• Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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    17 hours ago

    We’ve been in that stage for a long time, it’s just getting some extra attention now because Veritasium made a video.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah it feels weird to me because it almost feels like deja-vu. I had thought he (or maybe it was another YT) had already made one years ago about Monsanto and Roundup Ready.

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        9 hours ago

        I agree, I just wanted to emphasize that this isn’t a new development or an aberration, but the natural result of the perverse incentives that exist in a capitalist economy.

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          I think it’s just a “we already knew that but a ytber covered it so now people are talking about it” kind of vibe, sort of similar to hipsters lol.