jnmandal

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by jnmandal 5y ago
Its really wild to hear that because Mate and Yaupon/Cassina are very similar plants. I'm curious Do you get headaches from "regular" tea, coffee, or chocolate?
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Having your housing stock bought up as holdings by nonresidents is not great. It hollows out the communities by having choice housing sit empty and it raises the cost of living for everyone who is actually there. I'm interested to see
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by jnmandal 5y ago
My etsy store is paltry compared to most but I joined the strike in solidarity. I sell seeds that are collected from my own garden, but I often see other sellers reselling seeds from established farm/ag operations. Its also clear that
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by jnmandal 5y ago
"If it happened there" AKA how the media would cover this happening in another country: > Powerful oligarch announces bid to gain control of influential media platform
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by jnmandal 5y ago
The importance of this transition can not be understated.
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Obviously you are correct. Yet if the trends ocurr simultaneously, it's not that silly to check for a causal relation.
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Five years ago I might have said this was a "dis" or "flame" article. Now I too see the benefits of java while simultaneously feeling it's a bloated and verbose language. We have a tendency to believe that everythin
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Its not as silly as you might think. Levels in Lake Huron-Michigan recently reached an all time high (I believe last year). Some towns in Indiana were expecting to be completely wiped out. Of course, this is not due to melting glaciers but
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by jnmandal 5y ago
What are you doing to facilitate methane removal?
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by jnmandal 5y ago
You can't be seriously contesting that statement...
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Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Ah yes, thanks for linking. I should have done that myself.
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Another great work of Murray Bookchin's -- which may be more topical here -- is an essay called "Towards a Liberatory Technology". I believe much of the ideas overlap with this writing but that essay is a shorter version just
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I'm not convinced this is a bad thing honestly.
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Ultimately I kind of agree with the sentiment but the sensationalism here is cringe. Also, some new tools and languages are indeed worthy improvements. It's worth calling out the ones that aren't; lashing out at all new technology
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Don't think I realized there was an idiom about morels. Thanks for that
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There is a very good book about this: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. It started as an essay but the book is even better
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by jnmandal 5y ago
I don't think Equifax is really the one to be doing this but I do think this type of transparency is good. It will only serve to level the playing field and prevent employers from taking advantage. For that reason though, I don't
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by jnmandal 5y ago
At this point, the country is run by a gerontocracy, and they are blatantly grasping at the last scraps of their grift as the ship goes down. It's sad to see -- really pathetic.
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Plant trees. Specifically trees which bear some kind of crop. I've been focused on chestnuts. Keep planting them every year. Replace the ones that die from heat, cold, pestilence or storm to select for resilience. Not only are mature t
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by jnmandal 5y ago
This is mentioned in the article but it's strange to me because I've been in heavy truck factories in India and 80% of the vehicles are produced without a truck bed or cabin. They are simply sold frame-only. Apparently the trucki
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Everyone seems to think I am making a statement about GDP or economic systems when I say infinite growth but I am just speaking in broad strokes about human activity. Capitalism may be the only viable model for a world with serious scarcity
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by jnmandal 5y ago
I'm curious what you mean about Gore lying? I was quite young at that time so I didnt have informed opinion on the matter then, but these days I feel if anything he was maybe not pessimistic enough in his predictions. Everything in tha
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Climate change is only one of myriad problems mine and my children's generation need to address. Cleaning up microplastics could make decarbonization look like child's play. Phosphate and nitrate cycles also need to be addressed i
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm a bit younger than you but was also sold a narrative of rainbows and sunshine. Lot of good that did me...
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by jnmandal 5y ago
I disagree with you about the veracity of the "fluff". Personally I moved to the Midwest from the east coast a few years ago for what was supposed to be a few months. I never expected to want to stay here; I was supposed to move t
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Makes a lot of sense. I think most people are just driving their pickups in the suburbs but want to be able to have a cargo bed when they need it. I really need a specific utility vehicle for agroforestry stuff; I'm likely just not in
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by jnmandal 5y ago
Yes but an older pickup is much more manageable and carries just as much in the bed. For some reason now they are jacking these up, making them wider and longer for no apparent reason. And honestly they haven't added very much to the b
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I am. I live in Chicago.
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I see a lot of people commenting about inflation and printing money but if you actually read the FAO's analysis, they say a lot of this is due to supply reduction. Maybe the cause is actually more related to climate than monetary polic

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