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Yes it's amusing when people aren't aware of the benefits. I, too, have been peeing on anticorporate's compost pile for two or three years.

by 27theo 2y ago

fifticon 2y ago
I have been peeing on corporate for years, but I am very discrete about it, lest they find out it is me.
- RandomBacon 2y ago
  Too late, they already ran a DNA analysis on it and partnered with 23andMe, and because your cousin took a DNA ancestry test after receiving a kit as a present four years ago, corporate now knows it was you.
- anticorporate 2y ago
  Jokes aside, part of my reduced reliance on corporations is growing as much of our food as we can ourselves.
  - Braxton1980 2y ago
    What about the vast majority of people who live in the suburbs or cities? Wouldn't a better solution be regulations so it doesn't matter who is growing the food?
    - anticorporate 2y ago
      It's not either/or. I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy. For what it's worth, my property is suburban. It's a post-war subdivision with rather large lots, we just choose to use most of ours productively. Food and timber for us, native plants for the critters, grass be damned. When we commuted, we lived in a denser area with better transit access, but neither my wife nor I have had a commute since before the pandemic.
      - Kon-Peki 2y ago
        > I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy Florida and Illinois, on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum, are the only two states with laws the explicitly prohibit towns and cities from preventing you from using your yard (front, back, side, whatever) as a vegetable garden. They allow for regulations about how big and where your greenhouses/hothouses could be, how much water you use, etc. But nothing that can defacto prohibit you from using your whole yard productively. This is something that should be nationwide. In most places, growing crops in your front yard is either sort-of-tolerated-until-you-make-someone-mad or not at all allowed.
    - michelpp 2y ago
      Sprouting is an excellent and compact way to get some fresh greens into your diet in a small space. No urine required (although I too do dump my urine on my farm hosts' compost). I live in a short school bus with less than 8sqm of space and do my sprouting in a small clear plastic tote. Every day I eat fresh sprouts, usually with something like wild-caught canned mackerel.
    - diggan 2y ago
      > What about the vast majority of people who live in the suburbs or cities? Suburban houses usually have a garden around them, you can grow vegetables and stuff in/on top of those. Plant some fruit trees/bushes as well and you have a start :) Cities are more difficult, unless you have access to a balcony/patio/roof. I know in some local neighborhoods, neighbors have gotten together to create little co-cops, and took over small unused plots and grow some stuff together there. Plots like these for example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carrer+del+Doctor+Trueta,+90X,+Sant+Mart%C3%AD,+08005+Barcelona/@41.3934769,2.1971379,151a,35y,289.1h,24.11t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x12a4a3111dc5f21b:0x1a4914cff791bd28!8m2!3d41.3937052!4d2.1967311!16s%2Fg%2F11vq6kkk5b https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carrer+del+Doctor+Trueta,+... Sure, none of these will make you 100% independent when it comes to what you eat, but small differences can add up and also spread the knowledge/ambition for more people to do it.
    - reverendsteveii 2y ago
      1) I'm sitting on a quarter acre in the suburbs and we're slowly eliminating the lawn in favor of more food garden every year 2) Sure, but growing food is something I can do using only myself and the materials to hand without having to wait for the crippled and backward process of creating new regulations to sort itself out, growing food now helps mitigate the problem now while we push for new regulations and growing food does nothing to get in the way of new regulations and if the push for new regulations fails I still have a garden
  - RobRivera 2y ago
    One year I'll go this route. Living in a city I can't really raise anything beyond herbs, however hunting once a year reduces my reliance on factory farming so much.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
      When I lived on a standard city lot in Minneapolis, I was growing corn (lost most of it to squirrels), tomatoes, carrots, horseradish (can't kill that stuff), squash and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. And a "natural prairie" section of mostly native grasses and wildflowers. Just depends on how much land you have and how much of your lawn you want to dig up :-)
- pengaru 2y ago
  nit: discreet
  - DarmokJalad1701 2y ago
    > nit discreet Or maybe fifticon's pee comes out as quantized packets of a fixed size.
    - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
      HN's comment section devolving into discussions about quantum-piss, I'm here for it :D
- bigstrat2003 2y ago
  I pee on corporate as well, but I do so continuously instead of discretely. I'm peeing on corporate as I type this!
- ashoeafoot 2y ago
  The plastic bamboo in the foyer grows like crazy.
- Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  What if peeing on them helps them though? Employee of the year!

Yes it's amusing when people aren't aware of the benefits. I, too, have been peeing on anticorporate's compost pile for two or three years.

by 27theo 2y ago

Yes it's amusing when people aren't aware of the benefits. I, too, have been peeing on anticorporate's compost pile for two or three years.

fifticon 2y ago

I have been peeing on corporate for years, but I am very discrete about it, lest they find out it is me.

RandomBacon 2y ago
Too late, they already ran a DNA analysis on it and partnered with 23andMe, and because your cousin took a DNA ancestry test after receiving a kit as a present four years ago, corporate now knows it was you.
anticorporate 2y ago
Jokes aside, part of my reduced reliance on corporations is growing as much of our food as we can ourselves.
- Braxton1980 2y ago
  What about the vast majority of people who live in the suburbs or cities? Wouldn't a better solution be regulations so it doesn't matter who is growing the food?
  - anticorporate 2y ago
    It's not either/or. I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy. For what it's worth, my property is suburban. It's a post-war subdivision with rather large lots, we just choose to use most of ours productively. Food and timber for us, native plants for the critters, grass be damned. When we commuted, we lived in a denser area with better transit access, but neither my wife nor I have had a commute since before the pandemic.
    - Kon-Peki 2y ago
      > I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy Florida and Illinois, on complete opposite ends of the political spectrum, are the only two states with laws the explicitly prohibit towns and cities from preventing you from using your yard (front, back, side, whatever) as a vegetable garden. They allow for regulations about how big and where your greenhouses/hothouses could be, how much water you use, etc. But nothing that can defacto prohibit you from using your whole yard productively. This is something that should be nationwide. In most places, growing crops in your front yard is either sort-of-tolerated-until-you-make-someone-mad or not at all allowed.
  - michelpp 2y ago
    Sprouting is an excellent and compact way to get some fresh greens into your diet in a small space. No urine required (although I too do dump my urine on my farm hosts' compost). I live in a short school bus with less than 8sqm of space and do my sprouting in a small clear plastic tote. Every day I eat fresh sprouts, usually with something like wild-caught canned mackerel.
  - diggan 2y ago
    > What about the vast majority of people who live in the suburbs or cities? Suburban houses usually have a garden around them, you can grow vegetables and stuff in/on top of those. Plant some fruit trees/bushes as well and you have a start :) Cities are more difficult, unless you have access to a balcony/patio/roof. I know in some local neighborhoods, neighbors have gotten together to create little co-cops, and took over small unused plots and grow some stuff together there. Plots like these for example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carrer+del+Doctor+Trueta,+90X,+Sant+Mart%C3%AD,+08005+Barcelona/@41.3934769,2.1971379,151a,35y,289.1h,24.11t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x12a4a3111dc5f21b:0x1a4914cff791bd28!8m2!3d41.3937052!4d2.1967311!16s%2Fg%2F11vq6kkk5b https://www.google.com/maps/place/Carrer+del+Doctor+Trueta,+... Sure, none of these will make you 100% independent when it comes to what you eat, but small differences can add up and also spread the knowledge/ambition for more people to do it.
  - reverendsteveii 2y ago
    1) I'm sitting on a quarter acre in the suburbs and we're slowly eliminating the lawn in favor of more food garden every year 2) Sure, but growing food is something I can do using only myself and the materials to hand without having to wait for the crippled and backward process of creating new regulations to sort itself out, growing food now helps mitigate the problem now while we push for new regulations and growing food does nothing to get in the way of new regulations and if the push for new regulations fails I still have a garden
- RobRivera 2y ago
  One year I'll go this route. Living in a city I can't really raise anything beyond herbs, however hunting once a year reduces my reliance on factory farming so much.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
    When I lived on a standard city lot in Minneapolis, I was growing corn (lost most of it to squirrels), tomatoes, carrots, horseradish (can't kill that stuff), squash and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. And a "natural prairie" section of mostly native grasses and wildflowers. Just depends on how much land you have and how much of your lawn you want to dig up :-)
pengaru 2y ago
nit: discreet
- DarmokJalad1701 2y ago
  > nit discreet Or maybe fifticon's pee comes out as quantized packets of a fixed size.
  - Cthulhu_ 2y ago
    HN's comment section devolving into discussions about quantum-piss, I'm here for it :D
bigstrat2003 2y ago
I pee on corporate as well, but I do so continuously instead of discretely. I'm peeing on corporate as I type this!
ashoeafoot 2y ago
The plastic bamboo in the foyer grows like crazy.
Cthulhu_ 2y ago
What if peeing on them helps them though? Employee of the year!