Vampire propaganda.

I’ve never met a real human person that loves AI. I’ve used it in very specific circumstances. I’ve met other people who’ve used it. But every one of those people share some variation of my opinion - It’s useful for very few things and trash for the 99% of other things. I don’t know who these lovers of AI are but I bet it’s the same handful of idiots who all run in one or two social circles reinforcing each other’s opinions on everything. If a person’s ideas can’t be challenged or they surround themselves with people exactly like themselves their minds are doomed to atrophy. Humans are coded to save energy. Talent and skill takes long grueling effort. AI allows the lazy to phone it in which allows the midiocre to cosplay as the talented. But AI is a tool. For people with reading/writing difficulties it can bridge gaps that previously required much more effort and many more resources. That independence has value, but AI is not a replacement for the novelist. Anyone who says that the sun shines out of AI’s ass or the sun never sets on AI or whatever BS they’re spouting is either a snake oil salesman or their mark. Neither should be given much oxygen.

Same. What the fuck, brain?

I don’t care if they were the worst people on earth walking the easier hiking path on the nicest day of the year. None of that matters! They left on a hike TOGETHER, and needed to return TOGETHER.

Full stop.

Anyone who can’t follow that one simple rule has no business out on the trails.

DUDE! I hike. If you leave together, you FUCKING come back together. YOU want to break up, put on your big boy panties and do it AFTER everyone is home safe.

Also there is no such thing as “an easy day hike.” Anything can go wrong in the wilderness and lackadaisical thinking is what gets people killed.

To be fair, when they tried outside influences actively sabotaged the attempt.

Feels like an attempt to distract us from the madness of the administration’s antics.

Scolding hot coffee that melts off your labia with a side of nationwide slander.

Soooo WWIII it is then?

No no they “fixed” that because people complained.

Supposedly.

Our treasure and our blood.

Edit: goddammit I hate saying that because it sounds like a antisemitic trope, but it’s fucking TRUE. The greatest trick Isreal ever pulled was conflating a nation state with a people and a culture.

See how they specified “beef” dairy herd. They are talking only about the livestock. The animals. The veal. The cattle they breed. The animals they cull and sell. They aren’t talking about the lactating products.

Then you have milk. The product. Lactating dairy cows have a productive phase when they are kept specifically and separately to produce milk. I know it comes off as cruel but in agriculture animals are livestock and thought of in terms of lineitems when listed out.

I hope that helps. It’s a bad graph, the creater carved out specific data points for their own personal politics which makes it hard to read. (Hence the cute notes littered around the chart). I too would have wrapped dairy cows and milk production into one line.

Dairy is the farm, milk is the product. As to pollution and land use factory farms will always cause pollution because they squeeze too many animals into an area smaller then they can live in healthily for profitability. (Cows for example need 2 acres per cow in lush lands or 50 acres per cow arid lands).

As for chickens. In my opinion as long as you have at least two chickens (they are social animals), maintain them properly, protect them from predation, keep up with vet visits/vaccinations, and let your chickens out to forage, they are a wonderful addition to a neighborhood. But make sure you read up on egg safety, especially if you plan to share your eggs.

Any time I hear anyone pushing driverless cars or AI without mentioning public transportation, bike lines, traffic calming, or walkability I know they are full of shit. Just like the people talking about EVs being better for the environment but never mention any plans for getting cars off the road. I want trains god damn it.

I bought it at a thrift market and holy crap for a book written in the 1960s it’s prescient. He’s mostly talking about “poor countries” but a lot of what he says is painfully applicable to people living in the US today. I’m about to read the second half of the book about “rich countries” and can’t wait to see what he says.

That’s a dude that knows their food is literal poison.

No one should feel obligated to be an organ donor. And telling someone they must because they “aren’t using their body anymore” is fucked up. If a person has to be coerced, guilted or bullied into giving the “gift of life” they aren’t doing so freely. If they have to be manipulated into it then it’s not a gift. It’s theft. Nevermind the fact that corporations make big bank off the organ and tissue trade by piecemealing out donors and sellings the parts, but no one talks about THAT because lives are being saved.

(I’m not against organ donation. I just don’t like that we use manipulation tactics to procure body parts and that there isn’t transparency about who is profiting).

Your neighbors. Ask around. Someone knows where he lives. Then walk him home. He obviously lives close by. And if you don’t know your neighbors, today is an excellent day to introduce yourself.

FUCKING THANK YOU!

That’s were you messed up. Teenagers are supposed to drop themselves off at the fire station. For older kids they are called “Safe Places” and require them to do all the work.