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· 4 years ago
Tl:dr- by forcing manufacturers to focus on quality over quantity, and imposing financial burdens that make consumers and producers more mindful of their habits, as well as legal prohibitions in the form of regulation on industry, you can get a good way there. Having less and learning to enjoy it more, appreciate and care for it more- and putting “value” above cost. To finish it off stricter zoning and development laws and more “planned” communities which emphasize autonomy would take us most of the rest of the way there.
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· 4 years ago
When there’s a $50 tax on plastic bottles, and a $20 tax on glass- you’ll see a lot more people carrying their own bottles and not using disposable ones- and taking care of what they have. When a pair of jeans is $300 on a cheap sale, consumers are going to demand they last decades and aren’t likely to turn and burn em- and what’s more? The “obesity problem” all but solves itself at that point because it is suddenly very expensive to need to buy new clothes that fit, and more expensive to live a way that leads to weight gain than not.
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· 4 years ago
There’s a ton of things like that but basically- the simple solution to “save the earth” is to give up consumerism. One asks- “how can that be profitable?” Ah. Simple. You just have to MAKE IT so that any other way is LESS Profitable or completely illegal. Taxes, fines, things like that. Land is too expensive to use to farm in this state? Ohh. Not when it costs $200,000 to move $150k in crops across state lines. When an ikea bed frame is $2500 and a solid oak one is $2500- suddenly buying that oak bed frame that will outlast your great grand kids even if it “is out of style” seems like a great value- and the guy who buys the $2500 ikea frame ain’t going to be as likely to bust it up or leave it on the curb when they move.
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· 4 years ago
Not trucking and flying out of season or “exotic” produce that can’t grow anywhere near us is another big one. As is having infrastructure to provide the food need of a population without needing to ship in thousands of miles for basic crops that COULD grow there.
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· 4 years ago
The other part is systemic. We build sprawling suburban nightmare towns. Places where there are square miles of just homes and roads and maybe some parks. Serviced by mega malls or mega chain stores where everyone for 20sq mikes must go to shop and do business. Everyone has to drive miles just to get to a place they can work. That’s bad. If we build communities where homes and businesses intermix, where a person could live their life without needing to even own a car and still be able to work and shop and play- that goes a long way.
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· 4 years ago
The other way, the more reasonably achievable way- is to have less. Do less. Make less. Travel less. Part of that is personal- walking more, driving less, not driving huge land tanks or making every new sedan a 200+hp 4,000lb barge. Learning to live more on “what we need” such as smaller homes, less crap. Taking care of things like furniture or clothes and owning them longer. Not upgrading electronics every few years. Eating foods that are available locally, blah blah. We don’t even have to go crazy and compost or whatever else.
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· 4 years ago
Oh man. Sadly- the only ideas I really have on the subject aren’t ones I necessarily would want to see, or even endorse, and are mostly punitive. The fact is that “saving the earth” is real simple. We either must develop a completely new technological ecosystem and personal values that is self sufficient or integrated to the natural ecosystem (by making thousands of years in technological advancement in... the next couple decades or so?)
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Larry tells it like it is 44 comments
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· 4 years ago
But The intent isn’t for John in accounting to bring a pot roast and Sally to bring some hot pockets and Rick to bring KFC because those were the meals that were part of their culture growing up. John, who’s 16 generations removed from Germany, doesn’t speak German, never been there, would stick out like a sore thumb there, and has no living direct relatives there is going to bring Strudel or something basic and “German,” not a green bean casserole. So I mean- there is validity in making the connection to distant cultural roots based in genetic origin to the event- even if the person isn’t immersed or doesn’t participate in that culture.
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· 4 years ago
On the subject of African American culture- I have mixed feelings about that. There is a unique African American culture that exists, and has existed long enough to have its own cuisine and customs- to be considered its own ethnicity. However- these sorts of “cultural cuisine” things aren’t usually meant to be so literal. For most Americans, unless you have parents or grandparents from “the old country,” and home cooked family meals- there are good odds that the “cuisine of your culture” is the same crap everyone else ate growing up.
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· 4 years ago
Yes. The best tests can give you a REGION that your ancestors are LIKELY from- but that gets tricky too. Africa is made up of many, many, distinct ethnic groups and tribes, many which no longer actually exist. It’s a tad like saying a person is “Native American” or “South American.” But.. which tribe? Even if we narrow it down “north, east, west...” we are talking about distinctly different people with their own traditions and ways and even languages.
Tinder in a nutshell 7 comments
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· 4 years ago
Tinder dating is like buying something on Craigslist. You’re already a winner if you don’t get scammed or murdered. If they don’t flake you’re more ham half way there. They’ll leave some stuff out of the ad and set the bar high with some unreasonable expectations in exchange, because they know that if they ask $400 you’ll come offer $50, and then you’ll both agree to the $100. So if they ask for all that, you’ll show up 4’ shorter and $50k under in the car you share with your roommate- and that’s close enough if they have a good time. If they said “ok. You can be 5’ tall and work at Arby’s...” the guys who show up would be serial killer dwarfs. Art of the deal man. As for “no fatties...” that’s what pictures are for. SMH. This is America. An important skill here is to learn how to discriminate without making it obvious. So that’s your bad not theirs.
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Tinder in a nutshell 7 comments
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· 4 years ago
Dude- it’s tinder. At least in my experience on tinder as a man? 9/10 times in the 27 and up range of tinder ladies? If you show up with no kids, A job, A car, and no crippling debts or baggage and emotional issues- you’ll be treated like a rock star if you even put in a little effort and behave enough not to be a public embarrassment.
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· 4 years ago
Seldom do I see your posts and not find some reason within them to smile bethorien.
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They are evolving! 10 comments
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· 4 years ago
That’s some super villain level shit. She scares me. So- some fighting is healthy in a relationship. The informal term is a “pizza fight.” The idea is that a brief conflict, one where you can order a pizza, have the fight, and be done and made up in time to go pick the pizza up is “healthy,” because you’ve vented frustration and tension, and to be so short means no one said anything deeply hurtful- it was a civil fight. This... this is how you prepare for a siege.
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Found this on FS...Why dost we use this in fidget spinners? 13 comments
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· 4 years ago
But.... I can get a battery that isn’t much bigger than that and can fully recharge my phone and has like 1 week+ standby..... I think that maybe this would be good for someone in a rural or undeveloped area or who spends time places like that where they may need to charge their phone without access to electricity in an “emergency” situation. My gut tells me that frequent or extended use of this is either impractical or will kill your battery- especially if it “fast charges” your phone. It fits a niche but I don’t think it’s useful for most people even if it’s neat.
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The critics can eat my ass 32 comments
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· 4 years ago
Blindly following critics is foolish, but so is assuming that because a lot of people like something you will too. Being familiar with a number of critics and having some idea what they tend to like is helpful, just as there are some friends who’s recommendations you trust more on wether you’ll like certain things than others. A passable comprehension of math and how averages work doesn’t hurt either. Using critics in CONTEXT to help guide your decisions can be smart and save you from wasting time or money if those are precious to you. As for audience scores... Amongst plenty of examples of things lots of people love which I want nothing to do with- Passion of the Christ has an 80% audience score and a 49% critic score. Unless you really cant get enough Jesus fan fiction AND torture porn- or are a huge buff of period pieces set in the BC Middle East- I’d agree this is a film worth skipping. So critics aren’t perfect but they aren’t totally worthless either.
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The critics can eat my ass 32 comments
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· 4 years ago
Some, but a small percent of people want liberal fascism. Most of the “offense pendulum” crowd just want people to think about other people. Chappelle is reasonably decent about that. His comedy doesn’t push his views very hard. He includes them at times, but more than anything he includes thoughts, and lets you make your own. That’s something we certainly could use in media, comedy, someone who presents a picture as they see it but leaves room for you to see it how you want. The racism and the like in his comedy is usually based of observations of absurdity in life and not off a specific agenda.
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· 4 years ago
In his conversation with the trans woman she pointed out to him that the media had accused him of “normalizing” R Kelley through his jokes- but no one has ever accused him of “normalizing” LGBTQ because of his jokes. That seems a bit hypocritical perhaps? That bashing R Kelley makes him an advocate, and ribbing LGBTQ doesn’t make him an advocate? Chappelle ran into the same problems with his show which led to his “meltdown.” He wants to make comedy but he also is surprisingly subtle- he doesn’t always come “on message” but instead presents scenarios that require you to think about an issue.
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· 4 years ago
Context is key. Chappelle says some things that, to use the liberal vernacular- are referred to on the left as “problematic.” But overall he may have said some things some people might find offensive but weren’t overtly inflammatory or meant to insight anything or push an agenda. That’s an important distinction in comedy nowadays- are they telling a joke about topics of the day, or are they pushing politics through humor? I for one felt that while there were some jokes that I could have done without or would prefer were done a little different- that Dave was doing the former and not the latter.
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· 4 years ago
After the special are clips that give more context and insight- including that he ran the material through a first showing in SF- a very liberal and very LGBTQ city to test it out. He even contemplated not doing certain jokes because there was a trans woman in the audience and that made him nervous about the material- and he decided if he couldn’t say it TO a trans person he shouldn’t say it, so he tried it out and she loved it. He talked to her after the show and gave her special mention and a special thanks with photo at the end.
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· 4 years ago
If you watch Sticks and Stones it isn’t actually very offensive. There’s a couple “low brow” racial jokes that are like a hundred years old such as a mocking WW2 and before depiction of Dave’s version of an “Asian bucktooth face,” some out of the blue suicide jokes and a line or two here and there that are obviously delivered just for shock value- a few “low hanging” comedy fruits are plucked- but nothing is very politicized. He doesn’t deliver his material as if he’s trying to advocate a particular view to the audience or trying to get too serious about most of what he says. He has a sequence about LGBTQ, but he doesn’t really insult the people of the community as much as he brings up some historical points and a little ribbing on stereotypes ala Chappelle show. But he also goes to some effort to show he isn’t trying to be mean and thought about the people involved.
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Friendship last forever 1 comments
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· 4 years ago
Typo in the headline. No such thing as a “retired marine.” You’re either active or “formerly commissioned/enlisted” as a marine. Even when a marine dies they might still be called up to do a rotation guarding the gates of Heaven.
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· 4 years ago
Actually- I worked with an organization that performed tracking and we had to print a lot of data, we used to do this. Donate old printer, take a tax write off, buy new printer, repeat. At the time it was like 2x the cost of a printer for the ink.
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