Finding any pond, Lake or spillway to fish. Mostly tiny fish, sometimes decent ones and when they're bitin' - lunkers. Fun at dawn in Texas and Oklahoma.
Farmer: "Gentlemen. I'd like to present the ultimate plant-based protein technology."
Investor 1: "We're listening."
Farmer: "It converts inedible plant matter into complete protein. Grass, cornstalks, brewery waste, vegetable peelings. Anything cellulose-rich that humans can't digest."
Investor 2: "Energy requirements."
Farmer: "Sunlight."
Investor 2: "For the plant matter, you mean."
Farmer: "And for the conversion. Same sunlight. Reused."
Investor 3: "Heating costs for the bioreactor."
Farmer: "None. The unit holds 38.5 degrees year-round on its own."
Investor 1: "Failure rate."
Farmer: "Self-repairing. The unit also replicates once a year at no additional cost."
Investor 3: "Replicates."
Farmer: "Produces a smaller version of itself. Which becomes a full unit."
Investor 2: "Net carbon."
Farmer: "Neutral. The carbon in goes back to the air the grass pulled it from. Round and round, same atoms, no new ones added."
Investor 1: "And the waste output."
Farmer: "Twenty tonnes of soil enrichment per unit per year. The waste is also a product."
Investor 2: "This would obliterate Beyond Meat."
Farmer: "It already has. They just don't know yet."
Investor 1: "Where can we see one."
Farmer: "There are about 1.5 billion currently deployed. Have been for ten thousand years."
[silence]
Investor 3: "It's a cow, isn't it."
Farmer: "It's a cow."
Investor 2: "We were promised plant-based."
Farmer: "The plant goes in one end. I don't know what else you wanted."
@ammolab1 S&W Shield Plus, no doubt... compact enough for CCW, large enough to be manageable, easy to strip field and maintain, common and cheap cartridge. Reliable. Option 2, G19 for the same reasons.
They convinced an entire generation that living with family is failure.
Family compounds used to be normal.
Until the psyop began.
We were told:
• Move out at 18
• Be independent
• Get your own place
• Do everything alone
Result:
• 10 rents
• 10 mortgages
• 10 car payments
• 10x more debt
Strong families used to stay together—build together, support each other, and live interdependently.
The opposite of the "be independent" narrative.
Let's normalize family compounds again.
In my years as an angler I can attest to proper gear inspections and maintenance, few reels or rods will last if you don't treat 'em right.
IMO Cadence and KastKing are great options cost/benefit, but you cannot neglect maintenance!