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I won't try to find out where your local farmer's market is. Local meat producers often set up at them to sell their product. Otherwise the state you live in, or local groups, may have an online resource with local meat, produce, and food (like baked & canned goods) listed.
My sweet 2 year old boy just spent 3 nights in vet hospital on an IV with a cath and he was dripping some blood and leaving pee spots in the first hours after he got home but now nothing. He goes to litter and gets nothing out. Hes refusing any food at all including the special food the vet gave me for urinary issues. Hes not drinking even though we have a fountain. All vet gave was antibiotics and Iv fluid. I make 30k q year and am single so you can imagine how many more 1000 dollar vet visits I can afford. I love him so much. I am afraid I am going to lose him.
I understand your fear and my heart hurts for you. 💔 You should DEFINITELY call the vet IMMEDIATELY and get him back in. No water drinking & no peeing is very very bad. 😢
@@WithFrankie He started drinkin water but stopped leaking pee now and cant pee again and still wont eat. I took my vacation days I fortunately had saved and am taking him back. Im also going to ask if vet thinks he will end up needing surgery because by time I drain my savings having a cath put in multiple times I wont have the money for the surgery. I appreciate your video and that you replied. Its so sad something like this costs so much as most people would be priced out of being able to even try and help their cat
I love how well researched and organized your videos are. If a feral cat (not a kitten) comes around but is skittish about contact, is it better to just leave them or to try get them checked out and vaccinated etc…?
Some shelters I've talked to say if you can catch them (in my case stray barn cats in town) to find a TNR (Trap Neuter Release) program and bring them in. There's a place in the city near me that will fix stray and barn cats for a low cost so they can be returned "to the wild" and not procreate. There may be some programs like that near you. If you're able to catch it and take it in to a vet be prepared for it to like you more and hang out more on your property. And thank you for the lovely comment. I try to be thorough and give people as much good information as I possibly can. 😊
I'm from Pakistan. My cat is peeing in drops after catheter removal. Our area doctors are not advanced that much to diagnose the disease. For them it is just UTI . What should I do?
Crystals in the bladder that blocks his urine can kill him. My vets take crystals seriously since that's what causes the blockages. I really wish they'd be more serious with your kitty. 😟
Thank you for the information. The gabapentin is so stressful to administer. Thank you for letting people know that there’s a possibility to get scream version.
Thank YOU for watching! It's crazy that it took so long for my vets to tell me about it! They must have liked to watch me lose my hair over trying to medicate my cats the OG way. 😆
When you say you bought a quarter of a beef, did you mean a fore quarter, a hind quarter or a quarter of the entire hanging weight? I curious because you got parts of both fore and hind quarters.
in wyoming total final weight (what you actually get), for half 5.9-6.4, for whole 5.3, including processing fee. For example whole cow of angus half/half jersey steer (thats a breed) cost 2000, for 378 pounds final weight. Half of cow, usually 179-240lbs depending on breed goes for 1150-1500. The whole 1800-2100$ and you get 338-401lbs. Comes all vacuum sealed, frozen, never fed grain. Found it on becker family stock farm, its near Thermopolis, WY.
📌Please note that the Fahrenheit to Celsius calculation error close to the begging of the episode - it is NOT 1093°C, but rather 93°C. Thank you to @learningto-cook for pointing out the error!
I wonder how my script got so off that I got to that number. I should pull it up and check. What a stupid mistake to keep making. 😂 I do know the program I used to use for editing was so bad that I couldn't finely edit stuff so sometimes missed entire chuncks of video in editing so I'm guessing I never actually heard the clip to begin with. I use DaVinci now (on a system built for video) and it's a far superior program. Even the free version is stellar compared to the other free programs, especially when used with on a low spec laptop.
Yup. I absolutely got that wrong. 😆 Luckily it's a very obvious mistake, and I catch my mistakes more now and include on screen clarification to those errors like most channels do.
Hi my cat have blocked and did not pee for 2 days. Made a home remedy treatment and later on he peed blood for 2 days and later its all cleared but still he goes in and out in his litterbox . And now i see it again peeing blood. Can u help me
I think you should take him to the vet. It might be a blockage that he's struggling to pass. Or it might be something else. It's best to find out, for his sake AND yours.
I always use reference for my own work. As pure reference material, I see no problem with it. AS ART, I have a big problem with it. As you pointed out: Attribution and ownership. AI art uses the internet to create work. In this case, Internet = other peoples work.
To answer some of your questions. 1. If you write the prompt, the output is still public domain in the United States. That was decided specifically by the US Copyright Office in their March 2023 public guidance for AI copyright in response to the copyright filing for Zarya of the Dawn by Kris Kashtanova. She was granted the copyright for her wording and the arrangement of the images but not the individual images. Consider AI outputs like rocks--you can make whatever you want with that rock, but you didn't make the rock. you only own the way you organized the rock and any designs you drew on top of it. In the case of your painting, you own that painting, but people could still use the public domain AI output you used as reference to make their own paintings. If you registered a copyright on the painting without disclosing an AI reference was used, you could lose your copyright in the event of a lawsuit between you and a copycat who also made a painting based on the exact same image. 2. In that vein, we have "learn like a human" and in absolutely no case is that accurate to say about any machine learning algorithms nor models. To paraphrase Francois Chollet, the deep learning head at Google who invented the Keras deep learning library among other contributions, to think AI is in any way thinking like a human is the same as watching a cartoon on your Netflix and thinking there's actually little people living their lives in a world inside your monitor. Deep learning models take 1000 images of a rose and find the statistical mean within those images, storing that value as a "concept" (represented on the hard drive as a numerical range) rather than each individual file. This allows for a lossy compression database, and all you are doing by typing in a prompt is retrieving one number within that numerical range. It's much more accurate to compare it to a ZIP file than the human brain, which is much more complicated. To paraphrase Yann LeCun, the head of AI at Meta, in order to develop an AI that can equal a human brain, we first need to design an AI model equivalent to an earthworm, and we are still a LONG ways from that. 3. The reason people say "learns like a human" is because they are parroting marketing buzzspeak used by people like Sam Altman and Mira Murati at OpenAI, David Holz at Midjourney, etc. These CEOs earn billions of dollars promoting "learns like a human" marketing because it excuses their mass theft of people's data. The current lawsuits against AI companies boil down to whether the inputs are fair use, and anybody who says one way or the other firmly is guessing at this point. It will be up to a judge and the USCO. The pivotal cases to follow include Developers vs GitHub, Artists vs Midjourney/Stability AI/DeviantArt, Getty vs Stability AI, NY Times vs OpenAI, Authors vs OpenAI/Meta. These cases will set the standard on how the courts choose to interpret Copyright law for AI, and in the meantime, the USCO is going to issue two more sets of guidelines this year with more clarity. Other than that, one small addition to the culture thing--it's true that these machines only produce the statistical mean of culture. Specifically, David Holz said this week in his open office hours that he hard coded midjourney outputs to appeal directly to a 38-year-old man. He said there are more people over 45 than under 20 and that the rarest demographic on Midjourney is a 20-year-old woman. He also said you're more likely to meet a 65-year-old woman than a teenage boy on Midjourney. All this is to say the bias is very real and that statistical mean has a very specific demographic. He didn't specify if it was a cisgendered American white male, but that's a good bet. Everybody outside of that demographic will struggle to have their culture represented. Native American art, for example, won't look right at all. The brush strokes won't match, and it won't follow the same meaningful pattern. Their culture is erased even if you attempt to invoke it by using "in the style of" and using all the right words for their styles and artists. It will still be a machine's interpretation of what a 38-year-old man wants to see in that culture. It's not just that AI presents a monoculture--it is that it contains no culture itself. For example, google the news about Ketih Harring's Unfinished Painting to see what AI interpreted for one of the most iconic American artists of the late 20th century. Not only did "finishing" the painting destroy the point of the work, but the way it attempted to mimic his style in the AI version looks like a mangled mess compared to the intricate human designs he used to represent his cultural heritage.
I think ethical questions can be addressed by saying it was based on an AI reference and the reference pieces that were used or suggested to AI. It is still art. The emotion and unique charecteristics of the artist make it unique and original
What about ribs and the belly seems like you were missing some cuts. You might get it cheaper if you just ask for the primal cuts. The cut and grind what you want.
I did choose. I didn't choose ribs or belly and opted for more ground beef. As I stated in the video I do plan to buy an entire uncut half carcass next time since I've processed whole deer before - I just don't currently have the physical space needed for such a thing right now. 🙂
It's from an Australian RU-vidr/artist named Jazza. They're still available on his site. Sometimes he discontinues designs. www.jazzastudios.com/pages/merch
Did you buy a fore quarter or hind quarter or a 1/4 share of a whole carcass ? Sirloin comes from the rear, chuck or arm comes from the front. So if you get both you must have a share of a whole side.
Hi, you are a funny lady, and I like that. Thus why you are getting my approval. I am just like you, a food-crazy person who likes to experience how it is done. Well done girl. by the way get yourself a good fan lol...
Thanks. It kinda had to be, to be as comprehensive as I wanted, as it's a very important topic imo and I wanted to communicate all of the information I had. Thanks for watching! 🙂
Bearded Butcher videos are awesome. FWI, newest problem for beef production is Bird flu now proven to infect cattle and will result in many herds being destroyed. And we just thought beef had gotten expensive. Prepare to eat bugs...
Absolutely! I've been following the avian flu - beef crossover for over a year and I just read a piece this week about how it's been inspecting people on farms where the cows have caught it. If i had more space I'd be getting another half a cow for the freezer immediately at current prices. I'm curious about bugs. I know there's a load of them in our processed food already. They allow more insects & bugs in some stuff than I'm sure the average American consumer would be grossed out by.
4.95 a pound hanging weight here in oregon. we have ordered some stuff from them before (better beef company) and really liked it so decided to go ahead and order a quarter. thanks for the breakdown so i have an idea of what we might end up with!
Hi ,Im a new subscriber, Ive been searching for a farmer to purchase 1/2 a cow , We got an email yesterday from CROSGRAY farms They wanted $800 for a deposit then in july before shipping $5,200 . They have 1/4 cows and 1/8 cows . But omgish $6,000 for 1/2 cow . Could you state where you got that 1/4 cow from as we are willing to drive . God bless you Mrs josette Montgomery County, Texas 🙏
That's outrageous! 😳 Unfortunately my beef comes from Minnesota and that's probably not worth the drive. 😄 I'd try the states surrounding you and maybe find some FB groups related to bulk beef and see if you can find a better deal. With prices like those I can only imagine that there HAS to be better prices somewhere around you. However, I've been reading pieces on the nationwide beef inventory dropping to historic lows (2 years in a row now) and that's probably going to make prices stay insane and get worse. Hopefully the issue is fixed soon but in the meantime it's going to make buying beef, no matter the quantity, uncomfortable. Welcome to my channel! I hope you find some things you like. ☺️
Next door in Wisconsin, we just ordered a 1/4 for ourselves. We paid the farmer $3/lb and the processor $1/lb. Hanging weight for our 1/4 was 206lbs. We have not yet received it to see what our yield ended up being. We primarily got steaks, roasts, and ground beef.
Nice price! I bet part of that is getting it straight from the farm. Less hands changed less cost. You're gonna love how much better it tastes than stuff from the grocery store. 😊
Great video Frankie. I've recently ordered a quarter beef myself but it hasn't been delivered yet. I'm excited to see how the process goes for me compared to your experience. Are you following a carnivore diet for all this meat?
