They very well could be but I don't really care anymore.
Rock the bald man!
When barbershops finally opened in my state, early this summer I found Great Clips required masks so I said fuck em. I ended up finding this local barbershop that didn't require them and I was thrilled. #1 to support local and #2 to not be bitched at for not wearing a mask. I thought these guys were extremely based.... they had military paraphernalia on the wall, pro 2A stuff, hunting stuff, etc. It was cool. The barbers would shoot the shit with me and talk about how stupid all the covid bs was.. they didn't even wear masks, it was great! And I vividly remember telling them that I was going there because they didn't bitch about masks. They said they were happy to have me. I followed up with the fact they'd never see me again if they started being maskholes. Well, I showed up last month for a haircut and there was a nice big sign on their door "mAsKs reQuiReD iNsiDe!"
I turned right around, went home, and ordered hair clippers, a handheld mirror, and barber scissors for a total of about $150 (4-5 months worth of haircuts) and have now cut my own hair twice. Funny, a couple video tutorials on how to fade hair and I look as good as any barbershop haircut I've gotten. Bummer they lost me as a customer because I probably would've gone there for the rest of my days in this city. Oh well, another few months and I'll be money ahead. Thanks for the savings! Hope they don't miss almost $400 per year!
I'm telling you guys...
Please do.
Terry Branstad Governor 1983-1999, 2011-2017 now US Ambassador to.... wait for it.... China!
Current Governor Kim Reynolds..... former (and probably current) lap dog to Branstad. That skank caved to someone with her covid policy last month. Who could it be? Could it have beeeeeeen China?!
They don't pass my stink test.
The virus itself is real.
The mass manufacturing of hysteria is the issue here. It's literally a head cold for most people. Hangovers are worse.
I will never get it. Ever.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Boston "Patriot" in 1773: "Ugh, I'm really getting tired of these people throwing tea in the harbor. Just pay the taxes and stop being so callus"
Don't whine to me when mask mandates evolve into vax mandates then because spoiler: that's what's coming if you "patriots" that just go along with what Big Brother says don't grow a backbone.
Yep. Stop wearing masks and strut in like a banty rooster that doesn't give a fuck. Nobody is going to say shit.
In Iowa we have a mask mandate (lmao). Just last week I was in a Des Moines metro grocery store were "masks are required to shop in store". I didn't wear a mask. Nobody said anything. I was checked out like usual. I was in a Casey's gas station on Saturday, again "masks required inside". I walked in with no mask. Got what I wanted. Was checked out like normal.
Stop complying.
DING DING DING
We have a winner!
Fuck the Hawks! Go State!
Sorry, I couldn't resist
Currently home visiting family. Elderly Grandma tested positive for the coof about a week ago. There has been 4 of us in contact with her that all developed very mild symptoms in the following days. We're definitely positive but not a single one of us will go get tested. Fuck em.
Grandma is kicking the shit out of COVID from home, too.
They didn't want all the little old ladies in attendance to simultaneously pass out at the sight of bulging eyes and protruding tongues. Just rest assured they're dead when they stop squirming ;)
I still like the name "Freedom Party" with a lion as a logo. After all, we're the only ones that actually want freedom for all Americans.
MAGA or GTFO.
Hey, just letting you all know... when I upTrumped this post it was the 1776th upTrump.
:) :) :) I think it's a sign, pedes.
My 84 y.o. grandma currently has it and has been home recovering the whole time. She had a bad headache the first day and hasn't really felt very good since but she's doing okay. The media perpetuating fear is the worst. She's scared because of their narrative of it being a certain death sentence if you get it which, of course, couldn't be further from the truth.
Related story: I lost my 86 yo grandpa (married to my above mentioned grandma 64 years) this summer to cancer. Guy was an utter badass. Korea vet, worked his ass off on the farm his whole life but was never too busy for his grandkids, had no tolerance for pussies but would give the last shirt he owned to someone in need if they were doing the absolute best they could. He always backed true underdogs and saw right through "I'm a victim" BS. I hope I can develop into half the man he was.
Anyway, we found out about the cancer a few months before COVID1984 happened. Of course I spent every free day I had with him because we new he likely wouldn't see fall of 2020. I have a coworker that's absolutely petrified over covid. Mask wearing, scared sheep. One day, they decided to lecture me on visiting my "vulnerable" grandparents during this "challenging time" and how I should be more responsible and be zooming them. I lost it. I'll be damned if some COVID bitch was gonna keep me from seeing my own grandfather while he slowly died. Fuck that shit. Haven't heard a peep from them since about it and it better stay that way or I might get written up.
Haven't worn a mask yet and nobody says shit.
Fuck masks, fuck lockdowns, fuck these authoritarian scumbags. It's time to grow a set of balls and preserve what little freedom you have left! Do it and do it now!
I couldn't have cared less what Chipotle did up until they blatantly lied in advertising campaigns. Are you a faggot lib that is alright with the media lying as long as it fits your narrative?
Did you miss the part about us growing crops? Or are you just ignoring that part...
Ask anyone in Iowa (where I'm from) what they do for a living and if they run a row crop and cattle operation... They'll tell you they "farm". "Ranching" is not a term used by anyone here. I don't know anyone that calls themselves a rancher when they have crops and cattle. I personally know and will talk to more farmers this week than you will in the next decade. That includes your long lost cousins twice removed on your adopted step mom's grandmother's side that are duking it out in the courts with with Monsanto.
I'll be sure to think of you when I see our fall calves eating that bt corn tomorrow. Now get out of my notifications you uninformed twit.
Lol wrong again. You try so hard and fail with every message you said.
Cow - calf herd that graze all year. Calves get weaned in the fall and have 60 acres of pasture of their own and a feedlot that they can come and go from as they please as the alley to the pasture is open all day, every day.
Just another dumbass from the city that doesn't know the first thing about farming. We're doing fine, thanks. Any more tips?
The next version of seed has the same gene it's had for years from a GMO perspective which has gone through rigorous testing and has had as much scrutiny as Donald Trump. It's already been tested plenty. The "newness" is from the breeding. There's no testing to been done. It's literally plant sex. Two parent plants make a baby, baby gets sold to farmer to plant because baby got dad's strong stalk and mom's disease resistance. So baby is the latest and greatest.
I can step out our backdoor and show you the bins holding our corn, the feed grinder in the machine shed that grinds that corn, the bunks that the ground corn is put into morning and night for our calves to eat before being sold at market weight. Similarly I can walk you through the hog barns where said corn is fed. What we don't keep to feed to our livestock is trucked to an elevator in town. I can show you the feed mill at the elevator. The feed trucks at the elevator that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year running feed to every hog farm in the area. How sure I'm about where our grain goes? 100% sure.
I don't know what you do for a living. You might be an accountant, carpenter, or high ranking exec at a major corporation. But you don't see me telling you how to do your job. Don't lecture me on my area of expertise. You're clueless.
Jesus Christ man, you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.
That's exactly what the farmer is doing by buying seed every year! Making their farm more financially efficient! Farmers aren't dumbasses. If it doesn't pay they won't do it, trust me.
When my grandpa started farming, a 40 bushel per acre corn yield was a great crop. Our farm wide average this fall was 172 bushels per acre and we were disappointed.
80 years ago, open pollinated corn was planted. Farmers could replant that seed every year. Then we figured out hybridization and instead of planting OP corn, we started planting hybrids. Previously stagnant corn yields slowly started to increase. Today, productive soils easily grow 300+ bushel corn. Why? Because seed companies spent billions of dollars breeding plants that yielded better. Farmers are more than free to plant open pollinated corn today if they'd like. They'll absolutely lose their ass but they can have right at it if they want. Farmers are also free to save soybeans that are no longer under patent and replant them if they wish. They won't be as high yielding as the newer varieties on the market but that's their choice. It would also be a logistical nightmare considering farm sizes are larger than what they were 50 years ago. And I won't even begin to get into the agronomic aspects of why it's better to buy new seed because you clearly won't make an effort to understand that.
By your logic, downloading pirated Microsoft Word software shouldn't be illegal because of the ancient practice of expressing written language with pencil and paper. No, dumbass, Microsoft has made it easier for me to write up a resume and submit it to a potential employer electronically. A .pdf of my resume is more professional than pencil on notebook paper. I'm certainly free to do it that way if I wish, nobody is stopping me. But myself and millions of others have decided Microsoft Word is worth paying for. How in the fuck does that make Microsoft wrong for wanting people to pay for a product they spent money to develop, sell, update, support, and deploy to the market?
Go hang out with AOC and the rest of your socialist buddies that don't like capitalism or making money.
Considering those lawsuits are rare, I feel like you're full of shit that you happen to know someone who has gone to court vs. Monsanto, but I'll play.
Monsanto has never sued a farmer that unknowingly planted patented seed. Nor has any other agri-tech giant. Monsanto has sued 100+ farmers (out of thousands that sign yearly agreements) for knowingly saving and planting patented seed and the courts have sided with Monsanto in every case. Please read:
Again, you've lapped up organic farming propaganda as truth. These farmers getting sued are knowingly violating patent agreements. That is illegal. These farmers aren't victims suffering at the hands of corporate greed. They are knowingly breaking the law.
I rarely eat out; so I can't help you there. Have a great day.
I figured. Your family's issue with Monsanto is probably of the snowflake variety; "wah, they're making money off me and I don't have as much money as they do, therefore they're bad. Capitalism has failed."
Did it ever occur to you that humans DO NOT EAT BT CORN? The massive fields of corn in Iowa aren't the corn on the cob you eat at a barbecue. I grew up on an Iowa farm and I can tell you with 100% certainty that every kernel of corn we've raised in my entire lifetime has been fed to hogs or cattle. Every. Single. Kernel.
Soybeans, the way Americans ACTUALLY tend to use them aren't food products at all. They're animal feed, bio diesel, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, and random household products. That is what the vast majority of soybeans are used for. Not soy milk for the beta cucks to drink. Notice I'm not disagreeing that eating soy (especially men) is terrible. But you don't at all understand what American grain is being used for.
I agree. Like pretty much everything, we'd be better served if our government would get their ass out of grain markets with their subsidies. I 100% agree with that. But that has nothing to do with Americans being fat. We're lazy, gluttonous slobs with no control.
Chipotle can go fuck itself. They're liars. They're deceptive. Fuck them.
Monsanto has bent over several family members of yours? Please do explain because I doubt you know what you're talking about. Monsanto has patents on their tech. They spent the money to develop their tech. They have the right to protect their tech. When a farmer buys seed, that farmer knowingly signs off on knowing that they are purchasing tech that is under a patent. Keeping and replanting soybeans that have traits that are under patent is illegal. It's literally stealing something that isn't yours.
Hybridization of corn is "natural breeding" as you describe it. Which is what the vast majority of the corn planted in Iowa is... hybrid seed corn. Parent plants with a certain desirable trait are crossed with other parents that have a different desirable trait to make a better plant with better traits.
The two main GMO crops in Iowa are bt corn and various herbicide resistant corn and soybeans. Just like Waterhemp has naturally developed a gene to resist Roundup over the last couple decades, we've found a gene that allows corn and soybeans to resist Roundup. We could have accomplished the same thing over years of breeding but science has made it easier and therefore more affordable to the farmer to be able to take advantage of those herbicide resistant crops. If we could do it to people it would be like removing someone's blonde hair gene and giving them the black hair gene. It's just a gene, not radioactive material.
On to Bt corn. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is bacteria that naturally occurs in the soil. This bacteria produces a protein that reacts in the gut of some insect species and kills them. It's a protein, not radioactive material. All animals have a digestive tract. Not all digestive tracts are the same. Cows can live on grass and only grass. Humans cannot. Small insects, especially larva cannot breakdown that protein. We can.
On to your healthy organic food. Spoiler: organic agriculture uses pesticides. Lots of them, actually. Those pesticides have to be labeled by the USDA and certified as organic in order to be used on an organic crop. It just has to be naturally occurring. Do you see where I'm going with this....? Did you take notes during the bt corn paragraph? Where does Bacillus thuringiensis come from in nature? You know that certified organic bug dust that your local organic guy sprinkles on his organic garden to kill the tomato worms so he can sell over priced tomatoes to you? Do you know what that is? Bacillus thuringiensis.
Buy organic if you wish. Support the local guy, absolutely. But organic ag has been one of the most successful, small scale marketing scams I've ever witnessed.
Betty? She doesn't happen to be Ida's sister?