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DrFuggles

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  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • I disagree. Just following your source to its conclusion, I think it's safe to say OA (organic agriculture) is better all around:

    7.1 Pros • Lower emissions of CO 2 , N 2 O, and CH4 • Enhanced soil and water quality • Lower energy use per land area • Higher energy efficiency per land area 7.2 Cons • Lower soil profile SOC stocks [i.e. how much carbon is in the soil] • Lower crop yields • Higher land requirement • Lower energy production per land area

    Your conclusion that we'd have to clear more land for agriculture use if we all switched to OA seems flawed; e.g. here in Germany we use about 60% of agricultural land to raise livestock feed like corn etc (https://www.landwirtschaft.de/tier-und-pflanze/pflanze/was-waechst-auf-deutschlands-feldern). Seems to me like eating less meat and growing idk lentils or beans would not immediately lead to food insecurity.

    This is also what the FAO says: yes, OA leads to yield reduction when compared to conventional methods, but not to food scarcity and instead to healthier ecosystems (https://www.fao.org/organicag/oa-faq/oa-faq6/en/).

    (sry gotta go, more.later)

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

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  • meh. nutritional value is about the same, yeah, but that's not the point of organic food. people who claim that eating an all organic diet makes you better are yahoos.

    The point of organic farming is that it is just all-around better for the planet, the soil, the organisms therein and less polluting.

  • Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling

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  • Why are many men growing beards again ?

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  • I think they mean the destruction of Carthage 😉

  • When nature takes over.

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  • ok ok I won't!

  • Can you live without YouTube ?

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  • Wikipedia in Video Form is a great line! I feel much the same way, but I think that's not the entire picture. Wikipedia is a lot of declarative knowledge (i.e. what things are and Al's maybe why they are), but YouTube is a lot of procedural knowledge for me. That is how to X. My GF and I finally found an apartment. I don't know how to replace broken light switches, but in five minutes YouTube taught me how.

    I didn't know how to replace a faucet - now I do. I did not know how to insert a metal screw fitting into the furniture I was constructing - now I do. I wanted to measure our energy consumption, figuring there had to be a way to it it smart/connected and Open Source. YT content creators showed me how.

    The list goes oooonnnnnn

  • ‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm

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  • alright, I'm done here. You want to be offended, that's your prerogative. Just know that there's a difference between calling someone and something they say ignorant.

  • ‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm

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  • I don't know man, you say you want to learn but you act really offended when things are pointed out to you.

    Please forgive my choice of words, English is not my first language. What word would you use to describe someone who raises a point commonly used as a scare tactic that was also addressed in the submitted article and is literally a two second Google search away from being explained?

  • ‘It’s got nasty’: the battle to build the US’s biggest solar power farm

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  • regarding your edit: I think You're being downvoted for repeating talking points addressed in the article itself. Also, it's ... ignorant. If large solar farms routinely fried birds, why do almost all countries routinely build solar farms? Why do particularly German households continue to deck out their roofs and railings with solar modules? How exactly even would a solar module fry a bird, seeing as how it's surface is made from glass - you know, like a window.

    The bird frying thing is a exception to concentrated solar power arrays , which was the name suggests concentrate solar rays in order to heat up a buffer medium to several thousand degrees.

  • Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel

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  • You are in the wrong side of this.Theres a German doc shedding some light on this issue:

    https://youtu.be/vogs4NzqI3Q (money quote around 7:07), basically "half the perpetrators of child sexual abuse do not feel an attraction to kids. On the other hand, half the people who do feel attracted to kids do not become perpetrators."

    Basically, half the people abusing kids don't do so because they're attracted to kids but presumably because they're easier victims whereas half the people getting attracted to life feel disgusted by themselves.

    It's, for all that we know, as congenital as being straight or queer. Now, with queer and straight preference, you don't necessarily run into consent problems. Imagine you notice yourself being attracted to, idk, 15-year-olds. You're otherwise a reasonably well adjusted human being. That's gotta be devastating. You can't help it, you were born this way. There's no redemption arc here, the only thing you can do is just never ever give in to this feeling.

  • Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel

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  • yo, Just wanted to give you props for remaining far calmer in this discussion than I would've been able to.

  • Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel

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  • nope, that's called due process under the rule of law. Innocent until proven guilty. His guilt doesn't seem to have been established beyond reasonable doubt, if I understand correctly.

    Now, if the police had turned up damning evidence, he would not have been sent home, but sentenced. And hopefully been put in jail for a very long time.

  • United Ireland would cost €20 billion for 20 years, new study finds

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  • Alternative iOS App Stores Only Work for 'Grace Period' When Traveling Outside of EU

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  • I mean, it's absolutely petty, yes. OTOH, while it worded as being aimed at EU users spending a short while outside of the US, it's very clearly aimed at non-EU citizens trying to also profit from the EU ruling.

    Example: if a US citizen takes a weeklong trip to Italy, they now have access to third-party stores, but Apple basically makes them unusable as soon as they're stateside. Can't have nice things.

  • E-bike riders aren’t wearing helmets — and head trauma cases are through the roof

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  • I would call you a sweet summer child, but I've stood in your shoes exactly. A while ago I had a serious bike accident because I slipped from the wet pedals and landed head first on the concrete. Doc in the ER told me I was able to walk it off because I was wearing a helmet (which now had a serious crack).

    I posted online about it and while a lot of people are logged the story with their own various tales, it was also the day I learned about the very vocal minority of bike riders who completely detest helmets. many of them go so far as to say that helmets are actively dangerous.

    Their arguments are mostly variations on

    1. there are no scientific studies on bike helmets
    2. good bike infrastructure should make wearing helmets obsolete (aka the Netherlands argument)

  • Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?

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  • lots of good advice here. I just want to restate: do yourself a favor and migrate your HDDs over to any solid state drive. Whether that means "classic" SSDs with a SATA-Port or M.2s is your prerogative, but in either case you'll start wondering how you could ever stand that s pinning noise and the vibrations and the slow, slow data transfer.

  • China’s massive Desert Solar/Wind Project will eventually produce 455 Gigawatts of power, enough to power all of India.

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  • Initial Impressions of GrapheneOS

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  • Personally my phone is my backup wallet though contactless payments. I may forget to bring my wallet with me, but never my phone .

  • Robot baristas and AI chefs caused a stir at CES 2024 as casino union workers fear for their jobs

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  • I can't help but feel like your sampling might be skewed.

    Vollautomaten (I. E. Fully automated coffee machines that brew espressos and cappuccinos etc) tend to make worse coffee, I agree. That's why I don't use the one in the office.

    Having an experienced barista grind you an exactly measured dose fresh for your coffee at a good Café is quite nice, on the other hand.

    But that's nothing to do with Germany or Australia.