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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • fyi most dairy cows are kept beyond the age of 3. You can see on the World Dairy Expo YouTube channel that there are cows producing up to the age of 6.

    Heifers reach puberty at about 12 months old, but some delay until up to 20 months old. After breeding they gestate for 283 days (almost 9 1/2 months), give birth to their calf and give milk for about 10 months. “Culling” a cow at the age of three would mean only getting 2 full lactation cycles of milk from them, which isn’t super economical.

    You’re not too far off the mark, though: once any individual animal becomes less profitable than a new one could be, they get culled.






  • I spent years playing games on Commodore-64. Suddenly they release the NES, and the first game I saw for it… kinda didn’t look super impressive compared to the games I was playing on the 64. My buddy says: “You can rent games now” and I shook my head in disbelief at the whole thing.



  • when I was wee we only needed to use 5 digits for many years. The system would assume the first digit you dialed was the final digit of the initial group. When they switched us to the full 7 digits people acted SO annoyed: who’s got that kind of time when you’re using a rotary phone?