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481.
by ptah 7y ago
also doing better than the people that have ditched cars and continue to eat meat
482.
by ptah 7y ago
I have only seen evidence to the contrary. can you provide anything to back up what you are saying
483.
by ptah 7y ago
the toll of eating meat on environment is far greater than your concerns over your feelings. choose the lesser evil
484.
by ptah 7y ago
it is health and environmental to me. in practical terms it is no different from "purity"
485.
by ptah 7y ago
they have in-video links but they automatically play what their algorithm thinks instead for some reason
486.
by ptah 7y ago
Is this widely accepted? if so, why is there no G7 outcry like for the amazon rainforests?
487.
by ptah 7y ago
yip, it looks like shale gas is just another example of "penny smart pound stupid"
488.
by ptah 7y ago
how do you propose the mindset and techniques behind first people's husbandry sustainability can be scaled and applied to profit seeking "modern" farming?
489.
by ptah 7y ago
that is a very long chain of ifs, any of which can evaluate to false EDIT: there is also no precedent for what you propose and if we go by the partial match of grass-fed beef, the yield will be so small compared to the population as to be p
490.
by ptah 7y ago
> doesn't scale to high population densities that's where we are right now so anything that doesn't scale is practically irrelevant
491.
by ptah 7y ago
sound like texas is doing it wrong tbh
492.
by ptah 7y ago
exactly, there is a difference between the "right" way and the "way that works"
493.
by ptah 7y ago
As long as customers are informed and locals are not ripped off it should be ok imo
494.
by ptah 7y ago
>" In the early 1970s, as she was finishing her doctoral course work, a new school of literary studies gained its first U.S. foothold at Yale and would eventually overthrow New Criticism as the main way academics would interpret tex
495.
by ptah 7y ago
"make life bearable" -> bad choice of words as that would justify junkies shooting up heroin too
496.
by ptah 7y ago
you are assuming that all sufferers of high-impact chronic pain need opioids. for some types of pain ibuprofen/paracetomol/etc is way mroe effective
497.
by ptah 7y ago
It might be an idea that all pharmaceutical companies with addictive products have to "donate" a percentage of gross sales to addiction treatment programmes. Also doctors that prescribe them have to also make a proportionate donat
498.
by ptah 7y ago
also https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/22/electric_vehicles_w...
499.
by ptah 7y ago
Event like this convinces me that government is primarily a servant of big business
500.
by ptah 7y ago
also explain to me how their blocking of EV's is business friendly
501.
by ptah 7y ago
socialism is not business unfriendly. china is super business friendly
502.
by ptah 7y ago
my current view is that the change will happen to us regardless. we will be forced to respond in some way
503.
by ptah 7y ago
yes, also land owners enclosed the areas and reserved it for their own use during early capitalist era
504.
by ptah 7y ago
also https://www.counterfire.org/articles/history/18871-the-highl...
505.
by ptah 7y ago
> Give people visible improvements to quality of living and also the opportunities to attain them and it seems logical to me that people on average would work more, not less. this is not how it happened and quality of life is not an obje
506.
by ptah 7y ago
I think a big part of the blame is the promulgation of Calvinism and it's "work ethic" by early industrialists. It was also used as justification for removing access to common land under the guise of building the character of
507.
by ptah 7y ago
it would be more effectiveif the northern hemisphere started paying a rainforest tax to the southern as proposed by the likes of prince charles
508.
by ptah 7y ago
do you not consider the scenario described in your comment's parent to be worse than any terrorist scenario?
509.
by ptah 7y ago
that's what eugenicists and 1930's science said about black people. science believed that black people would never outperform white people due to genetic differences in leg structure back then
510.
by ptah 7y ago
exactly! creative flow is killed by all the fiddling you have to do to keep things working

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