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> The example book of Old books of agriculture is probably not that important today If I may be flippant, not to you but to the sentiment, skill issue. We're

> The example book of Old books of agriculture is probably not that important today If I may be flippant, not to you but to the sentiment, skill issue. We're about to enter an era of climate instability that's going to cause wild fluctuations in the ability to grow food across the globe. Historical agriculture data AND data about confounds is crucial for figuring out what strains outside of our current mostly mono-strain agricultural supply chain could be cultivated. And that's just one use case out of thousands; what if you want to understand and reconstruct technology adoption from that era? What if... you just want to learn what your ancestor was doing at such and such time? What if you want to find clever techniques for robot arms to work with food crops in space? Or, heck just the alpha from a hedge fund point of view of finding old climate patterns and... :) Your ability to make the most of knowledge is only limited by your imagination. > Liberians have to accept that much of their job is sending books to be burned. A lot of them try their best to get people to be interested in older books, but they have to make way for "newer" books instead. I don't understand what you're trying to say here. > The article is written in the same way as how dogs are getting murdered in the dog shelter, even if "everyone" agrees it is wrong, yet nobody adopts them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-kill_shelter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-kill_shelter re: saving books, at a personal level, I try to use the excuse of work to find, read, and do stuff with old books, https://1517.substack.com/p/powder-and-stone-or-why-medieval https://1517.substack.com/p/powder-and-stone-or-why-medieval And yes, people still care. And people who care do things.

Mudbugs 1mo ago
"No-kill shelters" are very rare and very controversial (thanks to PETA); most still have to kill by law (overpopulation), and they instead tend to focus on not taking in more than they can handle. They are very controversial because they are more of a "moral" than a "practical" solution to animal overpopulation. They try their best to let animals have their "normal natural life to the end". They are just more focused on the animals' well-being, kind of like a library for books, but they still have to kill if they overpopulate. The main article is written like it is the "end of the world", just like your random rambling about "climate instability" is just the natural course Earth has been on for its existence, with melting ice. Random article about powder and stone, completely irrelevant. The old book mentioned was just a farmer's book; you can find all this history in the area's historical records. "Skill issue." How old are you? I think it would help you more if you contacted a shelter and talked about what they really do. Better sources than Wikipedia that explain what they do; it is, of course, different from shelter to shelter, but euthanising due to overpopulation is still part of it. (Like too many books in a library, they need to make room for other books that people want, if it just end up roting on the shelf and nobody loans it over years, either destruction or storage, most don't have space for storage) https://bestfriends.org/stories/best-friends-magazine/debate-about-no-kill-animal-sheltering https://bestfriends.org/stories/best-friends-magazine/debate... https://lifelineanimal.org/the-no-kill-controversy/ https://lifelineanimal.org/the-no-kill-controversy/

Mudbugs 1mo ago

"No-kill shelters" are very rare and very controversial (thanks to PETA); most still have to kill by law (overpopulation), and they instead tend to focus on not taking in more than they can handle. They are very controversial because they are more of a "moral" than a "practical" solution to animal overpopulation. They try their best to let animals have their "normal natural life to the end". They are just more focused on the animals' well-being, kind of like a library for books, but they still have to kill if they overpopulate. The main article is written like it is the "end of the world", just like your random rambling about "climate instability" is just the natural course Earth has been on for its existence, with melting ice. Random article about powder and stone, completely irrelevant. The old book mentioned was just a farmer's book; you can find all this history in the area's historical records. "Skill issue." How old are you? I think it would help you more if you contacted a shelter and talked about what they really do. Better sources than Wikipedia that explain what they do; it is, of course, different from shelter to shelter, but euthanising due to overpopulation is still part of it. (Like too many books in a library, they need to make room for other books that people want, if it just end up roting on the shelf and nobody loans it over years, either destruction or storage, most don't have space for storage) https://bestfriends.org/stories/best-friends-magazine/debate-about-no-kill-animal-sheltering https://bestfriends.org/stories/best-friends-magazine/debate... https://lifelineanimal.org/the-no-kill-controversy/ https://lifelineanimal.org/the-no-kill-controversy/