That’s one of the reasons why many smaller farms run 50-70 year old tractors, they’re machines designed to be maintained and kept running indefinitely so we have farmers using literal antiques to get work done. Literally they’ll drive off the field to the antique tractor ride then head back to the field to finish the days work after the ride.

I think you misunderstand the economic choice that smaller farms are making. When you can get a 50 year old workhorse tractor for 20k that you can actually maintain yourself, it makes far more sense than any 200k+ tractor whether diesel or electric. Additionally folks are used to diesel, they’ve already got a big tank on the property that they refill every few months, and they might not have sufficient electrical connection to get several of the giant swapable battery packs for their tractors and keep one on the charge while they work.

If farmers were starting from scratch, sure it might make sense to go all solar and all electric, but these are folks who are constantly squeezed for cash, constantly relying on crop insurance and well-timed loans and subsidies to stay afloat living on 200 year old farms that have been in the family since the land was stolen from the native Americans, and probably still using the equipment dad bought in the 60s and 70s because that’s the most financially viable option.

Dude two of the colleges I toured when I was a high schooler ended up shutting down and losing their accreditation. Only reason I didn’t attend either of them was my parents told me they were too expensive and I was just a high schooler with zero concept of money who had yet to work at all (and honestly I had a bunch of other contributing problems but that’s well outside of the scope of this discussion)

I’ve seen the same clip. Charlie Kirk was in the process of answering a follow-up audience question so it could have just as easily been an event coordinator communicating to whomever was running around with a microphone in the audience to get the next audience question ready and potentially even indicating what kind of question they were after given the complexity of the signal

Also while sitting in a tent plastered in “prove me wrong”

Yeah I’m going to be a bit surprised if Trump’s body survived to the end of his term. My wife was a CNA for a while in a couple of assisted living facilities and the conditions he has and the general decline that’s been visible in his public appearances, he’s not got long left at all. For an average joe in a nursing home I’d guess months left, for a leader of a wealthy country I’d say he has a chance of surviving to the end of his term, but he’s going to be less and less able to hide the declining state of his health as time goes on

The craziest thing about that is that being a halfway decent human is the default position. You have to actively try to be a peice of shit at the scale he was

Conspiracy theories are already saying he had increased security and started wearing bullet proof vests, but I doubt there’s any truth in that

Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago

My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from

The “fully depreciated” part really makes me sick to the stomach with the implications

I don’t think you’re being creative enough!

That’s the dumbest part of it all is that pirates seriously get the best movie/TV experience of anyone. I mean, maybe if you spend a shitton on DVD and BluRays to rip you can match that experience, but even that can be legally dubious depending on the jurisdiction

I’ll take a pair of rubber feet too!

Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)

My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it

Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) band Light the Torch?

That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.

They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is

bet there’s a mobile version of Scratch they could use if they can’t read yet

And for older kids apple made a scratch-like game for teaching their Swift programming language!

Scratch also works entirely in the web browser

I’ve seen deer just wander through my yard in town

My aunt is a teacher at one of the poorer schools in LA. She says every once in a while they’ll arrange a plow to bring a load of snow down from the mountains and dump it in the parking lot for the kids to play in it for the afternoon until it melts