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Ah yes, those famously irrational, illogical and xenophobic farmers. Idiots that they are, they barely keep us with the ability to throw away vast amounts of fo
by retox 2y ago
Ah yes, those famously irrational, illogical and xenophobic farmers. Idiots that they are, they barely keep us with the ability to throw away vast amounts of food while still becoming morbidly obese. Those bumpkins, those peasants, I bet they don't even know what a B-tree is.
- madaxe_again 2y agoI live in farm country. I know a great many farmers. They know and love their land. They are also susceptible to propaganda and misinformation, and bad ideas spread virulently in a small and isolated population. Where I live, for instance, poor practices (up and down ploughing, use of pesticides, exclusive monocultures and no crop rotation) have resulted in awful topsoil depletion and dwindling yields - which is universally accepted to be the fault of Spain, as they “keep all of the water from the river behind dams” - never mind that a cursory inspection of the watercourse from space reveals precisely zero dams in Spain. They aren’t stupid people - but a general low level of education and a barren media sphere allows odd ideas to take hold, unchallenged.
- broken-kebab 2y agoEverybody's susceptible to propaganda, including software developers, of course.