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There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. And every year, 55 * 10^9 animals are killed (in the U.S.). That means at a frequency of 1.743kHz, life is extinguishe
by diydsp 4y ago
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. And every year, 55 * 10^9 animals are killed (in the U.S.). That means at a frequency of 1.743kHz, life is extinguished, day and night. Just image a single wince of pain coming from getting punched unconscious. And then in the semi-hazy state, throat is slit as life grinds to halt, skin is removed. But it doesn't happen just once... it happens so often that if there was a single faint tick of clock each time, it would blur together into a high-pitched whine in the center of the most sensitive portion of hearing (between 1kHz and 4 kHz). 24 hours per day, every day of the year!
dsp@diydsp:~/sim$ bc -l
bc 1.07.1
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This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
5510^9 ( 3.17*10^-8)
1743.50000000000000000000
- brezelgoring 4y agoWhat a macabre calculation, and as poetic as it is, so befitting its own passage in a Harlan Ellison novel, I feel nothing as I read it. I still like chops.
- puchatek 4y agoIt's not weird that you like the taste of meat. But being unable to empathize with the sentient animals that we kill so thoughtlessly, and at such a scale, even when you're confronted with that fact in this poetic yet concise fashion is more than a little callous.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoHappy thanksgiving!
- la64710 4y agohttps://bigthink.com/surprising-science/dissatisfied-with-your-life-try-eating-more-veggies/ https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/dissatisfied-with-yo... Veggies is good
- DonHopkins 4y agoI like to drink tomato juice and pretend it's blood, and eat gumi bears and pretend they're little fetuses, to get all the blood sucking baby eating urges out of my system.
- jjtheblunt 4y agothat has me laughing, so very "just after Halloween".
- whimsicalism 4y ago> I feel nothing as I read it. Honestly, it's a massive win for cultural progress that we have even made the suffering of people with a different skin color intelligible to most people. Intelligibility of the suffering of other species will probably take a considerably longer amount of time.
- sweetheart 4y agoWhen people proudly proclaim that they simply do not care for the suffering of animals, I wonder if they realize that they sound like the millions of people who were on the wrong side of history. The circle of moral consideration in the Western world started generally with land-owning white men, then (still generally speaking) widened to include white men without land, then women, non-white people, etc. The circle of moral consideration is slowly starting to cover non-human animals, though it will take hundreds of years before they are truly protected. The folks who say they do not care about animals join the company of everyone who has historically opposed the widening of that circle, the people who stood against granting basic rights and basic consideration to those who enjoy them today.
- brezelgoring 4y agoI'll agree with the thought of "The folks who say they do not care about animals join the company of everyone who has historically opposed the widening of that circle", I do benefit from the status quo. That being said, it is a huge proposition to proclaim you're on the right side of history, and that others who aren't should either reconsider or live to regret it. Especially when the change you champion will only happen when those that make money from meat no longer do. I'll sooner bet on the grass turning purple.
- whimsicalism 4y agoIt has much more to do with people's consumption patterns and ethical norms than it does that people make money from meat. No matter how much money someone makes from owning a slaughterhouse, they can't make me eat something I don't want to eat.
- TechBro8615 4y agoMe too, but I only order lamb when at a sit-down restaurant where I can enjoy it and finish it all. And I default to chicken over red meat because cows are more complex creatures. Delicious though.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoIf you throw this script into your PATH, you can write: $ math ‘5510^9 (3.17*10^-8)’ 1743.5000 https://github.com/shawwn/scrap/blob/master/math https://github.com/shawwn/scrap/blob/master/math It’s a wrapper around bc, but it’s one of my most-used scripts. Doing some quick math in the terminal without opening a repl is nice.
- redanddead 4y agoWait.. how many? 55 billion animals? only in the US? Jesus
- userbinator 4y agoAlso consider that in the same time, roughly the same --- or perhaps even more --- number of animals are born.