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by tehchromic 11y ago
yeah but that's the problem exactly with the article, which is that there is no incompatibility with automated, greenhoused, hi-tech, and sustainable, local, organic farming. They are compatible. Given that, local and organic (not the
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by tehchromic 11y ago
who is arguing against greenhouses? the article sets up a false dichotomy between local organic produce, which is more efficient by any measure that includes the cost of doing business, and greenhouses, which are not at all incompatible.
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by tehchromic 11y ago
The point of food forests is to create solid reserves of food at local level, not to replace industrial agriculture - it's a buffer to have food growing near you, and it makes everyone safer. The point of local food production is it is
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by tehchromic 11y ago
How is your factory farmed tomato that depends on buried costs of fossil fuel, and inorganic fertilizers, and unsustainable resources not a luxury good? The luxury is the cheap price, which is not sustainable. Truly organic local food has b
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Back up your claims! You might also say: access to clean air and unpolluted drinking water is a luxury which is not particularly environmentally friendly or sustainable. Keep in mind when you are breathing and drinking clean air and water,
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by tehchromic 11y ago
uh, what's the cost in fuel emissions when I get a veg from my front yard grown in mulch generated from my own tree?
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Probably the best evidence I have to support this "fallacy" is the couple hundred pounds of honey I harvest locally every year. So according to this article I should drop my beekeeping and just buy honey from Chinese suppliers who
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by tehchromic 11y ago
> But urban land is in short supply, expensive, often polluted, and unsuitable for horticulture. Nonsense. This is an argument for expanding access and cleaning up after ourselves - land that is too polluted to grow in is too polluted to
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by tehchromic 11y ago
"your cellphone is smarter" -- I'd like to disagree without being disagreeable! I'd say ants are at least an order of magnitude smarter than a cell phone. Ants are less intelligible to humans maybe, as their intelligence
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by tehchromic 11y ago
I have been saying the same thing about bees for years: they're a semi-solid
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what boggles my personal mind is that this has to be demonstrated at all, and yet that's a truth that spans the width and depth of our institution mediated existence.
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Ahahah! Thanks for the clips and good points! And in spite of how formulaic pop music is at the composition level, I still think it would be harder to AI a convincing pop song than a classical piece, because so much of pop's informati
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by tehchromic 11y ago
You post is great until the last sentence: Permaculture is really cool, but you are never going to get anywhere near as many calories per unit of land. Permaculture means living such that we don't go extinct. Having a great portion of
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Fair enough! I agree with your statements on the classic composers, however modern composition in it's highest art forms has moved with the rest of art towards abstraction, accident, pure invention, and contemplation of pure noise. You
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by tehchromic 11y ago
yep exactly what I am pointing to. I meant performance based in that its complexity comes from how it interacts with culture language, other music, ideas, etc: cultural production. True also of classical composition, but as you say, it&#x27
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by tehchromic 11y ago
I agree, if we are speaking about composition alone for example comparing two pieces played on the same piano. But what I think is interesting about the contrast is how pop music has evolved into a science of performance, and while I think
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it's absolutely incredible. I wonder if this says something particular about classical music versus popular music. Often classical music is appreciated for its compositional complexity, but it reflects on the possibility that sophistic
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wow. I was not expecting that level of quality! I also did not believe one could caricature the classes of dns server so accurately.
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Not at all! It's a leading cause of death and we certainly do what we can to minimize our exposure.
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Ah but it isn't true. What is true is that industrial agriculture is the product of pecuniary exploit, not economy of scale, and definitely not the quest for the greater good.
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Yeah that's good! I like Heidegger in that he traces the root meaning of words. So philosophy is love of wisdom, and everyone knows that but they seem to mistake the field for metaphysics and whatever else incomprehensible word jumble
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by tehchromic 11y ago
The argument is duplicitous! :} If you and I are responsible for a man who is exposed to doses of radiation everyday and I stand up and say, you know, we shouldn't have this guy exposed to radiation because it could be lethal, and you
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by tehchromic 11y ago
If the monarch butterfly goes extinct like the passenger pigeon, that's irrevocable. And evidence is mounting that we are at the edge of an man made extinction event, and by evidence I mean the number of species that go extinct per yea
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You not knowing what that means is a good thing. That's where you and all the industrial production chain should start PRIOR to deciding that one toxic chemical really ought to be used in place of ten others, etc. A proper foundation f
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One thing we can stipulate is that the chemistry of our planet is changing rapidly as result of human industry. We might not be able to prove that fact with conclusive evidence before any fallible human court of law, or public opinion. But
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The bottom line is there are huge corporate interests willing to spend money to bury the fact that their investments in toxic agricultural pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are having a permanent, devastating effect on the planetary bio
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by tehchromic 11y ago
You are right and wrong. It's true that introduction of new diseases and parasites were a part of what is called CCD, and to the extent that hives with genetic strategies both of immunity and behavior were the survivors in the usual ev
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by tehchromic 11y ago
> He noticed that the ancient Greek poet Homer used colors in a very strange way (for instance: “wine-dark sea”) It could also be the case that Homer was using a complex metaphor that related the mystery of alcohol, and maybe it's b
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by tehchromic 11y ago
odd to me that philosophers ideas which can seem to be so obviously and uselessly conflicted from where we stand now, also form the building blocks of modern thinking, even in spite of them, ie Leibniz acrobatic attempts to discount materia
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by tehchromic 11y ago
fascinating. nice work.

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