But my tap water has PFAS and lead…so I guess I get to pick my poison?

Wait till you realize that the point of homework is delayed-gratification, prioritization, and self-reliance.

Isn’t the onus on the state to prove they are undocumented? That’s the charge yea?

So…defense lawyer to 5-A, checkmate?

This seems like something that would be thrown out before the envelope was even opened. Like AOL floppies on the judges docket.

Per the article, over 100 years. Or, my life, my kids lifes, and most of my unborn grandkids lives. Probably some of their kids lives, too.

Your first source says that “ruminant animals contribute about 16% of the world’s total methane emissions” and that CH4 emissions lead to 28x more warming per ton than CO2.

Your second source raises a good question about your third:

it is crucial to remember to source and produce plants in a sustainable manner

The environmental impacts of raising food for cattle is also left out of these studies. Over a third of global crop production goes to cattle. That’s a lot of fertile land that could be used to feed humans directly.

What is the environmental cost to raise red algae to add to the feed? At scale, is this more than just allowing the cows to belch out the methane? What other impacts does this have on the cows overall health and digestive system?

Methanogenesis is a natural outcome of their diet…the carbon and hydrogen they are consuming is going somewhere…so where?

These studies always leave these questions unanswered…like the slobs that say Ammonnia -> Hydrogen will be our savior for transport…where does the ammonia come from? Producing that is not free and comes at a significant environmental and energy cost to begin with.

Not to even get into water-in/water-out…even the much hated Almond is far more water-efficient dairy alternative (it’s big problem is trying to grow it on the desert)…while Soy and Pea milk are much, much more water efficient and more nutritious than

And, that second article talks a bit about manure management, which itself is a big problem…a lot of the E. coli, listeria, and salmonella outbreaks are a direct result of poor manura management causing runoff into leafy-green fields. Another fault of animal agriculture that’s oft forgotten.

So even if algae can help, the entire thing is on dire need of reform, and the costs of beef are artificially low. Like gas, they don’t account for the external costs like environmental impact. That really needs to be part of the equation. If they were priced accordingly a McDouble would be a fancy luxurious dinner. Even moreso of the workers were paid fairly.

AIO PCs were and remain a terrible idea…the keyboard PC is a cool novelty reminiscent of the Commodore 64/128 era but kinda stupid nowadays. Would be cool in a C64 shell as a dedicated emulation device tho.

The Library!

How deserving of the crown are we if we are willing to roll the dice and continue the mass extinction even we are provoking just so that a few of use can indulge for a few generations?

Considering livestock and related transport/storage is a large portion of total GHGs, I’d say we are making the same point.

Does the Rolex do the chief function of a watch (keep time) better than a $30 Time ?

So you’re saying what it really does is communicate that you’re a superficial asshole and/or sucker.

* bragging

Press X to doubt…they didn’t have Ikea until well after the medieval period.

Update your links for url encoding

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00020517.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf

Yours came up 404 and my first thought was they were recalled again.

Yeah I was thinking about that after I posted. Giles Corey was a fucking badass and he doesn’t deserve that king of comparison.

Sure.

My main reason for doing the vegan thing for so long wasn’t animal ethics…it was environmentalism and efficiency. Animal ethics came secondary, but I did come to understand the perspective.

Humanity is now able to make fully sustainable diets from non-animal sources. Some micronutrients (namely B12, D, Iron, Zinc, and Omega-3s) are difficult but not impossible to vegan-source.

I do not see a sustainable way to feed humanity going forward on an omnivorous diet. Especially not one that involves the volume of red meat that is found in a typical American diet.

However…your appeal to nature fallacy is flawed when you realize that there is nothing natural about modern agricultural livestock. You could say that an (American) slave had a better life than a person in the wilds of Africa. That obviously wouldn’t be accurate…but you could say it.

It’s not so much a matter of eat-or-be-eaten but one of freedom. And bovines especially…highly social creatures and incredible emotional intelligence. More than we give them credit for.

But even my hens exhibit unique “personalities” (chickenalities?), social hierarchy, even daily routines. I got one girl who, every day, I let them out, she follows me to the nesting box, checks out the situation, pecks my leg twice, then goes to her favorite dust-bath spot so the others don’t get there first.

The cow doesn’t consent.

As dumb as that sounds, you have to realize that to produce milk you must first be a mother. And to keep milk coming, you gotta continue being a mother.

Only one way to turn a heifer into a cow…

Also gotta realize that modern livestock breeds (not just bovine but poultry, pork, etc) are quite removed from their wild ancestors. They are only here because we keep them here. We didn’t extend the same courtesy to most of their wild ancestors.

This is one reason why I stepped back from veganism after like 6 years and into ovo-lacto.

The cheese alternatives, especially. You’re paying top-dollar for a sub-par product made by the same Big Food conglomerates. Why give them more money for a worse product. The money still ends up in the same dirty hands, and IMO cheese is way harder to give up than meat or “other dairy”. Other dairy products have come a very, very long way.

Also fate wound me up with 9 hens and I can’t pass up them eggs.

“I’m still a Trump supporter. I’m just not a happy Trump supporter.”

Anybody who supports trump at this point is either brainless or heartless. Stopped reason after that. That means the guy is either completely uninformed, or he should say “I’m still a pedophile sympathizer”. Ergo, his opinion on the matter is completely worthless.

Seriously most of these people…ranchers especially…are sitting there like Gilles Fucking Corey yelling out “more face-eating leopards”.

Y’all need to go vegetarian in protest. Or at least give up red meat. Fuck this guy and fuck his industry.

The idea of editing history in near real-time was so farfetched at the time. Hell even when I read it like 10 years ago.

Now? Plausible, if not already happening.

When we search for something the algorithm knows what to send us and no doubt has thumbs on the scale from all sorts of influences.

And then most everything is digital anyway, so that can be altered very quickly.

And then there’s the generative AI, which is, like, the most shining example of “confidently incorrect” as it is. But we know Grok is getting more than a thumb on the scale from Musk, he’s full-on fingerbanging it. I’m sure all the rest are too.

You wanna know something sweet and innocent?

When my oldest was like…3 or 4 (he’s nine now) the kid would hear that line and then say “What’s ‘soapin’?”.

So glad that was the part of “horse open” that he asked about.

He also (still) thinks the Eric Clapton song “Cocaine” is saying “Cooking”. Sometimes I sing it to him at bedtime with that lyric.

She don’t like
She don’t like
She don’t like… Cooking.