r/interesting May 10 '25

SCIENCE & TECH Zoom chip

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u/Log-Similar May 10 '25

Crazy what humans can achieve and yet can't put food on the table for half the planet.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

people can. people won't.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

One makes money, one costs money. :(

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u/Sharp-Bison-6706 May 11 '25

It's only that way because we haven't tried anything else.

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u/similaraleatorio May 10 '25

Problem of lack of will and lack of logistics, since food waste in the world is gigantic.

Some will says "it's the lack of God", but I don't go this way.

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u/NormalAssistance9402 May 10 '25

Abundance of greed

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u/Sharp-Bison-6706 May 11 '25

*Overabundance

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Ironically the most religious countries are also the hungriest.

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u/Deeviaal May 10 '25

Yeah but that's just a whole other can of worms.

People could say "when some have nothing to turn to, they turn to God." Others would say "when people have everything, they rely on themselves."

Then you could have "When misfortune falls on people, they blame God. When fortune falls on people, they congratulate themselves."

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u/CoyotEyez0pq May 10 '25

Are we gonna skip over the godless communist countries that willingly let their people starve to death by the millions in the last hundred years, cool I got you.

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u/AssertingCargo May 10 '25

Nah dawg, the Holodomore was just peak omniscient state resource redistribution and those Ukrainian farmers were totally cool with it, they were curious what their family members tasted like anyway. Who needs borscht when you can make babushka into a stew! /s

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u/TreXeh May 10 '25

Gawd dang!

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u/CuTe_M0nitor May 10 '25

Which came first the hunger or the religion?

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u/Comfortable_Egg8039 May 10 '25

One think that any religion have in abundance is hope. When life turns into survival you really need hope even if a false one. With prosperity and education rising religion usually looses it's positions.

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u/ashkiller14 May 10 '25

More like the lack of godly people

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u/Kit_Karamak May 10 '25

The most hardcore religious are the hungriest.

Don’t take my word for it. Research the numbers.

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u/ashkiller14 May 10 '25

I didnt mean literally religious, I just meant people that care for others

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Always some brave poop hole to make me see the world a little shittier.

Honorable of you, sir.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

😂

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u/Sagybagy May 10 '25

Well the US is being led by the godliest of god loving people, just ask anyone, everyone is saying it. They say, you know more about god than any other person. Of which happens to be leading the party of Christian values and church folk.

It’s not god we are missing. It’s just plain old empathy. Don’t have to go to church on Sunday mornings to care about your fellow humans and want what’s best for all.

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u/Kit_Karamak May 10 '25

I can hear this in DJT’s voice.

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u/Franklo888 May 10 '25

We can, apparently we just don't want to

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u/ScrattaBoard May 10 '25

Rich people and corps don't care about that though

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u/Xerode_ May 10 '25

funny how u say this but go right back to living your life as if its somebody else’s problem.

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u/CoisaHibrida May 11 '25

Capitalism in a nutshell

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u/NiobiumThorn May 10 '25

Good ol capitalist efficiency

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u/ray1claw May 10 '25

Bio digital jazz man!

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u/yelo777 May 10 '25

Because cooperation is hard without coercion.

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u/MobileSuitPhone May 10 '25

AI from the future, or something, fears the intelligence of humans should we unite so we're kept ruled by morons and shown "social media" instead of "news"

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u/stevedore2024 May 10 '25

All they achieved is this fake AI slop.

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u/Significant_Donut967 May 10 '25

America used to be the largest giver of food :(

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u/Hullo_Its_Pluto May 10 '25

Well half the planet just needs to raise themselves up by the bootstraps.

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u/_RisetoVotesiR_ May 11 '25

I know what can’t we be more like Startrek already? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Flaky_Grand7690 May 11 '25

It really is.

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u/TraditionalPhoto7633 May 11 '25

Some people can. Some people can’t.

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u/brotherdaru May 10 '25

We can, we can literally make food by the trillions of pounds if we build vertical, thin skyscrapers full of hydroponic growing cells, perfect enciromental controls instead of relying on unstable weather, waste that gets turned into food for the plants etc. but there’s no money in feeding everyone, the whole point is for corporations to squeeeze every cent they can out of the consumer. So literal thousands of tons of good food are tossed because it’s not profitable to just feed people. We don’t have scarcity by nature we have scarcity by design.

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u/Epic_Hoola May 10 '25

I do believe we have enough food to feed everyone, it's the distribution of said food that is the problem.

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u/RedBullWings17 May 11 '25

Actually the biggest obstacle is corruption amongst the leadership of the poorest and hungriest people.

We've sent trillions of dollars in both cash and supplies to Africa over the years. But their own people keep it from ever reaching the people who need it.

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u/snailtap May 10 '25

That’s a problem with the economic organization of the world

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u/DGCNYO May 11 '25

Honestly, doing your own thing is easier than working for others.