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How common are gender neutral restrooms in the UK in general? I’m generally curious, since at least in Germany its not that common to find some.

The government of a country usually reflects, at least partially, what its voters/citizens think…

Why the fuck is the UK even listed at all? The country that proudly says, that it is determining sex based on what you were born with and that everyone has to use bathrooms AS according to their birth sex.

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This is also why politically we should focus on real and simple examples on how leftwing politics can and will improve the lives of the majority of people. This doesn’t mean, that we should stop protesting against fascists and their action, or that we shouldnt aim for a revolution to overthrow capitalism, just that we should always aim for improving everyone’s lives and this also means, that we shouldn’t block reformist actions just because they are reformist.

If eventually fines do get calculated on their total income (which is possible, they can issue fines up to 2% of total yearly income if I remember correctly) and these fines are starting to come in more frequently it gets quite expensive really fast.

Last time i checked he was at about 400b so not a trillionaire, but 120m is still absolutely nothing.

Drugging someone is maybe not manslaughter (depends on what drug you use and what dose you use) but it is always assault and can be prosecuted as such.

This does not matter. In a criminal context weapon usually means something capable of inflicting great harm as a tool commit or execure a crime. If you steal something while having a screwdriver in your backpack you are screwed (literally) since you could have used it for executing the robbery. While the rules here may not be that strict (possession of said drugs while commuting sexual assault) using drugs to commit sexual assault of any form would be the same as using a knife to force the victim to not resist. There are no further classifications like chemical or mechanical weapon, since it does not matter.

Great that we in Europe also like to piss on the rights of trans people. Just take a look at terf island or Hungary. If I remember right Poland also introduced some shit regulations on trans people, but dont count me on that.

And no I dont want to say, that the situation across Europe is the same as in the USA, but we better be careful, that the same shit doesn’t happen here too.

Cis people should be scared about this too. Things like supplementing estrogen (for woman after they have gone through menopause) or testosterone is a quite normal thing. Im betting my ass, that this regulations will affect these things too.

It’s agriculture, there’s always prprofit.

This depends on to many factors to be universally true. Farming is so incredibly complex, that you can not make such a general statement. If you produce high profit crops for niece markets its much easier to make a profit. However, the whole conventional meat and milk industry is usually running at a loss (at least it has been since about 1-2 years ago where prices skyrocketed and still rise). It also vastly depends on where you are, what machines do you use, what’s the quality of your soil etc.

No one goes into farming, because its easy cash. Farming is only easy cach when you are experienced and grow to massive sizes. All the small to medium scale farms are usually barely profitable or are running at a loss due to low prices (the price that the farmer receives for the product).

Well yes, but actually no.

The following Ted talk gets presented to you by someone who has been raised in farming (non organic and organic) and is currently studying Agriculture at a university.

Modern agriculture is a very complex system where you have to balance out multiple factors at the same time. Relevant for how you run your farm, which includes how you harvest crops and grass, are factors like what animals (since grass isnt really a part of farming outside of animal based farms) you feed, what is your main goal with making a profit of these animals, what size does your farm have, Efficency, degree of mechanisation, biodiversity and of course being able to run at a profit. Since this whole topic is waaaaaay to complex to summarise in a single Lemmy comment I will not go in detail about every single aspect.

So first of all, what ways do we have to harvest gras? This is usually split into severals steps: Cutting, drying, transporting it to your farm and then storing it. Relevant here are only the cutting drying and transporting. First of all you have to decide in what kind of form you want to store the grass. Do you want to store it as a silage, which is fermenting it, or as hay. If you want to store it as hay you the gras to be long in order to achieve high texture. This can be achieved by using one of these machines to cut it down:

These are quite cheap and also available in bigger versions. They are very good for Biodiversity (they do not kill everything they run over). The downside is, that you do not really break up the structure which leads to increased drying times (you can use other mowers as seen below, but the drying time is still 4 or so days), since you want hay to be as dry as possible. Otherwise if you harvest it to early it can start burning due to heat that gets produced when drying. The problem with hay is, that its quite labour intensive, you hav higher losses of actually usable plant matter as food, due to having to move the hay on the field regularly to ensure it dries good. Also Hay usually gets stored in bales which means, that you have more work to do when feeding it.

The other main way of storing grass is as a silage like this:

This has the advantage, that you can completely mechanise the whole process of handling it and it is quite cost and labour effective at the same time. It is also quite easy to scale the whole production up. When going for silage you usually cut down the gras using one of these two mowers:

These are also the more common forms of mowers. They have the advantage of being capable of mowing more area in less time then the one shown above. When mowing for silage theres also often this part, which I will call a preparer (I dont know the english word) in use:

This damages the plant structure so that drying times are reduced. Both of these mowing variations allow for an additional belt being put behind so that the grass gets put down in a concentrated line for picking it up using a forage wagon or a chopper. This is done, to increase the efficency of transporting the grass to the farm. The big downside is, that these mowing combinations literally shredder everything they go over.

So what ways are there to increase Biodiversity while harvesting grass and what effects do they have? I will mainly go about changing the processes for creating silage, since its the most dominant form.

1: Dont use the listed forms of rotary mowers. This means, that you have to account for additionaly drying time, which when using a preparer Is usually about a day. You also have to do an additional step to bring the gras in a single line to be processes by the chopper, since its the most expensive machine of the whole process.

2: Cut at a latter stage. Usually the grass is cut when it starts to bloom or right before it starts, because thats the time where you have the highes Energy and protein concentration. Cutting at a later stage when the grass isnt blooming anymore means, that you harvest more mass, but that has lower nutritional value. It may also mean, that instead of making 4 (sometimes even up to 5) cuts from the same field you may only be able to cut the grass 3-4 times.

3: Only cut parts of the field. You may also leave some parts uncut so that insects have a place to got to. This is relatively cost effective since it usually doesnt hurt that much when you dont cut a small part of your field. Alternatively you can also make a rotation, where you maybe cut half the field and cut the other half once the already cut part has regrown a bit. This however, means more work and makes harvesting for silage harder/more expensive, since you would have to order machines more often.

4: Cut at night. This seems like a no brainer, but when less insects are around, less insects can be killed. Downside is, that you have increased drying times, since in the night the grass is of course wet and this has to dry of too.

5: Do everything by hand (as you suggested). This is nowhere near being a feasible option. Due to the big scales it becomes impossible to do everything by hand. It needs a huge workforce which isnt really an option for today. This would mean a mechnisation grade of about 1900, where about 33% of people were employed in Agricultural jobs. Today its about 1.2% Source (German)

There is also a fuckton to say about how to increase biodiversity in farming in general, but I do not want to write a whole bachelors work as a Lemmy comment.

This is especially important when you have trees in your garden. If you remove all grass from your garden the regrowing& and the trees will suck your garden dry of nutrients in 20-30 years.

I Am not from the US, but still thanks for the info. This is like the prime example to why “centrism” is actually just defending the status quo.

Okay, so what the fuck do these numbers mean? I seriously dont know and I Am kinda afraid of what they might mean.

Its always important to differentiate between the individual policeman and the institution of the police, when criticising. It is absolutely necessary that people step up for the safety of everyone and protect them (which is what the police is supposed to do/does). The problem is, that since the police has the monopoly to excerpt violence and this monopoly is controlled by the state it is a tool for those in power to preserve their power and demolish resistance.

This is alsobwhy I dont really like slogans like ACAB, since it sets the policeman who probably has very good intentions and does great work on the same level of “ceiticising” something" than the flaws that police sadly has.

Well yes, but no. If you see capitalism, which includes billionaires having a right to exist, as a set standard, I would 100% agree with you. But billionaires shouldn’t even exist in the first place. You only become a billionaire, by either massively exploiting your workerforce, capitalising every single aspect of your product/customer and not redirecting your profits back to society. We shouldn’t live in a world, where we are cheering for people giving away their money, that they shouldn’t own in the first place. There is no ethic way to be a billionaire.

To prevent misunderstandings: I 100% agree, that this is actually a good thing, but we still have to raise awareness about the societal and political problems of billionaires existing in the first place.

Its quite simple. They make quite a lot of fun and also because they give you the possibility to escape the dystopian world we live in.

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