I grew up in a village, and it was definitely economical. But village math is not city math.
You feed them grain and seeds that your neighbours grew literally right next door, in exchange for eggs laid right at your home. You let the chickens scratch around for food, and they mostly care for themselves. You bring in a rooster from the next town over occasionally to incubate the next generation. Once the hen stops laying eggs, you butcher it, and invite your neighbours for dinner.
If you try trucking in formulated commercial chicken feed and straw and such, it gets expensive fast. But in a village, it all just kind of works, and it's basically free food. I imagine it's a similar situation on a bigger farm. Maybe more independent, you grow your own grain and have a silo and such. But basically you don't buy feed or chicks at all, unless it's an emergency like a poor growing season or you need supplements.
I can attest that fresh free range eggs are better than any other eggs I've had since. Can't get more organic than literally laid this morning. I will mention though some realities you may not be aware of that catch people off guard.
If you live in the city or suburbs, having chickens is more like having an exotic pet. It would take so much effort and expenses that it becomes a hobby.
Buying food from the pet store.
No roosters so you have to keep buying replacement chicks when they die.
Neighbours wrinkle their noses at butchery.
Gangs of bored cats fucking everywhere that will terrorize your animals.
Half your yard and lawn torn up and reserved by a chicken run (they need a lot of space).
The smell and feces buildup from too many chickens in a small space.
You can make it work, but you're rowing uphill. The eggs will still be great, though.
The shell will be "sticky" and warm, and sometimes got a bit of poop on it. This is normal, you just wash the egg if eating today, or gently wipe if storing. Don't wash them if you're storing them, they have a natural barrier that prevents bacteria that doesn't survive washing. That's why some countries refrigerate eggs; they wash them as part of the processing stage but naturally they don't need the fridge. They will last longer than you think in a carton, about 1 month unrefrigerated, or 4 months refrigerated.
This is specifically for neighbourhood-level news. Think those Facebook groups people report lost dogs and cats and plan events.
Chicago has a relatively rich nonprofit news scene that includes robust neighborhood-level news coverage.
They hope to build a participatory community resource that informs everything from where to volunteer, to plans for the weekend, to how neighbors can meet one another.
I'm not sure Lemmy has all the features they want out of their platform. They could host it, but it sounds like they want to verify membership, charge fees, have calendar integration, etc. Lemmy is decentralised, it sounds like they want to build something centralised.
It has many of the hallmarks you picture when you think of a social platform: a feed, posts, reaction buttons. The feed is ordered reverse chronologically, not algorithmically, and can be filtered by topics like arts & culture or pets. There’s a separate, second feed that features posts the community steward has flagged to bring to members’ attention. Posts might be introductions, or events, or requests or offers of help, or steward-posted discussion prompts or guides. There’s also a calendar feature, where users can submit or look for events.
No idea how they plan to monetise this. Also of course they have an A.I. clanker moderating all the posts, but at least they have an escape hatch.
Posts are automatically moderated by an AI-powered tool that checks them against community guidelines, though posters can also flag posts for review by the human steward.
If the system thinks a user’s message may not meet community standards, like it’s inflammatory or obscene, they can’t post it right away. However, users always have the ability to go around the automation and have a local human steward review their message. This is important because the AI might not be correct, and it gives appropriate agency to users and stewards.
Fair. I've just worked with field worker Toughbooks and hardened iPads in the past, and I didn't really want to touch them lol. Sounds like they're treated better in a factory
I wrote some inefficient code by accident, that worked completely fine in test with 1 fake end user (me), but it had a critical flaw that caused it to literally be exponentially inefficient to the amount of users in the customer's business. So a small 10 employee business would create 10! network requests. We had some businesses with 2000 employees, so it tried to do 2000! network requests… it brought our servers down immediately after I released it, and I had to figure out a way to block the incoming requests, push out the patch, and get customer's to update without allowing them to DDoS us again. It took half the day and I was extremely stressed out. Stayed back late a few hours to make sure it was all good. Boss was mad but I didn't get punished for it
As a Greek person, it would have been cool to see more actual Greek representation in a Greek story of all things. Same thing happened to Egyptians in their Cleopatra Netflix thing. Would have been cool to see some real Egyptian actors, y'know?
For most affected people, it's not so much about hating on certain groups, but on feeling left out of the one thing that they really shouldn't have been. There's also the historical aspect of course, but I mean, it's a tv show, not a documentary.
I can only think of those two off the top of my head, but I think there was at least one other series that got a lot of attention for a similar reason I can't remember right now.
Andon Labs, which tests the limits of AI agents, gave Luna a $100,000 budget, internet access, and a corporate credit card, along with instructions to open a store and turn a profit.
Luna, built using Anthropic's Claude models, selected merchandise, hired contractors, posted jobs on Indeed, interviewed applicants, and hired employees for Andon Market, which sells books, candles, prints, games, and branded merchandise. Andon Labs provided support for more difficult tasks, such as permitting, but said the lab tried to be as hands-off as possible.
The store has generated sales but is not profitable.
That's pretty impressive. It constructed an entire business using only some string, a squirrel, and a business.
Yeah I remember the moment when I realised I could buy 3 full sized avocado and cucumber California rolls, for the price of one Big Mac or Whopper. The math was easy.
Plus, there was this thing where if I showed up at 6am, they would sell me the sushi literally hot off the presses before they officially opened (if I paid cash). Warm rice, cool vegetables, and crispy nori; God I want sushi now.
Anecdotally, all our young family members don't trust A.I. at all.
Once, I asked it a question as a joke, (I think it was about "Labubu"s or something I'm out of touch about); they told me it sounds like fake news 😂. I asked the tool if we could trust it, and it said something like "no, don't trust me", which was hilarious.
I think kids these days have a good bullshit detector, by necessity.
I'm hoping to get a VR set at some point, but I've heard it's difficult to get working on Linux so I've been putting it off. Maybe once the steam frame exists. I looked at the Valve index but it currently costs $4,000 in my country which is insane lol
I have a nice display cabinet for all my pretty rocks. Got them really cheap at an epic hippie crystal joint. The store was full of stones. They're not "jewellery grade", but they still look great and people ask about them. Fuck yeah I love rocks.
I'm probably committing some spiritual crime by putting the citrine next to my amethyst and emerald. I didn't memorise the instruction manual though.
Euro truck simulator is the closest game I've played in that genre. Sometimes I just want to do something with my hands and turn my brain off for a while, and playing a "boring" game is pretty good for that. Think of it like watching re-runs of familiar shows. Sometimes I play House Flipper as well, literally just painting walls and mowing the lawn lol
Just as an anecdote, I wrote professional medical software that people purchased. At one point there was a browser API change that would negatively affect customers in a critical workflow, I forget the specifics. I think it had something to do with file uploads. Anyway, I worked around this by creating a small browser extension that people could install that would restore previous functionality.
Less than 0.01% of customers installed it. Maybe 10 people. Not even the loudest complainers installed it. It was a massive waste of time.
In the post mortum, we discovered that it's a complicated and strange process for average people to install an extension at all. They have no experience with it, and they don't know how to do it, and they didn't want to do it. It's not like installing an app, which is a more familiar process.
The only analogue I can think of in a similar situation is something like Steam Inventory Helper which is widely used with over a million users. But the demographic is vastly different, these people are PC gamers and used to modding files and such.
So really it depends on your demographic, and whether you truly need it. Just realise it will be a great filter.
On average, a 737 or A320 consumes between 2,500 and 3,000 litres of fuel per hour
Take a typical two-hour flight, such as Amsterdam to Barcelona. The total fuel burn would be approximately 5,500 litres. At a reference price of $0.59 per litre, that translates to around $3,200 in fuel costs.
So that's $10 an hour down from $1600 an hour? Seems decent.
You're absolutely right — I could have worded that section better, that's on me. I've now edited it for clarity.