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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Emphasis on "horror film". I've grown up in Germany, the sort of anti-Muslim hate mongering that Trump and Cruz are perpetrating is reminiscent of some of Nazi Germany's early policies. And that's before we go into the suitability of either candidate for being the leader of the USA.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanKasich's hope is that a brokered convention will get him nominated, with his big selling point being that he's the only candidate who can effectively compete against Hillary. Which is true according to polls, but whether the Republican voters will accept such a major betrayal of the primary is a different question.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBack on the aeroponics thing briefly, the increased efficiency of aeroponic farms should translate into a massive price advantage over traditional farming that will drive them out of business the natural way. Boo, hoo.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"An aeroponics facility sounds expensive to me. Whereas farmland is cheap. I don't think a changeover will happen anytime soon. If japan is doing it, that may be because food prices in japan are very high (from farmer's perspectives. Subsidies may make them look normalish to the consumer.)
I also want food that may contain GMO-free products to be labelled. So that I can avoid them.
edited 11th Apr '16 3:36:22 PM by war877
Actually I think food prices are pretty high in Japan. Combined with a lack of space, Japan might have more incentive to change how they farm food than America. I mean, we have plenty of space right now so it just doesn't seem anywhere near urgent. Also I'm pretty sure that very few have even heard of this idea so it's probably not on many people's radar as a political issue to start with. Certainly this is the first I've ever heard of it.
We must airdrop burgers on Japan! For MURICA!!!
edited 11th Apr '16 4:40:54 PM by Protagonist506
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You should apply that to your own country as well.
I think you'd have to structure your economy with it in mind. I haven't studied it much, since no one really does that.
But Japan also has a problem in that they're big on food being "fresh." Leftovers aren't even a thing there; you buy your food from the supermarket and cook it that day, then throw out anything you don't finish. I'm not sure they'd be happy about importing everything from overseas, even ignoring the traditional "You're killing local jobs in favor of those horrible foreigners" that every nation does.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Which we should. American corn subsidies alone have caused massive problems. It's why soda is cheaper than healthier alternatives, and in turn a leading cause of obesity.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.If any place should be growing food for world consumption, it's us. We have the land and the technology. We don't gain some kind of magical brownie points for abandoning millions of acres of arable soil just so poor farmers elsewhere in the world can turn a profit. We shouldn't be subsidizing profitable industries, to be sure, but that's hardly comparable.
edited 11th Apr '16 5:13:29 PM by Fighteer
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No, but it'd be nice if you (and European nations) stopped driving those farmers out of business by subsidising your agricultural sector is a way that you refuse to let anyone else subsidise any other trade goods sector of their economy.
edited 11th Apr '16 5:14:29 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
We already export enormous amounts of food, so I'd say yes.
Obviously, yes.
@Fighteer: And we are. The US is the world's largest exporter of food by a factor of almost two.
Anyway. A Harvest Moon small farm that produces crops and animal products for export is horribly inefficient (its only purpose is to be the image conjured up when Big Agri lobbies for subsidies and fewer restrictions on farming). The place where "small farming" has some value is in subsistence or demi-subsistence garden plots, for much the same reason everyone in rural Alaska hunts and fishes: it reduces shipping costs and wastage. "Local food," in other words.
Also, milk subsidies are like corn ethanol subsidies. The government buying milk to flush down into the sewers needs to die.
EDIT: Fighteer
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edited 11th Apr '16 8:10:20 PM by Ramidel
Michigan introduces transgender bathroom legislation
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Saying he has “waited long enough,” the ex-lawyer of “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey has released some of the names of companies, government agencies and organizations that had called her escort service between 2000 and 2006.
Others listed in the filing include the Archdiocese of Washington, Embassy of Japan, Bethlehem Steel, Constellation Energy/BGE, Hewlett-Packard, Johns Hopkins University, Washington Gas and several large law firms.
No individual names yet.
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.