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  • Honestly, you don’t have to do much to villainize some aspects of industrial farming. It’s mostly only possible due to the haber-bosch nitrogenation process, which was invented by the same guy who invented chemical warfare, and the process itself uses lots of petrochemicals and dumps a lot of nitrogen into the natural environment. That’s not even getting into the use of migrant workers, or the patenting of dna over some crops, and the food monopolies that exist in some countries.

    I also don’t think it’s a case of “there can be only one system”… And I don’t run into a lot of people saying that.

    For myself, this isn’t one of the more pressing issues in the world. I don’t really think people have enough land to be able to be self-sufficient, but gardening is a nice hobby.

    Food markets vary from nation to nation, and have political aspects I’m fairly disinterested in, so can’t really comment on that.

    Bye!


  • Assuming it used all the same tools and techniques, making only minor replacements of tractors for voluntary domestic labor … I don’t see why it couldn’t reach averages in a similar magnitude. Given them larger plots where they could use industrial tools and they should produce about the same on average.

    Eother way there attempts more self sufficiency are to be commended… So the I’m not sure of the point of the post really.

    If we had a socialist style of market economy like Vietnam we’d produce more crops.

    Also in a correctly valued economy we wouldn’t have to subsidize farming.




  • Philosophy? That’s specifically Abraxas from Gnostic Christianity, so more about theology than Philosophy.

    Abraxas (or Abracax) was an anguipede (a deity represented with snake feet) pagan God of “Asian theogonies” with a “rooster’s head, dragon’s feet and a whip in his hand”.

    “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.”





  • antidote101@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzsweet dreams
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    6 months ago

    Your comment about current models, known energy types, and universal pixels seems to ignore the post’s topic (which isn’t really about known models or energy types).

    A better way to disregard the post would be to just point out that solar systems aren’t that big in terms of scales of the universe, and that there’s no indication of any charges, electrons, or valance layers about.




  • antidote101@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzbanaynay
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    7 months ago

    I imagine less sweet and with the dry tang of an overly ripe banana. I imagine by the end of consuming some you’re no longer interested in eating this kind of banana again.

    They’re more than likely not new, so we can assume there’s some other reason they’re not as good. Taste is the most obvious factor to be the culprit.



  • I don’t think WW3 is happening soon, there’s no incentive or claim pivotal enough to cause a war of that scale.

    China invading Taiwan wouldn’t cause WW3.

    Did you know Mao used to be part of the same Chinese Nationalist party that fled to Taiwan? They were called the Koumintang (KMT).

    The KMT started out demanding democracy when China was still an imperial state at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The KMT brought about that end. It then later split into the CCP and KMT, and there was a two part civil war (that started with a massacre of communists known as the Shanghai Massacre and) that overlapped with WW2.

    The CCP eventually won the Civil War, and the KMT fled to Taiwan, but they’d become militarized, and so they’d forgotten they were pro-democracy.

    The KMT set up a military government which ruled Taiwan for 40+ years, persecuting native Taiwanese people (particularly if they spoke Taiwanese), and anyone who was an activist for Democracy, or Communism.

    It was only in the late 1980s and early 90s Taiwan stopped being called The Republic of China, and democracy was implemented.

    … what’s more the KMT, that persecuted, abducted, and tortured people they didn’t like in a long standing anti-democracy millitary regime (which ruled for 35+ years), are still allowed to have a political party in Taiwan?

    It’s like if US confederate leaders fled to Hawaii, renamed it “The Confederate United States of America”, and had a dictatorship for 40 years… To the extent that they even kept the flag, symbols and party name when democracy eventually stopped them killing and torturing activities and opposition members.

    The US mainland would have every right to feel held back, and frustrated by such events. Even more so if it was obvious China and other world powers were openly helping the Confederate United States.

    The least Taiwan should do, is abolish the KMT and renounce ever having been “China”. They should have a sense of unrest, shame, and discomfort around that period of their nation, but also see it as part of the birth of their democracy.

    Instead the KMT are still called “The Chinese Nationalist Party” in the official English language version of their name.

    It’s ridiculous, and no Westerner should die for it, let alone start a war over it.

    So anyways, that’s the last century of Chinese history summarised.




  • antidote101@lemmy.worldtoMEOW_IRL@sopuli.xyzmeow_irl
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    7 months ago

    Can’t be attained without knowledge of all the psychodynamic pressures on each class. The system reproduces it’s self, and the culture that permits it reproduces it’s self for pragmatic, and self-interested reasons of the participants own psycho-cultural, psycho-social, and pragmatic needs.

    Most people are aware of what those are for the poor, but not for the elites who seemingly could quit and retire for multiple lifetimes of enjoying wealth but don’t.

    Those reasons and psychodynamic pressures have to be charted and understood as human (sympathetically) before they can be interfaced with and changed.