Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. The Cossacks called mink "soft gold" and it was as good as cash on the frontier. Clans generally had to pay five furs tax to the Tsar, which were sold for a fortune in Europe. The fur trade is part of what caused Russians to migrate into Siberia.
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  2. I love the puppers casually playing in background...
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  3. A curious remark, since people who buy jewels prefer the rarest stones.
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  4. No matter what it is, you can be sure there's a super expensive version for rich chumps to consume and young men risk their lives to obtain....
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  5. The Soviets used a railroad to the launchpad, but that meant there was an awkward process of lifting the rocket upright.
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  6. You know this channel would make sure to blame Russia at every possible opportunity, right?
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  7. 12:15 Obviously they were not prioritizing big mezcal makers over small ones, they were prioritizing big bribes over small ones.
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  8. No one cares. Now shut up and get drafted
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  9. It's good food, but beef, pork, and chicken are cheaper where I live. I don't discriminate where I get my protein.
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  10. Another thing about the landfills: They're full of batteries. The power in Gaza breaks often and is repaired slowly because they don't know what they're doing, so people that can afford it often run their electronics on disposable batteries.
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  11. We've also been 20 years away from fusion power plants ever since 1960......
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  12. Former machinist here. There's a lot more work in making those wierd and precisely shaped airplane parts than you think because you can't weld or cast aluminum. You have to start with a block of metal and cut it down until you get the part. Most of the material goes in the recycle and robot cutting machines do most of the work but it might take a semi-skilled worker all day to make 100 VERY SIMPLE parts while the bigger structural parts we did often took three guys all day to make a couple dozen. This is why airplanes are so expensive.
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  13. All seafood is sustainable
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  14. It's still cheap and perfectly good to eat, so we eat it anyway. It's all about getting the most out of finite acres of land.
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  15. The beef industry isn't broken. It's highly automated and highly efficient and the cows have better lives on the farms than they would in the wild.
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  16. Almost as if they get paid per click
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  17.  @Squintis  Dude, you don't need paid troll to see what you see here
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  18. The Soviets didn't let soldiers wear cross necklaces either. Lenin and Stalin were very anti-religious.
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  19. Pakistan is also widely short of freshwater due to decades of well building and lack of expertise to make large infrastructure improvements. Many areas even truck in fresh water during the dry months, and even municipal water is visibly dirty
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  20. 10:45 not just excessive pesticides, but fake fertilizer. One common of is to use lead nitrate in place of ammonium nitrate, giving the soil the requisite nitrogen but reducing all future crops with each usage.
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  21. We all know how sanitation works
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  22. Any farmer that turns a profit is kind to the animals.
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  23. Proof that quality and luxury are totally unrelated
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  24.  @iamagooddog21  I mean it. You're not going to get good meat if you're not nice while they're still alive.
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  25.  @__prometheus__  except they were not only free to leave, the sole form of punishment was firing. They were also paid. That's called being an employee, and it's frankly the same conditions early colonists in much of the Americas tollerated. Although for them starvation was an actual possibility.
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  26. Like that guy who ate the banana art. Some things are bought to show off how rich you are, which can sustain prices high
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  27. Only in modern times can people say that but think nothing of the ham he had for lunch....
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  28. One is essential, the other is not.
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  29. Will Inside Edition ever show the slaughtering process or is that too R rated for this show?
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  30.  @TheTinyRedDot  farmed seafood is fatter and cheaper, which is what a lot of customers want
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  31. 2:50 Weird oversimplification. Both Lenin and Stalin confiscated the stock of private business people that would not sell their goods to state store houses at the fixed prices whether they be farmers, merchants, or craftsmen (that was the punishment for refusing collectivization). Many farmers were known to have destroyed their fields so they could not be nationalized, others died fighting rather than being sent to a commune, others joined guerrilla groups and their farms went defunct when they were killed/captured. This is actually why Lenin wanted to collectivize through incentives rather than by force like Stalin, because for many years after being nominally unified under Communism the area was very much a war zone.
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  32. Stop it with the preposterous slavery allegories.
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  33. These aren't international companies mostly. These are small factories largely operated by clan leaders with government connections.
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  34. How traumatizing for you.
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  35. Just so we're clear, pearls form when oysters get sharp things stuck inside their privates.
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  36. This Eyad guy totally has a Hamas or PIJ connection. That's why he can't get a license to import materials and that is why his factory has been bombed
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  37. IDK, we like to be free of your drunken shenangans too.
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  38. Let's be frank: The reason fur is less common is because rising populations means there's less wild animals like mink to go around.
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  39.  @pirakkaesh  that's laughable. Now finish your bacon
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  40. These aren't kefalas, these are ordinary Masri. And the middle man is probably just a struggling small time trader too, because if there were big companies involved they'd bring in diamond tipped cutters and proper safety equipment and someone who knows what they're doing.
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  41. The Egyptian government lacks both the funds and expertise to make a difference.
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  42. He's just making tea but he's clearly having fun...
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  43. Funny. Now pass the chicken.
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  44. Canola oil and corn oil are frankly faster and easier to produce. That's why they're cheaper.
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  45.  @Ass_of_Amalek  people live where there is work.....
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  46. A case of putting the cart before the horse. What good is a sallary when there's no market it spend it?
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  47. They get fires, just not this big inside major cities
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  48. Houses burning use to be a routine issue but now we have building codes and sprinklers and don't use open flame heating so most of the fire damage now is crazy out of control blazes like this.
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  49. Also the price of aviation limits the number of crafts in existence
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  50. @Giu dude, these guys were hunter-gatherers before getting hired.
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  51. "It's turned into staple foods." Uh... You think bread is a new trend?
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  52. Chinese food is universally "enhanced"
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  53. This could totally be done with a machine.
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  54.  @bradbutcher3984  Come on, we all know Americans won't hear a kind word about American hospitals because a decade ago so politician tried and failed to nationalize health insurance.
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  55. The only reason the ideals even can exist is because most modern people live in cities where wildlife don't exist and no one has to think about what farming is like.
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  56. They don't exist in the midwest.
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  57.  @auntyyoohoo5481  you never seen industrial farming
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  58. Skilled engineers aren't cheap
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  59. Given this guy's factory has been allegedly targeted by Israel, maybe the factory owner really is a Hamas affiliate
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  60. I wrote my master's thesis on the Hamas-Fatah war
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  61.  @oasisflame  he's whining about regulations on abused substance using the oldest cliché.
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  62. Who said they're different?
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  63. That's a decent living in a small city where cost of living is low
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  64. U old.
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  65. Pakistan is not remotely developed. Much of the country is without electricity at any given time.
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  66.  @user-or1rm1ol3q  He means companies as in large commercial ventures with millions of dollars in budget. You're thinking ma and pa ventures.
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  67. There's another reason to keep production below demand: Luxury items are a high risk business. When times are bad, demand evaporates. It's better to have fat profit margins when times are good than mass layoffs every time there is a problem.
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  68. Who said humans were involved. Animals go where they want
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  69. @Avocado740  it isn't free and there are only 10 power lines going in.
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  70. It's peacock fashion items for men.
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  71.  @keithklassen5320  quit proving the point
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  72. Yeah. About Greek sponges.
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  73. How can you talk so much but say so little?
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  74.  @fb1000000  not any more than any other edible oil
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  75. It is impossible to centralize food production.
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  76. I think I heard a missionary say that the time church nominally starts is simply when people start meandering over there.
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  77. We're a net food EXPORTER, buddy. Some available farmland is still yet to be used at all.
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  78. The locals failed to see a problem.
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  79.  @calebray4168  they migrated from the surrounding areas. That's actually how most Brazilian cities got started.
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  80.  @Vistresian1941  We're omnivores. Get over it
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  81. Biofuel isn't profitable to sell, you don't need to worry about it making a statistically significant difference.
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  82. Does this look like A Bee Movie to you?
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  83. Because humans are omnivores. We will eat real meat no matter what.
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  84. I thought sake was rice wine.
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  85.  @fozzibab  shows what you know
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  86. Not maps, those were expensive. But anything that wasn't locally available including food.
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  87. Dude, they do this for a living. They get paid by rich chumps to make this stuff
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  88. Shut up and finish your burger
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  89.  @blablup1214  Gaza's water is dirty and expensive. The few commercial ventures in Gaza lack the equipment, expertise, and reliable electricity to make a profit. Most water is taken from wells the old fashioned way
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  90. Price shifting will cause some farmers to switch from corn to wheat/soy. Free markets sort those sorts of problems out themselves.
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  91.  @mynameisnotcory  found the cajun
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  92. @hermenegildoc3933  come on. We all know people pretend the old fashioned option is better regardless if it's true
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  93.  @The_Servant  That's simply not so. I'm sure a supertaster could tell the difference, but the rich chumps buying this are just wine snobs.
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  94.  @Nerval-kg9sm  Most of the process is manual stirring and pressing, and there were machines that could do that in 1800.
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  95. So that rich chumps will feel special.
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  96. There's no such thing as an invasive species. Animals live in one place one decade, and in another place the next
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  97. Big money and big risk in big luxury items generates clicks from slightly greedy people, though
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  98. Men will fight over anything worth money, though
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  99. We plant wheat and soy every year. Takes a lot of fertilizer but it's super productive. However, due to subsidies in ethanol, there's more money in a single corn crop if you have the water pipes for it.
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  100. No... My experience with animals says horse is normal.
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  101. Stealing? That's silly, it's just proof luxury and quality are unrelated. Also, common things like sugar, cinnamon, and ice water were luxury items at certain times and places.
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  102. If starting any business were easy, everyone would do it.
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  103.  @hanellipsis  there's also pelts and proteins for medicine and milk. But more importantly, the cows eat that part of corn, wheat, and other plants that are not edible by humans but we produce a lot of through crops.
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  104.  @sunshine3914  this goon thinks we feed wheat to cows instead of eating it ourselves. No, the cows eat the inedible stalk of the plant. And cows, like humans, prefer fresh food over preserves, the latter provides all the needed nutrients to both. In a cow's case, hay and silage versus grass.
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  105. You could apply blood diamond logic to literally anything at all. There are even Mexican gangs that specialize in siphoning big natural gas pipes.
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  106.  @connordilworth64  I wasn't blame shifting at all. Especially when no safety gear at all is used despite the complaints about insurance and personal risk.
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  107. They lack the equipment and expertise to be a productive as they could be.
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  108. This isn't a new concept. In medieval times, much of Europe were "managed woods" where trees were grown for building material and fuel and pigs allowed to graze underneath.
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  109. One of the few places in the US that it grows
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  110. I'd rather eat the vegans
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  111. Why are people complaining about cutting down trees for boxes? Canada and the US have a rule where you can't cut them down faster than new trees can grow, so the environmental impact is zero. It's also dirt cheap, and that's that
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  112. You should hear what medieval Mongolians drank.......
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  113. US-Mexico trade is really quite simple. Cheap natural resources go north, quality manufactured goods go south.
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  114. That occurred for totally different reasons AFTER Henry Ford was dead.
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  115. Rising populations means people buy food wherever they can get it cheaply, so many cities quickly become dependent on certain farms. For instance, in colonial Angola most of the Portuguese were commercial farmers. This made food scarcity among the tribals go away and populations rose. During the Angolan War of Independence, Socialist rebels ethnically cleansed the Portuguese and gave their farms to their friends who lacked both the equipment and expertise for commercial farming. The Angolans starved.
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  116. Really? it seems no one will shut up about that. And you forget there was a time people would queue up for hours to get the latest iPhone, because back in those days by the time the phone reached the consumer there were new inventions that were fundamentally better.
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  117. Depends which country in Africa you mean.
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  118. You know these guys fight over lime extortion rackets, right?
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  119. Obvious scam
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  120. The launchpads have changed over the years and there are several. Oddly enough, concrete and steel experiences high wear and tear when a skyscraper sized rocket goes off on top of it.
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  121. Gaza doesn't have 5-star hotels. They don't even have reliable electric lines.
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  122. No......
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  123. Yes, but rich chumps give the master craftsmen money.
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  124. No
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  125. You are yet to see a farm
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  126. @oabdullah3927  blablahblah please leave food industry to those of us that kniw basic facts about food industry
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  127. SpaceX sure as hell doesn't use off the shelf machines. The alternatives is use an actual railroad like the Soviets and carefully erect the rockets which is just as expensive, or you can build the rocket on the launchpad which easily tripples production costs. But since NASA already has a crawler it's cheaper just to overhaul it than to build something new.
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  128. Sponges were originally made of sea sponges... Obviously. Some are still made that way, some are made this way, but most are just cheap synthetic materials.
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  129.  @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536  what?
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  130. Hannibal Lector approves.
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  131. Most meats? Dude, we take care of the animals so they grow big and healthy, then we use a bolt gun to kill them instantly.
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  132.  @papiangelus  yer whining about restrictions while counting on them to protect you from weird stuff.
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  133. Like you?
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  134. They never do.
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  135.  @siegfriedpintar  It's poison, I understood.
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  136. Go away
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  137.  @Ana-mp6my  yeah, but sugar cane doesn't grow in the places that subsidize ethanol.
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  138. Ooph. Leave it to 21st century news to attempt to blame white men for everyone's regulatory and money problems. That's overtly racist and you can see clearly the point it switches from actual research to political BS.
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  139. 2:00 Caveat: Lebanon is in it's own unrelated economic downfall.
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  140. Since when are we obsessed over avacados? And the vigilantes and cartels fight over anything worth money.
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  141. You're making me hungry
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  142. Dude, we're a net food EXPORTER. Some things just don't grow up here, like coffee, tropical fruits, cocoa, and sugar. Cappachino is America's favorite drink, and none of the ingredients can grow here.
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  143. Food is cheap in America that baristas can afford to get fat. People have to eat weird stuff to pretend to be rich.
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  144. Cash crops? America is a food exporter, and what you grow depends totally on your soil, bud. Where I am farmers mostly grow a wheat/soy crop (yes you can two crops in one year) or if they have water pipes they grow corn.
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  145.  @kyleucarer4471  from what I understood it cost more to create artificial diamonds than they're worth. I.E. a barrel of explosives can create a few dollars worth of microscopic diamonds.
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  146. There's over 51 million millionaires in the world, any one of them could drop 50 grand for the clubs of they wanted to.
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  147. Given the -ia suffix means -land, calling it Fordlandia is redundant.
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  148.  @douglasmachawk7436  it literally wasn't. Stop making your privileged first world belly so obvious.
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  149. Do they have to make the stuff the hard way? They could automate certain things easily enough and boost productivity.
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  150.  @josemunoz7691  this isn't a vintage winery. There's no supertasters or snobs involved. They even sell the goods in reused plastic bottles
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  151. So was the chicken you ate for lunch
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  152. Not a substitute for a fire truck
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  153. I hate you. +1
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  154. Not everything, as soy sauce and rice and other staple goods are produced in bulk. But there's always an artesian version of everything, even tea. This is a custom as old as Japan, and it's the reason there's crazy exaggerated tales about how good the samurai and their gear was.
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  155. That's what most of this series is about.
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  156. Any farmer worth his salt takes care of the animals. We're nice so they grow big, strong, and healthy. Then we kill them instantly with a bolt gun.
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  157. A curious statement given there's a war going on. It's almost as if you've spammed that comment for years with no regard to who you're screwing over to save a few tax dollars.
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  158. You're going to have to find a more efficient method than spearing if this is going to be popular
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  159. Vhut? They're providing relevant original report
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  160. No one cares. Now what are you doing for the war effort?
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  161.  @gerry343  you've been scammed before and you'll be scammed again
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  162. That falls as prices go up
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  163. Liars and whiners go straight to boot camp.
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  164. If they were, the budget would go up, and I could write a whole research paper why it inevitably will.
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  165. If you mine rock for a living, does that make you a stoner?
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  166. We steal their honey, why not the milk? And bee populations can double every year if there's enough food. We'd rather keep the population steady and take the extra honey for outselves
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  167. Can't afford it
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  168. Settlement of Gaza. The city never had a permanent garrison but that's a bit irrelevant since the green line is only a few miles away
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  169. To the butcher. (Sarcasm)
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  170. They'd be much more productive if they had some real farms and equipment.....
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  171. The real bar is whether costs can go lower than real beef regardless if it is an inferior product. If that's the case, we'll put the lab stuff in kid's meals and dog treats and convenience stores and keep the real stuff for fine cooked meals.
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  172. As if you're any different
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  173. They are luxury items to begin with.
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  174.  @Schairiebwdifb  come on, quit BSing. Space is just a hobby for us, we build giant telescope because it's fun.
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  175. I've seen it spelled and pronounced both ways.
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  176.  @alexanderrose1071  I don't know which is "correct."
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  177. You know, if Mexico let US companies buy up the distillers I'm sure they could bring some decent equipment to the table and actually pay a decent wage.
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  178. It's Business Insider. They only care about minorities.
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  179. Japan is just plain loco.
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  180. They'll only become more common when our civilization is over
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  181. According to horse, this is a good career.
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  182. Gonads? If you eat those, I have no desire to speak to you ever.
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  183. Vhut?
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  184. So many generations and civilizations have come and gone. This one isn't any different.
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  185.  @danielmckendrick1371  clearly not a geologist or historian...
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  186. There's other firms trying to do just that. But in all cases the trouble is industrializing the process.
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  187.  @joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536  That has never held true
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  188. That's called pork. That's not a joke, according to actual cannibals, pigs and people taste the same.
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  189. @tostbrot9352  even if that were true, how would that be different from how they live in the wild?
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  190.  @rayray8687  not everything, but many things. Especially coffee, fruit, cheap clothes, disposable consumer goods, chocolate, and so forth.
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  191. So?
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  192. Because they delicious
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  193. Fire this reporter for incompetence. She's damning industries she doesn't have even basic knowledge of.
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  194. Nah. These idiots won't give up their own favorite foods. Only other peoples.
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  195.  @90nomads  Its war. Stuff happens.
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  196. Potatoes give really high production per acre but take a lot of water. Wheat is a much more hardy crop.
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  197.  @shrimpy7862  not if you know anything about farming
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  198. Getting pregnant. And no.
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  199. Vhut?
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  200. So?
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  201. We do what we want with our livestock. Get over it.
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  202. crazy wage skews between the turdworld and first world. If it's simple enough illiterate thugs can get in the business, then they will
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  203.  @papiangelus  I'm willing to bet you've been to jail before for substance abuse related issues. Just think of who could have gotten hurt.
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  204.  Mark Calous  I'd rather put a laxative in yours.
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  205.  Mark Calous  dude, that was a joke.
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  206. @@Jakekingoff it's mostly the same fools consuming both
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  207. @@Jakekingoff Try your own personal experience, liar.
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  208. You
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  209. That just increases the price of rice.
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  210.  @scottsauritch3216  You definitely couldn't weld anything we were using, and bolts/rivets are actually stronger I understood
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  211. Kinda hammers home Japanese culture that there are specialized master craftsmen for sporting goods from a game that comes from Scotland.
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  212. Not really. There's not a robot for every plant, but in poor countries men often do tasks ordinarily reserved for machines.
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  213. This goon doesn't realize how many million of acres of grasslands is needed to raise cows, and also thinks cows destroy trees. And it's strange to call a process ongoing since the bronze age "unsustainable."
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  214.  @PerceptionVsReality333  what is? Lab meat? That's silly, there's good science here
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  215. It hasn't, we just like to pretend it did.
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  216.  @Deiidreamng6855  Ecuador workers are worth more than they're paid.
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  217. Of a common consumer golf set, probably. Better versions have titanium and carbon fiber involved, and I'm not sure who makes those.
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  218. Liar.
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  219. Shut up and finish your burger
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  220. Irrelevant.
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  221.  @EdgyOllie  most of these vigilantes are funded by "donations" from neighborhoods they "protect." Many are connected to unrelated rackets. Other take "spoils of war" from "cartel members." Often the only difference between vigilante and cartel is one deals drugs and the other impersonates a cop.
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  222.  @EdgyOllie  you're digressing to irrelevant US politics
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  223.  @EdgyOllie  do I care?
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  224.  @EdgyOllie  shut up. No one here would notice if you croaked, frankly. So why you think your opinion matters?
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  225.  @EdgyOllie  shut up
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  226. And decapitating them isn't?
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  227.  @tettazwo9865  like... Yours?
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  228. @taotzu1339  profit margins aren't near that high and fresh meat is expensive to transport and stock.
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  229.  @frederikqu7717  that's hilarious. Now finish eating that meat lover pizza of yours
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  230.  @matthewhuang9588  the inedible 70%, you dolt
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  231.  @Ana-mp6my  yeah, but that doesn't mean the US won't use corn for ethanol
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  232. That price is fishy. I'll see myself out...
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  233. Wut?
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  234. The obvious solution to oversupply is to start eating the older sheep until supply matches demand.
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  235. China's full of abandoned buildings, maybe the price will fall
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  236. It's a pity how little money will induce men to risk their lives. Especially in cultures where prestige is connected to wealth.
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  237.  @najimm5577  No, just you.
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  238. Finish your burger, Karen
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  239. This is just the norm of business in Egypt. Little equipment, little skill, lots of feuding.
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  240.  @duhaqurashi4193  same economic logic. Fur use to be cheap where there was less people and farmland
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  241. Pay your taxes you bum
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  242. That and the execs want to own the coolest plane in town just like everyone else, no doubt.
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  243. No one cares
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  244. Let me guess. These guys are funded by "donations" from the farmers they "protect?"
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  245.  @marghalla  what makes you think they ever intended to be honest? Maybe they just intended to be the biggest?
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  246. No. Most remaining Russian Jews live in Birobidzhan and many of them don't identify as Jews regardless of ethnic origins. Ukraine is one of the few places in Europe that didn't lose 99% of their Jewish population due to the Holodomor/Holocaust.
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  247. Shut up
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  248. That's silly. You miss the part where it's showing up in cocktail bars as far away as Paris? Americans pick up a lot of things from the Mexicans.
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  249. We already have the narcotics kingpin act.
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  250. It drives up the price as the amount of food needed is fixed.
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  251. According to goodle, maguay is a variety of agave
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  252. It speaks volumes when the most profitable Arab factory is using trash as a starting material
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  253.  @beep6583  Have you seen the junk that goes on? I.E. most of the cost of Chinese fine wine is the used bottle while cheap wine goes in the bottle and served up to rich chumps. Some even dilute the wine and industrial chemicals added to preserve flavor
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  254.  @jackyichan4759  Dude, the sweat corn you eat is a totally man made invention, as in it is impossible to replant it.
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  255.  @raycastillo6446  I don't think he knows how cheap food is in North America
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  256. Don't be silly, Mr Gates loves science and has more money than he can spend.
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  257.  @HristinaSedlackova  How fortunate for you, as no one wants to because at the moment this stuff is expensive. And the difference between an investment and subsidies is that one expects to at least get their money back eventually.
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  258.  @HristinaSedlackova  while you railing on a guy you never met? You jealous of his money?
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  259. Depends on skill level.
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  260. The licensing agency is more concerned with collecting bribes than protecting consumers. Also, they leave out the distribution costs which is the real reason for the fat margins after it leaves the distillery. That and US companies have bureaucrats breathing down their necks to do QA
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  261. Because he has no idea what the hell he's talking about
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  262.  @orthranus3352  this is what happens when foola start taking massive complex economies for granted
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  263. Those take lots of water but give more production per acre.
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  264. Shut up
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  265. Most people aren't picky about marble types
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  266.  @kyleucarer4471  you seem to confuse artificial scarcity with high demand. And diamonds are rare in that you have to sift through tonnes of material just to find a pea sized gem.
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  267.  @nobody6032  a google search and back of envelope math says the world produced roughly 25 tons of diamonds a year, with only 20% going into jewels and 25 billion pounds of materials mined to find them. That's rare by any standard, but there are rarer gems.
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  268.  @kyleucarer4471  size matters with diamonds. Large gems are rarer, but don't press me further as I am not a geologist
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  269.  @michaelzlprime  often true, but that doesn't mean there's no market for it
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  270.  @ricknaughty1016  only the shiniest diamonds are used for jewelry. The hardest diamonds are used for special cutting tools
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  271.  @jamiehughes5573  you jealous?
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  272. Most of them will prolly be bought out by the big Canadian firms that have international brand recognition.
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  273. @Doug Fir there's a reason you ain't in business.
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  274.  @missourimongoose8858  the Americans did that indirectly by simply trading modern goods for fur with the Indians. That's how the Indians got their rifles and learned how to make alcohol.
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  275. ​ @jeremiahalguire8231 cancer means crab in Latin
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  276.  @jeremiahalguire8231  sane family of critters
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  277.  @jeremiahalguire8231  a curious comparison since those are all called monkeys regardless of species
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  278. Oh they know, they just want an excuse to wage theft their boss
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  279. @anonymoususer1824  100 bucks a day is about 9 to 12 bucks an hour. Retail store wages. Not all businesses are equal. Business that is easy to learn or doesn't take a lot of money to set up never pay were per worker. In this case, there's not a lot of meat on these crawdads and they can't just raise prices as they are already more pricy than staple seafoods.
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  280. Facades at luxury hotels (counters, stairs, floors).
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  281. Is that a quote or is the auto translation weird?
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  282. So?
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  283.  @friedtoaster4059  Ruining it by wanting money often takes the form of charging rich idiots extortionate prices for "artisanal" work.
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  284.  @nancywillaert5129  it's about getting rich idiots to pay lots of money
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  285. If you like lobster you'd like it.
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  286.  @superwinkta4682  this is a French recipe
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  287. Your sex life?
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  288. TL;DW IT'S SHINY!
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  289. Go to hell
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  290. You ain't going to reform Ghana's decrepitude with this.
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  291. You should see what we did to chickens without the use of science...
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  292.  @sebastianpeheim8851  That has nothing to do with what I just said. For instance, a machine could crush the cooked agave for a fraction the cost of keeping that horse around.
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  293.  @BlameItOnMercury  this good thinks machinery and quantity are mutually incompatible. It's not like US cars manufacture isn't largely automated
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  294.  @Ruben25252  that's not why they use these methods, though. You didn't see them reuse plastic bottles for shipping? You didn't see them fail to test for methanol content?
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  295.  @rashakor  it increases production per worker. And a harvesting machine wouldn't be too hard either. In fact, a simple chain saw would increase profit per worker.
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  296.  @Ruben25252  Exactly. He's not making premium products.
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  297. @Synthetic Color Dude, surveys of wine snobs show that none of them can taste the difference between boxed wine and vintage wine (this excludes supertasters). Besides, he's making a very basic product, not a vintage one, and going off how the process of making beer was industrialized the consumer won't care as long as quality control is on point.
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  298.  @Ruben25252  Factories look pretty? You ever worked one? And the topic at hand is productivity per worker, not sentimentality. And it's not like America's favorite whiskey recipe didn't originate with a random freed slave who taught Jack Daniels how to crack corn. And we're not talking expensive equipment. Even simple stuff available commercially like chainsaws, pulp grinders, and restaurant ovens would cut the amount of manhours per gallon of product, allowing these guys to earn a decent wage.
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  299. I saw one report where a farm worker said the bosses "treat the vegetibles better than they treat us."
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  300. Lack of equipment and expertise.
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  301. The Feds have extremely strict anti-bribery rules. A product of political idiots all accusing their rivals of being corrupt
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  302. No, just you. Now don't yoiu have a divorce to finalize?
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  303. Finite amount of farmland, and some fields are more productive than others, and many countries lack the equipment and expertise. Often it becomes easier to trade some cheap local product for grain rather than grow it yourself.
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  304. Shut up and get drafted
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  305.  @dominic6634  like.... You?
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  306.  @dominic6634  Shut up. Get drafted.
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  307. Some countries don't mind, believe it or not.
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  308. A bit more than McDonald's. More like a regional supermarket. But unless you can automate the process you can't change that
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  309.  @TheLion377  Qatar and Dubai and other Arab states aren't developed either
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  310. People? Asking for a friend.
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  311. Because most of the work isn't in growing the cocoa crops and these guys don't have any sort of expertise or equipment to run a commercial operation.
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  312. It lasts indefinitely. As in 3000 year old wheat found in a pyramid still grew.
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  313. That's how they get paid
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  314. You also have to raise them right.
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  315. That is most of his costs.
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  316. ​ @hermanpeters549 he is paying a faur wage given the meager profit per worker.
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  317. Pakistan has always been a turdhole. You think they care if they poison themselves and others?
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  318. That regulates itself. If there's enough food for more people, there will be more people
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  319. Depends on skill level.
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  320. It's a wonder the plant didn't go extinct.
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  321. Lots of things going on all over the world.
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  322. Shut up and get drafted
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  323. Ha.
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  324. Same men, doing another part of the same job. This time turning wasteland back into farmland.
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  325. Found the scammer
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  326.  @pouliotwilliam1  Hmm... I say we draft you.
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  327. Age longer than will ever possibly be needed
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  328. So... Pakistan is so poor that they make money off our scraps.
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  329. It's a cracker without salt.
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  330. And yet, those guys pretend to have rule of law
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  331. Why would we want to?
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  332.  @shermanowens1225  that's actually impossible
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  333. It's perfectly good meat. I prefer beef, though
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  334. Found the weed dealer.
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  335. Shut up
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  336. No one gives a rip. He knows stuff or he doesn't
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  337.  @gerry343  Not if you know anything.
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  338.  @lol007  Population size is self regulating. As the population approaches the cap, life becomes more difficult meaning less people choose lifestyle that produce children and fewer people live to have kids. The reverse is true when populations are tiny.
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  339.  @lol007  impossible
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  340.  @lol007  Irrelevant.
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  341.  @lol007  please leave Africa to those of us that know basic facts about Africa. A lot of men over there will kill over a 10 dollar bill, and you can bang a hooker for a dollar. Food costs literal chump change.
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  342. @TenseSensor  no, I released a dog I couldn't keep into the woods
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  343. @sidauthur7836  shut up
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  344.  @h0rriphic  Lying isn't necessary in this instance. They're descended from like 10 females, that's all we know for sure.
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  345.  @definitelyhuman3512  you can't lie to a historian, freak show.
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  346. He feeds his cows by hands as if they were pets........
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  347. 4:05 Who's his trainer? Because his shooting is worthless, and none of those other guys knows how to hold a gun.
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  348.  @GabrielGarcia-pb7er  his shooting is so poor that I, an average tanker, could teach them better inside an hour. Do none of them really even know the basics even if simply by internet search?
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  349. I insist we call the crooks involved "Fish Slappers." If you don't get it, you're too young.
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  350. Or you delusion of intelligence.
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  351. This goon doesn't realize most farmers grew up on farms.... And India's stupidity is it's own frickin fault ya scammer.
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  352. These idiots fail to realize their rivals aren't hiding.
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  353. That's why commercial farming pays well
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  354. Does this look like China to you?
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  355. ​@markusmottus1686 that's their job. They're nature's oil filters
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  356. We export food.
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  357. Uh... That's a pretty standard job as far as work horses go. They could save a lot of money if they invested in a crushing machine, though.
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  358. They spend more on fire protection then anyone else in the world
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  359. We all do
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  360. Shut up, Insider
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  361. Not sure if the price has gone up enough to justify that, but it's a problem that sorts itself out in a free market.
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  362. No one wants to eat snails
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  363.  @thesquad2253  In post-industrial economies, most people have a little spending money. Spending it on good food is far from the worst thing to do with it
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  364. Dude, the meat is popular in Japan, and the reasons it's considered good are scientifically known (certain organic chemicals, marbeling, tenderness). And Japan has had a love for artesian goods and insanely levels of precision for as long as history can remember. There's one master craftsmen that still makes longbows the old fashioned way by hand, and people buy them. Cheaper industrial goods exist in Japan, but they don't boast about that sort of stuff.
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  365.  @sivasankar5010  Your average Japanese dude can't afford this stuff and there really is skill involved. The thing about Japan is if it exists... Then someone in Japan is definitely taking it to its logical absurd extreme. Like the abuse sumo wrestlers endure, or the mothers encouraging their daughters to get plastic surgery.
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  366.  @sivasankar5010  Frankly, we don't hear much from Japan despite it having a large population and a developed economy. That in itself is weird. However, there is the alleged discrimination against Koreans, the vigilante kills, one terror cult, the absolute power many government departments have, and the war memorials for WWII era rapists. Most Japanese people, however, seem more concerned about whatever highly niche sub-culture they're into rather than the big picture.
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  367. It's called farming
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  368. The mission requirements the bosses put out often contradict each other and they change year to year as potential wars change and new tech comes out. Also, branches are a bit of an anachronistism since there is extreme overlap between them with different branches often recruiting independently for the same jobs with units in the field often being mixed together.
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  369. Ha
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  370. They're all scams. They take wall street's money selling a dream
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  371. This goon doesn't know the meaning of the word warzone.
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  372. Shut up and finish your burger
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  373. Good. It's still a crime until the law is passed. Although I did read the LA DA wants to expunge all weed arrest records.
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  374. They invaded because fish found food there. End of story
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  375. That's what you suppose to be true, not what you know for a fact.
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  376.  @bbt305  do you think I'm someone else? I can't be "wrong again" in a single comment. And again, I'd have to check to see it is true. Also note the video said "sharpest" decline, referring to how in the week after 9/11 no one wanted to fly at all even for essential travel. The few people that did simply had no other way of getting home. The Covid Panic, by comparison, was less extreme but lasted months.
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  377.  @bbt305  just because it's the internet doesn't mean you need to berate everyone. And again, you seem to think I'm someone else.
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  378.  @mrgermanvono35  This goon thinks cows drinking water will kill a rainforest....
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  379.  @sunshine3914  The hormones you're talking about are bull, they ruin the meat. And they're not fed grain, they're fed the inedible part of the wheat plant along with the same from corn and the waste products from human food factories. Why? Because it's cheap and plentiful, although there is a lot of hay that is grown specifically to feed to cows and horses (hay is just long grass). These days cows eat more corn silage than before, because we grow a lot of corn in order to make ethanol and there's a lot of leftovers from that process which is good for cows. That's the perk of being an herbivore; The whole world around a cow is food. Cows eat what we can't, and then we eat the cow.
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  380.  @satori4183  that's cartoonishly absurd. We've been farming cows since before the pyramids were built. So shut your trap before you get passed off for pork at the grocery, smoothbrain.
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  381.  @Detson404  there's literally no difference. They're fed hay (dry grass) and whatever silage (I.E. the inedible stocks of corn and wheat) and food waste we have on hand. Cow eat silage, we eat cow. Funny how turning a profit involves peak efficiency.
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  382. What? @Crilltools 
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  383. Do you have a death wish, kid? @chaosasitswirls6125 
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  384. @Unhomiee  that is only a small part of it. The decisive factor is it takes time for turdworld countries to import basic expertise and investments to set up something like this
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  385. Food growing is ecofriendly no matter how you do it. What is good for the soil is good for the environment. And by that logic, cities shouldn't exist period. Cities depend on food being brought in from the country.
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  386.  @annasolovyeva1013  that landscape would be so desolate that wouldn't know the difference. And that ain't profitable
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  387.  @annasolovyeva1013  All's well then.
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  388. Irrelevant. Roughly 3/4th of crime in Mexico has nothing to do with drugs and they have quite the domestic consumption themselves given hardcore drugs are cheap down there.
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  389. We really don't know.
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  390. Sounds like a great jelly for a sandwich, though
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  391. That never existed to begin with on account Gaza buys everything from Israel. Who you think they're selling the rugs to? @BORNFROMFIRE1 
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  392. Physics are unforgiving.
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  393. That's arbitrary bullshit. People started eating it because it's a pseudo-exotic cut, now people are eating it simply because it is expensive
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  394. They sure as hell aren't
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  395. ​ @victora4 some idiots say that whenever they learn people's wages
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  396.  @teamchitoge4276  that's not how economics work
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  397. It is very good beef and very labor intensive to raise, though. Rich chumps can spend their money as they like.
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  398. TL:DW Instead of force-feeding the geese, this guy kills them during the goose holiday season when they're fattening up for migration. More time-consuming, but no funnels going down their throats.
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  399. Physically impossible. You can't vaccinate for venom.
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  400. The puns are strong with this one...
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  401. We don't just produce enough for ourselves already, we EXPORT that stuff.
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  402. Dude, do you have any idea how much a solid copper cable weighs? That's hundreds of pounds you see in the video.
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  403.  @akyhne  it's solid copper coil on the inside, bozo. And it doesn't matter if one idiot could move a little at a time because that would take near a half hour just to plug it in.
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  404. that's silly
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  405. They do this for a living
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  406. There's a strong degree of cognitive dissonance there... Until we realize you framed your argument so that you wouldn't have to give up your favorite foods, instead others give up theirs.
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  407. Please leave farming to those of use that know the first thing about farming.
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  408.  @turuanu  I do not have time to teach a freshman ag class. Suffice it to say nothing you mentioned is actually a problem
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  409.  @turuanu  Both my parents grew up as farmers and I've worked for farmers in the past. Do you really want a list?
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  410.  @turuanu  Not if you have basic knowledge of the matter.
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  411.  @turuanu  1. Pesticides are a matter of dosage. Keeping bugs off is a matter of what they can smell. Not all farmers use it because not all of them need it, but it does increase quality and quality by keeping bugs/weeds out. 2. Chemical fertilizers are simply the active ingredients that come from organic fertilizer (namely mineral phosphates, ammonium and ammonium nitrate, and others). Farmers really don't discriminate, in fact I met one lady who spread a literal ton of paper from a document shredding company. That is, unless you're Chinese where it is no uncommon for lead containing nitrates to be used. 3. It depends on the crop and soil whether a monoculture will deplete the soil, but that can be solved with the correct fertilizer and most farmers don't even do moncultures. Where I'm from a wheat/soy combination is run each year, the double crop being super productive but again requiring literal tons of fertilizer. 4. Shipping products all over the world isn't an issue. Whoever needs food can buy what they want, and the logistics can allow for greater security (droughts cause starvation in places that can't import food), and the greater specialization can allow for more production. For instance, in ancient Greece the land of Attica had few people until trade routes were established that allowed for wheat from other places to be exchanged for olive oil. The whole port city of Athens formed around this trade. But the general rule is: What's good for crop yields is good for the environment.
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  412. That's only just a tiny part of it. One of the major arguments for legalization is that instead of costing money to enforce laws, rehab centers can be paid for with the money from a heavy tax on every ounce sold.
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  413.  @sivazda  the Feds haven't passed any new laws about pot yet, fool.
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  414.  @peaceman9706  could you be a more obvious user-dealer? Shut up before your online activity is used as evidence against you
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  415. Shut up
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  416.  @actionforanimals4862  shut up
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  417. The party has been defunct for years. Now there's dozens of gangs that simply call themselves Hamas
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  418. Yeah! We could use that money to draft, train, and equip YOU! Then you might stop whining about our national hobby.
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  419.  @shamrock141  I was being abrasive to the other guy.
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  420. Land is still dirt cheap in the US. Recall the continent is technically still being settled
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  421.  @harenterberge2632  shut up
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  422.  @maskcollector6949  you are not every agency
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  423. They're tiny lobsters that live in North American rivers
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  424. These guys have been fighting over anything worth money for centuries.
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  425.  @noneshere  Not an issue for these guy. They're just doing what they can with their limited gear and expertise.
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  426. Shut up
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  427. No. You're an omnivore. You're an apex predator. You're naturally suspicious of other humans. GIVE IN TO THE BLOODLUST!
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  428. Liar
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  429. Pay your taxes you bum
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  430. Target? It's hardly mentioned. Touchy much?
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  431.  @stressedbyamountainofworks2047  Everyone has been reporting it so simply because Chinese import/production far exceeds consumption/export. However, I'd point out this started immediately after evidence of systemic grain theft and book cooking emerged, so it is likely much of these imports are to hide those crimes (I.E. refill a grain elevator previously robbed).
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  432.  @stressedbyamountainofworks2047  also, the OP clearly despises the media sources you mention even though I'm sure he throughly relies on them.
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  433. Shut up
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  434. This goon doesn't realize some exports still happen while other fields go to waste. And no, what is now China has always been the biggest grain producer because of the good soil and lots of warm rainfall, why'd you think it has such a dense population?
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  435.  @charlie15627  That’s silly. The southeast section gets so much water that often two rice crops are grown each year and water is used as a pesticide (rice doesn't die in standing water but weeds and bugs do). Other sections are less productive but there's major rivers. Again, there's a reason Hans China has always been densely populated.
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  436.  @charlie15627  True, but they are still the largest producer of grain. And they would be a big exporter, except their farmer's often don't know what they're doing. Excessive pesticides kill crops, cheap subsitutes for pesticides kill crops, cheap subsitutes for fertilizers, and of course they lack the equipment for real economies of scale and rely on cheap seasonal labor for harvests. The end result is few outside of China want their crops and Chinese farmers openly sell their whole crops locally and import seeds from abroad as these are of much better quality.
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  437.  @charlie15627  China grows mainly rice. Did you mean to say wheat?
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  438. There are no garbage companies in Gaza. The landfills are literally just trash heeps in any convenient location
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  439. It's not like we don't do what we want with animals anyway.
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  440. That's negligible because it simply isn't profitable to sell it. Although due to subsidies in ethanol, corn is more profitable than wheat if you have enough water.
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  441. Pipe down, Karen. This is all grunt labor and doesn't pay the best. Grocery stores and restaurants have the same issue and unless you can automate the process that ain't changing.
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  442. Cash?
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  443. It's meat
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  444.  @XxJD1RTYxX  so of course we murdered them! That's how the world goes round
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  445. These fools seem to think this is new........
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  446. ​ @maitreyas.4902 lobsters were called that and crawdads are lobsters
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  447. ​ @phoenixfire8978 it was back before commercial finish. It was cheap meat because there's not much flesh on them and they were only caught by accident
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  448. Go to China. They're the biggest producer and consumer of fake luxury goods buying almost exclusively European and American brands. People there will even take Starbucks coffee cups and fill them with tea just to look more cultured than other people at work. I wish I was kidding.
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  449.  @ericp1139  the thing about these fakes in China is a lot are even sold as "copies." Meaning it isn't always the buyer getting scammed. But yeah, someone who can recognize a Rolex will also recognize a common brand that has the same functionality.
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  450. English longbow used the same method of layering flexible and inflexible materials, except they used heartwood and sapwood of the yew tree.
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  451. Liars burn in hell
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  452.  @madeinthegetto  given the dozens of videos that slaughterhouses have posted on YouTube over the years, apparently not
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  453.  @ArrKayLondon  People know, we just choose not to think of it. And I'd ask you NOT to equate slaughterhouses with outright illegal rackets.
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  454. Dude, there's not a lot of money in this due to the lack of automation. These guys are making the same as a local supermarket chain
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  455. In China the number is closer to 100% because a lot of fishermen don't know it's illegal
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  456. Dude, the reason they're sought after is because when men go full peacock they like high-functioning stuff.
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  457. Dude, large farms exist in Japan. The beef in the video is a luxury good. And there are videos posted by big farmers in the US. They whimsically name them, but automate the process as much as possible with robots (they even have collars that monitor health), allowing for maximum efficiency. This is how each farmer feeds hundreds of people.
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  458. Why can't we spell foreign words like they're pronounced?
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  459.  @doggodoggo3000  shut up and finish your burger, fellow omnivore.
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  460. No, we'd rather draft you
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  461. @Luke First  you're 14 aren't you?
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  462. You gloating?
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  463. Even if that were true it isn't relevant.
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  464.  @fessali5726  We haven't had a conventional war in an OPEC state in 2 decades.
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  465.  @fessali5726  that doesn't have anything to do with what I or the other guy said. Have you been spamming that same argument everywhere you can on the internet? Because I assure you, you're wasting your time and ours.
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  466.  @fessali5726  You didn't read what I said, did you?
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  467.  @gabrielzanotelli108  tell it to the kefalas, you privileged liar.
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  468. An overbearing vigilante instead?
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  469. If you believed that, you'd be dead.
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  470. Only someone who has no idea what they're talking about would say that. Regs can go both ways.
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  471.  @startrekmaniac1701  Cheap labor is one of their exports. Certainly ain't all of it.
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  472.  @startrekmaniac1701  Hate to break it to you but you shut up about all matters concerning Mexico before you get committed to an asylum.
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  473.  @startrekmaniac1701  Tecpatls hurt. Now shut up
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  474.  @startrekmaniac1701  shut up
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  475.  @startrekmaniac1701  Shut up
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  476.  @startrekmaniac1701  shut up
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  477.  @startrekmaniac1701  shut up
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  478.  @startrekmaniac1701  shut up
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  479. You?
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  480. But this is where Paris gets its booze, and from 1200-1800 most of Europe copied France and equated people familiar with the country with the educated elite. In other words the original wine snobs liked the stuff.
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  481. Why? You don't like Brazilians?
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  482. Chinese Communists have all sorts of weird flex.......
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  483. Idiot reporters should not try to tell farmers how to farm.
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  484.  @RaffaelloLorenzusSayde  yours
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  485. @patrickgrady7505  like you'd even know what tool we use to kill innocent animals
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  486.  @patrickgrady7505  apparently you don't, as animals eat the things people don't. Cows, rabbits, and sheep all eat hay, meaning we feed them leftover straw from wheat harvest
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  487.  @patrickgrady7505  Someone misread what I said.
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  488.  @nathanhicks667  They don't exist. Healthy animal is a profitable animal, and all an animal asks for is food, shelter, and company.
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  489. Come on. The difference between these guys and their enemies is on deals drugs for a living, and the other is impersonating police officers.
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  490. They won't. Period.
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  491. @cf1885today  no. We're capitalists, and the more they sell to us the more they'll depend on American machine tools
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  492. No. It's a vice just like alcohol and gambling. It will be treated as such.
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  493. Who bought the car?
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  494. @anon_rah01  the money from foreign donors all goes to scammers living abroad. I think you're getting these idiots mixed up with Fatah
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  495.  Zaydan Naufal  except the people of detroit had nothing to do with this
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  496. Because civilized countries have high production per acre and the effect is negligable. The acute effects are seen in places that were already struggling.
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  497. You wish
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  498. Quit calling it a blockade. Gaza buys literally everything from Israel. They export things like clothes, fish, and furniture
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  499. They also wouldn't let soldiers carry religious icons. Lenin was very anti-religious.
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  500. Liars burn in hell
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  501. Now the Cold War is over, do we know for a fact they ripped them off or did they just look similar because of the tech of the day?
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  502. ​@kandaworire no, please advertise so that rich idiots will leave the tender meaty cuts for me
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  503. Because they can afford food.
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  504. Just idiot reporters regurgitating what they here. Pipe down
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  505. Come on. You know that ain't what happened.
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  506.  @gintasasd  I'd rather eat rabbit
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  507.  @gintasasd  vhut? I raise rabbits
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  508. Shut up. Get drafted
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  509. Because crawdads are UGLY
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  510. Because I didn't damn Jews. He's just a young man who thinks annoying people is funny, just flag him for promoting terrorism.@@unknowndev392
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  511. Not really. The county ain't owned by one company
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  512.  @sunshine3914  You definitely don't raise cows, and you're not helping anyone's case.
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  513. The ancient Egyptians would actually divert streams into the quarry to keep the workers cool and so they could attach much larger blocks to a floaty and let it drift downstream to the customer.
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  514. When you're dealing with zero competency it's really a matter if it sounds like something from an old horror movie or if it sounds revolutionary. I.E. gene editing doesn't do anything that wasn't already done with selective breeding, but it sounds like the start of a zombie movie. While lab grown meat is likely to be an inferior product and/or expensive, but it sounds like it could replace traditional farming which idiots have been slandering for years.
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  515.  @sunshine3914  you evidently didn't grow up around farmers. It really depends on the crop, as labor intensive harvests are usually corporate ventures (like peppers) while largely automated farming (like cattle) is run by ma and pa ventures who usually have been farming the same plot since America got settled.
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  516. This goon thinks foie is a staple food.
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  517. Just think of the rich chumps indirectly paying for that
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  518. Hardly matters. If the price of one goes up, people buy the other.
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  519. Doesn't matter. If it becomes more expensive, people will eat other foods, sending all prices up.
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  520. @mulemule  come on, all these Indian firms are scams. Latin American countries could take over in a couple decades because that's how slow they move.
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  521. Dude, this has been how life has been since before Cortez got there.
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  522.  @redhorse8018  you don't sound like a Mexican historian to make that assessment
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  523.  @redhorse8018  it always has been that violent. If you lived there 5 centuries ago you'd have never heard of any place where criminals and POWs weren't eaten.
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  524.  @fidelcatsro6948  not for these idiots. They don't even know how to run a sewer line
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  525. Not just the regs, but the existence of gray markets. Namely, a lot of people grow legally in Oregon, but sell it at greater profit elsewhere. A lot of people grow a legit product without a license. This means weed is dirt cheap in Oregon as supply exceeds demand by miles. But we all know that if weed becomes Federally legal the big Canadian firms will just buy up all these American ma and pa ventures.
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  526. Get back to work, greedo
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  527. No
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  528. Maybe it'll come back in the private jet market. There's at least a couple dozen billionaires that would buy one.
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  529. Watch the video
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  530.  @bombkita  you say that as if you don't believe it either
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  531.  @Datadog-1  A lot of fools feel the need to blame the other guy at every possible instance because they think they can overthrow governments with silly infowars.
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  532.  @alihorda  Who said otherwise? You?
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  533.  @alihorda  your mother? See I can make pointless insults too. Now bug off
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  534.  @justinstewart4889  I literally quit my job to join the Ukrainian legion only to get rejected because politicians are afraid of nukes
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  535.  @moilol9424  one of the biggest. Not the biggest
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  536. You know it's obvious you're involved in the trade when you trash talk like that, right?
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  537. These miners. They will rock you.
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  538. Things would be a little better if they boosted margins by mechanization rather than cheap labor and counterfeits.......
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  539. ​ @Michael-pv9ux 14 an hour is average wage in rural areas where cost of living is low.
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  540. ​ @chiquita683 zero.
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  541. ​@@Legend_6_9you say that no matter what, greedo
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  542. ​@gimmick206 same wage as a waitress and same zero barrier for entry. Unless you can make a machine do it we're stuck with grunt labor.
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  543. ​ @tsundude4320 especially to the greedy bastards on this thread
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  544.  @WhatALoadOfTosca  look at the rest of this thread before insulting people
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  545. Whose?
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  546. Tell it to that chicken you ate for lunch
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  547. The main argument for legalization was to make the vice pay for the rehab centers.
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  548. Hardeehar. If there's enough food for more people, there will be more people. If there is not enough food, there will be less people. No way to stop it.
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  549. Finish your burger, gringo.
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  550. Cows are more productive per worker. In any case, hungry countries have farms, but they are hungry for other reasons
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  551. Except if he did then the bread will have been sold for 0.002 cents.
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  552. Is it really fatty or something?
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  553. @awibs57  shut up and leave food industry to people who aren't liars
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  554. @shrimpy7862  define farm. In slang it refers to any system of continuous growth and harvest. I.E. there are fish farms on the coast where people have these giant cages where they grow fish free of predators and where they're easy to catch.
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  555.  @timothyhouse1622  Lose the insults. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one here that has actually farmed.
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  556. @bignasty389  these idiots don't know the most basic facts about the topic like what part of the animal we use and what part we throw away
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  557. @bignasty389  because you don't know anything about fish. Most fish lay hundreds if not thousands of eggs a year and the population is dictated by predators and food availability. You can harvest 90% of the tuna in existence every year, but that is actually impossible because nets can only be so big.
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  558.  @hentype  don't you have a divorce to finalize?
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  559.  @JROD082384  Do you have a death wish?
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  560. What? Unemployment in Gaza is 20% and underemployment is 60%
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