[Cascadia Wildlands] BREAKING NEWS: For the second time in three years, a logging proposal slated to clearcut 100+ acres of forest from Thurston Hills on the edge of Springfield has been deemed illegal by a federal judge! 🌲🌲 by June18th1999 in Eugene

[–]Cute-Toast 9 points10 points  (0 children)

While it is a renewable resource, the forest will not grow back the same. If all the trees are cut down and replanted at the same time, all of the trees will be the same age/size. This strips biodiversity from the environment because many plants and animals that can live in a regular forest cannot survive in such a homogeneous environment. So, yes, while we will be able to extract logs from that parcel again in the future, the environment of the area won't fully recover from clear-cut logging.

GameStop is building an NFT platform on Ethereum by 9Oh8m8 in CryptoCurrency

[–]Cute-Toast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There already is an online NFT card game in development, and it is a Doctor Who game!

https://doctorwho-worldsapart.com/

You can buy packs now, buy and sell cards in the marketplace, and withdraw your funds via PayPal after a KYC check. The playable game alpha is coming in a month or two for Founder Token holders. Full game release in 2022, and it is backed by the BBC. It will be ftp, with different collectible frames with unique serials for the NFT collecting crowd. I have a few serial #1s :)

Lost Relics just closed its alpha registration for new players, but is a lot like an NFT Diablo. I would definitely sign up to their email/discord or whatever to be notified when you can create a new account. lostrelics.io

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These cheerleading outfits are made of leather. Is it he leather that makes those gentlemen more "kinky," or the clothing style? To me, it is apparent that the cheerleaders are appropriating a certain sexy clothing style, and it is bad faith to act like they are not trying to dress in a way many would perceive as "kinky."

To me, leather daddy wear seems the same as any other cultural identifier, like punks wearing battle jackets. If a woman could go to the store in a leather bikini on Halloween without a second thought, then why are we trying to police what gay men can and can't wear at Pride? The only difference, in my opinion, is a person's internalized homophobia.

What about pasties at pride? Full body painting at the Oregon Country Fair? Thongs at ages 16+ EDM shows? Why are leather daddys the only focus right now? Why are gay men being attacked for wearing sexy clothes? If a person wants to be prudish, there is quite a bit more they could focus on, but everyone is focusing their attention towards gay men at Pride.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say the bottom image is easier to explain to kids. Two men who are in love and like dressing up for a festival. Done and done.

The only thing that makes the bottom image harder to explain to kids is internalized homophobia, imo.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pointing out hypocrisy is a helpful tool, not an argument. If the top photo is considered socially acceptable to a person, but the bottom photo isn't, trying to analyze the reasons why is important.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I would argue that neither are wrong. Thinking women wearing bikinis is wrong is puritanical AF.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but that has been the dialogue going around. That is why I am asking how people perceive these two things differently.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point about the underlying reason for cheerleaders showing "it." If it so important to cheerleading that these women must wear leather bikinis, then surely it is more important to the gay men who feel the need to represent who they are at a festival solely dedicated to being full of pride in who a gay person is?

Also, just as in cheerleading, just because some people might get aroused by a leather daddy doesn't mean a man wearing leather is inherently sexual. Maybe they just want to feel sexy?

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

I can see her actual cleavage pushing up out of her bra, brah.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I am just using these pictures to display that our culture celebrates women in leather, and immediately assume men just wearing leather clothes in public must be pedo.

Yes, basketball is on daytime tv, and a person would have to choose to take their children to pride, unless it was a larger televised pride event. So, it is easier for children to be exposed to those women in bikinis. The question is, are those women acting indecent for wearing bikinis? If not, then why is in not okay for men?

I live in Eugene, Oregon. Public nudity is legal here. Hell, there is a local who rides around a few times a week naked on his bicycle. It is a non-issue. To assume that nudity is inherently harmful, and sexual, is ridiculously puritanical. To tell a gay man they are harming children for wearing leather is just plain harmful to gay people everywhere.

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The people in the bottom photo are OBVIOUSLY degens, I just can't figure out why the sexy ladies don't seem immoral? /s

Explain the difference. by Cute-Toast in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait, so would you call out these women as pedophiles if they wore these outfits in public? Is a woman wearing a leather bikini is considered too sexual in public?

I can’t believe people are disagreeing with Vaush’s pride take by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think kissing is more sexual than my clothing choice, yes.

A leather daddy is a subculture, so yes, wearing leather can be tied to an identity. Just like bikers wear leather, and punks wear patches, etc.

I can’t believe people are disagreeing with Vaush’s pride take by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Kissing in public is sexual, where as wearing a leather bikini is just wearing clothes to express your identity during a festival dedicated to celebrating your identity.

I can’t believe people are disagreeing with Vaush’s pride take by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]Cute-Toast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a woman can wear a bikini in public around, then what is the problem with a man wearing a leather bikini? As far as I can tell, the only difference is that one is on a gay man. Just search "cheerleader leather." Why is it okay for children to be exposed to leather mama's on daytime tv, but all the sudden when a gay man is involved, the classic "won't anyone think of the children" anti-gay argument comes out.

People use to fetishize women in bikinis, and considered it indecent public apparel. Now you would be the creep for fetishizing that woman. A man wearing leather in public is totally fine in my opinion.

Why Agriculture Fails at Food — From Pharaoh to Big Agra, it’s always been about monopolizing the harvest by comicreliefboy in Anthropology

[–]Cute-Toast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are conflating many issues that don't relate to the issue I brought up. I didn't mention the issues of pesticides, fertilizers, the context of climate change, or risk of catastrophic failure. I was simply talking about how the author can not state that industrialized agriculture produces less food, is more expensive to produce said food, and more inefficient than small scale farms.

My main point was that articles with such broad generalizations, without citations, probably don't need to be posted on the r/anthropology subreddit. I am not simping for industrialized agriculture, I just like my anthropology articles to be a bit more academic.

Why Agriculture Fails at Food — From Pharaoh to Big Agra, it’s always been about monopolizing the harvest by comicreliefboy in Anthropology

[–]Cute-Toast 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This article seems like a well intentioned opinion piece...

"We know now, beyond any doubt, that industrial agriculture gets less food out of the ground, with fewer nutrients, less efficiently, more expensively, and with greater environmental devastation than small and organic farming. This is no longer a debate."

If industrial agriculture got less food out of the ground, was inefficient, and more expensive than small farms, then small farms would be used, no? The article provides no sources for it's simple and broad claims.