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This is a quite a bit of handwringing over what is probably nothing:

  • Kids have been playing war, battle, or fighting games during recess since recess started. I guarantee you can spend 1 recess at any school and see at least one set of kids playing some game which is fundamentally violent fantasy.
  • As far as exposure - no offense but we are so far off kids never seeing violent imagery.
  • But, most importantly, these are also likely a sourced by handful of kids who are teaching other kids to play it that way. That's what kids do. I can think of several personal memories of my experience in elementary school where "Kid X" taught me something that, in retrospect, that kid probably shouldn't know yet. The spread of knowledge in children is immensely effective.
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The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people

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This is and will always be small potatoes in terms of the suffering we put relatively intelligent animals through every day.

We would need to slaughter probably 100,000 animals yearly for the US organ demand (at ~50,000 transplants per year and a buffer).

We slaughter 125 MILLION pigs in the US for consumption a year.

Not to mention that "medical grade" pigs will probably be given a golden ticket in terms of care until they are slaughtered, compared to the extremely abysmal environment millions live in today.

If animal welfare is important to you, scientific research is a poor use of advocating resources while we still eat hundreds of pounds of meat yearly. If advocates reduce meat consumption by even a percent or two it would generally greatly outweigh banning animal based research entirely.

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Stephen Miller unveils totally made-up definition of “due process”

Beyond the clear use of the word "person" - go ahead and tell me how you know if someone is not an citizen before you rescind your own requirement for due process?

Or, how many citizens should lose due process because you decide to skip it?

If you decide to provide exceptions, you will inevitably have a substantial error rate.

Of course, i suspect that is considered a bonus to these nazis.

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Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the next U.S. president, NBC News projects

There is going to be an assload of fingerpointing.

Here is my take: even if Kamala won, there is a deep rot that we would be in denial about. Trump should have broken the Republican party but did not and instead galvanized support through misinformation, lies, and hatred. That would not have been cured if Kamala won. At least now we have to be honest with the state of the US.

Still, we can hope he dies of a heart attack.

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Also, many times they will say some isn't an authentic way to do something, and then you will learn it is authentic for like, a few towns over.

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Quack makes a Swift escape

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*It is definitely not too late to mitigate a ton of suffering. *

I've said it elsewhere: environmental nihilism is deeply unethical. There is a ton we can do to minimize damage and restore the environment.

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Are Urban Farms WORSE for the Environment?

  • Pretty much any hobby is carbon positive. Gardening is almost certainly on the lower end of carbon positive hobbies.
  • In the agriculture domain, growing plants for the sake of direct consumption is not the primary source of emissions - that would be animal based agriculture by far.
  • Gardening promotes community resilience and health.