@urlyman

actually I consider Toms Hardware to be fairly reputable, and they cover it

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock

@riley thanks Riley. Good insights

@larsmb short term, yes.

From what I understand, providing artificial nitrogen to a crop causes each plant to invest more in its overground and shallow soil self and less in its deeper root system, which causes the below ground mycelial network to atrophy, and the soil to become denuded

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116238945720345864

@urlyman

"we have one of the stupidest governments of my lifetime in power"

I am 61 and the only change I'd make to that statement is to drop the "one of" clause. (And it's not just the UK. The German government is similarly brain-dead right now. The European right has collectively thrown its hat in the ring with the US right and are being dragged down in the undertow of stupidity.)

@urlyman

"we have one of the stupidest governments of my lifetime in power"

I am 61 and the only change I'd make to that statement is to drop the "one of" clause. (And it's not just the UK. The German government is similarly brain-dead right now. The European right has collectively thrown its hat in the ring with the US right and are being dragged down in the undertow of stupidity.)

@urlyman Yay, golf courses🤪

@urlyman @davidgerard

On this, I recommend listening to relevant experts like @sarahtaber : https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/116233564682293022

Donald Trump's disrupting global fertilizer supplies by tariffs and by war is one of the many many reasons he needs to be stopped & removed from power.

But this is not a matter of not being able to feed everyone.

@urlyman

Permaculture.

Permaculture, goddammit. Everywhere. With wartime urgency and resources. Like these fuckers wanna build all those useless damned data centers. Permaculture.

Rehabilitate landscapes, save biodiversity, grow food, replenish groundwater, prevent flooding and pollution and wildfires, reverse desertification, mitigate climate change and more ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

When I learned these solutions exist, and saw even the "good cop" politicians not even TALKING ABOUT IT much less fucking doing it, that's when I realized we're in extremely deep shit and the powers that be have already written off most of us for dead.

…I’m a climate and biosphere collapse-concerned web designer. So aside from shit posting like an old fart, I tend to post about environment and tech.

Being a tech heavy community, Mastodon tends to prick its ears up a bit more when I post about tech. Posts about food systems like the above, not so much.

So by way of a lead in to where this thread is going shortly (and may subsequently continue), here following is a *tech* angle on the Straits of Hormuz being more or less closed…