Awesome. I can’t wait to hear you explain why Bernie syphoning away Dem votes and handing Trump a second term would have been great for our country.

I’m hoping Ukraine wins because I’m against imperialism and I respect the sovereignty of other nations. Pretty simple if you ask me.

Why wouldn’t you fight against animal cruelty?

I’m afraid I’m going to need a better argument than “I support killing animals because it makes me feel good.”

/But hardware stores don’t want to sell it tooooo youuu…/

I won’t speak for other vegans, but my research into beekeeping and honey production turned me against the industry for the following reasons:

• Beekeepers will commonly clip the wings of queens to keep them from swarming or leaving.
• Semen is commonly extracted from bees by crushing them.
• Honey taken from hives is commonly replaced with a nutrient-devoid sugar solution, affecting the health of the bees.
• Selective breeding of honeybees has made them more susceptible to diseases which can also affect native insects.
• Honeybees have been shown to cause serious disruptions to plant-pollinator networks, putting local pollinators at great risk.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

I’m so burned out on Star Wars and Marvel that Disney would have to pay me to watch that schlock. My only regret is that I cancelled D+ a year ago and I can’t stick it to them again over this bs.

Dried prunes, apples and pears have, I believe, the highest poop to volume ratio of any food.

Just be careful you don’t accidentally connect your earbuds to it.

Skeet? Really? Lil Jon’s “Get Low” came out 22 years ago.

Now if they had said “Skibidi” that would be a different story.

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I’m all for selectively breeding crops. It’s selectively breeding animals where it gets ethically murky for me.

Should we be supporting the breeding of snub-nosed dog breeds, for instance, considering the respiratory issues they have? What about broiler chickens that can’t stand up and are prone to cardiac issues? What about egg-laying hens that commonly develop osteoporosis, egg yolk peritonitis, and cloacal prolapse? Cows bred to produce so much milk they display severe discomfort and are prone to mastitis?

Like I said, the lines get blurred quite a bit when you have to also consider the health and comfort of animals.

Regardless of whether they used the same chicken for the photoshoot, these images pretty accurately depict how drastically broiler chickens have changed through the latter half of the 20th century.

Prior to the 1940s, chicken wasn’t a super popular meat, and it was generally old egg-layers that were killed for meat. As demand for chicken grew, broilers were selectively bred for feed conversion, weight and time to slaughter.

The modern broiler chicken grows to an enormous size in a very short (6-8 week) timeframe. They also tend have some pretty bad health issues as a result: impaired mobility, cardiac issues and a compromised immune system.

In the 1950s, a competition was held to create the “chicken of tomorrow” through selective breeding. This is the path that got us to the modern broiler chicken. Unlike their recent ancestors (and much unlike their distant ones) these birds grow so large so quickly that they are prone to health issues and disease.

This is a quick and interesting read: https://exhibits.library.cornell.edu/backyard-revival-american-heritage-poultry/feature/the-chicken-of-tomorrow

Thank you!

Asking again if you would make a community for this, as it would be nice to discuss each point individually and for others to add points.

“Let’s pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what’s the worst that could happen?”

I would highly recommend donating to a specific organization rather than as a “uniform anatomical gift”. Unless you’re fine with being sold by a body broker and used for explosives/crash testing, or forensic entomological decomposition research: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodies-donated-to-science-largely-unregulated-cbs-reports/

Thank you! I’ll give it a shot. I regularly use illustrator and Photoshop for work and I’m really looking for more lightweight programs for personal use.

Anyone got a good FOSS alternative to Adobe Illustrator? I like Photopea as a Photoshop alternative.