Peasants are not revolting. Farmers are revolting
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That’s my take on the agricultural unrest happening across Europe.
Of course we would not be here if we still relied on peasant farmers and the meagre surplus that could be extracted from them without actually killing them. Nevertheless, today’s farmers are not their descendants.
Just one item in the latest Issue of Eat This Newsletter.
2024-02-24
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240224-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.8765579, 12.46266
* Saturday 24 February, 2024
* 423.34 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
In the garden of a nunnery.
2024-02-23
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240223-B-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.895401, 12.453739
* Friday 23 February, 2024
* 423.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
NB: The bicycle quest was a lot closer than the walking quest, but it was still a good long walk of 7.5km round trip.
Also, while the quest itself was visually boring, it was very close to the Russian Orthodox church, which is less so.
I'm not going to be deleting any drafts on 29 February, because I don't have any. Well, maybe a couple for ongoing client work. All my own "drafts" are just notes that may or may not end up as published things, so they don't represent any kind of drain or debt, for me.
Putin's genocidal myth, by Timothy Snyder
Not that it will make any difference ...
How green are Europe's railways? - Jon Worth
I am always impressed when people with really deep knowledge make it easy for me to understand what they are saying, and Jon Worth's railway analyses are a recent discovery in that realm.
A railway trip is green. But the railway sector as a whole in Europe – due to a combination of factors within the industry and political problems – is incapable of making a step change in terms of modal share. In the middle of a climate crisis that is not good enough.
He offers reasons why this is so and ways to fix it, but little hope.
New lens on the old camera; very enjoyable first outing.
Wintersweet (Chymonanthes) flower.
2024-02-12
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240212-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.87050, 12.45489
* Monday 12 February, 2024
* 423.19 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Right in the middle of the tram tracks.
Eat This Newsletter gathers stories from around the internet and the world. From mother's milk in a bioreactor to the rural Chinese restaurants of Victoria, with stops in Rajasthan, Japan and Mexico.
Question: what happens to substandard fruit in Japan?
https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-231-apologies/
🐈 Animal #196 🐻
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-11
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240211-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88118, 12.44558
* Sunday 12 February, 2024
* 423.15 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🐯 Animal #194 🫎
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
Forget Technocrats – Let’s Get Some Realitycrats – Terence Eden’s Blog
Pretend, just for a moment, that you are anti-abortion. You believe that the ideal number of abortions in a country should be zero. Forget your ideological reasons - which countries have the lowest abortion rates? Well, it turns out to be the ones with high levels of sex education, easy access to contraceptives, excellent pre-natal care, and strong parental leave policies. And they all have legal access to abortion services.
If you truly want to reduce the number of abortions, there are a wide range of policies which actually work and don't involve demonising women and doctors.
Some clear thinking from Terence Eden, on many different things that have something in common: evidence-based policy
Lukas Rosenstock's Blog
About a party Lukas hosted, using an idea from a book by Nick Gray. A two-hour party geared so that people can meet and get to know one another, with a clear end time and deliberate ice-breakers. Sounds like fun.
2024-02-09
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
1 min read
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240209-W-AY68O8
* On foot
* 41.88226, 12.43950
* Friday 9 February, 2024
* 423.09 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
🦕 Animal #193 🦭
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
🐹 Animal #192 🐲
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
Solution proved simple. Apply for a free account at Stadia Maps. Wait for (and chase up) verification email. Verify. Give Stadia this domain and everything now works. Any further effort on the checkins plugin will probably wait until the next problem arises.
🐘 Animal #191 🦙
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
I'm jealous of how apparently easy it is to have sidenotes with this Hugo theme.
2024-02-06
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240206-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On bicycle
* 41.863416, 12.457319
* Tuesday 6 February, 2024
* 422.96 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
2024-02-05
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240205-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.885237, 12.457542
* Monday 5 February, 2024
* 422.92 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Ten Gallon Tank · Jan De Wilde
Fish Overkill!
Cats on the internet are so passé. This site is Web 1.0 compatible.
Sums it up for me, really. And thanks to https://anhvn.com/posts/2024/weeknotes-10/ for the link
🦘 Animal #189 🦃
I figured it out in 9 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
2024-02-03
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240203-W-AY68O8
1 min read
- On foot
- 41.875478, 12.461943
- Saturday 3 February, 2024
- 422.85 ppm CO2
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.875478&mlon=12.461943#map=14/41.875478/12.461943)
Too busy to post on the day
Well, this is a drag. Just discovered that all my Checkins at WithKnown show an error because they are not authenticated at Stadia Maps. I hope I can find the problem and fix it.
#withknown
🐢 Animal #187 🐾
I figured it out in 13 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
That took some doing.
🐱 Animal #186 🐡
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.8
https://metazooa.com
Absolutely the worst one yet. Completely meaningless.
🦇 Animal #184 🦖
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9
https://metazooa.com
2024-01-30
rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240130-W-AY68O8
1 min read
* On foot
* 41.890238, 12.480799
* Tuesday 30 January, 2024
* 422.75 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
Amazing that this quest was in the middle of the road right by one of our most-used bus stops.
I've just set up a couple of Alfred custom web searches, prompted by Wouter Groeneveld's post How To Search The Internet at https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/how-to-search-the-internet/ No idea yet whether I these will ever imprint themselves on my muscle memory, though I do want to try.
Such an amazing chain of events with such interesting consequences. Alas, neither of my parents were the diarying kind, but I definitely appreciate my own as an aide-memoire. Seeing what I did on this day is always fun.
🐂 Animal #182 🐔
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 11 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com
Interesting to read Devastatia's IndieWeb Carnival entry, which opens with an account of The Breakfast Club, the day after we saw The Holdovers. We were talking about great high school movies of the past, and of course TBC was among them (also If, The History Boys etc). As a Boomer, I wonder how those and The Holdovers (set in 1971) come across to recent generations.
🦧 Animal #181 🦢
I figured it out in 8 guesses!
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🔥 10 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
https://metazooa.com
Got off to a bad start.
🐛 Animal #180 🐱
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 7
https://metazooa.com