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1:10 PM

Eastpike commented on The K in Garlicky Is Stupid.

@14 or why is 40 spelled forty instead of the much-more-obvious "fourty"?

1:09 PM

Eastpike commented on The K in Garlicky Is Stupid.

Spanish has a remarkable lack of Ks. The few K words that there are in Spanish are mostly borrowed from other languages, such as 'kiosko' (kiosk).

3:17 PM yesterday

Eastpike commented on And What Really Makes the Bullitt Center Green?.

And it's RAINY! and ZIGZAGGY! augh!!!

3:15 PM yesterday

Eastpike commented on And What Really Makes the Bullitt Center Green?.

@15 how did you calculate the distance from the broadway stop to the Bulleit center? I got 0.6 miles. "almost a mile" I guess, if you're FOX news.

3:07 PM yesterday

Eastpike commented on Why They Break Windows.

hmm...

10:02 AM yesterday

Eastpike commented on And What Really Makes the Bullitt Center Green.

Yes yes, YES! I have many friends who are always concerned about how "green" they are, who wonder aloud on facebook weather or not they should use OSB or plywood on their chicken coop, build a deck with TREX or cedar, etc. I always tell them the same thing: Either move out of the exurbs or STFU about being green.

May 21

Eastpike commented on Wicked Clown Countdown: Juggalo Army to Invade Seattle (Do You Have a Date Yet?).

@8 why you gotta be a hater? :P

May 16

Eastpike commented on Michael Pollan Is the Steve Jobs of Food.

@42 Pollan's recipe for food activism would starve MORE people. Efforts to modernize food systems in developing countries are working, especially biotech, which Pollan shuns. They are starving because they don't make enough food- that is the bare truth. That we have too much here is practically irrelevant to the issue since if we send food aid it only makes matters worse for their farming economy. Pollan, Vandana Shiva et al. have blood on their hands.

May 16

Eastpike commented on Globalisation Today: Shoe Factory in Cambodia Collapses.

I'd imagine if you take the price of an engineer and some extra building materials and divide it into twenty million garments, or shoes, or whatever, you probably get like a half a cent per unit. They do have engineers and building materials in Cambodia, believe it or not. Their gov't doesn't have its act together enough to enforce simple building codes, which is not the clothing companies' fault.

May 15

Eastpike commented on Michael Pollan Is the Steve Jobs of Food.

Organic, Localvorism, etc. are a boutique economy that has nothing to do with the real world issues of farming food for the whole world. Pollan's world is a fantasy. If the goal is to reduce carbon and rural sprawl (as is killing the rainforest for example), then localvorism is not the answer, nor is permaculture. High-yield farming is better, period. Pollan ignores the fact that the current system of food growers, packagers, and groceries are currently offering a bounty of food never before seen, and would put the diet of even kings and emperors of days past to shame. Fucking uppity people and their solutions to problems.