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by ratacat 8y ago
Oh god yes! I see it often in our perceptions of "the other" as well. Other cities, other societies, other places....
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by ratacat 8y ago
I think the more correct version is something like... Economists models for human behavior do sometimes work.
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by ratacat 8y ago
You're coming at it with a framework of thinking that has already been immersed in present ideas about money. Check out, Debt: the first five thousand years. We tend to under estimate how differently people of different time periods an
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by ratacat 8y ago
The more interesting question in that case, is why play it at all, if you're going to take all the life out of it only you demonstrate a hollow win.
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by ratacat 8y ago
Respect.
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by ratacat 8y ago
First and foremost because "they" cashed out all their profits over seas and bankrupted the company, neatly avoiding any of the responsibility of dealing with the repercussions of their actions. This is the most basic strategy of
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by ratacat 8y ago
Here's my favorite group of smart people working on solving climate change. Http://regen.network
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by ratacat 8y ago
Disclosure: I'm fairly dubious that we as a modern discourse fully understand the reality of life, and propagation, shaping of life. I have a lot of reservations. And I often times find myself rather disgusted by the attitude and appro
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by ratacat 8y ago
Is it possible that the information emitted by the universe to queries simply escapes you.
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by ratacat 8y ago
My cryptological brain can't herp but replace here... The "selected at random" with "selected in ways we don't understand"
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by ratacat 8y ago
Under rated perspective here.
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by ratacat 8y ago
This is the wisest comment here.
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by ratacat 8y ago
It's also widely used in milk, to cover up the blue color of milk from industrial milk production facilities where thousands of animals are locked up in big metal sheds with poor quality food. Strangely, they don't have to list th
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by ratacat 8y ago
I'm working on a pretty cool project. It's called Regen Network. We're a distributed verification network for ecological data with a strong bias towards encouraging more regenerative agriculture. And we're using a blockc
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by ratacat 8y ago
And with the entire premise of our reality came crashing down...
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by ratacat 8y ago
Also, it's not the same book. There are literally hundreds of lineages of the Bible, having traveled to us through multiple languages, very different cultural perspectives, rewritten and re translated adding in their current perspectiv
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by ratacat 8y ago
No shit. Extra bonus if it has any usable topsoil left...
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by ratacat 8y ago
I totally appreciate OPs insights here. It can be so tempting to see things linearly. But obviously the real world is anything but. There's a curiously wicked theory out there by David Abrams that part of this seeming human predilectio
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by ratacat 9y ago
Yes our financial system isn't based on speculation. Good one
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by ratacat 9y ago
Pressure cooks everything faster. You can literally take frozen stew meat and have it tender in an hour.
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by ratacat 9y ago
I think agricultural collapse is a much more likely scenario then us running out of oil. The book 1493 all about the ecological exchange of contact with the new world has some phenomenal perspective about it all. Our high input monocropping
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by ratacat 9y ago
I think agricultural collapse is a great place to start researching. The book 1493 all about the ecological exchange of contact with the new world has some phenomenal perspective about it all. Our high input monocropping is pretty tenuous.
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by ratacat 9y ago
Move to Thailand.
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by ratacat 9y ago
I pay ten dollars a gallon for fresh non pasteurized milk from a local family that has seven cows. I don't buy a lifestyle from them, I buy fucking good milk from animals that are loved like family, and I'm proud to be helping the
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by ratacat 9y ago
What exactly are you suggesting? We only communicate with email?
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by ratacat 9y ago
Lisk, Monero, Iota, and Factom. To be exact.
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by ratacat 9y ago
There are still several hundred once prominent MMOs called MUDs that came about in the 1980s and are all text based. They deal with these sorts of problems in very diverse and creative ways. If you've never played one, I might suggest
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by ratacat 9y ago
Coinbase had one million new accounts opened in a seven day period this month. The rise is substantially organic in new people coming in.
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by ratacat 9y ago
And we can accept skin grafts from sus scrofa (but many people don't believe Gene McCarthys theory that we're descendant from pig / monkey hybrids)
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by ratacat 9y ago
It's kind of like, I come over to your house for dinner... Murder your family members, and sell you to a slaver, then your house is mine. Pretty straight forward.

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