guangming

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[–] guangming@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For those rare occasions when magic won't get them out of a pickle, their melee weapon is a large cast-iron.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think most people objecting to it are primarily objecting on moral grounds, not legal ones.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Had a book assigned for history class that totally and forever changed my understanding of Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World I think it's called.

Dude and his empire basically singlehandedly spread the written word, religious freedom, and lots of other ideas we generally consider good today. Not saying he didn't kill a lot, because he did, but his historical impact is much more complex than "barbarian invader kills a bunch of people"

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Look into housing co-ops! They're basically this and there are already (kind of) a ton of them around!

I've been in one for a couple years now and it's going pretty well.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

me, a person who's recently begun to suspect i might be autistic:

óoooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yep.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

the cognitive dissonance is astounding

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

this had me actually cackling for a minute, thanks for sharing

 
 

I think the reason some people might believe this claim is because we're taught in school that the moon's gravity causes the tides. I think the reasoning goes, "well if the moon's gravity can affect the tides, surely it can affect smaller things too"

 

Also, would it matter if it was the plain-style mask or n95?

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For interesting, well-written, and in-depth articles I recommend:

The New Yorker Harper's (not Harper's Bazaar) The Atlantic New York Times Magazine

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Notally for a while and I think it checks all your boxes.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get why you'd think it would be censored? If anything the movie skewers US capitalism, so the CCP would probably be happy for folks to see it.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I believe both of these questions have been thoroughly answered by the scientific community.

You're right that meat is more nutrient dense than plants. But if we were to replace meat production with crop production for human consumption at scale, we would be averaging far more (I think on the order of 10x) human calories per acre.

When you replace a beef farm with vegan food production, you're not just planting crops on the beef farm. Each of those cows eats for years--crops that humans generally wouldn't eat grown on other farms specifically as livestock feed. You need much, much more land and resources to produce 100 calories of meat than you do to produce 100 calories of vegetables.

[–] guangming@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a gig worker who delivers food to people.

I almost went into CS and consider myself fairly well-educated, so I think although I'm not in tech I share a slightly similar background and sensibilities with Lemmy folks. I just got on here a couple days ago and it kinda reminds me of reddit back when I joined (hopefully minus the racism and spez's favorite subreddit)

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