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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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    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.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlGentoo bans AI-created contributions
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    Lots of companies will do this, eventually advertising the purity and the size of their human created training data.

    These will be the companies selling their content to AI companies, although some will probably just be scanned in illegally. Perhaps a new type of copy write lawsuit will have to be invented.

    Most people will continue to use these sites, aware their data is being used like this.


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    5 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.




  • Capitalism hasn’t existed forever, it literally started in the late 1700s during a period called The Industrial revolution, when factory machining started the first cottage industries that pushed out previous modes of hand crafting.

    At that point, when machines and cottages to hold them started to be required for mass production and hence competition in the market (pushing out hand crafting as a competitor) CAPITAL became a requirement of mass wealth accumulation… because one needed large sums of Capital to buy the machinery, rent the building, and hire and train the workers to exploit. So it became the limited province of the already well off to do.

    That’s when Capitalism was born, and why it’s named CAPITAL-ism. Because it has Capital requirements if you want to join the Capitalist class. It was created in the British Industrial Revolution.

    That you’re unaware of this change in the mode of production and what it represents, and believe that "oh Capital has just existed forever" is what some Marxists refer to as being in a state of “false consciousness”.

    The system wasn’t always this way, and doesn’t have to necessarily be this way (eg. Marx offered the model of workers owning the machinery or “means of production” as his alternative, and there are likely others). Capitalism is a product of a technological “change of epoch” of the “mode of production.”

    …and it’s defined the age we live in, and how we think. Which is what the later Frankfurt School neo-marxists discuss.

    P.S. It’s also worth noting that the British Industrial Revolution, The French Revolution, and the American Revolution all overlap in time periods. Live was very different before the late 1700s.