XiELEd

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[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I hate how everything has to be monetized nowadays, or how money is to be expected for everything. Eventually people who provide free service or altruism will be seen as competition.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It was recently on local news, but that's not the only conflict that involved water cannons and ships. From the article you can see Vietnam— they once saved filipino fishermen from potentially drowning. (from Philippines) https://www.rappler.com/nation/233079-how-filipino-boat-crew-was-saved-west-philippine-sea/ (from Vietnam) https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/all-gestures-no-words-as-vietnamese-fishermen-saved-22-filipinos-3940276.html. If china continues their actions, there are bound to be casualties. And if that happens, I'm not sure any of us will forgive them.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

China is already bullying the Philippines too out of our own territorial waters, and they have already caused severe injuries to our countrymen. They literally want an entire sea to themselves and leave us with none. Just look at their nine dash line.

Edit: Here's their nine-dash-line, they even want Malaysia's sea, which is a long way away from chinese mainland, while they want seas close to the land territories of so many SEA nations.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Soil Science Simplified by Neal Eash and others, and Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse.

Soil Science Simplified is a bit textbook-y but it's easy to understand, and it's about soil in the context of, well, anything that could be used on or in the soil, such as in agriculture and building infrastructure. I'm not that far into it but if you remember clay, sand, silt and loam soil from Elementary, then it goes into much more, such as how the soil made out of certain minerals can behave like.

Landrace Gardening is a lighter read for me, and I'm honestly just reading it to feel persuaded to grow healthy plants. It does feel like the author is hammering his points into you, but there are some useful information here and there. Then I'm proceeding to Principles of Cultivar Development by Walter Fehr.

Why am I reading these? I got interested in preserving Siling Labuyo, a local cultivar of hot chili in the Philippines, which is gradually being overshadowed by Thai Bird's Eye... Most people in my country don't know what Labuyo really looks like nowadays, despite being popular in the past... the bird gods have randomly given us labuyo some time ago, and since labuyo has usually been grown wild, it has quite a high genetic diversity. I'm thinking of cultivating it. Maybe make a super labuyo and make it get popular by attaining the title of hottest chili again. But that's obviously a pipe dream, lol. Anyway this is what ADHD does to you /shrug

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I think people still pirate music by downloading them off of youtube

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

xManager Spotify.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I can't find it, do you specifically know where?

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In my experience Odyssey has that too, even on unrelated videos, and they're often liked for some reason. Atleast on Youtube you see those comments only on newest

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

The 2nd option, as a consumer lol.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

"dutiful consumers" kinda icks me lol

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Their content has better reach on Youtube, though. And has a better comment section which would be relevant to the video (which Oddysee has a problem with)

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That was the time when z-lib was easily accessible on the clearnet, the time when their links was short?

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