Agreed! I feel like now, while we’re thinking about these very charismatic creatures, might be a good time to remind folks about cattle, who form strong social and familial bonds

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159114003128

We show that the dam and calf express behaviour suggestive of a strong bond even in the absence of nursing.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cattle-family-bovidae

Cattle are naturally social animals and form small herds, the composition of which varies according to the species

The entire herd not only feeds and moves around as a colossal single unit, but individual animals will also gather around an injured or sick animal if it is threatened by predators

https://animalequality.org/blog/2024/08/19/dairy-industry-hurts-cows/

To keep the milk flowing, farmers artificially inseminate her about once per year.

A strong bond forms between the mother and her baby immediately after birth. Within a day or two, the mother cow will be separated from her calf. She will cry for her missing baby for days.

A male calf is considered useless to the dairy industry because he cannot produce milk. If he isn’t raised and sold for beef, this baby will likely be sold to the veal industry.

Food for thought

Hard to have infinite growth without infinite growth.

Stock prices to drop sufficiently.

They’ll just start selling their planes at a discount to win back buyers, then cut more corners to make a profit at the discounted rate.

No Jira ticket, no fixy.

That’s kinda my point. Mastectomies would bring the average down but more women brings it back up. Too lazy to Google but is global # of women who have had mastectomies more or fewer than # of “excess” women (over men)

IDK, there’s slightly more women than men, it may skew the results

Kale, IMO, has to be cooked. I love a good roasted/destemmed kale tossed onto just about anything, but raw kale can fuck right off.

TBH chicken often tastes gross to me (grew up with a parent that thought ‘boil it in maybe-salted water’ was the way to go).

Funny, this is why most people hate veggies

IDK, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Best to eat more veggies now, and maybe one day everyone can go back to salmon once it’s sustainable.

Because without it there would be no UN, and as useless as you think the current UN is, I promise you no UN is even more useless.

It’s bleak but the fact that we can even get everybody in the same room is remarkable. Like it or not, a UN where Monaco and the US (or, Russia, China, etc) have the same power at the table is a UN where the big players reject its authority and form their own clubs.

At least an American football field is a standard fucking size.

The two goal lines are between 50 and 100 yards (46 and 91 metres) wide and have to be of the same length.[4] The two touchlines are between 100 and 130 yards (91 and 119 metres) long and have to be of the same length.[4]

You’ve got like a 50% margin of error there.

I don’t fully agree with this, I’ve had nonstick pans in the past, and I had to baby the shit out of them to make sure they didn’t scratch, and they can only really be used in certain applications (never in the oven, don’t preheat, etc.)

I tossed my cast iron pan into a 800 degree pizza oven the other day and did not worry about anything. I beat the crap out of it with metal utensils, that are sturdier and better than their plastic counterparts, and it comes out smiling.

Yes I do have to hand wash it, but even that is easier because I can scrape any stuck on food off with a metal spatula or chainmail scrubber. If that’s a deal breaker, just go stainless and move on.

In a commercial kitchen? I’d bet good money they were using metal utensils.

“Squishy” claims like “healthy” or “better” are always iffy, but objective testable claims like PFAS-free are generally pretty trustworthy, as they can be easily disproven and open the company up to significant liability.

Sure they could be leaving out a million bad things that ARE in it, but the person I was replying to was specifically taking about PFAS, which are generally not found in ceramic nonstick coatings.

Probably not, I’m guessing it’s a ceramic coating similar to GreenPan (https://www.greenpan.us/pages/faqs-is-greenpan-cookware-healthy-to-use)

Note: I admittedly do not know enough about ceramic coatings to be able to say if they’re any better, but generally speaking they’re typically free from PFAS/PFOA/plastics

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There’s a ton more to it than that, for example:

Martial rape is not considered a crime in India

Rape is legally considered exclusively an act done by a man to a woman, therefore counts exclude raped committed against men

Finally due to stigma in the country and the judicial system often trying to shelter men who commit assault, cases go under-reported and under-prosecuted, lessening the count.

Honestly, that’s shockingly low, like I don’t believe it at all low. Like, as grim as it sounds, I wish that were the true count.

Rape statistics are notoriously difficult to track because they require reporting and documentation, which often doesn’t happen for a variety of reasons, and additionally legal definitions vary globally. However, as a point of reference, in the US a sexual assault occurs almost every minute.

The US isn’t the greatest place for women by any stretch of the imagination, BUT, when you consider the cultural differences combined with having 4x the population, I’m shocked to see ~1/16 the total volume of assaults.

But you have to remember, that’s true for lost sales but it’s also true for API calls - only a small fraction of their user base is contributing to this high API usage