SteveKirk
2yr ago
Surely thot daughter is the better option, unless you're super picky about the quality/hue of your grandkids' dads
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Not terrible?! Those are entry level wages at Costco for guys who didn't finish high school! And customers there won't stab you as often as public school students!
Cows don't "produce" CO2, they're part of the biological carbon cycle, like rotting leaves and compost piles. All the carbon a cow emits comes from vegetation that got it from the air only a few months before. It neither adds nor removes carbon from the cycle.
Intentionally conflating the exogenous release of geologically sequestered carbon through fossil fuels with the natural carbon cycle is unforgivably dishonest vegan propaganda that needs to be stomped out thoroughly.
Whoever told it to you is a malicious liar you should hunt down and punish for trying to fuck with your understanding of the world.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Starting to realize why the school board rejected your generous offer to personally give every student aides.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Having lab-grown meat available as an option does not force anyone to eat it, and it doesn't take away traditional options
It literally does, they literally say that's the goal, I am literally looking at a half-million dollar federal grant right now that talks about using vat meat to "disrupt traditional livestock production in a just and equitable manner" https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_20196702329856_12H3/
I hate lies so much. People telling low effort, stupid lies right to your face and sneering at you for daring to point out they're lying, it makes me so angry I feel like throwing up and smashing things.
Why do you do it? It can't be strategic because the strategy is stupid and ineffective. Do you just enjoy the feeling of gaslighting people? Fucking stop it, because it's poison.
Baby steps. Get people over the hangup of "it's not ok to just ban things, only leftists are allowed to do that!", then work on "woah you can't just throw communists into an alligator swamp, thats only ok when communists do it!"
If they can ban dishwashers that actually wash dishes and then raid people who import ones that work, we can do the same to them. And anyone who complains needs to be reeducated.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Downside is it's not exactly sexy unless you have a Monitoring Things fetish, and the practical side doesn't show up until it alerts you to a problem.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Good lads, and the viciousness with which the New York Democrat machine is attacking them is evidence that they're registering as a threat. That legal saga is worth a post in itself if nobody's covered it yet.
Temperature monitoring on devices has saved me more heartache than any other project. The latest one was getting an alert my fridge-freezer was failing in time to shut it down and fix before the compressor exploded (fridge overheating, freezer over-cooling, stupid stupid active vent systems)
On the plus side now we know my freezer can get itself to -40F if it wants.
Slip her some real red pills like I'm Bill Cosby.
Wait, I just noticed the book is yours, not hers, the joke hardly works
Japan's interest rates sticking in the negatives while everyone else's are soaring seems like the biggest factor there. You can just borrow yen at 0% and sell it to buy US treasuries for 5%, and if the bank of japan wants to keep rates low they just have to suck it up and subsidize it by burning through their reserves (I think? It's been a long time since int finance)
Whoever in the LDP kept up the pressure to get the reactors back online deserves a medal. They're still importing 10bcf of LNG per day last I checked, but thats 30% less than a decade ago. Plus coal imports are down from the quarter billion ton peak. That'd be absolutely crippling at 150 yen to the dollar.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
EA had 46 billion dollars in committed funding in 2021, and was growing at 37% per year, according to 80000hrs. If you could find white nationalists with that kind of clout, quoting them would be quite reasonable. And even I would be worried enough by that point to avoid getting a tan in case they won.
What if we more than suspect that you will side with the vegans anyway, the second veganism becomes the new leftist party line rather than the "admirable radical fringe" it is today?
In that case the way to control your opinion is by shaping the law so that you never adopt that position as the "safe, default leftist option."
The person I quoted drew the comparison to liberals suddenly going all-in on transsexuals the second it became the safe "in" thing to do. I'm not making it up: I agree with her that's how you decide what to believe in.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
It's been shocking how bad the Israeli propaganda ops are, like there's now a complete disconnect between Israel and American jewry.
But on the other hand we can see signs of immense power still in the hands of older US Jews in media. Papers like the NYT have been relatively unbiased despite their junior staff wanting to turn it into the Hamas Daily. There's a moderating energy that was completely missing during the hysteria of 2020, and I think it's safe to ascribe it to Jewish senior staff putting their feet down.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I've always wondered how much reprovisioning affected their judgement. The tortoise would have been their first fresh meat after months at sea depleted their stocks of everything except dried peas and biscuits full of weevils. Hunger is the best spice, after all.
Dumping an EA veganism quote for people to reference.
Vegan advocacy can spur the transition sooner. I submit that one of the most important efforts that Effective Altruists could be doing is triggering the veganism S-curve, i.e. reaching the tipping point earlier. It’s a unique S-curve in that it’ll be both technologically and socially driven. In this post, I delve into the social component and the impact that individuals and institutions could have by steering toward more uncompromisingly vegan diets.
I see the transition reaching completion when all mainstream restaurants and institutions serve 100% vegan meals due to significant demand from consumers. I expect stragglers such as Chick-Fil-A, who doubled down on their stance against same-sex marriage. But for the most part, I expect all progressive-leaning institutions to switch over. Eventually, the Ivy League universities, the Apples/Googles, and leading newspapers will cease serving animal products in their dining halls/events.
The biggest tipping point can occur through institutions. Jacy Reese Anthis’ great book The End of Animal Farming emphasizes the tractability of advocating toward institutions. Imagine the cascading effect if Harvard University or The New York Times had a full vegan mandate, e.g. vegan food for all events, dining, and travel expenses. Those would be big jumps in some of the values above, e.g. D. Institutions are sensitive to social winds as we saw during the MeToo and George Floyd movements. For example, the Golden Globes was effectively annihilated for not acting fast enough on inclusivity.
But there is room for flexitarianism. What matters is hardline vegan demand on planned occasions. A flexitarian may have a vegan Wednesday, in which case, the same awkward restaurant interaction may play out then. I see D as the proportion of occasions where the vegan demand occurs. Whether it’s a binary or tailing distribution among people is immaterial. Newly elected mayor Eric Adams started Vegan Fridays at New York City public schools. I anticipate this having a positive, significant effect on the S-curve transition
This is what desantis is fighting, and I don't see how anyone could blame him for it. They see no issue using any dirty tactic to ban meat, so why should anyone defending themselves against the attack feel any regret about clobbering them with whatever weapon they have on hand?
They want their enemies "effectively annihilated", what right do they have to protest their victims doing it to them first? You can even have fun #me-too-ing them or copying "firey but mostly peaceful" 2020 riots: they've already endorsed those tactics!
Do not compromise or negotiate with terrorists, do not trust them when they lie about their goals to your face and brag about it to their co-conspirators where they think you can't hear them.
I was trying to find a way to connect the vat-meat and fingerprint-gun mandates without explaining all the background, because it does seem like a perfect parallel. "We're openly pushing this technology to destroy an industry we hate, and don't care if the replacement works as long as we can use it for that purpose"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
It's funny how they missed a profitable startup niche because of the deliberate rush to "NORMALIZE" vat-grown meat (in the leftist Twitter sense of "normalize X", meaning to make mandatory through social pressure and regulations).
They couldn't start with exotic meats for rich people because the funders wanted it to be a 1-1 replacement for burgers and chicken cutlets instead, and being a niche product would have undermined their moral power.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
If there were groups trying to mandate a jellybean and vodka diet for everyone out of moralist zealotry, I would be 1000% in favor of a jellybean ban as a first step towards eliminating the group entirely. As long as it was followed up by extrajudicial home raids on anyone who was detected funding opposition to the ban.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Does anyone use a Kardia heart monitor or apple watch?
I have a family member with atrial fibrillation, and a pharmacist who also has it was showing off how the apple watch alerts him when his heart starts beating irregularly/arrhythmically. A Kardia is a much cheaper alternative that also includes a basic EKG somehow, but does anyone know how useful this is in practice?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I have bad news about starsector. The writer who took over making the campaign is straight out of "he/him in bio" central casting.
I need to write something (and then edit out all the rage) about the "appeal to unshared principles." It's that 2020 meme: "bro the communists are being arrested you have to help them bro please I know they'd kill you and your family but what about libertarian values bro?"
Like there is no tactic that makes me instinctively hate someone more than a leftist who wants to mandate outcome B telling people that they shouldn't mandate outcome not-B because "mandates are wrong". It's pure "Darwin says whatever words make the meat puppets do what he wants in any given moment," with zero respect for the target as a thinking human being.
I would slam the button even if the odds were a coin flip: it's still a far better outcome than what will actually happen thanks to decades of zero resistance from "constitutional conservatives."
I am going to die when leftist looters burn my family alive FC. Any opportunity to win and then mulch them first is worth taking, no matter how bad the odds are (I'm assuming "ceases to exist as a sociopolitical force" means no effective resistance to mop-up mulching after victory, since a random 5% is far too low to include that part)
The little Bewick's Wren who made a nest on my front door shelf has had 4 chicks, and they must be the ugliest creatures in the entire world. Like naked bulgy-eyed dinosaur fetuses with giant gaping beaks like a barnacle.
She looks so proud of them though, it's adorable. She's putting in hours of work trying to glean enough insects to keep all the chicks fed, so does anyone know if it's possible to set up a worm feeder or something? She's pretty friendly with me, but not enough to feed her by hand.
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