Anecdotal and I'd love to be wrong about this, buuuut I'm in the rural midwest rn and all of the wheat fields in like a 75 mile radius from me look like they're absolutely fucked.

It's basically all turned gold already which is super early for it, especially because it's still short as fuck, like maybe a foot tall — it's usually still green until it's like 4 feet tall. The people who've lived here for a long time have been talking about how abnormal it is. I'm not a wheat scientist and haven't really gotten into with anyone who knows what they're actually talking about so I don't totally know what it means, but I know it doesn't mean anything good

Prob a good idea to stock up on food if you've got the means

:doomer:

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      I wish I were a lot less paranoid honestly, but I’m right just often enough, if only by accident, to keep me paranoid XD. Also 'paranoid" isn’t exactly the right word but I don’t know of one for overcaution that really works without the implication of literal conspiracism or delusions of grandeur “they’re targeting me, specifically, I know too much!”

      Lmao right there with you, I call it historical materialism and/or the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism and/or Cassandra syndrome depending on how I'm feeling that day

      Thanks for sharing your read on the situation and the implications of the shitty harvests — that answered a lot of questions I keep forgetting to ask around here and a couple that I didn't know that I had. And weirdly makes me feel a bit better, that it'll be bad but hopefully not catastrophic.

      Glad you decided to join us in the posting mines comrade, hope to catch you around more! :rosa-salute:

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        but I’m right just often enough, if only by accident, to keep me paranoid XD

        It's easy to be right all the time. Just only take positions on the safest/surest claims. I was right about Trump running, Trump winning, long COVID existing, COVID's euro-strain being harsher than the Chinese one, and the vaccines doing fuck-all for long COVID.

        Actually I made a prediction back in 2018, from listening to the conspiracy nuts and then doing a bunch of research on the yield curve and its inversions, and what that means for bonds vs stocks. My prediction was that there was gonna be a recession around 2019-2020, and there was (I couldn't predict COVID though)

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      mass cattle die-offs

      This is the first I'm hearing about it. The fuck?

        • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That paper is fascinating. 1,000,000 cows died in 2010 from "respiratory problems". Looking at the table on page 10 "Percent of Total Calf Non-Predator Losses by Type – States and United States: 2010" and just looking at the column for respiratory problems is wild. In Nebraska and Colorado 40% of basically all cow deaths are due to respiratory problems. In Kansas it's 63%. There's clearly a trend there, though I'm too lazy and disinterested to figure out what that trend is, and to then analyze why that trend exists. Still interesting, though.

            • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Barely related, but your comment reminded me of this. I used to drive past a rendering plant a few times a year. Without question the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. I guess the smell was raw animal fat being melted down to tallow on an industrial scale. I remember it would fill the car. Cloying. Like the air had become too thin to breathe properly, but at the same time thick and heavy with this awful stench. Like a concentrated death-smell.

              I’ve also driven past feedlots, which smell awful, but for me they lack the nightmare quality of the rendering plant smell.