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Many animals are smarter than severely mentally-disabled humans, yet we don't torture and eat severely mentally-disabled humans. So it's not about intelligence. It's obviously also not about being able to feel pain, because animals can feel pain.

Do you agree with "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you"?

If yes, would you be okay with genetically modified people who are much smarter and crueler than you, treating you like factory farmers and fishermen treat animals? 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in torturous factory-farm conditions every year, and together with fishermen torture about 2-6 trillion fish to death annually, usually by slow asphyxiation. Hundreds of billions of land-animals (mostly chickens) are enslaved in torturous conditions every year and slaughtered. About 1% of chickens are boiled alive because it would cost more money to make sure the machines that kill them don't miss that 1%. Dairy cows are repeatedly put on rape racks to be artificially inseminated, because they only give milk after delivering a calf. The calves are removed from their mothers, because the farmers don't want the calves to drink the milk. Would you like to be kept your entire life in torturous conditions? Be tortured to death? You and/or your female family repeatedly artificially inseminated and made to give birth, then have the babies taken away so you and/or your female family's milk can be harvested, eventually killed for hamburger when not yielding enough milk to make a profit?

I can't find it now, but I saw a paper that said that India is one of 8 countries in the world where electric cars (charged from the main grid(s), no matter what time of day) release more CO2e than fossil-fuel cars, because of the amount and terrible quality of coal used to generate most electricity in those countries. The few cars charged only from renewable sources like wind/solar/etc. are of course vastly less omnicidal. Anyone have any good citations?

If this is true, would it also be true for coal-to-electricity trains vs more straight fossil-fueled trains?

Even trains in these bad coal-to-electricity countries might be less harmful than even the best renewably powered cars, as long as the trains aren't regularly running with minimal passengers.

According to KnowYourMeme it's from a photoshoot. Maybe an acting toddler, or a photographer who made a toddler cry.

When making movies or TV shows that require a crying baby, they're supposed to wait for the baby (or it's twin) to cry, and not to actually make it cry.

The train already had about 10 students who got on at previous stations also going to her school. She was the only one at that particular stop. Her parents already has a car, and they use it to drive her for 5 minutes to the train station, the train then takes 1 hour to get to where her school is.

"There’s only one train heading away from the main city of Asahikawa toward Engaru High School each day, so Kana’s parents make the five-minute drive to the station in time for her to catch the 7:16 a.m. train every morning, where she’s the only regular passenger waiting on the elevated section of land serving as a platform. The journey to school takes almost one hour, giving Kana time to read, listen to music or study during test time.

When Kana boards the train, there are about 10 other passengers, mostly other students, inside." https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/1540/

Nope: "along with more than 10 schoolmates at 7.15am." The Straits Times "On boarding the train, Kana takes her seat amongst her schoolmates who got on board at earlier stations. Most of the passengers, indeed, are students at the Engaru Highschool. " The Online Citizen

Also, reducing human overpopulation is a good things because human overpopulation is the biggest cause of anthropogenic climate change (compare it to other causes), and the root cause of it. It's also the root cause of the anthropocene extinction event and of that becoming a mass extinction event, and of factory farming, and of industrial fishing, and of habitat degradation and destruction, and of unsustainable pollution, ...

While I prefer the UK version, the Australian show has my favorite Taskmaster moment ever: Concetta Caristo vs the vertical bathroom scale:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=j3axAOE8Yow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3axAOE8Yow

The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.

"for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka" - Isaac Bashevis Singer

I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.

Aren't the A and Q keys also at terrible positions?

Seems like they're banned in several countries and by several providers: https://web.archive.org/web/20250531154905/https://catbox.moe/faq.php

My apologies to Catbox, I thought they were requiring cookies or cross-site-scripting