[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

It doesn't matter. You are ignoring the rot at the core. Even if people turned out and kamala won - it Trump should have broken the Republican party. It should not have been a competition.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

There is going to be an assload of fingerpointing.

Here is my take: even if Kamala won, there is a deep rot that we would be in denial about. Trump should have broken the Republican party but did not and instead galvanized support through misinformation, lies, and hatred. That would not have been cured if Kamala won. At least now we have to be honest with the state of the US.

Still, we can hope he dies of a heart attack.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 117 points 1 month ago

The common name comes from the Romans, who ate them as a delicacy.

First paragraph.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Disingenuous attribution of a local environmental variable to a national crisis is pretty pathetic. Oregon isn't even exceptionally high on the opiod death rate.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 62 points 8 months ago

You have to leave incentives for people who are the ones who are going to create the jobs for all those people trying to climb the ladder.

Oh my god, FUCK OFF

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 117 points 8 months ago

This was literally the first thing I said about the "unbreakable windows" for the cyber truck. That is NOT a good thing in an emergency. This is just one example.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago
  • Pretty much any hobby is carbon positive. Gardening is almost certainly on the lower end of carbon positive hobbies.
  • In the agriculture domain, growing plants for the sake of direct consumption is not the primary source of emissions - that would be animal based agriculture by far.
  • Gardening promotes community resilience and health.
[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago

Meh, maybe 10% of a single generation at most know how to use computers. Technically savvy millenials vastly overestimate how technically savvy other millenials are.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

*It is definitely not too late to mitigate a ton of suffering. *

I've said it elsewhere: environmental nihilism is deeply unethical. There is a ton we can do to minimize damage and restore the environment.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

Being vegan is absolutely not worse for the environment.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is and will always be small potatoes in terms of the suffering we put relatively intelligent animals through every day.

We would need to slaughter probably 100,000 animals yearly for the US organ demand (at ~50,000 transplants per year and a buffer).

We slaughter 125 MILLION pigs in the US for consumption a year.

Not to mention that "medical grade" pigs will probably be given a golden ticket in terms of care until they are slaughtered, compared to the extremely abysmal environment millions live in today.

If animal welfare is important to you, scientific research is a poor use of advocating resources while we still eat hundreds of pounds of meat yearly. If advocates reduce meat consumption by even a percent or two it would generally greatly outweigh banning animal based research entirely.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

The divorce rate is not 50%. It's closer to 30%, 40% at worst.

Monogamy isn't equivalent to lifelong partner.

Aside from which, even a 50% chance at your marriage being one that results in lifelong partnership with someone you care deeply about seems like good odds.

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