LMD
July 25, 2024, 5:22am
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I made three comments in 60 minutes. It felt a bit forced, and I wasn’t sure that I should say anything. I think my favourite comment was the one on your ‘Human’s Matter’ post (the second one below). With the third one I don’t think I did very well and it was a bit last minute. The topic of ‘food waste’ and ‘waste’ is interesting to me and I don’t have my thoughts together on it.
Some people really hate being approached like this one the street, and so might not really listen to what is being said and are basically just being polite and hoping to get out of the conversation easily. Sometimes people probably donate to causes because they feel awkward and don’t know how to exit a conversation like this. But I do think many people actually think that supporting the destruction of Israel is good thing.
I’ve watched/listened this video a few times before (and commented on it on youtube.) My favourite line is “You were born with a birthright. That you are a demigod who can move heaven and earth.”
A thought I had about this idea was that humans might even have greater capacities than the capacities that humans throughout time have imagined their gods having. Because gods are the creations of people (imo), the capacities the gods are imagined having depends on things those people can imagine.
With this I wonder if this company is finding it profitable? When they say they’re ‘saving’ them, what do they mean? That they’re finding buyers for them? Whose beauty standards are the fruit being rejected by, the supermarket’s or the consumer’s? I’d be happy to pay less for fruit that just looked a little different, I don’t care, but I would choose the nicest one I could find if the prices were the same. I can see this being good from the perspective of the farmers, who can now sell more of th…