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A Hungry Man is an Angry Man
So those price hikes are not related to the price of petroleum that they use for fertilizer and delivery, which has doubled in the last three years? With oil at over $100/barrel, shouldn't that be figured in to the cost? Plus no reference to the fact that farmers are expected to plant less corn this year.
I don't believe the premise of the post. The oil industry is worried that with prices getting higher that people will turn against petro, so they put out this... [more]
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at 12:01 PM on April 5, 2008
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Oh, Senator!
Did he waterboard her? Since he seems to like that technique.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 7:09 AM on February 21, 2008
This story has nothing to do with McCain also supporting the veto on the ban of waterboarding. NOTHING!
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 7:22 AM on February 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Alright, Steal
Without the supposed samples to compare it to, why should I believe this person?
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 10:49 AM on February 17, 2008
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Biofuels worsen global warming
These studies focus on the idea of "Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food-based biofuels". That is, that there the carbon uptake is lost when you burn down a rainforest to make biofuel, not from just using biofuels itself or growing corn to produce biofuel.
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at 2:01 PM on February 10, 2008
MeFi post:
I don't read
By the standards of this graph, wouldn't an introductory English textbook make you dumb?
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 2:01 PM on January 25, 2008
MeFi post:
I Waterboard!
I've always been under the assumption that waterboarding was torture without having to endure it myself since, if it wasn't torturous, why would they use it to torture people?
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 9:02 PM on December 22, 2007
MeFi post:
Striking Out
Solidarność
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 9:55 AM on November 13, 2007
Does the New Yorker always have a terrible article for every good issue it publishes? They may have a great article about a co-founder of greenpeace who rams whaling ships near the article circle, and then another about how Google Books is a flawed idea and they shouldn't continue.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 10:00 AM on November 13, 2007
MeFi post:
Malaria: The Buzz of Death
I think there's conflict in the environmental movement about whether Malaria, West Nile virus, Equine Encephalitis, and other mosquito spread diseases are actually worse than anything that could be caused by neurotoxins like DDT or DEET.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 7:18 AM on July 19, 2007
MeFi post:
Fox in Print
I think the feeling has been that while the Wall Street Journal may be very pro-business, they still do journalism and try to keep their opinions in the Op-ed section.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 8:41 AM on July 6, 2007
The newspaper industry's Darth Vader offers you big money [...] What are you going to do? Turn it down?
yes
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 10:31 AM on July 6, 2007
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Roberts Supremes reverses 100 years of antitrust law
I think the abstract assumption is that this could mean lots of things for lots of different situations. Maybe it could be a boon for manufacturers, but I think the most likely result is that it's a giant protection for a Walmart.
It stops competing businesses from using loss leaders to bring people into the store. Without special sales like that, there's little room for competition. In a way the law seems like a free-market decision, but it has the opposite effect... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 1:31 PM on June 29, 2007
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Interesting Arguement About Global Warming
isn't this also the failure of game theory?
Essentially he's eliminating the idea of variable risk. Under his logic I would never leave the house because of the chance I could get the ebola virus and have my insides turn to liquid. That's the worst that could happen and it outweighs the other columns and rows.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 9:18 AM on June 15, 2007
And by his own tortured logic shouldn't he be acting to stop global warming?
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 10:59 AM on June 15, 2007
False dilemma indeed. Thanks exrabox!
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 9:23 PM on June 15, 2007
MeFi post:
James Burke on the tubes
The last episode of Connections is this all consuming overview of the philosophy of science which should be required watching by all.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 6:34 AM on June 11, 2007
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Support your local Reptoid
in the organic food article, i couldn't find a single reference to animal growth hormones, which seems odd.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 11:18 AM on May 24, 2007
Did you ever wonder why Chinese drink only hot tea? They boil it to kill the bacteria.
or maybe the only way to make tea is by heating it up first so it dissolves in water more.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 11:49 AM on May 24, 2007
MeFi post:
Flash game offers doorway into madness
What I always find amazing is the rational effort it takes to a make programmed insanity like this or Superrad. Somebody had to think about all of these things as they plotted out the game interface.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 2:18 PM on May 2, 2007
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The first-ever popularly elected leader of Russia
Don't really know a whole lot about him, but he came off as a sort of lovable (if somewhat bumbling) soul who you'd probably enjoy knocking back some vodkas with. Infinitely preferable to the weaselly, evil-incarnate Putin.
Personality-wise Yeltsin was a lovable character, but he allowed the privatization of the Russian economy which was a giant catastrophe and probably lead to the need for Putin's tyrannical leadership to control the price of goods.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 8:36 AM on April 23, 2007
Yes, they didn't have to break apart every state run organization all at once. Massive inflation occured. The way they did it was epically bad.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 1:21 PM on April 23, 2007
The Soviet economy had begun to disintegrate in 1985, and was almost completely destroyed by 1991. There weren't too many options that could have prevented that kind of collapse.
Not doing what they did and causing 1000% inflation would have been better. What they did was the one of the worst decisions possible.
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at 2:43 PM on April 23, 2007
MeFi post:
Bourdain VS the Food Network
jonmc: a group of friends also got really ill at a Batali restaurant. I wonder if this is a regular thing.
also, Bourdain blames the Food Network for people like Flay on terrible shows. I'm sure Flay has his own will involved too.
posted to MetaFilter by destro
at 3:18 PM on February 8, 2007
