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(Joke) I'm kind of surprised that Hacker News readers are into goats! My cousin runs a goat company, and she's not the kind of person who'd read Hacker News. (She rents out her goats to remove problematic vegetation, like poison ivy and invasive vines.)

According to Google, "GOAT Blogs" are blogs about goats: https://www.google.com/search?q=GOAT+blog&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS99...

Suggestion (edited): Edit the post just enough to explain that GOAT stands for "Greatest of all time." For example: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of the GOAT (Greatest of all Time) blogs? If you do can you please share?

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I'm honestly more interested in your cousin's goat farm then the original post of this blog now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191678

(Humor on Hacker News is hard. I thought if I made two joke posts about goats, at least one would get modded up enough to undo the downvotes from the other.)

Back at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a farm that would rent goats to appear on your Zoom meetings. You'd PayPal them something like 20 bucks, and e-mail the meeting code/link and a goat would show up.

I always thought that was the GOAT use of goats.

That'd still be a cool service.

About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

You took your kids to the zoo and were struck by how cute the kids were. So other peoples’ kids are cute too?

My cousin started her goat business about five years ago. It took some time and patience, but now it's successful.

It helps that my cousin is quite the animal lover, went to vet school, and also works part time in a veterinarian's office.

My wife and went to a farm to look at baby goats, then we adopted them. They are fantastic creatures. Sadly, their genetics were awful, and the boys urethra blocked. The girl became hormonal and very aggressive towards women (I was the only one that could interact with her since I could handle it, and she would rub on me).

I’ve been trying to rent this exact service, but the most popular guy in my area is also apparently a flake

A flake? this is getting too much, i don't even know what a goat is supposed to mean yet.

This is genius.

Goats eat, say, English Ivy leaves, but they obviously don't eat all the roots.

English Ivy quickly grows back (even with mere inches of roots).

This requires another round of goats.

Goats-as-a-service subscription ftw!

Next obvious step would be some kind of goat-friendly muzzle on a few of the goats and a $9.99 "turbo" upcharge that unlocks the muzzles.

Edit: I think upcharge should instead "unlock up to 8 goat cores"

Goats as a service does exist. Caltrans deloys them to maintain vegetation.

i envision an app with geoloc and crosshairs on the cam with a glowy button that makes a satisfying sound. Something like send in the goats

Then deliver them with drones for instant gratification.

You mean instant goatification.

Get pigs: they'll uproot everything in sight!

Old fart moment: rolling my eyes when "GOAT" enters the vocabulary of HN users (well at least 1 user, the OP).

> Old

Rolling your eyes for the term of a kid /J

("Kid" being originally "young goat".)

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