interurbain1er

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[–] interurbain1er 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're joking but when I was living in Asia, people would constantly tell me I looked like whatever random white celebs they saw last from Brad pit, Di caprio, George Clooney or Wentworth miller from a fan of prison break and so on, and I even got Vladimir Poutine a few times. I could have understood Rupert Grint but the rest was just pure "cross race effect". :D

Happens to everyone.

[–] interurbain1er 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super mario bros was clearly about promoting poligamy.

[–] interurbain1er 6 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Complaining about "the way it's included" has been a trick to try to gatekeep minorities that dates back from to the origin of time.

For those people always pretend it's ok to include X except in "that particular context" or "in that particular way" and unsurprisingly enough it's never the right context or the right way. Unless of course the context is out of their way.

I've seen the same boring argument repeated for every single minorities over the last 50 years.

[–] interurbain1er 1 points 2 weeks ago

As an Harvard alumni, I got the joke.

[–] interurbain1er 8 points 2 weeks ago

First, we actually don't really need that research, indoor growing is a very well known activities that is already performed in many places. There are large indoor farms in northern Europe (cold), in the middle east (hot). Greenhouse, tunnels, aren't exactly new.

Second, it's not what those companies were doing, they were trying to create farming factories that are fully automated, their goals was to remove humans, not to find ways to fight climate change.

[–] interurbain1er 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember very well bioware games and others in past decades got the same kind of reaction because « omg gay romance, that kind of agenda shouldn't be pushed in a video game, think of the children ».

So now the new social "battle" is trans right and the game has a gender questioning character (From a review, I haven't played) that seems to take at most a whole 5 minutes over the course of the whole game. Why not.

Now the game has been designed to cater to 10 year old and not the older crowd who played the original so it doesn't have the depth you'd want and the dialog is on the nose. Well, too bad. Just play something else.

[–] interurbain1er 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nestle and Boeing produces things that you consume. Bezos is a billionaire because of all the shit that you bought from him.

If everyone refused to fly, Boeing would disappear in about 5 years and if they didn't buy shit they don't need, there wouldn't be a fast fashion industry.

You can turn it around as much as you want at the end it's the behaviour of the masses that matters.

[–] interurbain1er 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I never understood the economics of those Agtech.

The margins on vegetables are shit.

Consumers won't care that each of your potatoes had it's own email addresse, a twitter account and was monitored by an AI.

Farmers are not just redneck assholes who needed some MIT grad to tell them how to increase yield, there's already a huge agro industry and research and we've reached a point where the yield of carrots and others is pretty much already maximised. Assuming they are genius and get a 1% yield improvement that would be enormous.

A farm hand cost $25k a year, and engineer cost $150k and you haven't priced in the tech and the building...

So you basically get a business where the cost of operation is about 20 time higher (and that's conservative) than a guy with a plot of land and a tractor for sensibly the same yield (if not worse) and zero product differentiation in the market.

Well, I guess they just figured out the economics...

[–] interurbain1er 2 points 2 weeks ago

The sentences when someone gets a sentence for 100's, or 1000's of years, do they have the same function?

Basically the judge saying that no matter how much time credit your get for good behaviour while in prison you're still intended to spend the rest of your life there.

[–] interurbain1er 0 points 2 weeks ago

Hannibal Lecter ? (The great)

[–] interurbain1er 3 points 3 weeks ago

McKinsey, Deloitte & co will provide that service.

[–] interurbain1er 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does anyone else know a daring character named after a state with a five letter last name?

That's so reductive. The guy is MUCH MUCH MORE.

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