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Logically, it may make more sense to keep eating beef/some meat and instead give up dairy. Not only is it probably healthier, but the pain inflicted in the dairy industry is arguably worse per calorie than that of milk.

- Forced (artificial) insemination - Calf separation (within 24hrs of birth, causes distress to mother too) - Male calf fate (typically sold into veal or beef production, often under low-welfare conditions) - Repeated pregnancy and high milking demands (3–4 pregnancies over ~4 years and are milked 2–3 times daily) - Health problems (mastitis, lameness, metabolic disorders etc) - Physical mutilations (dehorning/disbudding, tail docking and branding are routine) - Early culling (Productive lifespan is ~5 years, yet natural lifespan ~20 years) - Confinement and barren housing - Transportation and slaughter

Can I kill and eat your pets and/or the pets of your friends/family?

I will donate my body as stockfeed to those remaining pets that your family/friends have after I die. Does that give me a pass?

Very true. Just like when slaves were commonplace, it was 'normalised' and many people just turned a blind eye.

Surely this is more a case that it used to be much harder to be vegetarian and almost impossible to be vegan! Now we actually have a clear choice given the development and availability of so many other foods and supplements. Hence for me to value my enjoyment of foods above the life of another animal seems pretty harsh at best.

Even chicken eggs really are not cruelty free - if you truly love animals, you would stop eating all animal products imo. Otherwise you are simply lying to yourself.

Converse opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFz99OT18k

Thanks - that's amazing that you have reduced your meat consumption, I really do think we need to take more responsibility and care about animals more. This video converted me, may offer some insights for you too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YFz99OT18k

Snap - I have an almost identical eating pattern, 2 meals a day suits me great.

But when 95% of animal products are factory farmed globally, the processes already take away from the nutrition and heavily harm the environment.

Surely reducing the harm to the environment and animals is worth it...Not to mention the horrible conditions for the people who's job it is to kill animals all day in abattoirs?!

Reality is that more than 99 percent of US meat production facilities are factory farms.

Yet we still work on the assumption that consciousness arises within space-time...

Disappointing the burden of proof is not deemed necessary in this case!

Cognitive dissonance in action. Why not try talking to workers there who do not have money to invest.

Even in the UK, I know people on zero-hour contracts (no security) who are working unhealthy hours and in unhealthy environments who will be replaced by robots soon enough. But there are few local jobs, partly because Amazon drains wealth from local communities, local businesses close and wealth is siphoned out to rich shareholders elsewhere, as oppose to circulating in the same community.

Great post - annoys me that Gates, but especially Warren Buffet is never held to account, I have seen Coke and similar corporations have devastating consequences on small towns all over central/south America because local food is replaced with sugary-filled and processed foods, with advertising placed all over these small businesses, so uneducated families and kids grow up drinking coke straight after they stop breast feeding, very sad.

Pretty much all LLMs easily beat Google Translate, this is not news...

One of the best yet unplanned features of them imo.

Nah, this is just the modern tech playbook: First you open source stuff, then you can monitor all the related development happening and whenever you see areas of interest/popularity, you simply clone the functionality or buy out whatever entity is building that interesting stuff.

I do feel you are using your own experience very anecdotally, I can tell you that a lot of the routes in wales are just one operator.

And also, your commute may be fine, but believe me, many cities in the UK are not... Edinburgh’s 41 per cent congestion level means a 30-minute journey will take 41 per cent longer than usual and I can tell you from personal experience that a lot of cities in the west-country are over capacity.

Have you see Bittensor's project and what are your opinions? Would you consider integrating? I believe it may help with the open source AI movement and projects such as this!

This is another nod to the non-duality philosophy, which I think deserves more attention.

This conversation between Rupert Spira and Donald Hoffman talks about the unconscious in a way very relevant to this research. Very interesting to hear both sides and interesting that these revelations back Rupert's point that consciousness is always there on some level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWqUBqprk8

Wow, this is brilliant! Will start adding some products.

Congrats, then you should understand that even if Bitcoin doesn't make it, some other form cryptocurrency probably will.

Exactly, a very arrogant and short sighted comment. Though one I would expect in a thread about crypto currency. I believe many have a strong hatred for Bitcoin etc, as they missed out on an opportunity to make a LOT of money, or simply know others that made a lot and feel some jealousy. It's just a technology and for all we know, some larger distrust may arise in governments that leads to people using crypto more and although a very small chance, bitcoin may become the most commonly used currency. My point being, we just don't know and cannot predict these things.

Majority of people like to get fucked up to escape reality, especially alcohol.

That's fine - but to suggest alcohol is a good way to understand yourself better is bs imo. There are far better ways/substances.

Get drunk when you want to by all means, but don't try and paint it as 'good for yourself'. There are far better substances if you want to do some instrospection!

If you can't, then i don't think alcohol is the solution here tbh.

So many people are still ignorant of the space, especially Stripe who's business will suffer if crypto really takes off.

Those who say there is no innovation simply haven't looked deep enough, everyday i see cool new ideas in crypto, infact today I saw a 'streaming payments' service, so you can get your salary streamed to you constantly as opposed to a monthly payment - how cool is that?! Love all these ideas! Seems things move faster in the crypto space, as people are less concerned with formalities and processes. Sure this will lead to some big failures, like the occasional defi hack, but it also leads to brilliance in some areas, so to just say 'there's no innovation in crypto' is complete ignorance imo.

OK, I can see you are just drawing conclusions without doing any real research, you have the opinions of someone who left crypto in 2017 and never looked at it since. I'm not going to bother wasting my time on you, but do advise anyone else reading this to look into the space and see some. of the great projects such as Helium Network HNT, Akash AKT or Aave.

Most major exchanges have reduced max leverage to 20x or less now. Regarding bugs, the space is still young, so of course there will be risks attached, even. more so when the space is innovating so quickly, but projects like Aave and Compound can be considered pretty safe now, with hundreds of millions value locked and have stood the test of time.

Exactly! So funny that these news outlets are duped into believing these obviously made up stories. I guess they probably don't care if it gets them a few extra clicks. Hopefully they will at least lose some credibility through this.

I agree there is a lot of this in the space, but if you look past the laser eyes, there is some really awesome stuff happening in defi.

Sure - some problems being solved right now: What problems does DeFi solve? There are a few straightforward ones when looking at financial systems -

Inefficiency - Banks and financial institutions spend billions on opex (ex. BoA spent $53 billion on SG&A and occupancy/equipment in 2020). Well written protocols and decentralized trust can increase efficiency and collapse this number

Permissioned access - For better or for worse, anyone can create financial products and a whole market for it without asking the SEC

Opacity - Instead of using paper/hidden digital ledgers, open source contracts lets one easily follow money flow through code and transactions

Access - Turns out the world is very big and lots of people are either locked out from traditional financial institutions or their preexisting ones just really suck.

(some examples taken from article https://parthchopra.substack.com/p/part-2-why-defi-is-not-a-...)

It certainly would, as currently USDT is used as collateral throughout the system, but I don't think Tether would just 'go down'. Regulators aren't stupid and the worst case imo is that there is a time period where people are told to redeem tether to USD or other stablecoins such as USDC/DAI. The space has been through worse things and always recovered, I do hope Tether is properly investigated so that we can have confidence in them or remove them from the space and use other stablecoins.

We don't truly know the severity of it yet, but we do know that money has been moving over to other stablecoins such as USDC over the past year or so and so risk is slowly decreasing. There is a huge amount of innovation in the space and i think to gloss over it as a 'house of cards' is a bit naive - there is no denying it is a volatile market, but it is here to stay, so best to embrace it and see if there are actually projects that resonate with you.

As much as I hate the 'FUD' label often given to anything negative in the crypto space, it is disappointing that even the BBC cannot use an honest title. Binance is not 'banned' as they say- this is misleading. I am in the UK and still using it, it is only the derivatives products that have been banned.