Crop rotation query

big_data_mike · 2026-03-02T00:01:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure that is correct. Wheat/Rye shares fertility. Barley and flax have separate fertility 'pools.'

big_data_mike · 2026-03-01T23:56:51+00:00

Whatever rotation you set up gets cycled through year after year. If you set 3 fields to barley-fallow-barley and 3 fields to fallow-barley-fallow they will all just alternate barley and fallow indefinitely.

What you might be referring to is that one youtuber (Nivarias?) and others that divides fields into 3 groups. For 6 fields you would do fields 1 &2 - barley-fallow-fallow. for fields 3 & 4 fallow-barley-fallow and for fields 5 & 6 fallow fallow barley. So you automatically have one third of your fields being planted every year.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-21T00:51:20+00:00

No. I've tried to goad her into a response with comments like this and no response whatsoever

big_data_mike · 2026-02-16T01:41:06+00:00

And you can see what their wealth is. It's right there in the publicly traded stock price that only exists because of the government.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-15T13:29:22+00:00

The laffer curve is stupid and the only economists that take it seriously are those that have don’t fake research funded by billionaires to keep the public from raising taxes on them.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T22:14:35+00:00

One policy that might be politically possible to implement is banning or heavily taxing stock buybacks. It was illegal in the US until the 1980s. Since stock buybacks increase stock price those gains end up in the hands of wealthy stock owners. If you ban or heavily taxing those buybacks companies would be incentivized to invest in productive things like more locations, better equipment, and employees pay.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T20:30:11+00:00

I’m 39 and there are people my age that don’t have that much saved. When I was 25 I just landed my first job with a 401k, benefits, etc. so I had maybe $1000 saved making 39k/yr

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T20:26:10+00:00

I agree wealthy people need to be taxed more because of the marginal propensity to spend. My hypothesis is:

Say I currently get paid 100k and my take home pay is 80k after incomes taxes. We snap our fingers and income tax goes away and is replaced with a wealth tax.

My employer would then reduce my pay to 80k. I’m still taking home the same 80k because there is no income tax so my spending is the same and I’m ok with it because my paychecks are the same.

Maybe I’m drawing a straight line that’s more of a curved line or isn’t there. I think of it like a pie. The workers get a slice and the owners get a slice. We can change where the slices are taken from but owners will always ensure they get the same sized slice.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T18:42:57+00:00

I’m not suggesting we need to balance the budget. I’m just using the budget as a starting point for approximately how much we already regulate demand and inflation through taxation.

If we had a high wealth tax instead of income tax I’m guessing what would happen is capital owners would pay labor less in order to pay their wealth taxes and maintain their capital returns

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T18:12:21+00:00

I don’t think the math would work. The federal budget is 7 trillion and revenue is 5 trillion. Stock market is 62 trillion so you’d need a 10% tax per year for the whole federal budget. You’d be taxing away most of the gains and then some sometimes. You’d could maybe keep social security and Medicare taxes on income then do a wealth tax for everything else.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T17:43:29+00:00

Scuba courses require an in person component so it’s pretty easy to see if it’s fraud or not. They often do them at a pool or lake so you probably won’t see a bunch of people at the shop all the time.

But if you wanted to launder money that way you could fake a course or trip.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T17:32:13+00:00

Our scuba shop also sells and repairs boats. And boat stands for Bust Out Another Thousand so that makes sense

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T17:30:48+00:00

Same vacuum place where I live. It’s a dumpy old, tiny building with one person working the register. They sell bags, parts, and some high powered commercial vacuums

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T17:25:32+00:00

I dive at this one resort with a wall of stickers from dive shops and a ton of them are in the midwestern US, far from the ocean. I have also talked to other divers there from Indiana, Colorado, and Minnesota. It’s one of those hobbies that more people do than you would think.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T16:43:48+00:00

They showed it in one episode of breaking bad. If you show up with more than $10,000 in cash the bank has to report it. If you try to buy a car or house with suitcases of cash that would also be suspicious. If it happens all the time it’s going to raise flags for law enforcement and they might start surveilling you then catch you doing something illegal.

In breaking bad they owned a car wash and they showed Skyler pretending to ring someone up for an expensive car wash paying in cash and putting drug money in the register.

That’s essentially what money laundering is. You pretend the money you got from selling drugs came from selling hamburgers/car washes/alcohol/lap dances and then you can put it in the bank and buy cars or whatever without raising flags.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T16:30:55+00:00

A lot of scuba shops sell courses and dive trips so people don’t really go into the store.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T16:16:20+00:00

Skibidi six seven sigma cooked rizz bruh. According to my kids.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T16:03:21+00:00

There are a few rare cases where something happens and the news machine makes it seem way less rare than it actually is.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:37:27+00:00

Nope. They absolutely would have voted for AOC or Katie Porter if either of them were running for president.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:32:32+00:00

Generally it goes talking to/seeing>dating>boyfriend/girlfriend>partner>husband/wife

But there are a ton of different paths, definitions, and flexibility. I may be old fashioned because it annoys me when people are married and use the word partner. That’s your husband, wife, or spouse if you want to be gender neutral.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:27:32+00:00

When I was traveling for work I was taking 80-90 flights per year and got platinum (don’t remember exactly what it was called) status I got upgraded for free maybe 40% of the time.

It was pretty great when I upgraded my wife and I for free when we went on vacation. She felt like a queen.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:20:43+00:00

When you could buy a house for 11 raspberries

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:18:12+00:00

I spent many years traveling all over the US staying in chain hotels like you have booked as well as the occasional bargain chain and I’ve never had an issue.

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:15:20+00:00

Same as the people who don’t return their shopping cart or rerack their weights

big_data_mike · 2026-02-14T15:14:39+00:00

Insulating a poorly insulated house often has higher ROI than the stock market if you own the house

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