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[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

can you imagine the kind of games the DDR would have created if it had survived. we’re talking trolley ticket office simulator. we’re talking a mid 90’s sim city-alike just called “urban planning” probably some sort of bird watching game with an associated physical booklet.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I was having dinner last night with a friend working in the chicken industry and I learned something that blew my mind.

Where do chicken farmers get their chickens? Most of us would say "from their existing chickens obviously, they breed and lay eggs."

That's what I thought too, but turns out I was dead wrong.

The reality is that the immense majority of meat chicken farmers in the world get their chickens from one of 2 companies: Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson Foods, or Aviagen, controlled by Germany's EW Group (the Wesjohann family).

They have a concept specific to the industry called grandparent stock: what you buy from these 2 companies is - essentially - a bunch of chickens with planned obsolescence.

The way it works is that each company keeps "pure" bloodlines on its own farms. Let's label them A, B, C and D. Those are the crown jewels - these companies' IP - and they never leave the building.

What they sell you are the "grandparents": chicks from those four lines, but each line in only one sex. You get A roosters but no A hens, B hens but no B roosters, C roosters but no C hens, D hens but no D roosters. Which means you can never breed more A, B, C or D birds yourself.

What you can do is cross them. A roosters with B hens give you the fathers, C roosters with D hens give you the mothers - these are the "parents". The parents then give you the chickens that actually end up on our plates, slaughtered at around 6 weeks.

And that's the end of the road. If you tried breeding those chickens, their chicks would be a complete genetic lottery: still chickens, sure, but without the genetic properties that make them commercially viable. They'd grow slower and less evenly, you'd have to sell them for way more than your competitors, and your business would be dead.

So you have to go back to Cobb or Aviagen for new grandparents. Forever.

Why buy grandparents at all, and raise 2 generations just to sell the third? The answer is scale. If you buy say 100 grandparents, each of them gives you around 50 parents, and each parent hen then gives you around 150 chicks: from those 100 grandparents, you have yourself some 600,000 chickens whose meat you can sell.

It makes no sense for these 2 companies to sell the final chickens directly. They'd have to hatch tens of billions of chicks a year and ship them all over the world. Much easier to simply sell the grandparents and let farmers do the multiplying and pay for the farms, the feed and the labor.

And, you knew this was coming, there is also a China angle here: as you can imagine, China isn't too pleased to be dependent on foreign companies for such a basic food item as chicken.

So China did what China does best: long-term planning. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched a plan for "national broiler genetic improvement" (2021-2035), which aims for domestically bred breeds to make up at least 60% of the domestic market by 2035 (https://t.co/INHrS7YUpD).

And, of course, they're ahead of the plan. As of 2025, homegrown breeds held more than 30% of the market: halfway to the 2035 goal in just four years (https://t.co/hF0HvB6Q5y).

Can you escape all this as a consumer? Sure, you can buy organic or Label Rouge chicken, from slower-growing breeds raised for at least 81 days instead of 6 weeks, for two to three times the price.

Except, plot twist: the genetics behind most of those slow-growing birds come from a French company called Hubbard... which has belonged to Aviagen since 2018 (https://t.co/URsRSI3gI0)😅

And even if you could truly escape, you wouldn't want everyone to: we'd need vast new swathes of farmland, both for the chickens and their feed. Ironically, advocating for organic free-range chicken for everyone is one of the worst positions one can take for the planet's resources.

If you want to minimize your environmental footprint, the counterintuitive answer is to buy the cheapest supermarket chicken - or eat less meat, of course.

As my friend was saying last night, you may not like the way this industry works but, at the end of the day, it's what puts affordable protein on the plates of billions of people, using proportionally fewer resources than any other way of raising chicken.

[@redaction @redaction]

Opus 5.5 is hitting gaming communities like crack in a black neighborhood

They're just rewriting entire games in Rust and smashing them together

(from @chasmmm on YouTube)

[Richard @ricwe123]

Now it is official.

"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"

(UN Human Rights Council)

[Foundring 🇺🇸 @foundring1]

Engines in My Factory
Arr. Foundring (2026)

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

aipac boss call was made. they are unanimous in their hatred of me, and i welcome their hatred. if you’re a defender of israel’s genocide, of its occupation, of its child killing spree - then your boos mean nothing to me

[Boyd @0xBOYD]

Twelve years ago an Adult Swim sketch on Cartoon Network accurately predicted the future of programming.

[ALLDAYNYC @AllDayNYC]

Dude aired out the whole job and rightfully so.

All unsafe practices, no wonder it started to collapse.

[grzegorz 🇵🇱 @Mlody1646072]

Dalej to do mnie nie dociera.

Straciliśmy najlepszego człowieka.

Boże zlituj się nad Węgrami.

Horror…

[lvsdzw @levesduzw]

@nopeschlesier @Howitzeralone too late my algo is already 30% that

[lvsdzw @levesduzw]

@glooboj @vxunderground There is no bricking happening, that is part of the mass confusion.

[lvsdzw @levesduzw]

@MainstreamViews Why are we trusting Blikk?

[TV Idents @IdentEveryHour]

M1 - 2006 - Hungary

[Based Hungary 🇭🇺 @HungaryBased]

🇭🇺 Magyar Péter DECLARES an END to the 'Benes Dictates' in Slovakia!

"I will NOT compromise on this. They stole the land and homes of ethnic Hungarians."

On this Magyar has my full support!

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's been a surreal experience watching interviews with these NASA astronauts.

They're stridently rational and unflappable, and yet, they come across as normal people who enjoy what they do and get along with their colleagues, although all of them have had to be extraordinary through an insanely competitive process to get there.

So, it feels very odd right now watching the pervasive dysfunction of the U.S. government--largely being run by incompetent clowns, shameless hucksters, and nepo babies--juxtaposed with video and images of some of the most competent people you'll ever see in one of the most demanding jobs you can conceive and knowing they got there based on merit.

[dado ⚢ 🎱 @astrasdoctor]

Christina Koch vs Rise The Plushie

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

For Ukrainians, the strength of the state, resistance to the war, and core values are not abstract concepts, empty slogans, or mere speeches and tweets. Those things lost all meaning long ago because they deliver no real results.While many voices keep shouting about "resilience," the nation is dying and people are leaving in droves. While we are fed promises of reconstruction, Ukrainians witness fresh destruction every day. While media headlines overflow with figures on aid packages, ordinary people in Ukraine are burying loved ones and friends killed by Russian strikes.

Human lives cannot be replaced with hollow words. And herein lies the fundamental problem with Ukraine's current leadership. Instead of mobilizing every available Western resource to end the war, instead of pursuing professional diplomacy, supporting the economy, and protecting its people, the authorities have disregarded the Ukrainian nation itself—sacrificing it to pathological populism.

The result: a lack of solid, reliable relations with nearly every Western partner, open public quarrels with international leaders, endless maximalist demands that are impossible to meet, and an unending stream of preconditions under which Ukraine's leadership claims it would accept the peace that the Ukrainian people so desperately crave.

For months and even years, the media have debated the Ukrainian authorities' delusional ideas that bear no relation to reality and are doomed to fail from the start.

Take NATO, for example. How many months were spent writing about it? There was never any realistic chance of joining. And why has the idea of neutrality—once the very thing that saved Finland—been so thoroughly discredited?

Now, for several months, serious discussions have centered on the notion of accelerated EU membership. But this is simply impossible without genuine reforms—utterly impossible. Today, in Politico I read that the majority of EU countries have rejected the idea of "advance entry," "membership first," or so-called "reverse enlargement" proposed within the European Commission for Ukraine.

The behavior of Ukraine's leadership toward world leaders has been marked by ingratitude, emotional manipulation, demands, blackmail, and even personal insults directed at foreign partners. Honestly, how would you react if your own leader insulted the appearance of someone who was supposed to vote the very next week on critically important aid for your country?

It is painful and infuriating to watch Ukrainian supporters excuse Zelenskyy's erratic behavior, overlook his blunders, ignore the wild diplomacy, and quote his pathologically populist statements—with their heroic overtones—without any fact-checking or scrutiny.

The information space has become completely detached from the reality faced by ordinary Ukrainians: exhausted, drained, and having lost faith in life itself.

Years ago, I walked away from Zelenskyy because I refused to build a career on pathological populism and because I knew he wouldn't even last one full term as president. Yet today, on the blood of my people, an entire constellation of people who have access to Western platforms are building their careers. It is very hard to comprehend—and even harder to accept.