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Lol. Now I want pastries

From a logical standpoint, this makes perfect sense. From a business standpoint, it’s a nonstarter. The front end capital investment required to convert existing almond plantations would be massive, and few (if any) agribusinesses would be willing / able to shift given the massive scale. I acknowledge that it would reduce operating costs, but time to ROI would be decades. The idea is solid, but much more practical for limited installations, or perhaps new entrants into the market who aren’t yet established IMO. Mostly, I just think it’s a seriously dumb idea to continue growing almonds in California where they remove vast amounts of water from the aquifers, aquifers which also contain the water people need to drink and survive, and all while droughts and wildfires there are getting significantly worse. Hmm... it seems I’ve “sculpted” far too serious a response in this less than serious sub forum.

Are you saying my almonds have been chopped?

Shouldn’t almond sculptures be called aqua sculptures since they’re so water intensive to grow? Inquiring minds want to know. <=> <=><=><=> <=> BTW, ^thats an almond sculpture.

Lol. Checkmated from the admin control panel!

I tend to agree with you, but also feel too many people give up too soon. I recognize your situation is harder than the situation of many other people, but everyone gets depressed and it generally passes. Not always. I understand for some depression is chronic and burdensome, but things in our world would be a whole lot different (and probably not better if everyone just gave up and committed suicide every time things got hard. Life is hard. We generally get through it, especially with help. I don’t have the same caveats for old age. I think it’s incredibly sad that we force millions of wonderful elderly people to feel miserable and alone and to just hold on until their body fails, even when their minds already have. We could do better

Why is there no forum for sculptures made of almonds?

Thx!

Indeed. We have domestic right-wing terrorists who more than adequately cover that gap:

False dichotomy. Do both. Win win.

Einstein imagined riding around the cosmos on a photon. That’s not possible either. First, massive objects cannot travel at c. Second, he barely fit on his bicycle, and you want us now to accept that his big butt could fit in a particle of light? Come on... Your position is surely passionate and well intentioned, but IMO is self-evidently absurd and too extreme.

Because while I’m often idealistic, I’m not naive.

I can imagine the Easter Bunny having sex with a purple unicorn while riding a surf board on a star in the eagle nebula as your unborn child films all of this as a yet to be developed sperm. Surely, not everything imaginable is possible.

He seems to be thinking of a type of Spinozism

Define god. Define laws of nature.

Where?

It amazes me how many people think this entirely natural phenomenon is somehow strange. All of y’all are normal. Chillax.

And so far, Russian Doll has been great.

I just finished the 3rd season and really quite enjoyed it. Black Earth Rising was a story very well told on Netflix, and while it had a lot of adult content, Sex Education was sweet and funny. I also loved The Mountain. It was super zen, though I’ve got a thing for climbing and sky diving in flying squirrel suits This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy was well done, too. Philip K Dicks Electric Dreams series was super twisty and warped and is worth a watch, as well.

Maybe you can elaborate? The order in which we run or walk is irrelevant if fundamental changes are made centrally by a few benevolent technocrats.

Perhaps we say it another way: Everyone needs to act responsibly and in ways helping us address the challenge, but only making changes around individual choices in resource consumption isn’t even close to enough to turn the tide.

While sewage and fertilizer runoff need to be managed, those are not even remotely close in scale or impact, and they also pale in comparison to the acidification of our oceans due to uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification I disagree. This problem is too big for minor actions from tiny handfuls or conscientious people to matter. Sure, you using fewer squares of toilet paper each time you poop and ceasing use of plastic straws is nice, but you’re basically putting bandaids on compound fractures and ruptured organs. We instead need system-wide / planet-wide legislation to convert our sources of power, its distribution, and the way it gets used. We also need to invest heavily in carbon capture, green infrastructure, and agriculture to account for coming droughts, floods, and ferocious storms. We need to be moving people away from coastlines, reinventing air travel, and ending use of coal, petroleum, and more. We need to shift the entire paradigm, not just tweak the margins. Nothing less will rise to the actual challenge before us.

Ocean acidification has a “base of the food chain” element to it that makes me less than comfortable.

Because there are. Just because one has a broken leg doesn't mean they should ignore their obesity. Just because one has cancer doesn't mean they should ignore their diabetes. Sometimes multiple challenges exist and must be addressed in parallel. I'm not a mod, but what did you wish to discuss?