Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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Damn skippy. I've learned I'm an atheist with a pagan heart.

I've found that I must be hunting something when I go in the woods or on the water. Animal, vegetable, or something else. Don't care if I actually kill, catch, or find; there just has to be a goal. I love taking other people and helping them get in tune with the world.

This sounds like excellent advice. I don't even have a small tractor yet. Before steers, I'm going to have to string new fence. Next spring, if I'm lucky and have worked real hard, I'll be getting a bottle calve or two.

Did find a cinder block shed with a good roof that wasn't even listed. Has a loading ramp for a pickup. I'm real tempted to just outsource it.

Have a hernia and don't know if I can do it.

Do have a root cellar that will be perfect for hanging.

I can confidently say that I have never raped an animal.

My housecat engages in a lot of torture, but she's a damned good mouser. I put a stop to the torture when I catch it. I don't allow my cats outside because they're so bad on native wildlife, especially ground nesting birds. Cats are obligate predators. I kill cats if I find them in the woods as they are now varmints.

I'm an omnivore, and am at peace with that. I strive to kill in a manner that I find ethical. I kill critters to eat them, varmints to restore balance. I'll eat the varmints if I can.

I live in the real world.

I actually respect vegans that are vegan to prevent the suffering of animals.

I get it. Grew up farming. Chicken houses are an industrial horror machine.

We've recently bought a play farm and hope to raise or hunt all our meat. Only the slaughter and butchering of steers will be outsourced. Takes some serious equipment to handle an animal that large.

I'm an omnivore by evolution and enjoy meat and hunting. I'm always a little sad when I kill something, however. I figure that sadness means I'm human and is a good thing. When I eat meat from something I killed, it means more. There is a lot of respect involved in it as well something like religion.

If more people had to kill their meat, we would probably live in a very different world and there would be a lot more vegans.

Oh man. I was stoned for like three years straight delivering pizza. Quit using a map after just s couple of months. Had it all memorized.

It was fun for a while.

'97 ranger with an I4, drive a '98 with a V6 these days. Put a system better than I wanted back then in my current Ranger.

Everybody was real fucking high including the manger. Smoking in the walkin, smoke in the office after close. Smoke a cigarette anywhere after close. A pack of Luckies and a pack of Newports in the truck.

Drugs, girls, crazy shit. Pulled a knife once cause I was too young to carry a gun. Got laid a few times cause I was the pizza guy, stereotypes are a thing, and it was convenient. Still have my leather jacket all these years later.

Wild huh? Hunter Thompson wrote about it once, and then it was in the movie version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Got warped around to what it is now.

There is a large chunk of the US population that believes this shit or things adjacent to it. 30% or so, I think. I've lost many people to it.

Check out Qanon Qausilties on Reddit. It's a cult, that's a mental illness, that's a political movement. Useful for the fascists. Very dangerous. Very sad.

Northern and central Alabama myself. Tater experience from central AL.

I've heard of people having great results with container tomatoes by taking the drip line of the AC unit and piping it into the tomatoes roots. Keeps the roots very cool.

Taters have a long season, plant just after frost is done. Blackberry Winter is no longer a constant due to climate change.

To try and do taters in containers, I would build my conainers from cinder blocks and fill the blocks with dirt or other insulation. 4' wide at a minimum and however long you want/have space/can afford. This would be for one row. Paint the blocks white. Bury a soaker hose down the center. Put the hose on a timer and adjust for high temps. You'll have to fight fungal infection due to the higher moisture so it would be delicate. I would treat with antifungal at intervals through the hose. Taters need more sand than you would think in the soil, especially if you have clay soil.

Mostly copied from above response.

Grew up working on a tater farm. Sweet taters and Irish taters.

We're in process of moving further north and my girl is excited to try container gardening again.

I prefer heirloom seed or hardware start plants grown traditionally.

It's been a long time since I've grown much of anything other than cacti, native ornamentals, and fungi. It's a kind of work I swore off for a long time.

Just bought a play farm, will probably grow some tomatoes. Have apple trees, blueberries, and a small vineyard I need to learn.

Have always heard good things about Brandywine tomatoes.

Won't be this year, but we'll be trying some varieties.

Roma, we called Romies, were my favorite as a kid. Canned tomato soup and sauce always smelled amazing and the stuff in stores doesn't compare.

Best judge of a tomato is to slice it up, add too much salt, and eat it with a fork.

I haven't tried it. Seems like a gimmick.

I'm not a big fan of container gardening. From the deep south, container gardening is for places where the sun won't dry and burn the roots.

Grew up working on a tater farm. Sweet taters and Irish taters.

We're in process of moving further north and my girl is excited to try container gardening again.

A plant takes in a certain amount of energy and turns part of that into fruit or root storage. You can't really get anything for free.

I prefer heirloom seed or hardware start plants grown traditionally.

It's been a long time since I've grown much of anything other than cacti, native ornamentals, and fungi. It's a kind of work I swore off for a long time.

Just bought a play farm, will probably grow some tomatoes. Have apple trees, blueberries, and a small vineyard I need to learn.

Yup, I'll vote for any garden vegetable except for cucumbers and their squash and watermelon relatives. Will make an exception for pickles, they're one of the good ones.

Don't know much about carrot varieties other than Queen Anne's lace is a wild carrot. Know more about taters and tomatoes.

Figure any real carrot would do. I'd totally vote for a beefsteak or better boy tomato over a carrot, however.

Before I left home this morning, I pointed to the bottle of mustard on the table and told my girl that I would vote for the mustard. We were talking about the rumors of Biden dropping out.

At least the mustard is honest about its color. So are carrots, for that matter. I'd totally vote for a carrot.

I did Slashdot, Reddit, Lemmy.

Pseudoscience/conspiracy theories.

Planting fence posts is totally a thing, planting a sign would be correct usage. Southern US vernacular.

You start trying to tell me ain't and y'all ain't words, we're gonna have a problem.

Mine ain't all fancy and shiny:

That is a fantastic question. Pretty much everyone agrees that Hitler should have killed in the cradle given hindsight.

When is it moral to kill the motherfucker without having a crystal ball?

Earlier than most people will openly condone given the nature of their State and society.

However, what if that creates a big dumb Hitler martyr that a more effective fascist can wave as a bloody flag and things get worse due to better managed evil?

The snack gods have blessed me three times with the holy Flavor Rock. May their light shine upon me again.

I love you, Salami Navy. Chef's kiss. 😘

Willful ignorance is the greatest sin. I've been saying that for a while now, not that I believe in sin.

COVID was a real eye opener for me. Seeing how far people would go to remain ignorant.

Stupid can't be helped and there is nothing wrong with it. Ignorance is different and not necessarily bad, if you see that you're ignorant about something, you can choose to educate yourself.

However, willful ignorance is a different thing. I believe that most of society's ills are rooted in willful ignorance and its exploitation by the evil.

We just bought an old farmhouse in Pennsylvania that still has 9 acres, includes a small orchard and vineyard. My girl wants chickens and rabbits. I'm thinking a couple of steers next spring when I've had time to get good fencing up.

I grew up with cattle and worked on a tater farm through highschool.

We mostly just want to produce our own meat. Venison should be much easier.

The apple trees need a lot of TLC as does the vineyard.

I'll be in the market for a small tractor. As long as it is running, I should be able to fix it up and keep it going.