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@gwensnyder.bsky.social You could borrow a catapult and hurl those bags over the house into the back yard. I mean, the dirt will be all spread around that way, too.

@rvaweather Right! I'll be wide awake for a while now.

@rvaweather Up here by BWI, heavy rain, lightning. I was looking out the front door and lightning hit about as close to the house as I've ever seen.

Man, I was just looking out the front door during this storm and lightning hit about as close as I've ever had it hit. Okay, I got the message!

@flexghost It was years ago, but I recall getting a pizza from Pizza Hut and was surprised that it was really good. You expect bland from chain restaurants, but it was very tasty.

@bigtuffal Hey, this was really, really good! I know of Linkin Park but wasn't listening much to music when they were big. This Gordi does a great job on this song, very nice of you to post it!

When I was working in a factory, I recall hearing "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers and it was a big hit at the time. I never really liked it although I liked a lot of their other songs. But then I heard Kara Grainger do it and it was incredible. It's astonishing how someone can redo a song and make it sound so much different than the first time around.

@kuranobi @sarahtaber Same here! I watch pretty much all her videos and by no means am I a farmer. But she and Phillips O'Brien make me think about things in a different way after I watch or read them. She's great.

Someone here said collectivism is how we humans survived and progressed as a species. My question is, what "progress" are we talking about here? I don't see any such thing. For one thing, "progress" toward what? What seems to have happened about 10-12kya was a more stable climate (after the Ice Age) than any other time in H. sapiens history and some humans turning toward sedentism, staying in one place, rather than nomadic foraging and hunting. This was change but how it could be called "progress" I don't understand.

@attoparsec Cool, just like anarchy, something everyone does every day but doesn't even think about it.

Two people I trust to at least do their best to tell me what's really going on: Sarah Taber who does videos on farming ("Farm to Taber" channel) and Phillips O'Brien who writes and does interviews about Ukraine, Iran, and the murderous idiots who start wars and get so many people killed without really having any idea or caring what they are doing.
Sarah Taber has opened my eyes as to what "family" vs. "corporate" farming is really about (all corporate farms are family farms, if I understand her). Phillips O'Brien likewise has really made me think far differently about what is going on in Ukraine, Iran, and war overall than I did before I started reading and listening to him.
Both of them have also made me see that quite a few analysts and reporters are too often botching things up in writing about these areas. It's a bit disheartening but as a pilot who has seen reporters do a pretty awful job when it comes to airplanes and pilots, not altogether surprising.

@cabinradio "Loose cannon," okay, but a "loose ferry?"

@markmccaughrean Lovely photos. They make me think of the time I had some exchanges on social media with someone I believed to be a climate scientist. I told him that I'd been a pilot in jets for a number of years and made some points about climate change and things I'd seen as a pilot to show how real it is. To my utter surprise, he started writing me about "chemtrails" and saying that I, as a pilot, somehow had something to do with them. This was so bizarre I stopped replying right away. As my late partner used to say, "Support mental health."

@heidilifeldman Fascist government is not even government. It's a bunch of thugs stealing and killing. The "antithesis" of fascism is consensus-based decision making aka anarchy.

@aka_quant_noir Leslie Carone and Stephen Fry in the same movie? I gotta see that!

@PaulBusch Why would anyone go to a "chiropractor?" They're not even medically trained anywhere near the level of a MD. That's just scary.