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by blix 6y ago
I think your scope is too narrow. Consider white girls at music festivals wearing bindis as a fashion statement. I don't think this fits your definition, but it is a popular example of cultural appropriation.
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by blix 6y ago
I don't know what definition of cultural appropriation you are using where using someone else's culture for profit doesn't count.
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> Blackley fantasizes about one day selling ancient Egyptian bread commercially. I'm so glad he's taking a stand against cultural appropriation!
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by blix 6y ago
I pay rent. Finding a place to live for under $1k/mo is really only hard in a few cities. In many places you can do better if you can buy.
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by blix 6y ago
Oops. That's what I get for staying up too late. I wouldn't wish living in SF on my worst enemy.
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by blix 6y ago
I live in a major US city for $2k/mo. It's not that hard. And if I lived in a cheaper area or city I could be much more comfortable. I think living on about this income is common for grad students, who mostly live in areas with &q
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by blix 6y ago
In the distant past of 2007, the National Enquirer broke a sex scandal involving democratic politician John Edwards which often is thought to have played a major role in the 2008 dem primaries. Should factually accurate information that mat
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by blix 6y ago
> Today, you can [print] insane and dangerous ... falsehoods and your message is indistinguishable from ideas presented by people who actually know what they're talking about. I bet the response of the Catholic clergy to the printin
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by blix 6y ago
"Free amplicfication" isn't about absolute lack of cost, it's about cost relative to older mechanisms. The printing press allowed information to spread much faster and more cheaply than having a monk write it by hand. It
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The vast majority of organisms cannot be profitably farmed. Are you suggesting a world devoid of all wildlife but with whole continents of corn and soybean monocultures would be "good for the planet"? Perhaps if your view of which
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by blix 6y ago
Which developing countries are rural and sparse but use more land than, say, Germany, where humans use essentially every available piece of land? That hunter-gathering couldn't sustain the current population is not evidence that the pl
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by blix 6y ago
Are you so sure? Surely the rest of planet was better off before the advent of agriculture, when density was very low. Increased human carrying capacity does not necesarily mean increases for any other organism. I would think they would ten
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by blix 6y ago
> It's the same argument behind the Luddite handloom weavers who burned mills and factory machinery. It leads to labor arguments... The Luddite labor unrest arose from a very real decrease in living standards for many, many people w
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by blix 6y ago
You might have success in managing symptoms by modulating diet and lifestyle. I personally find that a limited diet, no caffeine, and ample sleep help me a lot (I have Chrons), but every body is different. Dealing with the medical system an
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by blix 6y ago
I think there are many more similarities between IBS/IBD than the current understanding of disease process. People IBS/IBD (especially mild IBD) have more in common with each other than folks with other chronic illnesses. For inst
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by blix 6y ago
IBD is a catch-all for several different diseases, which are all poorly understood. There is still a debate over whether or not their cause is physical or psychological. There's a big gap between observing inflammation or related marke
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by blix 6y ago
The point is that, as a source of calories, many vegetables are about as inefficient by land as industrial meat. Optimizing calories per unit land is an implicit or explicit goal of many of the comments throughout this thread. I think this
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by blix 6y ago
I did include the inputs, with the assumption of high efficiency feed for industrial meat production, i.e. a feed conversion rate of about 6. This paper is about shifting animal corn to human corn, not about shifting animal corn to broccoli
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by blix 6y ago
As someone with dietary restrictions that prevent me from eating corn (among many other things), I do not find this argument very comforting.
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Based on some rough napkin calculations, the caloric efficiency by land of broccoli is about the same as industrial meat. Optimizing diet for land efficiency probably does not produce healthy diets. You can find strong evidence for this tra
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by blix 6y ago
Once meat is eradicated in the name of agricultural efficiency, non-grain, non-bean vegetables will probably be next on the chopping block.
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by blix 6y ago
We are animals just like any other, but our impact on the ecosystem at large is disproportionate.
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GP isn't blaming humans for animal diseases, but I am. Human trade spreads pathogens/diseases at a tremendous rate compared to natural diffusion. There's quite a long list of diseases in non-humans spread through human trade.
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by blix 6y ago
What's most interesting to me is subtractive manufacturing of ceramics. From what I've seen in metals, there's a preference for powder bed technologies over binder technologies. But it's not like I have a wide scope of c
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by blix 6y ago
If they can reliably get those densities and shrinkages from this procedure that is quite impressive. After a brief look through the papers, there is some promising evidence but I'd like to see a more thorough characterization, especia
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by blix 6y ago
Ceramics and glasses are typically very sensitive to thermal gradients, so it's difficult to produce parts with SLS/SLM without cracking. This method is more common with ductile plastics and metals, and for structural application
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by blix 6y ago
I would imagine that burning off the polymer binder in the final processing step leads to significant volume change and porosity, which would be a major challenge in many applications. I'm not seeing any information about how they app
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by blix 6y ago
What did they think 12 years ago when Iran was part of the Axis of Evil? If trust takes a long time to build, there shouldn't have been any generated here. Can you include specific examples of how popular EU opinion has driven policy?
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My point is no one has really trusted the USA for decades. And yet it's unclear to me how the popular opinion of the US president in France translates into meaningful policy differences.
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If your softpower can change dramatically in 4 years you didn't really have much to begin with. The arenas in which Obama tried to ~actually use~ soft power, such as Syria and Ukraine, seem more like failures than successes.

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