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  • i_love_FFTtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPLAY TIME 🥳
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    2 days ago

    Today I witnessed a kid skiing through a totally-avoidable puddle of water for fun. My friend commented on how immature the kid was because he got all wet.

    Just at that instant, a ski resort employee on a snowmobile went through the exact same (totally avoidable) puddle.

    I confess that I would have done the exact same thing! Also, if i was a bird, i would totally slide down roofs for fun.



  • i_love_FFTtoScience Memes@mander.xyzDepart, men of education.
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    2 days ago

    In the context of Dawkins meme, this post is definitely a meme!

    idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning

    If we consider scientists imitating the behavior of other scientists (ex: leaving the us) combined with the social network post (signifying the symbolic meaning), it checks all the correct boxes to me!

    Would another peer review my analysis?






  • Oh, i was referring to something I noticed recently: There seems to be a growing movement asking for “decolonization” of chocolate, to bring more of the profit from chocolate sales into the countries where caco grows.

    I think it raises an interesting ethical question when it comes to a product in which the key ingredients don’t all come from the same place.

    On the one side, I totally agree that cacao producers have historically been abused by European chocolate companies, and they should rightfully collect more benefits from this incredibly nice product! Some of these countries even started to block export of un-finished cacao products.

    However, many types of chocolate cannot be made with cacao alone, and depend on other ingredients coming from other areas of the world. If every area acts the same way, then it becomes impossible to create “assemblage” products like milk chocolate… How should these situations be handles ethically?


  • Wasn’t “chocolate the product” designed in Europe by mixing cacao from Africa, sugarcane from americas, and milk from Europe? Making chocolate a product of colonialism…

    Sure, dark chocolate is mostly cacao, so could be produced where cacao grows… But the most popular chocolate flavor around me in Canada is milk chocolate (less than 40% cacao), mostly sugar and butter. Where should this be produced?