to learn how we found the atom, so I made a massive video about it! Huge thanks to @drskyskull.bsky.social for going over some physics with me! youtu.be/BUV8XYaZ4EU

No actually this is a perfect moment to nitpick this. I've worked with convict crews on farms. Believe me when I tell you, the LAST thing convict labor crews want is violent offenders with a track record of successfully beating people up.

having vague & incoherent thoughts on how we frame current events & how that shapes our response we keep framing it as "we're headed towards becoming Nazi Germany" but there's also "we're already in Jim Crow 2" yep there's overlap, but VERY different in how long they lasted & how they ended.

Everybody who says “everybody should know how to cook and eat leftovers!” should read Robert Caro’s ‘Working’ and the passage about what life was like for women in the Hill Country before electricity. Anything that moves us further away from that life is worth celebrating. Viva tech and restaurants!

Tom Lehrer was the best. R.I.P. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Wish Prof. Newman was over here posting about antitrust, because this is a real banger:

I guess I'm impressed that Microsoft is finding new ways to make devices crash

Due to tariffs, we're likely to hear a lot about farm mental health as harvest approaches this year. Especially scary stories about farmer suicide. So let's get it on the record now. The "farmer suicide epidemic" of the last few years in the US is not real. It's a lobbying tactic.