My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
The intention of the politicians expounding this isn’t even to improve outcomes, it’s to improve election performance, and they don’t care who has to be thrown under the bus to accomplish it. They don’t care whether or not it improves outcomes as long as it engages their voters. And right now, their voters want to see the right people get hurt.
Or, don’t participate in atrocity against animals.
Neither will arresting them!
The cause of addiction is not drugs. Programs like guaranteed minimum income would have far more impact on the actual causes of addiction. But let’s just imprison people until they stop being sick, that’ll work.
It is genuinely pretty obscene. You can’t “offset” this kind of behaviour.
Now, now. What would Marx say about that?
The steam deck wasn’t even a sketch on paper when Valve started pushing Linux. It’s been their route forward into all forms of hardware. I’m sure it’s not long before we get a stand alone VR headset that runs Linux, which seems to me to be the real goal. The Deck was just a step along the way.
BethesdaMicrosoft, EA, Ubisoft and Epic
Line forms behind me!
Much like the nuclear forces, it only works within a certain range. Not enough principle and the economy collapses before you can snowball. Too much and the economy collapses because you snowball.
Poor exercise and sedentary lifestyle kills you. Not meat.
This is just so ignorant I have to come back to it. We’re specifically talking about heart attacks. You know, the widow maker. The thing that kills otherwise healthy men in the primes of their lives. Body builders, fire fighters, people who exercise every day. Sitting around not exercising does not cause you to have heart disease. Where the fuck is the plaque supposed to come from if you are not eating animal products?
Bekoff, Marc. The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy—and Why They Matter. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2007.
This book explores the emotional complexity of animals, offering evidence of empathy, fairness, and moral agency in various species, including primates and mammals.
Brosnan, Sarah F., and Frans B. M. de Waal. “Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay.” Nature 425, no. 6955 (2003): 297-299.
This study documents experiments with capuchin monkeys demonstrating a sense of fairness. It is one of the key pieces of evidence showing non-human animals responding to inequity in ways similar to humans.
Cheney, Dorothy L., and Robert M. Seyfarth. Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This book provides insight into the social intelligence of primates, with a focus on how baboons use their social knowledge in decision-making, emphasizing complex moral and social cognition.
De Waal, Frans B. M. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Frans de Waal examines the various ways animals demonstrate intelligence, including problem-solving, communication, and social behaviors, and critiques human biases in measuring animal cognition.
Foote, Amanda D., et al. “Mirror Self-Recognition in the Bottlenose Dolphin: A Case of Cognitive Convergence.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, no. 10 (2001): 5937-5942.
This article presents research on mirror self-recognition in dolphins, a test typically used to determine self-awareness in animals.
Griffin, Donald R. Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
This book explores the conscious experiences of animals, focusing on problem-solving, communication, and self-awareness across different species, including birds, primates, and marine mammals.
Inoue, Satoshi, and Tetsuro Matsuzawa. “Working Memory of Numerals in Chimpanzees.” Current Biology 17, no. 23 (2007): R1004-R1005.
This research highlights the short-term memory skills of chimpanzees, demonstrating that they can outperform humans in specific memory tasks.
Metcalfe, Janet, and H. Michael Brower. “Animal Metacognition.” In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition, edited by Thomas R. Zentall and Edward A. Wasserman, 537-556. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
This chapter discusses evidence of metacognition in non-human animals, focusing on rats and primates and the implications for animal intelligence.
Povinelli, Daniel J., and Timothy J. Eddy. “What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing.” Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 61, no. 3 (1996): 1-191.
This research investigates the cognitive abilities of chimpanzees, including their understanding of others’ perspectives and intentions, challenging human assumptions about self-awareness and theory of mind.
Smith, J. David, et al. “The Comparative Psychology of Uncertainty Monitoring and Metacognition.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 3 (2003): 317-339.
This article presents studies on metacognition in animals, focusing on how rats, dolphins, and primates monitor their own mental processes and make decisions based on uncertainty.
von Bayern, Auguste M. P., et al. “Tool-Using and Problem-Solving in Non-Human Animals.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1630 (2013): 20120410.
This paper explores tool use and problem-solving abilities across a range of species, highlighting the cognitive flexibility and intelligence of animals such as birds, apes, and octopuses.
Whiten, Andrew, et al. “Culture in Chimpanzees.” Nature 399, no. 6737 (1999): 682-685.
This study provides evidence of cultural behaviors in chimpanzees, suggesting that culture—once considered a uniquely human trait—is present in other species.
Includes a bibliography. It must be correct because I asked ChatGPT to check it and it said it was mostly correct. ;-)
But that’s okay, if that’s enough to be actionable then I’ll be pretty able to accept that you just don’t like people calling you out and need a safe space from criticism.
This is disingenuous. If you go on a Star Trek forum and only want to talk about Star Wars, are moderators creating a “safe space” or are they just being fucking moderators? The rules are clearly posted. Don’t act so wounded.
Making it up, eh? Or are you sticking your head in the sand? lmgtfy
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=all+cause+mortality+meat&ia=web
I suppose you are unaware that there are entire cultures that do not suffer heart attacks. I suppose you are unaware that there is a direct causal relationship between those cultures starting to have heart attacks like Western cultures, and the adoption of Western animal product consumption habits. One third of humans who die this year will die of heart attacks that would not happen if they didn’t consume animal products. It tracks directly with animal consumption. The data is all there if you are brave enough to look. But I guess you need a safe space from facts.
There is no healthy amount of meat you can eat. Research “meat all cause mortality” on google scholar or pubmed. You’re effectively saying that there is a threshold of antifreeze consumption that is survivable. It’s never healthy.
This is how I find out??? RIP
It was a strange take in the 1980s when the disease model was the best we had. Today it is well accepted that most drugs alone don’t typically produce addiction. Just not by conservative voters, who still act like addiction is a moral failing, because people choose to do drugs “the first time,” and then become “chemically addicted”.
Please see, for example: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1999-01-01_1_page005.html