Apparently the farmer had to battle it out in court to keep the $5M and then died in a 4-wheeler accident a few months after it was settled. Sounds like there could be more to this story. Or just terrible luck

BROUGHT TO YOU BY MONTANA RECREATIONS

Absolutely!

They also helped prolong/facilitate other wars. The New Zealand Musket Wars for example are sometimes known as the potato wars, as the introduction of such an easy to grow and high yielding crop allowed for armies to be fed and to fight in ways previously unachievable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars#:~:text=Unlike%20the%20k%C5%ABmara%20with%20their,fighting%20that%20had%20come%20before.

Rex: “Yo queen, what do you want to do with me again?”

I really don’t care that much. 🤣

> All quite interesting! Though it feels kind of weird that Canadians (who seem like igloo-Americans) would be loyalist or even Monarchist. Cos Americans seem very, VERY republican.

Well while it may suprise some (Canadians included) the US and Canada are completely different countries, with completely different histories.

Canada negotiated independence from the British Empire, but maintained a constitutional monarchy. The US formed by 13 colonies who very much did not want to be part of The British Empire, and this occurred almost 100 years previous. The colonies to the north did not chose this path, so its rather unsurprising actually that the country doesn't have the same views as the US on this topic. They specifically chose to retain the crown.

And independence in Canada was incremental. While we were a distinct Dominion in 1867, our foreign policy was still controlled by the UK until just after the first world war (we were brought in because the BE told us we had to go), but by WWII that was Canada independently choosing to declare war in support of the UK.

It wasn't until 1984 that Prime Minister Trudeau (the Elder) patriated our constitution from the UK establishing The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

And with all of that we chose to remain a Constitutional Monarchy. Our head of state is our own (our Monarch is the Monarch of Canada independent of the other realms), though they are represented in country by the Governor General and are mainly a figurehead.

There are flaws, but my opinion is the method we have is better than the republican model the US has adopted and in its current form. Not to say that neither political systems could use improvement. Our system has problems that the US doesn't have, and the US has problems that we don't have, specifically because of these differences. But I would pick our system over the US system any day of the week.

Without the deliberate improvement of crops like this, we would not be able to support even a fraction of the people that currently live on Earth. The introduction of potatoes helped to keep the peace across Europe for centuries, an economic report has claimed. A study examining the region between 1400 and 1900 found that the introduction of the vegetable from South America 'permanently reduced conflict' for about 200 years.

My girlfriends boyfriend says the same

Haha!! Gold, thanks for that!

I needed to see this, so I fed it to Dalle. I couldn't get the axe-wielding platypus to show up (must not have been well-represented in the training data), but the rest came through pretty well.

https://labs.openai.com/s/RpuHZ7IbQwOQ8YvaImTmHXIa

“I hate having two heads”

Of course, it's like our ancient ancestors were the OGs of plant-based diets and meal prep.

Most human civilisations didn’t have access to Moray Terrace.

My coat of arms is just a a pic of an old Ute with a ‘No root, No ride sticker on the back window, flanked by a body building kangaroo on the left and an axe wielding platypus on the right, on a field of azure.

Didn’t all human civilizations do this?

Has anyone put the back legs and hips together differently so that it stood and moved like a kangaroo?

Imagine a hopping T-Rex going like 35mph.

Sairry not sairry

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It’s practically begging to be laid in a foot-long hotdog bun.

Shorter that the trex ones for sure.

5 mill? That's it, I'm gettin' me shovel.

You don't say

Unless you’ve been granted arms then unfortunately no, you don’t have one. They are not connected to the last name, just the individual

If you just googled “family name coat of arms” then you probably found a completely made up design that people get scammed into buying.

Coats of arms (in most traditions) are not attached to the last name, but to the individual otherwise everyone with the surname Smith would have the same design. Unfortunately, you most likely do not already have one

Thank dog you were here to point that out. You've done a real service to humanity today bobrob.

Hey are you supposed to include a space before the period? Don't you look silly now!