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  • Since the U.S. began bombing Iran, for example, restricted travel through the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted the flow of nitrogen fertilizer, sending the price spiraling upward. And that’s on top of what farmers will spend filling up their fuel tanks.

    Beyond those higher costs, deportations have thinned out the labor force for some farmers. Tariffs increased the prices of goods such as machinery and caused tensions with China. Those tensions aren’t over: Last week, the Trump administration announced that a planned meeting with China, the United States’ No. 1 soybean export market, would be delayed for weeks. That helped send soybean prices tumbling.



  • Not a gear head, but I had a friend in high school who was an idiot. While his girlfriend was driving on the main drag one day he stuck the car in reverse or park, not actually sure. We all braced for catastrophe, but nothing happened. The car basically was in neutral.

    He also shut off the car while driving, but because it was in drive was unable to remove the keys. The driver had to shift to neutral, then she was able to restart it. Basically while it was off, there was no power steering, or power brakes.

    ETA: this was in an 89 LeBaron.









  • coalie@piefed.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzmeat honey
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    "meat honey"

    The vulture bee is sometimes said to produce a so-called “meat honey”, but this is a misnomer resulting from scientific uncertainty, due to historic confusion of multiple species, each with a slightly different method of processing.

    In one detailed study of Trigona hypogea in Brazil, the vulture bees mixed sugary plant products with a proteinaceous paste from regurgitated meat, and let it mature to form a sweet substance that was used as food; however, the two resources were initially kept in separate “pots” in the colony, neither being true honey (i.e., not derived from nectar), but they were then mixed together.

    In a different study of Trigona necrophaga in Panama, the bees gathered nectar and produced honey, and they also produced a glandular secretion, derived from carrion, partially metabolized, used as a protein source, and kept completely separate from the honey. In neither case were the bees mixing meat-based substances with floral-derived substances.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee