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hace 5 añosdiscuss

this is exactly what I've been thinking...Gamestop has over 5,000 physical locations across the country...this is an extremely valuable resource that if utilized correctly could turn them into a hugely successful empire again...Esports is still in its infancy but it's already a billion dollar market...even better...why not partner with AMC, another entity in this WSB movement that is failing and also has many locations with huge screens, sound systems, and seating...perfect for esports or some kind of AR/VR setups, IDK, if these CEO's can use their imaginations there's many paths they could try...

hace 7 añosdiscuss

False. Assets are a resource with economic value that are expected to provide a benefit. If that benefit is worth more than the current cash value, you actually lose more by selling it. You're free to make stupid choices though, like wrongly defining what assets are.

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Selling assets is actually worse than going into debt. I know plenty of people who would not be able to afford paying their bills without going into debt if they had an unexpected 400 dollar charge. The delusion that wealth inequality and massive economic impoverishment is a myth in America is insane. Get out of your bubble.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2018-repor...

hace 7 añosdiscuss

False. Trillions of dollars are simply re-invested in financial activities (many of which are risky and borderline illegal as well as insured by your taxes) that serve only to generate more numbers with 0 physical contribution to the world. At least you can lift your mattress up with money underneath it or use your piggy bank as a paper weight.

hace 7 añosdiscuss

False

hace 7 añosdiscuss

None of what you are referring to was stated in my post.

hace 7 añosdiscuss

This guy gets it. Missing out on over a billion people as an ad-revenue based company just because you don't want to do what is already being done (and will continue to be done) is just insanely stupid.

The idea that you are somehow creating change in China by refusing to interact with China is just stupid. It will only serve to have a negative affect on promoting your ethics. China is increasing its influence in the rest of the world and that includes its politics.

It's the same thought processes that people who don't vote because they don't like any of the candidates use. It's only detrimental to society.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Refusing to even admit you're completely wrong about vegetarians having more cavities because you know I'm right. :)

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Okay, you're merely arguing semantics with me on evolution. You can call it adaptation or a catalyst for evolution, whatever word you want, but it's still evolution. When applying the theory of evolution to humans, you can't use such a simple definition because we have technology. Additionally, our minds are powerful enough to decide to do things that will cause physiological changes beyond those that one might say would have been caused by natural selection. And how do our minds evolve? Thought, experience, brain processes that we have yet to understand fully which are also directly linked/affected with the rest of our bodies. The evolution of our collective consciousness and knowledge base is the where the real evolution is occurring.

Honestly have no idea what you're saying about teeth anymore, your whole point was that our teeth prove we are meant to have omnivorous diets, which I was arguing against because our teeth are relics just like our nails, they do not matter anymore, so I still don't know how your point stands. They are merely links to our past evolution and what we used to eat 100's of thousands of years ago, long before we discovered cooking which some have linked to a spike in our evolution to our current status.

You literally said "Coincidentally, vegetarians have a higher rate of cavities than the population at large." Cavities are tooth decay btw...not sure why you think they are two different things.

Sorry, but they really don't, and the study you're pushing trying to claim that shit was done on isolated indigenous populations which has nothing to do with vegetarians in the rest of the world who are able to get K2 from plenty of non meat foods like cheese or eggs. More than likely, those isolated tribes are vegan more-so than vegetarian without access to milk-based products or soy beans. Also you get K2 from your gut as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1492156

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/changing-our-dna-...

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Now you're hopping from evolution to genetic features as though they are the same thing. I never mentioned that I have good teeth or that I was vegetarian, nor is it anecdotal that vegetarians have better dental hygiene. I highly doubt our teeth will change at all because people don't die from lack of a certain tooth. Teeth don't matter when you can literally have all fake teeth and get by eating just fine. In fact, we often remove teeth because we have too many. Again, individuals do evolve, which is not the same as suddenly getting new distinct physical features half way through your life, which actually can happen so you're also wrong about that.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Individuals can and do evolve, and then they pass that on to their children, that's how evolution works. Biological evolution is a very long and slow process, technological evolution is not. That's why our teeth are a poor indication of what we should be eating because of this revolutionary thing called cooking. Our teeth are records of our past evolution, not rules for our future or current evolution. The claim that vegetarians have higher rates of cavities is total bullshit. They actually have better dental hygiene.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Low prices means higher consumption, which will do the opposite of kill off that project.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

They can be with proper handling and rotation. They are also vital for grasslands, not just forests. However, industrial raised beef is not good for forests, it's very very bad.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Most of their diet is fruit/leaves. The rest is squirrels. I don't see many people eating squirrels, but I see a lot of squirrels.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

When we start letting anecdotal experiences override scientific knowledge and rational thinking, we are limited to more primitive modes of thought like group think or stereotypes. This includes even those with PhD's who often have a higher prestige of themselves due to said accomplishment, and may look down on those without. Education is key, I agree, and just cause someone has a PhD doesn't mean they should stop learning, or they are the end-all-be-all.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

Ain't that the sad fucking truth of how people think. This is one of the fallacies of capitalism and consumerism culture. The human ego has grown to levels that exceed the single planet we live on. We have the tools to find new and better sources of meat, it's called lab-grown. A simple yet effective solution, taxing the shit out of real cow meat as well as ocean caught fish would cause huge falls in demand, and would create opportunity to develop the lab grown meat technology to ecologically and economically competitive levels. If eating red meat is actually a higher standard of living, we should treat it as such. It makes no sense that a double cheese burger is cheaper than a salad. The same with driving gas guzzlers, tax that shit to hell. Make it economically painful to consume in those markets which are damaging. That is the purpose of government because markets don't regulate themselves.

Our primitive tendency to frame actions into nature can be fixed with education.

If every human being was more aware of how their actions are effecting the world, which is directly effecting themselves, they would realize their vote does matter and it does make a difference. THAT's the real issue with the world right now. People are burying their heads in the sand. Humanity is more connected than ever before with the internet, yet our disconnect with the world is greater than ever before. Even a small reduction in eating meat by everyone, especially red meat, would have huge impacts on the environment.

We need to reframe what higher standard of living really means.

hace 8 añosdiscuss

There are plenty of pessimistic games that portray the hell of life. This guy is either desensitized to it or has only played Nintendo his whole life.