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  • The risk isn’t derived from the technology but how it is used. The proprietary technology is used to prevent farmers from creating their own seed (including using copy right laws) while increasing their dependency on matching pesticides. Industrial agriculture is not sustainable - insect populations are dwindling because every square foot of landscape is sprayed with poison. GMO is used to further industrialize agriculture, e.g. by making crops resistant to poison, which in turn can (and will) be used more liberally.











  • There’s a study linking road rage to the level of authoritarianism in a country’s government. It’s also tightly linked to machismo.

    I personally think that it has a lot to do with inadequate infrastructure that requires people to communicate while restricting possibilities for communication (i.e. multi lane roads with high speed limits), combined with lacking drivers’ ed and a fragmented highly individualistic society.



  • Just to expand on your point:

    Love of one’s country; devotion to the welfare of one’s compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one’s country.

    One of these things is not like the others. And it’s the essence of the feeling, sadly. The other stuff is just being a decent person.