Death Korps of Krieg

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[mariacallous]

[moniquill]

[queer-coded]

This also commonly comes to us from indigenous societies. Famously, the Iroquois and Cherokee native American cultures planted the Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash). https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/three-sisters

The reason that monocultures are still prevalent for the Three Sisters is because co-planting requires manual harvesting. My question for the wheat/walnut example is if the same is true, or if industrial machinery can still be used for harvesting?

[alexseanchai]

One of these photos is using industrial machinery for harvesting wheat. It's obviously less efficient in terms of percentage of wheat harvested, since it can't get at any wheat too close to the trees. But even if they sacrifice ten percent of the wheat for that reason, ten percent of 1.4 is significantly less than forty percent of 1.0. Either that or the 1.4 yield already doesn't count that sacrificed wheat.

[elljayvee]

The form of polyculture in the pictures is called "alley cropping" and it's often done explicitly to allow machine harvest. If correctly spaced and managed it can be very efficient. You can alley crop certain kinds of raspberries in apple orchards, because the raspberries are an earlier crop and can be mown flat after harvest, allowing harvest of the apple trees (the raspberries are fine and will grow out again afterwards).

There's a lot of kinds of polyculture that work better with manual harvesting, of course. One I can think off offhand is the walnut - apple/apricot - currant - vegetable crop layering common in some parts of Central Asia for example, which is just too many layers for industrial harvesting equipment to cope with in its usual format. But alley cropping is very machine-friendly.

[cadhla182]

Happy Halloween!

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[cadhla182]

Ranma

Never watched/read the original but I'm enjoying the new series.

[demaparbat-hp]

He's never happy

[prokopetz]

What I really need is a mainline Castlevania game that canonises the Captain N: The Game Master version of Simon Belmont by establishing that no, he's not that Simon Belmont, he's just named after the guy, and constantly being compared to his famous ancestor is literally the reason he's Like That.

[sekhithefops]

Honestly, that would have explained a lot.

[prokopetz]

Objectively the most punchable man in a long line of eminently punchable men; our challenge is to make him vaguely sympathetic without changing anything essential about his character.

[prokopetz]

Splitting the difference on productivity fetishism by striving to maximise my personal utility, but only for purposes no-one actually wants.

[absolxguardian]

I'm in a Marxist literature class right now so my brain first parsed it as "commodity fetishism" and so I imagined a world where we replace exchange-value with how annoying something is.

[prokopetz]

[otiksimr]

Poorly drawn Aron line

[otiksimr]

Okay fine I'll flip him over.

[yuribuny]

global forcefemming now

[greenflamethegf]

[prokopetz]

Just got back to my desk after lunch to be greeted by a message from my mother reading: "I've ordered a propeller for your father. It will be arriving at your place tomorrow." Zero context. Sometimes I'm starkly reminded where I got my own propensity to never explain anything.

[sunnerror]

is this your father

[prokopetz]

Every man from time to time needs a propeller.

[dailyarturia]

three way crosspost technique

[hajizomenoise]

[meredithmcclaren]

Ranma belongs to Ranma ½ . Artwork by Meredith McClaren

Description: An illustration of Ranma Saotome from Ranma ½ in girl form. He’s sweating, dressed in black and white gym wear, and preparing to do a dead lift.  

[prokopetz]

Okay, why the heck did I suddenly gain two dozen followers on Bluesky in the last twenty minutes? What did Elon Musk do this time?

[theseaofrainbowclouds]

My dash did the thing...

[ghostdata]

[pocket-penny]

[prokopetz]

Conspicuous phenotypic similarities among characters like Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3, 2023) and Preminger (Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, 2004) have been noted in the past; however, establishment of a definitive taxonomy has thus far been hindered by the fact that both are clearly juveniles of their species. Now, however, a mature specimen is believed to have been located: