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Richard Waite
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Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.

Environmental science 27%
Biology 22%
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The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands
How to Manage the Global Land Squeeze? Produce, Protect, Reduce, Restore
By 2050, an area of land twice the size of India will be converted to agriculture. A four-pillared approach can ensure the world meets growing demand for food and fuel without destroying the environme...
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(both the immunity and the spite are intact)

Got my measles immunity checked, out of spite (intact)

Ha!

Creepy for different reasons

Cagey Ratfish, meet Walking Catfish

Was going to mention this too. But, then you’ll need to pay someone to tune it from time to time. If no one else in the family plays and you aren’t sure it’s going to stick, I’d recommend a keyboard instead to get started. You could always resell it.

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pronouncing mustache like headache

I have a Casio non weighted I bought in college for like $300 and it still works 20 years later.

I have a weighted one from Costco, not even sure of the brand, that cost about $500 and feels like a real piano.

There are probably cheaper decent options too.

If you can, I’d recommend a weighted keyboard - they feel like a real piano and if you learn on one it transfers to the other. With regular size keys.

No brand preference to recommend. If you go to a music store I’d imagine you can try a few that cost between $100-500 and get a sense of pros/cons.

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I need a reasonably good but entry level piano keyboard. Who has recs?

TIL we have walking catfish 🤯
Walking catfish, caught in Miami.

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Prepping stuff for Italian veggie subs. Romaine that I’ll toss in vinaigrette, fresh mozzarella, roasted red peppers, tomatoes, banana peppers, avocado, Calabrian chili mayo, pickled red onions, & pesto made w/basil & chard from the garden. Roasted potatoes & asparagus as a side. So excited. ☺️🍜🍽️

Yes hi hello
I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

“Hits different in your 40s than childhood” also describes Paul Simon’s entire Graceland album (although those lyrics are actually good so wouldn’t score high in this other game)

Wow I’d forgotten all of the non chorus lyrics to this one

Oh wow I cannot name a single lyric of that song outside Ma Ma Ma My Sharona despite hearing that song probably at least 1,000 times

o no

earworm

Fast forward to 1997 to Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind’s sunny, upbeat earworm about doing crystal meth

Ha, another reply was similar “most Red Hot Chili Peppers songs post 1991”

I end up doing a lot of muting or unfollowing if people turn to only posting about US politics. Like, I’m swimming in it day to day anyway…

Somehow completely missing this in my feed but maybe that’s why people don’t want to play the good music bad lyrics game????

While we’re at it, let’s just retire “Every Breath You Take” from radio play forever

Interesting. The OP I quoted kinda sounds like that.

I think I’m music-first - there are a lot of 80s/90s songs I grew up with but only “really” heard all the lyrics once I googled them (or saw them in album cover).

And while we’re on songs from 1999, Mambo Number 5 is another contender in this category

Ha I have that RHCP CD and it always reminds me of graduating high school in 1999. I like about half the songs on it although yeah the lyrics aren’t super defensible

Just thought of another: Life by Des’ree

OK, game:

What song, in your opinion, has the highest music-to-lyrics quality ratio? That is, the music is catchy or even potentially good—but the lyrics are terrible?

Starter pick: “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train
are you a music-first listener or a lyrics-first listener? I’m a music-first listener so I always judge a song based on whether I like how it sounds and most of the time idgaf about the lyrics

idk, all roads lead there

United States: pork

United Kingdom: pork

Australia: pork

Canada: pork

FAOSTAT: pigmeat

(very probably yes)
are you getting enough protein???

are you getting enough protein???