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Doctor: Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?
Patient: Good news please.
Doctor: we're naming a disease after you.

As someone who lived with actual subsistance farmers for a couple years, I have to roll my eyes at survivalists and other farm romanticizers who blithely talk about "we'll grow our own food!" as if that were the easier option than keeping our society's ship afloat.

Farming to feed yourself is hard. Really hard. Y'all have no idea.

The best thing about living in a rural place after a winter storm is how quiet it is. Everything is still. Quite calming. #VermontWinter

Seven studies reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers.
voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uplo

While most drivers stayed in their lanes and left the animals undisturbed, 6% went out of their lane to run over the animals—a shocking 89% of those perpetrators were driving SUVs.
thenewswheel.com/drivers-purpo

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What's the difference between a hedgehog and a BMW?
With a BMW, all the pricks are on the inside.

Study Shows That BMW Drivers Most Likely to be Psychopaths
motorillustrated.com/study-sho

British Psychopaths Prefer BMW And Audi
forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor

BMW drivers used public transportation lane violating traffic rules significantly more often than drivers of other brands.
researchgate.net/publication/3

#forestry #dendrology #agriculture #silvopasture

'Silvopasture is an ancient farming practice that integrates trees, pastures and livestock, to help farmers increase profits, support livestock production and protect the climate.

The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is offering a program this spring to teach South Carolina producers about the establishment, management and economics of silvopasture systems on their properties.'

news.clemson.edu/integrating-t

"Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 passenger jet awaiting takeoff"

It seems that Boeing planes are loosely connected collections of assorted parts.

But think of the fuel savings without the weight of all those nuts and bolts.

theguardian.com/business/2024/

As a person practising civil disobedience I'm ready to lose many things,but losing my dad's support is the hardest.Hearing him saying that I dishonor the family's name with actions like this 👉twitter.com/UltimaGenerazi1/st is hard.But many activists go through this. Here the 10 articles telling about my travel-in German: taz.de/Gianluca-Grimalda/!a141

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Lots of very nasty swearing (self-censorship).
Happens when you absolutely can't get into a text, with a deadline breathing down your neck. I've already tried everything: Walking across boggy meadows, staring at goats (they stare back but don't help you), asking a raven (he wanted walnut royalty!), writing, turning on more lights, more writing. This evil text resists. 😭
@writingcommunity @writers

#writing #writersLife #writer

Did you know that when your garlic goes bad and starts to grow you can plant the cloves and each one will grow into a whole new bulb plus you can eat the scapes the grow on the top? True. #gardening #nature #garlic

"Anonymity is part of a healthy society" - Privacy Camp Quotes.

Sometimes wisdom is taking a step back from the edge of doom

#Cats Snapped from Facebook

shoutout dla @stfn za postawienie bota @energetykapolska, dzięki któremu udało mi się przekonać kilka osób do zrewidowania swoich poglądów na temat efektywności elektrowni nie-węglowych

Posiedzenie komisji śledczej badającej wybory kopertowe w 2020 r. wciąż trwa, dlatego wrzucamy ciekawą rzecz:

✏️Dziennikarze „Wyborczej” kolejny raz podjęli próbę wizualizacji danych o gminach, które przekazały (lub nie przekazały) Poczcie Polskiej dane o spisie wyborców.

Informacje użyte w tekście zostały zebrane przez Sieć Obywatelska - Watchdog Polska.

biqdata.wyborcza.pl/biqdata/7,

Mapa Watchdogów dostępna także bez paywalla: google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?l

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