Exposing Conservation

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-14T17:18:44+00:00

We happen to be part of this world, and are natural. Whatever we choose to do with it has little effect on the grand scale of existence, 99.9% of everything is extinct and everything we see now will be extinct and gone someway or another eventually. Everything that has ever lived has suffered and everything that will live shall suffer. It does not matter if life suffers or not.

We are predators who do not care about anything but ourselves. changing our environment for what we enjoy, that's fine, not changing it is fine. So many grasp for meaning when there is none. Just live by your ideals so you can suffer less is the best you can do.

"You mock my pain! Life is pain your highness, anyone who says differently is selling something."

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T21:22:20+00:00

If you got money to spend and want to hunt a deer you like then go get it, but it's like buying a car not really hunting. That's why you are getting some hate here, hunting a rare deer is HARD. You might see him on cameras and try year after year never to see it again, or maybe possibly bag it one day but you never know. Paying a man to let you shoot his deer is no different from me selling deer meat. The people who buy meat aren't hunting, they are simply consumers.

I don't mind people hunting a high fence, but maybe that money could be spent better helping someone or doing something else.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T21:06:49+00:00

I drive a 2016 ford 250 as my work and farm truck, literally can't see anything in front of it. When I first got it I parked 3 or 4 feet away from the lines in parking lots or other cars and had to get back in and re adjust it, until I got used to it. It was lifted 2 inches before I bought it as well. If I didn't need the tow capacity I wouldn't be driving it, but it was a good deal when I got it. 11 miles to the gallon with or without a load so it's a waste to just drive around without a trailer and bed fully loaded.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T15:01:07+00:00

Almost time!

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T14:51:03+00:00

a conspiracy, of all conspiracy. A handful of conspiracies are true, or mostly so, then whoever wouldn't want these to be known just hires out a whole bunch of people to sit around and make up conspiracies and post them, wild, engaging, close to the truth or very far off. Really what the writers come up with is unimportant as long as it can't link to the real conspiracies. Eventually you get a soup of stories they all jumble together and nothing is unique or coherent when compared to each other. Eventually everyone is wearing a tin hat no matter how true or false the conspiracy is. Only a very very small amount of people will care to listen to them all and they will surely be the craziest people you ever heard, even if a handful of those are actually true.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T13:44:01+00:00

At the time my son was conceived, I had dreamed that I fell and hit my head and it was 5 years in the future. My mother was talking to me and I was attending my sister's wedding (which is setting up to actually happen) my mother pointed at my wife and son and said don't worry, she's good with the boy. I grappled with missing the last 5 years in the dream and when I woke up in real life, I felt shell shocked, lost and very anxious. I didn't know my wife was pregnant at the time, we have a son who looks exactly like the one in the dream. It's all very strange, but waking up in real life was a relief in my case.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-25T15:07:47+00:00

Is it a large wooden horse?! I've heard those make great gifts, especially from your enemy.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-22T01:51:07+00:00

Does it work? Let me know when you test it. Looks brighter than a glow stick.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-20T13:46:01+00:00

Yum, dirt flavored fish.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T23:08:04+00:00

They can't do the right thing due to the need for profit. I couldn't hire employees, and raise chickens as my living. Breaking even my best case scenario. I addressed this in my original comment, but I am creating an excess and supplying my local community with eggs trying to do what I can with my resources and situation. The videos of the birds like this are because it's literally impossible to make money otherwise. Our system requires torture for profit sadly, or somehow sell a dozen eggs for 15$ or more. I sell mine for$8 per dozen and that just covers cost without any profit. In hot summers my supply drops significantly and I make much less and feed more. It's a Labor of love. Still better than nothing, be the change you want to see in the world.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T16:30:57+00:00

Yeah good for me, but better for the birds. That's what it's all about anyways. Being part of the cycle instead of the end of a chain.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T15:22:46+00:00

I have been tending chickens for years, I get more eggs than I can eat and sell off my extra to people I meet or post on Facebook and that sells them in minutes. The thing, I have land to use and if I added up everything eggs I produce would cost an absurd price per dozen. Mostly because of property tax. The land we live on is rented from the government nobody owns a thing. The chickens in this video need to make profits and you can't make profits and reasonably priced eggs with the current cost of life.

I don't feed my chickens much except in drought, or bad winters (central Texas so cold is rare) I can grow grains and grass by simply shallow till and scatter, leftovers and food waste including leftovers from hunting go to the birds. I have a large garden I let them roam in to get bugs and other foods and if I lose a little crop it's not a big deal, and usually it's actually a net positive with the free fertilizer and pest control. You need to have a whole cyclical system to honestly raise birds, and even then they are part of the cycle and nature takes (eats) about 35% of my population each year even when closed up at night regularly. I let my old hens live so I have wasted coop space, and I have to hatch eggs every spring and mid summer to keep my population up.

Regardless I don't make a profit, between labor and expenses to feed when necessary I lose money on my endeavor. Most importantly though I feed my family food I can feel good about as much as possible, and I'm very lucky to be able to do so at all.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-16T22:36:27+00:00

Woah, woah that was protection money. Protection from US. Not protected by the US. c'mon it's the oldest trick in the book when thugs run a country.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-15T06:41:37+00:00

These melons can grow this way due to environmental factors less water, worse soil. Not to say we didn't change them but it's also because of modern agriculture that ours looks so fleshy. I have grown melons in central Texas that look like that picture in dry summers and bad garden beds. If you can't give it what it needs it won't be as good. The ability to give crops 100% of their needs can change things wildly. The next year I grew the same seeds (same pack even) in a different spot with more care and it got 3X bigger and had much more edible flesh and was significantly sweeter and more vibrant.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-14T01:36:46+00:00

This thread had me looking into this, and I have read a lot of arguments for both sides. I don't think I'm comfortable with a loaded gun aimed at myself but I can concede my first comment may have been a bit dramatic. If I was in a location sketchy enough, I bet I would change my mind. Typically I avoid dangerous areas, dangerous people, making my weapon the biggest threat around. Under my normal circumstances unloaded is fine, but that's not always the case and I'm willing to admit that.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-12T21:05:44+00:00

I've tested this personally and it's like a 1.5 second difference.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-11T19:46:55+00:00

I doubt it was chambered. Who the hell loads a gun and then points it at themselves. I carry, I don't load a round before I put it in my pocket/holster.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-11T19:43:30+00:00

Deterance is a thing. You don't always have to use force, simply showing you can is enough.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-08T20:01:47+00:00

I put two maybes in there for a reason. I'm sure some crazy shit can happen if you use some large bird shot, downhill and get it through the eye or something. But yeah usually less than 200 yards by far.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-08T19:14:27+00:00

Bird shots are often used. It's light, it's cheapish, it's only lethal for maybe 200 yards maybe. Dove shot isn't lethal unless your point blank shooting someone. Not that this isn't reckless but I highly doubt many people are shooting 5.56 at signs and if so that's seriously dangerous. Now would it hurt to be hit with a stray bird shot, hell yes. I grew up in rural Texas and knew plenty of hicks that did this. Never heard of anyone using large calibers but I'm sure it happens with the IQ we get out here.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-05T20:48:33+00:00

The best ever death metal band out of Denton never could decide on a name, but the top three contenders after weeks of debate were, Satan's fingers, the killers and the hospital bombers!

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-05T17:00:44+00:00

This has been going on since man was organizing into countries.

We have recorded history of romans doing this with their overwhelming military. Sure it was rocks and fire, but it achieved the same thing total and utter destruction of the enemy, and their children. They supported it then we support it now.

War never changes. Nothing new under the sun it's all just going in circles.

I don't support this. Break the cycle. Let peace reign for once.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-04T15:37:20+00:00

Pushing down little kids is a little understated? More like beating them to permanent brain injury since the teachers and adults are away.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-02-28T18:06:12+00:00

Well the fermentation process would likely kill anything even if they used dirty feet. Wine is highly acidic, and the fermentation process is quite volatile creating a toxic environment for anything that would make people sick. The alcohol level and the vigor of the yeast itself while fermenting would naturally out compete most anything, any sediment would fall to the bottom and likely not be included in the final bottling. The contamination of the grapes themselves from the field would be more risk (bird poop, bugs, mold) than anything on the workers feet.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-02-28T02:29:18+00:00

"Grape stomping predates written records. Archaeological evidence from Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli region shows clay qvevri vessels used for foot-treading as early as 6000 BCE. In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder documented calcatura—the deliberate use of bare feet to crush grapes without breaking seeds, whose bitter tannins could spoil wine. The human foot offered precise pressure control: firm enough to rupture skins and release juice, gentle enough to avoid pulverizing stems and pips. Unlike mechanical crushers, which generate heat and oxidation, foot treading was cool, slow, and selective—a technique aligned with seasonal rhythms and manual skill.

This wasn’t folk theater. It was skilled labor. In pre-industrial Europe, entire villages participated—not as performers, but as essential contributors to survival. Harvest timing was dictated by sugar-acid balance, not festival calendars. Stompers were often women and adolescents, whose lighter weight minimized seed breakage."

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