Luke Johnson, CCA

Socialism every time

Cats have a precise method of walking called direct registering. Their hind paws fall inside the place of their forepaws, minimizing noise and visible tracks, while ensuring more stable footing. 📽: hanamomo

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die? Because I do. My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression. You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced. You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them. You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line. You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one. You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you. I have. And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

Elon Musk exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.” Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules. We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch. Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.” The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere. That is not a funding problem. That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.” That sentence should keep you up tonight. We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not. It is the opposite. Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.” They did not run out of stone. They were not conquered. They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone. That is the real threat to everything we have built. Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse. A quiet forgetting. Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people. The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves. And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud. We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us. Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline. One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken. You do not lose the future in a war. You lose it in your sleep.

Link to this week's fertilizer video: - Global urea values got their first bullish push from demand by...France? - Strait of Hormuz once again stopping vessel traffic, causing more bullishness - Phosphate still significantly worse than nitrogen youtu.be/7hlyIm6PDBQ?si…

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“In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn't bother you at all.” — Bill Ackman

Yep…I’m old.

Pickle jar pulse jet. The mechanism is similar to a regular pulse jet, where fuel is mixed with air, ignited, and the hot exhaust creates a pulsating thrust.

In this episode, Michael Frank talks about what he has learned about the diversity and challenges of North Dakota agriculture versus other regions. @GKTechInc @farm_qa @RockNRollAgrnmy @bmreadel 🎧 ow.ly/Es3p50ZnQTQ

As cotton begins setting squares, it’s time to scout for cotton fleahoppers and lygus bugs. Early detection can help protect yield and guide timely management decisions. agronomy.k-state.edu/eupdates/2026/… #kstateagronomy

🚨🐻🏌️#WATCH — A bear has stolen a golfers clubs… “Give me my clubs back bear! Oh c’mon!!”

USDA estimates around $44 billion in direct farm payments will go to producers in 2026. AEI.ag examines where ARC/PLC and other payments are headed. Read here: aei.ag/overview/artic… #AgEconomics #FarmPolicy #Agriculture

If you’ve ever looked at a cotton field and thought, “Do I really need to spray again,” this conversation is for you. On this episode of the Cotton Specialists Corner Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Green & Dr. Whitney Crow get real about cotton insect management. cottonspecialistscorner.buzzsprout.com/1768462/episod…

Before foliar on left after foliar on right. Pic was taken day of foliar on left Pic on right taken this am 4 days post