My brother once locked me in the neighbour's chook coop. I put my shoulder to the door and burst out, none too pleased. He ran for it, tripped over a tree root, and broke his elbow. "Ha" says I "that's your chickens come home to roost."
From AI: "Chicken "hypnosis" is scientifically known as tonic immobility, a natural state of temporary paralysis induced by stress or perceived threat. It is not true hypnosis but rather a defense mechanism where the bird feigns death.
The Line Method: Hold the chicken’s head down near the ground and draw a straight line with a finger or stick starting from its beak and extending outward. The chicken will often freeze and stare at the line for up to 30 minutes."
Which is why you are never allowed to see Starmer staring at a straight line
dearieme - quick thinking, I bet your brother didn't laugh though.
DJ - that's a thought, if we ever do see Starmer staring at a straight line, we'll know he has been deliberately immobilised for 30 minutes. David Lammy could be much the same. Maybe the 30 minutes could be extended.
The parable(s) of the chicken. Bill Mollison https://permacultureaustralia.org.au/1983-the-parable-of-the-chicken/ A chicken has a great number of uses. If you neglect these you must do the things yourself. Every time you don’t satisfy a need automatically you must do it yourself. The question is, is the chicken or the human being the smarter animal in all measurable environmental terms? We will examine that question. In all broadscale agriculture, which, sadly, is the most destructive influence on the whole face of the earth, the chicken becomes a parable, which, as a representative of a class of animals kept by man, consumes 70 percent of the product of the labor of man in agriculture. Man thus works for the chicken. The chicken then provides for the man less than one percent of the necessary food of man. The chicken is enormously smarter than man, by thousands of times. Man works extremely hard for the chicken. The chicken works very little for man. Of all these crops, then, of every acre of every field of wheat, 70 percent goes — with the chicken as parable — to the chicken, and 30 percent to the uses of mankind, not just food uses. So most of agriculture is devoted to the chicken. Therefore, most tractors, most roads, most rural networks are built to service the chicken. In the total society 35 percent of all energy goes towards food, so the chicken is a very large consumer of energy in the total society.
Bill - interesting, thanks. It can be useful to turn things around from conventional directions such as the work we do for sheep when all we get in return is some dirty wool which requires even more work to turn it into a pullover which wears out anyway.
Or the work we now seem to be doing for AI systems, or the work we do for government.
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My brother once locked me in the neighbour's chook coop. I put my shoulder to the door and burst out, none too pleased. He ran for it, tripped over a tree root, and broke his elbow. "Ha" says I "that's your chickens come home to roost."
From AI: "Chicken "hypnosis" is scientifically known as tonic immobility, a natural state of temporary paralysis induced by stress or perceived threat. It is not true hypnosis but rather a defense mechanism where the bird feigns death.
The Line Method: Hold the chicken’s head down near the ground and draw a straight line with a finger or stick starting from its beak and extending outward. The chicken will often freeze and stare at the line for up to 30 minutes."
Which is why you are never allowed to see Starmer staring at a straight line
dearieme - quick thinking, I bet your brother didn't laugh though.
DJ - that's a thought, if we ever do see Starmer staring at a straight line, we'll know he has been deliberately immobilised for 30 minutes. David Lammy could be much the same. Maybe the 30 minutes could be extended.
The parable(s) of the chicken. Bill Mollison
https://permacultureaustralia.org.au/1983-the-parable-of-the-chicken/
A chicken has a great number of uses. If you neglect these you must do the things yourself. Every time you don’t satisfy a need automatically you must do it yourself.
The question is, is the chicken or the human being the smarter animal in all measurable environmental terms? We will examine that question.
In all broadscale agriculture, which, sadly, is the most destructive influence on the whole face of the earth, the chicken becomes a parable, which, as a representative of a class of animals kept by man, consumes 70 percent of the product of the labor of man in agriculture.
Man thus works for the chicken. The chicken then provides for the man less than one percent of the necessary food of man. The chicken is enormously smarter than man, by thousands of times. Man works extremely hard for the chicken. The chicken works very little for man.
Of all these crops, then, of every acre of every field of wheat, 70 percent goes — with the chicken as parable — to the chicken, and 30 percent to the uses of mankind, not just food uses.
So most of agriculture is devoted to the chicken. Therefore, most tractors, most roads, most rural networks are built to service the chicken. In the total society 35 percent of all energy goes towards food, so the chicken is a very large consumer of energy in the total society.
Bill - interesting, thanks. It can be useful to turn things around from conventional directions such as the work we do for sheep when all we get in return is some dirty wool which requires even more work to turn it into a pullover which wears out anyway.
Or the work we now seem to be doing for AI systems, or the work we do for government.
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