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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year car use
58.60 one year for every child you have

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The reason many people say it's OK to be complicit in factory farming animals, but not humans, is because humans are smarter: "they're just animals". Pointing out that factory farmed animals are smarter than severely mentally-disabled humans, shows it's clearly not about intelligence. Speciesism is therefor similar to racism and sexism.

What's important is whether they can feel pain or not, not intelligence.

Pointing out the lie isn't gross. What is gross is torturing 3-6 trillion fish to death every year, and enslaving 1-3 trillion animals in torturous conditions every year.

Dominion, Land of hope and glory, Earthlings

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hundreds of billions of livestock are kept in torturous conditions every year. Dominion, Land of hope and glory, Earthlings.

1-3 trillion fish are kept in torturous conditions every year on factory farms.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -4 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Many animals are smarter than severely mentally-disabled humans, yet we don't torture and eat severely mentally-disabled humans. So it's not about intelligence. It's obviously also not about being able to feel pain, because animals can feel pain.

Do you agree with "Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you"?

If yes, would you be okay with genetically modified people who are much smarter and crueler than you, treating you like factory farmers and fishermen treat animals? 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in torturous factory-farm conditions every year, and together with fishermen torture about 2-6 trillion fish to death annually, usually by slow asphyxiation. Hundreds of billions of land-animals (mostly chickens) are enslaved in torturous conditions every year and slaughtered. About 1% of chickens are boiled alive because it would cost more money to make sure the machines that kill them don't miss that 1%. Dairy cows are repeatedly put on rape racks to be artificially inseminated, because they only give milk after delivering a calf. The calves are removed from their mothers, because the farmers don't want the calves to drink the milk. Would you like to be kept your entire life in torturous conditions? Be tortured to death? You and/or your female family repeatedly artificially inseminated and made to give birth, then have the babies taken away so you and/or your female family's milk can be harvested, eventually killed for hamburger when not yielding enough milk to make a profit?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I can't find it now, but I saw a paper that said that India is one of 8 countries in the world where electric cars (charged from the main grid(s), no matter what time of day) release more CO2e than fossil-fuel cars, because of the amount and terrible quality of coal used to generate most electricity in those countries. The few cars charged only from renewable sources like wind/solar/etc. are of course vastly less omnicidal. Anyone have any good citations?

If this is true, would it also be true for coal-to-electricity trains vs more straight fossil-fueled trains?

Even trains in these bad coal-to-electricity countries might be less harmful than even the best renewably powered cars, as long as the trains aren't regularly running with minimal passengers.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

According to KnowYourMeme it's from a photoshoot. Maybe an acting toddler, or a photographer who made a toddler cry.

When making movies or TV shows that require a crying baby, they're supposed to wait for the baby (or it's twin) to cry, and not to actually make it cry.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

The train already had about 10 students who got on at previous stations also going to her school. She was the only one at that particular stop. Her parents already has a car, and they use it to drive her for 5 minutes to the train station, the train then takes 1 hour to get to where her school is.

"There’s only one train heading away from the main city of Asahikawa toward Engaru High School each day, so Kana’s parents make the five-minute drive to the station in time for her to catch the 7:16 a.m. train every morning, where she’s the only regular passenger waiting on the elevated section of land serving as a platform. The journey to school takes almost one hour, giving Kana time to read, listen to music or study during test time.

When Kana boards the train, there are about 10 other passengers, mostly other students, inside." https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/1540/

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Nope: "along with more than 10 schoolmates at 7.15am." The Straits Times "On boarding the train, Kana takes her seat amongst her schoolmates who got on board at earlier stations. Most of the passengers, indeed, are students at the Engaru Highschool. " The Online Citizen

Also, reducing human overpopulation is a good things because human overpopulation is the biggest cause of anthropogenic climate change (compare it to other causes), and the root cause of it. It's also the root cause of the anthropocene extinction event and of that becoming a mass extinction event, and of factory farming, and of industrial fishing, and of habitat degradation and destruction, and of unsustainable pollution, ...

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

While I prefer the UK version, the Australian show has my favorite Taskmaster moment ever: Concetta Caristo vs the vertical bathroom scale:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=j3axAOE8Yow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3axAOE8Yow

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.

"for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka" - Isaac Bashevis Singer

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.

 

[Thanks morgunkorn for replying to show where it is: on our Profile pages, 4 lines beneath our usernames.]

How can I find a list of the Lemmy posts I've saved in my browser?

Saving posts are done by clicking on the star icon. Once saved the icon becomes orange.

Can't find them on my Profile page, or via the Search page, and searches seem to only answer it for apps.

 

Edit: copying the font to /usr/local/share/fonts/ fixed it. (I downloaded Debian Xfce a while ago because of how much I dislike Snap, so I'll soon replace Xubuntu with it.)

I recently installed the font “Atkinson Hyperlegible” on Xubuntu 22.04.3 (via right click, Fonts 41.0), and I use it as the Xfce UI font and the default in Mousepad and LibreOffice without any problems.

However in Firefox 120.0.1 (64-bit), Snap for Ubuntu, canonical-002 - 1.0; it’s not listed at Edit, Settings, Fonts; or Fonts, Advanced…

When I view an HTML page where the CSS’ body has font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible",sans-serif; it also doesn’t use the Atkinson font. That page also doesn’t use Atkinson in the (Epiphany GNOME) Web 45.1 browser.

Any ideas on how to get Firefox and Epiphany to see it?

 

Jeffrey Kaplan's lecture helped me better understand international relations, war, authoritarians, capitalists, etc. (reading guide (PDF)).

 

Did the Staten-Generaal supervise the Heeren XVII, was it the other way round, were they usually the same people, or did it not work like that?

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