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{"topics":[{"id":"538a9ab563687236ca3c0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@uc9\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a923a6368724d11290300#post_538a923a6368724d11290300\r\n\"@Whatevs\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a93486368724e61bc0300#post_538a93486368724e61bc0300\r\n\r\nI can at least understand the motivation of luddites and anti science people of all stripes, even if I refuse to share them.\r\n\r\nProgress is terrifying. It cuts deep, it bleeds us and progress does not proceed in nice symmetrical lines for all aspects of society, worse still no one ever 100% agrees on what form of progress is desirable.\r\n\r\nAdd to it the fact that its all an utter crap shoot. The hope of the future, the thing we desperately need to be a bright shining beacon leading us to a better tomorrow could turn out to just be a the lure of an as yet unknown horror which ushers in death and destruction on scales we can scarcely imagine.\r\n\r\nThink of all the things people invented that they'd hoped would stop war by bringing humanity closer together, all of which went onto become tools of war in their own right, one of them, the airplane even delivering the only two wartime uses of the most horrific strain of weapon we've ever conceived, bombs that annihilated hundreds of thousands and etched their very shadows onto the ground.\r\n\r\nAnd yet we have to keep going because stagnation is worse. Trust once more in the unknown, or stay put and allow millions to starve, allow others to be beaten down, allow the world to grind us all into pulp.\r\n\r\n\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a95c86368724eeb430400#post_538a95c86368724eeb430400\r\nHumans are much sturdier than you think. We're like rats in all the best possible ways, we go everywhere, fuck constantly and we can survive on more or less anything. When we eat stuff our bodies don't check where it came from, they just get to the business of breaking it all down into useful parts.\r\n\r\nSo long as synthetic meat or whatever else people are freaking out about is not actually poisonous we'll be fine.","author":"4f41ee04945b701c41002af7"},{"id":"538a9b5e6368723613570000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@Randomosaur\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a999f6368724c30ab0600#post_538a999f6368724c30ab0600\r\nI would want to taste it.","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"538a9bd863687236efe20000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@gasmaskangel\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a9ab563687236ca3c0000#post_538a9ab563687236ca3c0000\r\nI was about to bring that up\r\n\r\nSome of these Progresses could have horrible consequences that Wouldn't show their faces until It's too late","author":"5062d6f17f123b3e16001184"},{"id":"538a9bff63687238ba9f0000","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"Why don't anyone in the US eat those Asian Carps and snakehead fishes that are infesting the rivers such as the Mississippi, more?\r\nThey're good fish, a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. In fact, they are over-fished, and endangered in their native range. ","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"538a9d4663687237d7690100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@SeraphimDawn\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a9bff63687238ba9f0000#post_538a9bff63687238ba9f0000\r\nWestern culture. The same reason people here will not eat horses; they find that kind of meat revolting and unappetizing.","author":"5010fa077f123b1e4f00104e"},{"id":"538a9df5636872363cac0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a9d4663687237d7690100#post_538a9d4663687237d7690100\r\nI've eaten horse.\r\nIt's delicious!","author":"4fde4618945b700aa0002fff"},{"id":"538a9e7e63687236131e0100","topic_id":"5161dd617f123bd25900013d","body":"\"@someguy111\":/dis/the-time-wasting-thread/post/538a9d4663687237d7690100#post_538a9d4663687237d7690100\r\nThere is a BIG source of easy to get swimming protein. And people not utilize it?","author":"4fde5cee945b700a970060fc"},{"id":"538a9f3063687238cfe30100","t