Both photos are important. Like when they show cops in their uniforms when charged with a crime. While they should show both, side by side, it’s still good to show people that what appear to be otherwise upstanding citizens can be and often are criminals of the highest order.

If you drink the bar’s liquor, the bar has to buy/make more liquor. Each unit stolen results in a unit of additional cost for the bar.

If you pirate a game, the studio doesn’t have to remake what you pirated. Each unit stolen doesn’t result in additional cost (only potentially lost income).

This is called a rival good…

Petrol based nitrogen for fertilizers is def not optimal, it’ll also die along with fossil fuel production. They’re really only so cost effective because the ammonia is a byproduct of petrol refinement for fuel though. The more we move away from fossil fuels, the more we’ll move away it as well since costs will rise.…

Yeah, that’s the “nitrogen poisoning” though. Not so much poison as the opposite of poison though.

You win, sadly, only 3 people realize it :(

Nah. I’m all for GMO science, but that’s just not true. We waste over 50% of the global food production each year. We have a distribution problem, not a supply problem. Better roads and cheaper more accessible refrigeration technologies will do more than GMO’s anyways. GMO’s aren’t increasing aggregate food yield by…

Going back to horses and straw hats probably isn’t necessary or optimal man (if that’s what you mean by Traditional Farming). Things like No Till Farming, Integrated Pest Management, etc . . . are all great though, and a step away from this horrible industrial food system.

Famines were/are more of an economic phenomenon. Ag subsidies and increased trade pretty much make surpluses unnecessary - too high of surpluses can actually cause famines, by dropping out the market price, causing farms to fold. I’m not really sure what Wes is getting at with “Traditional Farming”, but leaning…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…



It’s actually super common in lakes and streams, and very damaging. Remember when Toledo couldn’t drink their water last year? Yep, that was from non-point nitrogen runoff. It’s so bad it almost killed a body of water that’s pretty much a freshwater sea, several times : /

I’m not an agricultural Luddite, but we scaled past subsistence in ancient Mesopotamia. If you’re not past subsistence, you can’t build pyramids, or have civilization with specialists.

If you’re talking about slavery in the American South, that was mostly cotton as a cash crop.

Wasting 25% of our food is a pretty huge…

I think the problem is more because people actually think this is a fair criticism of communism. It’s a fair critique of Leninism, or vanguard communism at best (Leninism, Trots, Maoism, Stalinism) - but the fact that people don’t know the difference is pretty sad. Which isn’t really fair to hang on the video, because…

I’m a smoker and fat, and accept both are bad. Giving me shit about either isn’t really going to make a difference either way, but you’re entitled to your opinion. People who feel the need to insist their bad/unhealthy habits and lifestyles must be respected and condoned are way more obnoxious than people who think…

It’s good, really good. I’m pretty sure the “Post Apocalyptic Dawson’s Creek/This seems like it should be on MTV” pilot was just a trojan horse to get the show greenlit, so they could go in a totally different direction. It went from a “watch when bored” to “first pick” mid season 2.

It’s a pretty brutal, complex,…

I was hoping we could get a fresh re-imagining, Anarky has always been such a lame use of a potential goldmine.

Give us a new Anarky: a misguided, female, borderline antihero (like Capt Cold), an out and out class warrior inspired by/continuing Oliver’s original work of targeting the wealthy and powerful, corrupt or…

Final Fantasy Tactics 2.

My GF and I are Jedi on Shadowlands. If you see us on, feel free to add: Yambodrael and Inhalla.

The Japanese were beaten before we dropped the bomb, and offered conditional surrender before it. We firebombed the entire nation into rubble. We accepted their surrender after dropping the bomb, with the same terms (namely the preservation of the Emperor) after we dropped the bomb that they offered before. It had…

Hey man, no fair reading history books past what they give you in highschool!

We’re essentially getting an Xcom: The movie, and people are complaining?

It is if Bucky won’t be given due process (which any reasonable court would exonerate him) - he’d absolutely fight to save him.

Bucky is a victim, not a criminal. The real criminals are the ones who made him into The Winter Soldier. Cap would never allow the powerful to punish an innocent man (let alone a veteran who…