Bullshit.

Nah we’ve dropped nukes without GPS before. We can do it again.

May be on to something there. Only “Jake Springer” I see on LinkedIn posted from Port Aransas, TX yesterday.

Chinese treatment of animals is beyond anything else I’ve ever seen.

I agree with you…but do you really think America or most of the West would be much better if not for modern animal rights activists?

Modern industrial society has such a wild disconnect from its food, and I don’t think most people would care if not for the likes of PETA et al always bringing to the front of their attention.

Myself and my kids are ovo-/lacto- vegetarian. My wife is full blown vegan. We raise a small flock of chickens for eggs and my oldest (2nd grade) loves our hens like members of the family.

You know how some of the kids bully him? By saying they’ll come to our house and eat our chickens. I think even a second-grader would know not to say that about a dog…but a chicken? Not even a thought. Even his therapist wasn’t disturbed by that until I told her that the chickens are treated more like pets than livestock.

And they should be treated better. They are beautiful, diverse creatures with their own social rules and personalities. You haven’t lived till you’ve gotten stoned and hung out with a flock of hens for a few hours.

Vegan wool.

Aren’t rats notable for their hygiene and social skills? Seems like a poor comparison.

That’s just, like, your opinion, MyOpinion@lemm.ee.

Whale dust. Don’t breath this.

This guy inspires millions, if not billions, with his soothing voice.

His brother? Spared “no expense” building a state of the art theme park that ended up killing so many people (and almost killing his own grandkids) before it opened that they had to scrap the whole thing. And it was a damn good thing his granddaughter knew Unix systems (and wasn’t eaten first), or it surely would’ve killed more.

Hahahah no. Humans haven’t changed. We still love to gawk at death and pain. We just don’t want to admit it directly.

Rubber-neckers slowing down the highway for a crash on the other side aren’t doing it to make sure they are safe. They are hoping to spot some gore.

Gotta say “antifa” (ann-TEE-fuh) so it sounds like a bad thing. Like an exotic gang, like al Qaeda or something. That way, normal people think antifa is the enemy, and in doing so, they support fascism without even knowing it.

Naming and pronunciation are key. They got half of America terrified of a fucking train halfway across the world.

It wouldn’t surprise me. We are a product of our environment, and Trump is a very clear example of that. He tends to mimic and amplify whoever he thinks is the strongest/most powerful around him. He’s a LeFou in constant search of a Gaston.

Not just that but the pilot can be on the other side of the world from wherever the fiber leads out.

Most likely the fiber is coming out of a bunker that just has some switches and a TACLANE or something similar. Doesn’t take much infra…you need that, some sort of low-latency network connection, and room for drones to take off.

Once it’s set up, the site can be unmanned. Hell they can rig it to blow itself up after the mission is complete, so that nothing can be recovered from the infra if it’s found.

For that matter, most of the drones flight path could be pre- programmed…the pilot only there as a contingency. Doing that, one operator could control several drones simultaneously.

The worst thing about this is that fish is probably the least sustainable protein around.

That’s saying a lot, because beef is pretty fucking bad, but at least we can raise beef rather sustainably, it’s just not cost effective or scalable, especially if you want to be a bit humane about it.

Most commercial fish we consume are middle- or top-food-chain. That means they need to eat other fish. Which means that even farming them relies on harvesting fish from the ocean, or farming an entire foodchain below them (and adequate for each life stage, at that). Farmed fish are implicitly dependent on traditional ocean fishing.

Yeah and it’s being funded by Musk and Thiel.

If somebody told me, 27 years ago, that paying for eBay auctions would be the first link in a chain of events that would lead to the downfall of US, I’ve thought you were crazy.

I apologize, everyone. This is entirely because of my teenage photography hobby. I should’ve kept on just mailing money orders.

Bounty hunters. I think we’re at that point.

I know. It really sucks. Poor communities already take the brunt of it. There’s a reason why poor communities, even (if not especially) in the US have lower life expectancies,more cancer cases, more asthma, higher birth defects, etc.

The good news is, they would feel the pinch of carbon taxes mostly on imported goods. Which, granted, while it would mean more expensive goods for the consumer, I think it would also mean less frivolous consumption, which ultimately would harm the rampant consumerism and with it a lot of major polluters.

Yeah, it will.

But at the same time, carbon is way too cheap.

It sucks…but by not paying for the externalities of consuming carbon, we’ve been making the planet less habitable for all, but especially poor people. Heavy carbon emitters are always upwind and upstream of poor communities. We ship out our worst waste to third world countries.

Something’s gonna have to give. There’s no easy solution. But I’d definitely take carbon taxes over tariffs. Targeting nation-states arbitrarily isn’t going to fix anything, but targeting the shipping industry will.

There’s no good answer.

I recognize that this comes from a place of extraordinary privilege, and I hope you do too…but I kinda agree. Let’s just get the collapse of the US over with so we can rebuild. Quit dragging our feet on it, it’s just gonna make things worse in the long term.

Valve is probably doing the two most important things in gaming right now:

• Setting a low-end benchmark for devs to build/optimize games to (“how well does it run on steam deck”)

• making gaming on Linux more readily available.

Both are critically needed, but like your other commenter, I would like to see more competition.