Lesser Megadeath

@SamaHoole @TrentTelenko and then there is phosphates , no Haber process for that

The global food system has a fertiliser problem. Actually, it has several. In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia and Belarus together supply approximately 40% of the world's potash and a significant share of global nitrogen and phosphate. Fertiliser prices rose 200 to 300% across Europe overnight. Then China restricted fertiliser exports to protect domestic supply. The gap got wider. Then, in February 2026, the US and Israel struck Iran. The Strait of Hormuz, a 33-kilometre chokepoint carrying approximately one third of all global seaborne fertiliser trade, including nearly half the world's traded urea, closed. The Gulf states who had been filling the Russian supply gap could no longer export. Urea prices jumped 32% in a single week. Nearly a million metric tonnes of fertiliser cargo is currently stranded in the Gulf. Northern hemisphere spring planting is open right now. The arable system runs on synthetic nitrogen. No synthetic nitrogen, no yield. No plan B. Meanwhile, 65% of Britain's agricultural land is under grass. The cattle eat the grass. The clover in the grass fixes atmospheric nitrogen from the air. The cattle deposit the nutrients back as manure. The grass grows. The system has no dependency on Russian gas, Belarusian potash, Qatari urea, or the navigability of a chokepoint in a war zone. It has been running since before any of those things existed. There is a food production model that doesn't need fertiliser. It's called a cow. It has been in the field the entire time.

@BillHerrer77458 @randommartyr @KindeandTrue Israeli leadership is anti semitic, they killed their own people on oct 7 ( admitted it) and killed a city full of arabic speakers ( semites) last 3 years .

@randommartyr @KindeandTrue You know the amount of Anti-Semitic rhetoric I hear on hear is mind boggling. Iran is our sworn enemy along with Israels.

My son is a jump master in the 82nd. Please pray for the safety and wellbeing of these brave young Americans and the immediate end of this stupid, needless, immoral, unconstitutional war. 🙏

@BillHerrer77458 @KindeandTrue come on bill , surely the constitutional limits of presidential power matter to you? can't have a sex pest starting wars willy nilly

I was a Jumpmaster in the 82d for almost 20 years and deployed three times to combat. If my Mom ever said what you just said I would disown her. Your son made a decision to volunteer knowing he may need to enter contact. Let him be a man who accepts his decisions and support him. Because you really don’t with your last statements.

@Iromg you may have been told that

They’re firing missiles at us ffs

@Blusnowfox @chrisluxonmp and petrochemical funders why else would they squeeze ev drivers

@chrisluxonmp Typical weak simpish reply as dictated from London. It’s clear you aren’t governing with Kiwis interests in mind. You take orders from the coward in Downing St. Know wonder NZ is in such a state.

Attacks on fuel tankers and energy infrastructure in the Middle East are leading directly to higher fuel prices for Kiwis. That’s why we have joined the United Kingdom and other countries in condemning Iran’s attacks in the Gulf. Iran has forced the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz to ships carrying fuel and other critical goods to places like New Zealand. New Zealand has a longstanding record of working with like-minded partners to ensure open supply lines for global trade. Obviously, any future decision for New Zealand to support multilateral efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz would need to be considered by Cabinet.

@_YourFellowMan @FinancialPhys and snap chill like with frozen vegetables

@_YourFellowMan @FinancialPhys vertebrates can be frozen and not turned to cell mush youd need to exchange the blood to an antarctic fish analog

I’m so happy to see others addressing the issue of space travel SiFi is a plot device for storytelling, nothing more

@BabakTaghvaee1 yep iran just wants to bomb london . totally believable

BREAKING: To those asking what is burning behind the mountains north of Damavand, east of Tehran: it is an Iranian MODAFL complex where nuclear warheads for intercontinental ballistic missiles were designed, developed, and produced—intended for use against targets such as London. That complex has now been completely destroyed. U.S. Air Force B-1B heavy bombers carried out the strike. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@Zagonel85 @sapitonmix i'm enjoying your worldview collapsing as reality keeps nibbling

@sapitonmix If only Ukraine didn’t dig in

“Objectively Russia wages the most humane war ever…” Average Donbas city at line of contact

@MSweetaz @Mountain_Tui usa has decided that they can ignore the future war that ukraine has invented if they send in troops they will be FPV bait

@Mountain_Tui I won't be surprised if this war ends up on the shores of the USA. These people are launching missiles off the back of trucks; it's not a stretch to imagine them doing the same off merchant ships and hitting Boston, LA, NY, etc. Would be karmic justice

Fuel measures other countries took a while ago Sri Lanka: limit to 15 litres per week per car. Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Phillipines: WFH Wed or 4 day week. Thailand: limited aircon in offices. Indonesia - moved holiday dates. S. Korea - price controls etc. New Zealand: We're OK now

@A_ForTheDetails @MilkRoadAI no, i know family farms using Halter in NZ

@MilkRoadAI Farmers can't afford this. This is for corporate agriculture only. More destruction of family owned farms/ranches inbound.

This is WILD. Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck. The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation. They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works. A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own. No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal. The collar does more than move cows around. It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals. Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem. US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs. Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion. This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account. And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes. The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow. He might be right.

@Nummer147 @fellaraktar pretty funny delusions 👆🏼

@fellaraktar 50 % of Europeans are pro-MAGA. And would be for a pro-MEGA movement. Wether you like it or not.

It’s amazing how little MAGA understands Europeans. An endorsement from MAGA is a political kiss of death in Europe. We hate Trump. We hate MAGA. We hate your stupid little red hats. No one in Europe is listening to that stupid fuck. Or his couch fucking secretary.

@eduk8rdv8r @RaukawaDiver @nettieg3 what food does auckland not produce

@LesserMegadeath @RaukawaDiver @nettieg3 What food does Auckland produce?

We have to import flour because of cropping to dairy conversions on the plains…are we stupid? Does anyone do any real landscape planning in this country? This guy sure didn’t listen to scientific experts he wanted lawyers…

@Jakeruruku @nettieg3 imagine if ardern seized the means of production and we owned a loss making refinery

It was cheaper to import refined fuel than it was to refine it ourselves. The discourse around Marsden Point is insane lol. It’s purely based on emotions. People feel like it should have been cheaper. It wasn’t. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

@eduk8rdv8r @RaukawaDiver @nettieg3 auckland sends food all over the country and user pays makes importing aussie grain more cost effective

@LesserMegadeath @RaukawaDiver @nettieg3 Surely it should be user pays. Charge what it costs to ship it there. The rest of the country have been paying more for all sorts of things.

@YossiBenYakar irony is dead as is bibi

Iran is aiming its missiles at civilians, and the world stays silent, normalizing it. Pray for Israel. We will prevail. God bless America. God bless Israel.

@Misa_Roumi israel voted for the guys who smote gaza and started a war with iran

Tonight, our country is experiencing its harshest tragedy since its founding… a massacre by all measures that shakes the nation’s conscience and exposes fragile policies and failures in crisis management.

@SSMeteora @uNrTrRsxhicsXyC did evil ardern magically make australian interest rates peak at 7.8% as well ?

@uNrTrRsxhicsXyC Jacindas reign of terror has inflation at 7.3% National has brought that down to hovering around 3% Get a clue

Credit rating wobbles confirm Willis should stick to literature. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360954…

@mill24360 @uNrTrRsxhicsXyC where has austerity worked?

@uNrTrRsxhicsXyC It’s a negative outlook because spending has not been cut enough. We need austerity

@theboldrabbit @uNrTrRsxhicsXyC i think it's the govt debt graph

@uNrTrRsxhicsXyC Credit rating wobbles due to silly profile flags