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Au contraire, she is experiencing first hand the responsibilities and consequences of agriculture, and dealt with it as best she could. In my country brushtail

by abraae 9y ago

Au contraire, she is experiencing first hand the responsibilities and consequences of agriculture, and dealt with it as best she could. In my country brushtail possums are a rapacious introduced pest (along with weasels, stoats, hedgehogs and even rats), and conservation involves continuous efforts to kill them and then stop them from reinvading from neighbouring properties. I much prefer killing them in a trap so I don't need to do the dirty work by hand, but someone somehow does need to kill them. I admire the author for confronting this reality, and I'm sure next time she'll do it in a far more effective way that is less stress for everyone.

peterwwillis 9y ago
Oh sure, she's experiencing it, now that she raises chickens. The rest of our society that doesn't raise chickens are just as clueless as she was. People in a modern urban environment (in the US, anyway) don't understand how to grow a vegetable, raise a chicken, filet a fish, mill flour and bake bread. Less than 100 years ago, everyone knew this, because almost everyone did this. But modern urban creatures are like the possum's babies - constantly feeding from the teet of a system that insulates them from real world concerns.
- GlenTheMachine 9y ago
  It's even worse than that... My mom (who lives on the 300 acre family farm) was complaining to my first cousin (who holds several state bow hunting records and at one time had a hunting show on cable TV) about how hard it was to keep the raccoons out of her vegetable garden. "How did the pioneers manage to grow vegetables?" she pondered out loud. "They would have eaten a lot more raccoon than you do" was his reply. And he was absolutely correct. Coon, possum, squirrel, and groundhog were all on the menu in my neck of the woods well after World War II.
- shuntress 9y ago
  Where does software engineering fit in the 'real' world?

by abraae 9y ago

peterwwillis 9y ago

Oh sure, she's experiencing it, now that she raises chickens. The rest of our society that doesn't raise chickens are just as clueless as she was. People in a modern urban environment (in the US, anyway) don't understand how to grow a vegetable, raise a chicken, filet a fish, mill flour and bake bread. Less than 100 years ago, everyone knew this, because almost everyone did this. But modern urban creatures are like the possum's babies - constantly feeding from the teet of a system that insulates them from real world concerns.

GlenTheMachine 9y ago
It's even worse than that... My mom (who lives on the 300 acre family farm) was complaining to my first cousin (who holds several state bow hunting records and at one time had a hunting show on cable TV) about how hard it was to keep the raccoons out of her vegetable garden. "How did the pioneers manage to grow vegetables?" she pondered out loud. "They would have eaten a lot more raccoon than you do" was his reply. And he was absolutely correct. Coon, possum, squirrel, and groundhog were all on the menu in my neck of the woods well after World War II.
shuntress 9y ago
Where does software engineering fit in the 'real' world?