sprucevoid

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by sprucevoid 3y ago
Phasing out oil and coal production would be great, but that's a task for politics. It is still a collective action problem though since any such agenda needs to gain popular support in a democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
Factory farming of chickens and other animals causes massive aggregate suffering and should be ended, full stop. But chickens can continue to flourish in animal sanctuaries, where they live their own lives without being killed or exploited
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
Many people struggle to motivate themselves to do their part on huge collective action problems like climate change. That's why national and international political action is needed, and in turn needs smaller groups of individuals to p
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
As a descriptive matter people do support a lot of species preservation efforts. But we have strong reasons to increase our care for birds and other sentient animals as individuals, with their own subjective experiences and the suffering an
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
There's a year old issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3227 with no visible progress and a medium priority label. I hope it gets more dev focus soon.
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
The command palette in the Windows version of Inkscape is inexplicably slow very often, not only on first run. 5 seconds to open slow. Is it spending time making fancy command predictions? Does it request and rebuild a list of existing comm
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
True, possible, possible, depends. But on the other hand current levels of global resource and energy use have harmful effects on existing humans and animals. For example climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires tha
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
Understanding the issue requires evidence and arguments about how good or bad the effects are. The problem is that several commenters here jump to conclusions without evidence. On current projections human world population peaks at 10 billi
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
There is no evidence in the linked text that possible "reproductive issues" from sperm count reduction would be something overall bad. One possibility is that the total number of humans born will decrease somewhat and that global
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
> Singer's insistence ... ... in rare, exceptional cases which are extremely unlikely given the teamwork and papertrails of modern day health care systems, as others have already pointed out to you, but which you keep dropping. Once
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
I quoted you claiming "It is very much an argument in favor of a fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset". Nothing in your reply now, nor in any of your other comments, supports that claim. Your claim does not follo
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
You quote part of a sentence about dolphins from the beginning of the transcript. 1. The context is Cowen posing a quirky, ice-breaker kind of question that entertain some counter-factual assumptions to get a conversation rolling. Not unusu
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
> It is very much an argument in favor of a fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset That's a misreading of the paper and a misrepresentation of the position that Singer holds. It is also a misrepresentation of what ut
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by sprucevoid 3y ago
> I’m disappointed he projects some sort of idealised aloof moral superiority on anything non human I see no evidence in the podcast transcript of Singer making such a claim. What exactly are you basing your assertion on? Quote the trans
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> Half measures is what's feasible. The measures you're proposing are not. Do you have evidence for those claims? Or are you reporting your hunch? You didn't answer the individual level questions I asked you.
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> Your linked paper doesn't reference mTORC1 a single time. Precisely! If there was established scientific knowledge of a mTORC1 problem with eating vegan then the leading nutritional science organization's position paper would
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> Now is exactly the time for half measures - radical options proposed in the past largely failed due to their simplistic view of human nature. Not sure I understand. What are some examples of "radical options" in policy you th
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
The problem with only reducing meat from cows and sheep is that other meat sources are still worse than plant based with regard to climate change and we're at a juncture where climate policy need to shift into full gear on all fronts.
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
I'd like to know if you think any of the claims on this page are incorrect and if so what evidence you have against them https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
If you have evidence then please provide it. I'd be happy if you could point out any incorrect claims on this and related Our World In Data pages that cover climate and environmental impacts from beef and the meat industry more general
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> We're not about to run out of land We already did, in the sense that we'd need more earths to let everyone on earth eat the kind of diets prevalent in rich countries today. https://ourworldindata.org/agricultu
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
The seaweed/algea story is pushed strongly by meat industry greenwashing efforts. It isn't large scale deployed anywhere and the potential benefits are overblows. https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-neutral-cow
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
Plant based is superior to all the common animal based foods, from grazing as well as factory farms. https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
Well no report by itself has a big impact. It is a matter of incremental change over time. Like with anything some people are early and they've already switched to plant based eating. Others move later. Like with any commercial sector
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> Were these the same people who ... No. The article reports on scientific evidence. Are you a scientist doing scientific work on the climate impact of the meat industry or a scientist studying meat industry lobbying? If no then on what
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
But GP was making a claim specifically about dairy.
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> feel free to correct any errors in my claims What you say about mTORC1 is not supported by the leading academic researcher organizations in the field of nutrition. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27886704/ "
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> at the moment firefox only searches for bookmarks, not folders Yes, annoying. I've set Firefox to export bookmarks to .html each time it closes and then use scripts to search in that HTML for folder names. Messy, but beats manuall
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> Growth or degrowth are not national policies but individual ones Degrowth as used in the OP article is about macro level policy. For example solar panel subsidies, taxing coal and investments in public transportation. Individual action
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by sprucevoid 4y ago
> a return to simpler lifestyles for forever Seems to me it is often portrayed that way by opponents strawmanning it or by media simply very lossily compressing it into a few sentences/seconds chunks. But I'm not sure how many

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