Old white guy living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Now also learning #Meshtastic. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is our defence against belief.
I try to check facts before I toot.
Fuck nazis.
Dog and wetlands pictures on PixelFed https://pixel.pol.social/szescstopni
I sometimes toot in Polish – jebać nazistów.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Moved here from my first instance https://qoto.org/@szescstopni where I've been since November 2022.
I haven't deleted my Twitter, for good reasons, but I'm not using it anymore. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
Anyway. When you see people hyperventilating that "B-b-but paying farm workers more would make food unaffordable!" please correct them up for me.
They might mean well? They might be trying to make a point about how much we owe the humble farm worker?
But that kind of talk is exactly how you get people believing "Gosh shucks golly. I guess we just need slavery to live."
Cut it out already.
I know "650 lbs an hour" sounds crazy, because it kinda is.
But that also just means filling one of these buckets every ~3 minutes. That's doable for the average healthy adult.
(Doing it 10hrs/day for weeks in a row is the hard part.)
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
> Michael Paul Smith uses 1:24 scale model cars and handmade buildings, placing them in front of real-world backdrops and photographing them using forced perspective. No Photoshop, no AI… just perfect angle.
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NPR - The year red-blooded patriotic American high-school jocks replaced migrant farm workers!
The year was 1965. On Cinco de Mayo, newspapers across the country reported that Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz wanted to recruit 20,000 high schoolers to replace the hundreds of thousands of Mexican agricultural workers who had labored in the United States under the so-called Bracero Program.
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I think if left entirely to my own devices, I would basically be a by-default-vegetarian. But in practice, I doubt that would ever be my life because I absolutely cannot say no to community aunties who want to feed me.
This toot brought to you by the jamaican curry handed to me in a repurposed margarine tub that I’m eating for dinner. 🔥😋🔥
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