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This comment sent me into a little rabbit hole.

In the US alone, humans kill, on average, 1 cow per second (over 33 million a year). That is including calves.

edit: In the US alone, humans kill, on average 1 shark per 10 seconds (over 3 million a year).

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Any recommended p2p filesharing programs?

The only real option nowadays is SoulSeek. Just make sure you set it up properly. I have seen loads of people mistakenly (I assume) share personal folders. And I am sure some people pry on these.

A couple years ago I was going through this guy's shared folders because he had a few bits of obscure media I was looking for. Then I ended in a folder containing very personal pictures (family, ids, bank cards). I was actually scared for that guy! I literally found his phone number in the files, and called him to warn him... We are still friends! :D Following this I did two things:

  • Spent a whole day looking for people sharing personal info, and warning them.
  • Made a folder with files containing fake personal info, fake pictures, etc. I just gave the files names like password.txt, holiday2017.png, etc. Those files were downloaded almost immediately.

For over 3 years I had a torrent that had been stuck at just under 90%. We were 4 more or less 2 over the years. Then I randomly found this guy on soulseek who had the file from the torrent (exact name and size), but it was in private. I messaged him, he wanted to trade (never understood this type of people). Thankfully I had something he wanted. We traded, switched the file in the torrent folder, force check, 100% Motherfuckers! I never kept in touch with that guy, and his precious little file is easily findable on public trackers :D

TLDR - Soulseek

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Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.

Reduce production and consumption of red meat.

Alternatives to cattle feed. (i.e. seaweed)

Better waste management for farms.

Alternatives to rice fields flooding.

Incentives for waste management at the consumer level (laws for restaurants, hotels, and individuals for composting)

Better composting infrastructures.

None of this is hard if we had politicians that weren't sold to big corporations, and if our governments would build programs to better educate consumers and producers.

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There is a bigger market than you think. Shark meat is part of Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Hawaiian food culture. You can find dozens of different shark products in grocery store, and that's not including pet food. It can hide under different names like white fish or ocean fish. So I would guess from high hundreds of thousand to low millions. Dug deeper, it is estimated around 300 to 500 thousands from shark fisheries. But, 2.5 to 5 million from bycatch...

Their is also recreational fishing. Which is responsible for 100 to 150 thousands shark killings per year.

So that's a comfortable 3 to 5 million a year in the US alone...

And coincidentally, there is some scandal happening now about critically endangered shark meat sold under false labels.

https://gbej.org/americans-unknowingly-consume-endangered-toxic-shark-meat/

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800 children to be tested for STIs as police investigate accused Melbourne childcare paedophile

"Earlier this month Victorian police revealed the 26-year-old childcare worker had been charged with more than 70 offences relating to eight alleged victims, aged between five months and two years old."

"Approximately 2,600 families with children who attended the centres were contacted, with 1,200 advised to undergo screening for sexually transmitted infections."

This piece of trash deserves a slow and painful death in a rotted jail cell. I work with kids, and I would completely loose it if I learnt that one of my colleagues had done anything remotely sexually inappropriate. I just don't understand how could they get away with it for so long! I just want to yell, and cry. I can't imagine what all those parents are going through right now...

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Do Americans really only shit once a week?

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It’s important to remember that teachers are on average less educated that the average citizen.

That is an incredibly bold statement to make. Can you back this up with sources ? Especially since you said it is important to remember. And where are you talking about ? Is this true everywhere ?

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How to tell the age of a horse

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It's called a Galvayne's groove

A Galvayne's groove is a dark or brownish groove in the upper corner incisor teeth of horses. It is only visible in horses of a certain age.

Depending on whether or not a Galvayne's Groove can be seen, how long it is, and where it is (at the top of the tooth or at the bottom) it may be helpful in determining a horses' age.

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Nigeria kidnappers kill 35 hostages even after ransom paid

In an attempt to curb the spiralling and lucrative kidnapping industry, a law was enacted in 2022 making it a crime to make ransom payments. It carries a jail sentence of at least 15 years, however no-one has ever been arrested on those charges.>

Ah yes! The good old turn the victims of a crime into criminals to stop the other criminals from perpetrating the crime. Seems to me like a winning solution!