PhobosAnomaly

oh lawd he comin'

Cute, though!

If you'll excuse my expression... fucking hell!

I've never talked finances with my friends in farming in the UK - it's always been a sore point. Presumably partly because that's just the rural way, but perhaps mainly because it's a source of anxiety, anger, and poor mental health. Maybe I should talk to them about it.

Anyway, thanks for the insight and figures, a lot of it is over my head because I'm thick as fuck but what I take from it in a perversion of a common meme is "line go down :( "

Cheers!

A friend of mine is a prepper in all but name.

Every time there's a storm, he's out with his trailer and chainsaw chopping up fallen trees - partly to help clear roads, but mainly because he'll happily spend a weekend chopping up wood and covering them in tarp just so he can have two or three winter's worth of "free" wood sitting.

I can't fault his logic, but fuck me I get fed up unpacking shopping after twenty minutes, let alone chopping wood for two or three days. Absolute lad.

Obviously it's entirely subjective, but I don't think there's many teenagers that would miss the opportunity to start fires legitimately

but seriously though, log fires are enchanting, not even in a pyromania style of thinking.

Taking the #1 (or whatever number) ranked word would make for a good alternative to AskOuija or something.

I wondered why "die" was so common, until I realised we have a lot of Deutsch compadres too!

It's a tough one. I'm pretty pro-farmer and think that this policy seems to be burning a lot of bridges for very little gain.

The farming community really struggle with optics. You're absolutely bang on about the Brexit thing, that didn't help them. A lot of people point to farmers being very wealthy people - and on paper it's true. The land, the seeded fields and infrastructure, and the colossal machinery means even a small farm is usually a multi-million pound enterprise... but the liquid assets available to farmers are generally next to fuck all, and my anecdotal experience of living rurally is that most farms are one bad crop away from having to cut back and choosing to heat or eat; and two bad crops from bankruptcy.

I don't think the general public quite realise the tiny margins the farmers are on - between the cost of living and doing business, and the absolute pittance that supermarkets and the retail industry have been squeezing them at the point of sale. I've never seen so many Samaritans banners on major routes through the countryside.

Unfortunately, all the general public see are farmers blocking the roads in their £750,000 behemoth trucks waving Tory flags, complaining about 20% inheritance tax rate when everyone else paid double - when that's just a surface level view of the problem.

I should imagine that if you took the takings of a farm per year, and divided it by the number of folk working it and divided it by an 80 hour working week (for generalisations sake), then it would be quite clear that farming isn't the business to be in if you want to be rich.

e: I'm sorry, I used the "you" there, I'm not arguing against the person I'm replying to, I'm largely arguing alongside.

Yeah, a bit of sense is all you need. I've not used spoofing tools but a few of my friends have - we live rural too and it revolutionises the game. Even our local small city centre isn't really raid friendly - it's not like you can hang a out Times Square and literally walk into a full raid whenever you like.

That said, the weekly Pokémon Club in rural areas is a great social, and mons tend to stay in gyms for more than twelve seconds making it a bit easier to get pokecoins. The game is still heavily skewed towards city centres though.

The modern day spoofing apps are really quite impressive. Teleportation or time travelling generally gets you an account strike fairly quickly, but some of the cleverer automatic walking functions are really quite cool.

Looks like an advanced Doom II map.

Just missing a teleport at the top to simulate a second floor, or a silent téléporter if you're really fancy.

It'll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.

...and that is awesome!!

...and it appears to be governed by a penguin!