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Oh sure, but then again look at South Korea! India! Argentina!

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Both are true: modern food systems can improve availability and shelf-stability while still degrading average nutritional quality.

How is this not a total nonsequitur from the parent thread??

Depends on if you're scaremongering about Capitalists or Commies.

Wow, thank you for this! I'd forgotten about enclosure for some years. > The law locks up the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But leaves the greater villa…

> Myspace is a favela. You've ever been to a Brazilian favela? It basically, politically, represents the structure of Myspace. You've got this remote, distant, old-school Brazilian…

"It costs money, therefore it's impossible." You think social democrats never heard of a balanced budget? I don't know how you "fiscal conservatives" take yourselves seriously.

Vagueposting is much ruder.

Everything you believe about the police you gleaned from children's cartoons as a toddler.

> he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed This is an unequivocally reasonable approach. The prohibition of cannabis is a grotesque charade.

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What the hell are you talking about?

I was afforded limited exposure to alcohol and sex starting around age 13, and I've got a vastly healthier relationship with the two than the rest of my society. I think the intern…

Americans, broadly, didn't vote—those who did are obviously brainwashed cultists.

It's slavery or nothing, eh? Whatever happened to nuance?

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A parent as enlightened as you should have no trouble asking at dinner—without judgement or advice—"and how was your smoke sesh out back of the 7-11?"

I think it is so funny, albeit frustrating, that prevalent attitudes--both liberal and conservative--consistently lay the blame on the consumer side, and not on the production side…

> You know, you know how communism was supposed to be this nirvana where a central authority would collect all the information and dictate all operations for the good of the people…

"a person who measures the value generated by each worker/team" seems... impossible.

Instead of massive, centralized corporations, consider the highly successful family firms in Emilia-Romagna[0], as a model. These businesses have thrived for generations in a highl…

> The net of law is spread so wide, \ No sinner from its sweep may hide. \ Its meshes are so fine and strong, \ They take in every child of wrong. \ O wondrous web of mystery! \ Bi…

> We live in the dystopia we deserve. We have built it with our own hands and it is here to stay. That's a bit unfair. Not all of us who live in it had a hand in building it. In fa…