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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
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In situations where the harm is caused by the industry's approach, I'd agree. But animal products' harm is pretty inextricable, and its production is caused by consumer demand.
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Not a Coincidence
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I read it as pro-gyn-nova
It rolls off the tongue and encapsulates three important aspects. I'm sure there are other readings of it too.
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Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
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There are many problems in the world. Some people like to focus on the ones with the largest impacts, where you can personally do something about it (like veganism). Others like to focus on those where few cause grossly disproportionate harm, as they seem more addressable (like private jets).
Debating the merits of focusing on one problem over another is interesting, but in my mind the time for it is not when media is being shared that bolsters a cause without coming at the expense of any others. It hurts all movements when people always undermine issues, pointing to another more important from their perspective.
I highly doubt that most people think you aren't doing enough for the environment. And I don't understand why you'd assume that as the implication of this article.
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Anyone else find this annoying?
Not sure what the screenshots are from, but is it not possible to rename the icons for legibility?
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Finally beat cancer
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A "cure" in this situation means an essentially guaranteed method of treatment. Cancers vary greatly, with some being benign, some being very treatable, and some being extremely deadly (at least with current technology).
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Cost by Protein Source
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Probably somewhere around the legume cluster. They're really pulling their weight there, as expected, though peanuts are quite the dark horse.
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Linux
Pretty confident in my solve. The only ones I didn't get myself were 20-down, 29-down (obvious in retrospect), and 21-across (inferred the word, but didn't know the tool).
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N I X O S
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G T K O E M A C S R
N D E B I A N L C L I
O N E T S I R N
M H U M I N T
E D I T O R S P H
O E L E M E N T A R Y
N U C L E I A I P
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Why has no one thought of this before?!
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I mean, two nuclear bombs were used in war and a bunch in testing, unless I'm forgetting something. I feel like tectonic activity could definitely be much worse than that, judging by the early earth environment.
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There are high caloric tasty vegan foods available, and when they are not it's usually because they aren't in high demand. How is the onus not on the consumer for picking animal products over those?
I'm all for vilifying the Animal Agriculture industry, they do some terrible stuff that goes way beyond the harm intrinsic to factory farms. But how exactly would they meet demand without factory farming, a brutally efficient way of producing animal products?
Governments should cease subsidizing animal products (maybe help their producers transition to other production), subsidize other foods more, and enact many other policy changes besides. But in most places it can be cheap and delicious to be vegan now. I don't see how you get around personal choice being the main driver.
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Zed on Linux is out!
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Very first impressions since I literally just downloaded before writing this, and haven't read the manual, I may change my mind with more experience.
Going to check out if there's git integration, because I couldn't easily find it.
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They're talking about the desktop application.
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til: Benford's law: real life number are not evenly disribued, 1 occur 30% of the time
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I think it's a feature of all positional notation systems.
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“Climate-friendly” beef could land in a meat aisle near you. Don’t fall for it.
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As horrible as those people are, it's not like they're just belching carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for fun. They're fulfilling demand. That 40% wouldn't disappear just by spreading ownership of the factories to more people. That's not to say that individual action is the only thing that works. Regulations need to be put in place to curb emissions, incentives should reward producers for investing & transitioning to more sustainable practices, and yes, monopolies need to get split up.
But the fact remains that some products are just bad for the environment. As as long as people continue buying those products they'll keep being produced. And when animal agriculture accounts for about as many emissions as the entire transportation industry, this seems like one of the easier steps to make.
The "my actions won't end this problem so I don't need to do anything" mentality never comes up in any other field (politeness, crimes, social change, voting). Yeah, choosing to never hold open doors for others wouldn't noticeably affect the global rate, but I doubt you'd use that logic to justify being rude.
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Gay
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Sadly it's still very much used as an insult in some contexts. Source: I am here.
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Bell curve with no bell curve
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They're still working on it, and if it's been a while since you last checked they may have already implemented the ones you wanted.
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Anyway to get Firefox search bar as main search on pixel phones
You can use a different launcher to customize your home screen and get rid of the Google search bar. I use Nova and can confirm that a singular Firefox search bar works nicely, and I'm sure that it does with other launchers as well.
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Cost by Protein Source
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That seems reasonable, given they presumably use the price for dried beans as well. When you care about price (and therefore about about a price/protein graph) you buy beans dried.
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corporule
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I think it's because some Microsoft computer had a dedicated button so you could do things like Office+W or Office+P (or apparently Office+L), but they had to make it use an actual keyboard input so they used a string of modifiers that wouldn't be used by accident.
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YSK: Ecosia is a search engine that plant trees with every search
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I was under the impression that they anonymized your search results within a week. How is that sacrificing privacy?