I'm far from an expert but having been traveling through eastern Europe lately i would say absolutely not. The attitude I've seen is mostly that the soviets did some good things but overwhelmingly had a negative impact on the countries culture and history. And the most recent living memories are obviously of the end of that era when corruption was much more common than communist ideals even though things were still done in the name of the party.
good luck feeding just one cow off of 1 acre of ANYTHING
Even a just a couple of goats at a fraction the size of a cow will easily strip an acre over the course of a season and as soon winter hits they're going through like 50lbs of feed a month.
Cereals with the exceptions of corn and quinoa aren't really worth it on a hobby farm, which anything under an acre certainly is. Oats, wheat, rye ect are all a pain to harvest and process. Growing corn you can do three sisters and really produce a ton of food per square meter. Quinoa grows kinda bushy but you can stick it anywhere and when it's ready to harvest all you have to do is shake it.
Wild rice gets an honorable mention if you've got the right spot for it as it essential self seeds needs vary little care and all you really have to do is smack it with stick into tarp to harvest it.
Oh shit i never put the fact that birds can talk and that they're dinosaurs together. If the next Jurassic park doesn't have talking raptors I'm calling bullshit.
I think i get what you're saying but isn't empathy a basic human emotion. Obviously stronger in some people then others but it's not something that can be just switched off. I suppose i could willfully ignor what's going on. Which in someways i guess i am doing...
I think that you might be ignoring "spiritual" self interest. It deeply upsets and enrages me (and every other reasonable person) to see people brutalized like in Gaza. My mental health would literally be better if such atrocities weren't happening.
Had a Warhammer game where a pc died from getting hit with a board in a bar fight. Another lost their arm to one of the first traps we encountered. Our elf ended up with an insanity that gave him a burning hatred of elves. I love that system.
I'm far from an expert but having been traveling through eastern Europe lately i would say absolutely not. The attitude I've seen is mostly that the soviets did some good things but overwhelmingly had a negative impact on the countries culture and history. And the most recent living memories are obviously of the end of that era when corruption was much more common than communist ideals even though things were still done in the name of the party.