Joy Kimmel
Daniel Keys MoranNot one conservative in a thousand understands this.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@fatsam A rising tide raises all ships.
EndlessMasonThat actually depends a lot on how they're moored.
samiamsamthe MAGA response would be to burn his competitors fields to the ground
because MAGA is horrific
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderBit sappy, but the premise is real.
@Edelruth yeah, very uplifting in a saccharine way. But true.
simonbp
MasterMischief@fatsam This is evident in the glee they take in denying other's rights. They are so sure theirs are not placed in danger with each restriction.
Nicole ParsonsConservatives don't see the point in "watering your neighbor's garden" so they withhold education, medical care, & civil rights from women, POC, immigrants or LGBTQ.
Incident Creator ❎@fatsam Nor do those on the current AI bandwagon.
Femme Malheureuse@fatsam The one so-called conservative who gets it owns a seed company that will sue the neighbors for intellectual property theft because they "stole" pollen to create a competing corn.
Seriously.
Fox, J. Canadian farmer found guilty of Monsanto canola patent infringement. Nat Biotechnol 19, 396–397 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/88013
@femme_mal conservatives aren't so crazed that can't tell when they've been harmed: Nancy Reagan, stem cells with Ronnie got Alzheimer's.
But it takes that.
@fatsam In the case of agricultural genetic drift, who's harming who?
It's not like a neighboring farmer can and should slap a dust shield over their entire crop just so someone else can freely disperse copyrighted pollen and ignore drift.
I'm still surprised the US hasn't addressed this to protect the interests of all farmers. But it's like the Right-to-Repair -- legislators have been lobbied by Big Ag Tech frustrating farmers.
MsMerope@fatsam
kinda reminds me of
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
kinda reminds me of
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
The Turtle@fatsam ...and Monsanto would sue him.
bobocubedDoes this work with GM sterile corn?
Chris L@fatsam whereas so many of our so called leaders seem to want to be the wealthiest 19 century person when their ability to act without constraint is more important than their own quality of life.
Samuel Leuenberger@fatsam That's a nice parable but a fake:
Corn is mostly self-polinating and statistically 99.5% of the pollen drift within a few dozen meters (in a windy area!).
Farmers have been using F1 hybrids for almost a century, they don't reuse their seeds.
Corn is mostly self-polinating and statistically 99.5% of the pollen drift within a few dozen meters (in a windy area!).
Farmers have been using F1 hybrids for almost a century, they don't reuse their seeds.
“It takes a thousand steps to get to the top of a mountain but one little hop’ll take you all the way back to the bottom,” Sweeper said. “Okay?”
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Josef Eisner@fatsam genau so ist es!
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
Niek van Leeuwen@fatsam
standing up for yourself alone leads to the jungle
standing up for yourself alone leads to the jungle
Julian Andres Klode 🏳️🌈@fatsam These days people plant Monsanto corn and then sue their neighbours because they are stealing proprietary IP (as they get cross-polinated by the GMO)
Stoneface Vimes@fatsam oh no. They understand it all right - they just don't agree.
doomy 🦀@fatsam conservatives absolutely understand this. their response would just instead be to burn their neighboring fields and arrest their fellow farmers, then wonder why their crops get worse every year before starving to death
Alex, the Hearth Fire@fatsam the conservatives are all buying their corn from Monsanto and paying teenagers less than minimum wage to detassel so they don't have to share the pollen
Local@fatsam great spirit.
Leaf Dubois@fatsam IDK why they simp so hard for zero-sum game theory. Life isn't a poker game.
Max Fuxjäger@fatsam I just love this post
This is Hell
JohnnieMac@fatsam story sounds like ‘trickle up’ economics, too bad it doesn’t catch on…
Tushar Chauhan@fatsam No. The solution is to kill all the bees and destroy the weather patterns.
Ristin Raccoon@fatsam anyone who understands that wouldn’t be a conservative / right-winger.
Grendel@fatsam
Late stage capitalism:
Buy/destroy all other farms, double the price of inferior corn, sell premium corn for a 4x markup