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PeaInAPod752 karma

"Remedial Chaos Theory"

In the scene were it is Troys turn to get the pizza and he returns to absolute chaos I was laughing so hard my family ran in from the other room to make sure I was alright.

PeaInAPod116 karma

in the midwest you'll see that farmers value GM technology

I live in the midwest. Family, friends, and heck likely 75% of the local business is agriculture dependent. Maybe you have heard that farmers love GM but that is not the case here. GM seed makers harassed local farmers for keeping seed from the previous year to replant calling it theft. I could go on.

It helps them do a tough job.

Yes, GM corn like Monsanto's which is resistant to RoundUp makes the job easier. You know what else it does? Makes the environment worse. When the farmer who went with GM-corn only has to mass-spray RoundUp to keep the crop healthy you know what happens? RoundUp gets abused. God help you if you want to go outside on a "RoundUp day" the air will be thick with RoundUp. The GM-corn requires more nutrients because of its GM/high-yield nature so more fertilizer is used consequently the Nitrogen level (among other things) in the local water supply has skyrocketed. Local waterways that used to be clear as day, which kids would play at in the summer are now ridden with massive amounts of algae due to the excessive Nitrogen from fertilizer being used. All of this has only happened recently due to the push by GM-seed manufacturers to get their product in the door.

tl:dr - Local farmers do not like GM products and I say why above.

PeaInAPod35 karma

I bought Wisdom Panel for a dog I adopted and the results were 75% breed X and 25% unknown which was super disappointing. I was later gifted an Embark test which came back as 80% breed X, 11% breed Y, and 9% mixed/other. So from my experience Embark was able to give way more accurate results about the breed.

I'd 100% recommend Embark over WisdomPanel.

PeaInAPod29 karma

I love that this is a thing now. I've seen this comment/reply combo everyday since he (or she) first misspelled their username.

PeaInAPod20 karma

One of them escaped, and everyone was sort of perplexed as to why the guards didn't make too much of a fuss about it. The guy ended up coming back after walking for a full day and encountering NOTHING.

Definitely Midwest USA.