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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5. 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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  6.  @grendel_nz  you know not everyone has a dishwasher right? I know I don't
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  7. Did you know the cockies were doing it?
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. quarantine is FAR more effective!
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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. @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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  16. @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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. ​ @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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  23. ​ @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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  24. ​ @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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  25. Am I the only one who thinks the thumbnail looks like an alien ship?
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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30.  @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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  31. "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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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. yup & presumably that or polymer clay would be used as training in the process
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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40.  @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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  41.  @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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  42.  @0animalproductworld558  more ranting, unable to respond to my question though huh?
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  43. ​ @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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  44.  @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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  45. some people are so gullible
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  46.  @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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  47.  @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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  48.  @bakedbean37  and it's lighter & easier to transport
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  49.  @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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  50.  @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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