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by sparrc 7y ago
> the Github repo for takedowns has plenty - although they seem to usually be coming from China/Russia. The other takedowns are 100% from China and Russia. Spain is joining two of the most censor-heavy (and undemocratic) countries i
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by sparrc 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow why IRV means the centrist would be ignored. That assumes people actually _want_ to vote for the extreme polarizing candidates. People may currently only be voting for the more polarizing candidates because they g
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by sparrc 7y ago
is killing not cruel? is it practical for everyone to raise their own cow? kosher is no more ethical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8B4vSd6h0
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by sparrc 7y ago
> Can we just agree to not tell each other what to eat ? Yep, I said from the start that I don't have any burden to change what you do. I never made any argument against meat-eating, why are you so obsessed with trying to prove vega
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by sparrc 7y ago
If an entire city lost power then the first food to spoil would be the meat. I suppose you could hunt squirrels and other small city-dwelling animals but they're not likely to last very long if millions of people suddenly turned to tha
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by sparrc 7y ago
Eating meat if your survival depends on it (not that that's ever likely to happen) is fully acceptable in the defintion of veganism. See https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
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by sparrc 7y ago
I said the opposite, animals are _not_ able to give consent. If you misspoke I don't really know what to say, you think that it's possible for a cow to give a human consent to take their child and milk? And stop kidding yourself a
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by sparrc 7y ago
neat. good argument. anecdotal evidence is not evidence btw.
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by sparrc 7y ago
I grasp the concept in the sense that I grasp that it is a fallacy put forward by someone who either hasn't fully thought through the concept, or is being intellectually dishonest.
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by sparrc 7y ago
how? vegans believe using animal products is wrong because there is no possible way to get consent from the animals. Breastmilk has 100% consent from the mother providing the milk.
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by sparrc 7y ago
The food chain is not a scientific concept, it's useful for teaching children and for Disney movies but it's probably time for you to evolve your reasoning.
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by sparrc 7y ago
Sorry this just made me lol, lookup "gamechangers" and watch the trailer.
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by sparrc 7y ago
Lots of people say this to me but I've never seen evidence that it's true. In my experience most vegans don't do it for health reasons. That being said I do agree that there are huge differences in types of carbs consumed....
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by sparrc 7y ago
There are 3 orders of living things: plants, funghi, and animals. Animal rights is concerned with all animals, not with all living things. Every major dietician association says the same thing about veg diets, that they are healthy for all
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by sparrc 7y ago
> All higher life on this planet survives by eating another life form. Does it? What about vegetarian and vegans animals? (including some humans) > Animal rights groups tend to elevate my food to having similar rights as humans. It&#x
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by sparrc 7y ago
It's more like David vs. Goliath. The food industry has MUCH more money than any animal rights advocacy group.
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by sparrc 7y ago
Is this an 'old' idea? In this context isn't the 'old' idea that saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for you? How does this hypothesis deal with the fact that vegans and vegetarians have lower levels of cardiovasc
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by sparrc 7y ago
tldr: highly educated and well-off engineers are able to adapt.
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by sparrc 7y ago
> National Popular Vote (NPV) rewards states with high population - the higher the turnout, the more power for that state Without EC presidential candidates wouldn't be focused on states at all, they would be focused on large demogr
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by sparrc 7y ago
rural territories still have the senate to balance things out. counter-point is that the political stake is currently being taken away from people who live in large states, and is thus negatively affecting the most amount of people possible
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by sparrc 7y ago
In Seattle we have and are currently expanding a system of "RapidRide" buses. These appear to have an average stop distance of around 0.3 miles (~500 meters) Wikipedia claims that RapidRide routes have on average 40% fewer stops t
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by sparrc 8y ago
really? extreme leftism is pretty clear, it's communism. Saying that communism isn't recognized by most people on the left as "going too far" is pretty hard to believe.
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by sparrc 8y ago
It might be that a 'poorer' diet can be better. Reason being that they use more raw foods rich in fiber rather than processed flour, sugar, oil, etc. See research on the Okinawan diet. People there had the some of the longest life
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by sparrc 8y ago
Does anyone have comprehensive information on typical transportation department budgets in the US vs. some of these countries? Anecdotally I had a civil engineer friend from Spain who always told me that the transportation budgets in the US
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by sparrc 8y ago
Fair enough, I see the logic behind what you're saying, but taxing that as an externality would require a massive change in the way farmland is managed and taxed in most of the western world. I'm not saying this is right, but farm
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by sparrc 8y ago
Right, my point is that producing any type of meat consumes excessive amounts of land vs other forms of producing food, I guess what I'm asking is: how do you classify 'land' as an externality?
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by sparrc 8y ago
True but I think some of these issues are also fundamentally harder to tax. Everything uses land and water, the problem is how much cattle use per calorie produced. I suppose you're saying we should tax usage of these things based on c
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by sparrc 8y ago
But how do you tax the potential land usage? Are you saying we should tax farmers based on how many acres it takes them to produce a calorie? This could also have a knock-on affect of encouraging _more_ cruelty (if that's even possible
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by sparrc 8y ago
That gets a bit more complicated though, greenhouse gas emissions through burping is just one of the many impacts cattle have on the planet: land usage, water usage, manure (harms water supplies, runoff, release gasses, etc), and then you h
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by sparrc 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, there isn't really any 'spin' when it comes to organic, it's actually a very standardized set of rules and regulations that must be adhered to (see https://www.ams.usda.gov&#x2

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