• 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 month ago

    I remember when I first actually read all that small legal text for a contest where you’d win a lifetime supply of some food product.

    In your mind, especially as a kid, you just imagine you have as much of it as you could ever want. Bzzt! Nope. It’s like 1 free thing a month for the next 20 years. Not even technically a lifetime. 😮‍💨

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        1 month ago

        We’ve thought about it, but it can be hot as hell during the summer and water shortages aren’t uncommon. Given how climate change is affecting everything, it seems like a bad long term investment.

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          Yea Italy hasn’t been doing real well for… well centuries now, and with climate change it doesn’t have a pleasant outlook for the future.

          Better than buying land in holland though

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            1 month ago

            I guess you’re saying this because of the whole underwater situation? I get it, but also I think if anyone’s equipped to deal with rising water it’s the Dutch, they got that shit under control.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah but shrinkflation means these days it comes with 20% less nutritional* particles.

      *combustible

      Some cities are still working on increasing them though. Just don’t go to the premium mountain venues though, or you get 20% less air per air!

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    1 month ago

    And then everyone clapped…

    I don’t even know if seed would have been available back then year round, and for something like that “lifetime supply” would be what you used and handed out during planting season.

    But seed isn’t cheap, I don’t think someone would have made up that story if they knew how unbelievable it was. There’s no way he could just grab a 20 pound bag of seed every month. That’s close to $100 today for just grass, not even crops.

    And even if it was pre-tractor and done with a horse/donkey…

    Most farmers would be getting them so close to perfectly straight this would have been impossible to judge.

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      1 month ago

      You sorely overestimate how easy it is to get a trained animal to walk in a perfectly straight line. They do not get magical perfect-line-walking powers just because they are animals.

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        1 month ago

        I’m imagining those sachets that you get seeds in these days… 20 of them with 3g of grass seed in each.

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          1 month ago

          I mean, it was a reward for plowing a straight row at a fair. That seems like a fitting and generous reward imo. And still makes the dude a good neighbor.