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by valgor 5y ago
Came to say this. These are potentially the biggest individual polluters on the planet.
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by valgor 5y ago
It is amazing what people will do in the name of health and environmentalism except stop eating animals.
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by valgor 5y ago
What would be an appropriate moderate approach? Because for anyone completely shut off to the idea, any approach is too extreme. And for anyone remotely interested with be intrigued enough to learn more on their own.
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by valgor 5y ago
We still need cars, but we don't need meat. And there are people working on reducing transportation and energy emissions because that is a hard problem. Buying beans instead of meat at the grocery store is not a hard problem, and one a
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by valgor 5y ago
If you are concerned about the plants, you will be happy to learn that a plant-based diet kills far fewer plants than a meat eating diet. It takes a lot of plants to grow animals, and we only get a fraction of the total calories the animal
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by valgor 5y ago
The animals don't like it. The environment does not like it. Eating animals is not a "live and let live" situation because you are denying others the right to live.
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by valgor 5y ago
Just looking at Firefox's docs[0]: "The clone can take from 40 minutes to two hours (depending on your connection) and the repository should be less than 5GB (~ 20GB after the build)." It would take some time (to say the leas
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by valgor 5y ago
Animal agriculture causes great environmental damage, extreme cruelty towards animals, and is all together unnecessary. Therefore, there was no turkey on my plate this Thanksgiving and avoided the problem you are having.
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by valgor 5y ago
Curious how humans make methane? I know cows add significant methane to the atmosphere, but never thought about what else emits methane.
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by valgor 5y ago
If you end up with the higher paying job, one thing you could consider is donating a portion of that money to effective organizations that support initiatives that interest you. So your more boring job can still contribute to important wor
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by valgor 5y ago
Easiest thing we can do as concerned individuals is to stop eating meat and dairy. Much of the deforestation happening across the world is due to farming animals and growing the incredible amount of food farm animals require.
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by valgor 5y ago
What is a good way to support sci-hub? Given the nature of illegally share documents and the constantly server hopping, I have always been apprehensive about supporting sci-hub even though I want to.
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by valgor 5y ago
It says "CWE" a lot, but does not say what a "CWE" is. Anyone know?
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by valgor 5y ago
Very interesting idea. If you had to pay, who did you pay? My thought is the money would go to charity, but since that is (usually) a good thing then I don't know if paying money for failing is a good enough incentive.
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by valgor 5y ago
"I prefer to advance humanity, even minimally." - Part of advancing humanity is expanding our moral circle. Pointlessly hurting animals is not an "advanced" society.
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by valgor 5y ago
A lot of that stuff is known as humane washing in the animal rights world. Exploiting and inflicting suffering onto animals is almost always unethical. The only way to treat animals ethically is to not test on them at all.
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by valgor 5y ago
Anything, living or not, can be exploited. Being a person or nonhuman animal does not exempt one.
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by valgor 6y ago
That is just another form of the tolerance paradox. And the conclusion of that would say, yes, only welcome people that are socially open minded people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by valgor 6y ago
As a long time member of the FSF, the criticisms are pretty on point. I wish they would give up on the GNU/Linux battle, and focus more on protecting people's data. The could easily find comrades with numerous other organization
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by valgor 6y ago
Not all sources of food contribute equally to climate change. That is why this article is about cows, and why I commented about cows. They pollute the most.
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by valgor 6y ago
Reducing total emissions is another question. Checkout the first graph on this site: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local?fbcli... It shows how eating animals and animal products is far worse. So even if
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by valgor 6y ago
Not eating cows or drinking cow milk reduces your carbon emissions from cows 100%. You actually don't need technology or a start up to solve this issue!
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by valgor 6y ago
For every vegan that posts, there is also the insufferable drivel of someone that is above veagns. The person that has to tell the world they will continue exploiting and abusing animals because vegans are annoying. Not sure why you act l
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by valgor 6y ago
You will be happy to learn that the majority of soybeans fed to live stock, so if you are worried about the environment, soy is better than meat.
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by valgor 6y ago
It is amazing the levels people go to in order to make something evil less evil. Just stop eating cow and drinking milk! Get some tofu and oatmilk. Many problems are solved, not just the methane emissions problem.
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by valgor 6y ago
We should go as far as possible assuming proper safety guidelines. To do otherwise is an injustice to the future.
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by valgor 6y ago
The thought that if the Great Filter is behind us and we kill ourselves is more depressing than the Great Filter is ahead of us and we kill ourselves. I'm not very concerned with which type of intelligent life expanses into the univer
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by valgor 7y ago
While interesting, the ethical implications are what got me interested in the extended mind theory. If I cut out a piece of someone's brain, and that turned them into a lesser functioning human being, then what I did would be consider
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by valgor 7y ago
I think some commenters are forgetting how science is done. Just because you are researching X does not mean your only output is X. An investment into SETI is an investment in science and technology. All the arguments on this forum about
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by valgor 7y ago
I'm not sure if your scenario is completely hypothetical and you are limited to $1000, but if you are a company and not an individual, why not hire someone with the intention that he or she will work heavily on OSS that you require in

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