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by merry_flame 3y ago
It all boils down to what hides behind that word, "existential". Slavs and Jews definitely considered what happened in WW2 an existential threat for instance, but you seem to be arguing that only threats to the entirety of humanit
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by merry_flame 3y ago
From the Wikipedia, 'The dispute arose once more when the supermarket tried to stop the trademark "Inspired by Iceland" from being branded on Icelandic groceries in 2015.' That seems cheeky, to put it mildly… Fortunately
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by merry_flame 3y ago
It would be nice if Amazon did something about the forest itself on the hand. I am personally saddened that the company is now top of mind for that name for probably most of humanity, despite the Amazon rainforest being the world's lar
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Some but not all. In the case of meat, it so happens that a homogenous population of non-smokers in the US, the Seventh-Day Adventists, have a very high proportion of vegetarians…
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by merry_flame 3y ago
The Okinawa study had even bigger issues, most notably age misrepresentation linked to the loss of koseki registers during WW2, which were unreliable to begin with and were reconstructed from family testimony after the war. I remember readi
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Genes as well as survivorship bias. On a related note, numerous seasoned athletes or fitness enthusiasts seem to "break" very fast as they age. While they probably boast excellent cardiovascular health, if the package includes wor
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Increase the amount from a baseline of zero as a response to a trend towards paleo. Sounds much fairer that your reading of it.
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Big ag and big meat in particular has been playing that game for ages. See [ https://time.com/4130043/lobbying-politics-dietary-guideline... ] for a recent example. For something older, "The U.S. Department of Agri
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by merry_flame 3y ago
A perverse feedback loop has clearly emerged. It seems that in the US at least, "To further enhance color, manufacturers add up to 10 percent vividly colored mandarin orange juice as well as pigment from orange peels." [1] Further
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by merry_flame 3y ago
The bees you can breed are not the bees/pollinators that nature is losing. This is like suggesting that to counter the global collapse in birds, you should raise chickens… Worse, domestic bees are often competitors to wild bees, bumble
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Bury it to do terra preta…
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by merry_flame 3y ago
Paris commute times are much higher than in the rest of the country. France's average commute time is currently at 25 min, which lower than US average. Ergo… Also excellent transit-oriented cities are just that, excellent. Had a 20 min
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Your reasoning here is wrong I don't even know where to start... The fact that Agent A brings into existence Agent B gives them the right to dispose of Agent B in any way they want? When does that ever make sense?
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Weird. So you are supposedly beating everyone in terms of yields and yet focus on producing something worth even less than protein per kg. Wouldn't it make more sense to cream off the market on higher value-added products before scalin
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Technically both…
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Autopilot has existed for decades now and works really well, but it doesn't replace a crew, be it only for everything unrelated to navigation, crossing the path of other vessels, etc.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Europe has no trees? Are you joking? This is ChatGPT-level hallucination stated with ChatGPT-level confidence. On a side note, a few European firms manufacture single-use plates and cutlery from agricultural waste (wheat bran). Really good
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Extended Latin, including Polish, Vietnamese, etc. Useful enough. Thanks for sharing :)
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by merry_flame 4y ago
No law of economics… are you that sure? France is the poster boy of nuclear energy and has been pushing very hard for electric domestic heating over the years and yet it simply has almost never made any sense for homeowners to opt for elect
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Is there perhaps something related to smell or movement? The only time I got stung by a yellowjacket is when I pulled a Miyamato Musashi and caught one with some chopsticks. I got two deserved stings out of the experience, but yellowjackets
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Isn't it simply because it's exported to places where that meat commands a higher price? Lots of veal here in Europe…
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by merry_flame 4y ago
In Turkey right now, where there are stray dogs everywhere, not only cats. Dogs are typically extremely well fed (I'm seeing a magnitude more fat stray dogs than skinny ones, which comes as a first for me) and they are treated really w
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Good point. Mainstreaming "climate disruption" would be even better though.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
There certainly aren't many, but Finland would certainly qualify.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Everything that matters to people is as easily mapped out to metric units. I know how to span my fingers to get either 10 cm, 20 cm or 25 cm, and how to pace my steps to get 1 m. Arm span is easy too, I simply get my height and can work bas
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by merry_flame 4y ago
Couldn't they have been counterfeit YKK zippers? It's a big thing, unfortunately.
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by merry_flame 4y ago
I sympathize with your first point, but I believe only around 10% of tourists visiting Venice sleep there. Off-site tourist hubs are a real thing…
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by merry_flame 4y ago
The French property tax is not bizarre as much as absurd, obtuse and obsolete. The index hasn't even been updated since 1970, which means that it's completely disconnected with real-life rental values. Every single addition or imp
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by merry_flame 4y ago
> The only problem I see with this is that then meat becomes the food of the rich, which is unfair. Truffles have become the food of the rich. Too bad because I like truffles, unfairness is a moot point. I have no "right" to tr
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by merry_flame 4y ago
>> similarly as some vegans are saying that oysters can be eaten since they're sustainable and clean the oceans Never heard that argument, but it seems like a misunderstanding. Peter Singer made the point that oysters have no ner

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