InDefenseOfToucans
@indefenseoftoucans.bsky.social
Idiot with books that has a Youtube channel I guess. Not a historian I just play one on TV. Trotskyist or something
https://www.youtube.com/@InDefenseOfToucans
https://www.youtube.com/@InDefenseOfToucans
unit corn acre year. Corn Ethanol is about the worst ag policy ever pushed in the USA with just how wasteful it is.
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
unit corn acre year. Corn Ethanol is about the worst ag policy ever pushed in the USA with just how wasteful it is.
I once did math on this and determined a cAy(Corn Acre Year) = 14,000 kWh here in Kansas at least. F-150 can go about 8,000km per cAy. Solar panels produce 14.1 cAy, and an F-150 lightning could go 415,104km off solar on that same acre. Granted I am bad at math and was mostly an excuse to create the
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I once did math on this and determined a cAy(Corn Acre Year) = 14,000 kWh here in Kansas at least. F-150 can go about 8,000km per cAy. Solar panels produce 14.1 cAy, and an F-150 lightning could go 415,104km off solar on that same acre. Granted I am bad at math and was mostly an excuse to create the
But they also have a tendency to fall in line with the Republicans once something comes down as a direction they are going.
Will find out tomorrow
Will find out tomorrow
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
But they also have a tendency to fall in line with the Republicans once something comes down as a direction they are going.
Will find out tomorrow
Will find out tomorrow
Like imagining us there driving fence posts on some rural road and one of the other guys telling us we shouldn't drink the Mountain Dew or those powder sugar donuts because of the artificial colors or the sugar would upset our microbiome he would have got called a few slurs.
January 4, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Like imagining us there driving fence posts on some rural road and one of the other guys telling us we shouldn't drink the Mountain Dew or those powder sugar donuts because of the artificial colors or the sugar would upset our microbiome he would have got called a few slurs.
We used to have real men. I feel like half the stuff conservative men do these days is crap that would have got me beat up for being gay in 2012 in school.
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 AM
We used to have real men. I feel like half the stuff conservative men do these days is crap that would have got me beat up for being gay in 2012 in school.
Some take a defense of the USSR argument, most ignore it, I have rarely if ever seen it talked about much. There is little continuity to these groups, but i would say most who identify as Orthodox Trots will defend or go with the USSR defense angle.
January 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Some take a defense of the USSR argument, most ignore it, I have rarely if ever seen it talked about much. There is little continuity to these groups, but i would say most who identify as Orthodox Trots will defend or go with the USSR defense angle.
Lot of pages related to socialism that could use some editing, i think improving Wikipedia is good work, I wish i had more time for it. I have done a bit on Wikipedia.
December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lot of pages related to socialism that could use some editing, i think improving Wikipedia is good work, I wish i had more time for it. I have done a bit on Wikipedia.
How do you conclude that Arch is that high, unless your counting Steam OS. Which you might as well say BSD has a larger install base then Linux because the Playstation uses it. Also missing Fedora because they split it up by version, and a lot of Fedora people use flatpak
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How do you conclude that Arch is that high, unless your counting Steam OS. Which you might as well say BSD has a larger install base then Linux because the Playstation uses it. Also missing Fedora because they split it up by version, and a lot of Fedora people use flatpak
I think Mint is a problem really, the lack of Wayland support in this day and age is pretty bad. Last time I started it up as a test I got messy frames when moving windows over a playing video, and one window hanging stalled out all the others which is an inherent X11 problem.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think Mint is a problem really, the lack of Wayland support in this day and age is pretty bad. Last time I started it up as a test I got messy frames when moving windows over a playing video, and one window hanging stalled out all the others which is an inherent X11 problem.
People worrying about AES not being secure enough while not even using SMB encryption or even signing from the 2000s.
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
People worrying about AES not being secure enough while not even using SMB encryption or even signing from the 2000s.
On of our pentesters during an assumed breach test said in their 2 years in the industry which they said was not that long but this was the first environment they saw with SMB signing forced on everywhere and not missing on like a ton of machines.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On of our pentesters during an assumed breach test said in their 2 years in the industry which they said was not that long but this was the first environment they saw with SMB signing forced on everywhere and not missing on like a ton of machines.
The current governor here in Kansas during the televised debate said she was for trans women in sports in 2022 and she still won, even with people pissed at her for covid school shutdowns.
Centrists Dems don't even know about the Dems that run here.
Centrists Dems don't even know about the Dems that run here.
September 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The current governor here in Kansas during the televised debate said she was for trans women in sports in 2022 and she still won, even with people pissed at her for covid school shutdowns.
Centrists Dems don't even know about the Dems that run here.
Centrists Dems don't even know about the Dems that run here.
there has not been an industry developed there, but it could be more sustainable then almonds and things on the west coast.
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
there has not been an industry developed there, but it could be more sustainable then almonds and things on the west coast.
Things like flushing bars for tractors to cut down on deaths of animals reduce impacts and I am sure there is a ton other solutions we could work out if resources were put to researching them. Changing crops might also help, black walnuts grow wild in the US south
September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Things like flushing bars for tractors to cut down on deaths of animals reduce impacts and I am sure there is a ton other solutions we could work out if resources were put to researching them. Changing crops might also help, black walnuts grow wild in the US south
At least last I looked it was not even a majority of crops that went towards feeding humans. Of course some of that goes into pharmaceuticals and would stick around. But seems like a good place to start for a more sustainable industrial agriculture, rather then tossing it all out.
September 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At least last I looked it was not even a majority of crops that went towards feeding humans. Of course some of that goes into pharmaceuticals and would stick around. But seems like a good place to start for a more sustainable industrial agriculture, rather then tossing it all out.
Tends to make me the odd one out that I don't think we should throw out industrial agriculture. Top US crop is Corn and the majority is used for food for cars and that only exists due to government mandates. Of course the second big waste of it is on animal agriculture.
September 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tends to make me the odd one out that I don't think we should throw out industrial agriculture. Top US crop is Corn and the majority is used for food for cars and that only exists due to government mandates. Of course the second big waste of it is on animal agriculture.
Problem is the LLM people decided to shove their chatbots into the same category as all machine learning to help process datasets that they conflate them. LLMs do pretty good at translation and been great for talking to people online. Using them as a typing accelerator is pretty nice for programming
August 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Problem is the LLM people decided to shove their chatbots into the same category as all machine learning to help process datasets that they conflate them. LLMs do pretty good at translation and been great for talking to people online. Using them as a typing accelerator is pretty nice for programming
While obviously these conditions have existed, but i think it made it easier to fall into them when you don't have all these small micro exposures happening.
August 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
While obviously these conditions have existed, but i think it made it easier to fall into them when you don't have all these small micro exposures happening.
I blame the rise of people having stuff like agoraphobia/anxiety disorders on the lack of in person contact. Our lives used to be filled with lots of little exposure therapies, to get groceries, to deposit stuff at the bank, getting directions, going into different stores to purchase things.
August 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I blame the rise of people having stuff like agoraphobia/anxiety disorders on the lack of in person contact. Our lives used to be filled with lots of little exposure therapies, to get groceries, to deposit stuff at the bank, getting directions, going into different stores to purchase things.
One might be able to make the case ah but without that massive demand for corn for car food the price will collapse, which is true for probably a year or two, but even at record high corn prices people I know who farm are not finding it very profitable to grow.
August 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
One might be able to make the case ah but without that massive demand for corn for car food the price will collapse, which is true for probably a year or two, but even at record high corn prices people I know who farm are not finding it very profitable to grow.
The move to electric transportation might force an end to cheap to buy beef. Guess this mostly applies to the USA, but it seems like to me the system of factory farms running off distillers grain is living on borrowed time even if the general public continues to want the meat.
August 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The move to electric transportation might force an end to cheap to buy beef. Guess this mostly applies to the USA, but it seems like to me the system of factory farms running off distillers grain is living on borrowed time even if the general public continues to want the meat.
I am also unsure what the future CAFOs really have even without regulation, for cattle they are pretty reliant on Ethanol mandates making byproducts cheap making for very cheap feed. Most smaller producers in my family are already chasing the rich, doing it as a luxury good.
August 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I am also unsure what the future CAFOs really have even without regulation, for cattle they are pretty reliant on Ethanol mandates making byproducts cheap making for very cheap feed. Most smaller producers in my family are already chasing the rich, doing it as a luxury good.