manachar

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by manachar 5y ago
Our foodways still often have less than savory actualities, often filled with exploitation, environmental destruction, and far too often, literal slavery. From chocolate to ahi, we would be fools to think that the way we desire to eat doesn
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by manachar 5y ago
I'm a "power user" who can eek into the terminal and light programming as needed. We're not disappearing, per se, just being utterly ignored. Mass market is moving towards methods of turning all computing into a phone, w
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by manachar 5y ago
The definition of sentient used for this article includes plenty of other animals that we keep in often tortuous conditions (most agribusiness level animal raising) and then kill for food or even sport (think foxes).
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by manachar 5y ago
When I think of where we are as a civilization and a culture, few things are more perfect an example than the idea of competing to profit off of making meditation "sticky". It's a weird ball of everything you need to know abo
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by manachar 5y ago
What's the systemic issue that keeps doing wealth gatekeeping? It crops up over and over. If X is a path to upper-middle class or above, it's almost inevitable that filters and gates are put in to place that primarily work to ensu
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by manachar 5y ago
> Men are made to be dumb, reckless and horny, the moment they become cerebral, emotional and scared that's the signal that society is on the brink of collapse. This statement is wholly unsupported by history or science.
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by manachar 5y ago
Some use this to be cynical of the Civil Rights movement. Which is a weird critique, when the reason they had to be careful about their image was because of the general white supremacist and racist ideology of the time. For example, America
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by manachar 5y ago
Exactly. Regulation is the primary method necessary to ensure that the market doesn't do an unethical but profitable thing. The other approach, which is employed by other specialties, is to have a professional trade accreditation group
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by manachar 5y ago
Additionally the M1 Mac Mini is a remarkably nice little machine. Not perfect, but fits the"I just need a basic desktop machine" niche very nicely.
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by manachar 5y ago
Not just bike lanes, but urban/suburban planning based on pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Watching subdivisions going in with utterly unfriendly approaches to people who want to get around with anything but a car is horrific to me.
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by manachar 5y ago
There's something amazing/odd/horrifying about a world where it is generally no longer cheaper to do anything yourself. I love to bake and cook. I can do so fairly frugally. A supermarket frozen pie is still gonna be cheaper
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by manachar 5y ago
At this point, most of our fruit is much more recent vintage than a few thousand years. Strawberries, as we know them, only came into being in the 18th century. Also, fruit is being actively manipulated to fit consumer's tastes and pro
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by manachar 5y ago
Wonder if this is connected to China ceasing to accept trash/recycling from the US. I really hate that recycling became essentially a for-profit shell game of shipping it somewhere else to be a problem rather than dealing with building
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by manachar 5y ago
Is it really worth pointing this out? Why? This is (mostly) a non-sequitur to any modern discussion about climate, the atmosphere, and its effects on human life and civilization. Life, at this point is used to a particular equilibrium. Sure
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by manachar 5y ago
No. The point is the number 1 concern is we're destroying insect ecosystems to anthropoform the world. Pesticides are a problem, but almost always secondary to wholesale habitat destruction in order to make farmland (mostly to grow fee
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by manachar 5y ago
I've thought of this when thinking about bringing recently extinct creatures back from extinction via cloning. Take New Zealand or Hawai'i and try to bring back an animal that humans caused to go extinct. Like the Haast's eag
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by manachar 5y ago
In the dawn of the web, one of my favorite websites was despair.com. I laughed at the sarcastic cynicism and sendups of corporate culture. Then they rocked my world with a poster of a drop of water falling into a larger body of water with t
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by manachar 5y ago
Depends on the farm and how much hustle the farmer is forced to have to try to make a profit on a commodity profit. Most modern farms have an insane work load to desperately try to pay the bills making a product that may be worth less on th
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by manachar 5y ago
Worth remembering that cubicles were invented as being good for workers as it replaced what amounted to the standard open office floor plan with the bossman looking over the workers. Cubicles provided privacy and focusing ability. Of course
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by manachar 5y ago
When I say all words are a lie I am aiming for the same observation of Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" or the old koan about the finger and the moon. Arguing about whether it's a lie (i.e. intentionally decepti
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by manachar 5y ago
Of course all fiction is a lie. All words are a lie. All narratives are built of symbols and cliches and agreed upon fictions in an attempt to point to reality. Reality is a thing we cannot touch or experience directly and is always filtere
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by manachar 9y ago
Humanity often has periods of instability following major discoveries that unseat orthodox ideals. An argument can be made that much of the cultural instability in the modern US and its animosity to science can be rooted in an "allergi
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by manachar 9y ago
Democracy is supposed to be more involved then showing up every 4-5 years. For most Western democracies the reason governments have been increasingly aligned with corporate interests is those have been the interests actually doing the hard
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by manachar 9y ago
Can an executive chef be replaced with enough data? I'm inclined to believe so. Also, recipes are not copyrightable or otherwise able to be locked up in some form of intellectual property. Thankfully. I would hate to see a world where
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by manachar 9y ago
Their Tasty content is social media gold (well produced food "porn"). It's highly viral and well liked by many people. It's weird to me that you're getting downvotes for suggesting that Buzzfeed take this content an
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by manachar 9y ago
Using your definition, there's no such thing as human rights. Life, liberty, and property are all things that are only guaranteed by societal standards and enforcement. Murder, theft, and enslavement is the norm where the rule of law a
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by manachar 9y ago
Most people in America do not have enough money in savings to pay for a single ER visit.
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by manachar 9y ago
What do you expect to come of it? Finding more planets is helping understand the universe and give a rough idea of how common Earth-sized planets are.
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by manachar 10y ago
It wasn't really good enough in Rogue One, but of course will be getting better. Personally, I hope that never really becomes popular. Culture is already far too backwards looking and nostalgia filled for my taste. I'd hate for us
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by manachar 10y ago
O'ahu has some of the worst traffic in the country hugely because of spread out neighborhoods/subdivisions rather than investing in density. We don't have enough land to build large enough highways, subdivisions, and the stan

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