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Swedneck
joined 2 years ago
go have a look at children in gaza right now and let me know how this registers on the scale after seeing that.
SHOOT
so why exactly doesn't the government just buy the excess rice from the farmers instead of paying them to not grow? it's rice, it's not difficult to store basically forever, and they clearly do have stockpiles to dip into..
just build a bunch of huge silos and enjoy never ever having to worry about a food shortage, and local farmers being able to grow precisely as much rice as makes sense for them.
still not healthy for them to be 85% of what's pollinating crops, though
IMO it's just propaganda, it's as simple as that. Evil people with no empathy want everyone to turn off their own empathy, so they can use their positions of power to exploit everyone else.
If people (sensibly) think that we should strive to be as kind as possible, it exposes the evil people as being obviously evil when they exploit others, and because we're trying to be as nice as possible we then wouldn't tolerate that and we'd take away their power so they can't exploit people any more.
the terrible awful no-good reality is that being kind is just objectively the most effective thing, and obviously the whole reason why us humans have become so powerful.
it's incredibly easy to show why: you have a tree with 1 apple within easy reach, do you A) give the other person a boost so they can reach all the other apples and then spend the evening gorging with your new friend, or B) FUCKING MURDER THEM and eat the one apple while you watch the life fade from their eyes?
A sane person obviously chooses A, and it's mind boggling that this has somehow become even remotely debatable.
actual real humans in reality also have this amazing ability to "talk" to each other, allowing them to communicate and say things like "hey you're being a dick, stop being a dick and we can help each other instead, if you don't stop then me and everyone i know will throw you into the ocean"
maggot muncher (complimentary)
honestly everything but the lunch break feels detached from reality as it is, there should at the very least be a 10 minute break every hour
imagine if the sides of our jaws were disconnected in the middle and indenpentently movable, we had no palates, and one side only had molars and the other only had incisors, and we had to use our hands and tongue to get food into the throat.
i can only assume lobsters look at us and feel equally uneasy about how we work.
euro note with a train going faster than 50km/h