A 2025 Retrospective.
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I'm just laughing at y'all. While rural areas may not have some of the things the urban areas have, let me list a few things...
- Oil.
- Natural gas.
- Wheat
- Corn.
- Cattle
- Chickens.
- Coal
- Hogs.
- Rice
- Sugar
- Timber
- Etc.
Now, I'm in a pretty rural area and the regional per capita income would never compare with Boston or New York. But...
I can draw a 120 mile circle and encompass a couple of automotive manufacturing plants, a refinery, one of the largest gas fields in the country, one of the largest soap mills in the country, the largest private sawmill in the country, two plywood/OSB plants, one of the biggest specialty aluminum factories in the country, four power plants, linerboard mill, toilet paper mill, a copy paper mill and the largest concentration of chemical plants in the country. And there's lots more, big and small.
Maybe y'all can import it, I don't know, but it looks to me that if y'all can't import it, you're going to starve in the dark, without anything to wipe your backside except your worthless, fiat money.
@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Oil.
Natural gas.
Wheat
Corn.
Cattle
Chickens.
Coal
Hogs.
Rice
Sugar
Timber
Etc.And how much of those things could be produced without the technology, education, finance etc. mainly provided by cities? You are looking at standards of living from 300 years ago.
Have you ever climbed the stairs of the Eiffel tower? If the steps were labeled "countryside" or "city", you are claiming that you can reach the top merely because the bottommost step is labeled "countryside".
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
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I was assured that the Republicans are the party of the rich.
:man-shrugging:
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Oil.
Natural gas.
Wheat
Corn.
Cattle
Chickens.
Coal
Hogs.
Rice
Sugar
Timber
Etc.And how much of those things could be produced without the technology, education, finance etc. mainly provided by cities? You are looking at standards of living from 300 years ago.
Have you ever climbed the stairs of the Eiffel tower? If the steps were labeled "countryside" or "city", you are claiming that you can reach the top merely because the bottommost step is labeled "countryside".
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
I can't believe this even needs to be pointed out.
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@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
I can't believe this even needs to be pointed out.
@aqua-letifer said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
I can't believe this even needs to be pointed out.
Point it out. It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.
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@aqua-letifer said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
I can't believe this even needs to be pointed out.
Point it out. It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.
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Jolly’s a prepper at heart. When he asks ‘which would do better’ I think he has survival scenarios in his mind that assume no trade with the outside world. Then sure, farms win.
@jon-nyc said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Jolly’s a prepper at heart. When he asks ‘which would do better’ I think he has survival scenarios in his mind that assume no trade with the outside world.
Like I said above...
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@jon-nyc said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Jolly’s a prepper at heart. When he asks ‘which would do better’ I think he has survival scenarios in his mind that assume no trade with the outside world.
Like I said above...
@jon-nyc said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@jon-nyc said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Jolly’s a prepper at heart. When he asks ‘which would do better’ I think he has survival scenarios in his mind that assume no trade with the outside world.
Like I said above...
Not that simple. Y'all continue to underestimate food, energy, chemical and manufacturing capacity of those red counties.
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@aqua-letifer said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Like it or not, but it's a symbiotic relationship.
I can't believe this even needs to be pointed out.
Point it out. It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.
@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.I realize that's probably a huge hope for you, but I'm sorry to tell you that's very unlikely. Show me all the evidence in the world, and I'm going to counter with the long list of cities in America that continue to exist.
Please love yourself.
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@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.I realize that's probably a huge hope for you, but I'm sorry to tell you that's very unlikely. Show me all the evidence in the world, and I'm going to counter with the long list of cities in America that continue to exist.
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@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Point it out. It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
As I said, the first step is labeled "countryside".
But life in it would look nothing like today's countryside.
@klaus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Point it out. It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
As I said, the first step is labeled "countryside".
But life in it would look nothing like today's countryside.
And by the same token, life in the city wouldn't be what it is today without the countryside. But the only time those in the countryside says anything is when city folk start up their "we're better educated, richer, and just plain better than you" crap. That's when we will remind city folk they have no reason to get all snooty, they make more money because it costs more to live there, and it costs more to live their because they keep voting for democrats, which causes those of us in the countryside to question their intelligence.....
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@Jolly, @Larry, since you two claim to operate farms, what would it be like if you operate your farm without using any technology from “big city” for, say a year?
For example, no refined fossil fuel, no internal combustion engine, no mass produced chemical fertilizer, no mass produced chemical insecticide, no genetically modified/enhanced seeds, no antibiotics and no artificial hormones for the farm animals, no taking advantage of weather and climate forecasts made with “big city” technologies, no electronic anything? (Not sure what restrictions to put on irrigation, not sure how much “big city” water distribution and filtration systems and technologies you rely on these days anyway.)
Might be very interesting to just try it for a year, and show ‘em city boys what’s possible without the cities. And it might give you great material to write a book and go onto talk show circuits and pod casts to talk about this after your year long experiment.
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@jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
It's symbiotic, but if the two are separated, who dies and who lives?
That is the question.I realize that's probably a huge hope for you, but I'm sorry to tell you that's very unlikely. Show me all the evidence in the world, and I'm going to counter with the long list of cities in America that continue to exist.
@aqua-letifer said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
I'm going to counter with the long list of cities in America that continue to exist.
Or Jericho, 10,000 years later....
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@mik said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Words fail.
Try:
- A thesaurus
- Building up your vocabulary
- Learning a foreign language (presumably after you exhausted English words)
- Pictures / graphics
- Motion pictures / animated graphics, you can even add sound to this!
- Interpretive dance
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@mik said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Words fail.
Try:
- A thesaurus
- Building up your vocabulary
- Learning a foreign language (presumably after you exhausted English words)
- Pictures / graphics
- Motion pictures / animated graphics, you can even add sound to this!
- Interpretive dance
@axtremus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@mik said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Words fail.
Try:
- A thesaurus
- Building up your vocabulary
- Learning a foreign language (presumably after you exhausted English words)
- Pictures / graphics
- Motion pictures / animated graphics, you can even add sound to this!
- Interpretive dance
Ax, you willingly watch movies like The First Time. Please stop trying to be funny, it's embarrassing.
Please love yourself.
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@george-k said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
I was assured that the Republicans are the party of the rich.
:man-shrugging:
I was assured that the Republicans all give, whereas the Democrats all take.
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@axtremus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@mik said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Words fail.
Try:
- A thesaurus
- Building up your vocabulary
- Learning a foreign language (presumably after you exhausted English words)
- Pictures / graphics
- Motion pictures / animated graphics, you can even add sound to this!
- Interpretive dance
Ax, you willingly watch movies like The First Time. Please stop trying to be funny, it's embarrassing.
@aqua-letifer said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Ax, you willingly watch movies like The First Time. Please stop trying to be funny, it's embarrassing.
Dance like no one is watching. Post like no one is reading.
BTW, have you watched "The Art of Self Defense"?
I watched it in a theater back in 2019, but I believe it is available on streaming services now. Give it a try, I think you'll like it. -
@Jolly, @Larry, since you two claim to operate farms, what would it be like if you operate your farm without using any technology from “big city” for, say a year?
For example, no refined fossil fuel, no internal combustion engine, no mass produced chemical fertilizer, no mass produced chemical insecticide, no genetically modified/enhanced seeds, no antibiotics and no artificial hormones for the farm animals, no taking advantage of weather and climate forecasts made with “big city” technologies, no electronic anything? (Not sure what restrictions to put on irrigation, not sure how much “big city” water distribution and filtration systems and technologies you rely on these days anyway.)
Might be very interesting to just try it for a year, and show ‘em city boys what’s possible without the cities. And it might give you great material to write a book and go onto talk show circuits and pod casts to talk about this after your year long experiment.
@axtremus said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@Jolly, @Larry, since you two claim to operate farms, what would it be like if you operate your farm without using any technology from “big city” for, say a year?
For example, no refined fossil fuel, no internal combustion engine, no mass produced chemical fertilizer, no mass produced chemical insecticide, no genetically modified/enhanced seeds, no antibiotics and no artificial hormones for the farm animals, no taking advantage of weather and climate forecasts made with “big city” technologies, no electronic anything? (Not sure what restrictions to put on irrigation, not sure how much “big city” water distribution and filtration systems and technologies you rely on these days anyway.)
Might be very interesting to just try it for a year, and show ‘em city boys what’s possible without the cities. And it might give you great material to write a book and go onto talk show circuits and pod casts to talk about this after your year long experiment.
I don't "claim" do shit. Nor do I operate "farms". I DO own A farm, and in looking over your list, you proved how clueless and utterly useless you city boys are.
I'm quite sure the invention of the combustion engine did not require a city location. I'm equally certain antibiotics, fertilizer, insecticide, seeds, etc didn't result from the existence of cities. Wouldn't know about hormones, as I don't use them. If we got rid of all you city boys there wouldn't be a need for hormones in the first place. But come to think of it.. maybe the reason you city boys are such sissies is all that estrogen in the meat you're eating....
I don't need "big city weather technology" because I can tell when it's raining all by myself. Don't need irrigation, as plenty of water runs through the property, and the weather here is good. Don't need to filter the water either, because I don't have a pile of city boys pissing in my creek. Electricity is nice, can you point to a city with a major power generator in It? From what I've seen, most power is generated in rural areas.
I HAVE had city boys try to tell me how to run things though, like the time I got a letter from some city boy sitting in an office in Washington, telling me I couldn't put in a pond where I wanted to. I wanted to put it in a low spot that caught runoff so it would have fresh water flow. He wanted me to get on top of a hill and dig a hole. I told him the same thing I'm going to tell you:
"You don't know shit about this, so shut up."
