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Charmonium said:
@KMFJD My first guess was prison. But wait, human rights issue? Even for pigs though . . . Farmed fish and shellfish I don't really have a problem with. But pigs are actually pretty intelligent.
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Shellfish being farmed is a life not too different from a wild life for them. They're still filtering "shit in water". 😛
Farmed salmon is nasty to taste for me though.
 
It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's the things you know that aren't true.

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty. That's all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." - John Keats
 
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Muse said:
It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's the things you know that aren't true.

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty. That's all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." - John Keats
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In the early 1970s, Ford Motor Company was producing the Maverick, a compact car marketed as an affordable and efficient vehicle. However, the demand for the Maverick was not as high as Ford had anticipated, and they found themselves with a surplus of unsold cars.
To deal with this surplus, Ford decided to store thousands of unsold Mavericks in the Subtropolis caves located in Kansas City, Missouri. Subtropolis is a man-made underground complex of limestone mines, covering over 55 million square feet, and is home to many businesses that use the caves for storage and other purposes.
Ford leased about 25 acres of the cave complex, which was ideal for storing the cars as the caves are naturally climate-controlled with temperatures ranging between 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. The cars were kept in the caves until they could be sold, which reportedly took several years.
The storage of the Mavericks in the Subtropolis caves became somewhat of a legend in the automotive world, with many car enthusiasts and historians fascinated by the idea of thousands of unsold cars sitting underground for years. Today, the Subtropolis complex is still in use, and while the Mavericks are no longer stored there, the story of their time underground remains a unique piece of automotive history.
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Procrastination, world champions:

The cathedral of Narbonne was started in 1272 and still isn't completed. The steeple of the previous cathedral, built in 890, is still in place as construction of the new cathedral hasn't affected it yet.

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KMFJD said:
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That's an interesting way of government, bailing out the people and not the businesses
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Maybe because the legal structure/environment there allowed them to do so? Or because the damages of punishment against a mortgage-payer would outweigh the costs of a complete housing bubble collapse--their housing market is propped up by a lot of government spending because government spending pads GDP stats and thus "economic analysis".

Government is not a person in the sense of "single will" nor "emotions". All governments' lifeblood are based on the strength of their coffers. Thus, they are bound by similar incentives as private companies, but with "immortality" and without "maximizing profit". But though it doesn't maximize profit, it still "wants" to have greater liquid inflows than outflows.

Kyle is a Commie virgin. He never tasted what it was like in vintage China when Mao was around and the Cultural Revolution.

Government is always going to decide based on the bottom line. China's got different priorities that's all. They abolished the one-child policy because they're on the wrong side of the population pyramid and need taxable heads to breed, but the cost of living is so expensive the "market" still results in no babies.

The totalitarian regime may not hammer everything, but where enforcement is the strictest are "taboos against the state". What becomes taboo varies on the local flavor of the state, but crossing THAT line is where you get jailed fast. Due process doesn't exist de jure nor de facto. Government didn't provide you notice? It doesn't matter there like it does in the Anglosphere.
 
I lived in Iceland for two years.
Its a wonderful country.
If you think ANY of their solutions will work in America you need wake up and get ready for work. Cuz you are dreaming.
 
Most of you probably already know this, but it bears repeating:


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Long before Peter Jackson’s name was synonymous with “big budget fantasy films,” thanks to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hobbit trilogy and King Kong, he was an indie horror filmmaker trying to break into Hollywood. During a recent visit on the Post Mortem podcast, New Line Cinema founder Bob...
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I'd be curious to know what the real-world difference is between this ink and mass-produced ink.

I haven't finished watching this one yet:
 
sdifox said:
Machine made is probably better
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Logically I would (by default) have expected the same, but I'm having trouble believing that Japan has a much greater market for the ink equivalent of 'audiophile ethernet cables'. That first video certainly piqued my curiosity though, the idea that a different culture has entirely different (bordering on anachronistic) industries and non-rare items held in extremely high value. It reminds me of the Studio Ghibli anime 'The Wind Rises' (an account of Japan attempting to go from wooden aircraft design to metal in order to go supersonic), and what seems to me to be a love of theirs in depicting and manipulating wood.

(AFAIK) In the UK at least, apart from some very niche professions, calligraphy is mostly a hobby.
 
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I remember the infomercials in the late 80s about these speed reading cassettes you could buy or it was a thick manual book about it. It seems bs to me because a higher speed reading doesn't equal greater knowledge if you need to give your mind enough time to absorb the data you're reading.
 
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I remember the infomercials in the late 80s about these speed reading cassettes you could buy or it was a thick manual book about it. It seems bs to me because a higher speed reading doesn't equal greater knowledge if you need to give your mind enough time to absorb the data you're reading.
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Yeah its only useful to that one percent of the population which can actually absorb info in that matter.
JFK and his wife both had it. Supposedly they would speed read one book every night, even when on the campaign trail.

Oh Fun Fact # 1970.
John Kennedy was a speed reader. And so was Jackie O.
 
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Yeah its only useful to that one percent of the population which can actually absorb info in that matter.
JFK and his wife both had it. Supposedly they would speed read one book every night, even when on the campaign trail.

Oh Fun Fact # 1970.
John Kennedy was a speed reader. And so was Jackie O.
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That fact blows my mind. Awful joke but I've read about that, too. Must be a few years now but I remember reading about it in passing commentary by a famous author who wrote one of those whimsical self reflection books. I remember reading a fact book in the 90s about something similar that your aim and ability to do something quite accurately is more easy to do in a split second decision than the typical holding your breath and concentrating deeply to do just that. The only time I can say that may be true based on personal experience and no fact to back it up is when i was still with my then wife we'd gone to some northern country and did hatchet throwing on some dead trees with some of the locals during a festival they were having. I have the sport acuity and physical faculties of a blind man walking off a cliffside but I was surprised how accurate my otherwise low effort throws were.
 
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Logically I would (by default) have expected the same, but I'm having trouble believing that Japan has a much greater market for the ink equivalent of 'audiophile ethernet cables'. That first video certainly piqued my curiosity though, the idea that a different culture has entirely different (bordering on anachronistic) industries and non-rare items held in extremely high value. It reminds me of the Studio Ghibli anime 'The Wind Rises' (an account of Japan attempting to go from wooden aircraft design to metal in order to go supersonic), and what seems to me to be a love of theirs in depicting and manipulating wood.

(AFAIK) In the UK at least, apart from some very niche professions, calligraphy is mostly a hobby.
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Well they do value craftsmanship, that is why traditional methods are so rigid and expensive. Same thing with Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena DOP , Parmigiano Reggiano, etc.


Audiophile cable is just snake oil, nothing to do with the ink and kimonos.
 
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Audiophile cable is just snake oil, nothing to do with the ink
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If for a moment we both assume that mass-produced ink is technically superior to hand-made ink, then surely the latter (especially for crazy-high prices) is little better than snake oil? Modern 'snake oil' products still basically work, just like the 'audiophile ethernet cables' do, they're just marked up obscenely and marketed in a deceptive manner.
 
mikeymikec said:
If for a moment we both assume that mass-produced ink is technically superior to hand-made ink, then surely the latter (especially for crazy-high prices) is little better than snake oil? Modern 'snake oil' products still basically work, just like the 'audiophile ethernet cables' do, they're just marked up obscenely and marketed in a deceptive manner.
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except stuff like handmade ink and kimono are more art than functional items. They are beholden more than they are used. Audiophile cable is pretending to be superior to normal cables at obscene prices. Very different beasts. Audiophile stuff still come from a factory, at most the seller added a terminal to it.
 
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