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  • Most individuals, sure. There’s an argument to be made that Taft royally screwed the 20th century by not conceding the primary to Teddy. If he had stepped aside, Wilson cannot win the presidency. Without Wilson keeping us out of WWI, Teddy likely gets Congress to declare war after the sinking of The Lucitania. That gets us into the war quickly enough that Russia doesn’t pull out. Sure the Tsar is still gonna get overthrown, but the interim government won’t be, as they just helped win the war, and so Russia is at the table when Armisice Day (or the equivalent) happens. That prevents Russia from losing territory. Here’s where it gets interesting. Without the purge of the interim government, the Bolsheviks don’t have the momentum to purge the Menchaviks, making communism more moderate and preventing Lenin, and therefore Stalin from rising to power. Without Stalin yelling that he intended to kill all non-communists, Germany probably doesn’t go full fascist. In fact the European theater of WWII might just not have happened. Sure the baltics are still a thing, and the Pacific still exists, and we probably still would have cut Japan’s oil supply, but we wouldn’t have been distracted in Europe.

    It’s entirely possible that without Wilson, the US wouldn’t have ever gained the superpower status we got after WWII.
















  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzFingies
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    11 days ago

    TIL. Apparently the farmers in my parents area are a bit more picky. They made hay for the horses, and silage for the cows. The pigs get slop, grain, and any bio-trash that’s available.

    Oh yeah, I forgot that silage bunkers exist. Again not used in the area I grew up in. I don’t know why. I don’t use them in Farming Simulator, because they are buggy as shit, and the bales and silos aren’t.

    Edit: also, 2500 TONS‽‽ are you Australian? That must be an absolutely enormous farm.


  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzFingies
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    Hay ≠ silage. Hay is tedded and dried grass/straw. Hay is normally baled, but you can just throw it in a pile. Silage is grass that has been fermented to make it easier for cows to digest. Silage must be baled and wrapped, or stored in a silage silo so that it can ferment.

    I grew up in farm country surrounded by pigs, horses, cows, and an absolute FUCKTON of tobacco, corn, and soybeans. Also a fair amount of weed if you knew which cornfields to go into.