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Is it schizo-posting-o’clock already?
There are only 2 kinds of people I can’t stand. Those intolerant of other’s cultures, and the Dutch.
TIL every Dutch person is intolerant of other cultures.
Has to be an AI post.
Any countries still giving free land for expats? Asking for myself, I want a simple life.
Farming isn’t a simple life, just letting you know from the start.
Poor wording I guess.
I know farming is hard work, but I’d be happy with my own plot doing my own thing.
Life right now is not simple and I got my dream job and I still don’t think I’ll be happy. Owning my own plot of land would be wonderful and unload a lot of anxiety.
That’s fair! Modern life is… very complex, and expects a lot out of you, even if you’re “doing well”.
Yup. It’s morbid I know but I swear I’m just looking forward to the day I don’t wake up again. Sadly I’ve got another 40 years to go.
I just wanted to say that you’re not alone, life seems very complicated and prospects seem rough. Try reconnecting with old friends? Sending some good vibes your way.
May I ask what your dream job is?
Sure. I’m a software developer but it’s just not fulfilling for me; like I enjoy the problem solving but it’s just not something I think I would be happy still doing in a decade.
I actually have a desire to help other people more and do something meaningful. Like teaching kids these skills, kids that don’t have an opportunity.
And here I am, trying to change careers from teaching to IT. I guess the grass is always greener
That’s an amazing idea. Have you looked for any local organizations or after-school programs you could connect with? Or even a local school’s tech program. I bet they’d love to have you in as a guest to do a project with the kids. My kid’s school has local experts come in to do week- or month-long projects with a class. Doesn’t solve your job dilemma but if you’re finding fulfillment outside of work it may not matter.
Depending where you are there are a lot of opportunities for kids. I’m curious if there are many free opportunities for adults and if anyone would do it.
Keep in mind farming is also quite expensive nowadays and you won’t be able to survive off the yields by farming your great grandfathers way.
Clarksons farm hams it up a bit but does touch on the real costs and effort that goes into modern farming. He just finished season 4 and affirmed again that a normal farmer would be bankrupt in his situation, his farm only survives due to his being rich from other revenue streams
I suppose you don’t have to do ‘modern farming’, though. You could farm in an older way.
Depends if you want enough surplus left over to trade for municipal plumbing and a smartphone.
And you’ll maybe have enough crop to feed yourself each winter, one bad yield and you starve though. And that’s if you can attain a decent amount of land and you break both you and your mule’s back working it
Are you the developer of Neofetch?
Never heard of it to be honest
The developer of Neofetch archived the project and has taken up farming
Simple =/= easy
I hear Israel is handing out free land these days - or, more accurately, will allow you to steal it from the people living there while fascist goons squads backs you up with overwhelming firepower.
You know… the way settler-colonialism has pretty much always worked.
Sicily gives you derelict houses
Oooh! Free vendetta ghosts!
We’ve thought about it, but it can be hot as hell during the summer and water shortages aren’t uncommon. Given how climate change is affecting everything, it seems like a bad long term investment.
Yea Italy hasn’t been doing real well for… well centuries now, and with climate change it doesn’t have a pleasant outlook for the future.
Better than buying land in holland though
I guess you’re saying this because of the whole underwater situation? I get it, but also I think if anyone’s equipped to deal with rising water it’s the Dutch, they got that shit under control.
They can’t hold back the entirety of the polar ice sheets. Here in a century or so those orange loving people are gonna need to move out of the lowlands
It is probably a bad short term investment too
That’d be cool. It’s a fixer upper.
Russia, they’re trying to populate Siberia.
Sign me up.
Any countries still giving free land for expats?
That depends. Do you have a time machine?
Nope but I saw an advert on YouTube selling them for cheap so I can get one.
As long as you aren’t Native American, ironically, the homestead act still applies to about 10% of the country
You can always work something out in Russia.
I remember when I first actually read all that small legal text for a contest where you’d win a lifetime supply of some food product.
In your mind, especially as a kid, you just imagine you have as much of it as you could ever want. Bzzt! Nope. It’s like 1 free thing a month for the next 20 years. Not even technically a lifetime. 😮💨
I mean, it’s a lifetime if you’ve got leukaemia
Or the company arranges your ‘suicide’ on the 20yr mark.
I won a lifetime supply of breathing air.
So far, I’m not disappointed.
Yeah but shrinkflation means these days it comes with 20% less nutritional* particles.
*combustible
Some cities are still working on increasing them though. Just don’t go to the premium mountain venues though, or you get 20% less air per air!
So far, my only problem is when I go underwater.
For some reason, the lifetime supply of breathing doesn’t apply there.
That’s roaming. Have to pay extra; not covered by basic terms of service.
Giving away stolen land
Cool guy peepaw
And then everyone clapped…
I don’t even know if seed would have been available back then year round, and for something like that “lifetime supply” would be what you used and handed out during planting season.
But seed isn’t cheap, I don’t think someone would have made up that story if they knew how unbelievable it was. There’s no way he could just grab a 20 pound bag of seed every month. That’s close to $100 today for just grass, not even crops.
And even if it was pre-tractor and done with a horse/donkey…
Most farmers would be getting them so close to perfectly straight this would have been impossible to judge.
“Seed” in 1910 was not even close to what it is today. This was also likely cereal grains and maybe some pulses. What you could buy was basically grain from the previous year.
Also the local Coop’s/grain sellers would absolutely give free seed to new immigrants anyways. It was just smart business for them. The new farmers had no place else to sell the harvest but to them. More production = more money for them. A few pennies invested that yielded dollars for years.
So, they pioneered the drug trade, but with grain?
He didn’t say 20 pounds. He said 20 bags. Could have been any size.
I’m imagining those sachets that you get seeds in these days… 20 of them with 3g of grass seed in each.
I mean, it was a reward for plowing a straight row at a fair. That seems like a fitting and generous reward imo. And still makes the dude a good neighbor.
You sorely overestimate how easy it is to get a trained animal to walk in a perfectly straight line. They do not get magical perfect-line-walking powers just because they are animals.
Also, the farmer steers the plow direction and depth.
https://rbogash.com/Horses/plowing-3.html#:~:text=On its side%2C the plow,lines tied around his body.
Or a rock, or something else to knock it off track.
Ah yes.
Nothing ever happens.
Username checks out. You give too many my guy.
Dude is in half of Lemmy threads bitching about something. I’m just surprised they didn’t somehow tie this into Biden being bad.
Tbh this is what I hate most about Lemmy. Easy to recognise certain usernames cause they’re either dumb af or constantly an asshole. Hell I’ve been pretty negative with my posting the last few weeks and I’m sure there are some that might recognise my name for being an asshole one too many times, which is fair.
Sure I could block them but that would just make the echo chamber even worse, and this place is already worse than reddit for that IMO.
I don’t recognize your username, but Amos Burton is a badass!
I wish they’d start making The Expanse TV series again.
No spoilers, please, I’m still trying to catch up in the books to find out what happened after the show ended.
Also straight row might have been the final challenge and done without a horse, so hand done much harder.
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How do you plow without a horse?
Like, there’s the old joke about hooking your wife up to the plow, but someone/something needs to pull the plow.
If not than you just use a hoe
Can’t turn a hoe into a housewife…
Yeah, but if you ask her nice she might help you plow
I think it’s also possible to push the old style plows. It just really, really sucks
Not really.
They need to be pulled and pushed down to stay at the right depth.
If you’re just pushing it’s going to nosedive.
But like, there’s no really a reason to ever try, you’d just use a hoe. That’s literally the entire reason we have hoes. It’s just a pulled plow is way faster.
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Seed back then would have just been unprocessed grain. I don’t know about prices in the early 1900s, but the current price of unprocessed wheat is around $230 per metric ton. That’s around $0.10/lb and would put 20 lbs at around $2 given wholesale bulk pricing.
Not even in the ballpark of the $5/lb you cite for grass seed.
