KSteffensen

I think by 1941 the consequences of jingoism and nationalism were quite clear.

Maybe not keep all of it in one tank?

NaOH is mostly dangerous because it is so alkaline. When reacted with fat to create soap the alkaline OH- is reacts with the fat and is 'used up', leaving a mostly neutral product

>It is commonly understood that plants do not have the same mechanisms to experience a range of emotions (pain, happiness, sadness, etc.) as fish, birds, and other animals do.

Isn't this another form of the Meat Paradox, though? Plants have been shown to have moment to moment awareness of their surroundings, can communicate with each other and will turn away from unfavourable conditions. How can you definitively say that plants don't feel pain?

I would not be ok with such a dystopia.

However I don't think there's a clear line to be drawn. Why do most people object to eating dog or cat while they have no problem with pork? Pigs are about as intelligent as dogs (and can also learn to recognize individual humans).

Extrapolating that line of thought there is also no fundamental difference between eating plants and animals, but most people argue that it's morally wrong to kill animals for meat but ok to eat plants.

If you grant that eating a plant causes suffering to that plant I don't see why the order of magnitude of the suffering or number of entities made to suffer matters.

Is it acceptable to inflict suffering on other beings to alleviate your own suffering or hunger?

The Wikipedia article describes the various psychological mechanisms people use to avoid thinking about the fact that something they are doing involves something else getting killed. It does not provide arguments for why killing an animal for it's meat (or hide or other resource) is wrong.

A counterpoint to your 'raising humans for consumption' point which is equally extreme but in the opposite direction. How do you know plants do not feel suffering? After all studies show plants can sense surroundings and communicate with other plants even of other species.

Why is there an ethical problem in slaughtering an animal for meat if that animal has been raised in good conditions and the actual killing happens with a minimum of pain and fear for the animal?

I get why foie gras is problematic, but I don't see the problem in a leg of lamb.

Why is it inappropriate for a white man to use the word prejudice?

Isn't any sort of negatively biased opinion prejudice, regardless of what it's against be it gender, race, dietary choices, religion or anything else?

A lot of things are easier if the state owns a fund valued at approximately 2000 billion dollars and you only have to share that between ~5 million people. [0]

It's a crazy amount of money. In 2017 that fund owned 1.38% of the global stocks. I heard at some point they had trouble because they couldn't use the money to build roads or whatever without affecting the global economy.

[0]: https://www.nbim.no/

I guess he'll be having his garum with fugu....

Elon being unstable scares a lot of insecure engineers out there.

Wasn't the crude oil price negative a year ago? What happened?

"How much attention do you think police gave each of those 20 million reports from Facebook?"

Killer argument. Why not focus here instead?

I would not want to be born into a society where everyone else has lived for hundreds of years.

> Bear with me.

I see what you did there

> are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge

I don't understand the problem here. Isn't science - as in Poppers falsifiability - the only way to legitimize knowledge?

I tend to disagree with both points.

I can't read minds. I need people to tell me what works and what doesn't for them. An employment is a continuous transaction, if the situation changes it is absolutely open to re-negotiation. It's on both the employer, the direct manager and the employee to make sure everybody is happy with the arrangement.

And the two times I did hear about problem before the new contract was signed, I was able to find a solution. In the other case there is not much I can do.

As a mid-level manager I do wish people would inform my of any problems before they sign with some other workplace instead of after. I can't fix issues I don't hear about

You have to play the social game.

Saying "It's none of your business and you can't force me to answer" send a very different message than "It's going alright. Did you watch the game last night? Pretty cool, huh?"

Makes sense.

The right is usually the law-and-order side while the left is the live-and-let-live hippies. :-)

Corruption is quite bad in Argentina. This is not limited to politicians, it's at all levels of society.

I used to think the two party system was a major driver in polarization and resulting instability in the USA and UK, but I guess people can refuse to listen to each other in any system (Israel, Italy, Sweden).

Not enough enforcement

Sorry to break your bubble.

The concept of supermarket greeter blows my mind. As a customer this would be a reason to NOT go to that supermarket. As a potential employee I would have to be starving before I took that job.

This can already be done using UV light possibly combined with ozone treatment.

I'm not sure what the hydrogen peroxide method brings to the table compared with UV/ozone (besides a university press release).

[0]: https://www.espwaterproducts.com/ultraviolet-uv-systems/

[1]: https://www.socotec.co.uk/media/faqs/faqs-ozone-water-treatm...

I have lost 5 kg since january going from ~102kg to ~97kg. This has happened from two changes: going for a run 2-3 times per week and reducing the amount of cake I eat. I still have fries with mayonnaise with my hamburgers.

I acknowledge that there is an issue around cheap food being unhealthy food and people being forced to eat chips for lunch for financial reasons, but for anyone in the middle class or above I really don't understand why it's more complicated than 'move more, eat less'.

It's hard. But it's not complicated.

I won't be injecting any mRNA to loose a few kilos anytime within the next multiple decades.

Metabolism is complicated and there are some really nasty and weird metabolic diseases out there, based on some small regulatory feedback loop being broken. Don't fix a working system!

If your weight bothers you, just go for walk or a swim once in a while. Have a salad.

I would not count working 12+ hours per day 7 days a week, while barely making each months rent as success. As far as I can tell that's the reality for most non-franchise stores, small restaurants, etc.