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I think it's important to study - under valid academic standards - and seek solutions for those negative values of some subcultures which are detrimental to society as a whole and detrimental to the social success of individuals within such subcultures; Values like corruption, crime, violence, racism, sexism, abuse, lying, superstition, anti-science, drug abuse, lack of empathy, etc.

I think the best solution is a modern state of the art public education for everyone, where the opposite positive values are taught. Also, retraining in institutions where detrimental cultural values have become entrenched.

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08-27-2019 , 03:45 PM

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I'm beginning to think trying to fix the dipshits causes more problems than it solves.

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08-28-2019 , 05:05 PM

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https://www.mediamatters.org/heather...ap-we-would-be

Culture in the news. Oh look, they switched to explicit mode.

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08-28-2019 , 06:17 PM

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I'm a little surprised she didn't mention the simple solution of a black celebrity inspiring the youth to academics.

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08-28-2019 , 11:00 PM

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Since there was some talk of taboos this seems like the appropriate thread for this...mostly without comment from me although I wonder.

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08-28-2019 , 11:27 PM

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Since there was some talk of taboos this seems like the appropriate thread for this...mostly without comment from me although I wonder.

I don't think assuring the person they won't get disease due to modern sterilization techniques really matters, because the disgust was evolved in a time when those weren't available anyways. I am open to the suggestion the authors bring up, among others, provided it can be explained as an adaptation/behavior that was selected for for whatever reason.

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08-29-2019 , 12:10 AM

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The diseases of concern aren't to do with sterilisation. It's stuff like the build up of toxins that the body can't expel or prion type diseases etc etc. It's why feeding cows to cows was obviously stupid.

There are a few exception here and there but generally humans don't eat carnivores, let alone other humans. True of the the main diet of most carnivores as well. It's a food chain thing.

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08-29-2019 , 01:57 AM

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In the HBO series "Deadwood" they would dispose of some dead guys by feeding their bodies to the pigs. I wonder if that was common practice among pig keepers in ancient times and the above reasons were why eating pig meat was declared taboo in some cultures.

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09-01-2019 , 11:44 AM

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Is it ok to talk about American cultural differences - as shown by statistics - in diet between poor whites, middle class whites, and upper class whites; and their effects on health? What about differences in diet between poor blacks, middle class blacks, and upper class blacks? What about differences in diet in general and controlled by class between whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians? Or differences by region?

Could such a study be useful for purposes of education and public information?

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09-01-2019 , 02:06 PM

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Breaking news: Study reveals that high income Asians eat 250% as much pocky as high income non-Asians. Click HERE to order nutrient enriched pocky(tm) to INSTANTLY boost your childs math grades!

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09-01-2019 , 02:37 PM

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In fairness to myself, I was addressing the hypothetical of the article. The point is our strong disgust was evolved in a time where there was no way to guarantee safety, so telling us that we can assure safety now wouldn't diminish the disgust.

For example, disgust from having sex with siblings is probably due to evolved behavior of avoiding double recessive alleles and other reproductive fitness costs in progeny. Explaining this and telling someone you could have sex with you sister as long as you use a condom so there is no risk of pregnancy isn't going to make the disgust lower.

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09-01-2019 , 02:38 PM

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I would be surprised if there wasn't plenty of exactly the data you are proposing.

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09-02-2019 , 11:29 AM

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Is that what your culture does? What’s the data on doing that look like?

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09-02-2019 , 02:15 PM

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Is that what your culture does? What’s the data on doing that look like?

I don't know what that data would look like. I suspect it might be valuable though. What do you think? Seems to me the School Lunch Program was based on data relating to diet and success in school. I think that was a good policy decision. What do you think?

Of course, data can also be abused to promote bad policies or promote false narratives. So it would help if we had guidelines to spot such statistically based disinformation.

I don't understand your first question.

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09-04-2019 , 12:13 PM

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Since there was some talk of taboos this seems like the appropriate thread for this...mostly without comment from me although I wonder.

Stockholm researchers want to raise the idea of eating people to save the climate
Link is in Swedish but translate works.

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The controversial idea is being put forward right now at the 'GastroSummit' fair, which takes place between 3-4 September at the Stockholm Fair. According to the organizers, the fair is Sweden's gastronomic forum and meeting place for the food of the future.
One of the speakers is behavioral scientist Magnus Söderlund, who is a professor of marketing at the School of Economics. He holds seminars on the possibility of becoming cannibals to save the climate. On Monday, the researcher participated in TV4 to tell us more about their investigations.
"Important to raise the issue"
According to Söderlund, there are many difficult taboos among the general public in the Western world, which makes it difficult for actors who want to enter the human meat industry

So I posted the newsweek article without comment but this time I'll add "wtf". (Although I'll add that my objective there was not to get people to ponder the logistics of cannibalism but to wonder wtf newsweek was up to)

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People in the general public are a bit conservative when it comes to eating things they are not used to, says Söderlund.

Best part of the article.

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09-04-2019 , 12:37 PM

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A modest proposal indeeed: academia considers cannibalism
RT article on the subject

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The thought-leaders and philosophers of the Western world have recently turned their attention to a rather radical method of reducing our carbon footprint and self-regulating the Earth’s population.
However, is there a small but dedicated cannibal lobby working to reclaim it from psychopathic, penis-devouring killers and Liberian warlords? Despite some odd clickbait headlines, positive coverage of cannibalism in the media is all but nonexistent.
Academics, however, are unconstrained by nasty ‘social constructs’ like morality, ethics and ‘not eating your grandmother.’ Far away from the real world, professors steeped in postmodernism – a doctrine that reigns supreme in social science departments and rejects notions of objective reality – have been suggesting for some time that we embrace our inner beast and break the taboo.

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09-04-2019 , 03:03 PM

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The gruesome truth about lab grown meat

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Yes, all lab-grown meat so far requires a product called fetal bovine serum. What is fetal bovine serum? Why does it exist? Where does it come from? What else is it used for? It turns out that FBS is a somewhat common product, and one that we have to thank for many a medical innovation. Let’s explore.
FBS, as the name implies, is a byproduct made from the blood of cow fetuses. If a cow coming for slaughter happens to be pregnant, the cow is slaughtered and bled, and then the fetus is removed from its mother and brought into a blood collection room. The fetus, which remains alive during the following process to ensure blood quality, has a needle inserted into its heart. Its blood is then drained until the fetus dies, a death that usually takes about five minutes. This blood is then refined, and the resulting extract is FBS.

Still researching as they've got me intrigued but the working theory involves something like Soylent Geeen as predictive programming.
Probably around the right time to become a vegetarian and not one who is ordering impossible whoppers.

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09-04-2019 , 03:33 PM

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The gruesome truth about lab grown meat

Still researching as they've got me intrigued but the working theory involves something like Soylent Geeen as predictive programming.
Probably around the right time to become a vegetarian and not one who is ordering impossible whoppers.

FBS is one of the most generic and wide used in vitro lab solutions around. It is basically a solution concentrated in a lot of proteins that facilitate cell growth in culture. Nothing more.

I don't know where exactly you were going with this, but FBS itself is a nothing burger.

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09-04-2019 , 03:38 PM

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Seems like he's answering the thread title. "Culture" is indeed a collection of living cells of one or more species grown in a variety of media for the purposes of carrying out e.g. scientific experiments.

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09-04-2019 , 04:00 PM

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nice, that's nice.

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09-04-2019 , 04:04 PM

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The article says it's pretty common, but I'm also fine adding lab grown meat to the things I have no interest in eating--along with humans and dogs.

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Backlash after CNN reporter eats human brain on TV

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While staying with the Aghori, Aslan drank alcohol from a human skull, and ate a cooked piece of brain. He later wrote on Facebook: "Want to know what a dead guy’s brain tastes like? Charcoal. It was burnt to a crisp!"

Critics have attacked the programme, claiming its focus on the Aghori sect misrepresents Hinduism as a whole.

This happened in 2017 but this is first I'm hearing of it so it must have not been too big of a backlash.

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