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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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Gallium wants a word.

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Those all sound like pretty awesome projects in their own right, though.

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Depends who they're attacking.

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Cows are not all fed on grain. A lot of cows are ranched on land that would not be suitable for growing grain crops.

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Because not everyone agrees that it's terrible for Earth. And even some of those that do may not consider it so terrible for Earth that it's not worth the tastiness.

You're wasting electricity running a computer right now, when we know that electricity generation is terrible for Earth. Why are you doing that?

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But as I pointed out, many cattle are ranched on land that cannot grow grain. They can't grow the sorts of crops that humans eat, only the sorts of crops that cattle eat. If cattle weren't being ranched on those lands they wouldn't be producing edible grain instead, or any other food that humans could eat. So the inefficiency is moot when it comes to the amount of nutrition produced, removing the cattle from that land would simply reduce the total amount of food we have available.

Sure, if you remove the cattle then wild animals could come in to replace them, but we should make sure that's not going to result in starvation and poverty if we do that. Many areas of the world have subsistence ranching by the locals.

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Most ranchland is, in fact, a "natural ecosystem." They just send cattle out to graze on it.

The point I'm making here is about food efficiency, though, not about land use.

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And in those specific cases, sure, you could do more efficiently by getting rid of the cattle.

The point I'm making is that there's plenty of cattle raised in places that aren't like that.

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There's no need to "torture" cattle to get meat from them. Indeed, meat from animals that are experiencing stressful conditions tastes worse. Not to mention simply having lower productivity. A farm with happy cows is going to be more profitable than one with stressed ones, all else being equal.

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Do you think people in non-capitalist societies only eat the healthiest of foods?

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It's just a matter of land management. Many of those grassland areas used to have other large grazing animals on them, so as long as the cattle herds aren't bigger than those old herds it should be sustainable.

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It's not a planet.

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The usual shorthand description I see for the Culture is "fully automated luxury gay space communism".

I shorten it even more, to "pets for supercomputers."

I'm on board with that.

Police make arrests in killing of B.C. [Canada] Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar (www.cbc.ca)

Canadian police have arrested members of an alleged hit squad investigators believe was tasked by the government of India with killing prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. last June, CBC News has learned....

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Given they may have done hits previous to this one, it seems like the former is more likely.

Honestly I wasn't expecting anything nearly this extreme. A foreign democracy appears to have a hit squad roaming Canada killing Canadian citizens for political reasons. Even China didn't go this far with their secret "police stations," this is Russia-level BS. If confirmed then I'd be comfortable with quite a high level of diplomatic stink-up ensuing.

An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride (apnews.com)

With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary...

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We still encounter edge cases with human-controlled flight and we've been doing that for over 120 years.

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Indeed. Ford and GM can just go ahead and build their own charging stations if they want some. Settling on a single standard for EV charging is a good thing.

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If you want a music artist that is guaranteed to not come out in support of some political view, you should probably pick a dead one.

Alternately, you could sign up to udio.com or suno.com and generate some of your own. Since it's an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.

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OP asked "how can I accomplish goal X?"

You responded "Goal X sucks, you should accomplish goal Y instead!"

That's not exactly useful.

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And if they're having trouble with their car they could just hire a taxi. But they're trying to fix their car so telling them to hire a taxi is useless advice.

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A nice feature to note is that Ukraine is charging people for this sort of corruption.

Instead of, you know, letting them run for president again.

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Bitches love sticks.

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People find a shiny new word that sounds clever. They start using it so that they sound clever too. They like sounding clever, so they use it a lot. They start using it for things that it doesn't actually mean, until it loses all meaning other than the most generic "I don't like that." The word becomes enshittified and people eventually stop using it.

Needing a substitute, people find a new word...

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It's a cycle. Some of the other current "suddenly popular but as a result doomed" words I'm seeing lately are "grift", "slop", and the suffix "-bro." They'll likely fade away again once they become ubiquitous and some other new shiny word appears to glom onto.

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Too late, there's a little blood in the water so now everyone hates Microsoft and is pouncing on every drop they think they smell. Being part of an angry mob is fun!

Don't worry, in a couple of weeks or months some other big company or rich person will become the focus and everyone will forget about Microsoft again.

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Doubt this one scored a Hugo nomination like Space Raptor Butt Invasion did. Cheap attempt to ride its coattails to popularity.

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