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by spodek 9y ago
Subway, bus, taxi, walk, bike, skateboard, ferry, ... You can even take a helicopter some places.
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by spodek 9y ago
Just finished reading Affluence Without Abundance https://www.amazon.com/Affluence-Without-Abundance-Disappear... about bushmen who live in southern Africa. It turns out people have lived in southern Africa for 200,000 yea
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by spodek 9y ago
That poster didn't seem offended to me. More curious. It's not obvious if the person is male or female or feeling left out. If some women feel that way anyway, are you suggesting that making more people feel that way helps or make
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by spodek 9y ago
I've been using jitsi for casual video conversations and love it. Thank you to the team. I also host a podcast. Can I use jitsi and record audio, separate tracks for each party?
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by spodek 9y ago
I have a mindfulness app based in science, proven to work. The off button.
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by spodek 9y ago
" Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, cha
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by spodek 9y ago
Sam Harris impresses me in his podcasts when he has guests he disagrees with that the disagreements can become intense, but when they reach the end, he's back to friendly and cordial. It's often hard to disagree on content without
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by spodek 9y ago
> pollution levels fell less precipitously or rose elsewhere, suggesting that a concerted effort last fall to shift heating to natural gas from coal may have simply shifted the harmful effects to regions far from the capital It looks lik
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by spodek 9y ago
Limits to Growth, the 30 year update, if 2004 is recent enough. https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19...
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by spodek 9y ago
> the third factor, Gideon said, was the empathy gap, where we tend to be more receptive to women’s pain than men’s. When women talk about being made to feel uncomfortable at work, or being sexually harassed, we feel empathy and want to
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by spodek 9y ago
Nobody mentioned reducing pollution and greenhouse emission is the best way to help the situation so I will -- non-polluting alternatives to flying, eating meat, heating and cooling (I'm surprised how many people heat their homes in th
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by spodek 9y ago
And fish.
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by spodek 9y ago
Terribly. Agriculture is destroying their culture by taking the land they lived on, causing plants and animals to go extinct, imposing laws that don't fit, and spreading alcoholism, war, etc. Agriculture seems more aggressive and destr
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by spodek 9y ago
Maybe because I love Greenwich Village, Jane Jacobs, and Henry Thoreau, or maybe because between Steve Jobs' and Bill Gates' legacies, I chose Richard Stallman's, but I've never felt any appeal from Silicon Valley. Maybe
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by spodek 9y ago
> The issue of poor time-keeping is not just a Kenyan problem. It is a problem in Ghana and throughout Africa (and of course in many other cultures as well). Reading Affluence Without Abundance -- https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by spodek 9y ago
Of the various addictive refined powders from plants, for most purposes, I don't differentiate much between cocaine, heroin, and sugar. There are plenty of differences, but none as important as the similarities. Each gives you an up fo
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by spodek 9y ago
Yes. If it doesn't break any rules to mention mine: Leadership Step by Step -- https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Step-Become-Person-Others/... -- in particular Chapter 17, on how to make a meaningful connection.
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by spodek 9y ago
The whole story is in the link in my post above: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/avoiding-food-packagin... . The menu on the right side of that page is clickable for more posts. The podcast link at the top is for
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by spodek 9y ago
Clever solutions are great, but nothing compares with reducing consumption. A lot of plastic is unnecessary or packaging unhealthy things, like soda bottles. Since I decided to avoid packaged food, I dropped my landfill waste by about 90%,
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by spodek 9y ago
... which implies the body cameras work, since why would they withhold information that exonerates them?
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by spodek 9y ago
Plus cars stink.
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by spodek 9y ago
Philosophers are weird. Why do they think we need their opinions on something being okay or not, or that their opinions are any more valid? I don't need them to decide if ad blocking is okay.
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by spodek 9y ago
I avoid animal products so can't say.
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by spodek 9y ago
On the contrary, I have more variety than ever. I keep telling myself to try recipes, but when you buy everything in season, every week I'm getting new ingredients with new flavors, textures, and so on. There's huge variety. I loo
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by spodek 9y ago
First the caveats: My pressure-cooked bread tastes delicious to me, but I experiment so my results vary. Most batches wouldn't make it into a bakery. For one thing, I start with wheat berries that I turn into flour in my blender. I ble
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by spodek 9y ago
I use a Cuisinart pressure cooker like a chain smoker. I cook a vegetable stew that lasts 4 or 5 meals, then cook my next vegetable stew for the next 4 or 5 meals, and so on. No recipes. Basically what's fresh and in season from the fa
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by spodek 9y ago
> she said she would only interview willing participants They selected themselves. Remorseful ones, if any, may have chosen not to participate.
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by spodek 9y ago
They show the supply side. I'd like to see the demand side. How much toxic waste does each person's behavior promote being used? How much is embodied in each product?
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Hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, in which our ancestors colonized the planet, suggests so. Do we want to temporarily overshoot the carrying capacity by poisoning our environment at the risk of collapse if we lower that cap
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by spodek 9y ago
The industry got its money's worth with this stooge.

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