alpineman

To write such an article with zero mention of interest rates tells me everything I need to know

Someone needs to tell this guy about the subscriptions

Sounds pretty shady

Why do you use stablecoins and not credit cards like every other non-shady business on the internet?

What's wrong with breaking updates if you never access the open internet from the TV? Genuine question

>> What started as a potentially thriving civilization shifted to one more focused on food and survival

Sounds like what happened to the idealism of Silicon Valley

Nice try to distract from a horrible earnings release!

Ultimately both winning is consensus finding in democracy. It should never be absolute on either side.

I literally saw the smugness and confidence get wiped off their faces in real time. They thought they were going to win straight up in the 2nd round of the election, and by the end of it they looked like they were attending a funeral

It shows how little VCs know about technology

There is effectively no practical difference between supply and consumption once you isolate domestic use?

What do you think happens to that supply if it isn't exported? Why do you think they supply that much if no one is eating it?

Maybe this is helpful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Ironic this was written on a plain text page

That's meat supply inside the country, domestic, not including exports.

FAO figures: production + imports − exports (± stock changes) = meat available in the country

Or, if you prefer a Brazilian source, here is one confirming 105kg per person of 'internal availability' inside the country after exports: https://seucreditodigital.com.br/disponibilidade-carnes-bras...

Brazil's 104.6 is what is available after net exports. With exports it's more like 148(!)

And yes of course vegetable based diets are included. That's a perfectly reasonable and in many ways healthier diet, followed by individuals in countries across the world. It makes no sense to exclude it.

> Irrigation technology. Solved.

And where do you think the water comes from for that 'irrigation technology'? Rainfall.

> Are you absolutely sure you want to to disdain our "completely unnecessary decadent meat consumption" ?

Brazil has one of the highest meat consumptions per capita in the world. 50% higher than Germany. 40% higher than France. More than twice the world average. So yes.

Meat consumption per capita (kg/person)

US 122.1

Brazil 104.6

France 80.3

Germany 70.7

World average 45.1

Rainforests are being cut down to feed cattle so people can eat beef multiple times per day. It has nothing to do with not being able to afford food.

Because deforestation will mean your farmers across the country won't get reliable rainfall. That sounds like something will obviously harm your entire agriculture industry and also put your food supply at risk.

And for what? Completely unnecessary decadent meat consumption (50% more meat consumption per capita than Germany)? Good luck with that.

Sure, I won't object if you have a few mines for rare earths, if you stop deforestation for cattle feed (90%) and deforestation for cheap metals (iron etc - which is the other 10%). 1% for rare earths would be fine tbh. However this is not why the rainforest is being cut down. It's being cut down so that people can eat beef multiple times per week (with the resulting public health crisis that will come from that).

You're cutting down your rainforest (one of your greatest assets) so middle/upper class people in Sao Paulo can do Churrasco 3X a week and have so much meat left over they have to throw it away. It has nothing to do with technological development, sorry.

You need to go for a walk in nature. There’s more to life than semi-conductors. Sad!

What an absolute mess. Nothing but stress with railway over the past year.

It's not about stopping or even reversing climate change, it's about slowing it down and tapering it off so living on this planet doesn't become so unbearable

Who's the one moralizing others on the internet now? Telling others the only solution is to either sacrifice everything or do nothing? Simply not fact based.

China emits half the emissions per capita of the US. Shouldn't we bring our emissions down to that level first?

Good for you for accepting an uncomfortable truth and making a change. I'm not sure where you are based, in some places it's easier to eat out as a vegan than in others. That said, the more people the better, and the easier it gets for everyone.

Livestock is 14.5% of global emissions. Food is about 1/3rd of each individual's emissions. A plant based diet can cut that by 50-75%. How is that not substantial?

Ecosystems are incredibly important for human survival. Once they are gone, we are in a lot of trouble.

Are you also killing the cow like your ancestors did or are you letting some poorly paid immigrant do that for you?

A single burger (108g) results in emissions of 3-6kg of Co2 across its lifecycle

One AI request is 0.38 g in Sweden and 3.2 g in Texas

(Tofu is about 0.1 to 0.3kg of Co2, Seitan about 0.1kg of Co2 per equivalent 100g)

We didn't get to where we are as a species without violently killing each other, or forcing people do to work for us, or killing our young, etc. Doesn't mean we should keep doing it.

Is getting in touch with nature, appreciating the value in things and protecting complex ecosystems really 'Acting Dead'?

I would say 'Acting Dead' is actually sitting at home ordering on Amazon/Temu, watching brainless TikTok/Instagram/Netflix/YouTube videos, and talking to a transformer model all day.

It might not help the cause, but ultimately it's an uncomfortable truth. It's easy to dismiss a fact as 'moralising'.

It's simply a fact that animals suffer when they are factory farmed and then killed. It's a fact that they are living sentient beings. You can be totally okay with that, but the reality is that most people are only okay with it because it doesn't happen right in front of them.

I used to eat meat, btw. And I also used to attack people for 'moralising'. I now realise this was my brain trying to defend itself; to try to make sense of why I would pet a dog but eat a pig (everyone else is doing it, this person is just different and wrong, go away bad vegan person!)