Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Date: 25 Oct 2025 02:38:40 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <10crldd$lkb4$1@dont-email.me> <10ctb13$12oei$2@dont-email.me> <10ctrdc$16st9$1@dont-email.me> <10d24n9$2bb83$2@dont-email.me> <10d2dos$2dnk0$3@dont-email.me> <0g8hslxmvj.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <8blpslxujb.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net k+d44mctWF6HAta+hYqY6A1BcD0Ovt3oB9WcoJYOtayI0+xGvK Cancel-Lock: sha1:za6bRuXcaSNh00oyR3/YfXzvnxo= sha256:Lwx+Lpae6D8G5lEE9a6eetbUXetR6hgz1CwqwwJhrNk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76654 On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:13:13 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > Of course. But at places like that village that was impossible, the > plots were too small. It comes from dividing the inheritance between > your sons, and they marrying and geting another plot(s) from wife, > generation after generation, for centuries. Plus, it is a valley and > there are mountains, no much flat land. > > It is, was, survival agriculture, they cultivated what they could > directly eat. No selling. They did not have money. They paid the doctor > with eggs! The US motto is 'get big or get out'. Family farms have mostly been bought up and consolidated by agribusiness that can afford the technology. Where I grew up was dairy country. Almost all my friends who grew up on farms sold the herds during a government buyback in the '80s. They were working factory jobs to keep the farm afloat and saw a way out. 80 acres with maybe 50 happy cows wandering around didn't cut it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry Berry has written a lot of nonfiction but I like his Port William stories. It makes me nostalgic for a place that is no more and isn't coming back. Maybe they can build a data center in Port William.