@PNS BYD?

@cjd @Phil @EvolLove
Not about profit for supermarkets.
More like eliminating the need for a Dairy farm every few square miles (or less)

@Phil @EvolLove @cjd
Is she buying a product that is “ultra-pasteurized”? (it’s usually in small print) If so, it’s an ESL product. ESL’s are even less healthy than normal.

@EvolLove @cjd @Phil
I worked in that industry and still have tangential ties to it. I think you are assuming things that aren’t true. Refrigeration is not a factor. Milk continues to be transported from the farms to the processing facilities *unrefrigerated*. The next time you see a Milk Tanker Truck, you will not find a reefer (refrigeration) unit. All liquid dairy products are short-shelf life (5-10 days).

@Phil @EvolLove @cjd
That I can’t answer. I can tell you that is well outside of the norm. The ironic part of raw milk state regulations is that there are around 15-20(?) states that allow unfettered retail sales (e.g. supermarkets), including most states in the west and northeast.

@ZeroSum06 Ah! There’s a small airport about halfway between Indianapolis and South Bend with a lot of cool decommissioned aircraft on static display.

@ZeroSum06 Indiana?

@eriner @Autumn You do carry, correct?

@Twig Moron doesn’t know about loans, interest rates, minimum payments, refinancing, etc., much less legal obligations.
He/She signed a CONTRACT if his own free will.

@Twig At 8% interest they were paying down the principal by about $400 a year. Really smart guy.

@amerika @wjmaggos @blamellors @nam And not as easily as Fedi, X, Facebook. It took effort.

@wjmaggos @amerika @blamellors @nam Kinda, sorta, not really.
Usenet and newsgroups are like NAS, only much larger, so the comparison is apt.

You can find people and interact with them, it’s just…different.
So far as creating a new account, it was much easier to filter the douches out, so there wasn’t a point in creating a new account just to be a troll.
Because everyone had to be somewhat computer literate to be on Usenet (or a BBS), users were competent in dealing with others.

@wjmaggos Well, I’d get angry. However, I’d also realize that I hadn’t done enough to protect her and my family, as well as realizing that there was literally zero that I could do about it. Streisand effect.

@amerika @blamellors @nam

@wjmaggos Incorrect. Sure BBS’ have pretty much disappeared, but Usenet is very much a thing. Is it as popular as it was 25 years ago? No. However the days of flamewars ended long ago as well. Why? Because people matured and saw that their actions had consequences. People found ways to deal with people without screaming back into the void.
If you want a world where everyone feels welcome because they won’t be offended, then you want a world without opinions.

@amerika @blamellors @nam

@wjmaggos @amerika @blamellors @nam Nope and nope.
No admins. Wild West. Completely unregulated. Individual newsgroups can be as general or granular as chosen by the posters. A number of them don’t have any relation to their title. alt.barney.die.die.die has nothing to do with Barney the Dinosaur or the TV show. Usenet and newsgroups are what you do or don’t make of them. Mainly communities of people who have an interest in the same topic(s). Me, I monitor probably 50 or so newsgroups.

@eriner @Zahadoom I don’t disagree with your primary tenets. However, Hell doesn’t exist in the Old Testament, nor in Judaism (and probably other religions).

@Moon Is that a bad thing?