I understand both sides. Lots of farmers are used to using pre-computerized tractors they could work on themselves out in a field. Now they find themselves using computer reliant machines that are beyond their ability to fix, and they forget all the amazing benefits this brings with it when they are broke down in a field and need 50,000$ worth of equipment just to find the problem. From Deere's point of view, they design machines that do amazing things but to do those things the equipment uses technology that requires specialized and very expensive equipment to work on them, in the hands of trained repairman. Want to have a tractor that uses GPS to drive the tractor and plant a field perfectly? Want to fix it yourself when it breaks? Then take the required training and make the massive investment in test equipment and specialized tools needed to do it. Or, buy a simpler tractor that can be fixed with a hammer and a wrench and do without the sheer wizardry of a modern tractor. Or, if you want the benefits of a modern tractor but don't want to spend the time and money it takes to diagnose and repair it? Then pay someone qualified and equipped to come out and repair it.

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Antifa was propped up with Soros money.

@brenda said in Speaking of Cats...: @mik said in Speaking of Cats...: "Oooma ooma ooma let me be your ooma" Pithy. Our Cats would be sooooo much better at this whole thing. Not only could she do it, she would do it with class. As the crowds ooohed and aaaahed, clapping wildly, you and Jolly would be nodding and saying, "Oh yeah, she's one of my online buddies. We talk alllll the time." To badly paraphrase George, I would pay money - not good money, mind you- but money to see that.

Among the biggest underdogs to ever make the Super Bowl… https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-odds-bengals-biggest-underdogs-super-bowl

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@jon-nyc said in 7 Myths: The cabin hit the surface 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup, and all investigations indicate the crew was still alive until then. That’s good to know. Yes, they were breathing when they hit the water. I remember there being some discussion of exactly how much oxygen was consumed. And based on that they made guesses about the condition of the crew on impact. Some astronauts said they believed that Dick Scobee was still attempting to fly the Shuttle on impact. They acknowledged that was wishful thinking but said they thought it was possible and if it was possible, he was doing it. Of course at that point there wasn't much left to fly. I watched the replays, just after the accident, at Dulles Airport on my way to my grandmother's funeral. Throw in the Patriots Super Bowl loss the day before and that was a really lousy week.

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Got a nephew that's a Horned Frog. He's in the band - plays the biggest drum, but he's also a great sax player and bassist. One of those kids that can pick up any instrument and be pretty good in a week or so. Also an award winning shooter and hunter

This was a really good one. The technique is incredible (near the end). Link to video

One wonders what else Putin and Xi demanded of him.

That's just straightup master-level laziness.

Heh. Now this is a problem: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60190452 Ottawa police said in a Twitter post that "several" investigations were now under way into the "desecration" of a number of monuments in the capital city...