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I like how vegans are happy to downvote me without refuting a single line of logic... because you know I'm right, you just don't want to admit it.

Thus revealing the real reason most vegans are vegan; most of you care more about feeling superior to everyone else than about finding realistic solutions to the problems you conveniently blame others for.

Factory farming is terrible but we don't all need to be vegan to end those practices.

Outside of that, if you consider normal killing for food 'terrible', then all animals do terrible things to animals. That's just life.

Humans are animals too, the difference is we evolved the capacity for guilt and projecting ourselves into the future to imagine the effects of climate change.

Those are why I don't eat red meat and eat vegetarian once a week. If everyone did that we wouldn't need factory farms and we also wouldn't need to be vegan.

This is getting too philosophical.

because Boeing or why?

Fuckin stellar. Wtg SCROTUS.

You're getting downvoted but my friend is a 5th grade school teacher in California and confirmed to me that for years now when her students get to 5th grade they can't read or even sound out basic words and she's required to keep passing them to middle school.

Teachers all over the US are saying kids can't read. Combined with the fact that teachers have to strictly follow their curriculums which are not designed for these kids, that means American kids will continue to not develop literacy skills. IMO it's a valid question to ask: what are we doing about that?

Great stuff! Disappointing that the article didn't mention how they managed to get on the tarmac.

Hey, that's my favorite System of a Down lyric!

All research and successful health policies show

That walking should be increased

And law enforcement decreased while abolishing

Mandatory minimum parking spots

I buy my crack, I smack my removed

Right here in Hollywood

Lol you're not wrong it's just funny that rather than upholding quality standards Google is injecting it straight into the top of your search results.

It's hilariously bad that they don't care it's literally conflicting with itself. This came up for me yesterday:

Please no one tell them and let them drink their raw milk and get avian flu and perish.

Google Messages app already falls back to SMS automatically if RCS fails. SMS is not going anywhere.

idk why you're getting downvoted, I haven't seen any scientists or doctors refute the study or claim there's reason to believe this medicine won't work.

I see you got your food science degree from Trump University.

Obligatory reminder that he didn't win the popular vote.

But yes you're spot on.

I might be wrong but I don't think the commenter was joking. It's not a joke to say a lot of politicians have been assassinated and to question how someone in such a situation managed to get safely elected. I wonder the same thing.

This mostly. There's also some speculation that worse results may cause users to execute more search queries (at least in the short term) and get served more ads.

on International Day Against Transphobia no less! I feel the struggle too

The "people are selfish" take is an outdated one at best, ignorant at worst.

Desperate people with major problems are often highly motivated to solve those problems, which often leads them, paradoxically, to seek out distractions that make their problems disappear, albeit temporarily. Psychologically this satisfies the brain the same as if the problems were actually solved; in other words, it's a shortcut to the emotional end goal of satisfaction.

Is it selfish? Partly yes, but it's not any more selfish than actually working to solve one's problems in more permanent ways. Therefore it's awfully reductive to ascribe this behavior to mere selfishness.

Thanks to centuries of research on human behavior & mental health that was done after Juvenal in Ancient Rome, it's obvious that desperate & stressed people seek out distractions to self-soothe, so they can avoid burnout and continue being functioning members of society. Therefore to some extent this behavior can also be seen as selfless.

The idea of "Bread and circuses" as lavish distractions from reality is valuable insofar as it reveals the primary mechanisms deployed by governments and corporations to control the attention of the population.

By providing highly palatable mass-produced foods and entertainment, they take advantage of workers' need to rest, recover and feel some amount of satisfaction in their daily lives. This sustains the working population just enough to put up with going to work day after day. And I haven't even touched on how food and media are used to keep us going to the doctor and to influence our thoughts.