lukas099

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by lukas099 3y ago
I think we should shoot for house prices increasing at exactly the inflation level (after a correction for current high prices of course). To me, this would be good enough to be considered a 'good investment', and wouldn't be
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by lukas099 3y ago
For bugs inside my home I just vacuum them up with a hand vacuum that doesn't kill them, open it up outside and they fly away. My personal concern is with invasive bugs outside. I wish to kill them solely for the ecological benefits.
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How to Kill Bugs Humanely(reducing-suffering.org)
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by lukas099 3y ago
I am hoping to get this community's ideas on the most humane way to kill bugs. In particular, I have invasive Japanese beetles in my garden that I was first freezing, then I started crushing as quickly and thoroughly as possible. I wor
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by lukas099 3y ago
Did buying a Switch ruin your life??
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by lukas099 3y ago
Wow, a brand new technology is less efficient than a process that has been refined for thousands of years?! Unbelievable!
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by lukas099 3y ago
I remember in my high (private, religious) school social justice class talking about this. The teacher's contention was that this was a form of patriarchy: that boys were held to higher standards because more was expected of them. I wi
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by lukas099 3y ago
The point was that the taxes are going to private schools, not schools in general.
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by lukas099 3y ago
What research says that resting without napping has no benefits?
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by lukas099 3y ago
I just rip off the size of paper towel I need every time I use them.
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by lukas099 3y ago
It's not claiming that there's a net advantage.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I see it better when my head is really close to the screen.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Let's make it a Democrat, then.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Hopefully Brazil's social systems can handle the influx of extractive wealth, but odds are low.
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by lukas099 3y ago
If you couldn't get good things (like quieter homes) by spending more money, what would be the point of money?
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by lukas099 3y ago
How do we know they aren't eating beneficial insects as well?
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by lukas099 3y ago
Yes, the world's biodiversity will be fine after an extinction event. Eventually . I don't want humanity to have to live through a million years of the aftermath of one though.
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by lukas099 3y ago
Knowledge that they weren't taken as a child, that they got to experience a fuller life.
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by lukas099 3y ago
If the cash cow isn't going then the fines were successful. Plus share prices will drop because the business can no longer do the unethical thing.
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by lukas099 3y ago
How many humans are those Iowa farmers feeding?
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by lukas099 3y ago
I have long been interested in permaculture, but I have recently been coming around to your point of view. People give modern farmers a lot of crap, but overall they are very interested in taking care of their land, and using as few ferti
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by lukas099 3y ago
To be fair, the person you're responding to didn't use the word "theft" which you're quoting. That came from someone who replied to them.
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by lukas099 3y ago
How do you know that nobody is making money applying it? It’s not exactly like you would know if they were, would you, since by definition they wouldn’t be advertising it?
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by lukas099 3y ago
Thea person you are responding to understood that; what they didn’t understand was what the person they were responding to had come to understand about part of the population from the person they were responding to conflating thanking with
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by lukas099 3y ago
I wish I could run my entire display in retro dithering mode.
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by lukas099 3y ago
I'm personally excited about precision autonomous agriculture. Think about drones 'sniping' pests with tiny doses of pesticide instead of farmers spraying entire fields.
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by lukas099 4y ago
This would be politically unviable. Just look at responses to your comment.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I'd argue that being closer to work is more density, but it really doesn't matter. People like being near things they like, whether that is density or is merely correlated to it.
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by lukas099 4y ago
They don't like the density, but they like the location? Usually, liking the location means you like that it's close to other things, right? In other words, you like the density.
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by lukas099 4y ago
And native grasses would support more pollinators.

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