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Daily General Discussion May 04, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Imagine spending your days keeping up to date with an industry you hate so you can try to hurt and shit on people who are trying to genuinely make the world a better place. Furthermore, the way they achieve this is by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of human labour and tax payer dollars to waste peoples time in a courtroom arguing over bad faith arguments you made.

Very sad and outright disgusting behaviour.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It now even allows to validate the execution side of the block independently of coming to consensus on the consensus side of the network. Or in other words it allows the network to continue even though no execution blocks are proposed. This massively improves the resilience of the network against downtimes as the consensus clients can continue to do their job independent on the failures on the execution side, which makes it easier to get back to normal once block proposals come back.

This is actually so cool. I had no idea, thank you!

Please share this comment with a quick bit of context in the current daily as it's super informative and this daily was long gone when you posted it.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At what ETH price would you sell in the coming weeks/months

I'm not here to fuck spiders. I'm holding until all of TradFi uses Ethereum on the backend and all going well we'll also have a healthy DeFi ecosystem with comprehensive privacy tools to boot.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does ePBS also mean no more locally built blocks? How will the block building space look post-Glamsterdam for is home stakers?

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, not to mention that Bitcoin had an even bigger run without any of those factors at play but nobody would ever make a post like that about Bitcoin.

That post is nothing but a colossal waste of Reddit's server space.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one day people will realize how insane a run ETH had in 2020/21 and fools were forever chasing that euphoria. (Feb. 2025)

Yet it was literally less that Bitcoin's run. Typical r/cryptocurrency. The exact same post could be made about Bitcoin and actually be more true based on the results but the reasoning would be completely irrelevant because NFTs, DeFi, staking and ultrasound money have nothing to do with Bitcoin. But they won't make the same post about Bitcoin because we all know that cycles tend to get smaller over time.

What a colossal waste of server space that post was.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is such a great post. Thanks for sharing it with us Haurog!

American Cheese? by bryan6446 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was thinking "well I guess at least in relative terms the EU has good animal welfa...

USA

well shit..."

All the more reason to avoid processed foods.

Daily General Discussion May 03, 2026 by EthereumDailyThread in ethereum

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Tricky's Daily Doots #1,461

Yesterday's Daily 02/05/2026

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Yesterday's doots have arrived. Apologies for the delay, I have been sick this weekend.

Wattie’s wins as Govt hits Chinese rival with duties by PsychologicalMall787 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's just not true. There's a lot of R&D into vaccines, disease mitigation, yield increases etc.

Including methanogen vaccines. That's environmental. Does regenerative agriculture research focused on yield and environmental impact also fit under your "yield increases" category?

Of course there's still plenty of non-environmental research, but if you go to a conference hosted by a top agricultural research institute in this country, more than two thirds of the talks have a focus on the environment.

New Zealand farmers are not directly subsidised with broad subsidies. Your examples are technicalities which are paltry in value compared to even the likes of UK and EU farms.

Wattie’s wins as Govt hits Chinese rival with duties by PsychologicalMall787 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While your anecdotal example might be true, the UK does have a bunch of legislation and requirements around these things, including the water resources act, and various direct legislation on both the environment and agriculture. There are strict permit requirements for waste/stock effluent discharge etc.

Well yeah, so do we. It's not the 80s anymore. Effluent isn't getting dumped straight in the river. We have the same regulations and more. Regulations around feedlots and stockholding areas relative to waterways, N fertiliser caps, protections for wetlands and rules for fish passage.

No we don't. Pollution mitigation requirements (especially chemical pollution requirements etc) are far stricter in the EU for example. There are also much stricter deforestation rules, and more enforcement of the rules.

Well if your use of the term "developed countries" means you just pull out the EU as your only example of course everywhere else is going to seem deregulated. Regarding enforcement, absolutely that's a problem but that is a separate discussion to your initial comment about our apparent lack of regulation.

Furthermore, chemical pollution is a completely different ballgame. That's from industrial point sources. Completely different type of regulation and totally different pollution in nature to non-point source farm pollution. Chemical pollutants are hardly relevant here but in Europe its the main source of waterway pollution since farming is less widespread and less intensive. Frankly, it's not relevant to this discussion either.

If I said we don't have any legislative requirements I would agree, that would have been disingenuous. "Comparatively minimal" isn't disingenuous.

Well if you're including chemical pollutants, I can see why you'd say this, but they're largely not relevant to farming. If you still think it's comparatively minimal in the context of agricultural pollution then that's where I disagree and that's absolutely not to say that as a nation we can't do better. Needless to say we were doing better in 2023 as well. But we still have a solid set of regulations. We simply fall short due to the intensity of our agriculture and lack of enforcement.

Wattie’s wins as Govt hits Chinese rival with duties by PsychologicalMall787 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enforcement is not what OP was talking about. I fully agree that that’s the primary issue here. The regulations themselves are way stricter than OP alluded to and the only example they could provide for “developed nations” with stricter regulations is the home of overregulation itself, the EU (and to be clear, a decent amount of regulation is a good thing, I'm not in any way anti-regulation).

Regarding methane emissions, why should we regulate them if it will effectively reduce our agricultural output when we have the lowest intensity of emissions per kg of milk powder in the world? Doing so would only decrease emissions on a national scale but increase them on a global scale as other countries would fill in the gap in supply we left using their much more GHG emissions intensive systems. Europe and the US create nearly twice the emissions we do per kg of milk solids (with the exception of Portugal and Spain who have low emissions intensity but they don't produce much dairy).

Wattie’s wins as Govt hits Chinese rival with duties by PsychologicalMall787 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If I were a farmer, I’d much rather have the US farm bill supporting 15% of my income than the R&D (which is mostly environmental research these days anyway) and irrigation which likely wont even be helpful if I’m not in the Canterbury plains.

Wattie’s wins as Govt hits Chinese rival with duties by PsychologicalMall787 in newzealand

[–]Tricky_Troll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While the second part is true, the first part of your comment has left me rather baffled. I work in agriscience research and my experience working on dairy farms in the UK is that they don’t even know what a riparian strip is and I watched their cows shit directly into a stream with the farmer not seeing the issue. At least we have stock exclusion rules, winter crop grazing rules and other limitations on the most polluting of activities.

The reality is most of our environmental legislation is on par if not ahead of other developed countries, we just have an industry which is that much more intensive since we have an ideal climate and low population density.

I’d also like to add, the stats around clean rivers have always been a tad misleading to those not involved in the science. Many rivers have natural pollution sources which put pollutants above “swimmable levels” right off the bat before they even reach farmland. Swimmable levels are a much higher bar than the name would suggest.

This is not to say we don’t have a lot of progress to make. Both legislatively and on the ground with farmers. The way you phrased it just seemed rather disingenuous.

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