1050 posts in Misc
Do you know the difference between ‘Best Before’ and ‘Sell By’? ‘Display Until’ and ‘Use By’?
Many of us don't, and it’s causing a whopping ten per cent of Europe’s food waste - 9,000,000 tonnes across Europe each year.
Source: TooGoodToGo
I guess that's one thing that I do miss in Singapore: informal places that are affordable (almost everything here costs money) and that are not shopping malls (exactly what he mentions in the video).
Sure, there are bars, but they are usually expensive and atas, and not the place people go for an informal chitchat (more for date nights). There are the places around the hawker centres (i.e.: the food courts) with a lot of "uncles" sitting down -- but that's hardly my crowd. ;)
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Shoots from the base of the tree are pruned so that the trunk stays straight.
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The technique results in a harvest of straight logs without having to cut down the entire tree. Although originally a forestry management technique, daisugi has also found its way into Japanese gardens.
Daisugi
Not the most exciting narrators, but… Quite cool!
Would this scale and can we use this elsewhere to avoid cutting down trees?
I specifically disagree with his stance on free speech, because I think that it depends on your interpretation of what free speech means. If you allow the most intolerant voices to be as loud as they want to, you’re going to shut down voices of different opinions as well. So allowing free speech by just allowing all speech is not actually leading to free speech, it just leads to a cesspit of hate.
Fitting for Global Warming (and likely plenty of other weird stuff humans got accustomed to), but apparently the story is about death.
