REI isn’t who they hype themselves to be.

So now they probably want to use GenAI to create hype shots, fake reviews, review summaries, and “improve efficiencies” that are so far from their original mission you can’t see it from there.

But REI is a LONG ways from being the co-op sort of place they used to pretend to be. Now they just resell cheaply manufactured trash.

So convienent

I see you’ve heard of onedrive :D

Bandcamp, then I go to my favorite genres, and then look at the new stuff.

Webrings were one of the best ways to spend an evening. I loved getting lost in the Tolkien and Gardening ones.

I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn’t. We do legit need a ‘smallweb’ non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.

Cool, cool, now block them worldwide, please.

Netscape? I don’t think it worked out for them, if that was the case :D

I’d agree with that.

When my anglo friends went to summer camp, my family always sent me to pick stuff. My siblings and I got to keep the money at least, but yeah. Farm work is freaking hard, even when you’re used to it. Esp when paid by the bucket (still one of the most common metrics)

I think you’re absolutely right. I suspect people, in general, don’t really have much grasp of ag. There’s mega industrial, and they understand that. There’s backyard/community, and they get that, but livestock? That’s probably outside the exp of probably 70% of industrialized nation people.

I always wonder about these. My parents had 120 acres when I was a kid, and we raised corn, veg, 2 cows, and sooooo many chickens.

There’s no way you’re feeding cattle on less than a hundred acres, even if you dedicate most of it to pasture. We had to supplement our cow and calf (because you have to have a cow with a calf to keep milk production) with bales of alfalfa/hay every week and they still managed to keep 40 of those acres nice and trimmed.

However, you can definitely get a tremendous amount of corn out of a few acres - more than you can easily eat yourself. Chickens are an amazing use of space, you have 30-40 of them and give them the run of the place and you’ll have eggs for days and a chicken for the pot every month (depending on how your replacement rate runs, we had about 20 hatch and survive every spring).

You have to rotate your growing production regularly to make sure the soil gets what it needs, and it’s so much freaking work. A saying when I was a kid was “If you’re bored, there’s always a fence that needs mending”…

The best part was when the foods I liked were in season, because we had loads of them. The worst part was when I got soooo tired of canning :D

I’d do it again, but I’d prefer a close knit neighborhood so that I could trade things. All of our neighbors raised the same sorts of things we did… well, and/or meth… so we still had to go to the grocery store every week. Just not for squash, potatoes, corn, blueberries, etc.

I thought racial/class bias was due to lack of education and lack of access to information.

Holy cow was I wrong.