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by myshpa 3y ago
Why Software Patents are Bad, Period. https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0027 Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/patents-are-out-of-control... Econ
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Plastic concentrations 18x more in global ocean race compared to previous event(theguardian.com)
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Of course.
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by myshpa 3y ago
"Last week Chile said that nearly 9,000 sea lions, penguins, otters, porpoises and dolphins have died from bird flu along its north coast since the start of the year. Most mammals are believed to have contracted the virus by eating an
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Experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak(medicalxpress.com)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Numerous scientific studies confirm this, but the meat/dairy industry spreads propaganda and misinformation to protect itself. The meat industry is borrowing tactics from Big Oil to obfuscate the truth about climate change https:&#x2F
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by myshpa 3y ago
Maybe controversial, but still possible. ME: "Release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from warming ocean sediments and decaying organic matter, a potential extinction event." Is this a realistic possibility? GPT-4: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S
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by myshpa 3y ago
We simply don't know. I recommend Peter Ward's video for more info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin... "The impacts of the decline and potential shutdown of the AMOC could in
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by myshpa 3y ago
The warming of the oceans could lead to the following consequences: - Coral reef collapse and loss of marine biodiversity. - Accelerated sea-level rise, resulting in coastal flooding and displacement of populations. - Ocean acidification, h
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by myshpa 3y ago
Apologies, but you are mistaken. > thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides https://ourworldindata.org/soy More than three-quarters (77%) of glo
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by myshpa 3y ago
Agriculture is the primary cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss, making it the biggest killer. Animal agriculture, which accounts for 75% of agricultural activities, is particularly responsible for this devastation. Our love for bur
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by myshpa 3y ago
PFAS 'forever chemicals' cost society €16 trillion a year https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157075 And they settle for 1B? 3$ per US person? That's ... not even funny.
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/environment https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse
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by myshpa 3y ago
uMatrix is a lifesaver ... I enable only css, images and media for 1st party sites, everything else is disabled by default. Have not seen an ad in years.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Most of it goes towards animal agriculture. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...
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by myshpa 3y ago
"Human activity has pushed the world into the danger zone in seven out of eight newly demarcated indicators of planetary safety and justice, according to a groundbreaking analysis of the Earth’s wellbeing." "We have reached w
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Earth’s exceeded seven out of eight safe and just ecosystem boundaries(theguardian.com)
3 points by myshpa 3y ago|1 comments
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by myshpa 3y ago
How many dead pigs do you need to fuel an airplane? According to Transport & Environment, a flight from Paris to New York would need fat from 8,800 dead pigs if all the fuel came from animal sources
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The fat of dead pigs, cattle and chickens is being used to make jet fuel(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by myshpa 3y ago|3 comments
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And now it's even gonna smell like bacon ... The fat of dead pigs, cattle and chickens is being used to make greener jet fuel https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65727664
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by myshpa 3y ago
> But you can only understand the paths they blaze through the mind if you’ve traveled them. I believe the term "high" for psychedelics is misleading and inaccurate. It wrongly implies similarity to being drunk, which is not th
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by myshpa 3y ago
In meat & dairy it's concentrated, at much higher levels. https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/pesticides/ "While some plant foods may be contaminated, animal food intake is the biggest source of certai
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by myshpa 3y ago
That's because globalization leads to single company doing everything. Think WALL-E's Buy-N-Large [0]. In fact, nowadays just - 62 persons own the same as half the world [1], - 5 companies own all media in US (it was 50 companies
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by myshpa 3y ago
Approximately 70-80% of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture, primarily to promote faster growth or ensure animals survive until slaughter. I wonder how big is the impact of residual antibiotics in meat and dairy on bacterial resistan
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by myshpa 3y ago
90+% (IIRC) of slaughtered animals in US are from CAFOs. Any kind of slaughter is inhumane when there's no NEED to eat meat. The clean process you may have seen in TV is different from reality (see recent CO2 chambers relevations [0]).
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Some humans still have the ability, but most have lost it. Cannot edit. I was thinking of insoluble fiber, but cannot find the source. We can digest soluble fiber. Insoluble fiber we cannot digest, but we need it anyway.
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by myshpa 3y ago
It was originally about "strong bones and muscles". And ultra-running is much more cool than body building ;p But if you insist. https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=vegan%20bodybuilders https://images.go
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by myshpa 3y ago
And now show us list of their sponsors. I'll bet there will be several sunblock manufacturers on it.
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My $0.02. PFAS.
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by myshpa 3y ago
> they can digest fiber that humans can't Some humans still have the ability, but most have lost it. It depends on you microbiome. But we still don't have to consume meat, not in this day and age, and with our supermarkets and

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