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via waxandmilk
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The fundamental fact is that we have an inescapable choice in our food system: use small amounts of energy, or vast amounts of land. By spending not much energy to make fertilizer and run machinery — and trivial amounts of energy to ship the stuff we grow from the places it grows best — we have spared and conserved hundreds of millions of acres of land that otherwise would have had to be brought into agricultural production.
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Liberal Curmudgeon: Energy or land: pick one
Hell. Yeah.
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Caution: she does on camera what you (may, if you eat meat) pay the grocery store to do off camera.
Political litmus test: who is the villain in this segment?
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all you false idol rappers
beware to attack us
like Paul Muad Dib i’ll bring rain to Arrakis
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To be 1890 in 1890 might be considered almost normal. To be 1890 in 1922 might be considered almost queer.
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(via Eve Tushnet)
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Kelly Sutton is a 22-year-old software engineer in Brookyln. He says he has gotten rid of all of his possessions, save for “his laptop, an iPad, an Amazon Kindle, two external hard drives, a ‘few’ articles of clothing, and bed sheets for a mattress that was left in his newly rented apartment.”
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Article about extreme lifestyle-minimalists - Boing Boing
In other words, he still owns just about everything a 20-something urbanite cares about.
