2023: “Things change, and they don’t change back.”

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Today in “welp, not everything can be front page news :person_shrugging:t2:

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:-1:

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The title is inflammatory, but after reading the article the decision seems reasonable. If they had a preexisting relationship of text based contracts a :+1: could well be interpreted as approval and not merely receipt.

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IMO the Score Estimator (judge) is confused because the borders haven’t yet been closed, and there are huge holes in both’s borders.

If I were that judge, I’d have sent them both home, telling them to do their homework and always verify whether the understanding of a matter is mutual.

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Brief explanation and analysis of the case from a Canadian lawyer.

How An Emoji Cost A Farmer $82,000 -- A Lawyer Explains - YouTube | Piped

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To continue on that vibe, I am starting to understand why a lot of people are worried about AI stealing their jobs and/or totally replacing them:

Ten people in the Greek version of “Family Feud” couldn’t find anything else to say about Cuba other than “cigars” and one of them thought that Fidel Castro ( Castro means Castle ) was an ACTUAL CASTLE that people go and visit in Cuba. :rofl:

And people wonder when I laugh at the idea “what do we need schools and knowledge when we can google everything we want?” … well, in order to google anything, you have to first know SOMETHING.

(the comments are gold by the way, I wish you could all read them. I’ve been laughing for the past 15 minutes ahahah especially with the " they should beware of the Tsetse Guevara fly" that someone came up with)

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Cost is mentioned as a drawback, for now, but the price of insect-based protein will likely drop significantly below those from traditional animal sources, if production can be scaled up and industrialized, which depends on increased demand.

:cricket: :spaghetti:

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Though I’m not sure how I feel about eating insects, another advantage of insect proteine replacing mammalian and avian proteine on a large scale (so the current bio-industry would be down-scaled significantly), is a reduced risk of zoonosis, because insects are biologically more distant to humans, reducing the risk of their pathogens being able to infect humans.

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No thanks.

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Insects are kinda just land shrimp. I’d give one a go… but I wouldn’t want them to totally replace lamb, chicken, and beef.

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They are in the same phylum (arthropoda). In a similar sense mammals and birds might be called land fish (all in the phylum chordata).

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Yeah, small insects are kind of like brine shrimp, and larger bugs are not dissimilar to crabs, lobsters, crayfish. I think the aversion to eating bugs is largely just cultural.

However, I guess “throw a roach on the barbie” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

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Insects don’t grow as big as shrimps, crabs and lobsters (at least in the latest ~300 million years or so) and it’s easier to separate the meaty parts of shrimps and lobsters (like the muscular tail).
Also, many insects live in ecosystems that we consider unclean. I suppose such factors influence our perception of the suitability of insects for consumption.

But the biomass of arthropods is huge, so I suppose that switching to those proteine sources would greatly reduce the environmental impact.

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I will bet you money I don’t have, if a celebrity posts they lost 5 kg drinking cockroach oil, y’all won’t find a single insect to roast next to the sausages in less than a month.

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Fun fact: despite the popular international tourist campaign, australians don’t typically (ever?) barbeque their shrimp.

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