Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1.  A R  in drought-threatened areas, planting trees tends to be a lot more difficult than preserving trees, because old trees native to the habitat have deep roots that reach into the groundwater, whereas young trees need to be consistently watered for years before their roots are deep enough. young trees also are more threatened by herbivorous animals, which often kill small trees but usually only damage large trees. places like the sahel are really bad for cutting firewood, as they only support sparse tree growth, so a given area can only yield little firewood, but the trees that are there are very important for preserving the precarious level of regional water retention and supporting wildlife and human populations, and are difficult to replant.
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  2. Agent Cooper Low class comment.
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  3. Missouri mongoose I would guess that there are many different types of clay that impart different tastes to tea that different people may or may not like. if your clay isn't even dark like that, I would guess that it's quite different. but I would be surprised if this chinese clay was really substantively unique and there was no similar clay anywhere in the world (or better clay, it's unlikely that the best teapot clay is found in a traditional tea region). as far as I'm aware, clays are ancient silt deposits from rivers, and their composition mostly depends on the types of minerals the rivers passed over upstream. then you should find similar clay in deposits that were formed downstream of the same rock types that were upstream of where zisha clay is found.
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  4.  @루루97  the british raj was much bigger than today's india. it contained today's india, pakistan, bangladesh and burma
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  5. egypt doesn't have much of an unrest problem anymore, but they do have the most brutal dictatorship they have had in decades.
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  6. Simba the guy in the video said that they sell a significant amount online.
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  7. sheesh, this video needs a "how the sausage is made" warning! xD
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  8. please get a different speaker or tell this one to talk more normally, it's very obnoxious. very very obnoxious. I mean it's almost unbearable, I would not be able to sit through this without speeding it up. jesus christ, what is wrong with you people? xD
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  9. 1:33 smol bean island 👉👈🥺
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  10. they need to lose the unhygienic and inefficient hand-grinding and -stirring processes, get at least a hand-cranked press, and plant and protect a lot more shea nut trees to employ the women in caring for the trees and collecting and sorting the nuts instead of the non-competitive grinding processes. those people who cut shea nut trees for charcoal are absolute idiots. those trees should be protected by law due to their economic value (and the danger of desertification following deforestation).
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  11. 1:02 jesus f**king christ PLEASE at least put a cover around that wheel with just an opening where it's used! that's the barest minimum of work safety effort, it would reduce the risk of injury from that thing by probably 80%+ and risk of death by 100% (as it is, it absolutely could kill somebody, either by tearing into their skull, or through blood loss after more or less removing an arm), while not impeding the function at all. it's not even a callous exchange of work safety in favour of efficiency, it's just a total disregard for safety for no reason!
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  12. these clothes are mostly worn by indian people. most indians can't afford to pay $120+ for a dress. half of the population never has that much money at any point in their lives.
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  13. come on, guys. calling coconut palms "trees" is already a bit dumb, but calling coconut plantations "forests" is idiotic.
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  14. it's not "damascus" (pattern-welded). the gold is just on the surface. they carved the shapes into the blade iron/steel, and then either hammered on gold foil, or electroplated in gold and then sanded it off the raised areas where it's not aupposed to be. lastly, they etched the iron/steel black and grey, the gold strongly resists such chemicals and stays shiny. that's a very cheap sort of gold work using super thin layers of gold and relatively little working time. very good gold decoration in steel and such (also called damascene, unrelated to damascus steel) are recognizable by consisting of fine lines that are made of wire hammered into engraved channels. forgotten weapons has a good youtube video about it.
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  15. I would be much more inclined to optimise the collection by replacing that silly skimming with submerged screens that lift out either the entire surface bloom, or catch the salt after it sinks (though this would probably result in different crystal structures).
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  16. did I miss it, or did you not mention anything about the taste? xD sounds like it would pay off to heavily tend to some forest patches with watering and ground clearing to produce locally good harvests in bad years. I'm kind of surprised that the market hasn't already stabilized that way.
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  17. those chilis have six months of pickling time during which they can be transported to a snowy location. they're just trying to keep it local to preserve official authenticity. the conditions would however not be suitable for artificial imitation, as the leeching of salt may depend somewhat on having the daily temperature cycle, and the titular bleaching is done by UV light, which would be energy-intensive to recreate, and the creation of which (probably by mercury vapor lamps) would inadvertently also produce heat that would need to be compensated by more cooling. combining the salt-leeching function of distilled water with freezing temperatures and strong sunlight exposure really makes for some interesting unique food processing conditions.
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  18. why can't they just make nuclei in indonesia? they're just pieces of mussel shell cut spherical...
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  19. 75% of vietnamese paper is factory-made? that sounds like a low percentage.
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  20. Vidar D nah, they wash the cloth and you can wash it too. people in the west eat intestines as sausage casings.
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  21. horsehair worms 👀
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  22. and that is probably the sole actual job of the boss lady when no cameras are around.
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  23. "the snail intestines are used for gourmet dishes" - no, the foot is. the intestine is thrown away.
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  24. yeah the reactors at zaporizhzhia for example are not graphite-moderated and have a negative void coefficient. the soviet union managed to phase out the reactor type that was used at chernobyl after the disaster. but I would be surprised if stray munitions couldn't cause something on the scale of fukushima at ukraine's nuclear power plants.
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  25. kinda, but it's also spun very irregularly, it doesn't seem appropriate to use production techniques that rough and inaccurate for a fiber that expensive nowadays. it has the upside that it's more traditional, but if I had that kind of money, I would rather buy one that's first made into more perfect yarn with modern techniques, and then hand-woven like that. either way, it would make A LOT of sense for bolivia to use the viquña wool for domestic textile production instead of exporting it. it could even make sense to ban its raw export, or to only allow a very small amount of wool to be auctioned for export. perhaps they could invite foreign companies to set up viquña textile production in bolivia, but exporting rare resources in raw form to be used for manufacturing elsewhere is generally bad for the exporting countries because they miss out on a lot of the profit.
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  26. ah yes, the old chemical pollution festival.
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  27. there should be truthful drug education in high schools. then kids would learn that nicotine is one of the most addictive of all common drugs, way more addictive than most illegal drugs that people generally assume to be worse in every way. nicotine vapes are easily 5 times more dangerous than THC vapes (as long as those aren't made in shady unsafe ways).
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  28. whatdo you mean, much more expensive than other blueberries? I'm pretty sure that european blueberries are cheaper here in europe than the american species - because they're inferior by being much smaller.
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  29.  @raulthepig5821  it's not sh°°, sh°° is contained in the resin tubes originally cut off the trees (as are the insects' bodies), but gets washed out. shellac is produced by glands on the insect's body that are not connected to the digestive tract, similar to wax production of bees or silk production of caterpillars and spiders.
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  30. 3:31 $11-12 a day? then where the hell does the upcharge for the carried goods come from? these guys get paid $10 for increasing the price of the goods they carry in each load by hundreds of dollars! if we assume they carry 40kg of rice for a week up to where it resells for $60/kg, and we assume it was bought in the valley for $5/kg, that's a total markup of $2200, $314 per day! what's going on, who is keeping these guys as wage slaves, why can't they just buy the goods in the valley and resell them on the mountain, and thus get paid roughly the real market value of their work?
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  31. how the hell is the european eel a critically endangered species? is it the passenger pigeon of fish?
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  32. they're poisoned with tobacco? 🤨
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  33. I'm happy to see him wear a dust mask at least for the most dusty operations. mother of pearl dust is reportedly extremely bad for the lungs.
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  34. AVenom I don't think you know what synonymous means
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  35. shut up, you just don't understand craftsmanship. this is not about beating yourself up for not being good enough, it's about enjoying continued improvement. you only get good at anything by striving to do it better, and anyone who has the right attitude to get good isn't going to stop trying to get better, because that's the enjoyable part. the people killing themselves in japan are not craftsmen, they are office workers and students.
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  36. well, clearly that standard export product of frozen paste requires very expensive production facilities and transport arrangements, but perhaps there are other products along the lines of jam and candies that they could make locally
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  37. the ecological problem is that floating plants with the leaves in the air reduce oxygen levels in the water by blocking light from getting in the water, and using that light to oxygenate the air instead of underwater plants using it to oxygenate the water, but then when parts of the plant cover die, they rot in the water, feeding microbes that draw more oxygen from the water. this way, floating plants can dramatically reduce the amounts of both plants and animals that a body of water can support - plants lack light, animals lack oxygen. so basically they are pretty, but you really want them to cover only a fraction of a pond.
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  38. it would be nice if the government legislated that employers must install nets under those trees to catch falling harvesters.
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  39. oyster exploitation? come on! oysters can be safely assumed to be some of the least sentient animals we farm and consume, and they are also exceptionally eco-friendly seafood to farm. there are few ways to economically use the ocean that are as harmless as oyster farming. oyster farmers destroy nothing other than the tiny amount of sea life stuck to the oysters, and they don't even feed the oysters in the ocean, so rather than polluting by adding a lot of excrement in one spot, the oysters actually clean up the water (they can be specifically used to reduce nutrient oversaturation from fertiliser or sewage runoff, though the latter makes them not food-safe, which of course wouldn't matter for the pearls).
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  40. the government should probably partially or fully fund the construction of shared wastewater treatment plants near places with multiple small textile factories, with new pipes dedicated for this textile wastewater. I bet it's easier to treat if you separate it from household wastewater, because it requires different processes. but expecting small factories to do it individually is unreasonable, it would probably always be more expensive and deliver worse results. and normally industries like this are already set up with many similar factories all clustered in the same neighbourhoods/industrial zones, which could make pooling wastewater from several factories into one treatment plant very practical. at least if the city hasn't yet grown densely around the factories - originally, factories tend to be set up on the outskirts of cities (cheaper real estate, less conflict over pollution and noise), but they can become enveloped by poor residential neighbourhoods as the city grows. in such a case, there may not be enough space nearby to build water treatment plants. the government needs to reduce the monetary infentive of not spending money on pollution reduction to gain a competetive edge. I think if it didn't disadvantage them, a lot of factory owners could be convinced to make an effort to not poison the local population as much. it would certainly earn them some popularity.
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  41. particularly because making employers pay for work injuries is one of the best ways to make them raise safety standards.
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  42. MissBeans paper in developed countries is made from managed forests, but a lot of paper is made from clear-cut tropical primary forests where they pick out the most valuable hardwood species to sell as lumber, and the rest of the forest is cut down to access the valuable trees and is turned into wood pulp. what's probably more likely than paper to contain unsustainably harvested wood in first world countries though is charcoal. the charcoal industry does not give a shit.
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  43. yeah, being able to write down libraries worth of information (which paper accomplishes better than papyrus and parchment, or clay tablets, bark, wooden slats and such) was super important for building incresingly complex knowledge over generations.
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  44. sharpening genuinely does take years, though not a lifetime. any good craftsman will never stop learning, because having an attitude of always trying to improve is the only way to get good at doing anything, and if you're like that you have no interest in ever saying "this is good enough, now I don't need to try anymore". I'm a violin maker, my job involves quite a bit of sharpening too.
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  45. Guardian Gusti there is no perfection. if you think you have reached perfection, you probably are not the best at what you do, because others who are still trying to do better will do better than you. the point is perfectionism, and that means that you never judge anything to already be perfect. the "takes x years to master" is just a japanese trope, there is no magical duration of training for anything.
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  46. Seven Hunnid good luck
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  47.  @valoronions  well so far it's just an idea with apparently a couple of people working on it. it can only become a sensation if it's proven to be feasible at scale. there certainly are complex problems to solve, such as how to deposit (maybe bury, but that would balloon the energy requirement) the seaweed in such a way and in the right locations that it ends up staying there basically forever, or most of its carbon content does in some form. it may also be difficult to assess the amount of methane still produced by any anaerobic partial decomposition involved in the process - too much methane production has the potential of making the whole endeavour worse for the climatethanburning thestuff wouldhave been (making and burying biochar instead would then be ideal, as that only releases part of the carbon). but in principle, if much digging is not required, using sargassum sounds like a promising way to dramatically reduce energy requirements relative to most other carbon sequestration methods. it also seems very likely, based on its likely ease of mechanical handling because it's this uniform floating stuff, that it would require little work input to give the sargassum a carbon sequestration rate far greater than that of any fully natural ecosystem - it takes very particular circumstances for ecosystems to heavily sequester carbon by producing biomass that largely fails to decompose, such as fossil coal generation of the carboniferous caused by microorganisms not yet having evolved to digest lignin in wood, or bodies of water that were stagnant with an exceptionally salty layer at the bottom that prevented decomposition of falling biomass, or peat bogs which slowly grow thick layers of dead peat moss that is partially preserved by oxygen exclusion (and humic acid, I think). if the unusually large sargassum growth is the result of human-caused excessive fertilisation of the ocean, then removing the stuff from the nutrient circulation would likely be beneficial for the ocean ecosystem also. the decay of excessive biomas can damage aquatic ecosystems by depleting oxygen.
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  48.  @premg062  you can see in the video that those indian cows making that particular ghee live much better. the narrator even seemed to try to say that the calves are not separated from their mothers, though the sentence is badly written. the video does show a calf with its mother, which in typical industrial dairy farming would only happen for a matter of hours or days after birth, at which point the calf would be removed and raised in extreme isolation in a tiny box. a friend of mine worked on a dairy farm in new zealand once while backpacking, and he reported that the way the calves were fed was by utilising unsellable puss-contaminated milk from cows with inflamed udders (they still require milking, and apparently it still works for feeding and not killing calves). :( and that wasn't even the worst sort of dairy farming, since the cows still got to graze outside, which in a lot of more densely populated or less climatically ideal countries is the exception for dairy cows (new zealand is great for ranching, though more known for sheep).
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  49. it can't be
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  50.  @mateuszcielas3362  not nearly enough. it's not like you draw the smoke through the meerschaum, it just passes by the meerschaum. and it's also prevented from absorbing much by being saturated with beeswax.
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