But there's nothing stopping the farmer from observing their saved or off brand seed is not as effective and buying from the original breeder again..?

Aside from destitution from a terrible crop yield and no safety net?

And how was this managed for the last millennia?

By avoiding competition from global markets including highly efficient producers.

Transportation infrastructure on this scale is a new thing, though famine essentially going away is a massive advantage for modern systems.

In Canada while the majority is vinegar now, I still see glyphosate roundup products.

Not to mention still roomy!

Live sports and public television was kind of the last bastion in my mind, but the former is piecemeal being acquired by streaming the platforms and the latter is largely being put on the internet for free.

Noticed that with a lot of intl shows Netflix gets the rights to. They so often have these awful chipper toony music

> Nobody has fun collecting garbage, but it has to be done. Nobody finds happiness in digging graves, but it has to be done. Nobody is overjoyed at the prospect of telling a person they have a terminal illness, but it has to be done.

but we find ways to make the jobs of people who perform these tasks less horrific. We makes trucks that reduce the physical toll and increase the cleanliness of garbage pickup, we combine the digging of graves with the maintenance and beautification once they have been buried, sometimes you have to tell someone they have a terminal illness, but the majority of the time you are helping someone get their condition into remission.

I think the critical balance that management has to achieve between "having a happy team" and "having a productive team" is finding ways to keep morale up so that employees don't lose their minds and quit or reduce performance doing the miserable stuff.

> Not to trivialize therapy, but for many illnesses, not just mental, a portion of it can be described as ways of learning to live with the illness, not necessarily treating the underlying cause.

Yeah, I feel like it's fair to describe the cognitive behavioral model. We're not necessarily looking for the cause of these thoughts and beliefs, tho they may come up, we're simply going to challenge them at face value and reinterpret the situation.

If so, the capital did perfectly fine breaking it up, they were just politically hamstrung. But otherwise, it took all of an afternoon and a couple horses to break up that nonsense.

Yes, agreed.

At this point I have seen many fantastical interpretations of what happened there. I assume popular US media coverage of it was a contributor there.

Nah, I think they're probably seeing warning signs. So much Djikstra's writing is pseudo intellectual pretensious word salad. Which is a shame bc he was an actual intellectual.

> drop 10x money for knives that you can baton wood with and still have a shave after, even though there's no practical use for that kind of thing.

Excuse you, I just came back from a 6 month backpacking trip where I had to split my own kindling along the way AND shave regularly and I didn't have weight for a knife/axe AND razor blade /s