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Food production is 35% of global greenhouse gases. Meat accounts for 60% of the emissions from food production. So yeah, if we cut global meat consumption in half it would absolutely make a dent.

Blaming the corporations is just a convenient way of putting the responsibility on somebody else. You can’t eat beef and then blame the farmer for the emissions caused by cattle production. You can’t drive a big truck and then blame the oil companies for the emissions. You can’t fly around the world and then blame the airlines. Corporations are selling stuff to people. Their emissions look huge because they’re the aggregate emissions of millions of people.

fun fact: if you try to actually boil a frog, it jumps out of the pot. frogs aren't that dumb.

nothing about using a USB-C cable inherently means it has to support USB3.

framing it as "limits it to USB 3 Speeds" is misleading. iPhone has only ever supported USB 2, all they're doing here is continuing to not upgrade to USB 3. the meeting where somebody proposed it went like this:

hey, should we put a USB 3 chip in the new iPhone?
nah, let's just keep using the same one as the last generation

There’s two types of ambassadors: for countries you have tense relationships with, you send the professional diplomats who are really good at negotiating for things without starting wars.

For countries who are friends and you aren’t going to have tough negotiations with them, you send somebody who has good connections to the president. The ambassador gets a cushy job for 4 years that’s basically a reward, and the foreign country gets the message that an ambassadorship there is treated as a reward for the president’s friends, which strengthens the relationship

As long as they’re not killing Ukrainians, then I guess yeah, go do whatever…

my experience with online friendships is that it's much easier to self-select. you absolutely can get to know people really well over the internet, but it's also much easier to completely ignore who seems a bit annoying. at least for me, gathering people in the same room and forcing some physical interaction is more likely to make me get to know the people i probably wouldn't otherwise.

that being said, i think the whole productivity aspect is bunk and bosses want you in the office so they can say the things to you that they're afraid to put into writing. "in person collaboration" isn't code for you talking to your colleague, it's code for bosses want to be able to catch employees in the hallways and ask them to work on pet projects that are outside the employees designated duties or priorities, without a meeting record.

Speaking as one of “them”, yes. Yes you are.

I’m pretty sure I recognize this spot - just west of cache creek on hwy 99 - and if it is where I think it is that whole hillside burned last summer.

i am pretty vindictive, and i think sending a 33 year old to prison for the rest of her natural life seems like a much worse punishment than a quick death.

Well obviously, we should build more houses. Everybody supports that. We’ll start building as soon as we find a good spot to build them. The only restrictions are:

• development can’t encroach on nature or cause any deforestation, loss of wetlands, or animal habitat
• you can’t encroach on farmland, we need to preserve that
• any building over 40 years old is historic and can’t be torn down or altered
• you can’t change the “character” of any existing neighborhood
• you can’t block the views of any existing houses
• you can’t convert empty office buildings into housing, because zoning. Also, workers are going to want to go back to offices any day now…
• you can’t sacrifice any industrial-zoned areas for housing, because industry needs that space.
• there needs to be at least three parking spots provided for each new unit of housing

i mean, i mostly agree. i don't get my news from facebook, and most people i know who use facebook say it's a generally more pleasant experience without news on the site.

but when i say "now they're complaining" i don't just mean random people. the people that are complaining are Justin Trudeau and David Eby. If they want facebook to link to news sites, they shouldn't charge facebook money to do that. most websites pay facebook money to link to them.

government sites can still be linked to through facebook. that's not the issue.

facebook isn't linking to news sites. if you want news from news sites, go to the news sites. the "vital resources" aren't on CTV

the government's argument in implementing the link tax was that facebook doesn't provide any value, they just take news for free and make a profit off it.

so facebook stopped linking to news. and now they're complaining because facebook isn't providing the valuable service that they used to. so does facebook provide value by linking to news, or not?

twitter may have been a shithole in general, but it was great compared to what it is now.

I think many Americans don’t believe American democracy is currently working in their favor, leading to apathy or outright hostility towards democracy itself.

i think this is basically it. the intellectual left likes to say things like "donald trump made a mockery of our democracy" but the reality is that american democracy has been a mockery of itself for a long time. All donald trump did was make it a bit more difficult to ignore that. Not to say he's not criminal, and treasonous, and should be in jail. but he's really only marginally worse than Mitch McConnell. it's not nearly as shocking as the newspapers want us to believe.

he's going to "surrender to jail" because that's what this step of the process is called. he's not actually going to be locked up

My guess as to how it went:

• random twitter troll: “haha Elon you’re probably the most blocked person on this site”
• Elon: “not anymore”