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Some odd comments on this. It's not a matter of debate, wheat futures reflect this.

It seems to be a double whammy on the wheat side. Lower planting this year combined with drought suppressing these smaller crops. Wheat down 35%, Corn down 6% but Soy beans looks to be up due to lesser reliance on fertilizer.

Real question is how will next years crop handle the supply constrains due to the Straight (outta) Hormuz lock down.

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought - https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-h...

Wheat Acreage Continues Decline as Producers Find More Lucrative Crops - https://www.proag.com/news/wheat-acreage-continues-decline-a...

Some odd comments and voting patterns on a lot of things. It's getting weird around here.

Well, it's a weird site. Most of my interactions are through the /active page or specific search terms. When I started to do that in about 2021 it certainly made it a lot easier to find what I as curious about.

Unfortunately, what I wanted to know also changed, in that I now use the site to keep tabs on the thoughts of folks are or who fund and work for hard-right technocrats.

There are, of course, many other folks on the site.

At the same time, the US techno-fascists both have an outsized influence on our lives and it's much harder to find their voices in other places: folks who, for instance, think Peter Thiel is of course quite sane and probably not trying to figure out a way to kill vast chunks of us off (and that it would be a reasonable thing if he were).

I’m not sure I understood you correctly.

You think critics of Thiel are the techno fascists?

I think they are saying they want to track the ideas of people who support techno-fascists like Thiel and who don't think that ideology is insane, and that it can be difficult to find them online

he's not talking about his critics but his supporters & people like Thiel.

Indeed you read that backwards. He's saying that Thiel supporters and apologists can be found on HN more easily than on other sites. I'm not sure what to make of that claim though - he doesn't (or rather the events related to his companies that make it to the front page don't) seem very popular around here to me.

> he doesn't (or rather the events related to his companies that make it to the front page don't) seem very popular around here to me.

This is a more recent turn, and one that happened later than in other online social spaces. Claiming that HN leans in a direction friendly to tech VC is hardly controversial.

Seems like you're conflating "friendly to tech VC" and "Thiel supporter" there. Certainly there will be some overlap but they're different things.

Neither is not jumping on the latest popular bandwagon a show of support in the opposite direction.

Too late to edit, but based on the reply’s I got I didn’t interpret the comment incorrectly. Seems like it’s time for bed then.

Scarecrowbob misused a colon, which I think is why you interpreted their post the way you did. But from the other context of the post, they clearly think the opposite.

> At the same time, the US techno-fascists both have an outsized influence on our lives and it's much harder to find their voices in other places

Big Tech social media are perfect platforms to drive people and society apart. Yesterday suddenly Youtube passed a vid [0] through the algorithmic filter bubble they feed me, showing Marco Rubio (or a deepfake version?) spew divisive misinfo about Macron and France. Most telling that none of the comments had a critical word on Rubio. Only Rubio fan comments behing highly critical of Europe and the EU.

Big Tech social media is pure poison to healthy society in how it insidiously spreads misinformation and propaganda to targeted audiences.

[0] No URL. I don't want to give this clicks, but the shorts vid ID is pgvVw5bZWiA

By divisive you mean lies and venon? Maybe we should stop using euphemisms.

Yes, lies and venom. With 'divisive' I was also thinking of the new US national security policy that calls for driving the EU apart into individual vasal states, and Rubio doing that dirty work in the vid, shielded by algorithms.

I would say there was a marked turning point of weirdness right around jan 31 2025

It should be pretty obvious that any major social media website is fully botted these days. News is coming out how reddit, twitch e.t.c. are full of fake accounts. This site is no different. Try to say something negative about Apple products and you get instantly downvoted.

You are underestimating Apple’s RDF.

> wheat futures reflect this.

In what way? Wheat hasn't even returned to early 2025 price levels yet. It is up relative to where is has been recently amid what were very low prices, but still have a long way to go to get where things had been through much of the 2020s.

Which comments?

Yea but see, that disagrees with my feelings and my political cult leaders stance, so it must be incorrect. And if you are stating obviously wrong things then you are a seditious liar.

/s for anyone who doesn’t understand the mockery

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