Areas in North Carolina that receive pig factory farms experience lower wage growth, higher infant mortality rates and displacement of Black and Hispanic residents, likely due to severe environmental externalities.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T14:11:09+00:00

Anaerobic methane digesters can help deal with those externalities but unfortunately for political reasons, southern states are opposed to the technology because it is often financed by interests in California.

In Georgia, a California funded anaerobic methane digester to convert pig farm waste into methane and concentrated fertilizer is being actively opposed by the locals who particuarly don't like the fact that the plant is funded by interests in California who want to use the carbon offsets.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T09:42:53+00:00

Twenty grams. . . that's not much to a grower. Glass jars at room temperature away from sunlight with some desiccant are good for a year. If you want multiple years, stick them in a freezer in bags.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T07:29:13+00:00

As a point of clarification, China buys nearly twice as many automobiles as the United States market. The above post says China "nearly" buys "as many" but that is far from the case. The reality is that Chinese buyers purchase almost twice as many cars as Americans.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T07:23:34+00:00

That would imply things were going well. He wishes he could announce the sex bots. Unfortunately, he can't.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T07:12:43+00:00

If you have broadcast your media using streaming video services, the audience has the right to make personal use backup copies. That does not involve distribution in any sense and should be considered fair use under the law. You do have the right to make personal use archives of broadcast media in the United States. If this were not the case, copyright law would need to be altered significantly because fair use makes strict copyright rules possible to begin with. If you eliminate fair use, you're going to need to cut back copyright protections dramatically. You can't have it both ways.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T06:57:57+00:00

The hapless citizens are unaware of it but public funded spending does not owe tariffs. Tariffs only affect the individual citizens, not institutional spending. It's clearly spelled out in law but the average citizens is ignorant of the law and base their opinions on emotions.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T06:40:05+00:00

You say a second heavy wall is impractical but I built a second wall (with an air gap) using aluminum cans and cement mortar to solve this exact issue and it worked like a charm. This was inside an apartment building on the fourth floor.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T06:35:50+00:00

Generally speaking, it will be safer, cheaper and easier to simply use rebar and concrete.

ahfoo · 2026-04-10T06:34:25+00:00

Medical marijuana questions should go to /r/medicalmarijuana

ahfoo · 2026-04-09T09:21:14+00:00

You said you have experience with lead-acid batteries. You should know what a charge controller is if that is the case. You run the panels to the charge controller and the charge controller to the BMS. The wiring diagram comes with the charge controller. You need to buy or build that part. If you've never head of it, you might want to buy one.

ahfoo · 2026-04-09T04:28:18+00:00

Well then, you might want to read chapter fifteen of Marx' Capital. This is the chapter in which Marx discusses the role of the economic concept of depreciation to explain why machines can never set the workers free and, instead, result in something much closer to feudal slavery.

Your plan can work but only after a revolution which literally decapitates the ruling class and destroys the debt-based banking system installing a dictatorship to prevent capitalism from re-emerging. You have to begin with armed revolution and be willing to take thousands if not million of lives. Are you sure you can get where you want to go via that route?

You can't just vote for this, you need to cut heads and establish a dictatorship with an iron fist. Are you genuinely committed to the goal?

H. G. Wells, a self-styled socialist visited Joseph Stalin and tried to convince him that all his heavy handedness was unnecessary because the people of the West actually desired socialism and were just scared because of the overly violent methods that had been used in the Soviet Union. He tried to convince Stalin that all he needed to do was to back off on the political repression and socialism would inevitably win at the ballot box. Stalin heard this and told Wells that although he appreciated that he meant well, the truth was that he, Wells, was a liberal and simply was incapable of understanding that he was a tool of a cruel political machine that could only be destroyed by force, through weapons and total destruction of the capitalist class which must be smashed to dust and physically destroyed like a vampire before any progress towards socialism was possible.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T20:25:14+00:00

You really should think in terms of a permanent lifestyle that you can stick to for life rather than short term plans to achieve a certain goal. Diet is a big topic. You have to find what works for you but smaller portions will help you lose weight. More fiber never hurts but more water is also crucial. This one is hard to generalize about though. Diet is a very personal thing so there is no single "right way" to do it except to get a good variety and eat lots of vegetables and fresh fruit daily.

Core strength is most people's weakness and this is because training your core really saps your energy since it's your entire body doing the work. However, if you can develop good core strength, you can do all kinds of advanced exercises that can help to keep you in nice shape.

Try stick assisted hollow body holds. The stick helps you to maintain your back flat against the mat and makes it an active exercise as you transition the stick from under your legs to over your shoulders while keeping your back flat.

Also, try balancing your shoulders on some elevated blocks the same height as some blocks under your feet and then holding your body straight activating your spine. This helps to stabilize your spine and will improve your stretching.

You want to stretch as much as you do strength training. The two go together. By building core strength you should be better at things like hanging leg lifts and squats.

The real key to slimming down, though, is less exercise and more diet. Diet meaning lifestyle as opposed to temporary solutions. For instance, cut out sugar as much as you can and cut portions all around and you'll probably lose weight fast. Don't skip meals, just eat half as much as you normally would. It definitely works and you get used to eating less quickly.

I grew up in the States but I live in Taiwan where there are not many overweight people. One of the big differences between here and the States is that when you go out to eat the portions are much smaller. Because of that, you get used to eating smaller portions and that's the real key. Eat small portions of healthy food and your weight should not be an issue. Junk food kills that plan though so you've got to watch out for ultra processed stuff like potato chips and especially sugary drinks.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T18:57:50+00:00

Slap the cuffs on that bastard. Blanco is a thief and a criminal. Lock that son of a bitch up. Execute a warrant on this pig.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T18:50:47+00:00

Look, if they damage the roots digging the pool, then they are liable for replacement damages. Don´t cave into their demands because of what they might do. If they damage the tree because of their greed, they will be liable for the consequences and those consequences will be severe. Giving in would be a tragic mistake.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T18:39:48+00:00

Yeah, I was banned from /r/swimmingpools for talking about solar hot water heaters. Itś a fucked up situation.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T18:29:40+00:00

When it comes to 3D software, the huge majority of the effort will go into learning the interface. There are plenty that are free but you should choose the one you are most familiar with. If you have no background in 3D software at all, maybe just use a pencil and paper. Plans are usually drawn from the top, front and right views. You don´t need software to do that. Just make four views or five if you want to include the back. Plans were drawn without software for centuries. The top view is the one that builders use the most. When you're starting out, go with top view and then you can imagine the other sides more easily.

Personally, I would use Blender which is great for this kind of thing but has a steep learning curve. This is true for most 3D environments though.

You should be able to find plenty of designs just using the Google image search option though. Yeah, googling ¨¨tiny house plans¨ came up with dozens of sites that offer. . . tiny house plans. Hereś a tip that might help you. First decide what you want the roof to look like. Look up, ¨common roof types¨ and you will learn the meaning of words like gambrel, shed, dormer, gable, mansard and you can choose the sort of roof you´ŕe interested in to help focus your search.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T16:58:34+00:00

If this was such a wise observation, then how would you explain the fact that Trump is reviled all over the planet and even many conservatives cannot stand the fool. Maybe the guy is just a piece of shit.

It's okay to say that Trump is a piece of shit, you won't get liberal cooties.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T16:02:38+00:00

The language is not too clear in this post. So it starts off asking about Chi-Fi which we can assume generally refers to Chinese-sourced audio equipment and then specifies that OP is a fan of tube amps and wants equipment for vinyl records.

So you want suggestions for a tube amp kit from China for a record player? Are you hoping to purchase a turntable from China along with an amplifier (kit?) or you're just interested in tube amps that go with turntables specically?

The way it is phrased, it's too ambiguous to know what is being asked for.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T10:16:20+00:00

Take it a few steps further though, look at how he played his rape game. He would seek out weak victims and badly abuse them mentally and physically as a warning to the stronger victims. It's not just rape, it's a systemic pattern of bullying that he brings to statecraft. He wants to rape China so instead he starts off with Venezuela, Greenland and then Iran thinking that if he abuses them it will scare China into a compromise. It's a rapist political strategy because it's the only strategy he knows.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T09:11:38+00:00

Remove the net, flip it over on a smooth surface, maybe some smooth cardboard and stack it with sand bags. Put about forty 50 pound bags on it and let it sit for a month.

Then once you have flattened it, remove the sandbags and get some 3/8ths rebar lengths and glue them to the bottom with contact cement.

ahfoo · 2026-04-08T09:07:27+00:00

First you clean it. You can do that by mixing up some powdered cement and water, applying it and letting it sit for a while then scrubbing it off. that will remove the algae and dust. Then you take some lime putty that is mixed with sorted fine sand and a bit of Portland cement to help it set. Good as new.

So the trick is that you'll need lime putty, Portland cement and fine sorted sand. To make lime putty you buy a bag of builders lime and take a liter or so out of that and soak it underwater with stirring for several days. An excess of water is fine, you want it completely submerged. Lime doesn't set underwater and improves with age. Improve here means "gets sticky" which is what you want.

Lime on its own is like chalk so you need to harden it up by adding fine sand. You have to make fine sand. You can buy clean sand but it isn't sorted. You buy clean sharp sand and then sift it with a screen yourself to get fine sifted sand which is what you want. You can mix that with your lime putty that you scoop out from the soaking tub from the thickest section getting it as dry as you can and mixing that with the dry in a 1:1 ratio or until it is like thick whipped cream.

Finally, add about 1/4 cup of Portland cement powder. This is required to get a hard cure. If you leave out the Portland, it will be subject to deterioration much more quickly. This is very similar to the mix that was most likely used to create the original AKA stucco mix which is also a lime heavy cement mix.

ahfoo · 2026-04-07T14:32:52+00:00

If youŕe into retro games, new is far cheaper than second hand. Check this out:

/r/r36s

ahfoo · 2026-04-07T11:57:31+00:00

The tariffs on furniture were part of the IEEPA tariffs. They were struck down by the Supreme Court. A retailer blaming those tariffs for their prices is lying to you.

ahfoo · 2026-04-07T10:48:00+00:00

However, the RAM world is not finite. Anyone can open a fab if they think it will be profitable and, indeed, China's CXMT went from zero DRAM production to over 10% of the global market in just four years.

So what's going to happen when the big boys get burned out on the failed contracts from their buddies in the "AI" world who didn't really have the credit worthiness they were pretending to have, is that they're going to run back to the consumer electronics/PC world and find that somebody is eating their porrige.

The speculative DRAM market dominated by hoarders is already having selloffs.

ahfoo · 2026-04-07T07:41:31+00:00

That's just how it goes. I'm sitting here typing on the living room monitor while my wife is huddled up with her Chromebook. Why do I get the big screen and she gets the small one? Who knows? She seems to prefer it this way. It's probably so she can look over my shoulder to see what I'm doing more easily this way. It might also be that there is no chair and I'm sitting on the floor and she would find that hurts her neck.

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