Just need to vent...

How 'bout dat: a Reuters article on "regenerative agriculture" containing not one word on what "regenerative agriculture" is supposed to mean:

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-food-beverage-giants-join-forces-regenerative-agriculture-2026-05-19/

 

Its seems plants and virtually all living things are regenerative.

 

No easy access to Reuters here. But here is a link describing regenerative agriculture:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00097-7

 

"The crack in the tank discovered by firefighters on late Saturday relieved some of the pressure within the tank, Covey said.

While officials were confident that the crack wouldn't lead to any chemical leaks, ..."​

Could the journalist have asked the question "so, if the crack has relieved some of the pressure, what's been coming out?"

I guess somewhere I read that MMA fumes are heavier than air, so if there's air-filled headspace at the top (and there's supposed to be) and the crack is up there, maybe only air has been venting. Still, it would be nice if the report said that.

 

All of it will be used, so some form of it will be dispersed into nature. Some will be spilled into nature in smaller amounts and no one usually knows anything about it. I remember they used to have vats of trichlorethylene in the open to clean components, people exposed every day, had their bare hands in it. They used to just dump it out behind the buildings, which in those days around Sunnyvale CA probably was fruit orchards and new subdivisions going in. Later it came out trichlorethylene was a cancer causing substance so it was replaced with trichlorethane.
Unions helped protect workers, but these weren’t union probably until much later if ever. The governments had to pass protection legislation.

 

As a kid of the '60s, my dad was much more thoughtful than just dumping old motor oil and or radiator antifreeze. Motor oil along the chain link fence was used to kill the grass from a growing up through the links.

 

When I worked in news, I would have thrown the story back to the reporter and asked that question ==Could the journalist have asked the question "so, if the crack has relieved some of the pressure, what's been coming out?"

But editors are few nowadays and much of the reporting is very shoddy because of the lack of oversight. I remember the classic "every wildfire season" question I threw at a reporter "What is a contained fire and and what is a controlled fire." Only the vet's got it right and only the vet's answered that in their stories -- before I asked. Gosh, I hated making cub reporters look stupid -- I really did. But it was for the good of the readers.

 

If I have some random non-urgent health question, it seems reasonable to wait for my annual checkup and just ask it then. But I guess I need to learn not to do that.

Asking a question apparently reclassifies my annual checkup as a diagnostic visit. The visit itself, and all the ordered-in-advance annual checkup lab work, gets reclassified from 100% covered to deductible+copay, and I lose the $50 incentive offered for getting an annual checkup.

 

exactly. we discussed this somewhere else. it's confusing, which seems to be what the medical industry is built on

 

dupe

 

People used to change their oil over a storm drain, no doubt some still do. They put little pictures of a wave and this water goes to the ocean as the deterrent now. Probably not done all that much these days, because like it slowly sinks in, the idea, it’s no good to pour your used motor oil in the ocean or river. There is no real enforcement unless someone sees the person doing it. Cell phones have changed a lot of recording of the proof.

 

Here in Colorado, retailers who sell motor oil have a collection bin for customers to bring it...even my Walmart. Of course, it can be a pain when you pull up to O'Reilly's Auto Parts and see "TANK IS FULL" which means you can't empty out your oil container. (So I have an old 10-gallon water jug as a backup when I have to empty out my oil drain container...it's only good for 2 vehicles then needs emptying.) They do have daily limit of 5-gallons, though, but if you're nice they let it slide. (My record is 15-gallons....had all tanks full and needed to do more work.)

For Haz Waste, Colorado Springs has a big facility and it's free....they take everything including old TVs and computers but you have to make a reservation on-line. I didn't know that and just showed up with my truck full of old paint and computers. They had ZERO customers yet the rude lady told me I can't drop without a reservation. So I grabbed my phone and asked for the URL...I'll make a reservation for 5 minutes from now. and she just said nevermind, let's get you taken care of. (Sorry to bother you, ma'am, by making you have to DO YOUR JOB!)

 

I've heard that the higher gas prices have made the Rav4 Hybrid a very hot model right now and some dealerships are adding $6,000 to the MSRP but I haven't seen that in our local dealers. Tacoma and Tundra's are being marked down....$2-3K for the Taco's and up to $6K for the Tundra as the lots are pretty full of them.
My favorite local dealer has no Rav 4 Hybrids on the lot and many of the "In Transit" models are already showing "Sale Pending" on them. (At 40 mpg, I can see why they are so popular.)

 

They have been hot since their dual injection 2.5L awd with electric motor intake valve timing and solenoid exhaust timing came out in 2019. The Prime version with the same engine and over 300 real hp remained unobtainium ever since with $10k market adjustments and $3k-$5k dealer extra tag ons.

The new 2026s are better and Lexus like in the sound deadening.

Meanwhile Vancouver continues to embrace gen3 v's

Except for the blue Rav4 hybrid in front of the red v

 

So, in the USA, we see more and more of dual product labels -- English and Spanish. In the Great White North (Canada) is it English/French/Spanish, or no Spanish?

Hey, if you become a USA state....

 

I was in Montréal a year ago, and found the roadway signage exclusively French. I had found English/French everywhere else I'd ever visited in Canada.

I was kinda pleased with myself for successfully getting to my lodgings, in city traffic, after like 14 hours driving, piecing together what the signs meant.

I give a lot of the credit to singing in choirs. Sing enough pieces in French and some things eventually sink in even without studying the language.

A lot of the signs are easy because the colors and shapes are still standard. The bigger challenges were things like a message signboard over the freeway saying something like local delivery trucks only next exit. Doesn't even pertain to me in a car, but I still have to decide it does or doesn't pertain to me, while coming up on it at 100 km/h.