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@Sibshops@lemm.ee
- Comment on The new AMERICAN pope doesn't even speak AMERICAN 5 days ago:
Of course he speaks American, it says Spanish right there.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
You can support lemm.ee, then, instead?
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 week ago:
I’m a (small) monthly supporter already! I wish lemmy had a way to give people a little checkbox in their profile for supporters.
- Comment on Pope 1 week ago:
The Catholic church: Women in charge? Absolutely not.
- Comment on Knee problem 1 week ago:
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 1 week ago:
That’s because they diluted their stock and sold it.
- Comment on Bitcoin mining is no longer profitable 1 week ago:
I don’t believe this is necessarily true. Miners like Riot Blockchain are operating at a loss and other people are stealing electricity.
- Comment on He's gonna be walking for a little bit 2 weeks ago:
The only issue is that if I have to travel to an infinite distance to the lobby, I’ll never check out.
- Comment on He's gonna be walking for a little bit 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say you have to move to the infinite room. How can someone check out of the hotel?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Oh very interesting
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
It insists upon itself.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, what opinion?
- Comment on Rev up those 3D printers! 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so maybe she’s on to something. It’s not actually that boring, after all.
Animal husbandry, being one of the oldest and most fundamental practices within the broader field of agriculture, refers to the art and science of breeding, rearing, and caring for livestock animals in a manner that optimizes both their health and productivity while meeting human needs for resources such as meat, milk, fiber, leather, labor, and companionship, and this discipline, which has evolved slowly and steadily over the course of several millennia since the Neolithic Revolution, involves an impressively large and often tedious array of tasks that must be performed on a daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual basis with a degree of consistency and attention to minute detail that many might find repetitive and unremarkable, such as the precise formulation of animal diets based on detailed nutritional analyses to ensure balanced intake of macronutrients like proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, as well as essential micronutrients like vitamins and minerals, all of which must be tailored to the specific physiological needs of the animal based on factors such as age, sex, weight, reproductive status, lactation stage, and intended market use, combined with strict management of water supply quality and quantity to avoid issues related to dehydration or waterborne diseases, in addition to the regular cleaning and maintenance of animal housing facilities to manage waste buildup, control ammonia levels, prevent disease outbreaks, and provide adequate bedding and ventilation, which are critical yet thankless tasks that contribute directly to the long-term sustainability of operations, and further complicated by the constant need to monitor animal health through visual inspection, behavioral observation, and, increasingly, the collection of biometric data via digital technologies, a development that, while technologically advanced, has in no way reduced the fundamentally monotonous nature of physically walking among herds and flocks to assess for subtle signs of illness, injury, or distress, all of which must be recorded meticulously in farm management software or paper logs to satisfy not only internal quality assurance but also external audits by regulatory bodies concerned with animal welfare standards, environmental impact, and food safety, all while dealing with the additional mental load of planning breeding programs, selecting sires and dams based on genetic merit determined through increasingly complex indices that weigh traits such as feed efficiency, disease resistance, growth rates, carcass quality, and reproductive performance, and implementing mating decisions either naturally or via artificial insemination, which itself demands storage, handling, and application of semen under sterile and highly specific conditions, not to mention the planning for parturition seasons, where supervision of calving, lambing, kidding, or farrowing must occur frequently throughout day and night, often in less-than-ideal weather conditions, requiring a level of patience and endurance that is rarely recognized outside agricultural circles, and following successful births, careful colostrum management, early weaning strategies, and vaccination schedules must be rigorously followed to ensure maximal early-life survival rates and long-term productivity, all while navigating fluctuating market conditions, adjusting herd or flock size accordingly, ensuring compliance with evolving local, national, and international regulations regarding traceability, animal movement, antibiotic stewardship, and waste management, and participating in industry programs aimed at verifying sustainable practices, such as carbon footprint reduction initiatives, ethical certification schemes, and environmental stewardship programs, which, although important for the long-term viability of the sector and planet alike, add another layer of administrative burden and paperwork to an already tedious daily workload that requires an unwavering dedication to routines that, despite small innovations here and there, have remained fundamentally unchanged in their essence for thousands of years, making animal husbandry a life pursuit not for those seeking constant excitement, but rather for individuals uniquely suited to find satisfaction in the slow, steady rhythms of feeding, cleaning, observing, recording, breeding, birthing, treating, marketing, and planning, over and over, season after season, year after year, in a cycle so long and repetitive that it almost imperceptibly becomes the very fabric of a practitioner’s life.
- Comment on BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine the backstory you have to both use the Gen X ellipsis and think BBC means something else than the news organizations.
- Comment on Rev up those 3D printers! 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist: She’s going to talk about animal husbandry at length.
- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 2 weeks ago:
You could use none and just dump it into the larger trash bag in the kitchen when it fills up. Every so often, wash it out in the bathtub.
- Comment on Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 4 weeks ago:
I’m built different
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 4 weeks ago:
Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go outside and raise your hand. You just over came the magnetic force of the Entire Earth.
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
Pole which disappears part way down the wall. The person isn’t on the bed but behind it. The shadows are all messed up too.
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 5 weeks ago:
Oh I completely agree that there are harmful historical associations, like the “Yellow Peril” stereotype, and that we need to be aware of it. I’m just saying that not every color/race pairing is promoting those stereotypes.
I’m wondering if using those pairings in a positive way can subvert the old associations, like how Black Panther reclaims blackness as power, or how Barbie’s pink means something more empowering.
In Power Rangers, all the characters were portrayed as heroes, respected equally by the team. So while the color choices might not have been intentional, the show, for the most part, didn’t show the characters in a negative or stereotypical way. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware of broader sterotypes. It just may mean the it wasn’t necessarily harmful in this case.
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 5 weeks ago:
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but if there’s no stereotype being reinforced beyond a color match, it’s not automatically problematic.
I feel like if a criticism can be levied here it can also be levied to Black Panther or Barbie.
- Comment on Anon needs sleep 5 weeks ago:
The only people who I know do this are in the medical profession.
- Comment on How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmous Khalil's case different? 5 weeks ago:
I think he had a green card so he was a legal permanent resident. The other people had visas.
- Comment on The hidden world of wood-decaying fungi | Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) 5 weeks ago:
It’s crazy that there were trees piling up for a long time before wood decaying fungi and bacteria were around.
- Comment on p r e s s u r e 5 weeks ago:
Where is gender sand?
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks ago:
Good point. Why would an atheist hate something which doesn’t exist. The whole meme is bad.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks ago:
The bottom-left one for Feminists doesn’t fit. The others are things that were created by their own group, for example, the KKK was created by Christians. That Feminist meme, on the other hand, wasn’t created by feminists but by someone else to mock them.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 5 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t for it to be conspiratorial mean there has to be a secret organization behind the scenes? I thought Reddit and X admit to doing this.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 5 weeks ago:
That’s the dumbest thing to get banned for.
