FreeBeard

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[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cant you get chicken cooked in it's own blood in Portugal? Why ist this your favourite?

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

One Word you mentioned showed nicely what you missed here: Plain

Originally it was called an aeroplane. This could be translated with "flat thing in the air". Which is exactly as ridiculous as your other examples in German. The difference is that Germans don't mind complicated long words where English does so they just drop the part they don't like.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

This guy sporolates!

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is a strange take because economics builds on this principle to function. If you found a producing company today it will have to buy a material and - by the magic you apply to it - sell it for more. Like a refinery buying crude oil and selling gasoline. Or a goldsmith buying gold and selling jewellery. It's how everything works.

On a broader take it reveals a Marxian perspective on a market where every item looses its value to the cost of the labor that goes in it. For the alchemist (if everyone found out his Pb->Au secret) the price will drop until it's worth the labor that went in it because everyone else also can't sell cheaper.

So labor is all that has value. And owning the means of production hasn't.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

If your rigor cortis lasts for more than 2 hours please consolidate a doctor.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Not if you are a toddler. Are you a toddler?

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Correct but if the effects are severe we could already say that it's bad. If they are harmful the effect of currently normal levels is on the milde side.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The toxicity of micro plastics is very minor. To get to the point where it is a problem you need to be exposed to it for a very long time.

I think our asbestos is halogenated organic chemicals like PFAS. They are toxic in every way and we are addicted to their use in food chemistry. Not to eat or anything but to make the packaging look nice.

Because they are indestructible by any natural way their dose in the water supply is ever rising. The cost of health issues is already in the hundred billions.

Micro plastics might be a problem for our children when the dosage in clean water gets to extreme levels.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

I don't believe I'm underwater civilized life. Think about the main two technical advancements that were crucial to our development: The wheel and fire. Both make living more energy efficient by saving energy and getting more from food.

But both are impossible in water. The high resistance of water (Vs air) is physically impossible to overcome and hot stuff is impossible to contain without advanced technology.

Without lungs octopuses wont make it far if you ask me.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

This question is as American as it gets. No mention that it has no interest to everybody that is not from the US. The topic is about unhealthy food that is made almost similar in an anti human economy that only cares for price reduction. It's also very Reddit.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

In similarity to coffee: Consider very small producers. The problem with coffe and chocolate is that the real taste only results from the last production steps (after fermentation and roasting). That means that companies that buy from many small farms (sometimes hundreds) have no clue which farm did it the best and thus the farmers also don't know it.

But because only the farmers have a really strong influence on the quality of the chocolate they need to know if what they did was right.

Now a small company might have their own farms or work with very few suppliers they can give feedback about the quality. The farmers can produce better raw chocolate beans and the chocolate tastes best.

Also because the farmers learn their worth we westeners can't exploit them so nicely and we avoid slavery.

[–] FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the Sound they make and a phenomenon called Sand liquification . Basically it means that Vibrations and Air turn Sand in a liquid like state.

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