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Montanavanna • commented on 2 posts 2 days ago

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Oh for sure. I am not trying to allude to some conspiracy. My intent is to point out that mass producing 1 product for the most wide spread consumption is problematic in itself. One size fits all solutions will not work going forward. I just think we have to consider that cost is not our only unit of measure. I am sure I just came across a little nutsy cookoo. I was on one a bit and letting my anger get the better of me. My bad.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Oh yeah, that's it. Suction cups didn't feel right.

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30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

The 1% run the country

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Reads like a press release.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

History will label this era with phrase "the drone wars".

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Montanavanna • commented on 33 posts 3 days ago

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

I hear ya, that is totally an option. They tell me that one a lot. I just can't do it, I don't want to give some other version of the same company any more of my business than I have to. Does that make sense?

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Right? You feel that? That magic? These are the important discussions. Not who is best for what job, what is the job and how do we do it better with equity for all and intact, healthy ecosystems.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Right? You feel that? That magic? These are the important discussions. Not who is best for what job, what is the job and how do we do it better with equity for all and intact, healthy ecosystems.

Doctor Shocked At Insurance Company’s Audacity: "Do You Understand She Has Breast Cancer?"

Ooh I just thought of something. So when your medical bill goes to collection you are not responsible for it if there isn't a record of the breakdown of services. So is my understanding. Negligent record keeping for good. Just a thought.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Indeed! Water is life, we must protect it or we are done.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

It is from all the toxic manufacturing, farming practices and irresponsible use combined with loose regulations around protecting water. Lobbyists work to change the metrics of what a safe amount of a toxic materials in our water is. Yes you read that right, spoiler alert. The safe number is zero. But that is not of the law. Combine that with all the crazy toxic extraction processes, historically and currently we are getting a real shitstorm. Then, we refuse to prioritize reclamation of these damaged ecosystems so they operate at either the bare minimum of the safe spectrum or not even inside it. Our water system cycle is incredibly fragile. Globally, this isn't just a US issue. Water is life, we must protect it in all of our decisions.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Costco don't need you thinking about mortality while cruising the aisles. They got stuff to sell.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Deplorable! My brother is in that sinking ship also. You deserve so much better!

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Hey guys, criticizing Trump is not an endorsement for the opposition. I was trying to have a discussion about DT with a friend and every rebuttal of hers started with, oh so Biden or kamala is better? No, baby. I am not pro Biden or Kamala. Just anti Trump. He is not qualified for our highest office. Period.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

At their core, yes. They don't share, what they call values or perspectives or ideas for how to be in the world woth each other, not completely anyway. Neither party is interested in actually representing the needs of their constituents. I really don't think that is news. There are good and bad individual people inside the party's, sure. I think it would benefit us to redefine what it means to be a politician. Their culture is out of control and self serving, as a whole. Historically, in America, most of our villains have been politicians. Now we get to compound that culture with open urination of the elite oligarchy. Haha urination was a typo but I'm gonna leave it. Feels so right.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

While trying to repair our credit I was told over and over and over to get a credit card. I don't want a fooking credit card. If I can't afford it when I want it then I don't need it. I just refuse to buy consumer goods on credit. I can't, in good conscious participate in a system that is designed to keep me saddled with debt. I just won't do it.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

You just stated the middle ground, realistic terms. I haven't paid a cent on mine yet. Not because I don't want to (OK, kind of because I don't want to). But because I still have my once a lifetime get out of default program available to me and I cannot afford the astronomical jump in monthly minimum once those 9 small payments are made. So I wait, I wait and I watch. Hoping I get lucky.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Oh I heard a good one the other day. First present what they have to offer..a new trick to aquire wealth. State only they can provide this knowledge, "it is the secret the elites don't want you to know" .gotta get the bite. Create urgency... they are charging 50,000$ for this knowledge..next week or some s**t. BWAHAHA, WHAT!? well I was going to use my spare 50k to gain the money knowledge of the elites. How wonderful, I can spend that elsewhere now, you really have my back random stranger that is probably a robot. What in the world?!

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

They like to tell us we too, can be rich. It is all up to how hard your willing to work. So when we fail inside a system designed to ensure our failure we think I must not be doing it right. There must be something wrong with ME and not the system.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Passing on wealth was exactly zero of the reasons I had kids. But you kinda need wealth to worry about hoarding it so..

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Ugh, lobbying should be outlawed! It is a dark practice with nefarious intentions that utilizes manipulation, distraction and spin so that the fewest people reap the benefits. I understand there can be lobbying for good but I have never seen it in that form. There is always an agenda. And that agenda is always to make a wealthy person richer and minimize the consequences that person feels for the harmful, toxic and poisonous business model. Aka, it's all about that profit margin, baby!

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

That's what I am saying. There is knowledge on how to be better to each other in our government and social services. How is Healthcare organized in the countries where it functions for the people and not for profit? Let's do that. We don't need to reinvent the wheel everywhere here. There is much power in sharing these understanding. How can we encourage each other to look past our superficial understandings of the varied modes of governance so we may get to deeper discussions of how we navigate out of this mess? I'm not sure, still working on that one.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

We are trying. There isn't some all powerful, empathetic and effective person that is going to give us the answers and be our savior. That wouldn't work anyway, that is what we thought we were doing with democracy. But for democracy to work we must participate in it. If not then we gotta find a new way to be in the world. If something isn't working year after year after year then more of it next year will also, not work. We can be a different way. We are the people we have been waiting for.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

I hate that phrase make America great again. Uh, when exactly was it great? Right up until 1492. Since then we have done some great things but overall I would say, not great. Saying make it great again means there is some standard in the past that is the metric for what great means. I would argue we need to make American something it has never been, something new. We should stop trying to go back to something. That just blocks actual progress. We gotta be more involved oir how we shape our country. All voices and perspectives are needed. We can be a different way. With an equitable distribution of resources assets and capacity.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Oh that has shifted in a major major way in the last 2 months. Sorry we have been the villians and let psychopaths run our country. We are working on being better.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Are you under the impression a pregnancy only occurs between two consenting adults who are prepared to care for a child? Or that all pregnancies stay viable the entire 9 months? So in your world there is no such thing as a miscarriage that will kill the mother if not handled by a medical professional in a safe way? What a world you must live in. Sounds lovely.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Not only is it expensive for the inmate it is the cheapest junk possible available on the market. Deplorable. I was a lunch lady for a spell and the meat that the prison system uses is the same meat the government gives public schools in their commodity deliveries twice a year. The stuff that sint good enough for the market. Ya'll, this meat...not OK! Bits and ends of the better cuts, full of fat, oh so much fat! We gotta do better!

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

That is also linked to the accredidation requirements in all levels of education. A school has to be accredited for the student's grades to be legitimate in the eyes of these regulations. If your going to stop at high school graduation going to a non accredited school might not really impact you. But if you are secondary education bound and your school isn't accredited then, no, you didn't actually get an education. Really puts barriers up in developing alternative education paths that are student centered. Fun fact, it is corporations that make up these requirements legitimizing them with the knowledge of psychiatrists and people on the administrative level of education. These people have not stepped foot in a classroom on the teaching side. Also really forces people into a system not designed to actually help them learn but rather forces them to learn to obey through the rigid requirements of accreditation. Sorry for the rant, I am very passionate about this.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

If he gets his hands on Greenland gods help us all. Our water cycle is already broken all over the place, poisoned in too many places, used and abused in manufacturing and the list goes on. He wants it for war tactics and resource extraction. That can't happen! We for real need to do everything in our power to stop it. I dont want to hear well that people that voted for him, yada Yada. It's done, now our conversation must focus on what comes next.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Taking the profound knowledge found in our natural world to not only consume better but feel good doing it gives me the icks. Biomimicry can give us so much, if we apply the tech with ethics.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Haha submarines also have this ability. When they were little baby subs their parent threw em in the ocean to learn how to swim, that is the submarine way. I am.not a fan of anthropomorphizing, (is that a word) anything related to war. Perhaps I am nitpicking.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

That sure does sound good in your ears, don't it? I worry what that will do to the global water cycle. That system is fragile and completely ignored. New water isn't magically generated. Water just changes form and location on the globe. When our water is returned to the earth upon our death it will enter that process again. What will extracting more water from one location do to the water needs of other ecosystems and life further on in that process? If we really are to shift how we consume we need the full picture.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

How did they make metal buoyant? What processes and applications were used? If there is added materials are they safe for the ocean and it's life? What is the difference in cost between this buoyant metal and what is being utilized now? aRe the materials used to make it easy to access, plentiful and renewable? and are we making sure to minimize toxic extraction in regards to this new technology? Are we going to use it at all if it really is best for the planet and all life?

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

1977..learned how well lotus leaves repel moisture and dirt. Execs..figure out how to use the knowledge to make money off our desire for convenience. Logical next step. We can make an argument it will contribute to less water usage because you won't have to wash your house down as much but that isn't enough. The application of these technologies seems to lean heavily on their money making potential for a company by appealing to our pollution guilt. Just something to think about.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Development of technology for good of humanity, not more efficient/cost effective murdering. Yikes.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

The sticky structures, if I remember right, are Itty bitty suction cups. These are all examples from classes I took at university in 2014. I will have to see if the biomimicry institute is still up and running. They were developing some things.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

They added ridges on one side of the blade and changed the overall shape to mimic a whale fluke. I am guessing that they wouldn't make sweeping changes to all wind turbine blades because the short term cost outweighed the long term benefits. Ya know, for the company.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Gotta shut that s**t down. A healthy ecosystem and softer footprint isn't good for profit margins. Just a guess though.

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Our solutions must take into account the place it will be used. Big cities with tall super shiny skyscrapers or places there are huge bird populations, yes, worth it. Out where I live I can think of a couple buildings that could use it but we just hang stuff in the windows that makes the glass more visible. Our solutions will not work as a whole, if they are one size fits all.

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Montanavanna • commented on 2 posts 2 days ago

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Oh yeah, that's it. Suction cups didn't feel right.

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Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Right? You feel that? That magic? These are the important discussions. Not who is best for what job, what is the job and how do we do it better with equity for all and intact, healthy ecosystems.

Doctor Shocked At Insurance Company’s Audacity: "Do You Understand She Has Breast Cancer?"

30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature's Blueprints

Indeed! Water is life, we must protect it or we are done.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Costco don't need you thinking about mortality while cruising the aisles. They got stuff to sell.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Deplorable! My brother is in that sinking ship also. You deserve so much better!

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Passing on wealth was exactly zero of the reasons I had kids. But you kinda need wealth to worry about hoarding it so..

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

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One of my teachers did this for me in high school when I was going through a difficult time and I have never forgotten it. She is one of the reasons I work in education now.

Doctor Shocked At Insurance Company’s Audacity: "Do You Understand She Has Breast Cancer?"

When the doctor was told that the insurance company said they had to talk to her "right now", she should have just replied "The hell they do" and kept caring for her patient. That's the only kind of language they understand.

Doctor Shocked At Insurance Company’s Audacity: "Do You Understand She Has Breast Cancer?"

Honest question here but why? Every American knows how bad insurance and healthcare is in this country. It's why Luigi was made into a hero. But the people just had an election to give even more power to billionaires. So clearly we don't really care. It breaks my heart, but the people do not care about human life if it inconveniences the plutocrats

Doctor Shocked At Insurance Company’s Audacity: "Do You Understand She Has Breast Cancer?"

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Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

It may not be mentioned as much if we get a few more Luigi's.

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I have to pick only one? I think our health care system is the largest and most comically villainous of all of them but man, the list is looooong for b******t scams in this wasteland.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

I'm going to be a mushroom farm, wrapped in a biodegradable shroud full of mushroom spores.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

When I'm done, I want to be fired out of a cannon, but probably can't afford that. So just bury me in the woods with some seeds in my mouth, and I will become some plants.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

The 1% run the country

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

They're both on the same team ultimately - team money

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Nepotism thrives in a capitalistic country.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

The revolving door lobbying is what cranks me up. Leave elected office, lobby to your former officemates.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Trickle down Economics always made me feel like I was getting p---ed on... 'cause i was.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Noam Chomsky is, in my opinion, extremely intelligent and usually right. I would prefer him to be the next president, but (rightfully) he wouldn't want to be.

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

It’s only a small group of people who think the US is the greatest country in the world, which is ironic considering their motto is “Make America Great Again.”

Americans Who Moved Abroad Share What Things Are Scams In The US, Here Are The 45 Best Posts

Women not having autonomy over their own bodies...

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The entire credit score system.

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🤷‍♀️ We never claimed to have the market cornered on burnout A problem can exist in more than one place.

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