Dagamant

u/Dagamant@lemmy.world
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The cost of owning chickens is a really flexible number. My wife wanted to try and loved it so we have put more money in. Our first setup was a small coop for 3 birds for around $200, the birds were cheap enough not to matter in the equation, another $100 or so in food and water things, feed, grit, calcium, etc..

She liked it so we upgraded to a $1000 coop and more birds. Not calculating the monthly payments on the coop we probably spend $20-30 a month on maintenance (feed, grit, shell, straw)

One reason those cooked rotisserie chickens are so cheap is because they are used to get people in the store to buy other things. So the store takes a hit on them but they end up making money from other stuff that may not have sold.

Also, scaling up a chicken farm, especially one focused on either eggs or meat, reduces the cost per animal by a lot. If you’re buying a single chick to raise, it’s gonna be 3 to 50 dollars depending on breed. If you’re buying 30,000 they are gonna be a hell of a lot cheaper.

on Man & Mouse · c/funny · 98 pts · 42d

I have seen mice eat each other alive. I’m 100% sure they would build a mousetrap

It may have been in a different video where he showed it working on his licensed VHF frequency. He has a business license for a frequency in the 70cm band so he can do encrypted radio traffic on it. He just talked about using HF with dummy loads to test if it worked.

I think the vhf and hf ISM bands are limited to “mobile radio” and I’m not sure what that means but it likely prevents using encrypted data.

He has used it over HF but I don’t think he did it in a band he is supposed to be using for this kind of thing. He did say the test was made using dummy loads over short range to stay legal. If I remember correctly, those HF bands have additional restrictions that prevent use for mesh networking

on Tool - 10,000 Days · c/vinyl · 3 pts · 48d

I feel no guilt for ordering tool bootlegs for formats they never released on.

on Interstellar empathy · c/vegan · 16 pts · 49d

I’m a fan of their spaceships being the equivalent of flying boobs and support humans following their example.

When social media started it focuses on friends. You add someone as a friend and you could see what they were up to.

Then Facebook came along and made it competitive, it became less about seeing what friends were doing and more about posting things that people liked.

As Facebook grew, it changed. One day you didn’t see the stuff your friends posted unless you constantly interacted with their posts or a lot of other people did.

It’s gotten worse and worse since then. They have added more and more ads and posts from people and pages you might know that you no longer see stuff from people you do know.

It’s absolutely worthless.

Here is how it has gone down for a few companies I have visibillity on:

  • Investors with enough stock to have influence demand the company use AI and cut staff
  • remaining ataff struggles to fit AI into their now bloated workload
  • quality slips and stumbles. a few employees are able to make the transition and cause huge AI bills while attempting to cover the workload
  • everyone gets upset and nothing gets done well

It looks like investors who have also invested in AI are trying to push its use and it is stumbling all over the place. If a company cant adapt it is basically stripped for parts and sold off to companies that are handling it better.

on Don't eat rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 15 pts · 61d

It really depends on how you find out.

From a meme: awesome

While biting into what you thought was a jelly doughnut: Not as awesome

on Igorrr, Infestis · c/metal · 2 pts · 84d

Yeah, I don’t love every song but I’m perfectly happy to let their albums play through without feeling like skipping anything.