Gnats. And flies.
Probably a huge food source for other organisms, so I guess they better keep on existing… Might upset some important balance otherwise…
But they can be a nuisance for sure!Yeah, i know, spiders and the like. But mosquitoes on the other hand are apparently not even a good food source.
@chunes Rupert Murdoch.
Electricity
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 ?
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.
Nazis.
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
Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.
farm subsidies too, the only reason they are even here is because its a large voting block.
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.
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.
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
🤣🤣🤣🤣 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.
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?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.
Ahahah, tractor you can maintain yourself. In America. What a joke
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.
The belief that somehow through democracy and a constitution written by slave owners, somehow a country with half of the population being crazy, nationalistic nazis and the other half believing it’s enough to live with these kind of people because of said democracy and constitution, that somehow society can go on and prosper just 'cause.
Internal combustion engines… We just don’t need them anymore.
Their continued use really only measures up to hubris.
I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:
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.
Actually there is… Like i said before there are many high quality electric tractors. I have even seen so many farmers even convert their old tractors to electric in response to John Deere’s shitty policies.
Farm equipment doesn’t care what is is run on.
Even if that were true they’re not presently in common use. Agriculture presently runs on diesel.
Donald Trump and the GOP
Stupidity and ignorance.
Lithography… That’s the origin of phones, satellites, and rapid communication which apparently is something we as a species can’t handle.
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, the police state and lobbyists
Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it’s cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment
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