His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin

It reads exactly like the kind of work that goes into growing plant crops, which is good. It's the sort of study that needs to be done if something is going to be considered for a possible major food source.

Taber addresses this in her videos and her sources are linked in the description. I highly recommend watching a few then drawing your own conclusion vis-à-vis something like More Perfect Union.

The TLDW on the suicide rate is that it sounds terrible when comparing occupations, but when compared with the cohort that mostly represents farmers, ie "rural, white men over 40 who own guns", the rate isn't exceptional. It's a terrible statistic but it doesn't say as much about farming as it does about mental health in general in the USA.

Regarding the economics, it's terrible for everyone but farmers get a lot of attention because of how important the image of farmers is to Americans. That said, both personal and farm bankruptcies are still below pre-pandemic levels. Arkansas picked here because of the MPU video, but it's pretty much the same story nationwide.

I agree with the MPU video that the farming economy is super broken, over-consolidated, and warped, but that kind of goes for every industry. Perversely enough, farmers make more income under Democrat administrations, but they make less in subsidies. So they tend to vote R. Taber actually ran for agricultural commissioner for her state as a Democrat but lost to the Republican incumbent.

They are chill, these headlines are never as devastating as they seem because farmers have a special class of bankruptcy that is designed to allow them to keep farming. Farmers in the USA, even non-corporate "family farms", are much bigger and richer than many people think. The image of the struggling, poor, small family farm being the "norm" is promoted by the industry despite being outdated because it drives subsidies.

I really like Sarah Taber's videos on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9A5_4tQw

I don't think this is necessary in the USA. They can just execute you and say they felt like they were in danger, and then some dirt-digger finds out you shoplifted when you were 17 and that's that.

The dialog pushing AI media seems to start from this assumption that I consume media just to have colors and words and sounds enter my face holes. In fact, I consume art and media because I like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the same world I do. It's a form of communication. I like the product but also the process of people trying to capture the bonkers, ineffable experience we all seem to be sharing in ways I would never think of, but can instantly verify.

What's funny is, due to the nature of media, it's kind of impossible to not communicate something, even if the artwork itself is empty. When I see AI media I see the communication of a mind that doesn't know or give a shit about any of this. So in their attempt make filler they are in fact making art about how inarticulate they are. It's unintentional, corporate dadaism.

If jacking off constantly at age 14 doomed a person we would never have left the Miocene epoch.

You paid for something and never got it. Initiate chargeback with your bank. Amazon may close your account for this, but fuck them.

At this point let's just go back to manually using command line GPG/PGP.

Cops can ignore. Prosecutors can decline. Judges can "sentence" to unconditional release.

The people can nullify.

Same thing happened with honey. Suddenly Vietnam's honey exports magically increased to more than their domestic production. Of course nobody cared because it's all theater.

Happens to some SE Asians in North America too, because the edible straw mushroom from SE Asia resembles one here called "death cap". Amanita phalloides. What's fucked up is right before it kills you your symptoms actually improve, so people get discharged from the hospital and think they are going to be ok. I forage mushrooms but I stay away from white gilled mushrooms completely.