What’s up today? (Part 2)

For years people have been wringing their hands about cattle methane emissions. As usual, for the wrong reasons.

What they generally don’t talk about is that cattle eating their natural food (grasses) don’t fart any more than any other animal.

The bulk of the methane is being produced in giant feedlots where thousands or tens of thousands cows are kept in insanely overcrowded conditions. They walk in bare dirt/mud covered with manure and not a single blade of grass. They are fed corn, molasses and other supplements intended to (a) fatten them up quickly and (b) soften their muscle (meat). This unnatural diet of course produces flatulence.

It also produces disease. Tissue breakdown, which brings bacteria to remediate. So then the feedlot operators pump the cattle full of antibiotics to suppress the infections until the cattle are butchered. This also happens with chicken, pigs, etc, and it is why better (non factory-farmed) products now proudly proclaim “no anti-biotics ever”.

In California’s central valley there are numerous of these feedlots and motorists passing by on Highway 5 can smell them for miles approaching. Its that bad, and everyone knows it.

So basically we humans force cattle into unnatural conditions, feed them a horrible diet, deprive them of exercise, and then complain that they fart.

Apparently the next step is to add even more poisons (propylene glycol is anti-freeze) into their diet to prevent the farting, which probably will be inducing more cancers, etc. And yes, is being passed on to humans in the meat and milk.

The whole thing is insanity.

And that’s just the USA beef industry. The dairy industry is probably worse. The poor calves that are taken from their mothers at birth and often die. The mothers that are grieving the calves and the emotional stress adds toxins to their milk due to mammary tissue breakdown and bacterial remediation, a possible source of TB (my theory). Also overcrowded conditions in huge operations ever since the family dairies were paid ~$100,000 each by US gov to get out of the business in the 80s.

For my part, my family eats much less meat than we used to, and only grass-fed, to avoid the entire feedlot mess. We no longer buy milk, except every once in a while some raw milk from a local dairy. We buy european (usually french) butter, or have sometimes made if ourselves from raw milk cream.

10 Likes

Your annual lot of thanksgiving memes for the 'merican’s



2 Likes

The laws exclude cryptocurrency sales and mining from value-added tax (VAT).

4 Likes

storage density of 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimetre

the new method means a diamond optical disc with the same volume as a standard Blu-ray could store approximately 100 terabytes of data – the equivalent of about 2000 Blu-rays – while lasting far longer than a typical Blu-ray’s lifetime

Future archive nodes would love this.

8 Likes


Check out the Dev Forum

11 Likes

It’s a pipsqueak compared to YellowStone , if YellowStone blows its over for North America.

2 Likes

Yes, but Yellowstone seems unlikely to go soon - could be thousands of years. Campi Flegrei could be considered an active supervolcano as it’s been erupting on & off for the past few thousand years and is now showing signs of a plume rising towards the surface - indicating a major eruption is relatively close.

Yeah earth’s shields are down with this pole switch going on, the van allen belts look like a set of dalmatians letting in more cosmic energy than ever before, Schumann resonance is 8X some time 10X higher at times, that’s when the earth really starts to shake, especially when this stuff gets through like a bingo card call randomly aligned and hits one of these spots, then it gets messy, the correlation is there, and now well understood by those guys watching the meters

https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo

We are approaching Solar Maximum in 2025 so the odds of getting blasted by the SUN with a solar flare goes up even more than what we have seen in 2024.

1 Like

Graph of sunspot numbers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center

The last solar cycle was extremely weak, so the relative strength of this one shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Would this explain the aurora we see further south than normal?

I don’t remember ever seeing them so south and so often while growing up.

Per port charge for data transfer

  • US to US @ $300
  • US to EU @ $500

Bring your own storage devices and leverage our high-speed data network connections to achieve transfer speeds up to 400 Gbps.

If only they offered this for the Network :upside_down_face: storage devices read/write and transfer rate also play a role in upload speed :woozy_face:

The future is usually a decade away with these things, like everything…

Foolishly hoping I was, that with 1 attos 1 TB :sweat_smile:, signal we could, the storage manufacturers, that future we want now, and no long time to upload…

1 Like
6 Likes

Orange man is on fire !

1 Like

I’m reading that this comes from anonymous sources and Trump hasn’t announced this yet. So could be a ruse to pump crypto. Hope it’s true though.

Recording of Tuesday’s zoom of the white paper walk-through

15 Likes

Will have to listen again later to insure I absorbed it all. Sounds really good though. Overall, quite impressed!

Thanks @Bux and Maid team!!

5 Likes

One can estimate the degree of fear the oligarchy has for dark markets by how hard they go after developers of such markets.

1 Like

Oh dear. What a shame.

1 Like

The Russian policy towards drug dealers and their enablers as well as those who would try to avoid paying taxes is well-known.

And laudable by anyone with half a brain or more.

1 Like