Jim East @ wolfyvegan @slrpnk.net Posts 637Comments 228Joined 1 mo. ago
What are the babies? :)
Do the haskaps taste like anything? I have been told that they have almost zero flavour.
Mulberries seem to fruit pretty much anywhere. :)
Sounds like those things would help to mask the flavour of store-bought banana if nothing else.
Nice! I've never seen anyone cut rambutans in half like that, but you do you. Are those longans I see?
EDIT: Citrus trees are hard to kill, so as the weather warms up, your calamondin will probably recover. It might be disfigured, but it should regain its strength with time.
Audacity. I stayed back at whatever old version for quite some time before finally switching to Tenacity.
You have violated Rules 1 and 2.
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Like the guy who invented durian.
Interesting theory, but I am not Jim West.
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Interesting hypothesis, but it seems very unlikely. Safely fermenting any calorie-dense plant matter in the tropics without airtight containers or other equipment would be more a matter of luck than anything. It would not be a reliable means of increasing caloric intake for an entire population. A much simpler explanation for human brain expansion? Sweet fruit. No tools, no fire, no difficult digestion. Neuroscientist Tony Wright has researched this possibility extensively.
Could you give an example? Since herding cultures themselves are inherently racist (speciesist), merely speaking out against them hardly constitutes racism.
After playing with it, it seems that it's only possible to embed images, not .md files or other text.
That website merely published an excerpt. The author of the book has nothing to do with that.
All good. I don't think that there is a single correct answer to this.
Now I wonder at what point an old culture can be considered superseded by a new one. If colonisation wipes out the traditions of a culture to the point that no one remembers them, and the people only know the crops introduced during times of colonisation, and the indigenous peoples become united and speak a new language (e.g. English), can that be considered the start of a new culture with new traditions that involve non-native plants?
A thought-provoking topic indeed.
Sure, by the dictionary definition, that is tradition. I don't deny that the non-native plants can be passed from one generation to the next just like anything else. The lack of distinction between native and non-native plants in the context of "tradition" just seems a bit misleading.
"I would not want to promote research on animals -- fortunately, only my back is twisted, not my mind."
– Linn Pulis, polio victim
"The cruel experimenter cannot, in the same breath, defend the scientific validity of vivisection on the grounds of the physical similarities between man and the other animals, and then defend the morality of vivisection on the grounds that men and animals are physically different. The only logical alternatives for him are to admit he is either pre-Darwinian or immoral."
– Richard Ryder, former vivisectionist
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race. The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
– Mark Twain, father of American literature
It just seems arbitrary. What about 5 years old? Most cultures on the planet could then claim that smartphones are traditional tools of their culture, even though they were designed somewhere else, manufactured somewhere else, installed with software developed somewhere else... In the context of plants, this seems almost to disregard the historical importance of native species. If a non-native plant was introduced to a culture only 50 or 100 years ago, but the culture has been around for 1000+ years, then the ancestors of those same people, who would by all accounts be considered part of the same culture, would not even recognise it. Which generation gets to decide what constitutes a cultural tradition vs a modern practice?
Some do! Or at least, they give you a choice of OS at different price points. NovaCustom, Eurocom, and AVA Direct come to mind. Of course, there are also plenty of vendors that ONLY offer GNU/Linux pre-installed...