but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects.

I assume this is from the larger more flat-faced grills, especially on SUVs and pick-up truck size creep.

This is the reality. A doctor is trying to see as many patients as possible who want to be seen. Not every condition requires the same amount of time. They do their best to estimate, but ultimately, if a doctor is willing to give you extra time, then the price is usually paying it forward by waiting longer in the waiting room for fellow patients. If you’re late when they are ready, then you drop the efficiency of the entire day. If you’re ready when they’re not, well, yes, their time is actually more valuable in this case.

Russia fucked up so badly LOL.

LOL

I didn’t downvote you. I’ll have to delve into this as it seems interesting. Does this have any application to today, though?

Fair point, and to that I admittedly use this as an explanation for why Ukrainians can fight side-by-side with the likes of more right-wing extremist groups in their military (e.g., Azov). It would be little different if the United States was attacked and I and some dude from the Proud Boys / Oathkeepers / The Base / 3%ers was with me and we were fighting to protect our family.

In that respect, sure. I just couldn’t pursue it during domestic peacetime as a career given that and the volatility I mentioned.

You know, there’s an aspect to the bond, the camaraderie, the discipline, the fitness that I really appreciate about soldiering. Growing up with films like Band of Brothers practically on repeat, having read pretty close to every book that came out from those guys — well, I have admiration. But at the same time as I grew up and became more leftist I of course had many issues with the volatility of our leadership.

If I could’ve joined Norway, Canada, or German armed forces under the NATO banner, I may very well have done that. After seeing everything transpiring in Ukraine, I often wonder if I’d have the courage to do what those brave people are doing every day. In the right context, under purely defensive conditions, I’d like to think I would’ve thrived, but who knows…

But second to volatile leadership is quite honestly the type of people the military tends to attract. The desperate, the jar-head conservative types. If life is on the line, I’d rather not be in a foxhole with them if I’m honest.

But there’s a lot of talk that finally the culture may be shifting within the US Military — to attract smarter, better educated people. I know a lot of conservatives are retiring early and not joining up because they feel the “culture is changing,” which is a good sign to me.

• Batch cooking
• Cleaning as you go
• Listen to something while you’re doing it

Makes it a pretty efficient and fun time.

I was working in the hospital at the time from a big-picture perspective and it seemed pneumonia cases were already spiking in the US during December 2019. My sister and my coworker both came down with a nasty “pneumonia” during then as well.

He’s not wrong. Been saying this since week 1 of this new stage of the conflict. Others have been saying this for decades.

Wake me up when you have something substantive to say. Otherwise you’ve got nothing.

You know what’s so sad about something like this?

The conservative seeing this will opt to blame the individual. This conservative will most frequently espouse themselves to be a Christian nonetheless. “Jesus-like” in aspirations and idolatry.

And yet, they’ll have the knee-jerk reaction to this image that is saying, “Well they put themselves in that position.”

“It wasn’t the happenstance of birth locations,.”

“It wasn’t the culmination of external forces and externalities building to this moment.”

“It wasn’t the fact that their life was harder than my own.”

“Or perhaps my life was hard and I’m using the survivor-bias fallacy to justify kicking the ladder out from under me.”

The conservative believes there are lesser people who deserve what they get coming. It’s seemingly incomprehensible to them that we humans are quite literally of the same species, and that you must come to the conclusion one of two possibilities: Either (1) We are all a blank slate from the start and thus products of our environment. Nurture comprising the vast majority of what influences us. Which means those left out on the streets; those who take drugs in an ideal state of mind don’t want to be there, but are already too far broken from past experiences to reconcile their immediate choices (and need saved; protected; rehabilitated by the same outside forces that put them there in the fist place). Or (2) It is genetic, which means there is a predisposition incompatible with the inherently-flawed system we’ve built for ourselves. They’re a circle in a square system, and it’s thus just the same not their choice. And so again, the system should adapt and accommodate them just the same to promote a healthier society overall.

THAT would be more Jesus-like. Not the lazy cop-out that casts them off as degenerates. Such people lack empathy and cannot comprehend the bigger picture.

Nothing antisemitic about that. Wouldn’t matter what race, religion, ethnicity the apartheid occupiers were.

Well if that isn’t the most outlandish illogical leap I’ve seen in a while…

Great study. To those who believe that raising own meat, dairy, eggs, hunts, fishes, or traps comes in as “nearly free food,” either doesn’t place a value on their time, and/or doesn’t consider the large costs in investment and learning-curve / training involved. (And if it was that cheap and easy, then it would be reflected in low prices at the market and therefore still be cheaper. Evidently, it is not).

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I do agree it requires significant education. I think it’s about what’s served to us as a cultural norm and thus habit-ingraining. For instance, my parents will never switch because it’s too much effort to teach old dogs new tricks. They grew up around dairy farms and massive lobbyists in the meat & cattle industry shaping the menu of the America diet.

And admittedly, it would’ve been harder to be vegetarian 20 years ago or more than now, thanks to access to vegetarian options, wider produce options, and restaurant menus accommodating this.

To put in perspective, India and Asia has large populations subsisting on largely vegetarian / vegan diets for dirt-cheap. If for example it weren’t the dairy and poultry lobbyists who reigned supreme in America but rather soybean and legume lobbyists, we’d be making the opposite arguments of convenience as we are now. It’s sort of the same argument oil lobbyists made in resisting the shift to electric vehicles and rail transit.

I can’t fully speak for vegans as I’m not one. I suppose I’m close to an Ovo-vegetarian who avoids dairy when possible but not religiously.

I can say that if you really want to be vegetarian or vegan, it CAN be done as cheaply if not more cheaply than the average middle or lower-class diet. But again it takes more education in nutrition to know exactly what you’re looking for. When I first transitioned to vegetarianism, it was a massive learning-curve that took me at least 2-3 years to start getting a sufficient grasp on the dietary needs and adjust accordingly. Most people simply don’t know how.

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Not sure why he believes citing that graph is some great counterpoint. Less demand does factually translate to less supply and therefore less suffering. The problem is that populations still continue to grow and the number of vegetarians/vegans is neglible to overall growth.

Obviously if every vegan and vegetarian suddenly began eating meat again, then that graph would only increase in rate of change.

Change the minds of more people, and watch that change the rate of supply of course.

Then I don’t care for your incoherent ramblings full of deflections and fallacies. See ya, buddy.