C'mon Idaho.
I am the queen of horse paste, but I would welcome ditching the God-awful taste of that stuff to swap for a tidy pill. I'd also enjoy ditching my new skillset of figuring out dosage for friends & family based on what form they bought off the shelf from TSC.
Let's normalize anthelmintics!
One neat thing from Grok:
My friend got three Angus calves from a slightly nefarious situation. She pulled hairs and got raw genetic data on all of them. She didn't think to ask the lab for parental verification or anything else; she just had the raw numbers. I uploaded the screenshots into Grok and within about 45 seconds I had an answer for her: all three calves shared a sire, two were full brother/sister twins (rendering the female twin a likely free martin and not fertile) and the third calf a close cousin. Not the result she wanted, but the tech was cool. No slant from any opinionated websites - just very detailed analytical calculations.
We have to pay north of $5500 this year because we didn't withhold enough for the paltry social security payments my husband draws. I keep telling him to defer and see what shakes down this year, but he's a "you pay your taxes on time like a good American" kind of man.
Taxes on social security payments are terrible.
I had the unfortunate experience of seeing a small clip on X with "it" (in a very bizarre dress) standing and chatting next to Whoopi. I couldn't believe it, but somebody actually squeezed that fat-assed loudmouth into a dress! It was just like seeing Zelensky in a suit. LOL
Anyway, screw all of these idiots. The only reason to watch would have been to see a mass arrest, but I don't think we're there yet.
I thought it was all awesome on our side.
Late last night I popped on Bookface, and was greeted to a barrage of people posting "Slava Ukraini" and other BS. Then some random white dude (presumably with VERY low-T levels) filmed himself actually crying about Zelensky being asked why he doesn't wear a suit.
Apparently the propaganda machine is still alive and well within a big chunk of the USA.
I was just wondering how the "blackout" went for the lefties yesterday. I did my very best to circumvent it by taking my kid to the eye doctor and buying him new glasses (without insurance), gassing up my truck, buying a few more things online, and then we took my dad out to dinner.
"Bird flu" or Newcastle or whatever they want to call it is being handled in the stupidest of ways. I went through the Newcastle scare in 2000 (which ended up being caused by USDA illegally transported sick birds to an unmarked USDA facility). Any bird that catches Newcastle was dead within 48-72 hours. If they didn't catch it, they were fine. So of course the power-mad state vet decided to cull everyone's flock within a mile + radius of the positive test. (In hindsight now, I'm wondering if these were the same sort of PCR tests they used for covid.) They used drones to suss out hidden flocks, and demanded to test. (We fought with them for weeks on this point. I didn't want they stepping foot on the property after they'd been on other supposedly infected areas.) They didn't have enough real vets to go out and do these tasks, so they hired basically anybody. The crews that came out to cull flocks were horrible, caught on video stomping these poor birds to death. It was terrifying to be a flock keeper in those days.
Ideally, you have an issue come through and you let it play out. You practice tight biosecurity. You keep the survivors and let them breed on, ensuring the tougher genes survive. Why are we coming in and killing healthy birds? Ugh.
Sorry for the short story here, but this really irks me to no end. That said, my incubator is full, and I should be hatching more chicks in about 4 more days. I like supplying my friends and neighbors with high quality (and not insanely overpriced) eggs.
Spoiler alert: I have dairy cows, too, so I may die of double bird flu exposure soon. LOL!
Plant milkweed... monarchs need it! If you poke around online, you probably have some org near you that will set you up with some for free or very low cost.
Sowing a mix of "pollinator seeds" is always a good idea, too.
AOC, Jasmine, Rashida, Ilhan, and Maxine would like a word.