Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Business Insider" channel.

  1. This is awesome! I love it when 2 problems can be solved at once & my birds love eating placemats made out of water hyacinth. I never realised the source of them, I just buy them from Kmart regularly cause the birds love them, now I'm even happier to be buying them, wish they advertised on the product what it's source is to get even more sales
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  2. They should be proud of the size of their luffas! I grow my own luffas in my garden, but never have I had any even close to that size! Those are HUGE!
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  3. most genuine natural fibres will be gone in 6 months if buried in a moist environment. I grow some sugarcane in my home garden, which has pretty tough stems & leaves, but I use it as raised garden top up soil when I harvest my root vegetables & it only takes about 2 months before the soil level drops again becasue the sugarcane has totally decomposed in the garden. If I dig it up at that point there's a small amount left, 6 months later, there's nothing left, no sign it was ever there. No idea exactly at what point it's totally gone, I don't dig it up regularly to check, 2 & 6 months is just when I've dug in the garden for other reasons expecting to hit the pile of pure sugarcane stems & leaves & found nothing, so I would expect banana fibre to be the same if nothing else is added to it
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  4. I actually think they should be looking at machinery that doesn't break it down that fine to begin with! I'm sure that would be possible with a change of settings or similar. Why make something so fine & potentially problematic when you don't have to? I get the feeling that's a bi-product of removing sharp edges from the glass, but in fact those sharp edges would make it a perfect replacement for sand used in construction! & given they started this business in 2020, yes, obviously they should be wearing masks, not only for the glass particles, but also for a certain little virus that they seem to deny exists in that state
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  5. yeh, I was thinking with the ones she's giving away free, surely at least charge for the cost of the bags! Even if you only charge 10cents per bag of glass sand, it would still make a huge difference to her bottom line & I very much doubt people are going to object to paying a few cents!
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  6. Interesting, thanks for sharing. Combine that with what the video says about the US having easily the ability to resolve all the food needs simply by diverting bio-fuel to food & there seems to be a very strong case to be made for countries other than India taking responsibility for this - looking at you America! How come you can always provide weapons & war, but never the tools to save lives?
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  7.  @K.J.Ray421  yeh, that's the thing, those "fiberglass" particles are still there, just finer now, so might not impact hands, but they're more likely to impact lungs. That's going to be a problem beyond just the factory though, anyone handling this stuff in a way that aerosolises it, such as pouring or scooping it, is also going to be breathing in the super fine particles
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  8.  @davidcorodeanu4535  the point is, in many settings, these are nicer to use than the alternatives, so they absolutely make a difference to the person using them. Really nice to use on your body when covered in grime from gardening, much better than the plastic alternatives that scratch & itch skin imo
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  9. silkworm moths can't actually fly, so sad to say that they didn't actually fly off, they were eaten by birds or something else if they vanished
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  10. Just for contrast, I was just watching a video on one of the US news channels about bunkers in Finland. They have an Olympic swimming pool, hockey field, children's playground & large carpark inside one of their bunkers. Why? Cause it's a multi-use facility that they use every day right now, but in the case of an attack by Russia or similar, they just bring their entire population inside these bunkers (they have 50,000 of them) & close the blast doors & switch to the recirculating air filtration systems. Now that's a smart bunker! Right in the middle of the city & everyone knows where it is & can get to it really quickly
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  11. don't you love how his response to hardly any of them left is just that he has to "look harder", not consider conservation & if he maybe should let them recover a bit, not just keep taking the last handful? But I guess he doesn't want to hand it down to his kids, so who cares if they go extinct huh?
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  12. I've got a coffee plant in my garden. It's 4 years old now & I've just harvested my first crop. It flowered for the first time in it's 3rd year & beans took nearly a year on the plant to mature & be ready to harvest. This is normal for coffee plants, so I'm really not sure how you think farmers can grow coffee in the "off season" when it's a crop that needs to grow for 4 years for it's first crop, 5-6 years for a full crop. I'm not sure the situation with vanilla, but I grow more common orchids, including using tissue culture to cultivate (which is basically the only practical way to cultivate orchids). Orchids take around 5-8 years from mature seed to a little plant ready to flower. The size of the vanilla plants in this story indicates to me they are MUCH older than that,so again, really not sure where you're getting this "off season" from!
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  13.  @aidanacebo9529  do they though? I don't know, but I know a lot of fish farms have extensive waste, I wonder if adding these into those farms could be a good solution to that, while giving the sponges everything they need too? There's certainly prawn farms out there also growing seaweeds for food, using the waste from the prawns to do so, the reason for the seaweed being to meet environmental standards, but the way they do that gives them additional profits in the process
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  14. gotta say, having used "period pants", I don't understand why anyone would use washable (or disposable) pads when there's alternate options. I normally use tampons, but had some short term medical issues & couldn't, so I tried using pads & boy are they annoying & uncomfortable! Beyond me how anyone gets them to stay in place! On the other hand, period pants are just like wearing regular pants, pad is enclosed & so stays exactly where it's meant to with no movement at all & then just throw in the washing machine on the smallest load setting at the end of the day (they're designed to be worn all day or all night). I ended up needing to buy 4 pairs for convenience, which costs a bit to start out (about $50), so I just wait until I have 3 pairs needing washing & then wash all together & sometimes throw stuff like hand towels/tea towels etc in the same load as them too (but I make sure there's plenty of water, not overloaded, cause I feel more comfortable with that)
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  15.  @theotheleo6830  different uses :) washcloth is for cleaning, luffa is for exfoliating & cleaning off ingrained dirt & grease & grime from a hard day gardening or car repairs or whatever - or just as part of a beauty routine & getting rid of dead skin cells too I guess
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  16. My 5 year old coffee tree in my garden has finally started producing. I have green beans from this year & flowers & small buds forming for next year. I haven't roasted any of my beans yet, so this video was great, haven't heard before now to roast slowly & not too long, so that's really great info! I've only got about half a cup of beans total, so I don't want to waste them. I wonder how much mine would be worth, since they seem to be "single origin" & of very low quantity, so apparently that makes them super valuable? I hope they taste that way :) & yes it's a lot of work (and time) to grow coffee. The farmers deserve to be paid properly!
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  17.  @doujinflip  a few weeks? If you can go without a bunker for a few weeks, then you don't need one fullstop!
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  18. bizarre responses you have here! Prompting me to comment too, just to say I think you are making a good point & I hope for you & the many thousands, if not millions of people out there in the same situation as you, that they are being labelled correctly too/ I could easily imagine a situation where it would just say "plant enzymes", which would be a nightmare for you! (in fact, I think my current laundry detergent says exactly that)
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  19.  @diogeneskoolaid8437  or how about letting the grandson make his own decisions instead of indoctrinating him into YOUR ideals of what he should do because of your "wokeness phobia"
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  20.  @jamesbizs  why would it be horrible? They've now found themselves in a position where they can't enjoy them anymore anyway & have to keep them locked up, which probably breaks their hearts, making the sale so as to watch their grandson's success instead of the crystal they used to be able to watch & enjoy. Sounds perfect to me!
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  21. As an Aussie, I really don't understand how the "world's richest country" is so appalling at bio-security. We don't have this in Australia, we've spend billions keeping it out, which is FAR more cost efficient than the financial losses that come from failing to prevent it entering the country in the first place. I just can't grasp why the US doesn't have a similar attitude
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  22. lol oh yeh, that's absolutely revenge! They're ratbags! I've actually got 10 of them that used to visit a neighbour till she died & now visit me & it's amazed me how well behaved mine are! I've got one young one still in training, he chews stuff, so I've given him a bird chew toy & am disciplining him (ie "NO" &chasing him off if he ignores) & to my surprise, when I started doing this, the head cocky joined me in also teaching him no/chasing him off with bites if he eats my timber. Mine seem to understand that if they want food, they have to behave, which is awesome :) I can't take credit for it, obviously someone else has trained them in that. I have one that comes to my window if I don't come out & feed cause I'm on the phone or whatever. I've got a basket for hose bits there that he's claimed as his & enjoys throwing everything out of it, while sitting on it at my window. A couple of times he's decided to bite the flyscreen cause he's mad at me ignoring him, but I've just chased him off when he's done that & so far at least (touch wood - unchewed wood) he seems to understand the flyscreen's out of bounds. I can TOTALLY imagineit being destroyed in revenge though. They are lovable though imo :)
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  23. not resistant to powdery mildew! I wish it was!
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  24.  @Kremithefrog1  They're earning $1 a day & you want them to do the government's job too? How many countries require farmers build their own roads? I know mine certainly doesn't! We even subsidise farmers, because we consider it important for our population to be food secure, so we spend some of the money earnt through taxes from city people in investing in farming, to ensure the city people don't die from famine (or covid supply chain breakdowns, or Ukraine & other wars & droughts impacting available food from overseas). That's what governments are there for! My country grows enough food to provide the calories for 4 times our population btw & export 3/4 of it, mostly to our own region, so as to ensure food security across the region & therefore prevent unrest that could impact on us politically via refugees & wars on our doorstep. WELL worth the investment in the roads etc so as to make all of that possible imo! Hungry people are unhappy people!
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  25.  @jannatunzaman3104  lorikeets :) 2 rescues that sat in 2 separate cages with nothing to do for a decade, so don't really know how to shred/chew for fun, so they need soft stuff for getting them to actually attempt to chew & even then, they often refuse, but for some reason the water hyacinth really appeals to them. That & mahogany pods (which cost much more). The placemats are a nice texture for the cage bottom too, only downside is the cotton tying them together that I have to check at least daily & cut away any exposed loops so they can't tangle themselves in it. I've got about 10 placemats that I rotate for cleaning & then dispose of once they're largely gone & buy more to replace :)
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  26. It still is. I'm in the west & bought a salt block for my birds a while back. I had to buy a "small animal block" cause they didn't sell bird ones specifically, but the block was about 10 times the size of the white salt bird block I had previously bought, but was cheaper than the white salt one. Reason I bought it was cause my birds are lorikeets, so sticky liquid poop & so cage needs hosing out constantly & white salt block cannot withstand it. Himalayan salt block works just fine in those conditions. I actually found it really interesting that the animal block was less than half the price of the Himalayan salt in the grocery store here, even though it was a block, so you would think would cost more. A block in something like a salt lamp would have cost about 50 times more than the animal block - for the same size block. So for anyone in the west wanting it for "health benefits", you can buy it from animal suppliers far cheaper for the same thing, but I guess it's not the same thing, cause the only impact from it is the placebo effect & that probably doesn't happen with animal salt blocks I would guess
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  27.  @sr.liam17  It's really not the type of thing they're going to advertise is it! I'm surprised there's even one company admitting to it, I would have thought all companies would set it up with subcontractors, so that they have no direct association to the monkeys & can deny even knowing it was happening. I don't know official numbers, I doubt anyone does, in reality though, I think it's reasonable to assume that any country with native monkeys suitable to do this work is going to have major problems with this, as it's just too tempting to use the monkeys in this way. I'd honestly suggest it's so effective using them that it's really not even worth attempting to stop it & they would be better off in regulating the practice & enforcing better animal welfare standards for the monkeys. If the monkeys are treated well & only work for a few hours a day, there's probably no big issue in having monkeys climb trees to get coconuts, it's only when they're being forced to work extreme hours & being tied up in a position where they'll die of strangulation if they don't stand on their back legs all night for weeks on end, just to cruelly strengthen their muscles & are being starved & beeten if they don't learn fast enough etc etc that there are problems. If they were treated as "service animals" & well monitored by regulating authorities & managed & loved & cared for, then it would probably make sense to allow poor people to work with their animals to increase their income & decrease their injury risks. Just look at how fast the monkeys are able to be up the trees & harvesting the coconuts. Humans just can't compete with that! That's why I'd be very surprised if it's not widespread - and if it's not, that's only cause people haven't thought of it & had time to implement it yet & it certainly will be within a few years
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  28. Do you realise that microfibres from clothing are the primary source of ocean micro-plastics? If you want to wear plastic (polyester), you do that, but the ethical humans will be choosing the fabric options that cause the least harm to animals & the envirionment & that means silk over plastic Would love to know exactly how you think they feel pain while their brains are just liquid mush too! Cause that's what happens inside their cocoon! They go in a caterpillar, come out a moth. Their entire bodies just become liquid inside a shell while in that cocoon, so even IF insects were feeling pain at other times, they are most certainly not while in their cocoon period
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  29.  @birdflipper  $100,000 fine & 10 years jail per wild bird you catch & cage in Australia. That's part of why we have them flying around & interacting with us so extensively, cause we don't tollerate any caging of wild ones & a green quaker parrot is also called a monk parakeet, so makes no sense when you speak of having parakeets as a kid, then single out one of your parakeet pets by species but don't with any of the others. I'm guessing they were all monk parakeets?
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  30. C4 plants are actually vastly superior in warmer climates, especially as climate change reduces available water. Sugarcane is probably the best example of one of these that is severely underutilised, but corn is also a C4
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  31.  @bellwethertrucking3650  wtf are you on about? Luffa skins are removed & disposed of before using as a sponge. No different to the hygiene in using something like coconut milk or water (coconut water's used in the place of IV fluids in poor/disaster areas too btw)
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  32.  @andyrob3259  And, lets face it, this product is also vinyl, it's just got some different polymers in the middle, with the regular vinyl treatment process on the outside & added to the mangoes from the start
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  33.  @JohnPorsbjerg  hmm I hadn't thought of that/assumed it was obvious, but now you mention it, what about mice & rats? It would be edible to them wouldn't it? Cockroaches etc too. That could cause some small problems & limits in it's use, not enough to impact it's potential right now, but long term there could be some settings where that's a problem, in particular farm related products that need to be stored in packaging on the farm for a period of time
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  34.  @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep  might stay fertile for hundreds of years, but how many years does it take before it becomes fertile? biochar holds fertiliser, which is great long term, but in the short term, it locks up the fertiliser & makes it unavailable to the plants, reducing soil fertility - and it does it SIGNIFICANTLY if large amounts of bio-char are added in one go! Very negative consequences on crop growth for a number of years after initial addition when used at levels too high, which is what you are suggesting they do & they're not really getting rid of the invasive plant properly, not getting all the roots. Long term maybe, but certainly not enough that they can just use the land for crops again after initial removal, regardless of what they do with the charcoal!
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  35.  @bamboo1165  and what exactly happens to all the cardboard boxes that the mangoes are transported in? There's PLENTY of cardboard waste too!
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  36. that was my thought too! gloves, whatever, injuries are immediate, but inhaling doesn't show for 20+ years!
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  37. problem is it's too late to plant now in the northern hemisphere & also fertiliser is hard to get. In reality though, crops like field/dent corn, that is grown primarily for biofuel, but is also suitable to make cornflour, can be used to replace wheat for those facing famine & corn can be planted now in the northern hemisphere & in reality, everyone knew this was coming at least months ago, so the out of time to plant this season argument really doesn't hold! The lack of fertiliser argument does though. Australia's actually the one that should be able to significantly increase grain production for export, traditionally using very low fertiliser levels for lowish yields per hectare, but high total yields due to the amount of land used & coming off good rains in hte east, there's a lot of potential for high harvests this year, especially if the flooding from a few months ago combined with the cold this winter manages to fully wipe out the mouse plague. If the mice aren't wiped out, then Australia's eastern wheat production is again, but Australia really is the country that has the highest potential to fill the gaps right now, due to extreme experience with growing these crops with next to no fertiliser. West of Australia is still in drought though & that is a major wheat production region for export, so it won't increase
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  38. no taste difference I've noticed, although my pressure cooker certainly took on the smell of the cow poo I sterilised in it - to the point that I had to buy a new one for cooking! The mushrooms that ate that cow poo though tasted the same as all others (although there was more of them with the poo added)
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  39. So one of my wild cockies was chewing chewing gum the other day. Quite disconcerting watching a cockatoo doing that actually. I can kinda see issues with the bins after that, but that said, probably not really any different to a kid chewing chewing gum, just looks wrong/freaky to see a cocky doing it though
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  40. highly doubtful! Which countries are you making this claim for & how is it different from using compost, or are you claiming "most countries" have bans on using compost too? To my knowledge there's only one country that has "trash" & no doubt only one that would consider bans on this sort of "trash" use too
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  41. I do find them hard to stop going mouldy over time though - at least for my home grown ones, possible bought ones might have something added to stop that I guess, I don't know, might be how they're stored too, but I've tried lots of options
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  42.  @Kremithefrog1  It's the government's job because that's how society works! A community chooses to pay taxes in return for a group of people managing that money to build & care for society. The money is spent on things like roads, water, food & medicine & oil security, defence of the country, defence of the people via health care, police, fire services, education etc etc cause that's what society is. If you would prefer a free for all, fine, go join with a group of likeminded people, invade a country, take it over & make it mob rule, whoever has the most power & money gets to do whatever they like to other people & property. Happiness ratings of the people will plummet, life expectancy too, all conditions will. That's why no-one chooses to live without a government anymore! Some people do form their own micro-nations, secure countries tend to not feel at all threatened by them, conditional to them still paying their taxes, cause failing to do that, they do see as a threat, since others could follow & they're also required to follow the host country's primary laws, but within their own "nation" they can do what they like really. In my country, we even had one cult, not declare themselves a "micronation", as they did not want to draw attention to themselves, but they lived as if they were & even built & tested nuclear bombs on the land they'd bought. Cause they'd been keeping to themselves though, no-one actually noticed, they noticed the weird earthquake readings, just didnt' realise it was a nuke until the cult was caught in another country engaging in major terrorist activities, after which, of course the host country co-operated with the INTERNATIONAL community & enforced international laws on them (well would have, if any of them had still been in the host country)
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  43. oh really? What are these plant based alternatives huh? Let me tell you, it's 1, cotton! Cotton makes up 81% of all natural fibres produced on the planet. Wool is the only other fibre used for clothes production that is over 1% of total global fibre production! Now tell me, what are silk worms called when they feed on cotton huh? They're called "cotton boll worms" & do you know what you vegans do to them? You pay for them to be poisoned on mass, but instead of a painless death while metamorphising & in a state of brain mush, as happens to the pampered silk worms that are raised in sericulture, your cotton version of them are sprayed with masses of pesticides, causing them to rith in pain, spasming, vomiting, convulsing - for up to half an hour before they finally succumb to the effects of the poisons. Promoting that treatment of these worms over what it done to silkworms is soemthing only a cruel sadist would do! If you want to switch to wool, by all means go for it, but otherwise, you need to accept that silk is one of the kindest & most sustainable natural fibres on the planet
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  44. What happened to the first upload of this? Anyway, Cool to see the cockies featured :) The other bird in the bins btw, the white & black one with a really long beak, is called a "bin chicken", or "Ibis" if you want it's technical name. No mention of humans feeding the cockies & other birds though, I do a bit & they are certainly smart! I've bought them dog smart toys to keep them amused, along with making a range of different feeder types they have to work to get the food from, such as bowls on ropes & sticks that they have to pull up or climb down to access & they often come just to play & it's also fascinating to watch them teaching the others in their flock how to use the various toys. Mine are really well behaved too, I think most that get fed by humans are, cause they learn what's expected if they're going to get a feed & what stops the feeding. i had a young one chewing my timber the other day, I told him "no" & tried to chase him off, without chasing off the others, which didn't work great for the rest of them, so top pecking order cocky dealt with it for me, flew over to where that cocky was & each time he bit on something, head cocky bit at him to tell him "no" in terms he understood & respected. They're very smart & able to adapt to expectations in a human world really well! I recommend looking up the videos of them at bubblers/drinking fountains too. In areas with bubblers & no other drinking water supplies, the cockies will sit on the bubbler & call to passing humans to turn it on for them so they can get a drink
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  45.  @fahqfatgurls8479  I'm in Australia & yes, here we have Kmart, Target & Big W, no Walmart, it went bust decades ago. I think Kmart is our version of Walmart now, it's the one of the 3 that sell the most cheap stuff. I heard Kmart went bust in the US recently, I didn't realise until then. Not sure if it's the same Kmart here that you had there or not
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  46. The ships they're trying to replace carry 200,000 TONNES of wheat per ship! The biggest ever aircraft carried 280 tonnes. If using existing aircraft to cut down on conversion time, water bombing aircraft would be the way to go, the biggest of these being the 737's that hold 25 tonnes of water - slightly more than a semi-trailer, that holds 20 tonnes
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  47. the dark chocolate moulds look delicious, did you get any of those?
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  48.  @VinegarPotato  better option would be the ones the video spoke of, made of cellulose & hemp. That's not plastic! Cellulose is natural, so why can't we buy those 1940's ones, or a better version of them now? Doesnt seem to be any reason commercial manufacturers can't give us natural ingredient ones
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  49. yeh, sharpen your knife to stop that. I advise sharpening before buying a good one though. I'm trying to figure out how to sharpen knives properly at the moment, nice little covid project :) I seem to be better at destroying them than actually sharpening them, I get a sharp edge sometimes, but screw it up a lot too & also, do NOT use one of the auto knife sharpener things. I've found they take tiny chunks out of the knife's cutting surface that then take hours to remove on a proper sharpening stone. Cutting with a properly sharp knife is TOTALLY different to an average kitchen draw knife though, is awesome :)
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  50.  @PerceptionVsReality333  yeh, I've gotta say, in my experience luffa sponges go mouldy FAR quicker than any others, so I really do have to wonder if people are treating both the same way in storage & care, I'm guessing very much NO. There's also a range of widths in synthetic ones, so people should choose one that suits how they use it & should also be putting them through the washing machine regularly if they have smell or mould issues & aren't willing to use stuff like bleach to manage that. I use "wettex" for my uses where thicker ones mould up quickly & have a few I hang on hooks & alternate between, letting each dry between use. Mine always wear out well before having mould issues. Now if I could just work out how to store my luffas so that they wouldn't mould up!
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  51. lorikeets adapt well too, using their beauty & personality to get people to feed them for free, not to mention they love the same showy flowered natives that people love. Lorikeets have to be culled in WA & NZ, cause a few escaped pets have thrived & breed so well in those non-native habitats. Blue tongue lizards & possums are also on par with the birds as adapters though, blue tongues in particular are found in much higher numbers now than in the past, due to the more open habitat of suburbia, not to mention all the snails in strawberry plants & other veggies & flower gardens
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  52. Sounds good, but there are better solutions still. Why aren't we using much more crop waste? We only eat around 1-2% of the plant from most crops, the rest is waste, why aren't we using that as the raw materials? We are starting to use the waste from crops like sugarcane, but we could do a LOT more with crop waste!
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  53. carbon retains 70 times it's weight in water, so it can still be used for that as charcoal. I'm not sure if this stuff would work as mulch or not. I've grown rice in a bucket at my home, just to see how the process works, the rice straw is useless as mulch, as it repels the water, all these water growing plants likely do similar
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  54.  @shoemakerleve9  no! I mean I guess if you had a big enough space you could, but the plants are huge! Growing season's really long too. I grow in Sydney Australia, so temperate climate, but into subtropical nowadays with global warming, but I struggle to get them done in the growing season & REALLY struggle to control where they go. You need at least 8 metres or so of full sun space for the vine to grow in to get even 2-3 luffas off the vine in my experience. Try sweet potato if you want to test indoor growing ability & if you can produce 20kgs of so of sweet potato, then the space used for that should be enough to grow one luffa plant in (I grow sweet potato too, that's about the space the luffa needs compared to sweet potato in my garden & temperature needs are similar too, but luffa needs a LOT more sun than sweet potato. Sweet potato is actually viable to grow indoors in small amounts, so good test plant if you're thinking of growing luffa)
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  55.  @rafadacosta1675  How big are yours? Are they similar to the video ones, or smaller? Mine are MUCH smaller (but I live in a less tropical climate, so shorter growing season)
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  56.  @shoemakerleve9  I don't like your chances on grow lights either tbh, I'm trying to get cucumbers to grow with them at the moment & struggling, lettuce etc is super easy, but cucumbers MUCH harder & I think this would be the same as cucumbers in light & fertiliser needs, but over a much larger space. Temperature's really important for this one too, not just light, where I live is frost free, but it still dies off when the weather gets to about 10-15c overnight in Autumn. Sweet potato doesn't like cold either, more tollerant than luffas, but dies off quite a bit here in winter (but not fully, some established leaves stay, just doesn't really grow new ones in the middle of winter) & sweet potato will tollerate a lot of shade (quite viable to grow as an indoor, houseplant without any extra lighting beyond regular houseplant needs), so again I'd try that out as a test plant if wanting to see if you can figure out a way to grow luffas. Sweet potato leaves are edible too btw & you will get those in almost all conditions, but if you're not getting good sized tubers, you need to make changes until you do, if you want to grow luffas in the same space/conditions (no/next to no tubers if grown as a houseplant)
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  57. yeh, it's awesome & a lot of us Aussies love it, which is kinda why they are so comfortable around us, cause we feed them & encourage them to interact closely with us. They're smart enough to get to know which people they can & can't trust too :) & they also seek revenge on anyone that hurts them, shredding everything they value. I've got 9, all well behaved, one young one does chew stuff, i've given him a chew toy to use for this to stop him chewing my stuff & I tell him "no" & then chase him off if he chews my stuff anyway, which actually disrupts the others that are trying to feed, so boss cocky assists me with the discipline now too, when I say "no", boss cocky flies over & nips at 'Chewy" if he continues to bite stuff, so that I don't have to :) They know full well people hate them chewing stuff & will do it in revenge to anyone being mean to them, waiting till they're out & then destroying everything, so people tend to just ignore them or feed & encourage them, leading to nice, tame, "wild" birds (my wild ones are tamer than my pet rescue ones! I actually use the wild ones to let my pet ones watch the interactions & learn how to trust humans :))
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  58. their poop is normally fed to cows too! Apparently cows find silk worm poop to be delicious & nutritious :S
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  59. presumably to get a job for a company like this, you'd be contacting them & asking if you could visit them cause of what a fan you are & offering to volunteer or just wanting to visit lots & sending them you're CV & samples of your own attempts at home for years before actually getting a job. Worker would seek them out, not the other way around
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  60.  @karakaaa3371  not sure it's cheap to grow you own, the space they need is pretty extreme, that's a LOT of alternative produce loss to grow them! I'd easily lose at least $200 worth of sweet potato if I swapped the space over & grew enough luffas to throw out so frequently
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  61.  @bvegannow1936  Do you have any concept at all of the noxious weed issues that would occur if they did that? Plenty of councils provide people with free community garden spaces if they want it, generally starting small & able to apply to have bigger if the person shows they are going to use it appropriately (meaning it's productive, not full of weeds & totally neglected) Vegans always rant this sort of stuff, but in my experience, NEVER actually grow any of their own foods, despite having the ability to do so, or in the rare cases they do grow stuff, it's herbs (which are as easy to grow as any weeds) & NOT foods that provide any substantial calories. Grow in the space you currently have before demanding access to good farmland to waste!
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  62. ​ @bvegannow1936  spoken like a true inner city vegan who's never grown anything in their life & has no idea whatsoever how farming works! You need to research the damage done by feral animals & plants & pest control. When one small patch of land hosts pests, it gives them a headstart in breeding, allowing them to dominate the entire region, causing the need to use massive amounts of pesticides on ALL farms in the area & still losing most of the crop to the pests. When all farmers in an area are on the same page, pest base load is so low that there is very little pesticide use needed & very little loss of crops to any. Look at the mouse plague in Australia as an easy example of how this works. generally not a significant problem, ongoing baiting is used to keep numbers in check. Something goes wrong though & a larger than average base population manages to survive the winter. this is something that would happen at a mass scale in your proposal! 1 pair of mice produce 500 mice within 6 months. Up to 1000 mice can compfortably live on an acre of land if not controlled, so imagine if the surrounding farms start the summer not with 2 mice in the area, but instead with 1000. Within 6 months, instead of 500 mice on those farms, there are now 500,000 because ONE farmer didn't control the initial population of mice on their 1 acre of land! Nearby farmers can't just "mind your own business and leave others Alone." when the mice are not respecting the fence boundaries & are eating all their produce can they! You have no concept of just how much damage one irresponsible farmer can do & how much food loss it can cause at an industrial level! Many big corperations are actually growing crops in deserts, with irrigation now, specifically so they can avoid having neighbours with pests that infect their crops. The water costs they find are more than compensated for by teh additional yield they get, due to no neighbouring base load pests entering their crops. The desert growing is NOT sustainable & not something that should be encouraged, but it's what professionals are opting for, because of the damage being done to them by irresponsible property owners who don't control their pests & how that impacts on their neighbours!
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  63. sugarcane is the same, but uses far less water in it's growth. When I first managed to get hold of a piece of sugarcane to grow in my garden, it was the middle of winter, so I had the pot inside at night & then outside during the day to protect it from the cold. I ended up sitting there with a ruler next to it, watching it literally growing up the ruler in front of my eyes! It was pretty incredible! I could only do it for a couple of weeks though, after which time it had to endure the outdoors, cause it was too tall to carry in & out the door
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  64. Better option is to mix them with meat, tacos with 25% mushrooms & 75% meat were universally preferred over 100% meat ones in a study on this subject. No way I'd attempt to eat them in the place of meat though, yuck!
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  65.  @aidanacebo9529  that makes sense & is probably the reason. It's normally only the highest value fish that get farmed on mass, cause it's not cost effective with lesser value ones & especially when luffas are so cheap & easy to farm
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  66. I'm trying to figure out how they get the pupas out to eat, before reeling the silk, without cutting the cocoons, which causes them to become short strands, which drops their value. Some of the cocoons look cut too, so are they using them whole? Or are they cutting them? I'm confused
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  67.  @Globemakers  fascinating info. None of it surprises me though, other than the 22cm being the biggest seller, I would have thought around 30-40cms/whatever you sell closest to that in size would be the biggest seller, small enough to not be a problem to display/store, but big enough to be really able to use & see all the details on with relative ease compared to the smaller size. There would be a HUGE muscle memory variation between those sizes! While I'd love doing a job with such precision, not sure I could handle mastering it, then losing the skill, then going through the whole process to relearn it again, I'd be too frustrated with myself, remembering how easy it used to be & realising how much work was ahead of me to get back to there. Is it possible to retain muscle memory for multiple sizes simultaneously & if so, for how many different sizes at once? Can anyone make all sized globes at the same time? I'm guessing probably no, but the workers would have to be so dedicated & passionate about what they do that maybe it would be possible because of that. Anyway, thanks for your reply, that's awesome to actually hear from the person the video's about on this, really appreciate it, so interesting :)
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  68. How about fertiliser? There's no sanctions on fertiliser exports from Russia, so why is Russia refusing to export it? Russia IS the biggest producer of fertiliser & it's refusal to export that is hurting food production globally really badly! India isn't importing wheat from Russia, why would it? Cut with the propaganda lies! Grain "under Kiev's control" is being blown up by Russia! That's why it's not reaching it's destinations!
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  69. similar story in Australia, the most prized meat is called either a "bunnings snag" or a "democracy sausage". In both cases it's a cheap, supermarket sausage, cooked by volunteers, fundraising for organisations like the scouts or local schools, then thrown onto a piece of white bread, with some onions & tomato sauce. People will travel for miles just to get a bunnings snag. In covid, they even set up mobile vaccination clinics nest to the snag stall when vaccine numbers stagnated & got a massive increase because of location lol. Bunnings is an Aussie hardware store brand & the sausages are cooked in it's carparks on Saturdays & Sundays lunch time. "Democracy sausages" are a rarer beast & even more prized, being only available at polling booths during elections, therefore ensuring everyone turns up to vote, so that they can buy their "democracy sausage". No deep frying with either, but you can get butter lathered onto the bread & so covering the sausage too :) Ok, so we don't charge a fortune for these in the way wagyu does, but most Aussies would automatically choose the bunnings snag over a wagyu if offered both
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  70. ​ @Alinax99  oh really? What are these plant based alternatives huh? Let me tell you, it's 1, cotton! Cotton makes up 81% of all natural fibres produced on the planet. Wool is the only other fibre used for clothes production that is over 1% of total global fibre production! Now tell me, what are silk worms called when they feed on cotton huh? They're called "cotton boll worms" & do you know what you vegans do to them? You pay for them to be poisoned on mass, but instead of a painless death while metamorphising & in a state of brain mush, as happens to the pampered silk worms that are raised in sericulture, your cotton version of them are sprayed with masses of pesticides, causing them to rith in pain, spasming, vomiting, convulsing - for up to half an hour before they finally succumb to the effects of the poisons. Promoting that treatment of these worms over what it done to silkworms is something only a cruel sadist would do! If you want to switch to wool, by all means go for it, but otherwise, you need to accept that silk is one of the kindest & most sustainable natural fibres on the planet
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  71. Mulberries are delicious! The silkworms are the same species as the bollworms that cause chaos in cotton crops too, but over time they have evolved to eat different plants, making silkworms & cotton bollworms cousins rather than the same. Presumably yes, they probably were a pest, or at least seen feasting on mulberry trees at some point yes
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  72. @Denise Hill monoculture is never the solution to anything
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  73. yup, hence why our animals are the smartest in the world & tbh, the humans aren't really being outsmarted, we just kinda enjoy letting tourists & the world see how smart our animals are. Same as the claims they all want us dead, actually it's only tourists that die, we get on just fine with our animals, they might be deadly, but they don't feel the need to use their capabilities on us, I mean why would they? We're smart enough to know how to live alongside them in peace, it's all "no worries mate" over here :)
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  74. yup. I love it when I see the chance to loan my money to help set up a cooperative through kiva. Happens quite a bit, which is great :) In the past, before microfinance style organisations, co-ops had major problems getting funded to get started
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  75.  @elisewilliams1575  ah but if they buy recycled sand, he's thinking he can claim his course is environmentally friendly & promote it based on that lol
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  76. yeh, grind it less fine & solve both problems at once!
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  77. or rubbish bins, or just bins but yeh, not "trash"
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  78. This is the way society is going & HAS to go as automation increases. Without stuff like this, what are we going to be doing in the future? As traditional jobs get taken over by machines, this is where we'll go as a society so as to feel & be fulfilled
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  79. yeh, I thought it was India. I haven't checked recently, probably some way they can claim to be the second biggest... maybe in "golden silk"? They made a big issue out of it's colour, maybe that's why? Most countries try to whiten the silk not make it golden. In reality, the colour washes out during processing anyway
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  80. we have proper standards in Australia. we take care of our water & air & even our landfills! We don't dump toxic waste into them, it's illegal & enforced! Plastic is about the most harmful thing a cocky's going to get from a bin & they're smart enough to know not to eat that
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  81. yeh, seems like an obvious use for it doesn't it!
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  82.  The Real Girl  yeh, developing new treatments for cow skins would be a much better environmental option! Find financially viable ways to tan the hides with no toxic chemicals!
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  83.  @wom_Bat  I doubt cardboard would last less time, why would it? We're comparing fibres in wood with fibres in a soft fruit. I'm betting on the wood fibres being more durable than the fruit ones that couldn't even last for the trip to Europe
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  84.  @cchavezjr7  to make charcoal, the organic matter is put into a container that allows the wood gasses to escape, but doesn't allow oxygen in, which means the wood gasses & water leave the organic matter, but all it's carbon content is left behind as charcoal (which is 100% carbon). It is normal to harvest the wood gasses that leave the organic matter & use it to fuel the charcoal making, but by doing so, the gasses burn cleanly, not mix with carbon as they burn, which means no smog is created. When the charcoal is burnt later, again it burns cleanly, because of the wood gasses having been removed, so double burning in this example is very beneficial
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  85. very easy to research for yourself & see the benefits of charcoal v wood, I mean you can even do a practical experiment at home yourself if you don't trust the research, cook your dinner on a fire made of wood, then cook your dinner on a fire made of charcoal bricks & see which one makes your hair & clothes smell more of smoke. The wood gasses are removed in the charcoal burning process, so when the gas free charcoal is burnt later, it has less harmful emissions. Same total emissions, but far less getting into people's lungs & into the air around houses & populations
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  86. so the smell from leather, is that from the hide or the chromium sulfate? Cause I get sick from leather, but still love it as a material, so if I got vegetable leather, would that be usable to me, without giving me the migraines I get from regular stuff?
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  87.  @Automedon2  ah, thanks :) & that kinda answers my question, cause I react to horse stuff too :( I do have lots of allergies, including to natural stuff as well as artificial chemicals, so I guess it's probably the leather itself for me :( That's great info, cause it saves me researching if I can buy veg tanned stuff to avoid my issue, (and wasting a LOT of money on it) I guess not :( very much appreciate your reply!
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  88.  @user-fk8tr5ev8q  dry product until the floods hit - at least if you're in Australia lol huge amounts of the country have gone underwater to the top of the roof, so even those who stored it in their roof cavity lost it all
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  89. marbling is unhealthy & gross imo!
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  90. In most of Australia, common items that were becoming litter, such as glass & plastic bottles have seen a price rise by 10 cents each, along with recycling machines at a range of locations, where you can feed the bottles into them & get 10 cents per bottle, so nowadays on bin night, there's hoards of people rummaging through everyone's recycling bins to look for any bottles they can pull out & take to the machines to make money from & there's VERY few of them found as litter anymore, if anyone drops one, someone will see it & immediately pick it up & claim it for profit. Works well :)
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  91.  @scasny  ironic isn't it for a country that claims to be pro FREEdom to insist that everything has a price & nothing is FREE, but rather people are FREE to charge whatever they like for whatever level of substandard service they wish to provide
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  92.  @drinny26  he's pretty clear that he doesn't intend on passing the business down, therefore doesn't care what is left in a few years time. The "just need to look harder" when there's hardly any sponges left was what shocked me!
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  93. meanwhile there's another commenter saying there's been daily severe storms all summer, to the point of flooding & a total inability of fishing or tourist boats to even get out of the docks
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  94. ​@BabyGirlDontEvenPlay hmm my non-working limbs are replaced by metal & rubber. I use a wheelchair rather than prosthetic, but guy I know with a prosthetic hand actually has a plastic one for cosmetic purposes & a metal hook one that he uses when he wants something practical. Natural latex rubber is the primary component in where prosthetics connects to limbs in most cases, NOT petrochemicals! Probably best not to use disabled people to try to make a point that has nothing to do with disabilities. That comes into the category of ableism to do that. We're not toys to be used by someone with no understanding of what disabilities involve, we're real people. Try giving an example of something that ACTUALLY affects you, not something that implies people are hurting society's vulnerable cause you think you will impress people more than reality if you take advantage of & use vulnerable people
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  95. @BabyGirlDontEvenPlay because that's the stock standard in my country for ease of making as much as anything else. My wheelchair is aluminium, cause that's what the government will pay for, I would much rather have one made from carbon fibre than aluminium, it would be vastly superior & in reality, carbon fibre can be made from bamboo, it cannot be made from plastic!
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  96. ​ @Chris-fo8wp  I'm an Aussie, so obviously there's no doubt in my (or any Aussie's) mind that climate change is real, after massive fires & then 2 years straight of no sun & record breaking floods with whole cities under 50 feet of water! You're being ridiculous to suggest it's not real when looking at the reality of the world today! I will agree that when you follow the money, you see that the tree planting industry is now bigger than the fossil fuel industry & they are actively trying to prevent the problem being solved, so as to save their industry, but that doesn't mean climate change is somehow not real!
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  97. doesn't the salt residue they leave get annoying though?
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  98.  @zyxw2000  interesting/weird re certain liquids only eligible. In Australia, it's any container that is commonly found in litter, so milk won't get the 10c refund, cause it's normally drunk in homes, but any flavoured milk product likely ot be drunk in public & therefore potentially littered, will get the 10cent return stamp & can be taken to any "return and earn" centre (which look like the ones in the video in Germany)
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  99.  @changeliveson  the population size thing is always ridiculous on issues like this! Higher population just means more money coming in to spend on programs like this & more people wanting to run around collecting litter for the return systems. In Australia btw it was initially done by a single state (SA) but then the federal government decided to take that system & roll it out nationwide, cause, well why not? It was a proven working system & made no difference if it was a few million or tens of million doing it
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  100.  @indiogator  economy of scale, the US therefore has the ability to do it well, far better than small countries do!
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  101. no, their numbers are FAR higher now than pre-white humans & they used to have to migrate to find enough food to survive, now they don't, cause it's so plentiful when they live alongside humans in suburban areas & farm areas
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  102.  @rafadacosta1675  maybe, I always thought it was the shorter growing season for mine, but I guess seeds makes sense too, either instead of, or as well as the above
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  103. Australia spends money on bio-security instead, which means avoiding this AND avoiding covid & other biological diseases & weapons. I actually find it horrifying the US doesn't do the same
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  104. It's America! Land of the "free to profit at the cost of the environment or anyone or anything else you feel like exploiting for profit" Sad!
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  105. and poorer quality & if you'd ever raised your own silkworms, you'd know that it results in a slow, horrible death as the moths slowely starve to death, cause they're incapable of eating. The males must also be kept many kms away from the females, otherwise they work themselves into a mating frenzy until they die from it. Alternatively, you can leave them in together & the males will rap the females until they bleed & die & then of course all the fertile eggs they all lay need to be destroyed too. Much kinder to dispose of them once they've entered the cocoon & are transitioning into moths, with their brains being in a non-functional liquid state. That's what the cocoon's for, to protect them while they're in that state where they are incapable of functioning or protecting themselves. Even just leaving them outside in the sun for an hour or so is enough to cause them to die, but the boiling is an instant death, just to be sure there's no potential for suffering
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  106.  @Me-fz5vq  lol by all means give it a try, but sadly this is one plant you're not going to get success with there. I really struggle to get them grown in the available season in Sydney Australia! Way too late in the season to be planting now, maybe try next year & plant in a greenhouse or sunny window/artificial lights in January or February. I plant mine indoors in July or August & as long as I fertilise well & the weather co-operates, I can have at least a few mature enough for harvest before it turns cold in around May. Try something like large pumpkins this year to test your growing set up, cause they mature much faster, but have similar needs. I'm really curious where you heard the UK is meant to be good for them though, I've never heard that, quite the opposite! They're effectively a tropical only plant, due to how long they take to mature on the vine
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  107.  @Me-fz5vq  well you can try, but in my experience, you've got Buckleys! Maybe for the small, edible fruits, but I really do struggle to get any to maturity before the weather cools & the plant dies & they stop growing - and I'm not even in an area with frost, they just stop growing when night time temps get down to about 15c in my experience, or it might be daylenght related, not sure, but I know I find them a hard one - and I grow sugarcane, sweet potato, coffee & tropical carnivorous plants with ease! If you do try them, fertilise the first 2 luffas, then pluck off the rest of the female flowers, so that the plant devotes all it's energy into just the 2, so as to mature them as fast as possible. If you have 3 months or less of growing time left when the fruit sets, as soon as you're sure one of the 2 is fertilised & growing well, pluck off the smaller & try to get just one to mature. I found this by accident, with a vine with about 5 or 6 fruits on it & none matured, while the one that only had 1 fruit set almost made it, so next year I plucked off all additional flowers before the plant could waste energy on them & got 1-2 fruits to mature/near mature on each vine. Just don't dedicate space to this in the place of other plants you want more. If you want to grow something fun & interesting to experiment with, linen/linseed/flax is a good one that will love your climate there
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  108. no stores take them anymore where I am in Australia either, but the government has set up machines & little shopfronts with automated machines in them that people can take the containers to & get their 10c per container from (in the form of a voucher that can be swapped for cash at all the stores that used to take the containers). This is the sort of thing governments are meant to do with our taxes
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  109.  @cstalt  In a lot of cases that can hold people back, but more particularly, access to micro-loans is what's needed. In this case, banking to save money wouldn't help, cause buying the beans is near equivalent to buying silver, so a really solid investment, no need to have banks offer them investments when they already have beans to invest in
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  110.  @johnrussell7996  Australia's NOT rich in good soils, or water to grow the sort of crops that usually go with rich soil growing, so I guess Madagascar wins on that one. Would be potentially interesting to compare totals though, cause Australia's 13 times bigger, but only around 8% of land that can grow crops year round, so that would seem to potentially give similar arable land areas to both. Australia produces enough food to feed 100 million people, any idea how much Madagascar produces? If lower though, that could be due to corruption & less efficient systems, or it could be due to focusing on high value, low calorie crops, like the ones you speak of, while Australia does wheat & other grains & beef (and wool, so lamb as a bi-product of that) If it's lower calories due to higher value crops, then it should be even richer than Australia. Population size is on par, so export amounts could be similar
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  111. Amazes me the lack of environmental protection laws in America! No other developed world country has these issues!
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  112. well I guess you've got this one now & it's a pretty good one, but I would look at bio-char & the impact of getting carbon into the world's soils if you want something different to this story. You could use onion skins for that & banana stems & the rice stubble that causes all the pollution in Delhi & everything else. In charcoal form it's stable for 1000 years & locked out of the atmosphere & helping retain fertiliser & other chemicals to stop pollution. Trees hold small amounts of carbon while they're alive, but retaining that carbon in charcoal form makes it permanent & actually useful (which trees sadly are really not)
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  113. well that's a good thing for your health anyway. Fatty meat isn't good for you. So funny seeing that that is the highest priced & most in demand in the US, in Australia, everyone wants lean, grass fed meat with no fat in or around it, cause we don't want to get fat or have heart attacks. We export any meat we produce that looks like the meat in this video, cause people here are barely willing to feed it to their dogs & certainly won't feed it to their human families
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  114.  @mintheman7  oh please!!!!!! There are 2 types of corn, sweet corn that is eaten in cob & traditional western "corn" form & maize/flour/dent corn that is used for everything else. Aztec cultures primarily grew AND ATE the corns that you are now attempting to claim are not used for food! Sweet corn was a novelty for centuries of corn use as a primary crop! Everything from popcorn to cornflakes to cornflour comes from the type of corn used for bio-fuel & that is also the corn that is desired in the developing world, for use in corn breads. They want the high starch, not the high sugar of sweet corn!
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  115. @Jason Walter I really don't care what you would call it, given your answers to date in this thread! How many gallons of fat based bio-fuels are produced in the US each year compared to corn & other plant based bio-fuel gallons produced huh? Let me give you a hint, one is in the billions of gallons, the other is not! I wonder which one is the primary fuel stock........
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  116.  @isabutchers5591  why don't you enlighten us on why you can't eat corn grown for biofuel? Again, as I detailed in a previous comment, the corn used in bio-fuel is the same type that is in demand as a wheat/starch replacement grain. Sweet corn is used for eating as fresh corn, but field/dent/flour/biofuel corn or whatever you want to call it is what is needed for all uses other than fresh corn eating, whether that's corn chips, corn flour, tortillas, corn bread, corn flakes, corn syrup (which is wasteful to produce), corn oil (also wasteful) popcorn or ANY corn uses other than fresh eating or biofuel, all use the same corn! Prove to me otherwise or admit you have been conned by biofuel propaganda!
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  117.  @boardcertifiable  meanwhile, cockies don't bother opening the door, they just eat it off - literally! My bistro blind has a cocky sized hole in it cause they wanted in. My security screen's metal, so they couldn't get get past it to eat the main front door, but they tried. Kangaroos are probably the main ones here that open doors, but not really in super urban areas, really only smaller wallabies here (except during droughts). Our animals are mostly too small to really open doors themselves, so they just demand we do it, or eat their way though the door or window or roof or whatever, who knows how they get in! Wildlife group I'm with even had a call many years ago for a drunk possum lying on a board room table on the 10th floor of an inner city office building, and just to top it all off, it did it on April fools day! Was real though, it somehow got into the building & onto that floor & into the board room where it knocked over a bottle of red wine in it's panic & since they like grapes, it then drank the wine until it was so drunk it couldn't move. Staff came in in the morning to find the office ransacked & the drunk possum that did it just lying there passed out. She was put into a nice, dark recovery cage for a couple of days & then released to bushland as close as practical to where she was found, but had to be a distance away, since there was no bushland there to release her into. No idea how she got there, or in! The snakes are common in those settings, they hitch a ride in the car engines, then get out as soon as the car stops, cause it got much hotter than they liked & they then make their way from the underground carparks into the lifts & office proper & hide in various locations, totally freaking out staff that were NOT expecting to find the 2nd or 6th most venomous snake in the world in the cupboard of their office building when they opened it to get a cup for their coffee. Suburbs are full of wildlife corridors to make sure the wildlife can free roam everywhere, but the office buildings don't back onto bushland like suburban houses & apartments do
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  118. you're easily impressed lol
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  119. builders sand is referred to as "river sand" in many countries/regions, cause in those areas, that's it's primary source. Depends on the area obviously, as you've shown
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  120. limes really aren't a problem, finger limes are an easy replacement plant for them. It's the oranges that are harder
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  121. we do, but it's the forbidden fruit they want lol. It's like if people have fruit trees, the dam cockies will take one bite out of every piece of fruit, as they pick it & drop it to the ground while laughing at us. I grew some sunflowers a few years back, same thing, cocky didn't even bother eating the seeds, just had fun shredding the flower & threw it all on the ground. These birds are so well fed it's not funny! I actually feed some a bit, but I put the food in dog smart toys, so that they can get the mental stimulation they're really craving. They'll only choose their favourite seeds too btw & just ignore the rest & when I tried to give them something more healthy, sweet potato, carrots, bok choy, sprouted seeds, beans etc etc - all the stuff good parrot owners give their pet birds so the birds can enjoy the food & also get good nutrition, my wild cockies just turned up their noses at it all & didn't come back for a week! Meanwhile, one of mine has taken up chewing chewing gum, presumably found in a bin. Seems he likes that better than sweet potato etc!
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  122.  @Globemakers  not all of them leave countries out, I've seen some where the same country appears twice too lol
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  123. oh that's easy, you buy a $13,000 paper weight or 2. Weren't you watching the video?
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  124. The solution's actually very easy, don't say it's hard! The solution is for either the middle men to take a pay cut, or for consumers to pay more for the end product, so as to cover the costs of the required wages
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  125. I love how all the bad stuff's removed with the processes, but all the good stuff stays, cause of course the good & bad stuff knows if it's good or bad & should stay or go right?
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  126. wow, I'm impressed! I struggle to grow to maturity in the available growing season in Sydney. I wouldn't have thought it would be possible in Canada, well done managing it!!!! & yeh, is a great feeling isn't it :)
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  127. HUGE difference in production between 1st & 7th too, something like 400,000 tonnes v 2,500 tonnes
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  128.  @lzl4226  I think I'm about 100-200 metres above sealevel, does that count as "higher altitude"? j/k obviously :) No right equipment for roasting, all the videos I've seen seem to use a frying pan, but seem to heat really hot & fast till black, which this video seems to be suggesting the opposite of. I have an air frier oven, I'm actually thinking of trying using that Anyway, I've mostly just grown it for fun, so I don't really care that much if it's not great quality, I just like that I've grown it myself, which it sounds like is going to be a good thing, cause it probably won't be great coffee. Has still been a fun experience though & I can try different things each year now I'm getting lots of beans, who knows, maybe I will end up experienced over time :)
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  129. I'm guessing nature invented grafting & humans just copied her. I have a bougainvillea that I recently pruned & discovered had grafted onto itself at one point (making it difficult to prune). Presumably humans in the past saw something like this & decided to try to do it themselves & then experiment to see how far they could go
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  130.  @TamagoHead  I'm guessing it would have been observed prior to written history, probably even more than post written history, as people were beginning to detach from nature as writing was starting. Yew trees are a bit different, but have a look into them, they're often found in church yards in Europe & considered sacred, but they weren't planted there because of that, the church was built there because of them! They naturally hollow out over time & get hollowed out by humans to live in & all sorts of stuff. I'm not sure if their branches "graft" onto themselves or not, but they're probably doing similar stuff, close enough to give an idea of what people were seeing & understanding of trees before a time when most people were literate. I doubt people would have been intentionally grafting plant types that we graft today before written history, back then, they were more interested in increasing seed sizes & getting them all to mature at the one time & other stuff that today we refer to as "domestication". Domestication of plants occurred on every continent (except Antarctica & Zealandia, due to no humans there)
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  131. This is really awesome! It's what needs to be done to all organic waste globally! & if there's no need to use if for fuel, then there's still a need to do this with the waste & then plow it into farmland to retain water & fertiliser, so as to stabilise soils & make them more productive. Would be great added to the soil before planting those trees too, then it can soak up the torrential rains & then release to the tree roots at times of drought. Carbon holds 70 times it's weight in water!
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  132. yup, in Australia we used to do that system back in the 70's & 80's, now we do 10cents per container for any container that is commonly littered, as an anti-littering program. Incredible the difference in profit for the collectors. I've made more on just a couple of collections from a local bin just for fun to see how the system works, than I made from years of hard work collecting as a kid
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  133.  @ink3539  Australia & NZ were both covid free before this cruise left! The ship brought in new, infected crew from overseas & straight onto that ship, but no passengers knew that, they thought it was exclusively between 2 covid free countries, from an Aussie based ship. There was no reason to think there would be infections onboard, especially when the crew actively hid positive tests from those who reported to the ship's doctor with covid symptoms. These people weren't even given the chance to stay in their cabins, they were told the ship was covid free & look at the video of the crew saying good bye to the passengers & how they're effectively molesting them as they sing to them & force them all to walk between lines of infected crew! & then after that, they all went home & infected relatives, while the cruise company still hid that they had over 100 positive tests in their hands before the ship docked! NONE of those people were told they were infected before they accidentally k1lled their own relatives!
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  134.  @Globemakers  I actually find it interesting that the smallest size is easiest, I thought small would probably be harder & the medium small would be easier, kinda giving more hand movement space & less bend in the globe. The super large looks like a nightmare to try to get right though!
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  135.  @markdragon9395  similar story in Australia. Dominoes still exists, but a wave of Italians came to Australia back in the 1960's I think it was & they brought REAL pizza with them when they did, so Aussies got used to proper pizza before the commercial bs, so nowadays with enough disposable income, people choose proper pizza places over US chains. btw apparently the last winner of the world's top pizza making competition (in Italy of course) was an Aussie! & I would just ignore those that don't understand what pizza is & it's history. Let them eat their dominoes while those of us with taste buds eat the proper stuff :) How does starbucks go over there too btw? That one was also a disaster in Australia! They've managed to keep a few stores open now, all in high tourist areas, catering to tourists, backpackers etc that want that taste of home. Aussies won't touch that toiletwater! We like REAL coffee, probably even more than real pizza. I'm guessing Italy is probably very similar on coffee too
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  136.  @DWB_Plays_Canada  When I did a welding course, I used one close fitting leather glove & one proper welding glove. I chose the close fitting one because it gave me more control, but after touching literally red hot metal, I discovered why welding gloves are not close fitting. Welding gloves are designed to be able to easily flick off if needed. There is no reason being coated in glass would change this ability to flick off quickly if using properly designed welding/molten glass gloves that are specifically designed to be quickly & easily removed if immersed in molten metal or glass. I also can't see how there would be any difference in ability to quench a hand with a glove on compared to just a hand, would be exactly the same thing if the glove couldn't be removed, stick the gloved hand into water until the glass cooled, then break it & remove the glove. That would pretty obviously cause far less injury to break the glass on the outside of the glove than to break the glass that's directly against the burning skin!
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  137.  @Ass_of_Amalek  What's REALLY needed is proper carbon pricing if this charcoal is put into the ground in a way that's hard to get back out, which would basically mean leaving it as the powder & spreading it into agricultural soils, or soils where trees are to be grown. If we could get an international price on that, it would change the whole climate change situatoin completely! So by that I mean, you set up a company that takes waste & converts it into 1000 year stable charcoal form, locking that carbon out of the air for 1000 years & then you bury it in the earth's soils, where it absorbs 70 times it's weight in water when it rains & makes that water available to plants when it's dry & you get paid to do it by companies looking to offset carbon emissions, ie they can pay you to do that in the same way they can pay for trees to be planted. It's insane we don't already have this in place, as doing this is FAR more effective than planting trees that hold the carbon only for a few years
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  138.  @ayanjit9196  no, Australia was covid free when the ship left. New Zealand was covid free when it arrived there too. Both countries were heavily covid infected AFTER the ship docked again though, every state in Australia & where it docked in New Zealand were infected by this ship! There was no covid present in any supplies they took on though, their crew were the only option to introduce the virus
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  139. what I don't get, is they say that the way they can tell it's not natural & drop the price is cause they're told, so why not just inject the bacteria into them & pretend they're poached natural ones, seems more profitable than seeking out rare natural ones to me
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  140.  @MoltenMetalCasting  some of those pull tabs are titanium. They pay a lot!
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  141. Citrus Australasica (finger lime) is completely immune, to the point that it's extracts can be used to treat affected plants of other species. It's the only one though
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  142. well that's just dumb imo the idea of these sorts of purchases is they're supposed to be so insanely expensive that you keep them as an investment & use them only on rare occasions with guests, so as to avoid lead poisoning. By buying cheap versions with no potential to increase in value, you lose investment potential & increase the chance you will use them so regularly that it will impact your health
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  143.  @realbroggo  Have you seen them showering during the rain? I'd argue that's more entertaining (although in a different way) mine did it the other day, landing on the leaves of the trees with wings spread out, then getting a footing, then dropping back & hanging upsidedown to get a good wash under their wings, hysterical to watch! I had 2 trees covered in huge birds, hanging upsidedown with their wings fully extended
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  144.  @delafontainedoes  Plenty of alternate jobs available. That doesn't fly as an excuse either! No reason he can't get a part time job working in one of those tourist restaurants to supplement his income instead of taking the last of the sponges & wiping out the entire industry & tourism industry along with it. VERY short sighted to focus on eating today while wiping out all potential to eat tomorrow! PLENTY of countries limit the allowable catch, even this guy's native country! People there don't die of starvation because of it, do they!
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  145.  @Tarik360  I cook them with sugar & lime juice - when I have too many that is, Mulberry jam is delicious :) Stems are a pia doing that though! They're similar to blackberries & generally eaten raw as berries. Taste great, but really come into their own for kids, kids can climb the trees & eat the berries while doing so, plus use the leaves for silkworms. Birds love the berries too, which can be a bit of a drama if you hang washing outside to dry, as they tend to drop them all over the clothes, plus poop on the clothes with red/purple staining poop from the berries
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  146.  @alexaecho4273  which of my comments do you think is ignorant & why exactly? What have I said that requires scientists not citizens?
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  147. why does he "deserves huge"? I don't see anything in the story suggesting that, he's just a typical Aussie guy. What he & his family deserve is that he learns from those in nearby Coober Pedy & converts his mine into a living room & decorates it & makes it a much more pleasant environment to spend time in, so he hardly feels like he's "working" at all
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  148.  @hbp_  define "slowly". If we're talking 100 years or so, not really an issue compared to plastics that are thousands to millions of years for the microplastics to become not, but if you're saying they basically create a product similar to micro-plastics, then that is a problem
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  149. Vietnam & China currently have a large land border between the 2 countries. Throughout much of history, that border has been in dispute/moving. It was certainly into Vietnam WELL before 552ad, cause the Han rulers in China had claimed Vietnam as "China" over half a millennium before that & held it for 1000 years, so "Vietnam" was a part of China at the time period you reference there
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  150.  @bankerdave888  I don't think they said they invented silk did they? Just that their silk manufacturing goes back 4000 years, which I can't find any evidence to dismiss, it was easy to get from China into Vietnam back then, even if kept out of western countries with great vigour. This video does have a lot of nonsense though, such as it's claims of Vietnam being second highest in the world in silk. That's India with 161,000 tonnes per year to Vietnam's 2,500 tonnes
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  151. @hitman.radio30 like it or not, they're quoting what the sponge harvester in the video said aren't they! Clearly they are not growing back as fast as they are being harvested are they!
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  152.  @robingannaway8262  I was going to say basically this. I have a raised garden bed for my veggies & I've been gradually building up levels in a new one for the last few years now, currently 1 bessa block high, will eventually be 2 or 3 blocks high, the entire thing is just paper, boxes & food scraps & a little sand I've bought cause otherwise the pure carbon contents get too heavy & hold water too well. My whole gardenbed is an overgrown worm farm & it's incredibly productive, even while still building it!
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  153.  @Theinatoriinator  good point re automation Krawurxua & yeh, exactly Logan, much more efficient if all done by machines in clean rooms! Much more reliable too, no contaminated batches
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  154.  @FitnessGuru91  so that system doesn't rely on how the user holds the knife & does that for you? That's my problem with sharpening :( & the cheap pull in & out ones I have seriously take chunks out of the knife blade! If the system you speak of does it for you, I kinda like the idea of that, but that said, I'm also kinda stubbon & at this stage determined to figure out how to sharpen the dam things myself! (is also good to know for axes, chisels etc too)
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  155. Try making jam with lime instead of lemon juice, it gives it a real kick & awesome flavour you don't expect in jam (jam's really easy to make btw, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup fruit, 1 tsp lemon/lime juice, boil until it has jam consistancy & you're done)
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  156. but what makes something "the best"? I mean this one's a perfect sphere, the earth is not, would the best for you be one that wasn't a perfect sphere but instead matched the earth's shape more accurately but required various counterweights to actually spin in earth's gravity? How do you define "the best"?
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  157. the patented secret technique he won't share you mean?
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  158. yeh, sea glass. You can make it in a rock tumbler too, it's much faster to make than polished/rounded stones. This company could easily set up a cement mixer to run on solar panels, throw in some water & a pile of glass chunks & let it run for a few weeks & they'd have a cement mixer full of sea glass, that like you say, they could sell to fish stores or directly to people wanting it for their fish tanks or similar
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  159.  @chefnic4763  it's clearly not! Or if it is, then it's still incorrectly set at limits that are above growth rates, therefore depleting reserves - as they say in this video
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  160.  @chefnic4763  but you don't even know if one boat is low enough in harvest levels to be sustainable do you? Or do you? Do you know what the environmental studies on the sponges have said is a sustainable annual harvest number & how that compares to what is being harvested in that one boat? & then yeh, in addition to that you potentially have other boats from other areas harvesting too, so there's clearly nothing at all "strict" in genuinely protecting the sponges & ensuring harvests are kept to below reproduction rates
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  161.  @someonewithsomename.4044  hmm, yeh I dunno then. I just had a look to confirm, India is second & Vietnam 7th, like you said. first result I got also had per capita silk numbers, I thought maybe that would put them on top, but nope, not even close. I have no idea where they're getting the numbers from with Vietnam's 2,500 tonnes to China's 403,000 tonnes (and India's 161,000 tonnes)
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  162. We have red, yellow & green bins. Red is garbage, yellow is recyclables, green is organic matter like lawn clippings, no rotting food allowed. The cockies only open the red bins, they don't touch the yellow or green, cause they know there's no food in them
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  163.  @greatninja2590  Construction sand is available at my local hardware store in 20kg bags & tradies & DIY people buy it for small concrete & other projects, so no reason these guys couldn't sell suitable sand directly to the public in a similar way. Yes, they're too small to get big construction job contracts, but they can cater to small backyard builds, securing posts for fences, pegolas etc etc & anything where the person is hand mixing the concrete onsite, as opposed to buying it in already in a mixing truck & if they do that, they'll hopefully make a profit & maybe be able to expand over time. I get the feeling that right now they're not even breaking even & are still relying on crowd funding donations to be financially viable, they could change that & start buying new equipment piece by piece with their profits if they actually sold the sand for building uses
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  164.  @xfhnhhgjbvcfg  they are literally giving their sand away, so even if it's cheap, it's still a significant profit increase for them over their current model isn't it! Their raw materials are cheap too, so they should be able to profit selling it to a cheap product's production
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  165.  @elderberryjamz3654  finger limes are so resistant that chemical compounds from them can be sprayed on infected trees to ki11 the bug on them
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  166. wouldn't that be "oversponging"?
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  167. Alternative to plastics would be cotton according to peta wouldn't it? Cotton boil worms are cousins of silkworms. In cotton production, they are sprayed with pesticides on mass & can be seen spasming & vomiting as they die. Silkworms on the other hand metamorphosis while in their cocoon, meaning their brain is just liquid mush, in transition, incapable of anything at the time they are boiled & eaten. Or to put it another way, yup, you're exactly right, but it goes even further than you're saying & their claims that it's somehow ok to poison cotton boil worms, but not boil silk worms are purely hypocritical! Cotton causes far more deaths of the same critters than silk production does, but in silk production, the critters are well cared for & only euthinased at a point where they cannot feel anything (even if insects can ever feel something)
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  168.  @chihirostargazer6573  You are right that we dont' have proof that insects can't feel pain, but we do have proof their brain is not formed at the time they are being boiled & we also have significant proof that plants feel pain & are distressed by it & make a wide range of chemicals to try to combat the pain (many of which we use as pain treatments on ourselves) & also that they "scream" both in pain & in fear when they hear other plants being hurt. There is in fact FAR more solid scientific evidence proving plants are capable of responding to pain than there is for insects. A handful of insects have had some interesting results in terms of brain function capacity, but most are total duds on all testing. Meanwhile every plant that's been tested has shown remarkable results in awareness of pain & reacting to it in ways similar to what higher animals do. So if you want to increase welfare rules, best start with plants, then you can move on to the cotton boilworms & later the silkworms
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  169. ​ @chihirostargazer6573  it's an instinctual reaction. Try cutting the head off a cricket or grasshopper & then touching it's body. It will "recoil in fright" or jump away in EXACTLY the same way it did with a head & brain attached! You're anthropomorphisising reflex reactions that are scientifically proven to have NOTHING whatsoever to do with brain function. Again, scientific studies have PROVEN these sorts of reactions in plants are repeatable & consistent & result in the release of chemicals, travelling in the plant's version of the human nervous system & result in actions 100% consistant with how humans respond to pain, both with the various chemical releases that occur & also the manufacture & release of toxins that are effective in stopping the attacks on the plant that are causing the pain reaction, as well as being effective in warning surrounding plants of the imminent attack, which prompts the surrounding plants to also initiate that "fight" reaction, so as to reduce or prevent attacks on it - the types of attacks that we know in humans are responsible for pain. We simply do NOT see these effective pain avoidance strategies in use in insects. If you rip off a cricket's leg, it doesn't limp, it continues on without reacting to the removal in any way after that initial reflex withdrawal action has been completed. This is consistent with what we know about insects lifecycle. In humans & higher animals, best survival strategy is to rest & recover from the injury, hence the purpose in pain. Due to the short lifecycle in insects, any that take time out to rest & recover from an injury die before they can reproduce & therefore, if they ever did develop the ability to feel pain, that individual would be automatically eliminated from the gene pool & would not pass on those pain feeling genes to any other in it's species, so it's simply irrational to think insects feel pain. I'm not ruling out the possibility completely, but I'm saying they are the least likely creatures to feel pain, far less likely than plants are, so you need to care much more about plant pain than you do about insect pain. Only the lifeforms with even shorter lifespans than insects are less likely than them to feel pain, this means viruses & bacteria probably don't feel pain either, just like insects
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  170.  @aspergillusoryzae3722  exactly!
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  171.  @chihirostargazer6573  ok sure, but you need to start with plants, cause that's where the strongest evidence lies. If you eat insects, you can reduce the number of plants you need to torture to death for your food & fabric. If you really want to reduce your impact though, eating feral or overpopulated animals & waste products that are otherwise disposed of are even better still. Animals like feral pigs, deer & kangaroo are a good start if you really want to be compassionate to all living creatures
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  172. ​ @chihirostargazer6573  Yes I agree it should be reduced. I dont' think there's any doubt that chickens feel pain, so nearly 80 billion of them raised for food per year is unnecessarily high. We really should imo be eating larger animals that therefore require FAR less deaths to feed us The numbers on how many animals raised are chickens, compared to the total of other animals is insane! We also obviously need to address the "oil seed cake" waste, cause that's what the chickens are fed on. There's 300,000,000,000 kgs of that produced annually & because humans refuse to eat it, it needs to be disposed of, hence the chickens & what's left over then going to fish & pigs. That's enough waste, just in oil seed cakes alone, to feed 100 billion chickens from birth to slaughter weight! We really need to change our thinking & either eat tht waste ourselves, or return to using animal fats in shampoos, detergents, washing powders etc, instead of clearing the Amazon & Indonesian rainforests to grow oil crops to use in those products, so as to give them lables of "no animal products used in making this product", all while disposing of animal fats into landfill, as toxic waste, cause of the switch to using "vegetable oils" in it's place - oils that need deforestation to be grown & producing masses of waste that then require livestock like chickens to eat it, so as to avoid mouse & rat plagues from poor management of the waste, or lung cancer & environmental damage from burning it - which is what used to happen in the days when slaves had that job of burning it, so no-one cared
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  173. It's actually mostly cause the rest of the world build them in the middle of central hub areas, not in the middle of no-where, surrounded by huge carparks, so in the rest of the world, people drop in while passing by. People in other countries wouldn't get in their car & drive half an hour to an hour each way just to get to a shopping centre either would they!
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  174. much better to just use crop waste don't you think?
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  175. "vulgar language" ROFL! seriously? I think your bigger problem is the chance of being shot up visiting the mall, don't you think????? I VERY much doubt the language in your malls comes CLOSE to the language in Aussie ones, c*** is a term of endearment teens use towards each other here, quite normal to hear them say something like "buy us some goon won't ya f**'in c***" reply "s** yeh" etc etc Crazy the way you cencor stuff in your country though, I can't even post that in full here without cencorship! I don't understand that! Free speech means you should be able to swear as much as you like on social media, radio, tv, at malls etc etc, but best we can do here is say stuff like "root", that apparently your cencors haven't yet figured out has exactly the same meaning & "vulgarity level" as f*** here & our kids start going to malls unsupervised at around 9 years old here, one of my friends was a little shocked when his 8 year old daughter asked him to do that, he resisted for a while, but realised all the kids were doing it, so he let her go & went himself with a hat & sunglasses & stuff on & grabbed himself a coffee while watching secretly from a distance a few times to see she was fine & then let her continue unsupervised once he felt comfortable with it. Malls have plenty of activities to amuse them, so they're really not a problem hanging around with nothing to do. Only sort of exception was during covid, when lots of stuff was closed, so they ended up in big box stores & supermarkets, being bored & loud & of course kids & teens didn't wear face coverings here & acted like the pandemic had nothing to do with them, so with a huge drop in adults going to malls & the teens still attending in mass groups, as always, it meant they were the majority of the people in the malls & the only ones in large groups & without face coverings or any social distancing going on, so that did upset some people, eventually ending up with security throwing a lot of them out & over time they just did their own thing in different spaces, such as a store carpark near me became a badmittan court at closing time every night lol the kids all rocked up, with the nets & everything & sat around chatting in the carpark, then as soon as it closed & staff gave them the ok, they put up the net & began playing & were there for about 2-3 hours almost every night, about 20-30 of them hanging out there & playing, not sure if it was the same ones each night or different groups, but apparently that sort of stuff was pretty normal through most of my city. Just fix your gun problem & you won't have a reason to be scared of kids & teens being normal kids & teens & using their first amendment right
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  176. yeh, I don't understand why they don't! This is one of the first bits machines are normally created for in silk production, all it needs is some sort of wheel to spin to unreel the silk from the cocoons. Any spinning wheel can do it, but generally it's more basic wheels used
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  177. Presumably kids won't work the plantations. Coconuts are harvested by monkeys, I would assume this will go the same way, as slave monkeys stolen from their mothers (who are murdered to steal their babies) & forced to work or beeten are much cheaper than kids
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  178. So by "high water mark", you mean someone got a pen & marked where it is? Or you mean the natural mark the water makes, that naturally moves over time as it rises without you even being able to notice it has? If it dropped, you would be able to see it (till the old one faded), but a rise, sorry but you simply cannot see that, due to the gradual moving of that line over many, many years
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  179. @MSD Group well I guess Biden's just following the standard operating procedures that have been in place for decades, not doing anything new, just being or faking incompetence to excuse his failure to fix the ongoing problem
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  180.  Hans Otto Kroeger Kaethler  yup and additionally, instead of growing desert grasses in the desert & raising healthy grass fed beef on them, dig super deep wells & drain all the water from under the desert to grow water intensive alfalfa in the desert & then build giant feedlots in the desert to house cattle in, fed on that alfalfa & then wonder why tens of thousands of cattle die when the air con goes down & so many cows are crammed together in sheds in super hot deserts & unable to get cool because of the extreme body heat of other cattle surrounding them as well as the desert! And what was super productive ranchland, again producing cattle on natural grasses of the "buffalo plains" where herds of millions of bison have lived for eons, remove all those cattle to the feedlots, to feed on super water intensive crops & replace the ranches with super water intensive almonds to get the almond milk that is somehow meant to be better than cows milk? (and kinda is in water use when all the round about ways the milk's produced through water intensive feed crops are considered) oh & also import 50% of the country's bees to those almond crops each year for pollination, right after spraying the trees with bee toxins & then wonder why all the bees are dying off too!
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  181.  @jrac-gl3ku  where are you getting 48 days from? From the video explaining that in the right decomposition conditions, it will be completely gone in 48 days? How does that have any impact whatsoever on how long it lasts in a store? The jeans will be broken down & metal on them rusted & generally unwearable after 4 months in an industrial compost bin too, yet they'll last decades stored properly in a store or closet. This plastic is the same
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  182.  @cchavezjr7  no different to burning gas is it! This is just the wood gasses, before they've had a chance to become the coal gas we use extensively in the world today. Seperating the 2 allows clean burning of both & so reduces lung damage & also pollution in the air. Just compare using a mix of butane & charcoal to cook on your camping trip with using wood from the forest, which one leaves you smelling of smoke & other pollution huh? This is the same thing, they just seperate the 2 & use the gas to create the charcoal & charcoal to cook in people's homes later & so what if they need to burn a little of the raw materials straight to start off the whole process, it's still far more efficient than using straight wood, especially when you consider the transport costs for charcoal v the wood & more importantly is the impact on the lungs of those using the charcoal in their homes, compared to using wood cooking, without proper ventilation (which is the norm in the parts of the world we're talking about here)
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  183.  @cchavezjr7  or instead of running an engine, you run the charcoal making operation with that gas
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  184.  @cchavezjr7  lol you're claiming 3/4 to 7/8 of the volume is gas, yet claiming I'm suggesting it's a perpetual motion machine to use that to make the charcoal? Make up your mind!
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  185. ​ @cchavezjr7  I've not done it large scale, only small scale to learn about the process & yes I know there's some water in it, but not the amounts you claim! A simple search tells me firewood's 10-15% water & that would be fairly consistent with the results I got in water vapour coming off mine. When I tried charcoaling sugarcane straight off the plant, there was more water, but even that came off pretty quickly. Simple searching is also telling me the carbon's about 50%. I had a lit flame on the gas coming off mine for the majority of the process. I only did small scale, so didn't try to harvest it to power the operation, but certainly saw lots of videos from people who were doing that when I was looking for info on how to do the process. If you're doing it large scale & frequently, I don't understand why you're not harvesting the gasses to power it, even if you have to supplement with additional fuel. Also important to consider transport costs & the more your points are correct, the more validation there is for charcoal therefore being a better option, cause otherwise there's costs & fuel to transport all that water & weight & unwanted gas to it's destination, where it gets into people's lungs & damages their health. That to me is actually the biggest reason for this, the workload for the people buying it in carrying such heavy stuff, along with the damage to their family's health. I'm more conserned about that than the environment tbh, but also aware that this is viable to sell, due to reduced weight & compact burning substance, therefore it is much more likely the charcoal will be transported & used as fuel, whereas without this process, they will just burn the weeds onsite & have only ash left, while those currently buying this charcoal would then be burning additional timber or local materials, such as cutting down local trees close to their homes, so clearly this is a better option, even if, say 50% of the weeds must be straight out burnt to power the charcoal making, cause that's still 50% that's becoming fuel instead isn't it! It's very easy to look at first world resourse availability & say this is a bad idea, but it's important to look at the real world & what's currently happening & going to happen with different options
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  186. ​ @buykuibra2518  They're not using it themselves though, they're selling it to others for cooking, so you need to give all those people the solar for cooking. I actually did a few of micro-loans some time ago for "ACE stoves" in Africa (Lesotho), what they're doing is selling $100 fuel efficient, solar powered stoves to poor people. The stove still uses traditional fuels, anything from cow patties to charcoal or wood, BUT it has a solar powered fan in it that makes it burn more efficiently, therefore needing significantly less fuel for the same job, plus it's also got a USB port on it connected into that same solar panel & also comes with a USB connection LED light, so in addition to cooking more efficiently, the people buying that stove can also use the LED light in the place of a fire for lighting their little homes & can even charge mobile phones with it, to potentially access the net. There are options like this to help the end users, but just giving them all enough solar power to fully cook with isn't really viable
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  187.  @fitrianhidayat  yup they would be. Probably lower than professionally made ones we're used to in the west actually, since the process isn't that refined, but yeh it's not going to be more efficient than wood made charcoal, it's just that this charcoal's being made from waste that is going to be burnt anyway, rather than cutting down trees to cook & charcoal is MUCH lighter & more compact per burning hour than wood is, so huge savings in transport cost, both in fuel & also what the people have to carry the last step of the trip to their homes
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  188. All except Australia's native finger lime citrus plant
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  189. presumably it will be on par with cardboard, given it's raw ingredients & how it's processed & composting time given (which is basically the same as cardboard). I grow a lot of mushrooms, the mycelium block breaks down really fast when put into the garden at the end of the process. As soon as it gets wet it starts disintergrating, doesn't even have to be buried to break down, leave it out in heavy rain for a week & it's gone. The month they give would be for basically any conditions, with no water etc added to stimulate breakdown, same as for cardboard
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  190. A semi-trailer carries 20 tonnes of wheat. A cargo ship carries 200,000 tonnes of wheat, so even if you forget the drones & get the semi-trailers directly to the ports, you still need 20,000 trucks to carry as much grain as a single ship is carrying & it's fuel needs to transport it are FAR higher than the ship has!
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  191. cinemas gone? That's dumb of them! Kids today don't want their parents driving them places though, they want to be able to get places they want to go without parents cars, so if there's no public transport, of course that's a problem too. Malls in countries with public transport hubs at the same location as the mall have no problems with high patronage (although they all, also obviously have schools & cinemas & food courts & a range of other community facilities in the same area too
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  192. per kilo of plant based fabrics produced, 1000 times more of these same caterpillars are poisoned to death with pesticides, than need to die in silk production
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  193.  @Alinax99  you should be ashamed, not proud! Your head is in the sand & you simply deny the animal deaths you cause!
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  194.  @dhanhyaa  there's no such thing as "vegan" silk (or vegan at all actually)
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  195. ​ @Alinax99  no, I'm "one of those people" who genuinely cares about animals & consequently "gets so pissed" when selfish attention seekers find ways to hurt masses more animals than necessary, so as to get personal attention as they falsely claim to be "helping animals". I have no idea what you are claiming to be "vegan silk", but there's no question it causes FAR more animals deaths & suffering than real silk does! Not that you care, you only care about personal attention don't you
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  196. agreed. In Australia, "return and earn" automated centres are found every km or so, in easily accessible locations such as outside shopping centres or strip malls & they are open about 16-18 hours a day (no staff, jut machines to put containers into & spit out payment vouchers that can be redeemed at a wide range of stores, or people can register & have the money deposited directly into their bank account). So no queues & no effort to return
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  197.  @talleywa5772  you know whenever any of you alternate reality fools says crap like that, it instantly gives away who you are & that you should be ignored! Australia had an election in May btw & completely replaced the federal government, putting the other side into power, but only just, giving them the lowest vote in their history & putting 16 independents into the lower house to replace all the party faithful of the previous government instead of just handing power to the other party. Independents in the Australian parliament have a history of looking out for small farmers, manipulating the government to obtain a proper investigation into the misuse of water allocations to mines & big ag. Not that the previous government was doing anything wrong for farmers anyway, throughout covid, the government went out of their way to ensure Aussie farmers were looked after didn't they
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  198. imagine if your kitchen burnt down with one of these knives in it! People probably mourn the loss of the knife more than the kitchen lol
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  199.  @mandc20022  I think a gallon's 4 litres isn't it? If so, that would be 24 litres of milk to 1kg of cheese. I could be wrong though, we don't use gallons where I live, only proper measurements
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  200. This is in Australia, so miners will get a decent amount or they'll sell elsewhere. I'm sure that's not the case in some countries, but those mining in Australia do if for the money & minimum wage in Australia is around $20 per hour, so they have to be making well over that or they don't bother! During covid, the Australian government offered anyone who would travel out of the city to pick fruit for 6 weeks a $6000 bonus, in addition to the pay they got for the job, less than 100 Aussies were temped into doing it, wasn't considered enough money to work a manual labour job in the heat
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  201. I think that's called the Middle East. Leaves all the rich people out of it while the rich people's governments fight in someone else's land. Seems to be how the rich countries see that land anyway
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  202. A few comments on this, but more needed & good to educate the western people (like myself) being fed US propaganda. Can you explain more on Iran though? I would have thought they'd buy it for their own people, given their starvation issues, are you saying they buy to onsell for profit too?
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  203.  @aerita7608  ah ok :) Given the way Iran have been known to starve their own people, I honestly thought they probably were doing something with exporting for government profit while their people starved or something, but UAE onselling makes more sense, thanks for clarifying/correcting :)
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  204.  @Alinax99  don't you have more silkworms you need to go poison? Calling them "cotton crop pests" doesn't mean it's somehow ok to torture them to death & that you're somehow morally superior to others cause you rant about being a "vegan" without even having a clue what that actually means
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  205. yup, something wrong with the info on this. Normally the cocoons are unwound & then the pupae eaten, I can't figure out what they're doing here! It does actually look like there's cut marks in at least one of the cocoons in the video, but yeh, if there is, that breaks the thread & drops it's value massively!
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  206.  @grendel_nz  you know not everyone has a dishwasher right? I know I don't
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  207. Did you know the cockies were doing it?
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  208. don't the non-poisonous varieties require much more water & better conditions to grow though? That's my understanding anyway, the poison has developed in the varieties that will grow almost in desert, cause in that environment, being poisonous is the only way to stop yourself from being eaten. Non poisonous ones have never had that evolutionary pressure on them of growing in harsh conditions & are incapable of doing so
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  209. um no, just not reliant on Russia/Ukraine in the same way Europe is. Some Asian countries are self reliant, some have planned in advance & stockpiled, but will still be impacted within a year or 2 if this isn't resolved & most that eat wheat get it from Australia rather than Ukraine, so haven't been impacted, but doesn't mean they're "self reliant". Don't get cocky, it could come back to bite you!
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  210. quarantine is FAR more effective!
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  211. since when have milk cartons been included? They were specifically excluded & only commonly littered containers included. Flavoured milk sure, but not regular milk & juice generally drunk at home! We also have only a 70% recycling of cans rate, compared to much of Europe's 99% & above
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  212.  @jaseastroboy9240  I totally agree! Maybe we need to try to get a hashtag trending for "Freedom v Freedumb" I've been using the term freedumb quite a bit in the last couple of years in relation to covid stuff, but your images would be awesome to see shown :))
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  213. Curious don't you think that the vast majority of the sponges don't come from Greece anymore then? Why is that? Maybe because Greece has better environmental & sustainability regulations than the US, so limits harvests to sustainable levels, while the US does not? It's just over 100 years they've been harvesting in this location & they've gone from the ground being literally covered in them to having to walk miles looking for the same number they previously found in a 2 square metre area. Don't need to be an expert to understand that means the industry is NOT sustainable & they are taking FAR more than are growing
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  214. meanwhile Zac Efron travelled to Australia for a project & once finished, instead of travelling back home, he got himself a caravan & did the "snowbird" thing in Australia for many months while waiting covid out lol. We call that "grey nomads" in Australia, retirees buy caravans & travel around the country as tourists & during covid they grouped up with various backpackers & other stranded travellers & formed their own little communities to wait it out together (foreigners were allowed to go home, but their visas were extended indefinately if they wanted to stay in covid free Australia instead, so a lot of foreigners already in chose to stay) I just find the contrast amusing :)
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  215. @BabyGirlDontEvenPlay Not at this particular point in time in my particular country no, but nothing wrong with it, has been used in the past & no doubt will be used in combination with other materials in the future & is currently used extensively in prosthetics in countries all around the world, particularly those with large numbers of people needing prosthetics due to land mines etc. & way to totally miss my point
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  216. @BabyGirlDontEvenPlay yes I know, government doesn't pay for anything like this in the US, it just sends people bankrupt & reduces it's entire population's life expectancy by leaving people with disabilities to rot. My government funds a $5,000 manual wheelchair & replaces it every 5 years for me, but it won't fund a $12,000 just to drop the weight from 8kgs to 5kgs with everything else being identical
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  217. good luck finding a new island in today's super satellite scanned world lol Mother Nature can of course mess with people who bought them though, such as with the Tongan volcano changing what is actually above sea level in that part of the world :)
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  218. not an easy solution! Easy solution is to switch to new forms of bio-fuel making that don't need grains & then divert the grains to human consumption & right now I would actually also add diverting chicken feed into human consumption channels, given the issues with chicken pandemic deaths. In terms of cows though, they take too long to breed, so it's counter productive to mess with their feed systems, as there's nothing that can be done quickly in changes. Cattle eat primarily grass & human inedible around the world, only America feeds them any significant levels of human edibles & even then, it's way less than they're feeding to their cars. Chickens are fed primarily the waste from biofuel production from soybeans, with only 18% of the soybean becoming oil & the other 82% of the soybean becoming waste, which is then processed to make it edible for chickens & fed to them to dispose of. That processing does actually make it edible to humans too though, so oil free soymeal flour is an option to feed people instead of chickens right now
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  219. no, only 1 aircraft has been designed for fighting fires that occur alongside lakes, cause most of the world's bushfires don't occur anywhere near lakes & therefore this aircraft's key feature is useless, so better to just convert a plane that a wider range of pilots can more comfortably just climb into & know what they're doing
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  220. for the polystyrene like thing, same as for cardboard. Leather I have no idea, wouldn't be so easy I assume
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  221. And more & more as ocean levels rise cause of the climate change we are causing in rich countries, small island countries are losing the ability to grow their own food, due to storms causing sea water to cover their cropland & put so much salt into it that it becomes useless for crops - except coconuts. So more & more they are needing to grow coconuts & sell them to the west to be able to buy in the other foods tht they used to grow themselves & no longer can. Please support these communities & please also avoid supporting countries that are using monkeys as slaves to harvest coconuts super cheap & therefore making it impossible for these island nations to compete on price. Choose coconuts from countries without native monkeys if you want an easy way to make sure you do this
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  222. ​ @xxguardian_axx5635  The thing to remember is weight & transport. He's removing the weight from the product, while leaving the bit that burns well & making it into a uniform size for easy bulk packaging & sales. Additionally it burns clean, with all the wood gasses removed in his process. That's important in preventing long term health issues if using indoor cooking with restricted ventilation. There's a reason most in the west buy charcoal products for their BBQ, instead of buying the raw wood, even though raw wood gives the meat a better taste. It's just much more convenient & cheaper & burns with much less smoke. If burning directly works for you, that's great, but to transport to others, charcoal is the way to go. Why don't you test it for yourself & see? Have you ever cooked with charcoal? Give it a try. If you don't want to buy it, get an old tin, punch a small hole into it's lid, then fill with coconut husks & put the lid on & put that onto your fire while cooking something else. By the time you've finished, that tin should be filled with charcoal. Next time you want to cook something, try using your charcoal instead of coconut husks & see how it compares. See how long it burns for & compare that to it's size & weight & what you normally have to use in raw husks to acheive the same & see how smoke free it is too!
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  223. ​ @xxguardian_axx5635  & btw, if you do the coconut charcoal like I said & find it easy to make but don't really have an interest in using it for cooking, then I would recomend keeping on throwing that tin of coconut fibre into your fire each time you light it anyway & then putting that charcoal you are making into your soil for your vegetables, as it will massively increase your soil quality. Soak it in urine or fertiliser first though if you are putting a lot of it into the soil, cause it retains fertiliser as well as water, so if you don't do that inititally, then initially it will actually suck the fertiliser out of your garden. Soak it in urine & it will retain just the fertiliser componants of the urine & provide these to the plants as needed & really boost plant growth, as well as locking the carbon from the coconut waste you turned into bio-char out of the air for 1000 years. If every person on the planet did this with all the waste from their food, we'd be back to pre-industrial atmospheric co2 levels within 5-10 years, without needing to change anything else in our lives
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  224. ​ @b.m.5068  I didn't think you necessarily were & I think there's a few in your thread that are not, but in reality, most who read your thread probably will be, so it's them I'm speaking to with my comment on buying coconuts, as they are the ones that need to change their behaviour if they want to easily help those that they have caused problems for & could very easily help. My other comments on the tin on the fire to make bio-char from coconuts aren't really directed to westerners, if they were, I'd tell them to put the tin on their stovetop instead. That one's for people already using fires & coconut fibres as fuel & also with a little land they can use to grow a few veggies, but not necessarily the money for anything extravagant. I did actually do the process myself, in the west, but ultimately in my situation, it was more efficient for me to switch to buying sustainably sourced charcoal & putting that into my garden instead of trying to make it myself at home, due to the extra fuel I had to use to fuel my bio-char creation (I still use the urine to 'charge" it for use, but most in the west would use purchased animal manure cause the urine would gross them out, even though the urine is actually the better product to use, as it's nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium percentages are much better)
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  225. Am I the only one who thinks the thumbnail looks like an alien ship?
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  226.  @nitni0002  yeh, so can it's rootstock be used too? that seems like a much easier option than using it's extracted peptide to spray all the trees & obviously for limes, just outright switch to growing that instead
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  227.  @nitni0002  you'd think it would be logical wouldn't you (or at least I would) but who knows, with the way money works, they might have missed that to profit from the spray they're making. I would have thought Australia would have tried it by now though, given the work & money going into preparing for this disease's eventual arrival. Just doing a quick bit of research, they can be grafted to other citrus, but not much development of their rootstock & being rainforest trees, seems they probably don't do well in a lot of soils like heavy clay, but surely still better than the current status quo in Florida?
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  228. it's still cultural though. In Australia a lot of people don't bother with the returning, same way they just throw couches & everything else they're replacing onto the footpath instead of selling second hand. I live next door to a block of 100 units & it's incredible the stuff I get just by having a quick look at what's been thrown away each time I take rubbish out. Funny think is, there are people who will collect the 10cent cans/bottles, while not bothering to touch any of the other stuff thrown away. As an example, I got a working riobi jigsaw a while back, missed the chainsaw cause another person got it a few minutes before me. He left the jigsaw cause he didn't want it personally & had no desire to waste time trying to sell it. He also asked me if I wanted his dozen or so bottles he was chucking, cause he couldn't be bothered taking them the 100 metres or so to the recycling centre (I said no, cause I also couldn't be bothered doing that for only a dollar or so). My pet birds also love all the furniture they get purely to chew on for fun. If it's natural materials, I'll take it, let my birds shred it, then return it to the rubbish & grab a new piece of furniture for them to chew. Their cage frame is made mostly from pram & walker & bike wheels & aluminium framing from the disposal site by my home, they even have suspension on their cage wheels! It's cultural
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  229. how about we start by talking about how their cousins are poisoned on mass when they eat cotton crops & how plastic clothing is responsible for ocean micro-plastics
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  230.  @Fabdanc  I dunno, it might be like shearing a sheep, except that with sheep you do the same ones, so if the wool's not growing back as fast as you're shearing it, it becomes obvious, which isn't the case here. They're "shearing" daily but apparently not realising it takes 3-5 years to get the amount of "wool growth" that they are removing from each one
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  231. "Lightning Ridge is on the edge of the outback" Struth, really? It's out past the black stump! hardly the "edge" of the outback!!!!!!
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  232. I very much doubt that water claim is legit! Sugarcane probably is the highest water using crop per hectare, but that would be because it's also the crop that produces BY FAR the most product & bio-mass per hectare. What's the per calorie water use of sugarcane vs soy & corn? Sugarcane would be far lower than soy, I'll bet! Corn is probably on par, because sugarcane & corn are both C4 photosynthesisers, that means they're 200 times more efficient in water use per molecule of carbon fixed into the plant (growth) when compared to C3 plants, so no way they're using more water per calorie than C3 plants like soy, wheat, oats, rice, bamboo, hemp, various trees etc etc
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  233.  @CP-28  It's America, they don't care! They have effectively no environmental laws! They did have a handful, but trump removed them. Businesses are literally allowed to legally just dump untreated factory waste, chemicals etc straight into their waterways. They have HUGE cancer rates in people who live near their rivers where this stuff happens! The "red tides" they talk about in this video literally cause deaths in people just near the water, let alone stuff trying to live in the water! They just don't care :(
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  234.  @toomanymarys7355  copy & pasting again ​ @Too Many Marys yes what is with this lack of comprehension? The video says that they used to be EVERYWHERE, now he has to walk long distances to harvest the same amount he used to get without any walking at all, cause they are harvesting at a rate MUCH higher than the rate that they grow. If you have 100 sponges & they take 5 years to regrow, that means you can only harvest 20 sponges per year. If you harvest 50 sponges per year, then you no longer have 100 sponges do you! You have just nothing blobs on the ground that USED to be sponges before they were cut & that he is now walking all over & causing to die before they can grow back!
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  235. I do find it rather funny how many comments are talking about homeless collecting. Doesn't that mean the system is failing? Where I live, people collect from the bins to pay their rent & live in good homes, cause that's what they can afford from their collecting job
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  236. yup & presumably that or polymer clay would be used as training in the process
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  237.  @jgcelliott1  this! Additionally they said that only 5 in their company have trained to the level of making something (forgotten what it was now) which would simply relate to the number of staff required to make the number of that object sold, would be similar to the globe making story also on this channel where those doing it need to be doing it constantly or losing the skill, so only the number needed for their sales are trained in it
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  238. there's WAY more of these birds than there were before whites colonised! They have overpopulated because they find living alongside humans so easy. We haven't asked them to adapt, they've chosen to join us!
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  239. that donkey cheese looks about as ethical as any food ever gets to me! Using the sales to fund the survival of a critically endangered animal & treating them so well, while breeding them out of extinction, why would you be against that?
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  240.  @0animalproductworld558  wow you're out of touch with reality aren't you! This person has set up an animal sanctuary to save an endangered species & your response is that "behind the scenes he's done it all just to hurt the animals" What have YOU personally done to save endangered animals??? You need to look at how your efforts compare to this person's, cause you'll be found wanting if you're honest about it! Now go adopt a few million field mice from Australia to stop their cruel deaths in the production of YOUR food
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  241.  @0animalproductworld558  Tell me what the welfare issue are in the donkey cheese shown in this video & how you intend on fixing those issues
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  242.  @0animalproductworld558  more ranting, unable to respond to my question though huh?
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  243. ​ @0animalproductworld558  Australia is currently spending $50 million on poisons for mice, poisoning around half a billion mice every week to try to control the plague in cropland. Many farmers have just given up & converted to pasture & livestock, cause they can't stand the poisoning & dead smell from the mice & all the secondary poisonings from those baits to native animals & fish. THAT is what you choose to be a part of when you say no to animal products in such a blind cult unthinking way. The cheese maker in this video is exceptional! He has found a way to harvest donkey milk that is compassionate & kind & that funds the saving of a critically endangered species - something you will never do, cause you only care about virtue signalling, not actually helping animals
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  244.  @0animalproductworld558  ug, I'm getting botted, but really you're beyond help anyway aren't you, so no point me persevering when all my comments will do is get thumbs down from you & make the botting issue worse
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  245. some people are so gullible
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  246.  @MisoElEven  hence why sites like kiva are so important, as they offer a genuine option for those of us with money available we can lend, to lend it to these people to break this cycle
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  247.  @nickl5658  charcoal is higher heat than wood. That's why it was such a huge industry back before coal, cause a lot of processes required the extra heat that could be achieved from charcoal & not wood or other raw materials
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  248.  @bakedbean37  and it's lighter & easier to transport
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  249.  @antontsau  depends where you live. I live in a non-bogan area & people intentionally give cans etc to those who are being respectful of the rubbish, so that's what we get. People going through bins but also cleaning up after the cockies & bin chickens & turkeys will tend to be handed boxes of cans/bottles by those throwing them away, while those same people will take them back inside if they see a bogan causing mess & make sure to deny them any profit. I'm not convinced the bogans learn, but I think they see it as unprofitable, while the respectful ones see it as profitable & multiply/return while the bogans vanish
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  250.  @antontsau  lol :) & I dunno, the turkeys are pretty bogan & the cockies.... ah the cockies, one of mine was even chewing gum a while back & looking more bogan than Kath & Kim & Housos combined! That counts as bogans in the area right?
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  251.  @zyxw2000  kinda like the Aussie version of trailer trash (but also kinda loved)
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  252.  @antontsau  lol true, but turkeys can devote an entire day to spreading the mess they get out of the bin, whereas bogans don't have the concentration span for that. Mind you, I guess the worst combo would be bogan tips over bin & then turkey spends the whole day spreading it's contents
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  253. ​ @zyxw2000  no, bogans aren't in any way related to homeless people, totally different mindset in both groups. Bogans are the ones that travel to Bali to get drunk & scream "Aussie, Aussie Aussie, OY OY OY" & call everyone a c..... just cause they can & think it's cool. Have a look at a Kath & Kim or housos video to see a sampling of what they look like. Our Olympic break dancer is a pretty good example of one too
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  254. If you look at Vietnam/China's history, you will see they are entangled a long way back too, therefore no reason silk wouldn't have been travelling between the 2 countries, especially during periods where China was claiming Vietnam was "part of China"
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  255. 68 billion of those land animals you speak of are chickens, that will each eat 1.6kgs of low calorie, low nutrition oilseed cake waste, to produce 1kg of chicken meat, so that's not very helpful is it! The only wheat that goes to livestock is the wheat that has insects or mouse bodies or faeces in & consequently fails human consumption standards. Instead of being burnt, it is fed to livestock
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  256. & btw, one of the biggest limits to food production right now is a fertiliser shortage, so if you burn all the waste instead of feeding it to animals & using their manure to fertiliser crops, guess what happens to crop production levels?
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  257. no, they're not going to be buying gas & they are going to be burning this plant anyway, so finding a way to transport it to the homes of people buying solid fuel to power their cooking instead of just burning on site is obviously better. Delhi's air pollution comes from burning rice stubble, if they chared it instead of burning it, all that pollution would be removed from the air
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  258. ​ @tomsullivan5663  It's used to power the charcoal creation, they pipe it from where it comes out at the top to back under the container & ignite it there, so the gas heats what's in the container to make it into charcoal. I don't know what's released in the gas burning, but I know when I experimented & made charcoal myself, while the flame was alight, there was no smell, when the flame went out, it stunk! I also used to live near a landfill (about 1km away) & we would know when their gas flame went out, cause it stunk! Garbage smell over the whole neighbourhood! One neighbour even had the misfortune of having an open house when it was out, needless to say, they didn't get any buyers. Was zero smell normally though & that site is now a super impressive sports complex & the methane gas from the landfill underneath is actually harnessed & provides gas for the facility, so I'm just all round not convinced there's serious issues with the contaminates in this process & even if there are, at least it's being done away from people's homes, not inside them as happens when using the solid wood/plants as fuel
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  259. hmm bit of a sadist aren't you? You'd rather spray the worms with pesticides & watch them spasm & vomit & spin around appearing to be in agony for half an hour or so until they die? All right at the peak of their growing stage, when their brains are most active. You think that's better than waiting till the same species has turned to mush inside a cocoon & then boiling it for an instant death, while it's brain is liquid nothing?
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  260.  @MrCleitus  feel free to deal with as much crime as you bring on yourself by failing to support policies that prevent people needing to rob you to survive. SO glad I dont' live in the US with such selfish people!
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  261. I think it's reasonable to expect to be told if you test positive to covid & have the ship's doctor suggest you stay in your cabin, not tell you you're negative & go socialise with all the other passengers - which is what that ship's crew did! Also reasonable for the ship to take precautions with their new crew who had been exposed to covid! Passengers knew the cruise was between 2 countries that were covid free & so reasonably assumed they were as safe as at home In this case even a government inquiry found they seriously screwed up! The Australian government screwed up too, but no mistaking the fact that a single week long cruise caused covid infections in every state of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America & suspected cases in a number of other countries with low testing rates & so unable to confirm. Secondary cases from WA to Tasmania to Auckland to LA etc were all confirmed from that ship though - and not a single one of the people who caused those infections were told they had tested positive until over a week after they had left the ship & in many cases they only found out the source when the media tracked them down & asked them if they had been sick! There were dozens of secondary deaths in relatives of people who had been on that ship that were fully preventable by simply telling the over 100 people who the ship's medical team already had positive covid test results for before the ship docked, about their positive test results! The cruise was between Australia & NZ, both of whom were covid free at the time, so there was no reason for anyone on board to assume they had caught covid while on that ship. They didn't know about the new crew members that had just flown in from the Diamond Princess to join that ship & who were coughing all over their food & infecting them with covid! Likewise when people on the RUby Princess got covid symptoms & saw the ship's doctor about it, they were tested & told they were fine & to continue enjoying the cruise, the cruise medical staff hiding from the patients their positive covid results! Look at the videos of the people leaving that ship & the crew all lined up forcing every passenger to walk between rows of them & have physical contact with them all! Even those that attempted to socially distance cause they had cold symptoms were denied the ability to do so by that ship's overbearing crew!
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  262. seeds don't last long, be sure to plant them early in spring, if you miss a year, none of your seeds will germinate - in my experience anyway
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  263.  @ryleesblooms  luffa seeds?
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  264. Australia solved those empty shelves prompting panic buying in a really cool way. It was near to easter time, so the toiletroll aisle was converted into the Easter bunny aisle. They spread them 1-2 deep only & literally filled the entire aisle with smiling, colourful easter bunnies. So instead of people seeing empty shelves & stressing, they walked down an entire aisle of colourful bunnies smiling at them & by the time they got to the other end of the aisle, they were feeling happy & had forgotten what they were even looking for in that aisle lol panic buying stopped completely within a week of that strategy being implemented & as for industrial v home rolls, there are still small size rolls made for industrial uses. Not every industry has, or wants, huge rolls & roll holders, some still do normal household size, so factories just swapped to making the small ones, single ply, wrapped in paper, designed to go out in pallet lots, sent to supermarkets in pallet lots instead, where they sold for $1.50 each, put through the checkout in the same way as fruit & veg that has no barcode All toiletpaper in Aussie supermarkets during panic buying was sold straight off pallets etc. It wasn't put onto shelves, wasn't any space, due to all the easter bunnies in the toiletpaper space, so it was just piled up at the back of the store next to the door that brought stuff out from the storeroom & when regular ran out, industrial rolls made their way out for anyone desperate enough to need them. Later once the ongoing panic buying had stopped, the industrial rolls remained in small quantities & even got bar codes for scanning at the checkout eventually, cause even now we have a little panic buying game that a handful still engage in anytime something happens. Everyone just stores extra at home now so they don't have to join the game, but apparently some still enjoy this weird little panic buying/clear the shelves for fun game
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  265.  muhelectionwasstolen7253  video implies this is a huge operation though, so I for one, find it interesting to hear that's just marketing & not true
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  266. and ki11 the fish!
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  267. ​ @skie6282  Yes we do. We like to be able to sleep at night, not be kept up by noisy trucks delivering stuff (normally, we were fine to relax those laws during the pandemic to get the bog roll) & we also have really strict laws to protect consumers too, price gouging is strictly prohibited & normally there are competition laws that prevent monopolies that stop different store companies from being able to talk to each other to co-ordinate supply chains as well, which again needed to be relaxed/temporarily removed so as to get the most possible products to the most possible people by having all stores co-ordinate to do so. We also have a tonne of other laws that would be incomprehensible to America, on top of companies not being allowed to increase prices for anything because of the pandemic & people being willing to pay more, we also have laws prohibiting companies from dumping toxic waste into our water supplies, into our food & even into our air. Weird I know, but we like it that way :)
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  268. well if you want to do that, you need to start with proper quarantine! Right now though, spraying is absolutely essential if you want to have any chance of saving your citrus industry! I'm a big consumer of organic produce & totally beleive in it, but America's quarantine controls are just way too low for that to be possible on this one. I live in Australia, so we dont' need spraying, exception being for any imports & if the citrus bug discussed in this video was discovered here, we'd spray the heck out of it, or rip up & burn the lot, so as to avoid the need to spray everything constantly. Right now though, biolotical control needs to be your priority!
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  269. Better idea would be to convert the carpark into a multi-level one & turn the rest of the carpark (so an area much bigger than the mall) into multi-level apartments & offices & green spaces & community facilitates & then there would actually be a community there to use the mall, so it could be restored. Most malls in my country have high rise apartments as either part of them, or next door to them, major train & bus station hubs at the same location too
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  270.  @onebyday6065  what alternatives?
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  271.  @onebyday6065  plastic you mean? Really not good for the fishes is it! Not good for the general environment either & doesn't breathe, so really not the same to wear!
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  272.  @onebyday6065  you do understand that "synthetic silk" is plastic right? & that over 80% of ocean microplastics are plastics (mostly polyester) used in clothing? Plastics are causing FAR more harm to animals & the environment than silk production is!
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  273.  @onebyday6065  1. this isn't being done in the US, it's being done in Asia, where all your clothes are made 2. do you honestly not understand at all where micro-plastics come from? What do you do with the micro-plastics you collect from your washing machine? I mean you DO collect them from your washing machine right?
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  274. ​ @onebyday6065  you make your own clothes from plastic? where do you get the raw materials from for that? Oh yeh, China! Clearly you don't grow your own cotton or hemp or use bamboo for clothing, or you wouldn't be saying what you are. You might want to try making fibres from them to see how they work! Cotton requires controlling cotton bollworms in their thousands, billions for commercial farms, with poisons - bollworms of course being silkworms! Hemp, if you can't grow it, you can grow linen/flax & see the same process & see how polluting & harmful the reeting is Bamboo you won't be able to do into clothing fibres wool, if you do it ethically is a good option. Be sure to avoid angora, as it near universally comes from rabbits in China treated incredibly cruelly! Silk is absolutely better than plastic, cotton or hemp in terms of animal deaths & environmental destruction!
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  275. ​ @onebyday6065  Let me explain the basics of what microplastics are to you. Have you ever used a clothes drier? Ever collected lint out of it from your polyester clothing or polyester/cotton blend clothing? that lint is microplastics when it comes from plastic clothing like polyester! THAT is the source of the world's ocean's microplastics! Scientists that study this stuff can actually tell you where in the world a water sample comes from, based on the microplastics in it & clothing worn in the area, cause that's what microplastics are! There are in fact washing machine micro-plastic filters available that you can put onto your drain to collect the microplastics & bin them instead of flushing them into waste water systems, where they are pumped into the oceans, but they must be emptied every load & people don't want to do that, so washing machine manufactures refuse to build them into washing machines. Each time you wash a polyester clothing item without that filter (and you clearly don't have that filter, since you don't even know what I'm talking about with it), you are flushing micro-plastics into the oceans! Silk is expensive & lasts for a long time & doesn't break down with exposure to UV rays, making it FAR more sustainable than plastics in every way! If you want to pretend you're trying to move towards living sustainably, you need to understand stuff like this! GMO cotton btw also results in far less silkworm/cottonworm deaths than organic cotton does, so just some additional info for you there too IF you're serious about trying to be sustainable. Growing your own food is good, especially if you're actually serious about that & actually grow your own calories, such as wheat. Growing your own food allows you to see the processes involved in crop production & if you buy food later, at least you understand for real the impacts of each food. Clothing is the same, best way to learn is to try growing at least one plant of each & going through the process of turning it into usable clothing fibres, that way you can actually understand what's really sustainable & what's just propaganda
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  276.  @onebyday6065  ok, so to clarify, you're on tank water & when you wash your clothes or shower, the water drains onto your garden as you do not have water pipes that take that water away from your home? Well then, you might want to ensure you don't grow your food where that water is draining, cause otherwise you're eating food grown in microplastics! For fibres, silkworms would be a great option for you! Why not plant a mulberry tree for it's fruit & consider if you want to get some easy fibres at a later date with silkworms? Far less deaths with those than for any other crops! How many bugs do you think your chickens eat? WAY more than you would with silkworms! Plenty of other fibres you could grow if you want to too, flax/linen is an obvious one to try, so is jute or new Zealand flax if you want fibres for tying up plants etc, hemp too if you're allowed. With any of these things, it's best to grow just a couple of plants to start with anyway & get a feel for them before deciding if you want to grow them large scale, so the tilling shouldn't really be a huge issue with that in mind. The rougher fibres used in sacks, garden twine etc tend to be perennials that don't need tilled soil anyway & good for you for actually doing all this! Please reduce your synthetic clothes though, cause with a circulatory system like that, you are ingesting all the plastics you are wearing & that's really not good for you!
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  277. ​ @onebyday6065  plastic isn't nature. cotton bollworms & silk bollworms (shortened to just silkworms) are the same bugs, so if you wear cotton, same bugs die in the process, but in much larger quantities in cotton production & they do so at the peak of life & rith in pain for hours in the process. Cotton is the ONLY natural fabric produced as an alternative to silk in any sort of quantity. Wool has some issues (mulsing), but is probably the best option re animals, but doesn't directly replace silk, it's for warm applications, silk is for cool. Linen & hemp are too environmentally damaging to be able to be produced at the same levels as cotton (silk is also too labour intensive to compete). Jute etc work great for their purposes, such as sack making, but again don't directly compete with silk. Leather too, if waste product is used & it is done without chemicals, is also a great option, but it's very rare to find it chemical free & mostly only in saddles etc that need hard materials, again certainly not competing with silk. Silk is legitimately one of the kindest fabrics available to the animals, environment & the people involved. Silk is even regularly used as a viable option for women escaping domestic violence to be set up to become financially independent. The caterpillars go into their cocoon & totally transform. Their heads come out a different shape & instead of being squishy, they come out hard. While it's hard to study & confirm exactly, it's really not believed that it's possible for their brain to be in any way functioning while it's being completely transformed like that, hence why they build the cocoon to protect themselves for that period where they have no brain function. They therefore can't feel pain if they die during that process (unlike the cotton ones that die while actively eating & moving around prior to building cocoons)
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  278. ​ @onebyday6065  lol not very good research! You've got the land, so I suggest you grow all these various crops, at least one plant of each & actually learn for yourself the reality! You can grow Egyptian cotton if regulations stop you growing GMO cotton. I very much doubt there's any regulations prohibiting you growing regular cotton, but tree/Egyptian cotton will get you around any you think exist & no-one's going to be checking your greenhouse for a single cotton plant anyway! You probably should be asking why those regulations exist though, cause what you'll find will add to your education on the issues with these fibres. You can also grow linen/flax, there is absolutely NOTHING stopping you doing that! That is the simplest one to grow. Notable how you keep ignoring my suggestion to grow that isn't it! You're deliberately choosing to claim to want to grow problematic fibres, instead of the fibres that are viable for you to grow! You can also grow New Zealand Flax & Jute without any issues at all! Bamboo is useless for you to grow as a fibre, you cannot possibly make it into fibre yourself! There's a reason bamboo fibre only became a thing in the 21st century, it is simply impossible to make into fibre without very advanced machinery & chemicals & industrial processes. You're just trolling when suggesting you will grow bamboo for fibre! Same with wood! You can of course also VERY easily grow your own silkworms & make silk! You can also grow a range of other animal fibres, such as regular wool & humane angora wool from goats or a couple of well cared for bunnies & using sheering instead of ripping the wool off them, leaving them bald & bleeding (which is how industrial angora is produced). You can also make fibres from plants like nettles & do so MUCH more easily than from "wood" or bamboo! Cotton is the only natural fibre produced at scale for clothing, so to address your ridiculous claim that it can be grown in greenhouses, the world produces 27 million tonnes of cotton per year, at half a tonne per hectare (that's a football stadium sized building) so no, you can NOT grow it in greenhouses at the needed levels can you! Cotton makes up less than 1/3rd of fibres used globally, cause even 27 million tonnes doesn't come close to global needs, so most fibres are produced in plastic factories instead. You're also missing the complexity of the harvesting & ginning equipment needed for cotton production & it's size & incompatibility with greenhouses GMO is your best bet if you want to reduce bug deaths with cotton, as GMO can be designed to dead the bugs as soon as they bite it, therefore preventing them being able to multiply to begin with. Still more harmful than silk though Exactly what is your objection to sticking some linseeds into the ground in this land you claim to own?
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  279. ​ @onebyday6065  indoors? You've now moved from being able to grow it in greenhouses to fully indoors? You're going to build 50 million football stadiums to grow cotton in???? Cause that's the size you need to grow current cotton harvests indoors! You can NOT build that many buildings to grow cotton in! Anything can be grown in greenhouses or indoors, but it is simply not viable to do so for the vast majority of farm production! Your cotton clothing that you buy will NOT be coming from indoors, unless YOU grow it, which you have already made excuses for not doing. Yes, there are major pest issues with cotton & so regulations around growing it because of the amount of bugs that already need to be murdered to produce it, let alone if some hippy grows plants & refuses to cull the bugs on theirs & lets them get into nearby crops! Notice how there are no restrictions on the growing of mulberry trees or silkworms? That's cause there's no issues with bugs with them, no pesticides needed on the trees, FAR less animals dead from silk than from cotton! There is not going to be an issue with growing 1 cotton plant in a greenhouse though is there! When you do that, you say you can stop the bugs getting in, therefore also stop them getting out, therefore authorities aren't going to have an issue with you growing that are they! They will also not have any issues with you growing your own linen, yet you still refuse to do that, ranting about wood fibres, which you know (if you've done the research you claim) that you cannot use to produce fibres & clothing for your family! Linen, cotton, silk & wool are the only fibres feasible for you to use to make your own clothing for your family (along with nettles, hair etc etc if you really want to go down the path of using true traditional options) You're not inspiring anyone, cause you're not doing it! I personally HAVE grown cotton, linen, silk, angora wool & others AND I have a wooden weaving loom I made myself, AND a drop spindle I made myself (6 of them actually, cause more than 1 is needed for easy plying) AND I have actually completed the entire process from seed to material piece with the various fibres, and knitting btw is MUCH faster & more efficient in making clothing than weaving on a hand made loom, no matter how well you make the loom! Because I personally have the experience, I can easily see through your excuses & see that you have no intention of ever actually making anything & quite frankly don't even appear to be growing any of your own food, like you claim, given you are now saying you're not allowed to plant any plants in your state! I also grow all my own plant based foods. I have only a tiny garden, but I use efficient space techniques & indoor growing techniques & mushrooms to maximise my yield. I only buy in meat, I do intend on growing a batch of chickens myself for food, so as to see the whole process & understand it & also get the bi-products, feathers etc for use as well, but I haven't done that yet, only meat I've grown to date is bugs. I don't make my own clothes from scratch, there's just no way that's viable! I've done the process to see how it works & from that I know it's not viable. It's not like whacking some potatoes/sweet potatoes in the ground & harvesting 100kgs of food out of it! Fibre production yields VERY little & needs LOTS of work to turn it into clothing! Far worse than even dehulling grains is! (if you genuinely grew your own food, you would know what I'm referring to with that comment! You don't I'm sure, but you would if you were legit
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  280.  @onebyday6065  & btw I grow my own bamboo too, but it's for SENSIBLE, viable uses, such as garden stakes, NOT for fabric! For plant ties to the bamboo, if making my own, I use hair or silk from the outside of cocoons. That can be very easily hand twisted together to form a reusable rope/tie that will last basically forever. Certainly outlasts the stakes, even when using bamboo, as opposed to sunflower or native ginger or yacon stems, that I also frequently use as single season stakes either while growing, or the following season
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  281. ​ @onebyday6065  Do you have any stores near you that sell foods package free in quantities of your choice? We have those where I am, stores where you go in & scoop from bulk containers of grains & beans & put into paper bags & then pay for by weight. I suggest going into a store like that, if you have one, & scooping from every container that has a whole grain/bean & planting. I did that many years ago, scooped just a small amount, in many cases too little for it to even register, in other cases around 5cents worth (I did speak to the staff member before doing it & asked if I could just scoop some of everything into a single bag & just pay the most expensive price for the lot, but stupidly she said no, so weighed each of the 50 or so bags I had individually). I also bought the most diverse birdseed I could find & planted that & later also found a bulk/select & pay animal produce store where I could do the same thing with any remaining grains I hadn't grown yet. So I personally have grown almost every grain & bean available. In most cases, I grew 2-3 seeds in 1 kratky hydroponics set up milk bottle, so as to save space, easily lable & avoid weeds & know for sure what I had in each. I was surprised how many of the dried beans were dwarf beans, everything from pinto to navy to soy are dwarf! The grains surprised me with how long they took to dry after growing, I was thinking how fast they were to produce, but then had a 3 month wait on the plant while they matured/dried, rice being the only exception to this, drying very quickly & being ready for harvest in about half the time of all the others, like wheat, spelt, oats, amaranth, quinoa, millet, panicum, sorghum etc etc, then of course came the hard part with grains like rice & spelt & oats, with needing to dehull them before they could be eaten. I would highly recomend growing 1 or 2 of each plant in this way if you want to understand growing processes. Some seeds I wasn't able to get in this way, or the ones I got weren't fresh enough to germinate. Cotton I got from a local agricultural show, where they were giving away little packets of seed to kids to encourage their interest in cotton. After chatting with the guy about growing & how I was curious & growing all my own crops, just to see the process, he gave me about 10 packets of seed, cause he liked that I was interested. I only had space for a couple of plants, but it was still great to get the seed tehre, cause previously I'd only managed to get the tree/Egyptian cotton & after 2 years of growing, I had a nice big shrub/tree, but only 2 pods of low quality cotton. The agricultural show seeds grew nice & fast & yielded nice & high, but it still made it abundantly clear how little yield is achieved per plant & how much space is needed for cotton crops. Same with soybeans, I was surprised at how low the yield was, but researched to find that 20 pods per plant is the average in commercial farms - that's 50 individual beans total per plant! Mulberry tree I grew from seeds in a punnet I bought to eat. I keep that to only a small shrub, as I don't have space for bigger. I harvest the berries as food each year & then bring my silkworm eggs out of hibination & feed them all the leaves & prune the tree in the process, ready for next year. I keep some bugs to breed & with the rest, I fridge (which puts insects to sleep but doesn't harm them) & then once I've ensured I have males & females & they've breed, I put the sleeping bugs into the freezer, so they don't wake up again. If I don't havve the males & females, I get some more from the fridge & take them out & they begin their growing process again once removed from hibination. Having done a lot of wild lizard rescues with a wildlife rescue organisation, I'm quite aware of bug management, fridge to slow them down so the sick reptiles can catch & eat them is a nesesary part of that. Only exception I've found is with maggots, even in a low level freezer, their life cycle doesn't pause. Anyway for the silkworms, I put them to sleep, then freeze, then put the cocoons into the sun once they're dead, so as to remove all moisture, then I store until I have enough to actually spin the silk, cause otherwise it's too wasteful, with each cocoon being a different length. The fluff around the outside of the cocoon I use immediately for stuff like plant ties. Once the eggs have been laid, I leave them to turn grey & then fridge for next year & the moths I feed to birds (not that there's anything at all inside them for the birds to eat). Without inducing their death in this way, the males will get excited & flap themselves to death, or if there's females within their reach, they will rape them repeatedly, leaving them bleeding & eventually dying from this (mating lasts 12 to 24 hours in silkworms & the boys have a barb that connects them, so that the girl can't escape, no matter how much she tries to crawl away from the attached male) Most of my other plants I've obtained seeds, cuttings or plants from either grocery stores in the same way as the mulberry seeds, including plants like sugarcane, sweet potatoes & herbs, or from heirloom seed places eg yacon & painted mountain corn, or from regular seed suppliers & then in most cases I save my own seed for the next year & I grow as food the plants my experiments show give me the best yields & fit well in various parts of my garden. My back garden gets no sun in winter, so it only really grows oyster mushrooms during that time (in bags that I manage intensively). I also have the mulberry & other berries that go dormant in winter out there & manage to keep plants like lettuce sitting there, therefore staying fresh far longer than after harvest, even once the direct sun has gone for the year, so as to extend my growing season. This winter my coffee plant has had massive numbers of berries on it all winter too, not sure what's going on with that, still figuring it out. I got 3 coffee beans off it the year before last, then nothing the next year, then this past spring a tonne of flowers, taht became beans & now a year later, those beans are all still on it & all still green, so it's either a crop that produces only once every 2 years & takes that second year to mature the fruit, or that's what I get in my climate/garden, which is technically meant to be too cold to grow coffee. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens with it & I've already experimented with the 3 beans I got last time to at least partly know the process after harvest. Linen also goes well put out there in winter. I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's one of the many plants that grows until daily sunlight levels change, so I've actually had linen up to 6 to 8 feet tall when grown out there at the right times, which tbh, is then a bit of a pain to try to reet. Grown in regular sunlight or times of year, it's generally only a couple of feet long & matures faster. White & blue flowering versions seem to be about the same in linen quality, snails being my biggest problem in reducing the quality, due to eating the linen off the stem. New Zealand flax is much easier to grow than regular flax & no snail issues, but I'm still figuring out the options to reet/process it, other than for getting course, grass skirt fibres. It seems to be a much tougher fibre & is a perenial that needs next to no care. Native grains, likewise are really tough & need next to no care, but yield to space is much lower with them I find. Anyway, in reality, no-one's going to be fining you if you keep a single plant in a controlled way a single time & do what you need to with bugs to prevent problems, which in your case would probably mean giving your chickens regular access to it, but there are PLENTY of options available to experiment & the way to find them is to look at what people have been primarily using for millenium, along with what grows most easily/what you can most easily find in stores & sticking it in the ground & seeing what happens. It's up to you if you're serious about growing stuff & experimenting or not, but actually growing stuff is definately the best way to actually learn the processes & difficulties. If you think that cultivation of the land for planting is a problem, then you might want to look up holistic grazing & do that with your chickens or get a couple of goats or sheep to do it with. Just putting them into a small area every night for a few weeks should leave you with that area ready to plant out without any additional work needed from you, so nice fast way to convert as much area as you want to. Best option is goats/sheep into the tiny area to trample it well for a few weeks, then rest if for a week, then put the chickens in there to eat any new weed shoots or maggots etc in the settling manure slurry & add their manure to it, then it's ready to go. You could even throw some wheat or linseed or barley or corn or whatever in their for the chickens & anything they miss will grow & give you crops of that (you'll want to add additional seed once the chickens have been locked out of the area, cause they'll get most, if not all the seed you put in). Tree planting areas can be prepared in the same way too, although personally I've had zero sucsess in getting any fruit from apricots, peaches, cherries etc that I have grown from seeds in bought fruit, even after many, many years growth.
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  282. um that's not how finances work lol you can't compare what it costs in your country with what it costs in another country! First result "In 2018, India declared tampons and sanitary napkins tax-free, but most sanitary pads cost between 5 to 12 rupees (8 cents to 20 cents) per pad, which is a luxury for the nearly 800 million people who live on less than $1.90 a day" so 30 of the pads you are using in India cost 150 to 360 rupees NOT 757! These pads are 7 times more expensive than disposable plastic ones are in India
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  283. & btw 36 pads in Australia currently cost $3
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  284.  @trusfratedbunny2215  who said it was a luxury was the source I quoted & so you're agreeing with that site I quoted (although giving a bit lower price starting point), but around 8 cents each for regular ones, v 30 cents each for these eco-ones, so NOT the same price as the plastic ones, like the OP said is it! You can buy 6 plastic ones for the price of 1 of the ones in this video
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  285. ​ @trusfratedbunny2215  I'm actually quite confused why you are targetting my quote & attacking me for being "wrong", while ignoring that the original poster is suggesting that all pads in India cost $8-$10 for 24-30, making these pads in the video the same price as plastic ones. My figures are far more accurate than theirs. I was responding to their inaccuracies, but you want to target me not them for inaccuracies in the top search result on the subject? "menstrual pad cost india" look it up yourself & argue with them not me!
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  286.  @Trace-l7k  Natural hemp is very similar to sisal, very course & suitable only for ropes & hesian bags. To make it softer than this requires extensive chemical use & damage to the environment
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  287. lol seriously? You think you invented the idea of putting a shopping mall into an area with other services? um that's what the rest of the world had ALWAYS done & why the rest of the world's malls are thriving while yours are dying! We enclose our major ones in Australia though, tried having them open air, especially in beach areas decades ago, but as they grew, they have all become enclosed & many stories higher, although maintaining fresh air flows through them in a lot of cases, in other cases they're fully enclosed, but are joined with other community facilities & transport hubs etc by council run pedestrian malls for people to walk through, that host pop up markets on busy shopping evenings, such as Friday night & all day Saturday & for a week or 2 before Christmas & roads that used to be major roads in the past have been either totally closed & turned into pedestrian only, or reduced to 1 lane only, with wider footpaths in the place of the closed parts. The whole world outside the US does this stuff as standard though, you're not inventing anything new here, other than a new name for what the world outside your country has always done when building shopping facilities
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  288. um yeh, like the woman says, leather is made from waste products already, so the entire theory behind this product is flawed, as it's only doing the same thing as the cheaper, better product already is!
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  289.  @johnrussell7996  Is Madagascar really richer than Australia in terms of raw resourses? Australia rates extremely high in this regard! I mostly bring up this comparisom because even if Australia wins, if Madagascar is in the ballpark, then Australia shows the conditions it's people should be living in, or would be in a fair world. Thanks for your info here, the foreigners monopolising the market i hadn't really thought of or heard of till you mentioned it, but that would make perfect sense & fit in well with what was shown in the video in the difference in farm to next step up, even when the next step up seems to be trying to support the people, which is the impression I got from the video, both in what they were saying & also looking at the workers at that facility & they looked to have decent conditions/were smiling & not just sitting, stone faced, working to the bone
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  290.  @bvegannow1936  quoting back what I said to you as if it's your words means nothing. How many calories a year do you grow? If you do actually grow properly (as in a reasonable number of calories), then you are the first vegan I have ever encountered who does, so I would love to hear what crops you are growing & what yield you get per space for each with your seeds & water & no fertiliser or tending to the soil in any way, not to mention what you're growing for calories indoors & what lighting & soil or nutrient set up you use for that. Vegans do NOT on average know more about farming than others, on the contrary! & watching a propaganda documentary with nothing to do with farming does NOT teach farming & the fact you suggest that as a way to understand farming shows you are really out of touch with what farming actually involves & I VERY much doubt you grow ANY significant calories - as I said earlier & you chose to ignore
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  291.  @bvegannow1936  I knew you wouldn't be able to give details on what you claim to grow
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  292.  @nelsonchinasamy9857  it fails to outcompete the sugarcane in my garden though. Sugarcane is the same as you describe, a LOT of plants are, particularly grasses. In warm climates though, C4 grasses will ALWAYS outcompete C3 grasses like bamboo
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  293. I say he's mining wrong! I like the idea from Coober Pedy, dig a mine & make it your living room, so you can sit in there & relax out of the heat :) Would be a much more pleasant job if he had nice surroundings & a tv or youtube or whatever playing in the background to entertain him while he worked from his couch
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  294. while I don't believe polyculture can fix this issue, obviously mass monoculture makes it worse. In this case though, it's poor bio-security that's responsible, same as with covid & everything else & btw Citrus Australasica is most certainly a citrus plant & it's totally immune to this bug & disease
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  295. If worried about bringing opals or meds of anything into Australia, always just tick "yes" in the appropriate box on the passenger declaration card & you won't get into trouble for anything, customs will just check what you've got & in the vast majority of cases approve it. If you tick no though & do have something you were supposed to tick yes for, you'll be in serious trouble! Australian customs is kinda the reverse of the rest of the world in that regard & glad you enjoyed Australia :))
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  296. There is, you keep it dry! It only decomposes if it gets wet. Think of it like cardboard, lasts forever until you drench it, then it decomposes within a month
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  297. um in that case even a government inquiry found they seriously screwed up! The Australian government screwed up too, but no mistaking the fact that a single week long cruise caused covid infections in every state of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America & suspected cases in a number of other countries with low testing rates & so unable to confirm. Secondary cases from WA to Tasmania to Auckland to LA etc were all confirmed from that ship though - and not a single one of the people who caused those infections were told they had tested positive until over a week after they had left the ship & in many cases they only found out the source when the media tracked them down & asked them if they had been sick! There were dozens of secondary deaths in relatives of people who had been on that ship that were fully preventable by simply telling the over 100 people who the ship's medical team already had positive covid test results for before the ship docked, about their positive test results! The cruise was between Australia & NZ, both of whom were covid free at the time, so there was no reason for anyone on board to assume they had caught covid while on that ship. They didn't know about the new crew members that had just flown in from the Diamond Princess to join that ship & who were coughing all over their food & infecting them with covid! Likewise when people on the RUby Princess got covid symptoms & saw the ship's doctor about it, they were tested & told they were fine & to continue enjoying the cruise, the cruise medical staff hiding from the patients their positive covid results!
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  298.  @Theoryofcatsndogs  I'm sure the bio-fuel crops taste MUCH better than eating nothing but air! That argument you are making is the same one that was made in America for not supplying industrial toiletpaper to supermarkets, claiming consumers wouldn't buy it, yet other countries had no problems in diverting industrial rolls to supermarkets during the panic buying period & guess what? People were more than happy to buy that over using their hands!
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  299. @Jason Walter please don't question where others studied science with the nonsense you are claiming in every comment you make! Grains DO become bio-fuel, why you think it's only animal fats that do is beyond me & there are PLENTY of people that we know for a fact, due to the pandemic, are more than capable of working from home, so huge amounts of fuel can be saved by legislation encouraging this where possible before we even look for additional savings! As for you, IF you need to go to work, not work from home, then I suspect you would be more than capable of using a bus, car pooling or considering a switch to a more efficient vehicle like a bike if you refuse to share your fuel costs & trip with others
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  300. @Jason Walter I'm not even talking about ethanol v bio diesel though am I! Where did I use those terms? You speak of "animal fats", so lets here the numbers on how many gallons of bio-fuel are produced from animal fats in the US each year! Not only is ethanol produced in MUCH higher volumes than bio-diesel, but bio-diesel is primarily produced from plant based oils too! Now sure, that's soybeans, not corn, but soybeans are grown in rotation with corn, so if soybeans are in the ground growing vegetable oil for bio-fuel (and 99% of all soybeans grown in the US are used for bio-fuel, NOT eating), then that means those fields are NOT growing corn for food while doing so! Wheat is grown in different conditions, so doesn't compete with corn & soy for their growing space so I'm not going to include that in the discussion. Wheat competes for growing space with barley, that is used for beer & bio-fuel & the US has recently dropped it's wheat production so as to increase barley production to sell to China for beer production
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  301.  @chrismitchell9338  yes there's a difference & for addressing calorie needs in the developing world, it's what you call "feed corn" that is desired, not sweet corn. The animal feed is a factor to consider, as that does still lead to high value food & corn being 200 times more water efficient than wheat in high temperature growing needs to be considered as well, but in reality, the technology is now available that biofuels can be made from the corn stalks & bio-matter & the corn kernels diverted to human food to address the current food issues globally. The soymeal waste from bio-fuel production from soybean oil can also easily be diverted from chicken food to human food right now, especially given the chicken pandemic issues & culling of chickens, leading to excess chicken food being available & being fully edible to humans. Might not meet US food consumption standards, but it CAN be put through high enough quality control checks to ensure it is edible for humans & then fed to those that are going to be facing famine & starvation without it
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  302.  @isabutchers5591  better to feed cars than people? The corn being used to feed cars can absolutely be eaten by people though can't it! IT is NOT inedible in the way your comment implies, only profits are impacting where it's going
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  303.  @isabutchers5591  That's not at all true that it's 99.9% of people who would choose to grab a bag of money rather than a drowning person from floodwaters, it's the opposite & only somewhere between 1% & 0.1% of people would think that way. Unfortunately they are the same people in control of crop production & where the food goes in countries like America so unfortunately they are choosing to starve humans, so as to make money to pay for their little space tourism adventures - can't see human suffering from space or their penthouse apartments
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  304. affordable compared to what? In the past a fridge cost 3-6 months wages, so globes were probably affordable compared to that, but that doesn't mean they were "cheap" compared to today's prices
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  305. how are they not required to?
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  306. Pity we don't' have the lakes needed for refilling these in Australia, cause it looks awesome! Great design innovations!!!!! & yeh, obvious value for money when used in the right setting
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  307. yes it's nice, except that part of that seems to be that he doesn't give a dam if the sponges go extinct, so harvests all he can find, even when they are clearly struggling to survive in the area
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  308. So many of these videos are just pure, obvious ads for various companies, yet I still can't help but click on them & enjoy the story & want to try the products
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  309. well I guess that's what China gets for taking over Vietnam thousands of years ago huh lol they might have been stopping silk getting out of "China", but at the time, they considered Vietnam to be part of "China", therefore didn't stop it going there did they
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  310.  @boardcertifiable  I suggest you look up the Aussie tv show "a current affair" & "cockatoo" if you think cockies are easier to manage than raccoons! Our possums are the same as your raccoons & are really not an issue. Sure, they remove tiles & get into our roofs to sleep & sound like a herd of elephants in there & they eat roses & a range of other flowers & vegetables & fruits, but see Roman's comment as to what cockies are like, or look at the suggestion I gave to see entire verandahs & cubby houses turned into a pile of matchsticks cause the owner went away on holidays for 2 weeks, so there was no-one to chase off the pterodactyl mob. Don't get me wrong, we still love them, we just don't understand your hate for raccoons, cause we would absolutely love & embrace them too if they were part of our native fauna. Raccoons are certainly not any sort of an issue compared to our normal suburban neighbour native animals & you may want to look up the brush turkey too, that's one of the birds shown in this video. Male builds a nest to incubate the eggs with heat, to do so he gathers literally 1 tonne of leaf litter & builds a 1 tonne nest mound. They always seem to choose the best kept garden as their nest site too & kick that 1 tonne of mulch to that location from the whole neighbourhood, including across roads & they attack any car that dares interrupt their mulch moving activities & don't even dream of disturbing their nest!!!!!!! They're vicious little buggers if they get upset! Again though, we just see them as having the same rights to the land as us & just compromise & live in peace with them. Beyond me why you can't do that with adorable little raccoons!
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  311.  @thesilentone4024  you can't significantly decrease the costs on silk production, due to how much of it needs to be done by hand. What you can do though is stop being a slave to the fashion industry. Ok, so a silk garment will cost you at least 5-10 times what a polyester one will, BUT it will also last 20 times longer, so it's not expensive at all. You just need to use it right & care for it well once you buy it. Jockey "silks" & Saris in India are all made of silk btw, not at all a rare fabric, just one that's too expensive to make single season items out of. There has certainly not been a reduction in silk being farmed or made into garments, just an increase in sales of "disposable" plastic ones in addition to an increasing level of production of silk over recent generations. It's quite similar to leather in many ways, buy a good leather jacket & it will last you for decades, FAR longer than polyester fleece jackets will! Long term costs are not high at all for good quality fabrics - IF you value them & buy them for long term use.
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  312. thanks :)
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  313. it lasts a fraction of the time anything from China does! Sorry, but he's lying
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  314. why the hate on Crayola? Faber Castel do pencils that are just as crap as crayola, could just as easily compare Faber Castel cheap & expensive
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  315.  @Dusk.EighthLegion  thing I find interesting about the perfect sphere is that the earth is not lol
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  316.  @d3tuned378  of course, but it's just funny when they're taking such lengths to be SO accurate in other details, but are in fact choosing to make the shape inaccurate :) I mean I think it's obvious why they're doing it, but it's still kinda funny that they're so accurate on other stuff but deliberately not on this
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  317.  @Globemakers  yeh, I was like wtf? I've seen it at least once, some countries were bigger than they should have been/had extra points on them due to the doubling up & then some islands below them appeared twice lol. I was just looking for a cheap globe cause I just wanted to see what was opposite what, so really didn't feel I needed quality for that, but what I got was pretty messed up, so I looked again to buy again (just on ebay) & took more notice of the pictures next time round & it was pretty funny what some of them showed! I've got a tennis ball sized foam globe, with the join on what's supposed to be the equator. Malaysia directly connects to Borneo & Peru has an ocean directly to it's north, so that's interesting lol Some of the longitude lines line up at the equator, others can be as much as half way between where the lines ended in the other hemisphere. The equator clearly doesn't go around the middle either, higher or lower, depending on what side of the globe. It makes quite a good back massager though, useless as a globe, but good for that :)
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  318. sandy soils are fixed via adding carbon to them. Grasses that grow long would be best, as their roots go deep to access & hold water, then each year or so, bring in a mob of livestock to cut all the above ground grass off, process it & leave it on the ground to become soil carbon as the rain pushes it into the sand, while the roots sloth off & also become soil carbon & any grass trampled instead of eaten becomes mulch, keeping it all moist while this all happens. That's how you fix sandy soil, BUT those grasses also act as additional habitat for the bugs & help them move around on the farm, they don't stop that happening! Also, the alternative crop is finger limes, a rainforest plant that only grows well in rainforest type soils, which is basically what we're talking about already being in place in Florida
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  319. hence why they charge so much that no-one's game to use them in case they get broken
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  320. seriously? You don't have debit cards in the US? Wow! They're standard for all accounts now in Australia, parents can opt out for kids accounts if they want to, but they rarely do, so kids just use their mastercard or visa linked personal bank account to buy online & to "tap & go" for any in person transactions too
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  321. well where I live, we still get local papers & junk mail delivered to letterboxes, or rather left on top of them for everyone in the unit block, so here a "paperweight" is a brick that's left there for them to put the papers under, so as to stop them blowing all over the street
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  322.  @loreo1235  I somehow missed your comment before, but thanks & so true :)
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  323.  @Tybodkk  yup, thanks :)
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  324.  @SpektrikMusic  I have a popcorn machine, I actually thought that would have been hotter, but you're probably right that it could work well, I mean popcorn tends to be much more likely to burn on a cooktop than in a popcorn machine doesn't it. I might try 2 or 3 beans in it & see what happens :)
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  325.  @lzl4226  yeh, I'm not totally sure my altitude here, but basically I'm at sea level :) I'm in Sydney Australia, so theoretically too cold for coffee growing, but I'm close enough to the coast & low enough altitude to be frost free & with modern weather, subtropical plants seem to thrive here, I've got sugarcane growing as well & a few tropical carnivorous plants, all fully outdoors & quite happy. With your comment's info added to it, I think I'm liking the idea of trying Sbinalla's suggestion of the popcorn maker, that would certainly keep the beans moving/avoid direct contact with fire/extreme heat. I'm following everything you're saying up until "development time" Does that mean the total cooking time, or time to cook after the first crack, or something to do with a time after cooking or what? I really don't have a clue what you mean with that & I really want to know, cause the rest of your info sounds fantastic & I really want to try following what you're saying, especially with the 4 minutes to yellow to indicate correct temperature, so if you can indulge me & explain that further, that would be great :) Height above flame I can't do on my cooktop, cause it's induction, I guess I could use charcoal & a barbie set up, but that might be harder to control the temperature on. First thing I think I want to try is the popcorn maker, cause I should be able to easily put just 2 or 3 beans in that & have it work just fine to test it without any great loses. Frying pan, air fryer etc kinda seems wasteful to run with just 2 or 3 beans in, but might be worth it, depending on how the popcorn maker works out. & just curious, do you grow your own too? If not, where do you source the green beans for to roast yourself? Anyway, thanks for the great info, much appreciated :)
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  326.  @sofiaglove  Thanks :) & that sounds so awesome with your childhood :) I'm betting if they did the coffee, they probably did lots of other stuff too, like veggie gardens or fruit trees & it was probably a really great childhood lifestyle all round, with a real connection to the real, natural world & where humans fit within it & even if not, that smell through the house sounds wonderful!
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  327. In Coober Pedy, most people live underground. The opals found in digging out the areas that will become the house generally pay for all the costs of the house construction. If a person living there wants to extend their house, no problem, they just get a bank loan, which the bank happily gives, knowing the costs of the renovations will be covered by the opals found in digging out the extentions
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  328. so it doesn't taste like egg yolk like he claimed?
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  329. um the end goal IS profit for their company! This is why climate change is still a thing, it profit wasn't a factor, we would have reversed it completely decades ago, we absolutely have the tech & knowledge to do it, but it's not done, cause of profit hunting
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  330. please explain to me why this company is PAYING to go to the pineapple canning company & collect their waste & cart it away for them! That company would otherwise have to pay to cart it away & dump it, so as the very least they should be giving it to the soap company for free!
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  331. ​ @Alinax99  lol oh dear! You REALLY need to educate yourself! 1. certain fibres are suitable for clothing, others are suitable for industrial uses, such as making sacks, mats or rough ropes for ships, agricultural use etc. Silk is NOT suitable for making sacks etc. Which of the fibres you just listed are suitable for the same purposes as silk? Not many are there! 2. I already gave you the stats. 81% of natural fibres in the world are cotton Jute-Kenaf and allied fibres are absolutely on the list of globally important fibres, huge amounts of grain & beans & other produce rely on these sacks to be moved around, as well as being the backing that binds carpets together. They make up almost 8% of global natural fibre production, but they have ZERO use in clothing or anything else silk is used for. Coir, likewise makes the cut, at 3% of global fibres, again for mats & ropes. Abaca-sisal-henequen and related are also nearly 3% & again are all unsuitable for clothing. So what are we left with? Linen? Less than 1% of global fibres, used to be big, until the world became environmentally aware, then fibres like linen & hemp that require retting that causes massive environmental damage fell out of favour. Hemp is at a ridiculously low 0.003% of global fibre production & I'm really not even going to bother with the experimental fibres. Do you honestly wear these fibres as your primary clothing source? You don't do you & if anyone in the world was going to, it would be people like you, but you don't, cause they're untenable. Like it or not, the alternative to silk is wool, cotton or polyester 3. organic farms are the worst offenders in terms of bug deaths in cotton farming, Non-organic have actually significantly reduced bug deaths in recent decades, by using GMO cotton that immediately dead's the bugs before they can take hold & breed, therefore reducing total death toll. The biological controls you speak of are NOT used in cotton production! The management of choice on "organic farms" is high levels of blood & bone & manure applied to the soil so as to make the plants as strong as possible, followed up by regular, scheduled spraying with pyrethrum - a natural pesticide from daisy plants, that can take up to 2 hours to dead a bug, the bug writhing in pain that entire time 4. speciesism can best be seen in someone who objects to silkworms being pampered their whole life, then painlessly disposed of at the most humane time possible, yet happily posions their cousins on mass when they feed on cotton. How can you morally be fine with cottonworm torture & death, yet object to silkworm humane death, when both are the same bug, separated only by a few thousand years of evolution in what they eat, with everything else about them being identical? 5. You REALLY need to educate yourself, not be a little pot calling a kettle black & thinking you're superior because you choose certain species to value & others to torture on mass - which IS what you do! You are all talk, but zero knowledge & zero actions on what you claim to believe! You do NOT choose fabrics that are less harmful, just fabrics you don't understand the damage connected to. Ignorance does not excuse torture though. Stop being a pot & go educate yourself!
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  332.  @nobodyspecial4702  you can have limes fine, but not really the same as sweet orange juice is it
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  333.  @Nevasleeps  hey maybe look into the official government inquiry into what happened on that cruise ship & how the company was negligent before assuming you know the victim is to blame! Irrelevent what room she had, she still tried to postpone her trip & was denied that without losing all her money & was denied her covid result & that of the people around her to even know she should avoid other people on board & even if she tried to, she couldn't avoid eating the food that infected staff were coughing all over! Australia & NZ were covid free before that ship, every state & territory in Australia & NZ were infected by passengers on that ship! All while the company intentionally hid that they knew they had the virus onboard!
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  334. awesome! & I know that's the case with water hyacinth, cause I've been buying placemats made of that from Kmart in Australia, without knowing the source, but now I know the source, I'm even happier with my purchase
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  335. mask is the issue, not gloves!
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  336.  @retroman5383  exactly! gloves aren't really an issue, masks are!
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  337.  @alexioiancu  hmm so they need very little food? Would seem that farming them should be pretty simple then wouldn't it
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  338.  @marksmith7054  sounds almost identical to oysters (or at least the type of oysters that are farmed on mass around my way)
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  339. who blew up the silos & burnt the farm equipment needed to harvest & get to the silos? Of course they mined to stop the Russians being able to blow up more silos & massive amounts of wheat sitting at the ports! At least that way the wheat is still sitting there & hopefully will be able to be distributed at some point! If Russia has it's way, that grain will be blown up & lost completely!
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  340. ​ @linhl4710  I have raised silk worms at home, it's not really like beaded curtains, more like fabric curtains, cause the silk strand singular) is glued together. Trying to separate, for me at least, always results in ripping & the cocoon IS that single silk strand a mile long, once that single strand has been removed, there's nothing left to cut, there's just the pupa inside a shell/exoskeleton doing it's transformation thing. There's lots of short strands on the outside of the cocoon that form the net that holds the cocoon, that looks like what they're using as the pillow stuffing, but that's not the actual cocoon or thread used for silk garments. Once the worm moves from those outer threads to the actual cocoon, it spins non-stop until the cocoon is done, starting on the outside & steadily moving inwards towards itself as it continues & when it runs out of silk, that's it, it stops (I've had some I've fed on mixed stuff, not fully mulberry leaves & they regularly run out of thread before the cocoon is complete & leave it with a hole in the end, or just so thin it's transparent. Those ones never hatch, they die inside it, I guess cause the cocoon's not thick enough to give them the right climate conditions for their transformation or something)
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  341.  @antonvink  If I was making it, I'd actually want to hand cut before joining, would kinda make me feel like I had more control over it & the cutting would also be giving me focusing time & time to really take in the details along the edge of the joins, so when I was then joining 2 pieces, I'd just kinda feel in tune with them & their edges & find it easier to get the lining up right
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  342.  @Globemakers  great info, again thanks for taking the time to share, I really appreciate it :) & I'm kinda laughing about people wanting one size but being gifted a different one. Kinda how the world works I guess isn't it. I'm sure the recipients appreciate just having such a high quality globe of any size but kinda a shame they can't somehow get the option to put in some extra money of their own & get a size they'd prefer or something, rather than having a smaller one, but smaller one would still be great I guess, I mean I'd much rather a smaller one than none at all! Just kinda funny that the buyers must know that they personally would choose the larger size, but still choose to skimp & buy the smaller size to gift
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  343.  @JohnPorsbjerg  well they do eat through cardboard, but I guess if this is an alternative to cardboard, then kinda the same thing in rodent protection
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  344.  @cavareenvius7886  no they wouldn't
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  345.  @charlie15627  Just to simplify what you said there with your long rant, Putin has chosen to try to reduce global grain yields in revenge for sanctions put onto him & his country for his illegal invasion of Ukraine & his anger that people are actually standing up to his bullying & you are defending Putin in taking these actions in refusing to supply the fertiliser other countries were relying on - and paying Russia for, to grow grain to feed the world. Russia IS directly responsible for the global grain shortages via preventing grain leaving Ukraine & blowing up supplies & farm equipment there, along with refusing to export the fertiliser needed to grow crops elsewhere. I guess an argument can be made that other countries should never have allowed themselves to be dependent on a psychopath for fertiliser supplies & so are responsible for the grain shortages because they did this & you can certainly be sure that this IS being corrected going forward and will not be repeated! Russia has damaged itself VERY badly with it's illegal, unprovoked war & associated war crimes & possibly crimes against humanity, although a court is still to rule if he has reached that level!
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  346. ​ @charlie15627  ONE ship carries 200,000 tonnes of grain, one train carriage/shipping container carries 20 tonnes so yeh, how about you stop being so ridiculous in ur lies huh? You're trying to claim that 100 million tonnes of grain have left Ukraine via trains, that would carry only 200 tonnes each, if 10 carriages filled to capacity? That's 1 million trains that would have had to travel to the ports, load up, then travel the whole way back across Ukraine again with their load! Spread over 100 days, that would mean 10,000 trains a day! 416 trains an hour, or 7 trains per minute! Standard operating protocols for trains in the world's best systems is a 3 minute gap between every train for safety, so your numbers are 21 times beyond what's possible, allowing there's the staff to run the trains 24/7, for a longer period than has been available, with no time given to load or unload. Why don't you go join your army instead of working in the troll farm, cause you're really not very good at this propaganda thing are you! It's physically impossible for even the best rail systems in the world, with unlimited resources to have exported everything that was supposed to go by ship by train! & trains in Ukraine have been used to transport civilians to safety, NOT for endless cargo! Bad enough the work they have to put into constant repairs of the railway lines from the bombings, so as to get civilians out, without also needing to worry about grain trains being blown up!
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  347.  @therasbull  amazing the people who can be credited with saving species. I believe Viiagra had similar effects, saving huge numbers of endangered animals that had previously been used in traditional medicine to address the same issues that medication does
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  348.  @saturnpattern4244  Do you really believe there is a "safe" lead ingestion level? I guess one good thing about this is that the lead exposure problem is biggest in children, so in most of the world it's probably not something children are having problems with. I doubt many adults are giving their kids wine in crystal glasses. For the tiny minority who potentially are, maybe that explains their failure to listen to their instincts & not go onto a submersible that is clearly not built to be safe
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  349.  @Roa.585  yeh, through channels like this one, I've learnt how much hard work goes into making things I used to think were largely made via automation. There is definite variations in how much people are paid for this sort of work around the world & also huge variation in working conditions. This imo is what those conditions & pay should look like though & personally, I would be much happier to pay high prices for a product like this than for one where I know the middle man is profiting & the artists aren't being properly paid or treated, so that's a factor too, they get that "fair trade" type label to add to their value in addition to the quality & also warranty, that it will be perfect & in the rare case it's not, service will be outstanding in fixing it, plus customer service will be fluent in the language & culture of the customers, which again is an additional factor people are willing to pay for. I've just switched internet companies to one that charges $10 per month more than my old one, but they have a local call centre for problems, so there's the peace of mind that if something goes wrong, I will be able to speak to someone without language or cultural barriers & get it fixed fast & easily, so that's worth $10 per month extra to me
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  350. And I've already seen & added to the same comment here as I did there, saying exactly the same thing. I really don't care about gloves (or shoes) or think they're a huge issue, since the effects of not wearing them are immediate. The problem is the lack of breathing protection, because it takes 20+ years for those effects to present. Really mind blowing that they are not wearing masks while grinding lead crystal glass here! (I said the same thing in the Indian bracelet video, but I think this one is worse, cause there is certainly the profit margin & increased regulations that should prevent the problem here! Not to mention none of the heat issues that were present in the Indian one, these guys can afford air conditioning, plus the dangerous inhalation exposure work in this one is totally unrelated to hot work, heat being the reason given for no masks in the Indian one)
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  351.  @Ass_of_Amalek  why would you want to plant forests on the land once you have it functioning well in crop production? That makes no sense at all! I don't get why you are even suggesting that
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  352. ​ @Ass_of_Amalek  hence why use bio-char instead of just adding the carbon in compost form, cause the bio-char can't erode off & back into the air. It's for stabilising farmland that we know people aren't going to treat properly to manage erosion! If you're going to do forests, do forests directly, don't spend the extra time making it farmland suitable & then waste that land as forests & need to find new forests to cut down to create farmland! & if you're going from forest or crops to desert, then there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with management! Generally it's semi-arid land that desertifies, because it's already so close to desert in the rainfall it needs & semi-arid lands can NEVER support forests, so if you're working with semi-arid land, you would NEVER attempt to convert them to forests, at least not if you were in any way responsible of knowledgable. I know China have done it with MASSIVE amounts of underground water wasted on the project, but even then they still can't keep their forests alive because the climate's completely wrong for them
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  353. ​ @Ass_of_Amalek  no, bio-char doesn't stop soil erosion, but when the bio-char erodes away, it remains in solid form, whether it ends up in the oceans or on another farm, it doesn't break down & return to atmospheric carbon in the way the rest of the soil carbon does when eroded, hence why it's a better option than planting trees, cause those trees die or get cut down & all their carbon goes straight back into the air, so the buying carbon credits to plant them was a scam. Credits should be available for the purchase of bio-char & storing it anywhere that prevents it being able to be used as fuel. Easiest option on that is mixing it into soils. If it was stored underground in dedicated carbon storage, there's too much potential to harvest that at a later date & sell or use as charcoal for energy purposes, spreading it in soils simply prevents that being possible The obvious solution in cleared amazon etc is to plant perennial grasses that are native or near native to the area ie they're well suited to it, even if they weren't the original plants in the area. The perennial grasses develop deep roots & hold the soil in place to prevent erosion & when allowed to grow to maturity before grazing, then allowed to grow to maturity again straight after, they provide as much, or near to as much calorie & nutritional value to ruminants as crops do, but additionally allowing them to be marketed as "grass fed", therefore increasing income & removing the need to clear new land to become farms. If the soil is in bad condition, you'd plant a mix of everything & hope something takes, but if you catch it early, or after it's been stabilised, you can switch to seasonal growing perennial grasses & grow them in such a way that crops can be grown within the same field without removing them, in "pasture cropping". I imagine that wouldn't work on the equator, as there's no wet & dry season to work with, so just efficient grasses will need to be used & grown as perennials, even grasses like alfalfa should work & sorghum can also be grown as a perennial, as can sugarcane to a large extent, needing fresh replanting only once every 5-7 years. No point trying to re-forest & cut down forests at the same time, just need to switch to perennials to stop the erosion & soil quality loss & the charcoal will also help massively in retaining any fertilisers that are applied to the land, especially in the high rain, nutrient leaching environments
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  354. @@bikmaharjan9497 They're also at major transport hubs. They have car parking, but teens can get to them via walking or public transport too & basically if teens in particular want to go out ANYWHERE with friends, they will be passing or in very easy access of a major mall in teh process, so it motivates them to go there. The US on the other hand builds malls in the middle of no-where, with nothing but what the mall provides accessible if taking a car trip there, so no wonder theirs are dying!
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  355. I'm glad the Ruby Princess got mentioned in the video. Shame it seems no-one outside Australia or New Zealand knows the history with that ship & how the crew hid infections from people with covid, causing many of them to infect their relatives after leaving the ship & then have to deal with the guilt of their relatives dying because of them! The cruise was on an Australian based ship, between Australia & NZ, both of which were covid free at the time. There was no reason for people to think they'd get covid onboard! They didn't know about the crew transfers from covid hotspots to that ship & when people got sick & tested positive, the ship's doctor lied to them & told them to keep socialising & enjoying the cruise & likewise the ship's crew were told to keep toucing & physically interacting with all the guests to make them feel happy, despite the ship's medical staff knowing full well their crew were infected & infecting passengers on mass! There's VERY good reason to sue that company & all crew onboard! That plague ship will never operate in Australia or NZ again, that's for sure!
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  356. cause it is, but in this case I'd say over harvesting & exploiting the resource is a more imminent threat
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  357. seriously? Go to a local school & ask the kids if they will give you some of theirs (once you have enough mulberry trees growing to feed them all)
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  358. ​ @abdelhamidemarra7466  consider yourself lucky to get ANY reply to such a stupid question! Silkworm eggs are already plentiful in your country, importing from Vietnam is ridiculous & anyone with any serious interest in silkworm raising already knows that! Like I said, all the kids at schools in your country already know that & already raise them as school projects! You buy your eggs from the same places they do if you want silkworm eggs
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  359. "155mm fires up to 20 miles" come on, how hard it is to fully convert to universal measurements! I mean you're using them for your shell sizes ffs! just dump the imperial crap & move on!
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  360.  @Joemamasisneor  It was the sister ship to the Diamond Princess. Unknown to the passengers they had just carried out crew exchanges & while Australia (where the ship was based & left from) and NZ (where it travelled to on this cruise) were both completely covid free, the crew had just been brought in from overseas, where they'd been in direct contact with Diamond Princess crew
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  361. Try to find "finger limes". Not sure if you can & what condition they'll be in, but will come from a totally different production system, so they might have a better juice situation. They're warm climate lovers, so unless you have a heated greenhouse, you won't be able to grow yourself somewhere like Canada, but they can be grown as a bush, rather than a tree, so growing at home is a genuine option in many settings - and that certainly gets around the juice issues from processing or storing
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  362.  @jayleno2192  do you honestly think people are getting less lead from drinking out of containers made from it than they are from exposure to small amounts of it in painted walls? It is lead painted walls that cause some of the most common intellectual disabilities in children exposed to it, I hardly think they're ingesting more from licking walls than they would be from drinking from lead glasses!
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  363.  @yauker  no evidence napalming cilled that particular bacteria, therefore making that particular wood so rare. You're right when you say you get triggered super easily aren't you!
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  364. They may work although when they've set them up to run super heavy power users like saunas & pool pumps instead of lights for veggy gardens I think credibility is lost), but I don't think that's actually the issue. Many of the world's rich apparently have properties in New Zealand that they can go to in a disaster such as a virus impacting the whole world) to give them a safe haven. How did that work out for those people with covid? Not great was it! NZ closed their borders, so none of them could get to their safe haven lol. That's the real problem! The people with the money to buy these super dooper bunkers have jobs that mean they can't live there fulltime, which means if a nuclear war or some other disaster hits, by the time they reach the bunker, they're already dead!
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  365. so I'm curious, do you have harvest limits there? This doesn't seem sustainable in this video does it!
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  366.  @toomanymarys7355  copy & pasting my reply to you in another thread ​ yes what is with this lack of comprehension? The video says that they used to be EVERYWHERE, now he has to walk long distances to harvest the same amount he used to get without any walking at all, cause they are harvesting at a rate MUCH higher than the rate that they grow. If you have 100 sponges & they take 5 years to regrow, that means you can only harvest 20 sponges per year. If you harvest 50 sponges per year, then you no longer have 100 sponges do you! You have just nothing blobs on the ground that USED to be sponges before they were cut & that he is now walking all over & causing to die before they can grow back!
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  367. yes, I find this conserning too, but as the video went on, I got the impression that related only to them not having tested other bacteria, rather than it only working on some. Also tbh, I doubt it would be worse than the current situation where various products take out 95-99% of bacteria, leaving the strongest/most immune alive with no competition as they reproduce
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  368. 1 female silkworm lays 200-500 eggs. 1 male silkworm can easily fertilise 3 females, therefore they leave to hatch 3-5 of the best cocoons per 1000 cocoons harvested. Silk worms are certainly not in danger of going extinct lol their genes are improving all the time!
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  369.  @kerry-annpeters885  There's companies in most countries that sell batches of 20-100 silkworms, along with "silkworm chow" for people who don't have mulberry trees they can use to get the leaves from, so best way to learn about them is to buy a batch, that's what I did. I kept about 20 eggs to reproduce from to do another batch without having to buy more. I ended up with thousands upon thousands of eggs as a result. I also discovered that they only last 1 year in the fridge & if you defrost your fridge & warm them up, even for an hour or so, it will cause them to begin the hatching process & a few days later they will all hatch in your fridge, in the bags you stored them in - and die, cause you didn't know & so didn't feed them. I've done batches of about 100-300 every year now for about 4 or 5 years though, is kinda fun :) I'm learning more about them everytime I do a batch
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  370.  @kerry-annpeters885  what the? I just gave you a reply & it's not here anymore. NO IDEA what on earth caused that! I save comments cause of this crap, so have it here & will try redoing it in parts, will just check if this stays first
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  371.  @kerry-annpeters885  ok first bit I'm in Sydney, so can help you on that :) I bought them from "Everything Silkworms" There was a whole list of companies that came up when I did a search, many with much cheaper prices, BUT I waited months & all remained out of stock the whole time. There was one other company I found that did have stock, but they were even more expensive than the everything silkworm one. Silkworms are expensive in Australia compared to other countries :(
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  372.  @kerry-annpeters885  second bit If you have access to a mulberry tree, you can generally buy just the eggs/silkworms on gumtree too. They'll eat around 10 HUGE leaves or 20 regular sized ones per worm, around 7 of those in their final stage before the cocoon ie in the last 5-7 days. Is deceptive in how much they eat, seems like nothing, until that final stage, then they just don't stop! So just be ready for that if planning on feeding on leaves not "silkworm chow" Probably best to wait at least about a month before getting them too, cause they don't really like the cold. I have a small mulberry tree/shrub, it's just starting to get spring leaves now, not yet at the point where it's ready to support silkworms, which is a good guide that it's the wrong time of year for them, even if raising them on chow.
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  373.  @kerry-annpeters885  third bit Definitely a fun activity to do imo :) Incredible how TINY they are in the beginning compared to how big they become by the end. I tend to find instinctively I don't really want to touch them when they're tiny, but then as they get bigger, I find that changes. By their last stage, I find it hard to resist picking them up & handling them, there's something really cute about them :). They have 5 stages of growth & in between each, they go into a freeze type position for a day or so, then they crawl out of their skin & have a new mouth, that's about double the size of the last one each time (it's actually growing/developing just above their one they're using at the time, then when they're ready, they crawl out of their old skin, brush off their old mouth & start using the new one. By the final stage, they can be heard eating too, sounds like rain, quite relaxing :)
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  374.  @kerry-annpeters885  fourth & last bit Start saving empty toilet rolls now too if you're going to do them, cause empty toiletrolls is the easiest option for them to make cocoons in. You can use other stuff too though if you want to/have to cause of a lack of toilet rolls, or they'll just use the corner of the container you put them in. They just tend to waste more silk on their cocoon holding webbing in those options though, so less on the cocoon. & big worms & cocoons are the girls, little ones are the boys. Girls are bigger, due to more eggs in their body
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  375.  @kerry-annpeters885  Glad it posted this time. Would love to know why on earth it didn't before! wtf is in that to cause it not to? Weird sight! Anyway, good luck with it & glad to be able to help you :)
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  376. ​ @apoptosis_101  maybe try organic pads? Or maybe a thin, washable pad/liner/cover you can put on the period pants & keep changing? The wetness is better than the alternative symptoms I was getting but yeh, if you're really yuck about that, it's going to impact you. It's not that bad, but having been an only tampon person myself, I do notice it. I tend to get gluggy stuff that I can sort of hold in & then excrete into the loo, but can't always control it, so period pants gives me the peace of mind, if I can't get to the toilet in time to get rid of that stuff, I can just let it go into the pants & tbh, I tend to change them if possible after that too, but the wetness is not actually that bad if I'm in a situation where I can't, once the pants are back up, it kinda returns to what it was before using the toilet pretty quickly & really isn't that noticeable at all, but yeh, given how sensitive you are about it, you're definitely going to notice it & not like it. Still much better than pads though, cause I'm sure you notice if they move slightly too do you? I know I do. Pants avoid all that stuff, there's a little thickness in the crotch, but they're pretty similar to regular pants, certainly much more similar to regular than a pad is! Something else I've noticed, there's no feel of plastics at all in the pants & I don't get any skin issues with them & I am sensitive to this stuff, BUT.... & here I'm getting personal & into tmi territory, if not already there lol, I've noticed if I fart, the pants kinda lift a bit as a whole, fart doesn't travel though them like with normal pants, so I think there might actually be some sort of plastic or something in them, so just to share that before you go out & spend lots of money on them & find they don't work for you. I'm using the bonds bloody comfy ones. I have tried other cheaper ones, still have them in my draw for emergencies, but I HATE the others, just not a comfy undie fit & elastic irritated me on both the legs & waist. They go on just in an emergency, for the time it takes the washer & drier to finish, then get replaced! I'm thinking for you, organic disposable pads, or period pants & an organic layer, maybe even a washer or cut up cloth nappy to give just one layer that blood will go straight through, so as to not interfere with pants pad effectiveness, but to give you the option to change that layer easily everytime you go to the loo. Pad in pants does absorb, so you shouldn't have issues with wetness coming back up through that layer & will give you a fresh & dry feeling :) kegel exercises to increase control over blood release are good too :)) The more you can get straight into the toilet, the less of an issue with pants/pads/wetness etc :)
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  377. presumably you'll need to buy from the US, Canada's too cold for commercial operations growing them
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  378. The idea is that they charge so much that no-one is game to actually use it :) Has to remain just on display, cause it's too valuable to eat/drink from :)
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  379. yes, that's a quick rip, I'm more interested in the eels being processed while alive!
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  380. ​ @Layput  China kept it from the west until much more recently than 4000 years ago, but a quick bit of research tells me it was absolutely in Asia, outside China 4000 years ago & doesn't seem to be anything suggesting Vietnam couldn't have had it then (I just haven't, with quick research yet found confirmation from non-Vietnam sources of this) Couple of quote's I found Allusions to the fabric in the Old Testament show that it was known in Western Asia in biblical times. & The earliest examples of silk production outside China are from silk threads discovered from the Chanhudaro site in the Indus Valley civilisation, which are dated to 2450–2000 BC. The analysis of the silk fibres shows presence of reeling and sericulture You may also want to remember that VIetnam shares a land border with China & throughout recorded ancient history has been in conflict with China over where exactly the borders are, with Vietnam being under Chinese control for 1000 years from over 2000 years ago. Really doesn't seem at all unreasonable to think they also had silk there when you think about it properly does it!
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  381. ​ @Layput  it doesn't just "border" china, it's cultures overlap with China's, so if China had something in it's south in times before clear history on borders is available, then you need to show that the north of Vietnam was not included as part of South China or accept that at this stage there's simply not the evidence to claim to the contrary, otherwise Vietnam can claim it, in much the same way as people can claim gods caused something, until it can be disproven. The Hoabinhian & Dongsonian cultures in particular have clear evidence that they overleaped both South China & Vietnam in where they existed & as such it is reasonable to assume, based on currently available evidence, that anything they were using was in both China & Vietnam. The Han taking control of Vietnam likewise means it goes without saying that anything they had & allowed to spread within their territory could be found in Vietnam too. To say otherwise is a bit like saying Roman roads were ONLY found in Rome & not in any other parts of Europe. Of course that's not true, they took them into all parts of Europe they travelled into. Not looking for evidence because of wars etc in the country doesn't mean the evidence isn't there, just that it hasn't been found YET. Bit like how Aboriginal Australians were claimed to have arrived in Australia around 12,000 years ago, then 16,000, then 20,000, then 30,000, then it stuck at 40,000 for a long time, then it moved up to 60,000, now archaeological evidence says up to 85,000 years ago, but pollen & ash samples still say 120,000-130,000 years ago, so just because there's not yet archaeological evidence proving that, doesn't mean it's not true, just that there's not YET the evidence to support it, but everything suggests that enough searching WILL confirm that, so why shouldn't Aboriginal people claim that? Why shouldn't Vietnamese claim what they believe to be true & what best evidence suggests is true, just because invasions of their land means they've not YET been able to find the "proof" of it. Best evidence says silk was there along with China
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  382. Polyester is the main cause of the great pacific garbage patch. It is responsible for more microplastics in the oceans than any other type of plastic on the planet!
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  383. Looks great, the styrofoam cup stats were out of place though weren't they, cause there's no way this is waterproof or an alternative to them!
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  384. 4-6 hours wear before it causes infection? & so how about the trend in first world countries towards "period pants" that are designed to be worn all day or all night? Something doesn't sound right here!
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  385. it's also waterproof, which is rather important for cups isn't it! This stuff is clearly not waterproof, so is not a replacement for cups
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  386. That is preventable, no reason we can't plant elsewhere now (other than the fertiliser shortages anyway) but you're right, this isn't going away, the problem won't be fixed, it will be worse next year!
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  387. Seriously, go look at the Australian opal town of "Coober Pedy", you'll love it if you thought there were trees in this. They have churches & pubs & everything under the sun in "mines" there! whole town is underground in mines to keep out of the heat
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  388. not passing the business down to their kids, so apparently they dont' care
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  389. ​ @toomanymarys7355  yes what is with this lack of comprehension? The video says that they used to be EVERYWHERE, now he has to walk long distances to harvest the same amount he used to get without any walking at all, cause they are harvesting at a rate MUCH higher than the rate that they grow. If you have 100 sponges & they take 5 years to regrow, that means you can only harvest 20 sponges per year. If you harvest 50 sponges per year, then you no longer have 100 sponges do you! You have just nothing blobs on the ground that USED to be sponges before they were cut & that he is now walking all over & causing to die before they can grow back!
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  390. Australians bought out all supplies of edible seedlings & seeds too & Brisbane had to go onto water rations in the middle of one of their wetest years in history, cause they literally used over 50% of their residential dam water supply watering all their new veggie gardens. flooding situation is worse this year than in 2020, the military have been having to air lift food into a lot of communities because of it, hence why the bog roll was what was panic bought, cause everyone here not only had their own veggies, but also had no doubts that if food ran short, the military would be delivering it (and we grow ample, exporting 75% of what we grow, so no-one doubted it would be available), but people weren't sure if the military would be used to get toiletpaper to us, hence the need to buy it no matter what. The military are air lifting toiletpaper in as well btw, the media are being sure to report that, that people need not worry, there IS toiletpaper in the supplies they're getting lol We're way too spoilt in this country!
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  391.  @Josephsflock  and you believe it's safe because a company's youtube video tells you so? I mean I guess it's probably no worse than drinking chemical solvents that go into non-stick cookware etc - all of which were claimed safe by the company & proven cancerogenic, much like lead (although lead causes brain damage instead)
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  392. google tells me otherwise
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  393. not the only way at all! America has ample corn for all the world's calorie needs, it just needs to stop wasting it on bio-fuel production
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  394. wait till those bugs invade your area & it will all change!
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  395.  @slewone4905  hmm so I guess you've never heard of Citrus greening or the Asian citrus psyllid huh? A "piece of poop" isn't in the process of completely destroying the entire $3.4 billion industry. Yours doesn't even get onto the scale for "evil bugs" does it!
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  396.  @alejandra6673  In Australia, we call the lemon coloured ones "lemons" & the lime coloured ones "lime". We get a bit weird when it comes to soft drinks though, we call sprite etc "lemonade", even though it's clear & not really lemon flavoured
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  397.  @SecondSonofQishan  sponges filter out stuff like that though don't they! I think you're way past the point where leaving sponges would make a significant impact on those, BUT lets not lose track of the fact that it's messing with the eco-system that causes that stuff & so taking the last of the sponges absolutely has the potential to make that problem worse, and to introduce new problems you haven't though of yet, just like red tides were unheard of in a time when the seabed was literally COVERED in these sponges eating any algae they could get hold of! It's absolutely irresponsible to say "oh well we've already destroyed the environment, so who cares if we destroy it some more too" - which is what I'm hearing in your comment
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  398. I do think it's pretty rough to do this in a global pandemic!
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  399. You need to remember that Malaysia is not the only country growing them, so if both farmers & the government dig their heels in, then both miss out to other countries
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  400.  @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep  They ARE turning it into bio-char, but then they are selling the majority of it to fund their living. No doubt some of it ends up back in the soil too, but no point attempting to do that if they don't have the money to live & must then cut down everything that grows in that soil to survive. This is much more effective, cause it provides them with money. If you want bio-char into the ground, go to your local supermarket & buy some charcoal & then go out & bury it under trees around your home
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  401.  A R  not if it's not properly charged it's not!
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  402.  @Ass_of_Amalek  that's where the techniques in the video are so good, cause no limits on growing C4 grass in that environment & grass can become a fire fuel just as easily as trees, just needs the charcoal process to make it viable to transport
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  403.  @evilsharkey8954  so? cattails don't grow in arid regions do they, since they grow in water! The C4 grasses that do grow in arid regions can be managed the same way as this though can't they!
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  404. yup, they cook it - I assume, that's what I've seen happening with similar products
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  405. of course it will! The time to stop it was before it entered America. As an Aussie, I just really can't grasp why you guys don't take imported diseases more seriously & stop them entering your country to begin with
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  406.  @BloodAsp  yup, I thought that might have been the reason it was taken down. Disappointing to see it up again without the proper credits! Not hard to credit him is it!
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  407. the one suing had a cruise between 2 covid free countries but tried to transfer to a later cruise anyway to be safe, but the company refused to let her & told her to go on that one or lose all her money & again, it was between 2 covid free countries, with all passengers from covid free countries. She had no way to know the company had just transferred crew in from the sister ship - the diamond princess! If she'd known that, she would have cancelled, but the company denied her that information & the chance to make an informed decision - just like they told passengers who tested possitive that they were negative, causing them to infect & then watch their relatives DIE as a result of them actually being possitive from that cruise & infecting them on getting home! There's no question that company needs to be sued! They were absolutely negligent in their actions with the ruby princess!
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  408. In Australia the panic buying was ended by the use of colourful easter bunnies taking over all available space in what was formerly the toiletpaper aisle, to the point that there were great specials on the bog roll by May as shops desperately tried to clear the oversupply. 2 years on & the games continue though, so everyone here now maintains a stockpile in their home, cause it's become the norm for shelves to empty whenever anything interesting happens in the news
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  409. $4 per lime? wow that's expensive!!!!!!!
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  410. The meat in this video, to me says so much about why the US has an obesity & diabetes problem. fatty meat is so bad for people's health! In Australia we just outright refuse to buy any meat that is as fatty as this video shows! SO weird to hear it categorised as the top 2 levels of meat possible. It would seriously just rot on the shelf or get a "reduced for a quick sale" label put on it & sell for about 1/4 to 1/10th the price of the same cut of meat that is marble free. Just grosses me out seeing so much fat!
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  411.  @shumpwumbus2813  yup, again that shows the problem doesn't it! Why wouldn't you ask if eating that much fat is healthy or not? Why wouldn't you ask why Australia's recommended meat intake per week from health experts is double the US's & yet life expectancy in Australia is a decade longer than the US? Why do you have so little interest in your health over there?
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  412.  @shumpwumbus2813  yup, that's the problem when you eat fat instead of meat, it reduces brain function & concentration & makes people just dumb
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  413. ​ @Dave-in-MD  often a valid response, but in this case not. Very easy to look up photos of meat in Australia & other industry facts to see that my comments DO in fact represent the VAST majority of Australians. (and any not represented just have to suck it up, cause it's what Aussie health departments expect too) A handful eat tiny amounts of Wagu beef as an occasional treat, but you simply will not find meat like in this video in any Australian supermarket or butcher, cause again, it simply does not sell! It gets "reduced to clear" stickers on it anytime they try & then further "reduced to clear" stickers. You will see stickers on meat like that with a $2 sticker, down from $30 or so & it will STILL be sitting on the shelf & no-one buying it! "coles" and "woolworths" are the main stores in Australia, go look at the meat photos & range on their websites if you don't believe me. Look at the range of kangaroo meat & how lean that is while you're there too. Meat that looks like this video is exported when found in Australian abattoirs,, since it earns high profits that way, vs being thrown away if attempted to sell to Aussies. Also note that only 2% of Australian cattle are in feedlots & they spend only 2-6 weeks there (as opposed to 3-6 months in the US). Any meat destined for the Australian market is grass fed to slaughter, as that keeps it lean, which is what ALL Aussie consumers demand. Much the same as how Aussies eat very little pork/bacon/pig meat. Lamb is a bigger seller in Australia than pig is. Chicken & beef are the biggest sellers though, with chicken ALWAYS being eaten skin free & beef from lean animals. Fish is also hugely popular, I'm not sure how it's sales compare to beef/chicken, due to the huge variety available. Eating in Australia is just culturally FAR more healthy & lower in fat & sugar than in the US. Students from the US almost always comment on how they lose weight on moving here, even when seemingly eating the same foods as they were eating back home in the states.
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  414. ​ @Dave-in-MD  There is a "dulopoly" in supermarkets in Australia, with coles & woolworths. 48% of Australians say they primarily shop at "woolworths the fresh food people" and 39% choose coles as their primary shopping location, so that is 87% of Australians that reject fatty meat before we go any further. Local butchers likewise sell lean meat, but as I already said, you can easily look at the website for either of the above to confirm what I am saying. Both do extensive home delivery & "click & collect" (I'm currently on the woolies site doing my shopping for tomorrow's delivery), so the websites are full service, with photos of what to expect when you order online for all available meat cuts. EXTREMELY easy to confirm what the majority of Aussies eat, equally easy to confirm the amount of time spent in feedlots for fattening in each country Or if you don't like any of that, just go to the redit "ask an Australian" group & ask yourself & see if you get ANYONE from Australia telling you they will eat fatty meat You can also btw look at what is sold as bacon in Australia, cause I believe you sell strips of fat with a little meat? We sell the meat that has the big round lump of sold meat & a tail that has half half fat & meat, but a lot of people feed that to their dogs & eat only the meat part when buying bacon - bacon's not a big thing in Australia anyway though, was when I was a kid, but bacon & egg fried breakfasts have gone out of favour a long time ago as unhealthy. They've been replaced by Asian foods that are much lower in fat, more taste, less health issues All foods in Australia have "healthy star ratings" too btw, with 0-5 stars to help people choose more healthy foods & if you put a low star food in your trolley on the above websites, it will give you an option in the product details to "choose a similar, more healthy alternative" to click on & get the higher star/healthier options to replace it with if you wish to I wouldn't even know where to look to find fatty meat. There's probably 1 or 2 companies in big cities that do it, probably targetting expats who want fatty muck, but it's certainly not readily available, would take a lot of time & effort to find! & that's because of a lack of demand, the big 2 try anything that might sell, they've done stuff like "corn fed chicken" etc (that I believe was supposed to be more "flavoured" due to higher fat), but then they withdraw them from sale when no-one will buy them, which happens consistently. We have universal health care here, which means doctors are rewarded with bonuses for educating people on healthy eating & lifestyles, cause it saves our country lots of money in the long term, due to lowered chronic illness like diabetes rates & lower heart attacks etc. Even normal weight people get blood pressure checks on any doctor's visit & blood sugar levels with any blood tests & doctors intervene with any early signs of issues, which means making sure the person isn't eating things like fatty foods, chicken skin, too much soft drink etc etc (chicken skin being the big one, cause chickens are often sold with skin on to keep in moisture during cooking & sometimes poor, less educated people miss the info that they are supposed to remove & dispose of the skin before eating) Like it or not, the simple fact is cattle in Australia are raised to be low in fat & any that can't be for various reasons see their meat exported to countries like the US that are willing to eat fatty meat. They simply do not even try to sell it here, cause it does not sell
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  415. pretty clear they are don't you think? Hence why he says they're hard to find nowadays!
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  416. I'd actually love a job like working on these - except for the painting, I couldn't handle the stress of trying to get the painting right, knowing if I screwed up, all the earlier people's work was lost too, but I'd love to be trying to cut & paste at such precision, my kind of thing :)
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  417. not really "old" opal mines, they just buy a plot of land & turn it into a sort of opal mine as they dig out their house, then close the "mine" again once they decide they have enough living space, with the opals found in digging out the house covering the costs of the construction :)
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  418. should be similar to cardboard, which is also of course made from living things. Generally these mushroom products are put through an oven to finish them off, which stops any further growth or changes in them & basically makes them the same as cardboard, in that the living creature that formed them is long dead. I suspect their water tollerance would be similar to cardboard too though, ie pretty bad
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  419. many cows are wasted too, just fix that issue & fixes for all the other issues follow naturally
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  420. You have that reversed actually. Amazon has invested millions, if not billions, into major local warehouses in various countries, so as to try to make a dent in the shopping market, but no matter what they do, they simply cannot compete with the convenience of well placed & managed malls. Online shopping only takes over in countries that have crappy malls, ie the US
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  421.  @bruhmoment1208  sponges aren't sustainable! They're being depleted at an alarming rate!
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  422.  @JackieWelles  how is it "nonsense" for them to have thought that? You're not inside their head, you don't know what they're thinking. Lots of people think luffas are a sort of sea sponge too, not what they are, but doesn't change that people think this, same as the OP thinking they were an African thing
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  423.  @bruhmoment1208  yeh, luffas are fast, I know, cause I grow them & know how long the waste bits take to break down in my compost, but how about the cellulose that was the original alternative to them?
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  424.  @bruhmoment1208  yes, I mean the cellulose product discussed in the video & am questioning how long a "long time" is, as per Olli Vanhoja's comment
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  425. that's really dumb & ignorant!
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  426. mate, no negative impacts on those that find them in Australia, which is where the vast majority of opals are found! Try a different gem for that story!
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  427.  @-Secret  Very rare with opals in Australia. Opals don't lend themselves to industrial level production, so it tends to be individuals, who tend to take care of their own safety. Coober Pedy is the main opal centre of Australia (although for white opal, not black) & people literally live in the "mines" there, they have electricity & plumbing & everything a normal house would have, except they build their houses underground, so as to avoid the heat & they can afford to do so, because excavating for the house finds enough opals to pay for the construction/excavation. There's churches, pubs, hotels, everything you can imagine found underground in "mines" in Coober Pedy & people can literally dig for opals while sitting on their lounge watching tv in their living room, so again, wrong gem to be talking about that with. Lots of gems & metals put people in danger, but Australian opals are really not one of those
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  428. to suddenly, massively increase production of? no! Corn is the best available option, since there's HUGE amounts of it currently growing for bio-fuel & stuff like high fructose corn syrup that has massive amounts of corn wasted in the process of making just unhealthy sugar. Biofuel corn and soy/soymeal could easily be diverted from currently growing stock
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  429. mould & fungi are not the same thing! & it's dead when used in that way anyway, but even if it wasn't, it wouldn't be a problem would it. I do mushroom growing prep in my bathroom & have a few places in it that grow oyster mushrooms if I don't clean up the fungus when I see it starting to grow (and I tend not to, cause it's kinda fun watching oyster mushrooms growing out of my door frame) I don't get mould there though, quite the opposite, the fungus suppresses mould growth
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  430. Try an oyster mushroom, chopped REALLY well, then added to a meal you are cooking & I'll bet you'll love the taste. Put a little into a stew or curry or something & you won't taste mushroom, all you will taste is an enhanced flavour of whatever you were cooking without the mushrooms. I HATE regular mushrooms, but I love adding oyster mushrooms to other foods to enhance the taste (as long as they're well chopped, so I only get the flavour, not any texture) They actually did a study & found nearly 100% of people prefered tacos with 25% mushrooms compared to 100% meat, just need to know how to prepare & cook mushrooms for them to work :)
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  431. yeh, I agree. I'm very against veganism, in general it's people with no idea what's harmful & what's not, actually causing far more harm & a far higher environmental footprint with their eating choices, but in this case, the product is sound imo & actually helpful to the environment - which cannot be said for growing masses of soybeans & peas & so on to replace beef & other grass eating animals. In this case though, the mushrooms are eating the same stuff the cows are, but processing it more efficiently than the cows are
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  432. ​ @DrZaius3141  I mostly get my "propaganda" from the UN's FAO. Their study showed that 84% of all food eaten by all livestock globally is inedible to humans, with chickens & pigs being the main consumers of the human edible component & cattle eating very little of it. I'm not in the "global north", but even if you want to reference the US, which is the least efficient livestock feeding system in the world, reality is that 1. those systems exist because of corrupt subsidy systems & have nothing to do with cattle, cattle are just being used as waste disposal for the grain farmers are paid to produce, but that they then have to dispose of without feeding humans, so as to maintain global grain prices at the high level said farmers want & 2. even in those systems, cattle are still only eating 6kgs of human edibles to every 10kgs of meat they produce, because in reality, cattle cannot eat only grain, they MUST be fed primarily lower calorie feedstuffs or their rumen develops bacterial problems & the animal dies. The global average btw is 1kg of human edibles eaten for every 10kgs of meat produced So you want to rant about soy huh? Ok fine, soy's not fed to cattle, it goes to chickens & pigs & my comment related to cattle, NOT chickens & pigs, but fine, how much oil free soymeal do you eat each day? How much washing powder, shampoo etc etc, all the products with "vegetable oil" in them, do you eat or use per day? If you're not eating 5 times as much oil free soymeal as you are using in all the other products, then you are the problem! 98% of the world's soybeans are grown for their oil. Oils in all the above are either soybean oil or palm oil. Soybean oil makes up only 18% of the bean, so 82% of every soybean is waste & yes, that waste IS fed to chickens & pigs, cause you are refusing to eat the quantity needed to get rid of it & prevent mouse & rat plagues! The alternative of course is to use waste animal fats in your washing powder, but since you refuse to do that, soybeans must be grown especially for you & livestock are required to dispose of your waste. There is currently enough soybean waste in the world to feed 100 billion chickens from birth to slaughter every year! In the rare cases where soybeans are grown for cattle, they are grown for 3 months instead of 4 & then harvested as silage, with the ENTIRE plant being used as food. When they are grown for oil, the plants are grown for 4 months, then they are sprayed with herbicide, then the plants are left for the 5 day exclusion period & to die from the herbicides, causing even drying throughout, then the 50 little beans are harvested from each plant & the rest of the plant is disposed of & from those 50 little beans, 18% is used & the rest of the beans become waste, just like all the leaves & stems & pods have already become waste, whereas when eaten by cattle, ALL of that material is eaten & converted into meat! Sure, only 10% of what's eaten becomes meat, BUT even if you're eating the entire soybeans, that's only 2% of the plant you are eating & 98% you are wasting, so the cattle's 10% conversion is far more efficient than your 2% isn't it! Wanna test it? Amaranth is cattle fodder that vegans have now decided they want to eat, consequently yields are readily available for both. For cattle fodder, 1 hectare produces 40 tonnes of fodder per month, or 240 tonnes of fodder per 6 months, with just nitrogen fertiliser (cattle poo) & no herbicides or pesticides required. To grow it for vegans instead, 6 months is needed for growing of fodder (leaves), then seed growing processes, then seed drying for harvest. To create seed, potassium & phosphorous fertilisers are needed in addition to nitrogen, plus regular pesticides are needed & regular herbicides to reduce weeds (that cattle happily eat, along with any bugs). At the end of that 6 months, 1 hectare of amaranth will produce an average 1 tonne of amaranth grain. So we have 1 tonne of amaranth grain, or we have 240 tonnes of cattle feed, with your claimed 5-10% of that becoming meat, so that's 12-24 tonnes of meat from the same land area as your 1 tonne of amaranth, if using your calculations on feed conversion ratios. Far more nutrition & calories in 24 tonnes of meat than there are in 1 tonne of amaranth aren't there! As for water, the reason land requirements are generally put so much higher for cattle than crops is because cattle actually require far less water than crops, so cattle are put onto land too dry to grow crops. Just look at images for "Australian cattle station" if you want to see typical cattle farms & try to imagine growing soybeans on land that looks like that! Obviously in deserts, more land is needed to find food than on lush arable land, but if we compare like for like, then in reality, cattle are FAR more efficient per hectare than soybeans & other plant crops are. Most efficient of course is both, the highest calories possible from land come from rice fields, grown with fish in them to control mosquito & feed on them & ducks to control snails & feed on them, with both becoming food when the rice field is drained & after harvest, the rice straw being kept as feed for the animal that will pull the plow for the next crop, having that rice straw then converted into milk & cheese. So yes, I repeat, vegans are ignorant, they rant propaganda nonsense, with no actual knowledge of how farming works or what animals are eating, or even what percentage of crops humans are eating! Humans consistently get only 1-2% of the nutritional value from grains & other crops! Lettuce you get higher, but you're not eating just lettuce are you? Very water inefficient if you are! Go do some proper research & learn something!
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  433. Where are you going to refill them? You have the same problem we have in Australia don't you, with next to no lakes suitable for a plane to fly directly over for 12 seconds of filling then lift off time?
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  434.  @krisalis709  Do you seriously drop salt water onto fires? we don't do that in Australia even when our dams are effectively empty from decades of drought! I agree with you though, that people need to look at the big picture, these are great for Canadian locations where they have long lakes right next to the fires, not so good without those lakes though unfortunately!
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  435.  @jameson1239  if filling from airfields though, I don't really see their benefits over a basic 737 design that a much wider pool of pilots already knows how to fly really well & we wouldn't agree on salt water being better than nothing here in Australia! Bushfires are natural, salt water is not, would cause huge harm to the eco-system! No water, we fight fire with fire & use backburning instead, not salt water. If we can't contain it, we just have to evacuate & let it burn until weather changes or natural or man made firebreaks put it out. We won't sacrifice long term environments for short term fire control
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  436. the tech actually lends itself to scaling up really well. The week in the press is the only downside or problem compared to current products, will need lots of space for that & the space needs to be indoors & in a controlled environment
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  437.  @justagirlsd3000  um the mice have been here for over 200 years, along with the rabbits & deer & foxes & camels & horses. The most recent of that group of imports was the cane toad, over 100 years ago. We learnt our lesson after that & still have to deal with those earlier arrivals, but we don't let any new ones in now!
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  438.  @aj-sz8mu  it does bring in money though, those oranges are all tax dollars, which are lost when the oranges are lost. You can also bring plants into Australia btw, but not in soil & they must be sent to quarantine facilities for extended time periods, making it generally non-viable. Alternatively, they can be grown in quarantine approved facilities in other countries, such as is done with orchids sold in supermarkets here, all come from Indonesia, in sphagnum moss, not soil & all are grown in approved facilities. average people are limited in practical terms to only seeds & some plant seeds are not allowed, but most are, IF labelled fully & declared & free of foreign matter. Same with foods & other biologicals, most are actually allowed in, they just need to be declared & checked by trained staff before being let in. WA & Tas. are the only states in Australia with limits on taking plants, wood etc across borders, fruit is also significantly limited, due to fruit flies being non-existent in most of the country, but unable to be eliminated in other parts, so spread is prevented with strict quarantine on anything they could travel in. quarantine doesn't have to be that restrictive, just done smartly (and a safety net also needs to be in place to be monitoring & taking extreme action to eliminate immediately if any breaches occur, wiping it out before it's too late to do so
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  439. @Vicious I guarantee you it's not!
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  440. @Vicious illegal immigrants don't bring fruit with them. It's really not that hard to understand Also, illegals are a TINY percentage of travellers from Asia & you need to look at a world map if you think Florida is where any illegals from Asia end up lol. btw which Asian country do you think is sending you all these illegals & their fruit care packages from home?
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  441.  @violetviolet888  That's an unrelated issue to strong border protections preventing the disease entering in the first place, or going in hard with chemicals to eliminate it if it manages to slip through, that is what I am talking about here, not regenerative farming. The Australian government does support regenerative farming in a lot of settings too btw, but that has nothing to do with bio-security, so really not something relevant to discuss on the topic of citrus mites entering the country. What's needed is to stop the mites getting in, or if they do, to ring fence the entire area & basically nuke the lot with the most toxic chemicals that can possibly be used without harming the people around them. TOTALLY different issue to regenerative farming to minimise the impacts of severe weather & run off from agricultural land
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  442.  @Jzwiz  I'm fine with mushrooms, but not with added flavours, so for allergy reasons I was thinking the "bacon" is out of the question for me too. Would you be ok with it as packaging? Remembering it's cooked before it's considered finished, so no spores or anything coming off it. If you're not ok even with that, dam that's going to be a problem for you in the future!!!!!!!!! (if this goes ahead & takes a significant percentage of packaging)
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  443.  @JustinAdamson270  but most people don't eat packaging darling, so the packaging therefore may not be an issue for many, even if it's mushrooms & they get severe reactions to eating mushrooms
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  444. ​ @alexc1926  presumably chelsea has all those facts because the cruise company were forced to reveal them in the government investigation into how so many people died because of their negligence. I suggest you read the same inquiry report chelsea obviously has & inform yourself as to the facts in this case! & if nothing else, lets remember that Australia & New Zealand were covid free at the time, so no reason for passengers to anticipate they would get covid on a cruise between those 2 countries. The company most certainly did NOT tell teh passengers they'd just transfered crew in from teh Diamond Princess hotspots & they most certainly knew they had done that! Like it or not, the company knew there was a high risk, due to the infected crew, the passengers did NOT have access to that information! Once passengers started getting sick onboard, the ship's doctor mislead them & let them think they were covid free & encouraged them to continue socialising & spreading covid to the rest of the ship. NONE of the sick passengers even had it suggested to them that they stay in their cabin & certainly none of the over 100 positive cases before the ship docked were told they were positive before they left the ship & infected their family members - even though the ship's doctor & company representatives knew about the positive results! Go read the inquiry report & educate yourself on what happened! Same for everyone attacking chelsea for sharing the facts with you all
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  445.  @FirdausIzam  there was no covid in either countries the cruise was travelling between though, so no reason to cancel if the company said there was no risk. If teh company had told them they had just flown in new crew who had been interacting with the diamond Princess crew, then obviously they would have been able to reassess their risk & likely cancel, but without that info, there was nothing to suggest this ship was a risk
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  446. lol nice :)
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  447. yeh, it would seem to be wouldn't it. I grow them in my garden, just one plant every few years covers all my needs (note it is a big plant lol that vine goes nuts!)
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  448. DUDE, not all u sounds are short! But don't get BLUE or BRUISED, that wouldn't SUIT you, you'd turn into a PRUDISH PRUNE or some other FRUGAL FRUIT JUICE. Don't SUE me for speaking the TRUTH And yes, if you didn't already realise, every capitalised word in that has the same pronunciation as luffa - at least in the English language
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  449. looks like it's the standard vinyl coating to me
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  450. yeh, I wasn't impressed! I'm sure the industry COULD be run ethically & sustainably, but I'm betting the reason most come from the US is due to lax environmental regulations, so exploitation is possible Fun fact, luffas are a land plant. Most people seem to think they're a sea creature, but they're a nice easy alterative for those who care about ethics & can't find reputable sea sponges
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