> It is an exceptionally well known story in the Russosphere.
“Well known” and true aren’t the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions?...
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The environmental issue with raising livestock isn't that they fart. It's that they convert energy from plants to energy stored in their flesh with low efficiency, so to raise livestock, humans need to grow more plants — and use more resources — to feed the livestock than they would need to grow if the humans ate the plants directly.
I find that people concerned with animals rights tend to emphasize ethical arguments over (valid) environmental arguments, while those emphasizing the environmental arguments are genuinely concerned with the environmental cost of animal agriculture. In other words, most people making environmental arguments against animal agriculture are not trying to trick you.
You are clearly discussing this in good faith, thank you.
> In other words, most people making environmental arguments against animal agriculture are not trying to trick you.
Sadly ven diagram of animal rights advocates, clueless do gooders and environmentalists overlaps greatly.
Bad faith arguments emerge not only by extremists but also by people eager to be part of the movement with no capacity for independent thought. These things take root and become "common knowledge" within the communities.
They don't need to be actively trying to trick me to muddy the waters with their own, however well intentioned, confusion.
We are still dealing with metaphysical arguments - note you didn't provide any numbers or scale or externalities or consideration towards second order effects or unintended consequences.
I can give a contrived example in the other direction (as its easier to recognize the obvious flaws):
Cars bad. Bicycles good. Clearly. Bike lane therefore must be good. Now you get a dozen guys in spandex burning extra calories and compensating by consuming far more burgers than they otherwise would have. And far worse traffic idling their engines at less efficent stop-and-go low speeds for longer.
What was actually accomplished in terms of CO2? We should ban all bicycles instead.
> If you ever come across a bright teenager getting lulled into communism keep this in mind as a very edifying example of the pitfalls of that system
This does not work at all in most instances. I'm a descendant of Poles who suffered greatly from Soviet oppression and later due to communist rule in Poland. I'm always open to share their horrific stories because it's important to know the past.
The two most frequent arguments I'm getting from those young people fascinated with communism is:
1. The history books are false, Gulags were education communities where people chilled and exchanged ideas
2. USSR was not real communism and we'll make it work this time.
There is no cure for stupid.
I could spoon feed more details about this incident but if they are already going out of their way to avoid reality there is nothing to do but avoid them.
richie-guix commented on Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI Is Hateful' bbc.com/news/articles/cn0... · Posted by u/belter
Sheryl Crow is expressing things a little less than eloquently here.
Try Rick Beato. A favorite teacher on YouTube discussing how AI generated music is towards the end of the climb out of the uncanny valley already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns
The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.
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Hopefully, with advances in battery technology, homes can become completely independent of the grid.
Sounds like he is allowed to sell excess back to the grid and payback period would be <20 years. They are warranted for longer. If financing is available it is basically free. ;)
Big if that but more realistically the real kicker here is that all of that is about x3 larger than what most households need.
I get that not everybody has $10k laying around to plop down on panels/batteries all in one go but if you do you can get off the grid now.