don’t tell ppl monero is pvt.

I believe there are more cows now than ever before

I still use xmpp.

but it didn’t stop cows from burping.

We’ve become so extreme in our conversations vs. being moderate to the point that people hate you for finding common ground. They want you to say they’re right and that’s it.

if they are even listening to what you say in the first place. you can literally tell them what they’re right about and they demand that you address other aspects of their comments.

lots of people have tried that. it hasn’t worked.

Going vegan is a solution to the problem at hand.

did you try that?

for some people this might be true.

that doesn’t work.

that study depends on a number of other studies with dubious methodology. i wouldn’t trust that study just based on the studies on which i know it relies.

a vegan diet isn’t any better for the environment at all. producing the parts of a vegan diet INSTEAD of the parts of some other diet WOULD be better but that’s not what happens: the omnivorous products continue to be made in growing amounts while vegan products are ALSO increased.

not eating animals is an easy step that we can all take, which prevents some of the worst suffering

that doesn’t prevent any suffering. if you want to prevent suffering, go to where there is suffering, and prevent it.

animals are mostly fed plants or parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat: cows graze on grass, or are fed silage which includes things like cotton seed and corn stalks. you can eat the corn and wear the cotton and eat the cow.

no RSS support.

if I only needed to scrawl an abv and my signature on my wine before, and now I need a printed label, my cost increases.

sounds like regulatory capture to me: increase the bar to establish a brand so that only established brands dominate the market place. laws are bad and there should only be fewer of them.