DrFuggles

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[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. Just following your source to its conclusion, I think it's safe to say OA (organic agriculture) is better all around:

7.1 Pros • Lower emissions of CO 2 , N 2 O, and CH4 • Enhanced soil and water quality • Lower energy use per land area • Higher energy efficiency per land area 7.2 Cons • Lower soil profile SOC stocks [i.e. how much carbon is in the soil] • Lower crop yields • Higher land requirement • Lower energy production per land area

Your conclusion that we'd have to clear more land for agriculture use if we all switched to OA seems flawed; e.g. here in Germany we use about 60% of agricultural land to raise livestock feed like corn etc (https://www.landwirtschaft.de/tier-und-pflanze/pflanze/was-waechst-auf-deutschlands-feldern). Seems to me like eating less meat and growing idk lentils or beans would not immediately lead to food insecurity.

This is also what the FAO says: yes, OA leads to yield reduction when compared to conventional methods, but not to food scarcity and instead to healthier ecosystems (https://www.fao.org/organicag/oa-faq/oa-faq6/en/).

(sry gotta go, more.later)

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

meh. nutritional value is about the same, yeah, but that's not the point of organic food. people who claim that eating an all organic diet makes you better are yahoos.

The point of organic farming is that it is just all-around better for the planet, the soil, the organisms therein and less polluting.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think they mean the destruction of Carthage 😉

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In present-day Germany, commercial hops cultivation is pretty much confined between 47.5 - 48.5°, i.e. southern Germany. Do you know why that is?

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I was wondering how hops was sourced back in the in colder climates! Like, they brewed beer in fairly northern cities even back then, where hops availability was probably limited. I wouldn't have guessed they sourced it from abroad (here: probably Belgium or NL) rather than omitting it.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Wikipedia in Video Form is a great line! I feel much the same way, but I think that's not the entire picture. Wikipedia is a lot of declarative knowledge (i.e. what things are and Al's maybe why they are), but YouTube is a lot of procedural knowledge for me. That is how to X. My GF and I finally found an apartment. I don't know how to replace broken light switches, but in five minutes YouTube taught me how.

I didn't know how to replace a faucet - now I do. I did not know how to insert a metal screw fitting into the furniture I was constructing - now I do. I wanted to measure our energy consumption, figuring there had to be a way to it it smart/connected and Open Source. YT content creators showed me how.

The list goes oooonnnnnn

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are in the wrong side of this.Theres a German doc shedding some light on this issue:

https://youtu.be/vogs4NzqI3Q (money quote around 7:07), basically "half the perpetrators of child sexual abuse do not feel an attraction to kids. On the other hand, half the people who do feel attracted to kids do not become perpetrators."

Basically, half the people abusing kids don't do so because they're attracted to kids but presumably because they're easier victims whereas half the people getting attracted to life feel disgusted by themselves.

It's, for all that we know, as congenital as being straight or queer. Now, with queer and straight preference, you don't necessarily run into consent problems. Imagine you notice yourself being attracted to, idk, 15-year-olds. You're otherwise a reasonably well adjusted human being. That's gotta be devastating. You can't help it, you were born this way. There's no redemption arc here, the only thing you can do is just never ever give in to this feeling.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yo, Just wanted to give you props for remaining far calmer in this discussion than I would've been able to.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

nope, that's called due process under the rule of law. Innocent until proven guilty. His guilt doesn't seem to have been established beyond reasonable doubt, if I understand correctly.

Now, if the police had turned up damning evidence, he would not have been sent home, but sentenced. And hopefully been put in jail for a very long time.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

okay, thanks for the reply! I understand it now.

 

Yo,

I just got a "come join us on Discord"-Popup inviting Sync users to join the community for Sync for Lemmy on Discord.

Two questions:

  1. Why and
  2. Why?

I don't want the join another Sync community when I have this one right here AND I especially do not want to join a community on Discord.

It just seems a bit tine deaf?

LJ, the reason I feel so strongly about this is that I really like Sync! We have an awesome app and we have a good community here. What gives?

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago

lots of good advice here. I just want to restate: do yourself a favor and migrate your HDDs over to any solid state drive. Whether that means "classic" SSDs with a SATA-Port or M.2s is your prerogative, but in either case you'll start wondering how you could ever stand that s pinning noise and the vibrations and the slow, slow data transfer.

[–] DrFuggles@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Lemmy's bot problem is so much worse than Reddit's.

 

Hi,

I'd be super happy if Jerboa featured a native way to tag users in a thread or even hashtags of the expanded fediverse. Is there currently a way to do that and I just missed it? For an example of what I mean, I'll refer to the Reddit Enhancement Suite on Desktop.

Say I want to reply to two users in a thread in the same comment. I'll reply to user A's post so they get a notification, but I also want to make sure user B also sees my comment. I start typing /u/user and RES automatically gives ma a drop-down list to Auto complete of all the users populating this thread that match what I've started to type out. In this case, RES suggests a drop down list of

  • userB
  • userC
  • userD

I click on userB and hit send on my comment. Now both user A and user B receive a notification.

Is that possible? And if so, could we apply the same logic to hashtags in the fediverse or Mastodon to begin with?

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