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   Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 14:06:04 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

   My daughters and I are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and that's what makes us so relatable and makes it so clear we don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income.

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     Timothy Johnson (timothyjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:42:13 JST Timothy Johnson

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     @ct_bergstrom

     Assuming each cow has an annual consumption of 8K pounds of macadamia nuts, and assuming an average yield of 40 pounds per mature macadamia tree per year, with a typical spacing of 25 feet between trees:

     You would need approximately 200 mature macadamia trees and 98,174 square feet of space to produce enough nuts to feed one cow per year.

     Don't even get me started on the beer.

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     Crystal_Fish_Caves (crystal_fish_caves@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:15:36 JST Crystal_Fish_Caves

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     @ct_bergstrom Wait, wait...The ROBOT has kids???

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     jonathankoren™ (jonathankoren@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:17:14 JST jonathankoren™

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     @schlojj @ct_bergstrom property taxes are reduced for agricultural use. It’s very common for the ultrawealthy to just buy a token amount of livestock and then call their palatial estates “ranches” or “farms” and get a big tax cut.

     At no point are they viable agribusinesses.

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     CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦 (paulbusch@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:17:14 JST CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦

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     @jonathankoren @schlojj @ct_bergstrom
     Don't judge him too harshly until he buries a wife on the property and applies for reduced taxes because he now manages a cemetery....

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     يعقوب (schlojj@openbiblio.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:17:38 JST يعقوب

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     @jonathankoren @ct_bergstrom what is a tax cut ranch and how does it work

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     jonathankoren™ (jonathankoren@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:17:39 JST jonathankoren™

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     @ct_bergstrom yeah, this is 100% an tax cut “ranch”

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     cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 10:22:48 JST cy

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     • Crystal_Fish_Caves
     @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org Society has failed. It's all over. Pack it up, time to go people!
     
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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 04:40:06 JST Church of Jeff

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     @ct_bergstrom

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 05:06:19 JST Church of Jeff

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     @ct_bergstrom -- #Alt4You
     Photo of Mark Zuckerberg at an expensive restaurant.
     "Started raising cattle at Ko'olau Ranch on Kauai, and my goal is to create some of the highest quality beef in the world. The cattle are wagyu and angus, and they'll grow up eating macadamia mean and drink beer that we grow and produce here at the ranch. We want the whole process to be local and vertically integrated. Each cow eats 5000-10000 pounds of food each year, so that's a lot of acres of macadamia trees. ->

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     Church of Jeff (jeffowski@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 05:07:46 JST Church of Jeff

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     @ct_bergstrom -- #alt4you
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     "My daughters help plant the mac trees and take care of our different animals. We're still early in the journey and it's fun improving on it every season. Of all my projects, this is the most delicious."

     This is a lot better than the current Alt-Text of "Zuck gonna zuck".

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     Chema Hernández Gil :sf: (chema@social.sanfranciscan.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 09:43:06 JST Chema Hernández Gil :sf:

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     Someone should lend him Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i.

     https://uncpress.org/book/9781469636061/cattle-colonialism/