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usernamesAreTricky ,

It's not zero evidence, it's just not 100% certain. There have had known H5N1 infections in other mammals consuming raw milk that spilled. Many of them have died from it. Additionally, the testing that has happened shows that 1 in 5 US dairy samples are positive for H5N1 so it's prevelence is rather high making there be a very real risk

usernamesAreTricky ,

Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised.[22] Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument is challenged using a common definition of a term in the argument, and the arguer presents a different definition of the term and thereby demands different evidence to debunk the argument.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy[1]—is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

usernamesAreTricky ,

Redefining the counterfactual scenario. Why ignore the case of less beef production out of hand? Beef consumption has been declining over time in a number of countries. Then proceed to ignore the rest of the article’s main point after that one word

Beef is an enormous outlier in emissions and they are pointing out that the claims that supposedly reduce it are highly missleading. They’re not much of a reduction. People tout it as if the emissions were gone. They’re nowhere near that

usernamesAreTricky ,

This is all missing the point. People are claiming it’s carbon free or low emission when it is still substantially higher than other things. The beef industry loves to promote this as if it solves beef emissions. It does not. The emissions are still very much there. If it was touted as a small reduction that would be one thing

usernamesAreTricky ,

I assume this is probably not in good faith, but answering anyway for a reminder to others

From just trump and the US alone:

There was the child sepeation policy

en.wikipedia.org/…/Trump_administration_family_se…

His appointments to the Supreme Court has led to abortion being banned in 14 different states across the US

www.theguardian.com/…/state-abortion-laws-us

Gender affirming care is now much restricted in a number of US states with constant threats at larger bans of all care

And so much more

In the UK, the right wing government has helped o underfund the NHS and make service worse

theguardian.com/…/nhs-funding-faces-biggest-real-…

There’s a lot of damage that can be done. Just because it may not be as visible to one person, doesn’t mean it does not exist

usernamesAreTricky ,

Be mindful that a soldering iron cable can pull a soldering iron from your hand, so don’t have too loose of a grip. Learned that one the hard way :(

usernamesAreTricky ,

Haha, luckily wasn’t too bad because it only nicked my finger for a really short amount of time. It rotated past my finger when it flicked around. Could have been much worse

usernamesAreTricky ,

The problem is not that the method that meat is produced, it is that it is produced at high levels at all. The inefficiencies don’t go away by changing regulations. We are going to have to have changes in production and thus consumption levels. It’s going to be difficult politically to get any policy like that through if people are unwilling to reduce any on there own as well

Do I think systematic actions are needed, yes, but if we’re going to get there we’ll have to start with some degree of individual action before any of it is paltable to the larger society

usernamesAreTricky ,

I would hazard saying “environmentally effective” here unless we are willing to ignore some of the other large environmental issues with meat production outside of just green house gases emission. Plant-based foods are lower not just on GHG emissions, but water usage, land usage, eutrophication, fertilizer usage^1^, etc.

There’s all kinds of other pollutants such as Nitrogen runoff. The rise of the pig farming is has helped fueled a crisis in Nitrogen runoff in the Netherlands for instance

There’s the high level of antibiotic usage to maintaining the high levels of production fueling antibiotic resistance.

And so on.

If we do want to look at the suffering, we should also note that chicken farming does not just keep things the same, but actually makes it worse with more chickens required than other creatures due to their smaller size.

^1^ Even less synthetic fertilizer even compared to the maximal usage of manure per www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0921344922006528

EDIT: I should also mention that land use change (deforestation) factor can change as you rapidly increase these industries size. Deforestation makes up a large portion of beef’s current emissions. Plant-based foods require overall less cropland due to not needing to grow any feed and removing that energy loss. This is not the case for chicken production. Currently beef does make up the majority of Amazonian deforestation, however, the second largest portion is growing animal feed primary for chickens. Switch from beef to chickens and you might risk just moving around where the deforestation comes from

usernamesAreTricky , (edited )

First check if you have ipv6 disabled in Firefox. I think there was a DNS issue on some lemmy instance a while ago where people were turning ipv6 off to work around that (was later fixed) or maybe I am misremembering where that was

Go to about:config then make sure that network.dns.disableIPv6 is false.

usernamesAreTricky ,

Hmm, maybe this could be a DNS issue. Are you using DNS over HTTPS on Firefox (check on about:preferences#privacy? If so, what do you have the DNS provider set as?

Also what happens if you go to a website that is ipv6 only such as ip6only.me? Does it fail to connect or does it then actually use ipv6?

"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?

I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

usernamesAreTricky ,

Main idea: They can’t restore any color by filtering or let you perceive any new colors as their marketing likes to claim. At best they might be able to improve contrast of certain colors while reducing contrast for others - which is not at all what they say it does

The video goes much more into depth about their deceptive marketing and such

usernamesAreTricky OP ,

Keep in mind here they are also specifically feeding diseased and infected dead pig

usernamesAreTricky ,

I’d hope it’d be things relating to our treatment of non-human animals. There’s a pretty good talk making that case (not so much in terms of jokes, but in general)

youtu.be/N6w3A7E1Hw8

usernamesAreTricky ,

Natural language kind of stuff can be helpful if you don't know the relvent terms for something though I haven't had too much luck most of the time with ChatGPT on that kind of stuff. Worse is that ChatGPT is likely to lead to even more SEO spam :(

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