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Hi everyone 
I just want to rant a bit about misinformations I hear from “educational” and “intellectual” sectors in my country regarding agriculture and the Green Revolution.
For those of you who don't know, Brazil is s breadbasket, along with our neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Brazil alone produces enough food for over 1 billion people which has lead to a prosperous agro business in the country, speaking from a family background, my maternal grandma was a dairy farmer and she still keeps a small garden to plant veggies on her house. My late paternal grandpa was was a seed salesman and he owned a Silo at one point and my dad is an agronomist (though his company works with forestry). Most cities in the Southern Countryside are agricultural focused, similar to the American Midwest, the Centre-West region of Brazil is another breadbasket however their focus is on cattle (though soybean production increasing). The Agro is incredibly professionalized and Brazil has produces industrialized Agro derived products like Soybean oils, processed coffee and biofuels.
That being said it is no secret the Brazilian left loathes the Agricultural system, but what makes me particularly angry is how much they misinform or straight up lie about making use of “educational channels”.
For instance I've noticed on Youtube channels like Brasil Escola and other Youtube “Professors/Teachers” will rant about how the Green Revolution is bad because of Rural Exodus and the horror, PEOPLE MAKING MONEY OUT OF SELLING CROPS 
The worst part is that these “teachers” make their videos to prepare High School Seniors for the ENEM tests (the ENEM is kind of like the American SAT). The ENEM itself is extremely politicized as you need to write an essay (redação) about a given subject. The subject changes every year. For instance the 2022 Redação Subject was “Challenges facing the traditional peoples of Brazil”, that is the indigenous and quilombolas. Last year the subject was “Challenges to face the invisibility of caretaking work made by women”. In 2019 it was “democratization of cinema access in Brazil”, and so on.
Scrolling down the comments of the Youtube Teachercels channels I keep finding the same nonsensical claim:
I always read this nonsense online when leftoids talk about the Agro Business. That number is false.
O censo agropecuário de 2017, o mais recente, também desmentiu os números superestimados da produção familiar, e revelou que as propriedades assim enquadradas respondiam por 23% do valor total da produção dos estabelecimentos agropecuários.
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The real number is around 23%
I remember the commies at /r/brasil soying about the MST (Movimento dos sem Terra) or “Landless Movement” a leftist group dedicated to private property occupation. They talked about the MST as id they singlehandedly fed the entire country.
Now, without mentioning their claims are completely bollocks, it seems they would rather disrupt the entire AGRO and place it under new forests or subsistence farming. Excluding the fact this would kill dozens of millions abroad and starve hundreds of millions by disrupting food supplies, it would cause starvation in Brazil as even the demonized AGRO crops (soybeans, maize, wheat) and cattle go beyond export.
Quando se fala de soja, ela está presente em vários outros alimentos, no óleo, no suíno, no bovino, no peixe. Ela é base da ração para esse tipo de rebanho. Você não se alimenta de soja de uma maneira geral, mas indiretamente ela entra na alimentação. > Com o milho é a mesma coisa. O frango é um milho com asa: 73% do frango é milho”, diz o pesquisador da Embrapa.
Corn and soy are used to produce oils and they feed the livestock which is consumed by Brazilians and foreigners alike. Not to mention derivate products like noodles and processed stuff. There's also coffee and cotton, the first is present in almost every Brazilian Household, the latter is the source for clothing.
These São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro teachercels and their leftoid “students” have an extremely romantic, idealized vision of subsistence agriculture to the point of being close to Noble Savage myths. That being said, President Lula is a strange man on this regard.
Lula has close relationships with MST leaders and allowed for this anti agro propaganda to thrive inside our Educational System (it's not only Youtube channels, regular teachers and they commie unions are the same), however when it comes to actual policy he's all business as usual. He always nominates centre-right agriculture ministers from Agro dominated states, he has meetings with Agro producers and businessmen and promotes our exports to China while trying to secure Fertilizer imports from Russia (also a reason why Bolsonaro was friendly with Russians despite the Ukraine debacle). It could be argued he pays lip service to MSTcels.
Anyways, I think this one of the most damaging and dangerous types of virtue signaling and feel good politics, I hope they never get their way but right now is kind of worrying how much PR this sort of nonsensical callous misinformation campaign currently has.
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As part of a previous article looking at concerns about the use of AI in recent comic books, the cover artist Jingxiong Guo, or Daxiong, was accused by some people on social media of doing such for recently announced Shazam, Wonder Woman and Power Girl covers.
The Shazam covers look ok but the Power Girl and Wonder Woman are sus 
These also got plenty of play on social media. Very shortly afterwards, Jingxiong Guo posted the following sketches to his Instagram page, as if to answer such claims.
At the time, a DC spokesperson said "DC Comics has longstanding policies in place that all artwork must be the artist's original work. We are looking into the specifics of this situation." Well, Bleeding Cool has learned that DC Comics has now pulled the cover and has replaced them with the following, from Dave Johnson, Dan Panosian, and Cully Hamner.
Hey if we get more Power Girl art then it's all win/win 
Jingxiong Guo told YouTuber Vinicius, or 2quadrinhos, "I haven't used AI, but I am an artist who was hurt in this witch hunt. I've been in this industry for over thirty years and my drawing has always been traditional by hand." He did, however, say, "I am not against AI; I think it belongs to the field of science. It doesn't concern me, and actually, the development of AI has nothing to do with me, but I am grateful that AI can provide me with accurate translations."
Good optics there Jing. 
Why had the covers changed? "DC and I considered changing the cover because the controversial image might affect their sales. It does not mean it proves that it is an AI work." These are the new solicitations as they currently stand.
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The replacement covers look more like AI work than the originals do.
I wonder if DC had an expert confirm these were, in fact, generated by AI.
Literally look at the guy's Instagram, where he frequently shows himself drawing with pen and paper, and the stylistic results are identical to these drawings. He has a weird style, he's not using AI. A bunch of reactionary psychos are trying to ruin this guy's career when he has ample evidence going back years that this is just how he draws.
I'm terrified of AI too. I hate the dangers it poses to all creative media. But these psychotic witch hunts must stop.
These robots are taking all our jobs! And our women!
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My favourite comments: suddenly its OK to decide who is and isnt a woman
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NEW - Boston Dynamics reveals its new generation "Atlas" robot.pic.twitter.com/o6fuBrx8zF
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 17, 2024
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Very unique footage showing an exoatmospheric interception amid the Iranian ballistic missile attack, likely by the Arrow 3 air defense system. pic.twitter.com/wrZNCV01tn
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) April 14, 2024
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smokin' grass 
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Groomercord is gay corposlop on a centralized server with shitty paywalled features. IRC was leagues ahead in terms of aesthetics, protocol and trout
Cool handles? Mandatory.
Autism? Mandatory.
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Just a reminder that everything is terrible and consuming product only brings pain
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Debating whether this should be here or in /h/kino. The beginning scene is burned into my memory, as well as most scenes where a new creature is introduced.
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Also brigade! Brigade! Brigade!
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So here's the link to her video. Basically she says became a physicist back in the 90s filled with idealism, says she's against female only scholarships as she got one and her colleagues doubted her suitability due to that. Then she talks about how most of her job (and that of academic physicists in general) is limited to writing useless papers or using PhD and post Doc students to write said papers with your name in order to get more grants while being dissuaded from doing research in the fields you're interested at.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1bwn5vi/my_dream_died_and_now_im_here/?sort=controversial
The reddit threads 
She's already done some sketchy vids in hot topics beyond her expertise.
Her vids about Trans people for example, in which she speaks about ROGD as though it's a real medical phenomenon.
TERFdom is a massive canary in the coalmine for influencers/commentators
At this point it's a great litmus test of guru-dom, whether or not they have an strong opinion on trans issues. It's like a pound shop version of the gurometer.
I predict that in the future she will 1.Talk worse about academia and academics 2.Talk more about american politics (fox news stuff) 3.At some point she will start simping for some capitalist
Sabine rapidly descending down the grifter pipeline
As long as she's talking about real science and doing it accurately, how is she a grifter? Because she accepts money from sponsors?
Aye, this one not so much! More the ones where she talks about… capitalism? And other topics she doesn't have expertise in
Yeah the capitalism video was quite stupid
Bonus on her capitalism video
Breadtubers DEBOOOONKING 
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Will we have money in the solarpunk utopia? 
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In another episode of their self-enforced world ending session, the 
of /r/climatechange debate whether doomerism is even desirable
The writing is on the wall. If some people cope with that through nihilism or however else you want to define doomerism, that's their prerogative. Gen Z has been brought up with previously unimaginable access to information, lived through a pandemic during our formative years, and a lot of us are entering the workforce with no hope for being able to afford a house, family, or even basic necessities. And it is not likely to get much better for us financially, as far as I can tell. Doomerism is here to stay, at least for awhile. In my view, it's a coping mechanism.
zoomers again are the most disadvantaged generation in human history
It's a grief coping mechanism for when people think they have no power.
It's not a permanent state but it is toxic, don't give into it.
Sounds reasonable, let's see the replies
no. that is not a factual assessment of the situation or the reaction to it.
We are doomed. facts don't care about our desire for hope.
It isn't hysteria. The world's major governments were warned we needed to be almost done transitioning away from fossile fuels by 92. they reacted by increasing production and use dramatically. the gulf stream is dying, the oceans are warming very rapidly. and we haven't seen the results of the massive loss of permafrost yet.
Unless we are rapidly transitioning to a socialist economic system and radically cutting our emissions through lifestyle changes and stopping the use of nonrenewable energy sources, I'm not sure what you count as progress.
climate change? 
Here /r/environment discusses le 57 companies cause climate change
Surprisingly they're not swallowing what the Guardian journos write
How are goods and services traded in the solar punk utopia?
In some proposed anarchist systems, contracts that basically outline any duties you have in your community as well as the benefits you get from that community, so you do your duties and than head off to the food depot (which can look more or less just like a modern grocery store or farmers market or what have you) and they just take whatever food they need, no currency exchange, and farmers grow that food because they can also benefit from free goods and services in that community. This system functioned even during war time in Catalonia during WW2, where currency was forgone for organized unions sharing resources in absence of a top down hierarchical government, and could probably be improved over time as more people lived within it and gave input.
Again with Catalonia
We can be confident about what isn't solarpunk - fast fashion, proof of work, things that are wasteful of resources and harmful to the environment.
But we can't definitively say what's most solarpunk in either fashion or economics. Because solarpunk is local, anarchistic, and community focused, and in both cases communities should develop (or recover from precapitalist days) the customs that meet their particular needs.
Money is both uninteresting and trivial to solve. People have had this solved for thousands of years, using anything that denotes debt. That's what money is, an IOU.
People have written what they owe on clay tablets, on papyrus, they have used seashells, carved rocks, beads, etc and it's all worked relatively well. With electronic record keeping (NOT BLOCKCHAIN) , it's super simple to record everything and share those records.
With or without a post-scarcity reality (I'm not holding out for a Star Trek replicator), money isn't hard to create and use.
Dude there's no need for currency, we'll do what the ancient egyptians and Mesopotamians did but with electronics 
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