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berbatrick

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interesting thread the human race hopefully won't continue for much longer

 

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That's a brilliant read along with many of the essays and articles linked from it. Was particularly interested in the studies on children towards the end and how the deterioration of free play is a root cause for a lot of the mental health disorders they suffer from.
 

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they did the same (cooking alive) to pigs in early/mid-2020 when slaughterhouse capacity was reduced and keeping pigs on the farm was uneconomical



 

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The bitcoin president:

El Salvador accused of ‘massive’ human rights violations with 2% of adults in prison
More than 36,000 people arrested in just over two months in crackdown orchestrated by President Nayib Bukele

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/el-salvador-human-rights-violations-bukele-amnesty


For comparison, the US today (a clear outlier in the developed world) incarcerates 0.7% of its population, the USSR during the height of the Stalinist purges in 1939 reached 1.6%.
 

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Impressions from the Island of Sylt, one of the most posh/expensive vacation destinations in Germany right after the 9€ ticket went into effect.
 
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berbatrick said:
lots of interesting possibilities, all clouded by the fact that it is one single case.
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Sample size of 1 = meaningless.

Even if replicated properly so what? Genetics will tend to make their IQ similar (on average) and "nurture" will make difference possible/likely. Summary = no shit sherlock.
 

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berbatrick said:
they did the same (cooking alive) to pigs in early/mid-2020 when slaughterhouse capacity was reduced and keeping pigs on the farm was uneconomical



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This method is (or should be) only used to prevent disease spread when no other method can be used in the required time frame as it undoubtable caused significant suffering. Some pigs took 1.5 hrs to die and some still needed to be manually killed. It is also not even legal in some countries.
 

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Factory farming now, factory farming forever

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...andemics-than-intensive-factory-farming-study

The industrial farming of animals such as pigs, poultry and cattle to provide meat for hundreds of millions of people may reduce the risk of pandemics and the emergence of dangerous diseases including Sars, BSE, bird flu and Covid-19 compared with less-intensive farming, a major study by vets and ecologists has found.

Despite reports from the UN and other bodies in the wake of Covid linking the intensive farming of livestock to the spread of zoonotic (animal-borne) diseases, the authors argue that “non-intensive” or “low-yield” farms pose a more serious risk to human health because they require far more land to produce the same amount of food.

This, it is argued, increases the chances of “spillover” of dangerous viruses between animals and humans because it drives habitat loss, which displaces disease-carrying wild animals such as bats and rodents and brings them into closer contact with farmed animals and humans.

The authors of the report, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, acknowledge that the rapidly increasing consumer demand for meat and other animal products is posing a significant risk to humanity.
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