Agreed. People claim flying halfway across the planet exposes them to "different cultures" , but then do the most homegenized, Westernized touristy activities. I can learn more about a country and it's culture in a single day via Wikipedia and documentaries than most tourists will gain on their "vacation" in same country.
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What about these voters makes them unable to sympathize with others when it happens to them?
Plants come close, using nitrogen to make protein, and CO2 for carbohydrates.
Indeed. I haven't bought any of these brands for years, not out of a desire to take them down (although that would be nice), but because I eat a healthy diet.
Unless he agrees to submit to random ETG and drug urine testing, I wouldn't trust anything an alcoholic up for a highly-paid and powerful job says about sobriety.
I'm curious if the bitcoins are even still readable at this point. My understanding is the charges in the memory cells of a usb stick will gradually dissipate over time, and after more than ten years, much of that information may be lost.
You could periodically plug a standard usb drive to refresh the memory, but will that work with these hardware encrypted drives w/o a password?
I have a seedbox. On private trackers I limit my UL speed to give home seeders as chance to build ratio.
For public torrents where I am the only seeder, I throttle upload so the leech might appreciate the value of having multiple seeders and will seed the torrent so the next user doesn't have to go through the same bad experience. It hardly ever works, though.
It's exactly what lions do!
My ethical concerns go beyond raising animals, it's the unnecessary killing them without their consent where it becomes problematic. Particularly when the "sacrifice" is for the trivial reason to satisfy the killer's taste buds; when our taste buds can be satisfied in so many ways that don't involve a victim.
And yes, I grew up on a farm where we raised all our own meat, including pigs. I've personally killed more animals than the average person, and I can say with certainty that every animal wants to live. To violently take another's life "because it tastes good" and then go through such convuluted reasoning to justify it is very puzzling to me. It suggests a lack of empathy that seems to be endemic in our society. To speak of "the love" that is involved in the process doesn't hold much weight with me. Serial killers love to kill, don't they?
I haven't eaten meat for over thirty years and feel great! Diet is a big part, but I also regularly exercise.
I was bemoaning the lack of action on global warming, and how all of civilization was at risk if we didn't take action now, and my boomer mom replied,
"Why should I care? I'll be dead by then!" ๐