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 No.1147[Reply]

Americans eat apples with WAX on it. I always thought it was weird that they looked so red and shiny in comparison to the ones we have in my country. Turns out the excessive redness is due to GMOs and the shinyness is due to an artificial coat of wax which is meant to preserve them longer (the ones they sell at grocery stores are 14 months old on average!). It's like in those ads of food where they use glue, spray, etc to make the food look better except it's actually meant for consumption in this case.

So for the Americans here that have eaten apples like this before: what do they taste like? They must be terrible. Imagine eating 14 month old fruit with wax on it.
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>>1193
ah yes the cheese

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>>1193
I remember when I was a kid and I thought the red stuff was like the skin of an apple so I tried biting into it and it was NOT tasty.

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>>1166
There's talks about it here and there but it still isn't a relevant movement like FLOSS is (yet).

 No.1198>>1218

Turns out farming isn't fun and exciting for cappuccino hipsters (and their laptops of free ubuntu operating systems) to get behind.

 No.1218

>>1198
It depends on what you mean. Lots and lots of people picked up gardening during the pandemic, but I don't think many would be leaving the city to live on the land, no.




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 No.906[Reply]

Are you watching the Winter Olympics at all? I've tried again to make myself interested in them, but I just can't do it.
I like it when things are objective, like "this guy jumped the highest so he wins", but all this dancing in circles that then gets judged makes no sense to me.
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>>1134
Because everything is dystopian, we live in a cyberpunk dystopia now. But >>1122 isn't really that Dystopian I guess.

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>>1139
If you're allowed to call it a dystopia it's not a dystopia.

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>>1143
Says who?

 No.1146

>>1143
That's stupid. After a nuclear war without anyone to enforce laws, that's not a dystopia?

 No.1271

The real dystopia is this hyperreal poststructural modernity where we get bombarded with constant propaganda and made-up news, and this happens everywhere.




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 No.806[Reply]

Walkin' in a winter wonderland~
In the city we can make a polluted snowman mountain!
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 No.810>>839

There's a chance it will snow here soon, hope it actually stays on the ground for longer than a few hours. I know it's not as magical up north, but for us in the middle it happens a couple days a year at most and December wasn't even winter temperature-wise

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Cirnoman

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>>810
It's happening! (or it will soon).
It feels wasteful when it snows at night because you can't appreciate the beauty of the falling flakes

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Snow! SNOW! SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW! OH MY GOD THERE'S SNOW! AND IT'S PILING UP AND IT'S SO PRETTY AND I WISH IT HAPPENED MORE OFTEN!
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!! SNOW!
SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 No.1098

Snowing again. There's these nice big snow flakes. It's ridiculous. I wish there would be more snow, it's just a tiny dusting this early morning.




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 No.181[Reply]>>521

The administrators of Australia complain of the abundance of ground dwelling Laurasiatheria in the wilds of the land and the detrimental effect this has on the native ecology of said land but does not the basis of evolution lie on the notion of survival of the fittest? And is not Evolution a natural process? If these native creatures cannot handle the pressures introduced by the introduction of more advanced lifeforms then do they really have a place in this world? Who are we to interfere with natural selection.

Why should we genocide millions of cats, dogs(which are even recognised as native anyway), horses, buffalo, camels, goats, pigs and deer just so that a handful of stupid marsupials survive? And why should we care if they alter the flora of this place? The flora could do with some altering. This goes against the greater good.

Furthermore, they make the argument that the native ecology never co-evolved with predators such as the felid and vulpine and so therefore they are more vulnerable to these creatures and the aforementioned creatures should not be permitted to live in their environments. This simply is not true, there existed here the Thylacine, Tasmanian and Australian devils, quolls, Thylacoleo and a myriad of other such mammals.
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>>198
Yes, there are more in zoos though. It's because they have large ranges, they are fairly solitary and they can only really live in wilderness. It's why they need to be introduced to Australia.

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>>196
>I was going to make a new thread about this but the I would be spamming the board in threads about Australian ecology I think.

Feel free to do so. That was a very cool video. I hope to see mammoths and thylacines in the future.

 No.521>>911

>>181
This image is too deceiving. I always think she has absolutely gazonga size boobers

 No.911

>>521
saw it again and had the exact same thought. stupid australia boobers

 No.916

Well, it's been a year and they still have not cloned a thylacine nor have I gotten a reply from the Minister for the Environment about my idea to introduce big cats to Australia. Sigh.....




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 No.887[Reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_population
>The optimal world population has been estimated by a team co-authored by Paul R. Ehrlich.
>Based on this, the estimation of optimum population in the 1994 study was to around 1.5 billion to 2 billion people.
>A 2014 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America concluded that, with a fertility-reduction model of one-child per female by 2100, it would take at least 140 years to reduce the population to 2 billion people by 2153.

What do you think the most effective way to artificially kill billions of people (5 billion at max) would be? Keeping in mind that if you were to kill billions of people at once, the world probably would not have enough graves for them.
One way to do it could be deploying billions of nanobots and accomplishing this over years or so but that sounds very much in the realm of sci-fi, right now at least. Artificially created virus might also be a good choice, considering the current situation.
Additionally, a random massacre of the human race would be a bad idea since ideally you would want the human race to flourish after the purge, to that regard, what metric do you think would best determine the "worth" of a human being?
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If all you want to do is just kill people then nuclear war is what you want.
I think the idea that we need a purge because Earth is near it's human carrying capacity is woefully misguided and the product of a mind that can only comprehend the past. Humans and life in general have a remarkable ability to find solutions to the problem of survival. The more individuals you have attempting to solve that problem the more chances and ability the collective has at finding a solution.

 No.902

>>893
It's not like we're actually going to do it...
Just a thought experiment on culling the human population.

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Why are Hebrews like this?

 No.904

>>901
Not so much about the earth reaching its capacity but more so about decrease in the collective intelligence of the population due to the sheer number of humans. Which is why I purposed selective culling in the post.

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Somehow a thread about who to genocide and how to do it has not turned out well. Closing the thread.




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 No.362[Reply]

Thirty minutes on the phone with a man.
He mistakes me for a woman, despite having told him my name.
I make an effort to make my voice sound lower.
I'm treated none different.
Lower still.
The misunderstanding continues.
"Have a nice day, miss."

My voice is not feminine. I know this. It must be about my spirit. People perceive me and think "woman".

Dread the feelings it ensues.
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 No.719

When I pick up the home phone they often confuse me with my mum, but that's because it's her house and phone I guess, so they ring expecting to talk to her and just think that I am her.

 No.720>>722

you will never talk with the female-voiced anonymous, stop trying to beg him

 No.722

>>720
I just wanted to make sure they were okay...

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I mumble a lot and I have a lisp and it makes me sound like I am reteaderd.

 No.724

I have a name that sounds very similar to a girl name and people mishear it for that all the time and then call me the girl name no matter what I do. It used to bother me a lot but I don't really care anymore. It's not actually my name.




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 No.667[Reply]

Is there anything really fundamentally wrong with nepotism? Or is it just the way it's put into practice that's flawed
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>>689
>And plus the masses don't know or care enough to know what they want anyway. They are idiots.
look at the results of swiss referendums, there are indeed plenty of idiots, but not the majority

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>>692
I took a quick glance but I really could not see anything particularly unusual about it, nothing that would indicate they either are idiots or not idiots. But there were a few referendums that I am kind of surprised didn't get through, such as the clean water bill, the various green food bills and the anti-Sprawl bill. But then I don't know anything about Swiss Politics or what the Bills actually wanted to implement so I can't really say for sure whether there decision was stupid or not.

I disagree with gay marriage as well but that is more personal I guess. It's interesting to see that it was fairly close to the result we got in Australia though.

 No.694>>696

This thread is getting dangerously close to the sort of politics I come here to avoid.

 No.695

yes, and two of the council of three think it's a bad thread and that the guy who wants to replace his government with a monarchy is dangerously close to stepping outside of the realm of philosophy and into activism, but it's not quite there yet so there's nothing to do.

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>>694
I myself feel that way too and I made this post >>693 the problem is that I feel compelled to reply to posts even though that ends up taking the thread in directions I don't want it to go... I won't reply to any more such posts.




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 No.274[Reply]>>414

bugge
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 No.393

Also, I thought this was a cool report.
http://titag.org/2016/2016papers/walkercoconutcrab.pdf

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>>274
I just realized. The way that beetle's mandibles are is kind of like elite's mouths in Halo.

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>>277
I am more of a leg man myself.

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>>566
is this sailor moon

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>>582
It's Hakumei to Mikochi.




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 No.644[Reply]

he become a pizzo



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 No.544[Reply]

In the US we call this an AI powered by machine learning and deep neural networks.
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>>576
Huh. I figured it would make a pizza by having it spin around and drop the ingredients on it and then lower it into an oven and dispense it, but 3 minutes seems rather fast. I make pizzas myself and they usually take about 7 minutes, although I use a lot more cheese so I suppose less might allow for faster cooking. Hmmm.

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>>571
I see that pretty often, FamilyMarts too, but maybe that's because I like in a dystopian hellscape megacity.

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>>579
I love those things but it must be hard to repair if there's a problem...

 No.581

>>578
Hmm, yeah that's pretty amazing to do it in 3 minutes. The machines are made in Italy apparently, so there must be some heavy research into fast pizzas there. I'm kind of surprised, though, I'd figure Italy would be the last place to develop something like this.

 No.583

>>580
it must be fucking awful to repair. but they do look great, cyberpunk imageboards are ripe with photos of these things.




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 No.120[Reply]>>121

 No.121

>>120
Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet
Engage!

 No.125>>391

I really need to get back into watching this but the 1st season is so slow.

 No.391

>>125
I don't really get why people dislike the first season. I liked it...

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キタ━━━(゚∀゚)━━━!!




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 No.208[Reply]

(going to avoid greening an entire post)

Doctors in Japan say a man’s accidental ingestion of a toothpick left him dealing with months of pain in his back and leg—all caused by said toothpick getting stuck in his rectum. Once the toothpick was removed, the man’s troubles fortunately went away.

The strange medical tale was detailed this week in BMJ Case Reports. According to the report, the 67-year-old man first reached out for help when he had been experiencing two months of pain along his right buttock and thigh. MRI scans suggested that the source of this pain was stenosis around the lower back, a condition where the spaces within our spine begin to narrow—this narrowing can then pinch the surrounding nerves, leading to painful or numbing sensations. Though stenosis can be managed conservatively with drugs and physical therapy, the doctors opted for surgery to treat it.

When they performed a CT scan on the man just before the operation, though, they found a surprise in his rectum: a 7-centimeter-long rod eventually determined to be a toothpick that the man had accidentally swallowed. Six days after the find, the man’s pain in his right leg quickly got worse, prompting doctors to remove the toothpick from its hiding place as soon as possible. Thankfully, after they did, his pain went away and hasn’t come back since, all but confirming the toothpick as the real cause of his symptoms.

Most of the time, when a foreign body in the rectum stirs up trouble, it’s because someone intentionally put it there, for whatever reason. But it’s not unheard of for hardier materials, like animal bones, introduced into the body the more common way to wind up stuck there. In this case, the doctors theorize that the pointy end of the toothpick had ended up right next to one particular branch of nerves in the spinal cord, causing enough pressure to account for the localized symptoms along the man’s right butt and leg.

The exact series of unfortunate events that led to this man’s case is “extremely rare,” the doctors wrote, but “physicians should be mindful to avoid misdiagnosis.”
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>>212
>>213
I trust doc's judgement
the man has a degree

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>>211
In retrospect how did this actually occur if you were just wiping...

 No.507

>>505
Thin paper, I hope.

 No.513>>518

Japanese space age toilets should become the norm so that we can avoid such unfortunate accidents in the future. Nobody want to be falsely diagnosed as a homo gayman.

 No.518

>>513
Are those ones that come with bidets? Because the world could certainly use bidets becoming the norm.




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 No.255[Reply]

AAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhHHHhhhhHHhhhhHHhhh
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>>503
>so a creature that is exactly the same but breeds faster and with less resources would simply outcompete it.
Waiting any day now for the rabbit uprising.

 No.508

>>506
That already happened in Australia so they used Calicivirus to genocide them.

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>>503
>adding pain receptors and such adds complexity and adds cost.
This is what I mean by seeing higher reasoning. There is no calculation of cost to evolution, it is simply competition.

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>>509
Cost is a part of competition. If a creature performs nearly the same or exactly the same as another creature only it has some advanced features that require longer gestation and more resources to be consumed for that gestation then it will be outcompeted by the creature that doesn't require that.

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>>510
>>271
you have no way to connect what you're talking about to the inner experience of the fly. I heard flys only feel pain on tuesdays.




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 No.105[Reply]

Wonder when the steam release will come out
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>>405
this thread was made a year ago

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>>82164
December 29, 2020 was 357 days ago.

 No.442

>>404
a year or two more

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 No.460[Reply]

If we had 73 days in a month then we wouldn't need to alternate between 30 and 31 arbitrarily. 5 months a year is all you need. Less confusing
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 No.467

but there'd be fewer Tewi threads...

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>>463
Why are you being so rude?

 No.469

>>468
Because I was samefagging

 No.471

If you want the months to be equal lengths then the simplest solution is to have 12 months of that length plus a 13th intercalary month with all the extra days at the end. That's the system used, for instance, by the Ethiopian Calendar.

 No.473

What if we had 1 month a year and then change the length of a day by 59.178s to compensate for the roughly 1/4th of day that each year has? This would cut down on the number of months and make their length more consistent while also getting rid of leap years.




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