Subj : Re: Hola
To   : Adept
From : The Godfather
Date : Mon Apr 17 2023 08:19:16

 Ad> Kinda similarly, I know someone who's basically vegan, and doesn't eat
 Ad> eggs, but will eat eggs from the backyard chickens because they know how
 Ad> the chickens are treated, that they won't be slaughtered because they're
 Ad> not quite productive enough, etc.

I can't speak to rural America but can speak to the back yard chicken community -- there are crazy chicken ladies in the community.  This is a good thing as we had a chick grow to be a rooster and instead of having to "off" it, there was a crazy chicken lady in the waiting ready to rescue the bird that violates our towns decibel rating chicken laws (yes a real thing I guess ..)  Oddly, this year we had a second rooster in what should have been a pullet lot we purchased from (happens I guess ..) and my brother, who lives in rural America, had a neighbor whom had ironically just lost his rooster to a coyote (the joys of free ranging chickens, constant "loss" to the predators...)  So we were able to give him a new home this Easter.  He was really a sweet bird, he literally would climb on my lap to be pet, however he was only 10ish weeks old.

 Ad> But it's also just kinda neat because it's _not_ uniform, and sometimes
 Ad> people end up changing egg-eating habits due to the egg-laying habits of
 Ad> the pets.

Two birds lay more eggs then our family of 5 eat in a week.  We water bath our eggs using distilled water and pickling Lyme -- it keeps the eggs preserved for a year (as long as you don't wash them prior to putting them into the jarred "bath.")  This allows the birds to have that natural break from production without being an a-hole and trying to "trick" the birds into laying during break times with unsafe heat lamps.

 Ad> Ugh, HOAs. But... probably best to not dive into that particular
 Ad> challenge, here. Not that I've ever even had to deal with an HOA.

They are communist for sure.  I hate HOA's .. rarely do they do more then hand out trashcan fines.  Our last property we'd get a $20 fine if we left our trashcan out 1 day past trash pickup.  We had a few of those, with us going out of town, and trash pickup being on a weekend.  We moved.  Now testing the "system" with chickens. haha!

 Ad> Eh, pretty much everyone speaks English anyway. Yeah, different levels,
 Ad> but especially in certain areas, people will wind up speaking to you in
 Ad> English if your German isn't great.
 Ad> Less so where I live, mostly because people don't generally use it on a
 Ad> daily basis. But pretty much everyone under 55 or so has had maybe a
 Ad> decade of English instruction.

Yeesh, our education system really sucks here.  I wish they'd start teaching second languages in grade school.  Thats nice that you do not have to worry about finding peeps to communicate with.

 Ad> Yeah. My team is international, in a variety of ways, and theoretically
 Ad> people are supposed to speak English, even if it's all Germans.
 Ad> But with my immediate team in particular, a few people are US-based, and
 Ad> the team as a whole is probably only a third or quarter German.
 Ad> The _rest_ of the office is mostly German, though.

Refresh my memory, what does your team do?

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