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Most of the maps tends to look same if you map absolute values and pick absolute value features that are tied to population 🫣
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1776 1 week ago
I’ll never forget why I went down this rabbit hole. Two identical wheat fields that I drove by every day for work sat side by side. Early September. I drove by after a weekend three days since the last pass, and one field was brown and desiccated. The other was still as green as it had been Friday. The brown one had the telltale 12’ separated tire tracks of a boom sprayer through it. But the tire tracks ran parallel to the road for each pass. So you could not see them well, except from either end of the field. Not like if they had been perpendicular to the road. Intentional obfuscation of spraying activity. Every prematurely brown field was sprayed in the same direction parallel to the roads. I grew up on farms and never knew about the practice of prematurely killing crops to allow earlier harvest and drying before the risk of wet days increase to threaten natural curing and harvest. My web search about why two such fields would look so different days apart was the first time I ever read the word glyphosate. I had been eating wheat products for 48 years already. Fucking grew up eating Dempsters white bread, Cheerios and other breakfast cereals for breakfast, based on my parents’ faith in the 1970’s Canada Food Guide (pyramid). It’s criminal. Gee honey, why do I have this lump in my arm pit? Think I should get it checked out? I swear the second half of my life has been one revelation after another about fucked up profit- and theft based incentives at the cost of human health and productivity. Money, food, medicine, education. There’s nothing that fiat paper hasn’t infected. I’ve spoken to farmers who refuse to do this. With fields sitting next to those who do. What are the odds that both fields were contaminated? It happens every time.
You don’t need map correlation when it’s been proven to cause harm to humans by internal memos of the company that produces it.