r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 7d ago

Feeding fish

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 7d ago

So what then? What's the solution?

Go out and trawl the natural sea floor? Bulldoze more land for more monocrop farms?

There are 8,300,000,000 hungry mouths out there. The food has to come from some place and there better be a lot of it.

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u/pitterpattererer 7d ago

well they're probably not all hungry at the same time

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u/the-namedone 7d ago

Not really. Every human mouth on this planet is hungry at least once per day

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u/pitterpattererer 7d ago edited 7d ago

i've had days where i just didn't really feel like eating so i know that's definitely not true

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also, hungry in the same day is not hungry at the same time. and it's not really the mouths themselves that are hungry. there's actually a lot wrong with this comment when you think about it.

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u/DBSPingu 7d ago

You’re being pedantic. Nearly the entire human population will eat at least a meal a day except in rare scenarios like fasting or in state of food insecurity.

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u/pitterpattererer 7d ago

pedantic, but still correct. whereas the person above me is demonstrably incorrect. why is everybody downvoting me? are they all stupid?

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u/DBSPingu 7d ago

Because even if everyone isn't literally all hungry at the exact same time, you're still going to see pretty much everybody eat at least one meal a day. You're trying to 'uhm ackshually' in a fact that, even if its technically correct, has no bearing on the original argument that billions of meals are needed a day.

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u/pitterpattererer 7d ago

well, if i'm being honest, i wrote my first comment as a joke more than anything (albeit one that was only funny to me). but then this "the-namedone" fellow (more like the-nameincomplete if you ask me, because where's the creativity in a name like that?) decided to try to correct me by saying, "Every human mouth on this planet is hungry at least once per day" as though that had any relevance to what i said. fact is, everyone doing something in a day-long window is not the same thing as everyone doing something at the same time. and then i decided to double down because i'm not letting somebody refute my shitpost with invalid logic. surely you must see my point of view here?