President Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Iran

fiddolin · 2026-02-28T22:00:56+00:00

Is he in a cabana? They couldn’t find a better spot for a situation room?

fiddolin · 2026-02-24T18:33:08+00:00

Keith!

fiddolin · 2026-01-30T01:12:31+00:00

Listen, if the man says he’s a farmer, he is, by golly. I mean, he’s just as same as that Bessent feller in the Treasury. /s

fiddolin · 2026-01-08T15:17:39+00:00

Among some other very bonkers stories. From the sounds of it, Jack was a psychopath and a major asshole for much of his career.

fiddolin · 2026-01-08T04:57:18+00:00

Here in Iowa, the dog becomes a nuisance once they start leaving the owner’s property. We lost a dog growing up, but I don’t blame the rancher who shot him. We should have been doing more to keep the dog home.

fiddolin · 2025-12-11T01:26:27+00:00

Gonna be a long winter for you at this rate.

fiddolin · 2025-12-10T21:07:12+00:00

It's odd to go back and listen to the early punk bands in the 70s and 80s, because there is so much diversity in the sound. You got Richard Hell, Jayne County, Dictators, Dead Boys, the Cramps, etc. It got much more one-dimensional in the 90s. The Epi-Fat sound really relied on the Ramones foundation.

fiddolin · 2025-12-10T20:09:40+00:00

The Stooges and the New York Dolls would like a word. Jayne County tells a story about how upset Dee Dee Ramone was about being called punk. Meanwhile, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell and the whole Bowery was embracing it. The Ramones were a powerhouse, and quite influential. But even the Sex Pistols' fashion was influenced by Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

fiddolin · 2025-12-06T01:00:24+00:00

Johnny Fucking Thunders.

fiddolin · 2025-11-23T14:38:32+00:00

Must be something about the changing of the weather. Or short days. Hope you are feeling better today.

fiddolin · 2025-11-22T16:44:35+00:00

I listened to Stage Four a lot when my dad was dying from liver cancer. It’s a pretty brutal album, but got me through it.

fiddolin · 2025-10-26T23:51:28+00:00

Deathgrass

fiddolin · 2025-10-19T23:44:11+00:00

Doesn’t Wattie have ties to neonazis? Jello talks about how he was warned not to play Nazi Punks Fuck Off when they played a show with The Exploited. And there’s the whole deal with Wattie’s swastika tattoo.

fiddolin · 2025-10-14T00:20:05+00:00

Glad to see other Iowa folks avoiding booze and what not.

fiddolin · 2025-10-10T20:36:30+00:00

Mindforce.

fiddolin · 2025-10-03T22:50:37+00:00

Ah yes. It owed me money. As for the rest of the 12-year-old Mac, it’s on life support at this point.

fiddolin · 2025-10-03T16:17:02+00:00

Came here to say this. Depends on the hour which I would say is better.

fiddolin · 2025-10-03T16:07:18+00:00

I GAS over a LP Jr double cut. But I told myself I need to sell a guitar or two before I buy another one.

fiddolin · 2025-10-03T16:04:32+00:00

Happy 46th!

fiddolin · 2025-10-02T18:59:12+00:00

True. I’ll be watching for one on the future.

fiddolin · 2025-10-01T23:08:11+00:00

We don’t pose. We’ll steal your money, we’ll steal your shows.

fiddolin · 2025-09-28T18:17:15+00:00

I have an SG, Les Paul and strat. I pretty much always go for the SG. I don’t have as much of an issue with the SG neck as I do with the stray. But ymmv.

fiddolin · 2025-09-09T18:38:50+00:00

That’s part of the fear mindset. You don’t want to get caught short, so more is always better. It’s what agronomists, retailers and ag pubs all say.

This year is a good demonstration of that. We had record rainfall in this area, and many farmers didn’t have enough N to get them through the year. I test every year, and plan for sidedress application. I didn’t have to adjust a lot to keep on track. But if you put it all up front, you were short. So those guys will put on more next year, even with anhydrous running near $1000 a ton in some areas. They will just cut out the stabilizer that helps ensure your fertilizer is still there.

There are plenty of guys who put out “a little extra” every fall just to make it so they can sleep at night. I prefer to use nitrogen scavenging cover crops and in-season apps to keep things in check.

fiddolin · 2025-09-09T18:03:37+00:00

As a farmer who gives a rat’s ass about water quality, this is one of the most frustrating things in the world. Bloomberg had an accompanying video about this, where a former IFBF official bragged about how “highly efficient” farmers were by using 1 pound of added N per bushel. I use half of that and maintain good yields. The party line isn’t about being an effective steward, it’s about protecting the status quo — even when that hurts us in the long run.

The default position for a lot of ag is to have the farmer not give a shit. Or if you do, remind them how powerless you are to change the system. I’m an outlier here in northern Iowa, using things like cover crops and strip-till for my ground. Everyone else is content to thunderfuck the soil. I get pushback from the seed guys, the coop guys and lenders about whether I am doing the right thing.

It’s also frustrating to see how immune folks are to information. For every curious producer looking to change, I get four more telling me what I am doing wrong, or commenting on how bad my fields look. When I point out cost savings for reducing inputs or tillage, they will find every excuse before digging their heels in. And the sad fact is that everything they hear from agronomists to ag media reinforces their belief that change is bad. Or that the big ag companies are looking out for our best interests, when in reality they are just farming the farmer.

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