SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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Some website I've never heard of before that you term as a "random website" says "We estimate..." a bunch of times without any attempt to describe the methodology used for their estimates.

So that's bullshit.

The problem with the vegan animal rights movement is you're always going for the moonshot of ending an entire industry instead of even trying to identify and shut down farms with horrible practices or outlaw those practices. To accomplish the goal of ending an industry, you're fudging numbers and coming out as being dishonest which means no one will trust you and you'll accomplish nothing. If animals are indeed being boiled alive (I don't believe you about this because you're obviously making up shit on other things) then it will continue to happen because you're trying to accuse an entire industry of doing things that only some in the industry might do.

If you cared about the boiling animals alive thing (if it actually happens) you'd be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you're not doing that (you're not even identifying any particular farms) so that leads me to believe either it's not happening, or maybe you want it to continue to happen because it somehow helps your vain cause of ending all meat.

The poll says 46% of Republicans and 42% of Democrats outside of New York don't have an opinion on a guy running to be Mayor of New York.

Clickbaitey article headline implies not having an opinion on a politician running for mayor in another city means the same as being unfavorable towards that politician. Yes he has a low favorable number but a massive "no opinion" number because should people give a shit about a politician in another city?

New Yorkers may like to to think they're the center of the world, but shockingly over 40% of people outside of New York probably don't know who this guy is because why should they?

The "fight fire with fire" marketing campaign is getting a lot of engagement so we're releasing the product anyway.

It's one soda, Michael. What could it cost? 20 dollars?

The Canadian government is aware that a Canadian citizen died in ICE custody.

What are we supposed to do?

Launch an invasion to free our people from the terrorist American regime?

I think it has more to do with lazy management. Before WFH their job was basically just making sure the employees were sitting at their desks at a specific time and didn't leave until after a specific time. So 9am, you're sitting at your desk, at 5pm you're sitting at your desk then they've done their job for the day.

WFH means they need to know that you're actually working. So they have to know what you do (many bosses don't actually know what their employees do) and have some way to measure that you're doing that thing in a reasonable amount of time. It's actually their job to do this even if you're in the office, but it's easier to just make sure you're in a location where work is the only thing you can do and assume you're doing work because there's nothing else to do.

Also bosses are hesitant to verbally abuse employees over video chat as that can easily be recorded. RTO solves problems for managers that like to yell at their employees.

But they can't say "we're lazy and we want to be able to yell at you" so they come up with other reasons.

Sure, sometimes the real estate thing can be a factor when a company got massive tax breaks from the government under the promise of that the new Amazooglesoft "campus" will be a big economic driver for a city with a bunch of cities competing to give the biggest tax breaks to entice those companies to go there. The governments that gave those incentives will probably take them away (they should, those companies should be paying taxes) because there actually hasn't been economic stimulus for the neighbourhoods of those offices spaces because of WFH. So in those cases you have to go to a place so you can buy lunch (and maybe go shopping after work) so your company can still get tax breaks.

But mostly it's just lazy managers.

Release the Thompson files!

And by that I mean: Promise to release the files for years and then decide no one should be prosecuted and say "why is everyone still talking about that guy?"

Give them an even number of yellow roses. It'll be fine because yellow symbolizes friendship, so there's no way it'll be misinterpreted.

Eastern European mafia types sometimes give an even number of yellow roses to their friends so it must be fine!

TIL spilling salt isn't considered bad luck in the US. As you can see in the wiki you linked it's a European (not just Eastern European) superstition, along with being a bad omen in many religions in the world.

I'm from Canada and it's considered bad luck here, though generally not taken all that seriously.

Can I ask what part of the US are that you've never heard of spilling salt to be bad luck? Also why would you just dump it on the ground?

It says 60% of mammals are livestock, not 60% live in factory farms. I've been around cows in normal (non-factory) farms, and they seem fine. Way better off than wild animals that starve, die of disease, freeze to death, etc.

I have family members that have livestock and if something bad happens to them it's like someone hurt their child.

A seal in the 4% living in the wild may be eaten alive by a killer whale or torn to shreds by a great white shark.

We aren't going to prevent all animals from suffering, because how could we do that? Kill off all of the predators? Then there would be animal overpopulation and animals dying of starvation and disease.

Maybe we just focus on ending factory farms because that seems doable. But that effort won't be successful with obvious hyperbole claiming all livestock is treated like animals in the most horrible factory farms. Some people have actually been to farms that aren't like that you know.

People aren't stupid and if you misrepresent the facts, no one will believe anything else you're saying no matter how emotional you are when misrepresenting the facts.

Why is it Americans never hold the GOP to account? Why is it when the GOP does something bad, you have to somehow work it around so it's somehow the Democrats fault? Why do you wonder why it's difficult to keep the GOP from getting power and doing horrible shit when everyone in the US blames everything on the Democrats even when they aren't in power?

I'm Canadian and I wouldn't blame the opposition party for something the governing party is doing. It's a strange part of American culture to blame a Democrats for everything and it doesn't make any sense. And it doesn't happen the other way, I don't recall people ever blaming the Republicans when the Democrats do something they don't like.

It's a weird thing about American culture and it's resulted in the party that gets blamed for everything having no power to stop the party that never gets blamed for anything. But y'all continue blaming them for being in this situation.

"Bill Clinton and... other Presidents..."

Shocking allegations about the guy that used to creep around in the Miss Teen USA changing room!

You don't seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren't significantly different, I've had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.

Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we're at a point that it's only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that's not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.

Yeah and that's where the capitalism angle comes in. With supply side economics pushed by Reagan, wealthy people are supposed to do things that'll create jobs. They're "job creaters", right?

Problem is they don't have any good ideas. And that would normally be fine, you could have employees that know what they're doing developing technology that'll make a production line 2% more efficient. Those kinds of advancements are important.. if we're 2% more efficient, we can make 2% more stuff, and so we're 2% better off. But that's not exciting and doesn't attract investment. So instead we get these big bold "visionary" ideas that soak up a lot of investment, and we have a whole lot of people making marketing campaigns to promote these "game-changer" ideas to attract even more investment. So we have a society where we're near full employment but a lot of people not producing anything that has a benefit to society.

So those scientists in Jurassic Park (or the real life scientists at that "Dire Wolf" company) could be working on something beneficial like applying their skills towards curing diseases. But instead they're working on useless things because the money goes towards "visionaries" that don't actually have good ideas on how to contribute to society. But I don't think that absolves the scientists from taking those jobs. But people have to pay the bills I'm not going to judge them for it either. The Dire Wolf thing seems stupid to me but nowhere near as dangerous as Jurassic Park. In the case of JP, at some point you have to ask yourself "is my job going to cause harm to people", but the JP scientists didn't seem to ask the question because they were just interested in the challenge of making a dinosaur.

But yeah the Dire Wolf thing is stupid and useless... for now. But hey, eventually that company might do something useless that'll get people killed!

You appeal to the base to get the nom, after to get the nom, you move to the center to win the general. Politics 101.

Leftists are to the Democratic party as the MAGA were to the GOP. Tendency to be single issue voters that have no understanding of how government works, weird ideas about some radical changes will improve their lives (which won't) and no understanding of the actual changes needed that would improve things. Buying into populists that promise to fix everything in a day.

The problem is the MAGA took over the GOP and are now trying to do the weirdo policies that were promised to the base. It would be the same if leftists took over government, just a different group of people being harmed by policies based around slogans and ignorance.

But I doubt leftists have the dedication the MAGAs have, so likely they'll go back to being "uncommitted" before they can capture the Democratic party. They also engage with the American tradition of blaming the Democrats for everything (even when they aren't in power) while the MAGA types (Tea party, pro-life, states rights, christian nationalists, etc) were willing to vote GOP in every election while working to take over the party. I doubt slacktivists will have that dedication.

But the good news is that MAGAs might also go back to being non-voters because of the Epstein thing. So maybe some day the US can be run by serious people instead of populist clowns. If it doesn't collapse before that because of the current populist clown in chief.

It seems he's learned that the problem with tariffs is that other countries will tariff back.

So now his current strategy is to levy tariffs and threaten countries with more tariffs if they reciprocate.

Same has it's always been, maybe he'll TACO or maybe he'll crash the world economy.

Meanwhile in Canada, it's become easier to identify products from the US because stores have to put them on discount to try to entice people to buy them. Stores aren't making money by selling US products at a discount so every time I go to the grocery store, there's new products made in Canada (or at least non-US countries) replacing the US products.

Happy to report I can now get a head of iceberg lettuce from Quebec in both grocery stores I go to, seems all of our lettuce came from the US before. I had to get crazy expensive hydroponically grown lettuce (or some weird black lettuce) for months. But now I can get iceberg lettuce ("normal" lettuce to me) produced in Canada. It was weird for a bit with some products, but it's becoming more and more easier and normal to avoid US products. Merci to Quebec for growing lettuce! Hopefully the stores will source lettuce from the EU in the winter.

Not sure how Trump is solving the trade deficit "problem" with this though. Are Americans in the the Midwest buying less oil from Canada (which is THE cause of the trade deficit)? Gonna have to spend a lot of money building pipelines to get oil from the "Gulf of America" and refitting refineries to process that oil. Or God forbid, do a Green New Deal in the Midwest. Otherwise you'd be selling less oil overseas, which would impact trade balance with other countries. But then Canada would sell to those countries instead. But go ahead, fill your boots, I'm good with oil companies having to pay a lot of money refitting refineries as that will just be another version (though less efficient) of a carbon tax.

Canadians are buying less products from the US and it seems unlikely the US is going to buy less oil from Canada any time soon, so it seems Trump's efforts are just increasing the trade deficit. Carney could put reciprocal tariffs on the US or not, either way Canadians are going to be buying less and less from the US going forward.

Trump is fucking over Americans more than anyone else.

Nah the tariff stuff started many news cycles ago. Trump just really believes tariffs work.

I have just my last name, and get signed up for all kinds of bullshit by people with my last name because they'll enter firstname

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but have some physical metal rods as backup.

Do you know how high the animal can jump? Do you know whether or not they'll be able to climb those rods?

Also maybe don’t make the dinosaurs bulletproof.

How would you know which weapons an animal is vulnerable to before it's fully grown?

The problem is you don't actually know many the variables you're trying to make a solution for. You're assuming you would have thought of a lot of these things only after you've seen another solution fail. Hindsight is 20/20. But if you didn't have the benefit of hindsight how are you going to solve a problem involving lifeforms with an unknown level of intelligence, and an unknown resilience to weapons, and having unknown behaviours? You're only going to know you missed something after whatever you designed failed.

There's the part of the movie where Hammond is eating the melting ice cream saying "next time we'll do it better." That would be you because you're certain you can solve a problem that's not defined by empirical evidence (it doesn't exist because they're new animals) but based on assumptions about a new lifeform being similar to existing lifeforms we currently have in zoos, and think keeping animals we have familiarity with is easy (it isn't, animals in zoos actually do escape containment).

You're showing the hubris the story is warning against. Science depends on empirical evidence, and there wouldn't be any empirical evidence on the behaviour of new animals grown in a lab. And if you are completely ignorant of animal behaviour (because you think it's irrelevant) you're going to be very bad at building a zoo. But you're countering that by ignoring all of the knowledge we have about building a zoo (animal behaviour is important!) because there's hubris layered on top of hubris.