I think a lot has to do with the microflora one has. The microflora can absolutely be influenced by diet but part is simply unique to the specific person. The specific bacteria one is exposed to at birth has a huge impact for the rest of your life as your immune system tends to attack bacteria that you didn't have in your first weeks of life. Taking antibiotics can also permanently alter the micro flora. I know more than one family where one specific member has horrific farts but the others don't despite basically identical diet. So it really can just be bad luck. Not everyone drinking protein shakes gets horrific farts but some do.
I was interested so I started reading the link. From what I understand their main point is that crime is committed when someone is unable to meet their needs and that the best way to prevent crime is to adress those needs by social programs. But what if ones need is sexual frustration and they want to commit rape? I'm guessing we are not talking about giving out government mandated GFs here. Every need can't be met especially if someone happens to simply be a sadist who specifically enjoys the feeling of causing harm. How are you gonna prevent these kinds of crimes with social programs? Mental health resources only work as far as the people who need them actually want to partake in them.
You can do it but the effort is tremendous for very little food. First off finding a way to dehull would be mandatory as hulless varieties only exist for a few heritage varieties. Pretty much no farmer is growing that anymore. For the rolled oats you would have to soak in water, steam, hand crank to roll them and then dry them? And dry them where? Not many kgs of rolled oats would fit in a normal dehydrator.
That's why the toasting in the oven process is by far one of the best traditional methods. We have, probably independently, invented that method here where it's called skrädmjöl and in Finland where it's called talkkuna. Not only do you get a kind of cooked flour that can be eaten raw with milk or yoghurt/fil, the toasting process itself dries out the grain and if you had grain that was too wet for storage this would make it fit for storage. However the result is a very peculiar product. It has a unique taste that could be an acquired taste for some people. Also how it traditionally is eaten results in a brown paste. I like it but I grew up eating it during yearly vacations to Finland. It's not suitable for baking as it's already cooked as a flour. It's like trying to bake bread with bread crumbs instead of flour.
But of course in a survival situation all methods to survive are worth it. But here we talked about a farmer selling raw grain direct to consumers. And I would imagine very few are ready to get through all this to save a bit of money on their carb source, the cheapest part of most people's grocery shopping.
Unfortunately raw grain can be surprisingly hard to make edible. For oats for example every single individual oat has a shell that's inedible. This is different from the bran that is edible. You would have to ground the oats up and sift away the bran. And then you are left with oat flour and not rolled oats. I would say rolled oats are impossible to make at home.
Most people want to buy pasta, bread, white rice, not raw grain. Unfortunately for the farmers the processing of grain is a more profitable business than actually growing the grain.
Not only farmers. Consumers as well. Farmers can only grow those crops for which there exists a buyer. In many areas, even in farm dense Europe, you can physically only sell like 3-6 crops in bulk. Now a farmer can sell directly to consumers but then that farmer runs a shop business next to his farming business and that's not realistic for everyone. Especially if you grow over a thousand tonnes of a certain grain.
It may well be that, for example, sorghum or millet is a much better climate adapted crop to a certain region than bread wheat. But that won't matter at all if there is no local buyer of those crops. In my own country for example we have successfully shown that quinoa is excellent to grow here because the Andes mountains and Sweden surprisingly have similar climates. But if you go into a shop you can still only buy Peruvian quinoa. No local buyer exists and local consumer demand is too low for an infrastructure to be built up around it.
So I say don't put all the pressure on the farmers themselves. They are working in a system that forces them to grow certain things a certain way.
Those new popular female gym shorts that look like they vacuum sealed their ass with a seam going deep into the buttcrack. I really do think that's a bit much. "Just let women wear what they want" yes I agree. That's why I built a home gym instead.
It's not too late for you. I have seen some 70 year olds in great shape both mentally and athletically. Start taking care of your diet and start being physically active now. And what greater motivation to stay in shape than being able to be there for your kids?
And even if you turn out to become a tired worn out man anyway I bet they would still appreciate having you than no dad at all.
I personally believe a large part of this is how shitty lots of dads are. I have seen far too many fellow dads who did almost nothing to help with the baby after the baby was born. I know one case where the dad took out multiple weeks in parental leave and mostly spent it on playing video games instead of helping his wife with the baby. Of course that would ruin a relationship. If you were both healthy and had easy going lives then maybe you never really had to depend on each other before and this may be the first point where you actually NEED your partner. And if that partner then doesn't step up you of course would start feeling resentful.
I have seen cows with holes like that in their rumen in real life. They have a little access point on the outside where you can just put your arm into their rumen from the outside and take a sample. It's both insane and also kind of cool. It's called a port hole. Used in feed science. And apparently the cow doesn't care.
I currently have a tiny ant hill outside my house. They are thankfully of the kind that don't attack the house or cause any kind of damage. They are chill and I don't mind them. Maybe they do some small good to the ecosystem but if that specific anthill disappeared no one would really notice. It wasn't there last year and everything in my life was the same. Does that ant hill need a justification to exist? No. And I mean that no matter if it was a good ant or a bad ant. Those ants are just there. Let's say they were the kind of ant that does eat up the house. Then I would want to exterminate them. But that has nothing to do with their justification for existing. I would then remove them because they destroy my house, not because they haven't earned the right to exist.
I don't believe we have to earn a right to exist. We just exist. Existence is very neutral. A rock on Mars also exists and that's nothing extraordinary. If that rock
suddenly breaks no one is gonna care. However some things have value because of other traits than simply existing. If we suddenly learned that there was a human on Mars that no one knows or previously cared about, but we now know about him and he is in danger. Then he would be very valuable and I would even say invaluable and we should try to save him! It's the human part that adds value.
So first off no one has to earn the right to exist. People just happen to exist and that's a neutral thing. But I also happen to believe human life is invaluable. I think that's even in the UN declaration of human rights somewhere. Now how useful you are does not mean you are more valuable. Human life is already invaluably high. Same with if you are a detriment to others. I don't believe in the death penalty. If your value was how useful you were then we would kill everyone who was a net drag on society but I think very few people believe that. Even a serial killer I wouldn't kill. However I would lock him up for the sake of others.
So you don't have to show that you are worthy of existing. I don't believe in that. I also don't believe you have to prove that you are valuable. As I believe all human life is invaluable. You could however have to show that you are a net benefit to society. But that's a whole other point and I really don't believe everyone has to have a net benefit. Some can contribute a lot, some can't contribute at all. And that's ok. Contributing a lot to society is admirable and should be heavily encouraged. But it shouldn't be necessary to be valued as a human being. The Nazis used to think that your value was tied strongly to your societal contribution and exterminated disabled people. I think that's an unfathomable crime no matter how much of a drag those people were on society. If you exist AND you are a homo sapiens. You are invaluable no matter what.
In Finland in the 90s you couldn't even buy garlic. My old Finnish Grandpa would get totally red in the face from eating burger king because it would have a tiny amount of black pepper. It's better nowadays though
While I really don't think gas from manure is the grand solution to climate change like this article seems to state. It doesn't actually make a difference when it comes to fertilizer. You don't burn the manure itself, you burn the gas produced from the manure. Afterwards you have this black sludge that is actually an even better fertilizer than before because the digestion in the methane production process breaks down the organic matter in the manure and makes especially the nitrogen contained within shift from being tied up in proteins and organic matter to being pure ammonia and nitrate. I have myself witnessed how a local pig farmer increases his wheat yields significantly once he installed a biogas digester and started fertilizing with the pig manure digestate instead of raw pig manure.
If we are going to have animals, we might as well put all the manure into a biogas digester before using it as fertilizer. You can even run tractors off the stuff if they are properly concerted. A few farmers that have biogas digesters have totally stopped buying diesel.
However for the US specifically I think step 1 is starting to actually use the manure at all. You guys have these poop lagoons over there where the manure just rots in a pool and never gets used on the field. In the EU that's illegal.
Introduced from where? That's my whole question. Apparently you don't know but phosphorus is a finite resource which will run out in the next 100-300 years. It's just as fossil as fossil fuel. Any solution that uses mined phosphorus is not sustainable.
I missed that azolla could fix nitrogen, knew that about duckweed but azolla is not my strength to be honest. However the question still remains, where would you get the potassium and phosphorus required to grow the azolla? All 3 of your examples involve continually harvesting azolla and not getting the nutrients back in. You could add chemical fertilizer to grow azolla into organic fertilizer but that would be kinda dumb wouldn't it? Not to say that hasn't been done multiple times before, looking at you alfalfa fertilizer pellets.
In a way wood is a great way to produce biochar because nearly all the nutrients in the tree are in the leaves and the branches. When harvesting wood we only take the trunk. This means we can grow wood generation after generation and we don't have to use fertilizer. The same is not true for something like azolla. A good setup to make it cyclical would be to put the azolla right next to the animal farm whose animals are fed the azolla. And use the manure to grow azolla. However then I wonder if the hygienic quality is acceptable.
Honestly doesn't surprise me at all. Lots of the Iranian population hate the regime. What would it then take for someone to voluntarily work for the regime, at the leadership level no less! There's no average Joe's getting in there, that's for sure.
If a certain space gains a reputation for being a bit extreme. Then no one not extreme would want to join. Everyone joining would then be the ones who actually agree with the reputation this kind of extreme organisation has. After a while it would be filled with these actually extreme people and it will turn even worse.
You can feed the azolla waste water from a fish farm for sure. But then what do you feed the fish? The nutrients always have to come from somewhere and they have to end up somewhere. If you're simply dumping azolla in a mine somewhere as carbon storage that then turns into a huge waste of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It's a very nutrient dense plant.
What would you use the azolla for? Animal feed? Which source of nutrients would you feed it with? Intensive harvesting of azolla would quickly deplete the nutrients in the water.
That's absolutely true. But aging society is gonna make communities like this more common. Soon enough most or all communities may be like this, urban and rural alike.
Saw a video a year or two ago about a Japanese village where they just had their first birth in over a decade. Half the village was retired and most of the rest was past middle age. And not a single other kid. I think the greatest victims of the birth rate crisis are the kids who are actually getting born. Must suck growing up and there are no neighbor's kid and everyone is old. You think boomers are insufferable now? Imagine when that age range is over half the population. Imagine what politics are gonna be like when the median age is 55. Gonna suck ass.
When the water wars start are you planning on ending your own life?
Me saying I'd rather live through them is not me saying I would enjoy them. Of course my life quality would go down. But I would rather live a shitty life than no life at all. We only get one chance at life and I would rather not give it up.
I think a lot has to do with the microflora one has. The microflora can absolutely be influenced by diet but part is simply unique to the specific person. The specific bacteria one is exposed to at birth has a huge impact for the rest of your life as your immune system tends to attack bacteria that you didn't have in your first weeks of life. Taking antibiotics can also permanently alter the micro flora. I know more than one family where one specific member has horrific farts but the others don't despite basically identical diet. So it really can just be bad luck. Not everyone drinking protein shakes gets horrific farts but some do.
I was interested so I started reading the link. From what I understand their main point is that crime is committed when someone is unable to meet their needs and that the best way to prevent crime is to adress those needs by social programs. But what if ones need is sexual frustration and they want to commit rape? I'm guessing we are not talking about giving out government mandated GFs here. Every need can't be met especially if someone happens to simply be a sadist who specifically enjoys the feeling of causing harm. How are you gonna prevent these kinds of crimes with social programs? Mental health resources only work as far as the people who need them actually want to partake in them.
You can do it but the effort is tremendous for very little food. First off finding a way to dehull would be mandatory as hulless varieties only exist for a few heritage varieties. Pretty much no farmer is growing that anymore. For the rolled oats you would have to soak in water, steam, hand crank to roll them and then dry them? And dry them where? Not many kgs of rolled oats would fit in a normal dehydrator.
That's why the toasting in the oven process is by far one of the best traditional methods. We have, probably independently, invented that method here where it's called skrädmjöl and in Finland where it's called talkkuna. Not only do you get a kind of cooked flour that can be eaten raw with milk or yoghurt/fil, the toasting process itself dries out the grain and if you had grain that was too wet for storage this would make it fit for storage. However the result is a very peculiar product. It has a unique taste that could be an acquired taste for some people. Also how it traditionally is eaten results in a brown paste. I like it but I grew up eating it during yearly vacations to Finland. It's not suitable for baking as it's already cooked as a flour. It's like trying to bake bread with bread crumbs instead of flour.
But of course in a survival situation all methods to survive are worth it. But here we talked about a farmer selling raw grain direct to consumers. And I would imagine very few are ready to get through all this to save a bit of money on their carb source, the cheapest part of most people's grocery shopping.
Unfortunately raw grain can be surprisingly hard to make edible. For oats for example every single individual oat has a shell that's inedible. This is different from the bran that is edible. You would have to ground the oats up and sift away the bran. And then you are left with oat flour and not rolled oats. I would say rolled oats are impossible to make at home.
Most people want to buy pasta, bread, white rice, not raw grain. Unfortunately for the farmers the processing of grain is a more profitable business than actually growing the grain.
Not only farmers. Consumers as well. Farmers can only grow those crops for which there exists a buyer. In many areas, even in farm dense Europe, you can physically only sell like 3-6 crops in bulk. Now a farmer can sell directly to consumers but then that farmer runs a shop business next to his farming business and that's not realistic for everyone. Especially if you grow over a thousand tonnes of a certain grain.
It may well be that, for example, sorghum or millet is a much better climate adapted crop to a certain region than bread wheat. But that won't matter at all if there is no local buyer of those crops. In my own country for example we have successfully shown that quinoa is excellent to grow here because the Andes mountains and Sweden surprisingly have similar climates. But if you go into a shop you can still only buy Peruvian quinoa. No local buyer exists and local consumer demand is too low for an infrastructure to be built up around it.
So I say don't put all the pressure on the farmers themselves. They are working in a system that forces them to grow certain things a certain way.
Those new popular female gym shorts that look like they vacuum sealed their ass with a seam going deep into the buttcrack. I really do think that's a bit much. "Just let women wear what they want" yes I agree. That's why I built a home gym instead.
It's not too late for you. I have seen some 70 year olds in great shape both mentally and athletically. Start taking care of your diet and start being physically active now. And what greater motivation to stay in shape than being able to be there for your kids?
And even if you turn out to become a tired worn out man anyway I bet they would still appreciate having you than no dad at all.
I personally believe a large part of this is how shitty lots of dads are. I have seen far too many fellow dads who did almost nothing to help with the baby after the baby was born. I know one case where the dad took out multiple weeks in parental leave and mostly spent it on playing video games instead of helping his wife with the baby. Of course that would ruin a relationship. If you were both healthy and had easy going lives then maybe you never really had to depend on each other before and this may be the first point where you actually NEED your partner. And if that partner then doesn't step up you of course would start feeling resentful.
I have seen cows with holes like that in their rumen in real life. They have a little access point on the outside where you can just put your arm into their rumen from the outside and take a sample. It's both insane and also kind of cool. It's called a port hole. Used in feed science. And apparently the cow doesn't care.
Do things really need a justification to exist?
I currently have a tiny ant hill outside my house. They are thankfully of the kind that don't attack the house or cause any kind of damage. They are chill and I don't mind them. Maybe they do some small good to the ecosystem but if that specific anthill disappeared no one would really notice. It wasn't there last year and everything in my life was the same. Does that ant hill need a justification to exist? No. And I mean that no matter if it was a good ant or a bad ant. Those ants are just there. Let's say they were the kind of ant that does eat up the house. Then I would want to exterminate them. But that has nothing to do with their justification for existing. I would then remove them because they destroy my house, not because they haven't earned the right to exist.
I don't believe we have to earn a right to exist. We just exist. Existence is very neutral. A rock on Mars also exists and that's nothing extraordinary. If that rock suddenly breaks no one is gonna care. However some things have value because of other traits than simply existing. If we suddenly learned that there was a human on Mars that no one knows or previously cared about, but we now know about him and he is in danger. Then he would be very valuable and I would even say invaluable and we should try to save him! It's the human part that adds value.
So first off no one has to earn the right to exist. People just happen to exist and that's a neutral thing. But I also happen to believe human life is invaluable. I think that's even in the UN declaration of human rights somewhere. Now how useful you are does not mean you are more valuable. Human life is already invaluably high. Same with if you are a detriment to others. I don't believe in the death penalty. If your value was how useful you were then we would kill everyone who was a net drag on society but I think very few people believe that. Even a serial killer I wouldn't kill. However I would lock him up for the sake of others.
So you don't have to show that you are worthy of existing. I don't believe in that. I also don't believe you have to prove that you are valuable. As I believe all human life is invaluable. You could however have to show that you are a net benefit to society. But that's a whole other point and I really don't believe everyone has to have a net benefit. Some can contribute a lot, some can't contribute at all. And that's ok. Contributing a lot to society is admirable and should be heavily encouraged. But it shouldn't be necessary to be valued as a human being. The Nazis used to think that your value was tied strongly to your societal contribution and exterminated disabled people. I think that's an unfathomable crime no matter how much of a drag those people were on society. If you exist AND you are a homo sapiens. You are invaluable no matter what.
Sorry for rambling. I'll get to bed now.
In Finland in the 90s you couldn't even buy garlic. My old Finnish Grandpa would get totally red in the face from eating burger king because it would have a tiny amount of black pepper. It's better nowadays though
While I really don't think gas from manure is the grand solution to climate change like this article seems to state. It doesn't actually make a difference when it comes to fertilizer. You don't burn the manure itself, you burn the gas produced from the manure. Afterwards you have this black sludge that is actually an even better fertilizer than before because the digestion in the methane production process breaks down the organic matter in the manure and makes especially the nitrogen contained within shift from being tied up in proteins and organic matter to being pure ammonia and nitrate. I have myself witnessed how a local pig farmer increases his wheat yields significantly once he installed a biogas digester and started fertilizing with the pig manure digestate instead of raw pig manure.
If we are going to have animals, we might as well put all the manure into a biogas digester before using it as fertilizer. You can even run tractors off the stuff if they are properly concerted. A few farmers that have biogas digesters have totally stopped buying diesel.
However for the US specifically I think step 1 is starting to actually use the manure at all. You guys have these poop lagoons over there where the manure just rots in a pool and never gets used on the field. In the EU that's illegal.
Introduced from where? That's my whole question. Apparently you don't know but phosphorus is a finite resource which will run out in the next 100-300 years. It's just as fossil as fossil fuel. Any solution that uses mined phosphorus is not sustainable.
I missed that azolla could fix nitrogen, knew that about duckweed but azolla is not my strength to be honest. However the question still remains, where would you get the potassium and phosphorus required to grow the azolla? All 3 of your examples involve continually harvesting azolla and not getting the nutrients back in. You could add chemical fertilizer to grow azolla into organic fertilizer but that would be kinda dumb wouldn't it? Not to say that hasn't been done multiple times before, looking at you alfalfa fertilizer pellets.
In a way wood is a great way to produce biochar because nearly all the nutrients in the tree are in the leaves and the branches. When harvesting wood we only take the trunk. This means we can grow wood generation after generation and we don't have to use fertilizer. The same is not true for something like azolla. A good setup to make it cyclical would be to put the azolla right next to the animal farm whose animals are fed the azolla. And use the manure to grow azolla. However then I wonder if the hygienic quality is acceptable.
Honestly doesn't surprise me at all. Lots of the Iranian population hate the regime. What would it then take for someone to voluntarily work for the regime, at the leadership level no less! There's no average Joe's getting in there, that's for sure.
If a certain space gains a reputation for being a bit extreme. Then no one not extreme would want to join. Everyone joining would then be the ones who actually agree with the reputation this kind of extreme organisation has. After a while it would be filled with these actually extreme people and it will turn even worse.
You can feed the azolla waste water from a fish farm for sure. But then what do you feed the fish? The nutrients always have to come from somewhere and they have to end up somewhere. If you're simply dumping azolla in a mine somewhere as carbon storage that then turns into a huge waste of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It's a very nutrient dense plant.
What would you use the azolla for? Animal feed? Which source of nutrients would you feed it with? Intensive harvesting of azolla would quickly deplete the nutrients in the water.
That's absolutely true. But aging society is gonna make communities like this more common. Soon enough most or all communities may be like this, urban and rural alike.
Saw a video a year or two ago about a Japanese village where they just had their first birth in over a decade. Half the village was retired and most of the rest was past middle age. And not a single other kid. I think the greatest victims of the birth rate crisis are the kids who are actually getting born. Must suck growing up and there are no neighbor's kid and everyone is old. You think boomers are insufferable now? Imagine when that age range is over half the population. Imagine what politics are gonna be like when the median age is 55. Gonna suck ass.
When the water wars start are you planning on ending your own life?
Me saying I'd rather live through them is not me saying I would enjoy them. Of course my life quality would go down. But I would rather live a shitty life than no life at all. We only get one chance at life and I would rather not give it up.