mahogany

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by mahogany 4y ago
Even if it's true that plants feel and suffer, the pipeline of plants -> livestock -> food still kills many (an order of magnitude at least) more plants than the direct pipeline of plants -> food, so eating animals still cause
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by mahogany 4y ago
For one, it's a waste of energy.
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by mahogany 4y ago
I broadly agree with your point, but then you decided to search for quotes that apparently support your argument, and you picked... Schopenhauer, in a discussion about misogyny and marriage, which is pretty hilarious.
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by mahogany 4y ago
Personally, I don't think the definition is wrong, or even misleading. "Living" doesn't always literally mean "to be alive". For example, the idiom "make a living" refers to making enough to keep a de
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by mahogany 4y ago
This is funny, I went the other way. I used to keep text files of links quite similar to this, but then after several years I realized I rarely (perhaps a handful of times over years) went back to them. So I started using bookmarks with tag
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by mahogany 4y ago
Everything has risk. What is the risk of having a sleep-deprived parent caring for a baby (holding and walking with them, driving, etc)? For some people, co-sleeping (bed sharing) largely eliminates sleep deprivation. Have you weighed those
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by mahogany 4y ago
To contextualize this given the parent commenter's question: -- About 50% of US corn production goes toward animal feed (and another 30% goes to ethanol). Slightly out of date source, but recent figures show this has only moved a few p
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by mahogany 4y ago
But you said: > Which is good if you are inexperienced, but not so great once you grow and try to become more productive. A more expressive language is a must then or you'll be stuck. which implies that people who use Go have not gr
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by mahogany 4y ago
What leads to many Caesareans is the "cascade of interventions" which might include unnecessary induced labor (e.g. if a mother is not dilating "quickly enough"), an early epidural, or continuous EFM. Many of these inter
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by mahogany 4y ago
> You mean a generally-recommended-as-medically-necessary-only procedure that would result in far more complications were it not performed? A Caesarean is often performed even when it is not medically necessary. Hence "why are so
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by mahogany 4y ago
The contrast to "the US hospital business" is not necessarily "socialized systems". A better contrast is, as the original commenter pointed out, birthing centers (or home births). A contrast to a hospital OBGYN in the US
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by mahogany 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're so hostile toward this idea... I know basically nothing about ecology, but it seems relatively straightforward to think of reasons to study biomass. Think about food chains. Food is energy is biomass (as yo
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by mahogany 4y ago
> The natural world involves animals eating other animals. A "natural world" argument will always be weak. The natural world also involves rape, infanticide, and a general lack of morality. A "feature" of humans is th
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by mahogany 4y ago
Agreed, I was a bit pessimistic when I wrote that. Amended: "will not happen soon enough".
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by mahogany 4y ago
> The entire fucking concept of intellectual property and copyright is flawed from the get go. Many people are upset because Microsoft is hiding behind copyright and lawyers to enforce it, while at the same time ignoring the concept of i
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Let's help shape this thought: Copyright should be abolished entirely. It is one of many monetization schemes and its negative effects greatly outweigh its positives. Even if you're right in principle (and I would love new mo
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Reinventing the wheel, millions of time a day, is an atrocity. > Millions of (wo)man hours, wasted, every single day, on writing solutions to problems that have already been solved. There is a partial solution to this, and it's
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by mahogany 4y ago
> This is a new area of development, and we’re all learning. I’m personally spending a lot of time chatting with developers, copyright experts, and community stakeholders to understand the most responsible way to leverage LLMs. Given tha
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Well I don't think it necessarily has to be lesser, especially if it's designed to be verbally delivered, but it's a different art form, and it's not how most literature was created to be delivered. That's a fa
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Second, do you ever shake the feeling that having a book read to you is somehow qualitatively not as good as reading it from the page? Why would it be? I get where you're coming from, as I generally prefer reading over audiobooks,
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by mahogany 4y ago
Cities have dense road systems, but the vast majority of the surface area of roads is outside of cities.
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by mahogany 4y ago
What is the point of "winning"? Are you sure that your goals and desire to win are not things that society "tricked" you into believing are worthwhile or important?
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by mahogany 4y ago
> the skills learned in dealing with non-family adults In my experience, the relationship developed with non-family adults at school is a narrow, one-sided relationship, where non-family adults are authority figures, rather than say, men
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by mahogany 4y ago
> Greenhouse gas emissions per 100g protein https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore?tab ... Doesn't this link confirm that meat is indeed bad with respect to emissions? With respect, focusing on
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by mahogany 4y ago
I see, thanks for the elaboration. You may be correct, but there is more nuance based on my reading of the report: in particular, the "agriculture" category is somewhat misleading. I read a bit of the report, so I might as well po
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by mahogany 4y ago
Asking genuinely: what point are you making with that EPA data? That switching our method of transportation is more impactful than switching our diet because transportation is a bigger chunk of the emissions pie?
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by mahogany 4y ago
Can you elaborate on how this theory would help Monsanto more than the status quo? Much more soy is processed into animal feed (~75%) than is eaten by humans directly as plant-based foods (~7%). Given that the soy -> animal -> human p
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by mahogany 4y ago
> How do you convince people about carbon based climate warming when the biggest proponents of global warming theory fly to conferences to discuss global warning in private jets, and love SUVs and large limousines like there's no to
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by mahogany 4y ago
This data could also signal that people in less traditional areas for software development now have access to remote jobs and are starting to learn more about programming (thus visiting Stackoverflow) to try to get those jobs. The fall in t
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by mahogany 4y ago
Yeah, you're right in that sense. Honestly my post is a little over-dramatic because I'm venting based on these experiences I've had with Spotify. Overall, it does offer a lot and I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it

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