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    Billionaires, government officials owning stock, private campaign finance, the two party system, racism, sexism, health insurance, private equity, for profit prisons, for life Supreme Court appointments, Nazis, Zionism, Wall Street, unregulated banking,jobs that don’t pay a living wage, unaffordable housing, student debt, the police state and lobbyists

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    Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.

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        I saw a vlog that interviewed local farmers that were trying to be diverse planting strawberries and veggies. They explained that they were barely making it, but if they just planted corn the subsidies would kick in and they’re make a lot more.

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      I’m not sure that’s true.

      The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

      Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

      The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

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        🤣🤣🤣🤣 There are dozens of companies making electric tractors, AND in a rural area it is much more viable to have solar panels than to rely on the next diesel delivery, or make long trips to the nearest filling station.

        Areas with solar panels are even posting higher crop yields.

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          I’m sorry, can you point me to some of these dozens of companies making electric tractors? My farm could be in the market for a new tractor with equivalent run time and power capacity as our current JD 7R 270.

          https://www.deere.com/en/tractors/row-crop-tractors/row-crop-7-family/7r-270-tractor/

          I’ve tried searching for equivalents online and I’m struggling.

          Also not to move the goalposts, but I tried searching for an EV combine that can run a 14hr day during harvest with no downtime and I wasn’t able to find anything.
          Could you please point me towards some sources that would be available for the '26 harvest season?

          Call me a sealion or whatever you will, but those products aren’t available there is no EV market for full time farm equipment and there is nothing on the horizon other than some nice looking 3D renders and proposed spec sheets.

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          I think you misunderstand the economic choice that smaller farms are making. When you can get a 50 year old workhorse tractor for 20k that you can actually maintain yourself, it makes far more sense than any 200k+ tractor whether diesel or electric. Additionally folks are used to diesel, they’ve already got a big tank on the property that they refill every few months, and they might not have sufficient electrical connection to get several of the giant swapable battery packs for their tractors and keep one on the charge while they work.

          If farmers were starting from scratch, sure it might make sense to go all solar and all electric, but these are folks who are constantly squeezed for cash, constantly relying on crop insurance and well-timed loans and subsidies to stay afloat living on 200 year old farms that have been in the family since the land was stolen from the native Americans, and probably still using the equipment dad bought in the 60s and 70s because that’s the most financially viable option.

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              That’s one of the reasons why many smaller farms run 50-70 year old tractors, they’re machines designed to be maintained and kept running indefinitely so we have farmers using literal antiques to get work done. Literally they’ll drive off the field to the antique tractor ride then head back to the field to finish the days work after the ride.

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        A diesel engine can literally run on vegetable oil. We don’t need fossil fuel subsidies to keep farm tractors working.

        If we must distort the market directly, we should do so on the demand side. Give farmers a per-Joule fuel subsidy, and let them use petro-disel, bio-disel, or electric as the market may provide.

        Either we believe that markets work or we don’t

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          Obviously, there isn’t enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.

          In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.

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    Religion.

    It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…

    It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.

    We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.

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      People used to need religion to stop them from functioning the same as animals back then, but in this century, if someone needs to be told by a religion that murder is bad to stop them from doing it, then they should be locked up.

      Also so much molesting goes on at religious places that people just sweep under the rug. And what batshit crazy is going on with women in religions? Like there is a stoning sentence for a married woman who cheats, she just cheated! Get a freaking divorce and move on.

      Cults get so much shit but what exactly is the difference between a religion and cult? They sound pretty similar if you look from an outside perspective.

      The most important thing is we gotta think about the children. Just imagine how cruel it would sound to an alien.

      “We make our 9 year Old daughters up before sunrise every morning to pray but our sons can avoid that till they are 14”

      “We make our kids go without food or drinks for 16 hours everyday for a month every year. It is good for their body! (Kid passes out in the background)”

      “My daughter is having her first child too late. She is 14!”

      “So we send our daughters to be nuns, they will live there until they die.”

      “I cut my son’s dongdong.”

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    Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?

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      A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.

      So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.

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      Weirdly, Alaska, California, Guam, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and in the vast majority of cases Montana have no exemptions for tipped employees, and shockingly they still have restaurants. And customers aren’t paying exorbitant prices for food (except where I live in middle-of-nowhere island Alaska) compared to the rest of the country.

      It’s almost like their entire argument of not being able to keep their business if they have to actually pay their employees is either nonsense or a skill issue.

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    Humans organised by hierarchy.

    It never works and always ends with civilisations that ever attempt it collapsing. No matter how often we do the same dumb shit over and over it never works… Are we insane anons ?

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      It works in communities of around 100 people, like those human evolved in. Which is why this is our default organization structure, every form of government devolves to sooner or later. Maybe we should give up the idea of countries or at least try to keep it in check with smart laws somehow.

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      Oh we definitely are. We already have had so many profound human beings that to live well all that is needed is just listen to them and apply what they have said. But no, people choose to do dumb shit yet again and again

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      Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we’ve backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.

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        That’s not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there’s no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things

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          Sports. Watch the crowds in some European soccer or basketball matches and you’ll see how we managed to keep tribalism alive and well, but (mostly) harmless.

          (You need stadiums that can handle tens of thousands of people bouncing on the stands for ninety minutes without collapsing, though.)

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          In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.

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              Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.

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              equating skin colour with culture

              Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.

              I’m in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I’m a foreigner here because I’m white.

              It’s not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.

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    Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I’m going deeper and choosing bigotry.

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    July and August Add them to the end of the calendar or rename them properly, there is no reason September-December should have been globally accepted out of order for over 2000 years

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          My cellular yeah, though I don’t consider them an isp since most throttle or deprioritize data after ~50 gigs. But both isps I’ve had, and all of the friends who I’ve helped with networking stuff (basically all of them), IPv4. Sometimes, some janky ‘conversion’ at the modem that leaves them with just v4 anyway. That was with their isp-supplied hardware…