Yeah, but beans don’t have a brain, nerve endings or a nervous system. Sure they are alive, but it’s intellectual dishonest to think that a pigs and beans interact with the world in the same way. So yes, life eats life, but my life sustaining food doesn’t feel pain. It has for over a decade now.
Ever heard of these things called “cats”? They eat things with brains and nerve endings.
Why is it bullshit to not want your food to cause unnecessary suffering? If I have the choice of eating a burger from a cow that suffered it’s whole life or one that was treated well, why would I not choose less suffering?
Oh! You’re one of those who things we should all be vegan…not gonna happen for so so many reasons, so why not compromise and reduce suffering in the world?
Life eats life, that’s how it works. Organisms evolved to eat meat are not inherently inhumane for following their biological imperative. Our factory farming system IS inhumane in that it causes unnecessary suffering, but that’s a result of the scale of operations and our economic system.
The acidity of our stomach alone is clear evidence we are evolved to eat meat, combine that with our need for B12, our teeth, length of intestines relative to other herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores puts the nail in the coffin for the idea that we are not meant to eat meat.
That’s preposterous
This is what capitalists are planning, too little too late. This is like offering a band-aid to someone 5 years after they got a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Fuck it, I"m going back to a landline where only the NSA can spy on me. My phone has not been a net benefit in my life.
It’s normal for their to be several versions of the same software in various languages.
Napoleon would’ve thought it was hot. Glad you feel better :)
If we lose our democracy, it’s because Biden threw it away.
Biochar is a better idea.
are you suggesting that the roughly 1.4 million landlords in Canada (source) are all effectively colluding?
I don’t know about Canada, but in the U.S., yes, that’s happening
Get some sodium citrate powder, it’s the secret to making smooth cheese sauce.
racist tendency in the liberal environmentalist movement to blame ecological harm on the number of human bodies that exist
Concern about population is not racist. Can a racist use population to make racist claims? Sure, they do that with lots of things.
I don’t get why so many otherwise smart people have the thought terminating position that population is of no concern and any talk of it is racist.
What happened with human population and the green revolution, particularly the haber-bosch process has a name when it happens in nature, it’s called “eutrophication”.
Biochar – Use highly efficient biochar retort machines to turn clean biomass waste into carbon that will last thousands of years and use it as an amazing soil amendment.
Well I agree with that part, when I’m saying using open source vs proprietary, I’m not proposing companies use alpha software in production. I was thinking more along the lines of avoiding MS Exchange in favor of of Postfix/Dovecot/CalDAV even though Exchange is arguably superior at managing one’s emails and appointments.
We’re all free to make the calculation that makes sense for us. Not everyone wants to sacrifice everything for profit, and this is a viable tactic.
I totally want to learn to weld, it seems incredibly useful, like knowing how to work with wood or a 3d printer.
Production is about using the best tool for the job
I find this attitude kinda simplistic and problematic. This attitude applied elsewhere can be used as justification for all sorts of terrible things, I don’t know why it should get a pass in tech. Sometimes the best tool for the job is produced by an evil company you want to boycott. Sometimes the best tool causes lots of collateral damage or harm, or has potential to lock you into an ecosystem. Maybe you want to support the growth of other tools and are willing to sacrifice some performance.
Even if only profit is considered, I think it’s reasonable for a company to conclude that open source software is inherently better due to reasons that go beyond immediate utility and profit making potential by thinking longer term.
Technically CD quality digital is superior, but the recording and mixing can have a lot to do with it. For example, it could be that an decades old Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl (played on proper equipment) could sound better than a modern remastered CD with maximized loudness (See the “loudness wars”).
Didn’t we just have an eclipse? The gods must be angry.
Agree, I just don’t think expecting all or even most of the human population to become vegan is a practical reality in the near future, so let’s try to reduce suffering in ways that are more likely to happen such as consuming fewer animal products and being less cruel when we do. For those that are willing and able to be vegan that’s great, but humans driven to eat meat and without extremely strict enforcement global veganism is a fantasy. That’s like expecting the world to go without sex, reasons don’t matter, not gonna happen.