Because deer are also invasive and aren’t needed for cattle breeding. Not a great analogy

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They worked out four-crop rotation during the agrarian revolution in the 18th century, they haven’t let fields lie fallow since they worked out how to rejuvenate the soil with crops like turnips that could become horse feed…

Borlaug’s green revolution of the mid-20th century did lead to a rapid reduction in famines across Asia and Africa…

They might just be in a better climate than you! I had far more delicious sun-ripened tomatoes over the summer than I could eat. More than six plants to be fair, but most self-seeded anyway.

It depends how you measure it, and what counts as ‘polluting’. Does broad-scale habitat destruction count? Because there’s a lot more of that in industrial agriculture. Also yields are prioritised over quality, so you’re literally not comparing apples with apples if you’re getting local heirloom varieties from nearby orchards, compared with apples grown in the PNW for the broader market and kept chilled until ready for sale. These are generalisations of course and there are staple crops that are much more efficient when produced with broadacre cropping.

And that’s why I don’t like cricket.

But doesn’t shareware refer to software that is distributed freely, playable (maybe with limitations on how far you can play into the game, or how long you can play it for free) but it’s generally a proprietary game that is distributed through this model? I may not have a perfect grasp on the precise meaning of shareware.

I see chess more like abandonware - if someone developed a proto-chess game and didn’t assert their ownership over the IP (recognising that this happened before copyright and IP were understood concepts), doesn’t that make it effectively free to play, noting you of course need a board to play?

Maybe an ancient and highly modded board game doesn’t translate that well to a software/copyright analogy. Also you lost me on your comparison between Mario Party (I think you mean only one person needs to own the game) and the first levels of Doom (which are more like a demo). I don’t see either of these as shareware, though I guess a freely playable demo is a form of shareware with my understanding of the term above!

What do you mean?

So that healthcare and education, among other things, are more equitable. Taxes are for subsidising a public good.

Reverse irredentism! Now what about historically German lands? From the Maas to the Memel…

Great comment. Refreshing to see some intelligence here from time to time, like the nice sour bready tang of kvass!

It’s becoming that way, but it’s still definitely closer to British English.

Fucking American class culture and anyone who’s not an ignorant idiot is “a nerd”. Get fucked, The World

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And fear overpowers intelligence yet again.

*knows

Occupational hazard. Doesn’t mean said engineer isn’t owed compensation though. On the contrary.

A better quote

It was clear from context what was meant, i.e. torrenting copyrighted content. Let’s not be disingenuous about this.