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  • The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

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  • “If you want to restore this, like, ‘primordial’ forest, don’t you also want to restore our relationship with that forest?” he asked. “Like — what’s your relationship to a transgenic chestnut?”

    This is a quote by Patterson in the article, and it basically sums up this whole article.

    No, no one is trying to restore a "primordial forest", they're trying to restore a tree that was the most common tree in America 50 years ago, which produces nutritious food that anyone can eat.

    People don't need to have an indigenous relationship with a plant to benefit from it or want to see it in place; you do not have to be Georgian or Armenian to love apple trees.

  • The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

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  • This story was such nonsense, because of how hard it tried to make this a story about indigenous peoples.

    Every town I've ever visited on the eastern seaboard has chestnut streets and chestnut lanes because these trees were everywhere. My dad grew up when the blight had finally reached a tipping point and was quickly changing that; it wasn't that long ago.

    I respect everything Patterson is saying in this article, but not reintroducing the American Chestnut because it fails to right colonial wrongs is like not brushing your teeth because it doesn't stop you from getting cancer.

    In any event, if they're reintroducing chestnuts I'm getting a couple for my property. I ate my first chestnut in my 40s (in Spain) and I'd love to have some in my retirement.

    I'd recommend it! I have a lovely Japanese chestnut in my yard that I harvest every fall, I make chestnut puree and that shit is to die for.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • For some of us at some times in our lives, having a relationship with two people is less work. It requires much more communication, better scheduling, and much more attention to your partners' feelings ... but that might be a good investment of time anyhow, and often gets overlooked.

    I find that having multiple partners helps me appreciate each partner much more, for themselves -- it's easy to mix up how much you love just having a partner and being loved, with how you actually feel about that person. Poly gives you the distance and contrast to see your partners clearly, and that can be really special.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • Yeah, this is my dynamic as well. My partner and I have been together for a decade and poly from the beginning. It's not at all a secret, but people are so used to monogamy as a norm that they often just think our other partners are super close friends that hang out at our house a lot.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • I've been in poly relationships most of my adult life, around 15 years now. I'm certainly familiar with the type of relationship you describe, but the long term, stable poly relationships are the ones that have been poly from the get go.

    I don't tend to date people who are "opening things up" in a previously monogamous relationship, because being someone's learning experience is a bummer.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • I've been in poly relationships for years. They work really well for me and my significant others, but we are pretty discreet about it because folks tend to be huge assholes about it.

    Generally, you don't see the poly relationships that work great; mostly, people see the type of scenario one of your other commenters described because the stable relationships are less visible.

  • How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

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  • We don't! That's the joy of it, just like people do, our algorithm will constantly waffle back and forth and argue with itself over whether these things are salads

  • How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

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  • I know, I was being humorous but it is in fact the way most categorization works. Very seldom is it a taxonomy; the way we recognize faces, voices, shapes, etc ... it's all probabilistic.

  • How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

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  • What we need is a salad categorizing multilayer neural network

  • How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

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  • So teeeeechnically, a salad is a dish composed of mixed ingredients. You could make the argument that you mix any two set of chopped ingredients and bingo bongo, it's a salad.

    However, I like to think that dishes' ingredients aren't a taxonomic thing, they're a probabilistic thing. In other words, there's no such thing as "not salad" or "salad", only shades of saladness.

    • Serve it cold? Ok it's saladier

    • It's made up of chopped ingredients? Saladier still

    • Those ingredients are mostly vegetables? Getting pretty saladish

    • They're mixed together? Even more salad like

    • They've got some sort of dressing mixed in? Now it's very likely a salad!

    ... and so on. To me, your SO'a dish has a pretty high Salad Probability^tm

  • US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China

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  • That's how it normally works, yes... particularly if the country in question is not a signatory to the 'international law' in question.

  • Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death

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  • I sure haven't

  • A new house being built down the street from me

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  • For reference, nowhere in Western Europe is even close to the much of the west coast of the Americas in terms of seismic activity.

  • Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as ‘greedy or usurious’ person

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  • I'm saddened to hear that there are still an appreciable amount of Spanish people talking about us that way, but I'm not upset at the dictionary for recording the way the language is used.

    I'm guessing it's approached in something of a similar way to how English language dictionaries handle the word gyp, which is to give its definition and note that it is offensive.

  • US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China

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  • your arguing US law. I’m arguing international. They are not the same.

    No shit... these companies operate in the US, which makes US law applicable to them.

  • North Korea celebrated its founding with a military parade featuring dump trucks modified to work as rocket launchers

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  • I mean, if folks were making fun of their housing I'd agree but this is the equipment they're buying to threaten their neighbors with, instead of feeding their starving population

  • Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death

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  • Like every ceasefire.

    Probably the reason Ukraine doesn't want a ceasefire...

  • US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China

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  • It takes all of three minutes to click through to the court order here. All three companies do significant business in the US, but the money to buy the oil was US dollars, and came from Oaktree Capital which is based in Los Angeles.

    Which is (and this might be a shocker) in the USA.

  • US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China

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  • Another country? What are you talking about my dude? An American company bought oil from Iran (in violation of US law), and had the oil they bought seized.