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Tinder-Style App For Cows Tries To Help the Meat Market (bbc.com)
So you think the dating scene is like a meat market? Well, wait till you hear about the latest matchmaking app. From a report: Following the example of Tinder, UK farming start-up Hectare has launched its own equivalent for livestock and called it Tudder. The app features data profiles of animals from 42,000 UK farms in an effort to help farmers find the perfect breeding partner for their cattle. Farmers can view pictures of bulls or cows and swipe right to show interest. Hectare Agritech, which also runs online grain marketplace Graindex, says its aim is "reinventing farm trading - and making farmers' lives easier". It says it has raised more than $3.8 million from investors and organisations, including grant funding from government schemes, while tennis player Andy Murray is listed as one of its investors.
Actual cows? I figured it was a euphemism for big women...
We all love to laugh at the farming industry, we picture rednecks with their pickup trucks, and their guns, just doing heavy labor.
However the farming industry is rather high tech, there is a lot more technology that goes on then a lot of silicon valley companies.
A lot of the Big Data, AI, Automation and Robotics technology that we are seeing going out to the normal public, have often been implemented in farms for years.
Being that these places need a lot of land to operate, they are often in remote locations, so tools like this article states, is a useful too to farmers to help cordenate their livestock with others.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
do foodies use it in restaurants, like when they pick a fish from a tank
Nullius in verba
Shouldn't that be the "meat meet" market?
OK, or the "meet meat" market. Although that sounds like Tom Thumb or Safeway.
Men have been using Tinder to showcase their meat for years now.
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It's a version of the app customized for rednecks. They're going to call it either Tinbred or Tsister.
I wonder if those who modded you up would have done the same if you'd used "Koran Belt" instead.
I'm sure whoever modded you up prides himself on his "tolerance".
As if.
Way to demonstrate bigotry.
You could probably use a cheap(ish) no-name tablet instead. At least you can be assured these apps don't have access to your call history, and, since you didn't sign a mobile contract, your identity is safe.
Of course, Apple can make this impossible, as they restrict apps to certain types of devices. Android doesn't do this (yet).
Might makes right irrelevant.
Hectare Agritech, which also runs online grain marketplace Graindex
Missed opportunity for Graindr
The consumption of dead animals was likely useful before humans learned to farm better. I can sort of understand wanting to eat something in the dead of winter back in 1890. But now the whole meat industry is literally killing humans and the environment with their CAFOs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). If you saw what goes on there, I bet you would not eat another animal. It is such a terrible waste of land, resources, energy, and life to raise an animal just so a savage human can kill and eat it. There are still millions who think that humans need to eat meet to survive. This is just no so, but the meat lobby is huge and supplies 'studies' and 'news' with a lot of misinformation. But who am I to lecture. Go ahead and eat your dead cow, greasy potatoes, and flavored sugar water. Enjoy you diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and the polluted water that comes with that burger.
It just baffles me to see ugly classist bigotry on full display, modded up no less. What's wrong with people? You don't punch down, you never punch down. Attack the powerful in society, don't speak truth to the powerless.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"Tempers are wearing thin. Let's just hope some robot doesn't kill everybody." --Bender
how long until some questionable farmers add themselves to the potential matches?
It's all just a meat market.
They don't play football in New Zealand. They play rugby.
I've legally changed my name to "Anonymous".
Sounds OK so far but how do they make sure that the cow isn't being forced but consents to having sex with the farmer?
Implicit in your ridiculous comment is that you also consider rednecks to be beneath you.
The irony is just too perfect! Thanks for the chuckle, you bigoted, classist prick.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I should have read your comment first. You beat me to it. Mind you, I was a bit ruder than you to the little slimeball.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
You win the Internet. That is truly hilarious!
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Wow, you're really punching down on the poor. What happened to sympathy for the plight of the working class? Doesn't the Left basically worship them? And America is a racist, colonialist white supremacist warmonger country. Why are you worried its capabilities are being diminished?
You're a classist bigot. How's it feel, being a bigot? Like all bigots, you're proud of your bigotry and display it in public with no shame.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I guess you're upset, being caught and called out for being a prancing, classist bigot. I can understand that. I bet you wish you could recall the comment where you revealed that you think you're a cut above the rednecks you claim to support.
Do you also ride to the rescue of damsels in distress, then rape them as soon as you get a chance? I bet you do.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
I wonder if YOU ever stopped to consider that a fundamentalist Muslim has a lot more in common with a fundamentalist, Bible Belt Christian than with rational people.
Wake up, Snowflake.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Wow, did you just INVENT something out of your own brain, and then tell me that's what I am, and then hate me for it? What-tha-fuuuuuck. Seriously?
You're taking these ugly thoughts you have inside you, projecting them on The Other, and then shouting at what you hate. But it's not me at all - it's you that you hate. This is called psychological projection and it is a common defense mechanism.
"Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually wants to rape may constantly accuse other people of wanting to rape. It incorporates blame shifting."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!