#agricultural projects

[formworksnova]

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[lost-estradiographer]

I

know that voting for the status quo sucks.

To say it "sucks" massively understates the exact amount of suffering that exists under the status quo, an amount that I acknowledge I am too privileged to ever fully grasp.

I cannot magically provide some viable third-party candidate just barely a month before the election. I cannot solve Israel/Palestine Conflict that has haunted the world for over 70 years. I am a 29-year old transgender woman working her way through her own mental illnesses, trauma, and an undergraduate degree. I was never going to be the one to solve anything here.

All I can tell you is that regardless of whether you vote or not, there will be a presidential election. It's going to be a shitshow, regardless. Whether you vote or not, there will be a different president in January. Voting for the status quo may not be directly in your interests.

We had four years of Trump and we are still trying to unfuck ourselves from that. The beginning of my antagonistic relationship with the government was protesting in the streets of DC under his administration. I've fled from the Metro PD. I've put on a change of clothes and slipped out the back door of a gay sports bar.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Honestly, I

I don't want to see this voter apathy shit anymore.

People are going to keep dying under any president. Any president can, and probably wil, be morally culpable for the deaths of innocent people, both in the country and abroad. Carter might be the last president we had that wasn't overtly a war criminal and we still had foreign civilians killed by U.S. military involvement under the Carter admin.

I'm torn between asking you to block me, or asking you to message me, if you're taking the route of voter apathy. I'll tell you right away, here and now, that I probably don't have a solution to whatever problem is keeping you from voting for Harris. I can't even solve my own problems right, tbh. The government isn't really here for me, either.

But there isn't going to be some sort of miraculous revolution that results in The Ending Where Everyone Lives. If there's a revolution, then supply chains will falter and children and the infirm will die of preventable diseases and infections and complications in hospitals that would have otherwise been able to easily deal with such things. That's what happens in a revolution. I'm after the long-term idea where Humanity as a species lives. I'm after the route where we don't have an ending, we keep going.

Fucking vote, because exactly one of the two leading presidential candidates believes climate change is real, and it is the single greatest threat to all life on earth. We have spent the past 250 years, not just playing God with the environment, but actively creating an ecological niche in which future generations of humanity must continue to play God with the environment, dragging it back to a healthy place drop by drop, inch by inch, a degree at a time.

Or, I mean, don't vote. Either way, we'll all die at some point. Perhaps some of us will be lucky enough to die standing by our principles.

Those lucky few will become soil one day, just like I will.

I am begging you on my hands and knees to fucking vote, though, because our options are The Status Quo vs. Worse. That's

That's it.

There is no door number three right now. Our system, our flawed and broken and imbalanced and unjust system, does not accommodate for a third door. Whether you vote or not, you will be dragged through either Door 1 or Door 2 with all of humanity, as we whirl through the cosmos upon our tiny little speck of dust. The only other legitimate option is to allow oneself to become trampled; to become soil early. I don't say legitimate to give this option legitimacy, but to make clear that again, there is no door three. Door three is a casket. A one-way bed.

I didn't vote in 2016, and I'm hoping that you'll vote for the status quo this time, because that's the route that gives me the best odds of having a long and healthy life to regret my failure through inaction.

Just please

Fucking vote.

Or again, if you're taking the apathy route, probably just save me the time of blocking you, because you're not going to magically pull a viable third-party candidate out of your pocket less than six weeks before the election.

[ridenwithbiden]

PROJECT 2025

[randomanimehoe]

Yurio x reader who grew up in an agriculture family

Have some self projection and content I beat out of my brain with a paper towel roll. Yes I'm aware this is a very odd concept but whatever. (To my fellow gay ag science nerds, I love you so much!)

aight his boy is confused as all heck

Why the hell aren't you intimidated!

You just laugh and tell him its hard to be scared of a kitten when you've been around large animals since you were born. Like bud I ride and train 1200 lbs animals to help work cows you aren't a problem

is both scared and impressed when you throw him over your shoulder one day while he's yelling at someone

he once made fun of Yuuri K, calling him a pig and got a 3 hour lecture on the swine industry and how important it is.

If something ever breaks he just calls you because chances are you can fix it.

If he ever comes to visit your family home I feel he would be very overwhelmed by all the land, animals and the size of any garden/ field of crops you have.

He is confused but finds it endering when you start talking about all that you've been working on

his heart melts as he watches you tend to animals

I feel like he would really like calves and hate chickens

All in all he doesn't get it but supports you and thinks you're badass for being able to do all that you do!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[mossytrashcan]

also gfs been making me read haladriel fics all day long, and it is SO FUNNY how sauron’s goal in every single one of them is to just pretend to be a normal guy so he can do king of the southlands shit. forever presumably.

you’re always like “oh he’ll def go dark lord now” and he’s like no here’s my 5 step finance plan to support the local shoe makers. and also then galadriel is like “holy fuck this guy is so twisted I cannot believe he would manipulate me w the shoe makers. he knows I love shoe makers” and there’s like 40 chapters of this

[farmerstrend]

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[artherzenswarme]

Diagram of a Dwarven Lodge. Situated inside a mountain, most activity occurs in the "twilight zone", which represents caves that receive some amount of sunlight, or constructed burrows that are made close enough to the surface that ventilation and lighting tunnels can easily be dug. (These tunnels are represented in yellow on this diagram.) 1. The Mountain Snowcap. Precipitation forms into snow here. 2. Precipitation falls on the windward slope of the mountain, which is collected in; 3. Snowcap Canal. This is responsible for collecting precipitation and runoff from the top of the mountain. This is a simplified model, Dwarven lodges may contain multiple canals at different elevation levels. The snowcap canal drains into; 4. The Primary Cistern. This collects and stores pure water to be diverted for different uses. 5. The Moat. This is a collection of tunnels which have been flooded with water to prevent access to the Lodge. There are often decoy tunnels carved to confused intruders, Dwarven Moats are nearly impossible to breach without preexisting knowledge, or a guide. 6. The Foyer. This is a large entrance tunnel which narrows down into the Moat. 7. The Main Burrow. A large communal space where Dwarves engage in leisure and social activities. 8. The Secondary Cistern. Water from the Primary Cistern drains into the secondary system. In many Lodges, this Cistern is home to Fish and Crustaceans, which the Dwarves farm for their flesh and waste. 9. A primitive Septic System. Waste is collected in this cistern, where anaerobic bacteria feed on it, and break it down into valuable fertilizer. 10. The Tertiary Cistern. Waste water from the Septic System and Secondary Cistern drain into here, feeding a variety of plants, which in turn purify the water. Water from this Cistern can be released through a drainage pipe (Fig. 11.), or recycled into; 12. The Warm Cistern. This Cistern is carved much lower than the rest, low enough to experience heating from Geothermal Activity. Water from the Tertiary System can be further purified here, removing bacteria. 13. Hot Spa. Allows access to hot water from the Warm Cistern. 14. Housing Burrows. These act as living space for the Dwarves. Most of them are carved within the twilight region, but some housing burrows have been observed carved into deeper regions of the mountain. Dwarves are skilled plumbers, and some colonies have been recorded having hot and cold running water directed through pipes all throughout the colony, feeding communal showers and bath houses, toilets, and decorative fountains.

[parttimepunner]

Today I learned that Project 2025 includes a plan to cut farm subsidies.

“The project proposes ending “safety nets” such as the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, which pay farmers of selected commodities when the prices of those commodities fall below a predetermined level.

It also pushes to cut government subsidies for crop insurance — for which taxpayers currently pick up about two-thirds of the cost — and to end the sugar program, which manages U.S. sugar production to keep prices high.”

Source:

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4791069-project-2025-farming-food-aid/

[melveres]

I’m so invested in wizard101 and its denizens that it has got me researching actual irl science and engineering so i could depict magic better

[bugcowboyart]

The Sanktis Project// The Bountiful Mother

Continuing with my ongoing worldbuilding project with another priesthood! This time of the Bountiful Mother, goddess of agriculture, harvest, domestication, and livestock.

Those that serve the Bountiful Mother are a strictly nomadic and mostly solitary order of priests that have no set habit, their bronze tools are often the only identifying factor.

Each priest, called a Teacher, travels between settlements big and small educating the local farmers on domestication, husbandry, farming techniques, irrigation, or new crops. Hosting a teacher is a high honor for local farmers and they will compete elaborately for the chance, as it is seen to gain the Goddess’s favor.

It is said that these priests have an almost supernatural green thumb or affinity with animals, bestowed by the goddess herself.

The two folks represented here are Teachers of agriculture and livestock husbandry respectively.

[intlforestday]

HoW Africa drylands can stabilize the Global climate?

Regreening Africa aims to reverse land degradation on 1 million hectares across 8 countries in Africa. So far, the project has improved the #livelihoods, food security, and climate resilience of 500,000 households by restoring ecosystem services.

[somerunner]

Scathing and accurate rebukes my beloved

[girlscience]

Last paper I was going to read has been read... it was the most interesting to me. It was about low-head dam removal and it's effects on the community make up of the fish populations in those streams. It was not a study performed by the guy I am talking to tomorrow, it was actually a grad thesis by a student that worked with him in the aquatic sciences center. Now I just have to figure out the answers to a couple questions I was recommended to have answers to because they seem likely to be asked.

[valeryrizzo]

Island Bee Project published in Elle Living, Hungary April 2023 Issue

Writer Barbara Bedike

[ae3qe27u]

This has to do with how water runoff works. If you have a relatively flat surface, water will flow over it fairly quickly, and won't have time to really settle in and sink into the ground, like how water flows smoothly over a table. If you add some roughness to that surface, and specifically add some places for the water to pool, then some water flows over the top, but only once it's filled up the holes, like pouring water over a pebbled surface.

The crescent shapes help with this, as their geometry kinda "catches" the water, making lots and lots of little puddles (the best way to orient the crescents depends on wind, maybe? Or could be the slope of the hill, I'm not sure. But imperfect crescents are better than none). These puddles provide a place for growth - algae, seeds, moss, bird poop, whatever - and that growth eventually turns into plants with roots. Plants with roots help stabilize the soil, which makes it easier for even more plants to grow.

It's kinda like erosion, a little bit. Or the Dust Bowl, for Americans. When you have no topsoil and you have nothing holding the ground together, it's unstable. You try to put some seeds in there (or some seeds blow in on the wind, really) and those seeds get kicked around. Even if they germinate (which can be hard if they don't have enough water to let them know it's safe to grow), they don't get the chance to put roots down because they just keep moving. Roots are meant to stabilize a plant, to keep it anchored, and to help it get necessary minerals. Also water absorption, that's very important. Leaves help with, you know, getting energy and food from the sun. They're also super important for absorbing carbon from the air to make new cells so the plant can grow (carbon-based lifeforms go brrrr)

So if the little sprout-to-be gets moved around and gets 1) buried under a bunch of dirt or 2) gets stranded on the surface, you have problems. For 1), the leaves can't get to the surface and the plant ends up smothered. Seeds provide a reservoir of mass and energy to help with initial growth, but once that runs out, the plant has no backups to draw off of. So you get a dead little sprout, which isn't much help in making more plants. It's dead. For 2), what water can a plant's roots find on top of the soil? Basically none, at least not in a desert/desert-esque/arid environment like this. It's going to dry out, shrivel up, and die. It dehydrates to death.

But if you have an area that has a bit of shelter from the wind (see those little ridges along the sides of the hole) and also has steady water (from the filled-in crescent)? That removes two of the biggest threats to a young sprout. It makes seeds more likely to germinate (steady moisture) and more likely to succeed.

It takes time, and doesn't solve issues like pollution, but for putting life in the desert? It's pretty great.

I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable