What's even better is that 45% of the production is for ethanol. Almost all of this is used for blending with gasoline in vehicles. A massive transition toward electric vehicles and public transit would eliminate the need for this. So 45% of the land used for corn production is not needed.

Irrigating corn improves its yield by up to 70% in many regions of the corn belt. Investment into irrigations systems could decrease the land area needed for raising corn by another 50-60%.

Bottom line: We really don't need to farm 60 million or so acres in corn we currently do in the U.S out of the 80-90 million averages.

3 years and almost 2,000 comments.

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Oh my your poor wife. Send her my deepest sympathies for her trauma. Ironing the sheets...shudder... the horror.

Don't worry those trees are slowly dying because of extensive use of volatile herbicides like dicamba and 2-4D.

What type of a madman are you to fold a fitted sheet?

Ball it up like a normal person and shove it in the linen cabinet. The wrinkles add character.

It's a wee bit complicated:

The pathogen is persistent. The oocyst (transmission form) can survive in soil for a very long time (months or even years).

It's also very small and can be carried by wind or water etc.

Standard washing and disinfecting of food has no effect on the oocyst. The the oocyst are strongly protected and remain dormant until inside a host.

The host range for the pathogen is unknown. It is found very rarely in animals so adequate screening is very difficult.

Genetically it undergoes sexual reproduction. This means that the population is naturally heterozygous and constantly changing. Unlike bacterial or viral infections you can not isolate a strain and link infections. This makes determining a source extremely complicated.

Most cases of infection are theorized to be mild.

That one doesn't need a return visit from the drone fairy.

How much you want to bet that Wildberries had the lowest fire control standards?

A few companies will avoid testing in Ukraine because they know they will fail. There already is a bunch of systems that already haven't survived the conditions.

Examples-

Excalibur m982 guided artillery shell. Russia got so good at jamming them that less than 1 in 9 hit the target. At almost $100k per shell they are a massive waste of money.

Anduril Industries and Skudio haabe failed massively with their drones in Ukraine.

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/anduril-s-autonomous-weapons-fail-in-tests-ukraine-combat

https://www.sofx.com/us-drones-underperform-in-ukraine-skydio-and-others-face-setbacks/

If these people are buying the goods internationally they usually have to pay for them before they are shipped. For most businesses that means taking out a short term loan to cover the purchase. It's a standard practice even in established businesses.

Lenders require insurance against the destruction of the goods. Insurance companies like to carve out exemptions in what they cover to minimize their losses. Acts of war are almost universally exempted unless the customer pays a much higher premium.

I expect to see online retailers in Russia ban the sale of military goods on the next few weeks. Insurance companies and lenders are going to increase the insurance premiums and refuse loans to operations that sell them.

Most people handle the infection easily. Its dangerous to the immunodeficient, infants and the elderly.

The main risk is from dehydration. So the first recommended treatment is over-the-counter anti-diarrheal medications and drinking lots of fluids.

If it lasts for more than a week or you suffer from symptoms of dehydration (clammy skin, dizziness, not peeing etc) you'll need to seek urgent medical care. Someplace that can give you an IV.

Not a medical DR, I just play one occasionally for shits and giggles. So this could be correct or a bunch of bullshit.

You'd think a warehouse with billions in merchandise would have a fire suppression system. Guess not.