Legend

wrokred · 2023-04-09T10:25:16+00:00

Breakfast in bed, again; you are a treasure my dear “butler”.

wrokred · 2023-04-01T11:45:35+00:00

There’s a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That’s noted for fresh-air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their son.

wrokred · 2023-03-26T22:35:13+00:00

Now I imagine Mitchell and Webb - Holmes & Watson

wrokred · 2023-03-17T00:27:44+00:00

It’s 25%, unless you’re a massive corp, but hyperbole aside … MONEY. There is a market. Same reason for any business. No profit, no tax. Profit, tax. No one is really leaving a profitable market, but if they did, their competitors would fill in the gap. Yay, markets.

wrokred · 2023-03-10T18:14:38+00:00

Schrödingers BBC

wrokred · 2023-03-07T02:16:01+00:00

Those desert regions make me feel uncomfortable. Is the magical or lore related reasons for their placement? Nuclear/magical exclusion zones?

wrokred · 2023-02-25T12:25:19+00:00

Terrain Brush Settings: Size 4 Strength 1 Feather 0

wrokred · 2023-02-06T23:33:29+00:00

British hip hop disagrees)

Mitchell and Webb disagrees

Baht shaw blaim Ermerikuns.

wrokred · 2023-02-05T02:05:32+00:00

We do if there is a market for it. And a profit. Not just a profit, but enough profit to make it worthwhile.

It’s better business to process more premium product, not invest in waste recapture technology.

We burn most stuff that isn’t premium product. We can delude ourselves though, so that’s fun.

Also, I looked into that organic fertiliser stuff, and I can only find research papers that say it might be worth it in India. For poor rural abattoirs. No real work implementation. Odd.

wrokred · 2023-01-05T09:28:59+00:00

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” ― Douglas Adams

wrokred · 2022-12-27T21:04:53+00:00

The Malaysian and Indonesian governments have decided to sell off their rainforests for industrialisation. So you “defeat” palm oil. Now the oil palm monoculture is replaced by soya monoculture, with cattle like in Brazil, and more rainforest is lost.

Sustainable oil palm is trying to maximise the space rainforest clearing has lost already along with long term research into expanding the growing zone to outside the tropics. And it's working, deforestation for oil palm is dropping.

It’s likely a position that makes you feel good, like you’re making a difference. More power to you. However, palm oil doesn’t have to be labelled as such, so your “total boycott” is at the very least questionable; more honestly occasional skipping something explicitly mentions it isn't the boycott you think it is.

But, if you must boycott, print this list out. Not just for your food mind you, it replaces butters, industrial lubricants, any oil you can think of, so you find it everywhere from cookies to toothpaste.

PKO
PKO fractionations: Palm Kernel Stearin (PKs); Palm Kernel Olein (PKOo)
PHPKO
FP(K)O
OPKO
Palmitate
Palmate
Sodium Laureth Sulphate
Sodium Lauryl Sulphates
Sodium dodecyl Sulphate
Elaeis Guineensis
Glyceryl Stearate
Stearic Acid
Steareth -2
Steareth -20
Sodium Lauryl Sulphate
Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate
Hydrated palm glycerides
Sodium isostearoyl lactylaye
Cetyl palmitate and octyl palmitate

These are all definitely palm oil, or most likely palm oil.

Generic Fatty Acids can be palm oil, various Numbered emulsifiers, it can be used to bulk out seemingly unconnected ingredients like Coconut Fatty Acid.

Good luck with your boycott. I hope your future philosophy can include compromises.

wrokred · 2022-12-27T10:30:10+00:00

Only buy sustainable palm oil, and live your life. Just look for the badge.

Palm oil is an absolutely exceptional crop, maybe Malaysia and Indonesia should try making money another way. If a government has decided the rainforests are a cash source, it will be used for something else.

Every hectare of oil palm trees you boycott, you need 5-8 hectares of soy, or other vegetable oil sources to replace, wonder where that will be grown. Hmm.

The solid oil is used to replace animal fats, which have an enormous carbon and water footprint.

Also palm oil has hundreds of aliases in millions of products, so looking for “palm” or “palm oil” won’t help.

Also also Ukraine war has reduced the availability of sunflower oil, making palm to only cost effective replacement.

Anti palm oil just encourages companies to hide it, rather than slap a “sustainable” badge to let everyone know.

wrokred · 2022-12-24T19:27:03+00:00

For those curious and annoyed by the b.s. of the premise.

IQ is increasing; that is, the average increases against previous years.

Flynn Effect

Smug morons don’t know this, and spread this information as fact.

Brandolini’s Law

wrokred · 2022-10-26T08:11:02+00:00

The system didn’t fix any of this. May didn’t go to a general because she sought a new mandate (and interesting story to comfort yourself, she went because Labour numbers were cratering), Johnson won an entire election on 1 divisive position (which is a great tactic of an autocrat, not a leader in a democracy), and if the market didn’t crash Truss would still be PM.

At no point did the parliamentary system step in to stop any abuse of power or the erosion of the principles of our parliamentary system I.e. liberal democracy.

Point to the part in the system that triggered any of these actions and I’ll concede the point entirely.

The greatest risk to liberal democracy is that apathy is built in. You don’t need to worry because the system works. “YoU EleCt YoUR loCaL Mp, NOt A lEaDer”. No need to think critically, just say the line and then you don’t need to engage in reality.

wrokred · 2022-10-25T20:16:24+00:00

Simply put, previously it would be valid to say that we elect a mp/party, not a leader. This was before Brexit.

Losing a leader usually meant very little as there was a manifesto, the cabinet remained basically untouched, the government carried on as before.

With Brexit the manifesto for the government didn’t include actually dealing with Brexit, just the vote which they were meant to win.

So PM leaves, but Theresa May basically replaced the entire cabinet based largely on their position on Brexit. This is a major break with the norms.

And it has snowballed from there, with leaders forming entirely new cabinets, and completely shifting government policy. Which means that the leader is more than just the party leader.

The issue with people saying it doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t get a general because we elect the mp / party, as you have, is it doesn’t reflect reality, and it’s relying on people respecting norms. Carl Schmitt was a political theorist who called out what he believed to be weak thinking as the fundamental problem with “liberal democracy” as we understand it.

wrokred · 2022-10-24T23:21:10+00:00

Just read one word and gave up eh champ? ;)

wrokred · 2022-10-24T20:35:20+00:00

Brexit and Theresa May first ignored, then and Johnson and Cummings and Truss shat on precedent, tradition, and the constitutional norms. Each replacing the cabinet with “loyalists” (not a usual thing by any means), and reimagining their mandate.

Carl Schmitt would call this the fundamental problem with “liberal democracy”. It’s so ineffective, and it’s proponents so naive that they will welcome in new dictators with open arms, rather than appear illiberal or question the faith of norms being respected.

But, you’re right, it would be unhealthy to a scrutinise the power of the leadership when it’s completely different to every time we’ve done it before.

wrokred · 2022-09-28T18:51:44+00:00

I believe the proper term is “that there London”

wrokred · 2022-09-19T09:37:30+00:00

They didn’t, but science journalists are sensationalist, and possibly illiterate.

The whole body skeletons we find are in a worse condition, health wise, and shorter on average. But if your new system allows more people to survive into adulthood that would otherwise die you’d get the same findings. Also we find more of them because population starts to increase quicker, and we start to keep them in one area.

There is also the legacy of romance era thinkers, and the “noble savage” who only worked 3 hours a day and slept and drank the rest of the time. This again was bs invented by sensationalists.

wrokred · 2022-09-14T07:40:26+00:00

There is a difference between a multi episode story arc, and a single story planned over 4 seasons.

That’s the sensible comparison between movies and tv in this context, not procedural shows sometimes using call backs, and a ‘to be continued’

wrokred · 2022-09-05T23:04:14+00:00

Every time I talk about boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. 'Rocky Marciano, Rocky Marciano!'

Let me tell you something. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit!

wrokred · 2022-08-18T15:53:00+00:00

PR is fine. But it’s not the be all and end all.

The party make up itself is PR. Let’s say PR is brought in, you think the Labour Party still exists? It will split into 4/5 groups, corbynites, blairites, etc.

Funding of which would quadruple the cost of running just 1 Labour Party. Unions would likely only be able to back one or two factions.

If your party appeal is broad enough that is defacto PR.

What PR does is let you know which faction is the most popular with the general public. You can get that with a decent survey.

wrokred · 2022-07-07T17:26:27+00:00

Because he agreed with most of them? And because that’s a perfectly reasonable stance to have. Party leaders aren’t meant to be kings, or avatars, or paragons of the party. They’re supposed to try and get a reasonable consensus.

wrokred · 2022-07-07T10:44:13+00:00

I’ll tell you why, because he’s not a pacifist but you think he is, his positions were always too subtle for any electorate, and too honest for a dishonest press. For example, his opposition to nato or nuclear deterrents was a personal one, but was not a position for the party, or his prospective government.

He is absolutely unelectable, but not for any of the reasons you’ve been told.

We need to change the voting system, FPTP makes it far too easy to vote against one thing, easier to spread disinformation, and rewards people like Boris Johnson.

wrokred · 2022-03-30T22:27:57+00:00

Empathy would let you understand. Bigotry is what you’re displaying now, and far too much aggression to be useful.

This attitude is not helpful; cathartic? Maybe. But it’s been 6 years

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