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

  1. @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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. the patented secret technique he won't share you mean?
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11.  @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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16. wouldn't that be "oversponging"?
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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. ​ @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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  20.  @aspergillusoryzae3722  exactly!
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  21.  @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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  22. ​ @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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  23. 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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  24. much better to just use crop waste don't you think?
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  25. "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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. @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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  30.  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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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33.  @cchavezjr7  or instead of running an engine, you run the charcoal making operation with that gas
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  34.  @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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  35. ​ @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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  36. ​ @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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  37.  @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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  38. All except Australia's native finger lime citrus plant
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44.  @dhanhyaa  there's no such thing as "vegan" silk (or vegan at all actually)
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  45. ​ @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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50. 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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