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Soyf farming and cattle ranching have been destroying the amazon for decades. It is severely diminished from that. But it is such a huge forest that it seems infinite.

The bigger problem is that the soil on the amazon is actually pretty bad. There is a thin fertile layer that gets renewed by the forest. Once you cut it down to plant something else it quickly becomes bad, so you have to cut down more forest to keep up production

The electric car is the solution to save cars, not the environment. It still makes roads bigger than they would otherwise be and divides cities

I hate carrying my new tv everyday twice a day on random times, but I do what I must

There was a new development in japan less than a year ago. Downside is all your teeth fall out and all regrow

That's how it starts... A year later and you are starting your fifth army and you haven't finished painting the first one

Configure it to have limited access and your kid will know everything in a week trying to unlock it

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This debt in part (an ever smaller part) represents created value.

Quick explanation is: produce more > need more money, otherwise deflation > fed prints money > feds "buys" bonds with the newly printed money (to make it available) > gov spends the money in the economy.

Problem is every day money is printed much faster than the economy actually grows, so instead of avoiding deflation, it causes inflation.

If we (saying "we" because every country does the same thing) strictly printed money to follow economic growth, then economy would slow down significantly. Is that bad? I don't think so. We already make several times more than we need. Any new thing we want can still exist in slow growth.

They are honest, but not very clear. We could rewrite that as "we assigned monetary value to your privacy"

Counter point: I loved osaka and kyoto, would skip tokyo before them. On kyoto we went up to the main temples using side streets and small foot paths and down on the main road.

We stayed in a regular neighborhood in osaka, drank and had fun on small 5-people bars with the locals and visited the city center occasionally. Made me appreciate the quiet japanese life even in a big city. Very charming city

This is basically what happens in Brasil. We have a government funding program for a few decades now. The big names (ie. Friends and family) get up to a million to make their bad movies and the small folk never get approved.

I worked in the ministry of culture. We were petitioning for funding on EU programs to open libraries in small cities (50k EUR) while singers got that from the ministry for a single performance. Not to pay for the stage and lights, that was just the singer.

Every publisher has to send copies of every book to the national archive. There isn't enough budget to catalogue or correctly store them, so they lay in gigantic warehouses gathering dust and being eaten by mites. It is so bad it is considered hazardous environment so it is super expensive to fix it.

But the famous director gets hundreds of thousands every year to make shitty movies nobody sees, because that one time 20 years ago he did something good.

Depending on road size, it is for trucks to be able to turn