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   Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer (bigtlarrity@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:27 JST Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer
   "People used to be tougher"
   
   That isn't something that is made up, I'm sorry to say. This man attempted to do what would have been a normal days work for a farm peasant before around 1900 and it wiped him out almost.
   
   https://youtu.be/uWrGlMdGqOI
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     Captain Fuggetaboutit (captainfuggetaboutit@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:25 JST Captain Fuggetaboutit

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     I'm not saying go homeless to become stronger, I just mean quadruple tap junkies instead of double
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     Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer (bigtlarrity@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:25 JST Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer

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     Hobomaxxing to get that 1800s peasant retard strength
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     Captain Fuggetaboutit (captainfuggetaboutit@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:26 JST Captain Fuggetaboutit

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     They had more blood and less automation
     We're diluted biologically and depend less on ourselves daily
     That's why people are surprised by the endurance of the homeless
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     Captain Fuggetaboutit (captainfuggetaboutit@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:27 JST Captain Fuggetaboutit

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     Almost like Adam did live over 100 years or something
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     Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer (bigtlarrity@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 06:37:27 JST Tyroblerone Larrity, Hellthread Explorer

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     • Captain Fuggetaboutit
     What people used to be capable of I'm not sure anymore. Stuff like this makes me believe it was superhuman. At the height of my physical power I attempted to use a scythe for farm work and after 2-3 hours I felt like I'd been beaten by God with a sock full of quarters. I cannot fathom how tough people actually had to be to do this stuff every single day, day after day after day.
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     CoQ_10 (coq_10@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:22 JST CoQ_10

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @epictittus @EvilSandmich @Escoffier @judgedread NGL, I like the (relatively) cheap food.
     But I like having small farmers even more.
     Bread up, Bro likes this.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:23 JST EvilSandmich

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @epictittus @Escoffier @judgedread Japanese style tariffs came to mind, but I think that's a hard sell. It's not just that though.
     
     The story I relate is being in China and having the best strawberries of all time, the rub being that they started going bad immediately and within 24 hours they looked like something that would go to the compost pile in the states. This is fairly common in Northeast Asia where spoilage and shipping are less of a concern due to population density. So much of our produce comes from thousands of miles away within the country that shelf stability is going to be a very big concern.
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     Semilexic (epictittus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:23 JST Semilexic

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @EvilSandmich @Escoffier @judgedread An enormous sum of taxpayer effort is wasted on killing small farms as it is, on centralizing larger and larger ag business.
     
     Im telling you, just put the brakes on foreign labor with some tarrifs, and take the brakes off US businesses by shutting down bullshit "save the toads" crap. Both would fiscally benefit the government, and have huge impact on nutrition of produce.
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:24 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @judgedread Being in the food business I've had conversations where it was indicated to me that there were other higher quality methods the food could be grown, animal or crop, at about the same cost.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:24 JST EvilSandmich

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     @Escoffier @judgedread Just to interject but as far as crops go almost all the "breeds" we get in the U.S. are chosen solely for their longevity. For instance I've heard that hardly anyone has eaten a real plum because they just don't last and various tricks to restrict their ripening result in a subpar product. We've all seen this to a lesser extent with onions, strawberries, tomatoes, etc.
     >The fix?
     I'm not sure there is one.
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     Semilexic (epictittus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:24 JST Semilexic

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     @EvilSandmich @Escoffier @judgedread >I'm not sure there is one.
     The reason longevity is picked, is because the packing plant is in thailand. So American fruit is picked, send to thailand, and sent back to America.
     
     The solution is to have the same tarrifs on foreign goods that every other country has on ours.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:25 JST Judge Dread

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     @epictittus Occasionally someone will say we need to bring back the grinding agony of hand agriculture.
     
     Who the fuck wants that?
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:25 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @judgedread @epictittus There are lots of improvements we could make to ag to improve things but you don't have to return to the stone age to do so
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:25 JST Judge Dread

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     @Escoffier I am all in favor of local farms but I don't want to run one.
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     Semilexic (epictittus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:21:26 JST Semilexic

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     @BigTLarrity The human body is an efficiency engine. Any memory that isnt used is forgotten. Any organ or muscle or tissue that isnt used is stunted. Any part of the DNA that is unused, is silenced. Many dont know what its like to fear hunger, even in 'poor' countries.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 05:23:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @CoQ_10 @epictittus @EvilSandmich @Escoffier @judgedread the problem is that we've gone with the "little cheaper" option so many times we've ended up making hundreds of little changes that make quality bad and there is no easy way to "trade back up"
     
     Notice how "organic" is a hot sell - it's because people are hoping to trade up to a higher quality.