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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Violence is always a valid answer. It’s just not always the best answer. The problem with violence is it’s been proven time and time again to be impossible to control and hold to a limited use since there are no cool heads at that point. Nor do specific targets exist-- just collateral damage.

  And no successful revolutionary has ever had a sound plan for after the victory beyond “I want the power now.” And they can either hold the power or not. But the idea of “for the good of the people” gets put to the side pretty quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My money is on fusion before proper socialism.

  There is always someone willing to twist the rules and game the system to get more money and power than everyone else. The 1% have always existed and so have the worker class. It will always shake out to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wash my hands for nearly a minute. But most of that time is spent trying to get those stupid no touch faucets to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They often are partially recycled material. But recycled paper isn’t like recycling aluminum or steel. There are limits to how often and how much of the cycled material you can add back to make useful paper products.

  But paper towels can and does make great compost as most gardeners know. And a properly run landfill is a compost pile. But you need to keep the nasty garbage out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes you can assume all people don’t wash their hands correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1+1=⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they did, they wouldn’t need engineers.

  But it’s more of a division of labor I think.

  It is the job of the scientist to discover a new idea. It is the job of an engineer to kill enough people to make the idea just safe enough to turn loose on the public.

  Remember kiddies, scientific principles are written in ink. Engineering principles are very often written in blood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to boil the ocean⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So pasteurization does nothing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. Children have a lot of desire and drive to monopolize an adult’s attention and resources. This I think gives any one child a leg up on getting the best resources to survive better. And you can see it when you work with a group of children. They will group around you jostling for the best position to be first and get the best from you. They do of course, get better with age and as they learn patience, but there is still a lack of empathy to be found in their base behavior.

  After all, if you grew up with siblings, I’m quite sure your parents at some point in your early childhood told you “Be nice to your siblings! You love them!” more than once. Or some variation on that theme. And if you are a parent yourself, you have used that phrase at some point also. Because who has better reason to want to “kill” each other than brothers and sisters? They want to get as much of mommy and daddy as possible. Those resources are scarce and your natural drive is to fight to get them.

  And hopefully, as children age they learn to get and show empathy to those around them. Most do, but some never quite manage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it probably would. They would be interested in just how and why you got a bloody face. And even US cops carry basic medical supplies like a band-aid.

  US cops aren’t the best, but they can and do help with such things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t actually kill the intruder so that’s something he can probably look forward to either after joining the military or law enforcement.

  But joking aside, children by in large, don’t seem to have much empathy about such things. You can see this in the bullying they do in schools and on the playgrounds. And it doesn’t seem to bother them much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got no proof other than my personal experiences growing up and observing kids while teaching them in groups at a school.

  Children by in large seem to have little empathy for others. Children have little to no problem with bullying others without any emotional issues. Even to the point of pushing other kids to suicide. They have little regard for others and even less control over maturity.

  I think empathy is something that you develop as you grow older. It’s more a mark of adulthood than childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indiana’s main advantage is it’s quick to drive through. It doesn’t take long to get from Illinois to Ohio.

  Though I can’t see a reason to drive through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or anywhere on the east coast as a trucker actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re gonna need a bigger oven…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was panic about raw milk looonnnggg before Covid. And I if you had read what I wrote, I did say pasteurization IS a good thing and I’m all for it. But it’s just not the evil most think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have owned a dairy herd?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do understand that ALL dairy farms that sell milk are regularly tested for safety of the milk they sell. This is federally mandated. You miss the thresholds for bacteria counts, you will be dumping all your milk produced until it tests clean again. So those cows can’t be held in very dirty and vile conditions because your milk won’t pass those mandated tests. Slackers go broke and are out of business in short order.

  Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for selling pasteurized milk in stores. The milk you buy in the store can be a week old before you see it on the shelf. But the unreasoning fear of raw milk is just plain ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I certainly don’t miss milking cows, I too miss the insanely rich texture and flavor of that fresh from the cow milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank raw milk every day. I can remember my sisters bringing the milk pitcher to the barn and dipping into the bulk tank of raw milk every morning or so. No one got sick and no one died. We even made butter at home from it after separating the cream. But pasteurization is a good thing for all you urbane urbanites out there. It increases the shelf life and safety for consumption. Plus it reduces number of small dairies near population centers that used to exist. Dairies can be 100+ miles away now. After all, you wouldn’t want to be exposed to the smell of cow shit right?

  Raw milk does taste very different from store bought pasteurized milk, (whole milk ain’t whole). And like shelf stable milk, I doubt anyone of you would like drinking it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on where you live, there is already enough naturally occurring fluoride in the well water that adding more doesn’t mean much. How else do you think they discovered fluoride helps your teeth?

  Since I live in a rural area and need to have my own well, I know my water contains enough fluoride that it would be silly to add more. But some areas do not have enough naturally present. So it would be interesting to see the water test results for Florida cities to check the amount of naturally occurring fluoride present. YMMV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasticccc⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did mention that plastic water bottles and other such consumer level disposable plastics aren’t really required. Though the alternatives are much heavier and often bulkier than their plastic counterparts. Making them more difficult and costly to ship. And yeas, that includes basic food stuffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probable, I do like to cook and do it well. Though I don’t own a single kitchen knife that costs over $10US. But, that foraging really makes a large difference in the grocery bill also. Particularly when the grocery store is a mere 100 mile round trip away.

  I tend to think I’m somewhere in the middle of surviving and hobbyist. I grew up poor and I’m often just doing the same things I have always done since childhood because we needed to. And I continue to do a lot of it simply because of habit and I do enjoy eating everything I forage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasticccc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The title most certainly doesn’t contain the whole book. But it does contain the whole belief of the author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasticccc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, stop and think about all those plastic medical devices that get used. Everything from syringes to hips, to air tubing, to the packaging of sterilized surgical instruments. That’s a metric carp tonne of plastics. There are a LOT of life threat level safety devices that use plastics also.

  We probably don’t need to bottle soda pop or water in plastic bottles, but the use of plastics will never go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasticccc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. More. Plasticccc? Whelp, there goes my new hip and wheel chair and pain here I come!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would I survive? Perhaps not so well. Everything I forage or hunt and fish for reduces the amount of dollars spent on buying groceries. And a good portion of what we eat you can’t buy in a store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It ain’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bombs Awat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You certainly can!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That brings up an interesting thought.

  Am I a cooking enthusiast because I spend time hunting/fishing/foraging wild ingredients? Many of my neighbors do some foraging and hunt and fish also. (I live on a lake in the middle of a very large forest). Or does the fact I made 10lbs of home smoked Canadian bacon in my own smoker this fall make me a cooking enthusiast? Maybe the breads I sometimes bake? Or the hand harvested and then parched over a wood fire wild rice I traded some of my bacon for from my one neighbor?

  Am I a cooking hobbyist? Or am I just cooking to survive? Where is the line drawn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the cost of the grinder, HT furnace, drill and drill bits, and anvil and hammers? Are you really sure you saved any money? /jk

  Keep banging them out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you worry about the brand of the olive oil you use and the cost, (over $100 per knife), of your kitchen knives. And your stove is a $4000 induction model with 2 ovens.

  Source: My one Son-in-law. But the son-of-a-bitch CAN really cook!