Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Hegar@fedia.iotoScience Memes@mander.xyzit's just science, i guess
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    4 months ago

    Raw milk is way tastier though. The clearest memory I have from visiting the UK at 9 y/o was the milk from the milk rounds being unreasonably delicious. Like so much better i wasn’t sure it was milk.

    It’s obviously not the right choice to fulfill the nations milk needs, that’s a public health disaster. But I wish it was available in limited, risk-minimized contexts like in most of Europe.






  • Hegar@fedia.iotoScience Memes@mander.xyzhuge tracts of land
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    7 months ago

    Actual farmers are usually held hostage by the agro-giants who buy their product. In most markets there’s a Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.

    Industry behavior is driven by these companies who have all the power. They leave farmers with all of the risk and take all the profit for themselves.







  • Well completely unrelated is maybe an overstatement.

    English and Chinese is the common example of unrelated "mama"s, but there is a non zero chance that they are distantly related - beyond the time depths accessable by the comparative method of linguistics.

    It could be that “mama” or a very similar word dates back to like Ancient North Eurasians or some older population ancestral to both Chinese and English speakers.

    If any one word could survive that long, some form of “mom” is a good candidate, but yeah the most popular theory is that something about the “m” sound makes it more likely to be in the word mama.