bennieandthez

@bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yea the music does some heavy lifting on that movie lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of linguistics changing the way we understand the world is interesting but i cannot enjoy a movie that portrays other countries as unreasonable warmongers and incompetent while portraying the US as reasonable and brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re right, critique movies are nothing more than a treat to keep the discourse going instead of actual action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a critique of american idiosincracy, while the world ending crisis is an analogy to climate change imo the main point of the movie is that the US is run by self-interested idiotas.

  My problem with the movie is that they’re obviously referencing the republicans when both parties do the same and that the movie is way too “white man burden” coded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  things conform to law, regardless of the subjects awareness of it, we should strive to learn the laws that govern the universe and leave behind obsolete idealism. Modern science has done a lot uncovering how our brain works and the complex processes behind conciousness, at this point arguing for conciousness as something separate is like arguing that rain is caused by deities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying matter is a product of the mind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See for yourself.

  www.marxists.org/reference/archive/…/09.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm literally a thinking lump of fat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The material, sensuously perceptible world to which we ourselves belong is the only reality… Our consciousness and thinking, however supra-sensuous they may seem, are the product of a material, bodily organ, the brain. Matter is not a product of mind, but mind itself is merely the highest product of matter.” — Karl Marx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There has to be a balance, we need to understand that as long as we export harvests out of the field we need to import nutrients into the field. We can’t expect plants to naturally replenish the nutrients that we unnaturally extract.

  Also we need to understand that when we introduce heavy machinery into a field, we need heavy machinery to break compaction. Plants and soil organisms simply cannot naturally break the compaction caused by our unnaturally heavy machinery that is heavily concentrated in the small contact area of a tire.

  Some of these dogmatic beliefs lead to “regenerative” farmers being more extractivists than the industrial farmers they demonize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants compete between them for resources, sorry but its idealistic nonsense to claim that they work together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they do, still it’s not sufficient enough to replenish what is needed. Agriculture is an open loop system, it requires external inputs to continue to operate. Without external inputs, agriculture turns into minery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soil requires fertilizer regardless, every harvest you export nutrients out of the soil that need to be replenished. The main purpose of crop rotation is to avoid proliferetion of diseases and pests.