"producing food extremely efficiently" always comes with a huge human and enviromental cost, and is often with the aim of not producing food per se, but rather exports to make local landowners and overseas importers rich. Some places in the world have greater potential for agriculture and mining, so much that they can feed and supply the world over, and yet, the people in those countries do not benefit from their riches; if anything, they suffer for them. Is this an example of an 'efficient' system?
fucking someone with a strap on and then leaving it in like a bee stinger?
"i'm sorry gwynn, you needed to say 'what is fucking someone with a strap on and then leaving it in like a bee stinger?' better luck next time!"
Fundamental life advice: never trust a product from a youtuber/influencer sponsorship
- Raycons - overpriced repackaged cheap bullshit
- Hello fresh - last years workers were on strike for shitty work conditions and there’s reports of union busting. Never have i seen a youtuber acknowledge this at all
- Adam and Eve - the dildos aren’t all from body safe materials. Don’t risk it with cheap dildos it can fuck your body up
- Audible - owned by amazon
- Idk which one but one of the vpn ones mined bitcoin from ur computer and they’re useful but generally falsely advertised, not a big tech person but this guy talks about it
- All the fit teas and shakes etc are bullshit that just makes you poop and loose water weight short term
- Raid shadow legends - lol do i even need to explain this one
- All the loot crates - filled with cheap junk they’re getting wholesale
- The online coupon thingies are a data harvesting scam. Just google the shop name + coupon when shopping
- The online therapy better help was a whole big controversy and i still see this shitty company being promoted
Idk maybe the learning platform ones are the exception but i never looked into them
Adding on to this. Skillshare is hard to cancel. There’s a slight chance this has changed but when I looked into subscribing, there was a lot of people complaining about having to email the company multiple times to cancel.
Since Squarespace is templets, they legally own whatever you make. If you decide to change providers, you can’t take it with you. You’re stuck with them forever or have to rebuild your website from the ground up. You at least own the domain name so there’s that, but for me it’s not worth the work if I have to restart should I ever decide I hate the company.
I want more people to know this because every time I’ve looked into something advertised by youtubers, it’s never been good.
when will the misinformation stop
IDK where people got this idea that overseas shipping is particularly bad for the environment, but it takes less carbon to ship a small container of peaches across the Pacific Ocean than it does for you to drive your car to the grocery store to pick it up. Do you have any idea how many containers of peaches you can fit on a single cargo ship?
Of all the critical commentaries one could make about this image, “cargo ships will be the death of us” is the least accurate
How food is made is almost universally more important than where it’s made. Growing a shit ton of pears very efficiently in Argentina and then packaging that shit ton of pears very efficiently in Thailand is absolutely lower-carbon than growing and packaging them inefficiently, in small batches, in every town/city/region that wants packaged pears.
I mean, the word efficiency is obscuring a lot here, Thailand is not a centre for a high tech ultra productive packaging industry. It does have a large population and extremely weak labor laws which means it is a pool of cheap labor.
Shipping things, especially perishable and delicate fruit, needs preservation technology and is slightly more complicated than just put it in the container. Doing this thrice, which significantly delays the whole supply chain and introduces more complex modes of failure in this case only makes sense in a world where there is extreme global inequality, so the "costs" are marginal compared to the benefits of exploiting third world workers.
Sure, it is probably not that bad for the environment to ship around the world, but this is not being done this way due to some kind of natural allocation of efficiency.
Thought this could fit in well here
Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”
And she’s doing fine
There's something so deeply calming about watching megafauna prance and gambol about like they're little lambs
Bison pronking is already so magical, and then the double rainbow and the happy birdsong just put it way over the top
I wouldn't need pronouns if bitches weren't talking about me behind my back
HEY HEY LISTEN THE VOICE OF THE MTA TRANSIT SYSTEM, ALL THE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE NYC SUBWAY LINE??
SHE'S A TRANS WOMAN AND TRANSITIONED AT 66!!!!!! THE BACKGROUND HUM OF MY CHILDHOOD, AND SHE'S LIKE ME!!!! WHAT THE FUCK
this video fills me with so much joy
She seems amazing and yeah Queer people are at the core of modern transit systems
I was today years old when I heard about the incredible Incense-Cedar Wood Wasp. Syntexis libocedrii is the only living species of Symphytan in the Anaxyelidae. It is considered a living fossil since the family has an extensive Mesozoic fossil record. It has the unique ability to oviposit in burnt incense-cedar. The wood is often still smoldering when the sawfly is laying its eggs. Nature is fascinating.
this has been going on for 9 million years
ratties in the rain
a dtyis for thebeanbaguette on instagram !
I just took the sweetest photo of my angel boy, my gentle darling, my mashed potato - and so now you all must look too
Most people, when they see emeralds and rubies and sapphires and topaz their eyeballs turn into dollar signs and they would betray their friends and family and traveling companions. But not me. To me, those are naught but stones. They may catch the eye, they may fetch a hefty sum at the market, but other than that, they are completely worthless.
WE USED TO BE A COUNTRY! HOW WILL I PROTECT MY FAMILY IF I AM NOT ALLOWED TO TWIST SOME NUTS? GODDAMN LIBERALS KEEP RUINING EVERYTHING.
At the wizard council like
“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Felonies Donld is now up to 79 felonies, for a statistical average of 1.71 felonies per president
