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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