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“This cute and realistic bunny robot toy is perfect for Easter.“

That’s what the advertising seen on my blog and other websites like New York Times wants to let me know about. It’s a cheap, likely Chinese-made with slave labor, robot toy controlled by an inexpensive microcontrollers and DC brushed motors designed to give a child a few hours of joy before quickly tossed into a garbage can, crushed and hauled to the local garbage heap on the outskirts of town. Found based on scam advertising sites you can pay upwards of $60 for a toy that can be found on AliExpress for about $4.50 in bulk.

Many parents might think this is a wonderful gift compared to giving a live rabbit to a child. At least in popular press, it is reported that animal shelters are flooded with unwanted pet rabbits after the Easter holiday. The press also reports extensively on how children and their parents are burdened to feed, water, and empty manure out of the rabbit’s cage for years after the gift of a live rabbit, as if it’s their moral obligation to keep the pet alive.

This is a prime example of what is wrong with society today.

The truth is domestic rabbits are prolific breeders, they are not endangered species. They are easily dispatched by dislocation of the neck or a blow to skull. They provide quality meat that is extremely low fat and nutritious and are easy to gut and dress. The carcass can be fed to chickens or pigs or buried and quickly will rot away, providing valuable nutrition to the soil. Compared to being a lump of toxic chemicals and plastic, it will not harm the environment while providing a meal.

But instead, too people have this cute, radical animals rights notion about livestock and nature that they would rather buy a polluting plastic rabbit robot then something they can kill and cook.

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Thirty miles each way

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I thought about driving out to Capital Region WMA and Cowee State Forest to spend the day poking around there, but I decided against it as the work project that came in this morning took up a good portion of the morning, then by the time I got back home and cooked lunch it was starting to cloud up – but mainly it was that I punched the address in my GPS and it said it was 30 miles each way, so figure 70 mile round trip  driving. I just didn’t want to burn up that much gas, plus it’s not like it’s a pleasant drive with a lot of it on expressway until I get to the congested suburban NY 43 through Sand Lake, then out Tabor Road to Dutch Church which looked to be slow and twisty.

So I ended up riding my bike this afternoon to Five Rivers and spending until dusk just loafing around, listening to an audio book about Midwestern Politics and just kind of hanging out, playing with the camera, snapping some photos and just wasting time. The wind was roaring all afternoon, so I didn’t really feel like going for much of a ride, and I just wanted a quiet afternoon to listen to the audio book and loaf around in woods. Maybe it was a real waste of time, but so be it. Wasn’t the nicest afternoon ever once it clouded up, but at least it was mild.

It’s only a matter of time before the federal government really screws up …

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Fire all the experienced employees. Slash and burn programs, get rid of the scientists and experts. Repeadly enact policies that go against  the scientific consensus. What could go wrong?

Experts matter. Experienced employees get critical work done, even if it’s not immediately apparent the value of their work. Getting rid of such people only risks things going terribly wrong, and not having the people needed to discover risks and address problems when they arise.