Follow-up

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UPENN’s self investigation is in.

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An update on one of the better metaphors of late-stage capitalism:

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“ * The headline on this story was changed on 23 August 2021 from ‘Harvesting your own seed is one of gardening’s great pleasures’ to ‘Harvesting the seed of a favourite plant is one of gardening’s great pleasures’ to avoid any ambiguity

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Well, I guess the first can still be pleasurable, just not in the community garden. :wink:

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Ouch!

threshing

separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism.

“machinery that can reap and thresh corn in the same process”

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That would be the combine harvester - the most romantic machine of all the agricultural machinery there is.

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Retire - now!

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It seems that the hosting has bounced around a few times already. This chap seems to be tracking the moves in near-real-time.

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