NobodyInteresting

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NobodyInteresting Feb 5, 2025, 9:10 PM
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We are using way too much plastic in agriculture, lowkey someone needs to find a replacement and fast.
Anyone has any pointers on startups for more innovative mulching materials?

NobodyInteresting Jan 23, 2025, 5:37 PM
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in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: Should EAs help employees in the developing world move to the West?
Nick I have one comment every three days (I have been a baaaad forum member) but I am here to answer your rebuttal honestly and truthfully.)
I come from a fairly rich background, in my country I would be in the top 0.5%, but I come from a developing country, that means that while I can afford pretty much everything, everyone around me is living on that edge between living and surviving, some are barely surviving as well.
My father was one of the first people to bring USAID donations to my country, specifically water treatment donations, and they built several water treatment plants that cleaned water to a drinkable level, our specification system is fairly outdated and I am unsure about the international ones. But like the whole course of water treatment. Those plants today are abandoned, there were not enough funds or the funds got mismanaged and those facilities are now rotting. My father moved in Western Europe in the early 2010s, because he was so depressed with the situation here, when he left, he had a company here that was running fairly well, we were doing great, he went to western Europe to cut grass and start all over again because he was done with how things were done here.
I am not as depressed as him, but in the past year I spent over 500 hours trying to deal with littering and improper waste disposal by local companies in my city. I invested my own money, time and health, because roaming dump sites is not the safest thing to do. In those 500 hours I have around 75 reports for various offences, out of those 75 reports the people in charge acted on 3 or 4.
For food safety, I have contacted my agency over 80 times, they have now blacklisted my number and don’t return my mails because the chain I am reporting has every one of the inspectors in their pockets.
In university a grant was stolen from us (the students), albeit with my colleagues and it was not my idea originally, but I worked on writing that grant, I spent time and effort, only to have my faculty misappropriate the funds, submit a false report, and present a falsified research document that we did the research. We didn’t even do any research, they probably manufactured the whole paper they presented.
Now tell me, why should I care about these people when they don’t even give me the time of their day, I have spent countless of hours on civic engagement, trying to make this place a better place to live, only to get spit in my face by corrupt officials. Why not go to the west and be a plumber, at least I will get paid what I deserve and know that “hey I have some rights”.
I am at a breaking point where I would rather be neck deep in shit in the west, than live leisurely here because it sucks. Also the job opportunities suck, being in agriculture, as an agronomist my salary would be near the minimum wage, while my software/engineering/any degree peers are way above that. It’s not about the money it’s about the recognition, although even if I decided to become a big time farmer, the main issues that I would face are pollution and corruption.
Sorry if this feels too raw and boring at times, I am a stream of consciousness on this platform and godspeed to you.

NobodyInteresting Jan 21, 2025, 8:23 AM
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in reply to: Habryka’s comment on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
Exaggerated is a big word, the guy threw three heils, while it’s a roman salute as well, nobody in the west uses it as a roman salute tho, just like the swastikas.
Also let’s not forget, Elon forsake his own blood for being transgender, do you think that the average random transgender person on the street would mean anything more than a pebble in his shoe? What did he call that? The WOKE BRAIN VIRUS....
We can’t let small transgressions pass by because they are small, every avalanche starts with a little bit of slippage.

NobodyInteresting Jan 21, 2025, 8:18 AM
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in reply to: Charlie_Guthmann’s comment on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
So I am basically the Trump of the forum, just not as influential or as rich as him lol.
I’ll address point by point, I would have made a post, but I am on timeout wooopsies.
1. My style of writing is really raw, stream of consciousness without thinking about what I type, I just type. I know I can be inflammatory sometimes, I like that way of communication, especially on sterile forums like this one, I feel like most of the posts here lack passion or a personal touch. They feel so well polished and digested, that they feel artificial at times. I like hot takes, I like angry posts and angry commenters.
2. I really am not, I feel like this forum is dead with posts or quick takes that are posted once or twice per day from the whole community. Even bad discussions in my opinion are better than no discussions at all, this place is a remake of silent hill most of the time.
3. People not being political on here is really weird for me because the whole of EA is affected directly by politics, from animal welfare to AI, everything is politics.
Anyways, thank you for your very constructive and well thought out response, thank you for taking the time, fairly new to posting on this forum and well I’ll probably melt in the pot, eventually.
Thanks for the time fam, have a good one.

NobodyInteresting Jan 20, 2025, 11:43 PM
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Anyone want to give back criticism as to why I am getting down-voted?

NobodyInteresting Jan 20, 2025, 10:34 PM
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“wE sHoULd PaNdEr mOrE tO cOnsErvatives”
Not 5 minutes in office, and they are already throwing the Nazi salutes.
Congratulations, Edelweiss was not just a netflix show, it’s reality.
And a great reminder, apart from the jews, there were slavic, roma, gay and disabled people in the camps as well. We can’t sit and just scoff at this, we need to fight back.

NobodyInteresting Jan 20, 2025, 1:04 PM
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on: Ways the world is getting better—discussion thread
Global production of primary crop commodities reached 9.6 billion tonnes in 2022, increasing by 56 percent since 2000 and just 0.7 percent since 2021. (FAOSTAT)
We are growing more, and better, and now that we have CRISPR in plant selection, my guess is that we are going to start producing much more nutritious and tasty vegetables without sacrificing the yield rates.

NobodyInteresting Jan 17, 2025, 7:26 PM
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I love how I come here, have a quick take about slave labor, something I have directly experienced, and something I fought hard against, and having neo-liberal westerners down-vote me because they think I am talking out of my ass.
For the record, I know of worker rights violations, that were squashed because a judge got a hefty payment, never proven because the right people were greased. For hell’s sake, I as an activist get threats on the daily, stop invalidating my experience when dealing with corruption.

NobodyInteresting Jan 17, 2025, 1:23 PM
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on: Should we try harder to appeal to conservatives?
Conservatism in the modern age is so bastardized I would argue that it goes directly against the EA principles.
Conservatives in my country are pushing for abolishment of minimum wage, and cutting down on already minimal worker rights. Right now there is some “slave-labor”, even tho laws forbid it, if conservatives vote in the new legislation, the slave labor will become an industry standard.
Conservatives today prioritize the economy, Liberals prioritize the people, and I know which side I am taking thanks.

NobodyInteresting Jan 15, 2025, 8:22 PM
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on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
I was confronted with the fact that EA is not as big as I think it is and that Agriculture as well as systemic changes are not directly possible by EA, with that I agree in some part. What is available to EA, at least in terms of underdeveloped rural agricultural economies.
Knowledge, we have knowledge, and I believe the transfer of knowledge is crucial when conversing with farmers, so how do we transfer this knowledge we have to the farmers?
Mini-courses? No, mini-courses would work for people who have internet connection, maybe we could conduct large scale mini-courses where a local could help us devise a classroom type of learning setting and where we could engage a large population of people, while keeping costs down. Yes.
On the topic of mini-courses, the most beneficial way to go is to divide them in two types of production, animal and plant production, because a lot of the people who I read about today were in either of the two. I believe with good practices we could address both poverty in the rural populations but also increase the comfort of the animals, proper feed, proper water and things alike that contribute to animal wellbeing.
I have a lot of things to write about, but I’ll keep it short. I’ll make a more defined outline on how we can do this, and maybe you (the community can help me guide my efforts).
Also I think EA should focus a bit more on agronomy as a whole because food production is a large and unaddressed topic.

NobodyInteresting Jan 15, 2025, 8:12 PM
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in reply to: Jason’s comment on: The ugly sides of two approaches to charity
Hey Jason, I was thinking about this today, I also visited GiveDirectly’s website and read some stories, and now I will make a post, I believe there is a way to make an impact, and I’ll elaborate more on that RIGHT NOW. Thanks for the feedback.

NobodyInteresting Jan 14, 2025, 6:43 AM
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in reply to: yanni kyriacos’s comment on: Yanni Kyriacos’s Shortform
Ow boy, I wish I could upload screenshots, Yanni, I come on here and let the stream of my consciousness go wild, the farmer thing was my first thought and I spit it out, btw Gemini said that my answer was “Your answer is honest and insightful. It reflects a genuine desire for a more meaningful life and acknowledges the significant obstacles that stand in your way.”
Soooooooo yeah, don’t use Gemini.

NobodyInteresting Jan 13, 2025, 5:45 PM
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You westerners have no idea how much corruption there is in the East. Like seriously.

NobodyInteresting Jan 13, 2025, 2:09 PM
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on: The Planet of You: A Thought Experiment on Wellbeing Tradeoffs
The thing is I value my sentience above everything else, so I would experience all the pain you can offer for being alive for 50 years even if those 50 were pure misery. So 10. As long as I have my sentience and memories I can make through, and enjoy the sentience.
I have experienced severe nerve pain, and I would still choose the 10. I love being sentient.

NobodyInteresting Jan 13, 2025, 12:31 PM
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in reply to: harfe’s comment on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
Of course I mean that, great that is one example, but most of the bigger EA organizations are packed with western talent, I will let go off of the 10 top schools point. Have you seen anyone that graduated at Addis Ababa or Trinidad or Cluj, I have not, I have interacted with primarily EU-western oriented people, the closest to diversity is that one random Ethiopian intern.
My point was, easterners are either discriminated against or EA is such an echo-chamber that you unconsciously discriminate against easterners.

NobodyInteresting Jan 13, 2025, 12:17 PM
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in reply to: titotal’s comment on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
Thank you for the clarification, first off you pegged me as a bilingual, I guess it’s a good wild guess when I hate on westerners and diversity or lack there of.
I’ll make a post about my combative tone, I guess our backgrounds are different, for me being combative is good, it’s similar to passionate, it’s simply who I am at this point. Maybe not the best for casual conversations and civil discussions.

NobodyInteresting Jan 13, 2025, 8:58 AM
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on: The ugly sides of two approaches to charity
Everyone can afford roses and bread, the western world just is not ready for that because then you would actually need to pay the fair price for your garments/goods/services and everything else we do for you.
My opinion on this is, do charity in systemic solutions, rather than providing anti-virals for malaria and that’s all, help the affected regions drain their wetlands, eliminate the populations of mosquitos, help them with spraying equipment and pesticides, introduce predators etc.
Food-insecure places should get food yes, but help their agriculture as well, give them mechanization and the know-how, help them out with money. A tractor costs the same everywhere, but a farmer earning 10-15k$ per year will never afford a 20-30k$ tractor, therefore he will be stuck doing manual labor on a small field with small inputs and very underperforming outputs.
Poverty is a cycle, and to break cycles we need to do big changes in infrastructure, education and personal engagement.
Another field that is gatekept by westerners is knowledge, we really can’t afford your libraries of published articles, hell I live on an income that would pay for 10 articles from Elsevier, god forbid if I have to buy everything (Thank you Alexandra Elbakyan).

NobodyInteresting Jan 12, 2025, 8:38 PM
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on: NobodyInteresting’s Quick takes
THE GENTRIFIED EA ORGS DOWNVOTED ME, seriosly tho, have you seen someone that is not top 10 attendee in an EA organization? Or someone really heavy on the volunteering experiences?
Also if you disagree with me, and downvote me, come in the comments, call me a dumbass, I don’t bite, I just like being provocative, I get the people going.

NobodyInteresting Jan 11, 2025, 7:23 PM
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in reply to: SofiiaF’s comment on: SofiiaF’s Quick takes
Get Vincent Rachaniello on that podcast, maybe some other contributors from MicrobeTV as well.

NobodyInteresting Jan 11, 2025, 7:18 PM
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in reply to: yanni kyriacos’s comment on: Yanni Kyriacos’s Shortform
1: Become a farmer.
2: Lack of funds to be a farmer.
(If anyone want’s to support my farmer journey, hit me up in the DM’s, we can draft some sort of a payback program)