There’s a great book by Malcolm Gladwell that changed my thinking on this massively.
My thoughts are that who we are and the environment we grew up in are so inextricably linked, there’s no way you could separate the two.
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Every now and again when I’m cutting up meat, I’ll come across a piece that is slightly different to usual. Maybe it has a streak of fat in a place I haven’t seen before or it has an extra chunk of muscle.
I wonder if these are genetic super cows/sheep/pigs/whatever that have ended up on my plate…
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Maybe he is Jewish and observant.
I tend to wear a plain baseball cap over a yarmulke in sporting situations (eg an indoor gym) or when I don’t feel like getting cornered and have an hour long sermon by someone on their particular views on religion/Middle East.
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I want my environment to be a product of me.
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Doubtful, I would say to a small extent we are a product of our environment by and large we are a product of our genetics.
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x2, however…
I’m pretty sure I acquired that outlook somewhere along the way in response to stuff in my environment. I wasn’t born like that
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Well aren’t your genetics a set of instructions for how your cells are to behave in response to environmental factors?
(A cell’s environment is the cells that surround it I guess)
I read that spinal curves develop as babies walk, in response to having to carry their weight while walking upright. I thought if we ever colonize Jupiter, the babies born there would crawl their whole lives since it would be to hard to learn walking upright with the multiples of weight. But now I’m thinking maybe it would be easier, they’d just grow differently. They’d probably have septacepts instead of quads for example
Edit: anyways, they’d likely look much different than what we consider humans to look like even if they had human genetics
Then there’s the cheap shot angle of pointing out that genetics themselves are products of our environments, and time delayed reflections of them.
Edit: an individual’s habits/personality are also in my opinion a time delayed reflection of their environment, for similar reasons
Identical twins can lead totally different lives and become totally different people. My mom is an identical twin. She’s a scientist who got married, moved across the ocean and had 3 kids. Her twin sister is an interior designer who never got married and still lives in the UK. They’re genetically identical. Environment is a larger determining factor than anything else.
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They’re still two different people with two different personalities. I like to think I would become or want to become (continue striving to be) the person I want to be even if I grew up with totally different experiences, living in different places, different circumstances, being around different people… I think I would end up the same person. Of course your environment does influence a lot also but you can also control what you are influenced by.
I always feel badly like I’m breaking it or something and have to wait until someone else takes a piece.
It’s food, not tinker toys. I/we used to get in trouble for playing with food. I can’t imagine how many times somebody else touched it. At some point this was nothing but a sugary, drippy mess. Maybe I haven’t ever looked at this the same after seeing a worker at walmart putting together a food tray. Licked her fingers after every adjustment. 
Just gives me the creeps!
Fruit? LOL
Fruit is wonderful, before they screw it up like this. It was beautiful just the way it was.
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Uh yeah… sorta like that.
Cool jackolantern!
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I’ve cooked a fair amount of breakfasts on a griddle or cast iron skillet over a camp fire in my life.
One alternative (preferred by the wife) is to simply cook a burger in the skillet (flipping once and only once) and then cook the eggs in that grease.
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Bingo.
Eating sushi is essentially a leap of faith lol.
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