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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 27
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      It’s interesting how much people simply don’t understand distribution at scale. News: Massive pile of food commodity needs to be destroyed Them: Why can’t they just donate it to the needy and hungry? Me: Uhhh, where do I begin?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 27
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      It’s not rocket science. Moving 60k pigs from Tennessee or a mountain of potatoes in Idaho to wherever the masses of hungry people are takes so many tricks/trains etc. It’s just mass/volume and distance/fuel type arithmetic problems. Moral arithmetic is blind to logistics

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        2. Steve Randy Waldman‏ @interfluidity Apr 27
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          governments exist to help manage this sort of logistics. when they functionally exist.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 27
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          Let the governors handle it. They should have their own stockpiles of trucks and trains and refrigerated warehouses. Ours are for us, the people who don’t live in states.

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        1. Mick Costigan‏ @micostigan Apr 27
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          As usual Boorstin has the best socio-economic history of how this came to be. His story of meat is contained within a Book 2 in the Democratic Experience called "The Decline of the Miraculous." A clue perhaps in that name of why people don't understand it...pic.twitter.com/XbaQxKOtdv

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        1. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd Apr 27
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          All that food was being wasted before, one back alley Domino’s dumpster at a time. And even then there was not the moral-logistical will to give it to people who might need it.

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        1. Beau Butler‏ @oddynz Apr 27
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          The meta thing behind it is, imo, many people just can't intuit Scale

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        1. Cristian Rocca  🌐‏ @free_shilling Apr 27
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          Air drop the potatoes, oil is free

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        1. 𐀀𐀞𐀂𐀴𐀍‏ @TASTEforTEA_ Apr 27
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          oh yeah? Educate me 😂

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        1. Tedd Potts‏ @teddpotts Apr 27
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          THAT morality is blind

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        1. Pasayten‏ @Oneevol Apr 27
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          Gas is cheap. Feed the hungry, save the farmer, and the oilman.

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        1. multi_modality‏ @perleypaapcrabb Apr 27
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          This is where the argument for totalitarianism is founded (not that I think it’s the best system). Wave a wand and mobilize the military to prop up/replace weakened supply lines, as needed, without any regulatory or political push-back. Fast, unchecked action has its place.

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