King Midas
@king-midas.bsky.social
Technology expert, computer scientist, foodie, world traveller & liberty loving independent.
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Market Concentration & Imports: A few large meatpacking companies dominate the industry. Additionally, tariffs on imported beef, such as those on Brazilian imports, have further constrained the supply of available meat.
The bad news: the cattle breeding cycle takes years to rebuild.
Market Concentration & Imports: A few large meatpacking companies dominate the industry. Additionally, tariffs on imported beef, such as those on Brazilian imports, have further constrained the supply of available meat.
The bad news: the cattle breeding cycle takes years to rebuild.
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Market Concentration & Imports: A few large meatpacking companies dominate the industry. Additionally, tariffs on imported beef, such as those on Brazilian imports, have further constrained the supply of available meat.
The bad news: the cattle breeding cycle takes years to rebuild.
Market Concentration & Imports: A few large meatpacking companies dominate the industry. Additionally, tariffs on imported beef, such as those on Brazilian imports, have further constrained the supply of available meat.
The bad news: the cattle breeding cycle takes years to rebuild.
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High Operating Costs: Inflation, high fuel prices, and expensive feedstock have driven up the cost of raising cattle, leading to fewer animals and, in some cases, ranchers leaving the business.
High Operating Costs: Inflation, high fuel prices, and expensive feedstock have driven up the cost of raising cattle, leading to fewer animals and, in some cases, ranchers leaving the business.
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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High Operating Costs: Inflation, high fuel prices, and expensive feedstock have driven up the cost of raising cattle, leading to fewer animals and, in some cases, ranchers leaving the business.
High Operating Costs: Inflation, high fuel prices, and expensive feedstock have driven up the cost of raising cattle, leading to fewer animals and, in some cases, ranchers leaving the business.
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Reason for high cattle prices:
Record demand: We are buying more beef.
Record Low Cattle Supply: The national herd has shrunk significantly because severe droughts in major cattle-producing states forced many ranchers to sell off their cows, making it too expensive to maintain them.
Reason for high cattle prices:
Record demand: We are buying more beef.
Record Low Cattle Supply: The national herd has shrunk significantly because severe droughts in major cattle-producing states forced many ranchers to sell off their cows, making it too expensive to maintain them.
February 11, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Reason for high cattle prices:
Record demand: We are buying more beef.
Record Low Cattle Supply: The national herd has shrunk significantly because severe droughts in major cattle-producing states forced many ranchers to sell off their cows, making it too expensive to maintain them.
Reason for high cattle prices:
Record demand: We are buying more beef.
Record Low Cattle Supply: The national herd has shrunk significantly because severe droughts in major cattle-producing states forced many ranchers to sell off their cows, making it too expensive to maintain them.
Narrator: we did not move on
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Narrator: we did not move on
Welcome to your digital prison. The warden says, behave and you will be left mostly alone...
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Welcome to your digital prison. The warden says, behave and you will be left mostly alone...
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-Edsger Dijkstra
Ya welcome.
-Edsger Dijkstra
Ya welcome.
February 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-Edsger Dijkstra
Ya welcome.
-Edsger Dijkstra
Ya welcome.
It was always going down this way. Listen folks. If the idea is to spin up trouble so you can setup reasons for martial law and cancel elections, they were always going to have to at some point start attacking the 2nd amendment.
I just wonder why were the other amendments ok to trample?
I just wonder why were the other amendments ok to trample?
January 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM
It was always going down this way. Listen folks. If the idea is to spin up trouble so you can setup reasons for martial law and cancel elections, they were always going to have to at some point start attacking the 2nd amendment.
I just wonder why were the other amendments ok to trample?
I just wonder why were the other amendments ok to trample?
Gotta be honest, I'm an elite status flyer for another airline. I go out of my way to avoid southwest for this exact reason. If they want to attract people like me, the greyhound in the sky thing had to go.
Just a different perspective.
Just a different perspective.
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Gotta be honest, I'm an elite status flyer for another airline. I go out of my way to avoid southwest for this exact reason. If they want to attract people like me, the greyhound in the sky thing had to go.
Just a different perspective.
Just a different perspective.
TMW: you realize, the people coming for your guns are the MAGA movement...
January 26, 2026 at 10:20 AM
TMW: you realize, the people coming for your guns are the MAGA movement...
Correct. That just happened.
January 25, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Correct. That just happened.
@agdanrayfield.bsky.social
Do a good job. We need transparency on what happened. As you can imagine, kidnapping and pepper balls escalating to live rounds and dead bodies is scary for us Oregonians. The shooters didn't stay in the scene...
Do a good job. We need transparency on what happened. As you can imagine, kidnapping and pepper balls escalating to live rounds and dead bodies is scary for us Oregonians. The shooters didn't stay in the scene...
January 9, 2026 at 1:05 PM
@agdanrayfield.bsky.social
Do a good job. We need transparency on what happened. As you can imagine, kidnapping and pepper balls escalating to live rounds and dead bodies is scary for us Oregonians. The shooters didn't stay in the scene...
Do a good job. We need transparency on what happened. As you can imagine, kidnapping and pepper balls escalating to live rounds and dead bodies is scary for us Oregonians. The shooters didn't stay in the scene...
The evidence is pretty damning. Unfortunately, this will end up in a trial. This dude is going to need a good lawyer.
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The evidence is pretty damning. Unfortunately, this will end up in a trial. This dude is going to need a good lawyer.
There isn't a simply attempting to enforce the law here.
They are on camera with regularity abusing and or out right ignoring peoples civil rights. (You know the 4th and 5th amendments).
Your argument sucks because it ignores the entire problem. Our government is NOT above the law.
They are on camera with regularity abusing and or out right ignoring peoples civil rights. (You know the 4th and 5th amendments).
Your argument sucks because it ignores the entire problem. Our government is NOT above the law.
January 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
There isn't a simply attempting to enforce the law here.
They are on camera with regularity abusing and or out right ignoring peoples civil rights. (You know the 4th and 5th amendments).
Your argument sucks because it ignores the entire problem. Our government is NOT above the law.
They are on camera with regularity abusing and or out right ignoring peoples civil rights. (You know the 4th and 5th amendments).
Your argument sucks because it ignores the entire problem. Our government is NOT above the law.
Not a slow news day nyt. Y'all need to focus.
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Not a slow news day nyt. Y'all need to focus.
So, to be clear, not a policing action.
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
So, to be clear, not a policing action.
So, not a policing action.
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
So, not a policing action.
The more extreme one side gets, the more extreme the other gets.
As a conservative, libertarian, independent. I can say that one does not balance the other, it just wreaks more havok.
We need to dive on the grenade and get back to adulting in the middle.
As a conservative, libertarian, independent. I can say that one does not balance the other, it just wreaks more havok.
We need to dive on the grenade and get back to adulting in the middle.
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The more extreme one side gets, the more extreme the other gets.
As a conservative, libertarian, independent. I can say that one does not balance the other, it just wreaks more havok.
We need to dive on the grenade and get back to adulting in the middle.
As a conservative, libertarian, independent. I can say that one does not balance the other, it just wreaks more havok.
We need to dive on the grenade and get back to adulting in the middle.