• Rusty@gamepad.club
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    @Ilixtze @FauxLiving I’m sorry but you’re incorrect, the very large majority of corn in the US goes to fuel ethanol to feed cars. Only a small percent goes to food, and its shit like corn syrup thats horrible for you anyway.

    Corn industry is heavily propped up by subsidies. Its not small local farmers either. Its giant corpo farms, which need to dissapear.

    Stop using millions of acres for corn, use some for panels and wind and let the rest return to natural prairie as it should be.

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      14 days ago

      Not where i live: My country produced in 2025 around 20 millions of tons of corn and most of it was used for food production. And most of our culinary products are derived from corn i write as i put some eggs and chilorio into a tortilla and shove it in my mouth.

      Also interesting that for a country like mine that consumes so much corn , corn syrup is only common used in the manufactured food industry. and even corn syrup that is bad for your health is ten times better than a technology that is used as an excuse to bomb children and impose mass surveillance. Corn is awesome dude , come have some tacos and stop coping.

      : As commented above: you should read this page by the us department of energy vouching for the use Of Ethanol derived from corn, as you say, to be used to power data centers. Our existing energy infrastructure does not exist separate from AI industries. AI Data centers is build on TOP of our energy production making them twice as wasteful. What is worse, in your case the United States; Corruption lack of energy infrastructure funding and the fact that energy regulations have been systematically destroyed with the help of AI tech Oligarchs, will make it so that more wasteful technologies than just Ethanol are used to power The useless AI bubble.

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        14 days ago

        You are aware that the vast vast majority of people do not live where you live? That’s how living somewhere works.