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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? 

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.

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.

You westerners have no idea how much corruption there is in the East. Like seriously. 

"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.

Who said we should "PaNdEr" to conservatives? That reads like a caricature of the recent post on the subject. If you're claiming that there is a pro-pandering movement afoot, please provide evidence and citations to support your assertion.

I think the significant majority of people here -- including me! -- are somewhere between unhappy to extremely upset over yesterday's events, but that doesn't justify caricaturing good-faith posts. If you have a concrete, actionable idea about how we should respond to those events, that would make for a more helpful post.

Anyone want to give back criticism as to why I am getting down-voted?

Your opening line seems to be trying to mimic the tone of mocking someone obnoxiously. Then you follow-up with an exaggerated telling of events. Then another exaggerated comparison. 

People don't like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally don't like stuff that sounds like "left-wing activist", even though most people here don't identify as "right-wing" but as left/centre-left/centre/libertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people aren't bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as "silly media bullshit" even to a lot of people who don't like Trump, because they don't think Musk is a "real fascist"*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.) 

*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I don't think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)  

Multiple reasons.

1. Your style of writing doesn't meet the standards of this forum. It's vague and memey. I'm inclined not to be that bothered but it definitely is outside of the expected decorum of the forum. 

2. You aren't adding much to the conversation here, this is a pretty liberal forum and we already know Trump acts like a buffon and Elon is an anti-woke troll who has recently supported the AfD (I generally think people here are too quick to downvote things that feel low-effort, it's probably directionally better if people spew a bit more garbage if that would generate more discussion and cause people to second-guess commenting less - and second I don't think it's so irrelevant that he did this although their are lots of other reasons to be concerned that are more concrete).

3. People here are on net not super involved in politics and might feel offended that you imply it is important since it hurts their ego, and since you write in a style that is not within the accepted standards it's easy for them to express their discontent with your writing style even if the impetus to downvote is partially that they think you are being reactionary and disagreeing with their priors. 

But yea I'd recommend writing something like ~ "The trump inauguration festivities have caused me to update towards thinking American politics is a more important cause area because x". It still probably won't be received particularly well here without being more quantitative/fleshing it out more but you won't get 26 downvotes.

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