the next generation of GMOs are going to actually be that silver bullet. It's going to get cheaper and vastly more effective.
Eh, the cheaper part may not be so expected. It highly depends on variety of factors, not the least of them, the provider of the GMOs.
It's good but it's nowhere near as great as everyone keeps saying it is.
It's not a question of them being useless, but rather them being incompatible with more advanced forms of farming. As long as GMOs depend on everything else in the field being killed off by Glyphosate - something Monsanto has absolutely no interest in changing anyway considering they make bank selling the stuff - you're not going to be able to introduce additional plants to form a closed resources loop, and thus you'll continue being highly inefficient regarding use of the solar flux, water consumption, phosphate and nitrogen capture...
But they're negligible compared to a measure as simple as introducing different seasonal crops to make full use of the available solar energy, instead of wasting most of it while waiting for a single crop to grow.
You mean the "flexible" strains I'm referring to? Any strain that can be bred and selected using the ages-old method of artificial selection rather than by spending millions on developing a single variety. So, anything but GMOs, necessarily.
That hasn't been tried before
I'm pretty sure you could use selective breeding on GMO strains as well, although that raises the question of whether the companies selling those strains allow for that.
Anti-GMO is just modern ludditism.
Yeah, go ahead and completely ignore my point about the importance of the system as a whole rather than the strain itself. Sick zinger. Says a lot that you would only respond to that part of my post, too.
Artificial selection applied to bog standard single crop farming has been done before, yeah. Symbiosis-based systems that make use of a variety of species in a single field? Not really.
As I already explained, the latter can't be achieved with the current GMO model. If you can convince Monsanto to give up their glyphosate-based business model and encourage an open source approach to GMO development, be my guest and good fucking luck. In the meantime, forgive me but I'm not going to buy their dead-end shit and contribute to such a monstrous, amoral monopoly for the sake of a mere 10% reduction in pesticide use.
Good point, just do the same thing as the other guy and ignore mine I guess.
Even if it were technically possible, it would be illegal anyway. That would be violating the company's intellectual property rights.
I don't think that the WAYT thread is necessary at all anymore because the discord channel achieves the same thing.
I also think posts in Fast Threads shouldn't count towards an user's post count here either, a lot of the threads here incentivize shit/spammy posting.
A good number of people who post in WAYT don't use Discord or aren't in the server.
I much prefer using a forum than discord for something like wayt as well tbh
Something about discord makes communities much more toxic, as well
You are the pinnacle of laziness of you think that the removal of the view image feature is the worst thing that happened to Google.
"Open image in new tab" hasn't failed me yet. The only times it hasn't worked is for domains like Pinterest where the View Image button never worked anyway.
What would even be the point? Post count is completely meaningless on this iteration of the forums to begin with and 90% of fast threads has been worthless spam posting for centuries anyways.
it's only meaningless until we start using the backgrounds as the cards in FaceStone, the FP-centric TCG
my card costs twenty five thousand mana to play
Maybe our coins are actually Bitcoin that Garry is secretly gathering from our posts?
That sometimes happens to me. Hovering over the image for a second with Imagus usually fixes that and changes what the link goes to.
ok i don't understand this, it's never been a problem for me but i hear it all the time. if you right click before the image finishes loading and the grey bar on the bottom disappears, you get a thumbnail, but otherwise you get the image as normal
Found the exact same image in Google Images, worked just fine.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/157/d689f3ea-8872-4b4c-8cf4-a9f12885236b/2018.04.30-17.59.mp4
Yeah but that's exactly what he was saying. Sometimes google fucks up and pulls the thumbnail instead of the full image, not all the time.
Trading on Craigslist..
Whenever people ask if you're willing to trade for X item.
Look, if you had anything worth trading for you would of sold it yourself on Craigslist anyway.
"hurr hurr i got this 32 inch HD TV, will you take that?!"
Yeah sure, i'll take your cheap mysterious crap TV that i'm not even sure if it even works"
Look I know this isn't always the case. Sometimes you come across someone who is actually generous and truly has something to offer or happens to have something quite specific that you're looking for or some who's downright retarded and gives you something amazing in return but those are rare.
9 times out of 10 when someone asks to trade they're just going to offer you garbage they themselves don't want or care about that is taking up space in their own homes.
i hate it when people put "/s" after a sarcastic comment, it looks so stupid. especially when it was obviously not serious anyway
Since mere text doesn't reflect the tone of the sentence, it's good to have it pointed out that the person is making a joke and the internet doesn't go crazy over alleged "stupidity"
never really had that problem, but the joke is always ruined when you finish it with "that was a joke by the way guys! no hate pls"
I'm gonna bring it up a notch: posts that have /s at the end most likely weren't funny in the first place, and probably don't contribute anything to the discussion either, so they might as well not be posted.
never explain a joke
unless you think you can get another joke out of explaining it
wait what, of course text reflects the tone of the sentence, that is so very wrong
It does, but conveying the same meaning through text can be difficult especially since in real life we do rely on our bodies and vocal fluctuations to convey a lot of our meaning. There's just a lot more room for error with less redundancy.
i think greentexts are really interesting in how they use the medium's strengths. gonna be honest, i skip over most of the ones i see these days, so i'm not saying it's an infallible format or anything. but i like what's been created there, the way sentences are constructed and laid out, it's so unusual but it works.
/s is also a way of working around the limitations of text, but it only helps get the message across not the humor. i think it's so fun, and heartwarming, when someone who doesn't make too many jokes tries without having to resort to it, even if they fail. i'm not saying it's a crime to use /s, i'm just saying it's not unreasonable to say they should get the death penalty
sure people want what's best for themselves but you're implying that every person has a one-track mind and will take any chance to drag others through the mud if it benefits them even so slightly.
you're forgetting we're descendants of flock animals.
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