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I've never understood why some of these corporations just trash so much of these materials that are just fine. Is it just that no one will buy them if they're re-packaged? I've seen a lot of re-packaged goods on shelves, it doesn't appear to be an issue for some retailers.

The idea of taking in returns from customers and just throwing the product out seems absolutely insane to me.

And the food waste is just depressing. When there's so many hungry people in the world. I understand that distribution is a concern here, but this has to be a workable problem somewhere in here to reduce this waste.

Honestly, this is the crazy part of all of this. The middle class was built on a bigger tax burder on the wealthy, which led to the largest epoch in human advancement (with a lot of caveats, yes -- but there's a lot of positives there).

Rolling back these tax rates has led to recession after recession and ever increasing gaps between the 1% and everyone else, and the middle class is shrinking.

It doesn't seem like it's such a hard line to draw between all of this.

That's a lot of bullshit words to justify "meat taste's good".

We're not animals. We can't have it both ways in the ideological spectrum of how we both perceive and interact with the world. Whatever the fuck Ben Franklin said is largely meaningless when you take a few minutes to compare it against the world and reality he inhabited to the one we live in today.

There's a lot of literal bullshit to dispel here.

First, the whole bison vs. cow argument is bunk for a variety of reasons. The diet that roaming bison ate is very different that the beef and dairy cattle eat today. Also, they didn't typically shit in large pools given that they were not animals that we're penned in to the same geographical location and roamed, often over many, many miles throughout the year.

Second, you're looking solely at North America. Cattle "production" is truly worldwide at this point, with beef and dairy cattle farms in many far off places where the animals are not native, and the true reporting of their numbers is grossly under-reported.

And, the whole goddamn thing about fungi is just.. I don't even know where to start with that. The amount of food created to feed cattle is staggering, and without that need in the first place, then the fungi wouldn't need to metabolize and emit methane, even though all of this is just some kind of insane babble. The methane comes from huge pools of manure that can, and more likely is not, properly and sustainably dealt with. There are blighted areas in the US alone where large cattle companies have simply abandoned the areas due to health concerns.

Here's the thing about methane though, when you generate an enormous amount of it, year over year, the cumulative effects of it cooling the planet (you know, melting glaciers, raising sea temperatures) does not really give a damn about the half-life of atmospheric methane. Once those effects set in, they're self-perpetuating and continuing to feed into the same root causes only makes it more difficult to resolve.

Finally, if you think that beef filled with GMO corn is some kind of magical health / nutrition goal post, well, there's nothing I could possibly say to counteract the sheer inanity of that position.

I think Beyond Beef is fine. I don't eat it for "health" reasons, and anyone who eats mass produced ground beef for "health" reasons is just straight up lying to themselves. All of these are comfort foods that we can all sustainbly live without. The decision is whether the slight taste difference is worth the absolutely terrible cost to the environment, and the devastating cost associated with the mass slaughter of sentient animals.

Completely ignores the methane output issue which is a huge contributor to global warming.

Also, killing billions of sentient beings simply because the taste is a bit off, but let's all just ignore that.

Well shit, the taste is slightly off so let's keep killing billions of sentient animals.

I eat these on a regular basis and never experience this. This person is full of shit (literally apparently).

This is one of the reasons that I'm hyper protective of my kids right now. I have never really fully understood the shoulder shrugging around kids exposure to COVID (having them in school etc.) simply because their reactions are so less severe.

We've never known what the full impact of getting COVID over the span of a lifetime though, and for kids that have it young we could be seeing lifetimes of health related issues that could have potentially been avoided.

Getting buyers remorse since I just picked up the i9 macbook pro. I passed on the M1 since I need the RAM. I just wish you could use 32gb with the initial release.

It sounds like it's coming in the new few months now. I just couldn't hold out. Oh well.

BBC hijacks the back button? Weird choice, that.

I'm in agreement for sure, extra judicial killing of any kind is questionable. I think we should review all of them and hold those responsible for their actions.

However, drone strikes have "collatoral damage" and unintended side effects like this (not saying this makes them good and they should continue) especially when they're deployed in areas openly holding people who are in active conflict against people in their own countries and there is military deployed. Again, this doesn't make it right.

There's a big difference between that and a lone citizen applying for a marriage VISA, in another country entirely, being kidnapped and murdered due to his writing against the regime. And, due to the nature of the relationship between the US and SA it has been nearly covered up.

I'm not saying that there aren't other good examples. But, to target a US journalist like this, at a foreign embassy where there are recordings, logs of people entering and leaving (with visitor logs) where you could conceivably find those responsible and run it up the chain for accountabiliity is the rare element here that could and should be used.

If we actually start to make an example here, that this is not acceptable in our society, then perhaps others will feel less emboldened to do the same.

It's sadly not the first time that Netflix has avoided controversy with MBS:

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/netflix-cou...

It's sad, but in a way, this type of censorship tends to increase interest in the content, so hopefully this happens here. The Khashoggi murder is one of the most blatently horrible incidents in the last few years that should be discussed at length and those responsible actually held responsible.

I'd never heard of the film, but now I am definitely going to check it out.

I'm strongly against 2A, just want to be clear. It's just a topic that brings out all of the 2A folks in droves whenever it comes up here. I think the rest of the community generally shies away from the conversation for that reason.

I should made that clearer in my comment. Apologies.

HN is a strong 2A supporting community, so this comment is not going to go over well.

It's also worth mentioning that Eddie Lampert's roomate in college was Steve Mnuchin, who he put on the board to assist in the looting of Sears'.

Both are currently being sued due to their role in the downfall of the company.

It's not the actual election and it's machinations that were comprised in 2016. It was online discourse and disinformation tactics used to discredit Hilary in favour of Trump.

And, no one believes that 2020 was any different in that regard. They may have been more sophisticated this time around, but the force of COVID and Trump's utter ineptitude really broke through to a lot of people who sat out 2016.

I imagine that if you dive into the anti-COVID rhetoric, Stop the Steal etc. you'll find the same cast of characters responsible for Lock Her Up, and Emails etc.

Other have rebutted the claim that the evidence of Russian influence was "tenuous" and "circumstantial", but one piece of information that they haven't mentioned is that the Republican led Senates' own intel report the coroborated the claims made by the Democrats.

Also, it was the Republican DoJ w/Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein that commissionned the Mueller report (Robert Mueller, a Republican as well).

To continue to believe otherwise and post these false claims online only makes you part of the problem, not actually looking for a solution.

I say this as someone who is generally not a fan of the approach that Twitter, Youtube etc. make in terms of censorship like this. I just think we all need to call a spade a spade when we see it though, and the evidence here is overwhelming.

Still worth sharing so that people are aware. I was in the market for these machines and holding on until their release, but I started going through my tools to see what was supported or not, and no docker is a no-go for me.

This is really nice. I have my airpod double tap set to pause, play but I miss having siri available for hands free. This makes it easy to have both!

I'm happy to hear that the experience w/CDS is improving.

I worked on a project with them about 4 years ago, and it was a less than ideal experience. CDS was not entirely at fault, as there were other departments involved, but they were willing to bend on specific details that we (as an outside service provider) specifically recommended against.

It put us at odds contractually in terms of project timelines, but we were pushed between delivering securely or timely, and the stress from all sides for the latter caused a number of people to not only leave our company, but also take leaves of absense on the government side.

I strongly support them as a Canadian citizen, and sincerly hope that they've reached the zenith in that their stated position holds, because the alternative was a downright awful experience.

Public roadmap is always an interesting decision to make.

Oh give me a break. You're being willfully ignorant if you actually believe this to be the case. For months there were front page posts on reddit, manipulated by bots, from TD that were some of the worst content I've ever seen outside of 4chan.

I mean, reddit scrambled to implement a subreddit filtering feature just to provide a means for users to filter TD out due to the near constant complaints about the content of that sub.

Meanwhile, they banned other subreddits for much, much less. They actively fought to provide them their safe space and wrote actual features to support that subreddit.

It's just a thinly veiled allusion to "dog whistling" which all of these supposed free speech zealots like to throw around whenever they feel that their safe space is being questioned.

I'm no fan of r/politics, but to actually believe that they're basically the same as TD is just wild.

Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today. Ellen is 100% right here and Alex did absolutely nothing to address it.

Good on her for publicly calling it out.

I wish this was true around 4 months ago. But, good news on the Braintree side now!

Stripe is using this, and it's great. There's a few gaps in terms of messaging and flexibility (notably, which type of payment request is being sent -- apple pay, google pay etc.) but it makes it much, much more developer friendly.

This just blew my mind.

God, the cursor usage in iOS is horrible. I hate using it.

That's just silly. The process has a lot of faults, but they're mostly around their inclusiveness. If anything, the fact that a bunch of people can visibly see the results of their respective caucuses, can report (e.g. tweet) on them real-time means that the ability to manipulate them is much, much harder.

Picture it, there's 100 people in a room who all have to move themselves around to their respective candidates and people count them and shout out the numbers.

All of the candidates are represented (they're reporting the numbers) and can hear the same numbers, all of the voters can hear them too.

It's messy, but it's probably one of the most difficult systems to "hack" in terms of real numbers since so many people know the results immediately.