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Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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There's no dairy farms in Pennsylvania huh?

Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.

Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.

Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.

Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.

To be honest that's not entirely obvious from the title. I was left wondering why butter was worth mentioning if the point was self-driving.

Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.

Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.

Your last sentence is something I never thought I'd read. There is a motivational poster in there somewhere.

Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment and the parent's are snarky and ungenerous. The accomplishment is the self-driving truck crossing 3k miles, not the butter contained within.

To be honest that's not entirely obvious from the title. I was left wondering why butter was worth mentioning if the point was self-driving.

I hope that people will do more than read the title before posting low-effort dismissals.

Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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post #3

There's no dairy farms in Pennsylvania huh?

Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.

Well, the second most popular branded butter in the US comes via a boat from Ireland.

Re: Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days

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There's no dairy farms in Pennsylvania huh?

Exactly. Imagine believing you have accomplished something by hauling butter 3000 miles to Pennsylvania.

That’s the reality of modern agriculture. All of this innovation and advanced tech just squeezing a few pennies out of butter.

Check out this gentleman, a 4th generation onion farmer in upstate NY who cannot sell his onions at any price. Like many farmers in the northeast, he’ll be bankrupt in a few months.

https://twitter.com/ChrisPawelski/status/1173339453332643840...

Produce buyers use cartel tactics to suppress prices and Canadian farmers are dumping product on the market well under cost.

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