All but mined SALT has plastic in it. Probably for decades now if we had been tracking it. What can one expect from SEA SALT! Never understood why people thought it was better or more natural than land or chemical salt.
Microplastics MOSTLY come from clothing and other TINY FIBER sources because it takes a long time to break the plastics into microplastics. Already small plastics are most the way there. Every time you wash clothes you're releasing some... don't know why that wasn't news... maybe it was long ago? (or not in a formal study but I read about it decades ago.)
The simplicity test is not a test, it's an initial filter at best, a presupposition or precept for smart people to balance out their bias towards the complexity abyss. Reality is too complex, interconnected for humans to fully grasp so it's comical to assume that simplicity actually exists except on a highly specific abstracted context.
Solar thermal it works in the DARK! (Efficiency isn't always about $.) baseline power.
I don't think battery + PV costs + land have costs have caught up. I would think thermal gets more power for the land area. Why can't they generate power during overcast days? Concentrating thermal towers should still have some output...not parabolic troughs. I would think that improvements on IR light are still possible since a lot of that goes thru clouds.
NO INTERNET. Phone Apps need to be avoided too. Go look at all the prelim work and opinions of experts it's all carefully anti-technology because of the climate we are in; otherwise, they'd be free to really say what they think about technology on child development.
TV has it's harms too. Just try to control video access and work your way slowly to other tech-- don't think you can handle filtering all tech exposure and it's harm. Hell, just giving them these electronic infant toys hinders their development over old fashioned toys. (the real world you learn to interact with doesn't beep/light up and talk etc. we didnt' evolve for this shit. touch is important; we admit that now because babies were dying from lack of touch... but we just do enough to stop them from dying we don't know the details of just how much touch is ideal... )
Look at the stanford marshmallow study. you'll do more for your kids preparing them to pass that test than a lot of other things... (and in prepping them for that avoiding attention span and impulse control killing technology is going to help a lot.)
but seriously, rare situations should be ignored. The number of children intentionally poisoning anybody is below a rounding error.
The annoying part of American Puritan hypocrisy is that any censoring is pointless in the USA because both sex and violence are heavily promoted in the culture in the most influential ways possible WITHOUT being explicit! The damage is largely being done while ignorantly being "clean" and "safe" because they fail to realize being explicit is just being literal minded. Beeping a swearword out when everybody fills in the blank does nothing; if anything it amplifies the impact. Soft porn is PG and on broadcast TV and has more impact on kids. The culture is engineered to give into temptation because good consumers are impulsive; that alone promotes more sex and violence directly.
Lets hack your fetus's DNA so you can have some movie star traits in your kid. They might turn into a monster but they'll look beautiful so it's ok right? (fun aside, they could have miserable health issues and have a short life with a miserable drawn out death.)
It's great to LEARN but irresponsible to build mission critical things based upon it. Yeah, we want pacemakers etc created with tons of hacks by irresponsible children with no skills or grasp of how it functions other than the basics. Student project; ok, but nothing more. yet.
Parent nailed it! I can't believe they overtly used the worst battery SUV against the best car forgetting to call them both cars... what kind of propagandist are they?
They ignore that dirty grid power is on the way out. In 10 years it'll be a whole lot cleaner as well. Recycling batteries will become a much bigger thing too (and re-purposing worn batteries.) New battery tech--- we're sold plenty of hype on next gen power that never happens for OLD tech like nuclear and coal; but batteries are actually delivering... going from 100 years of no progress to huge leaps within the last 25 years - it has only recently began to get large investments. The whole industry is going to change with rental services thanks to internet, AI and a generation who can't afford to waste time/money on car ownership... lower cost and higher profit alternatives are coming.
It's HARD to compare something new and evolving to something old and dead where they are trying to squeeze the last bit out of the concept after 100+ years.
This should be clear propaganda to you readers! Next step is to discuss the SOURCES! You can't trust sources that are either incompetent or corrupt that they feed you this rather simple scam! The original author has to be seriously examined because I can't see how they are not just a scammer. The news repeaters hardly do any serious editing and review so you can put them down for incompetence.
We need some kind of reputation system to rank the sources and repeaters of information. Like a facebook like system but not so stupid; and we really need to weigh experts higher somehow because popular shouldn't beat informed.
Today's humans evolved and replaced our ancestors. Why do we view evolved humans as a horror like "Children of the Dammed"? Perhaps it's because we treat perceived to be lesser humans so bad already and therefore fear that our betters will act as horrible as we do?
AI. I am fine with it taking over. We can't manage ourselves or scale beyond tribalism.
CRISPR is bad; that is true. not only are we hacking code in a system we barely grasp the system and the code we can't even properly test the results. It makes bad engineering look great. On top of all of that the techniques are too primitive and are akin to inserting data into a data stream hoping to hack something and counting on error correction to compensate for all the damage you caused in the process (but this is far worse in that you don't know all the errors introduced and simply because you don't see outward signs you assume the damage was minimal.) Useful for hacking to discover things but not practical for long term stable use.
can you site a decent source for those claims? Just because some employees have opinions doesn't mean any conspiracy actually happened. I have lots of opinions but I don't waste my time with all the possible opportunities to bias something; even if I want to do that, I'm not going to notice all the chances unless that is all I'm thinking about doing; furthermore, one tends to pick and choose from their list of options. Google biases being carried out may be things we have not even thought about yet and could be better games we won't even notice..... such as lowering stat counts so you don't know how well something is doing or fudging stat counts when it comes to billing you.
If Trudeau messed with the tar sands in a big way you can expect the USA to begin talking about regime change within weeks. If the campaign succeeded well enough but fails to restore oil mining then you can expect hostilities down the road. Unless this administration can manage to deploy the usual meddling,interfering in politics and hacking of elections in Canada the USA is known for (outside the USA.)
Science marches on; including marching over prior science that gets in the way. It's not supposed to be dogmatic (except for the process itself.)
Optimistic perception BIAS is likely a genetic trait 3 of 4 people have. This will show up in dire scientific reports. Us pessimists are probably mislabeled by the optimist majority. It's probably realism, actual realism. Notice how all the climate projections up to this point had their errors on the optimistic side of things while the people who with the best track record were (and still are) seen as being too negative.
Choose the people who are correct most the time; it's likely they won't be the happy sounding people. Also, some of us adapt and add in positive bias or leave details out in order to make progress with the majority. So, it is no surprise that you'll see more like 1 in 10 being "overly negative."
The article is probably a propaganda piece... or it's unintentionally acting along those lines.
Same points can be made about a great many things. The academic world provides nearly all the innovation but gets little in return plus a fair amount of abuse which slow people pile onto because they can't see beyond 1 step removed.
We have no hope of escaping the basics of our economics anytime soon and you must pay for civilization by taxing economic activity. Property taxes too which are the exception. When labor is gone a primary tax source disappears; so either you shift to property taxes or you change your method of economic tax. More regressive sales taxes OR you greatly increase corporate taxes! duh. Increase corporate taxes to cover ALL the lost income taxes. If you just think about it, this has always been payed by the corporation indirectly because it came out of labor's pocket. It won't harm them at all even though they'll try to fool slow people as their profits increase by eliminating their labor force.
Yes, this could be sold as a robot/software tax. Which is not a crazy idea; because it eases the transition into robots replacing human labor... robots still be cheaper than labor but still retaining the taxed portion of the salaries that are eliminated.
These stuff keeps coming out from Mozilla management. It is as if we have a bunch of non-STEM nontechnical majors feeling out of place working in a technology company..
A typical college degree is already balanced. Management may not PERCEIVE that because they are not STEM majors and are just as biased as everybody they complain about; EXCEPT they are the fish out of water complaining everybody else needs to have gills like them!
A typical STEM degree has other topics required for a "well rounded education." They are fine. If you are concerned about a progression towards tech school that ONLY focuses narrowly on 1 topic then you have something to argue. The traditional liberal arts education ("well rounded") is always under attack but I see no signs yet it is under any new threat gaining ground. Other than the increased politicization of the culture is harming everything.
Do we need more STEM? no. the jobs are not there. simply pumping out extra doesn't create the jobs either. Go look it up, IEEE had a great long article on STEM that debunked everything.
Now, do I think we need more STEM education? YES, everybody needs a little bit more. Most topics we could all use more education...
Force feeding P.C. education classes only creates resentment and hardly converts anybody for the better. There has to be some studies out there besides the few showing sexual harassment trainings make things worse. ETHICS should take over for those classes as well as CIVICS because both are dead today and the damaging results are ongoing.
She may make or allude to points needing to be made; however, in her case she runs a heavily STEM organization which has been failing to serve humanity as well as it used to; therefore, losing market-share.
Philosophy covers all. logic, critical thinking are part of it's domain. It also covers science in more depth then science ever does; that is, science education has surprisingly little self reflection on how it actually works. Math has more than any other. There is a whole college course you can take on the philosophy of science.
SJW have taken over. They put more effort into this crap than keeping users happy and then they'll do stuff like TV show promo add-ons we didn't ask for and removing old features instead of enhancing them because $$ is being wasted on this or further depreciating their browser. It's like the tech department just tries to stay out of their way and has gone a bit too far the other way. Sure Rust sounds good... but it was going extreme to attempt to re-invent the C programming language; that sounds like management wasn't paying attention. At least they are leaving the nerds alone to do some great things (like Rust) but they have to stop wasting $$$ on "UX" and other departments.
1) Many power users who know about RSS have turned OFF telemetry data gathering by mozilla. They don't know what their power users are using. We are the users who bring in others and make decisions what gets put on to organization computer networks. I'm turning it on so they don't take away more features - if I wanted Chrome's lack of options I'd already have switched.
2) how do they measure it? by clicks? I hardly click anything in the gui already. The menu bar I have on. I never pick anything but use it as a REFERENCE for keyboard shortcuts. I bet they wouldn't see that as being used... BTW, WTF is it with removing "view source" from the view menu? It's not like that menu was full.
Statistics abused; again. HOW did they gather usage stats?
I click RSS live bookmarks more than ANYTHING in the GUI. If you include keyboard shortcuts the RSS feeds are #3 or #4... behind tabs, url bar, going backwards. But if you measure time spent, it's going to look like nothing.
They fail to inform users of a feature; if not HIDE it then say nobody is using it.
#1 RULE AT MOZILLA NEEDS TO BE: Do not remove anything that can't be exactly replaced with an add-on. Then they need to create a whole category for add-ons that restore old features. I just spent considerable time trying to find good replacements and maybe some are better but I just want what I had without digging over tons of search results.
Tab controls still suck since Tab Groups died; still can't get a tab sidebar replacing the top bar... The add-on bar died... WTF? Why can't we choose how many tool bars and where they are located again? Do they WANT to be as crippled as Chrome?
US workers do not have the best reputation already; more of a last resort when higher level of skills are required. Higher ethics also helps but that is fading with time as well... Too high and you become too difficult too low and they can't afford to trust you. Actually, a level of ethics does exist which helps the employers... they only want ethics that HELPS THEM and none of the others. A perfect balance of hypocrisy. (So then don't really teach critical thinking! only problem solving.)
Doing work in the USA that is highly unethical is already a deterrent. Take blatant poisoning of locals and employees; even US companies outsourced that to corrupt 3rd world nations because uppity Americans won't tolerate that level of business thinking in their backyard.
The global economy has many bad aspects to it; it needs to be questioned far more. Sadly the only person doing that today is a moron.
Your insurance rates go up or you get DROPPED from insurance without knowing why. They don't have to inform you that new research shows you are 95% going to get cancer after 50.
Some new HR service bans you from recommendations for jobs for their clients and they don't even know why you were not recommended for the job. But your DNA might match some lame AI pattern for people with criminal records! WRONG! I know you're thinking that is too stupid; well, if you think business uses actual proven science you are thinking too much. They can use voodoo in decision making as long as they don't disclose any details that can make them look racist or sexist in their practices.
>Stop fucking after the third or fourth kid. Said like somebody who totally has no clue!
Abstinence education never worked for KIDS who have less sense and impulse control; it will never work on adults!
but seriously: birth control!! Religions have to stop playing political games with reproduction. Governments have to stop lying because they need constant never ending growth to fuel their economic growth systems. The real answer is to fix all males at birth. cheap, easy, simple. Want kids? get unfixed.
Abortion. Again, religions need to STU! Vengeance is mine saith the lord! Stop helping your supposedly all powerful God. FYI, God doesn't need your money either. Another benefit is lower crime rates, child abuse, poverty... and duh, over population.
You can't produce enough meat without another planet. just look at the land used for farming now and how much of that goes to producing meat. That is with a minority consuming insane amounts of meat... to the point they die from eating too much meat! You can't ever reach a production level for that consumption level without some fake meat like soylent green.
You can have meat at every meal if you treat it more like seasoning instead of making nearly the whole meal a slab of meat! The poor westerners have a long history of stretching out their meat as well due to it's cost.
The Chinese diet (from The China Study) use meat more like a seasoning, an ingredient which gives taste. In big part because of COST this has always been done and their fancy rare special expensive meals will have more meat... so if they had $$$ they'd have turned into us sooner. (source: Asian girlfriend, friends; as in nationality.) It's much more HEALTHY and more sustainable, but no official US movement will happen because of rural lobbying power. The patriot act had beef protectionism written into it!
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All but mined SALT has plastic in it. Probably for decades now if we had been tracking it. What can one expect from SEA SALT! Never understood why people thought it was better or more natural than land or chemical salt.
Microplastics MOSTLY come from clothing and other TINY FIBER sources because it takes a long time to break the plastics into microplastics. Already small plastics are most the way there. Every time you wash clothes you're releasing some... don't know why that wasn't news... maybe it was long ago? (or not in a formal study but I read about it decades ago.)
The simplicity test is not a test, it's an initial filter at best, a presupposition or precept for smart people to balance out their bias towards the complexity abyss. Reality is too complex, interconnected for humans to fully grasp so it's comical to assume that simplicity actually exists except on a highly specific abstracted context.
Solar thermal it works in the DARK! (Efficiency isn't always about $.)
baseline power.
I don't think battery + PV costs + land have costs have caught up. I would think thermal gets more power for the land area. Why can't they generate power during overcast days? Concentrating thermal towers should still have some output...not parabolic troughs. I would think that improvements on IR light are still possible since a lot of that goes thru clouds.
NO INTERNET. Phone Apps need to be avoided too. Go look at all the prelim work and opinions of experts it's all carefully anti-technology because of the climate we are in; otherwise, they'd be free to really say what they think about technology on child development.
TV has it's harms too. Just try to control video access and work your way slowly to other tech-- don't think you can handle filtering all tech exposure and it's harm. Hell, just giving them these electronic infant toys hinders their development over old fashioned toys. (the real world you learn to interact with doesn't beep/light up and talk etc. we didnt' evolve for this shit. touch is important; we admit that now because babies were dying from lack of touch... but we just do enough to stop them from dying we don't know the details of just how much touch is ideal... )
Look at the stanford marshmallow study. you'll do more for your kids preparing them to pass that test than a lot of other things... (and in prepping them for that avoiding attention span and impulse control killing technology is going to help a lot.)
but seriously, rare situations should be ignored. The number of children intentionally poisoning anybody is below a rounding error.
The annoying part of American Puritan hypocrisy is that any censoring is pointless in the USA because both sex and violence are heavily promoted in the culture in the most influential ways possible WITHOUT being explicit! The damage is largely being done while ignorantly being "clean" and "safe" because they fail to realize being explicit is just being literal minded. Beeping a swearword out when everybody fills in the blank does nothing; if anything it amplifies the impact. Soft porn is PG and on broadcast TV and has more impact on kids. The culture is engineered to give into temptation because good consumers are impulsive; that alone promotes more sex and violence directly.
Lets hack your fetus's DNA so you can have some movie star traits in your kid. They might turn into a monster but they'll look beautiful so it's ok right? (fun aside, they could have miserable health issues and have a short life with a miserable drawn out death.)
It's great to LEARN but irresponsible to build mission critical things based upon it. Yeah, we want pacemakers etc created with tons of hacks by irresponsible children with no skills or grasp of how it functions other than the basics. Student project; ok, but nothing more. yet.
Parent nailed it! I can't believe they overtly used the worst battery SUV against the best car forgetting to call them both cars... what kind of propagandist are they?
They ignore that dirty grid power is on the way out. In 10 years it'll be a whole lot cleaner as well. Recycling batteries will become a much bigger thing too (and re-purposing worn batteries.) New battery tech--- we're sold plenty of hype on next gen power that never happens for OLD tech like nuclear and coal; but batteries are actually delivering ... going from 100 years of no progress to huge leaps within the last 25 years - it has only recently began to get large investments. The whole industry is going to change with rental services thanks to internet, AI and a generation who can't afford to waste time/money on car ownership... lower cost and higher profit alternatives are coming.
It's HARD to compare something new and evolving to something old and dead where they are trying to squeeze the last bit out of the concept after 100+ years.
This should be clear propaganda to you readers!
Next step is to discuss the SOURCES! You can't trust sources that are either incompetent or corrupt that they feed you this rather simple scam! The original author has to be seriously examined because I can't see how they are not just a scammer. The news repeaters hardly do any serious editing and review so you can put them down for incompetence.
We need some kind of reputation system to rank the sources and repeaters of information. Like a facebook like system but not so stupid; and we really need to weigh experts higher somehow because popular shouldn't beat informed.
Today's humans evolved and replaced our ancestors. Why do we view evolved humans as a horror like "Children of the Dammed"? Perhaps it's because we treat perceived to be lesser humans so bad already and therefore fear that our betters will act as horrible as we do?
AI. I am fine with it taking over. We can't manage ourselves or scale beyond tribalism.
CRISPR is bad; that is true. not only are we hacking code in a system we barely grasp the system and the code we can't even properly test the results. It makes bad engineering look great. On top of all of that the techniques are too primitive and are akin to inserting data into a data stream hoping to hack something and counting on error correction to compensate for all the damage you caused in the process (but this is far worse in that you don't know all the errors introduced and simply because you don't see outward signs you assume the damage was minimal.) Useful for hacking to discover things but not practical for long term stable use.
can you site a decent source for those claims? Just because some employees have opinions doesn't mean any conspiracy actually happened. I have lots of opinions but I don't waste my time with all the possible opportunities to bias something; even if I want to do that, I'm not going to notice all the chances unless that is all I'm thinking about doing; furthermore, one tends to pick and choose from their list of options. Google biases being carried out may be things we have not even thought about yet and could be better games we won't even notice. .... such as lowering stat counts so you don't know how well something is doing or fudging stat counts when it comes to billing you.
If Trudeau messed with the tar sands in a big way you can expect the USA to begin talking about regime change within weeks. If the campaign succeeded well enough but fails to restore oil mining then you can expect hostilities down the road. Unless this administration can manage to deploy the usual meddling,interfering in politics and hacking of elections in Canada the USA is known for (outside the USA.)
Science marches on; including marching over prior science that gets in the way. It's not supposed to be dogmatic (except for the process itself.)
Optimistic perception BIAS is likely a genetic trait 3 of 4 people have. This will show up in dire scientific reports. Us pessimists are probably mislabeled by the optimist majority. It's probably realism, actual realism. Notice how all the climate projections up to this point had their errors on the optimistic side of things while the people who with the best track record were (and still are) seen as being too negative.
Choose the people who are correct most the time; it's likely they won't be the happy sounding people. Also, some of us adapt and add in positive bias or leave details out in order to make progress with the majority. So, it is no surprise that you'll see more like 1 in 10 being "overly negative."
The article is probably a propaganda piece... or it's unintentionally acting along those lines.
Same points can be made about a great many things. The academic world provides nearly all the innovation but gets little in return plus a fair amount of abuse which slow people pile onto because they can't see beyond 1 step removed.
We have no hope of escaping the basics of our economics anytime soon and you must pay for civilization by taxing economic activity. Property taxes too which are the exception. When labor is gone a primary tax source disappears; so either you shift to property taxes or you change your method of economic tax. More regressive sales taxes OR you greatly increase corporate taxes! duh. Increase corporate taxes to cover ALL the lost income taxes. If you just think about it, this has always been payed by the corporation indirectly because it came out of labor's pocket. It won't harm them at all even though they'll try to fool slow people as their profits increase by eliminating their labor force.
Yes, this could be sold as a robot/software tax. Which is not a crazy idea; because it eases the transition into robots replacing human labor... robots still be cheaper than labor but still retaining the taxed portion of the salaries that are eliminated.
These stuff keeps coming out from Mozilla management. It is as if we have a bunch of non-STEM nontechnical majors feeling out of place working in a technology company..
A typical college degree is already balanced. Management may not PERCEIVE that because they are not STEM majors and are just as biased as everybody they complain about; EXCEPT they are the fish out of water complaining everybody else needs to have gills like them!
A typical STEM degree has other topics required for a "well rounded education." They are fine. If you are concerned about a progression towards tech school that ONLY focuses narrowly on 1 topic then you have something to argue. The traditional liberal arts education ("well rounded") is always under attack but I see no signs yet it is under any new threat gaining ground. Other than the increased politicization of the culture is harming everything.
Do we need more STEM? no. the jobs are not there. simply pumping out extra doesn't create the jobs either. Go look it up, IEEE had a great long article on STEM that debunked everything.
Now, do I think we need more STEM education? YES, everybody needs a little bit more. Most topics we could all use more education...
Force feeding P.C. education classes only creates resentment and hardly converts anybody for the better. There has to be some studies out there besides the few showing sexual harassment trainings make things worse. ETHICS should take over for those classes as well as CIVICS because both are dead today and the damaging results are ongoing.
She may make or allude to points needing to be made; however, in her case she runs a heavily STEM organization which has been failing to serve humanity as well as it used to; therefore, losing market-share.
Philosophy covers all. logic, critical thinking are part of it's domain. It also covers science in more depth then science ever does; that is, science education has surprisingly little self reflection on how it actually works. Math has more than any other. There is a whole college course you can take on the philosophy of science.
SJW have taken over. They put more effort into this crap than keeping users happy and then they'll do stuff like TV show promo add-ons we didn't ask for and removing old features instead of enhancing them because $$ is being wasted on this or further depreciating their browser. It's like the tech department just tries to stay out of their way and has gone a bit too far the other way. Sure Rust sounds good... but it was going extreme to attempt to re-invent the C programming language; that sounds like management wasn't paying attention. At least they are leaving the nerds alone to do some great things (like Rust) but they have to stop wasting $$$ on "UX" and other departments.
1) Many power users who know about RSS have turned OFF telemetry data gathering by mozilla. They don't know what their power users are using. We are the users who bring in others and make decisions what gets put on to organization computer networks. I'm turning it on so they don't take away more features - if I wanted Chrome's lack of options I'd already have switched.
2) how do they measure it? by clicks? I hardly click anything in the gui already. The menu bar I have on. I never pick anything but use it as a REFERENCE for keyboard shortcuts. I bet they wouldn't see that as being used... BTW, WTF is it with removing "view source" from the view menu? It's not like that menu was full.
Statistics abused; again. HOW did they gather usage stats?
I click RSS live bookmarks more than ANYTHING in the GUI. If you include keyboard shortcuts the RSS feeds are #3 or #4... behind tabs, url bar, going backwards. But if you measure time spent, it's going to look like nothing.
They fail to inform users of a feature; if not HIDE it then say nobody is using it.
#1 RULE AT MOZILLA NEEDS TO BE: Do not remove anything that can't be exactly replaced with an add-on. Then they need to create a whole category for add-ons that restore old features. I just spent considerable time trying to find good replacements and maybe some are better but I just want what I had without digging over tons of search results.
Tab controls still suck since Tab Groups died; still can't get a tab sidebar replacing the top bar... The add-on bar died... WTF? Why can't we choose how many tool bars and where they are located again? Do they WANT to be as crippled as Chrome?
Shut up and perform, monkey.
US workers do not have the best reputation already; more of a last resort when higher level of skills are required. Higher ethics also helps but that is fading with time as well... Too high and you become too difficult too low and they can't afford to trust you. Actually, a level of ethics does exist which helps the employers... they only want ethics that HELPS THEM and none of the others. A perfect balance of hypocrisy. (So then don't really teach critical thinking! only problem solving.)
Doing work in the USA that is highly unethical is already a deterrent. Take blatant poisoning of locals and employees; even US companies outsourced that to corrupt 3rd world nations because uppity Americans won't tolerate that level of business thinking in their backyard.
The global economy has many bad aspects to it; it needs to be questioned far more. Sadly the only person doing that today is a moron.
Your insurance rates go up or you get DROPPED from insurance without knowing why. They don't have to inform you that new research shows you are 95% going to get cancer after 50.
Some new HR service bans you from recommendations for jobs for their clients and they don't even know why you were not recommended for the job. But your DNA might match some lame AI pattern for people with criminal records! WRONG! I know you're thinking that is too stupid; well, if you think business uses actual proven science you are thinking too much. They can use voodoo in decision making as long as they don't disclose any details that can make them look racist or sexist in their practices.
>Stop fucking after the third or fourth kid.
Said like somebody who totally has no clue!
Abstinence education never worked for KIDS who have less sense and impulse control; it will never work on adults!
but seriously: birth control!! Religions have to stop playing political games with reproduction. Governments have to stop lying because they need constant never ending growth to fuel their economic growth systems. The real answer is to fix all males at birth. cheap, easy, simple. Want kids? get unfixed.
Abortion. Again, religions need to STU! Vengeance is mine saith the lord! Stop helping your supposedly all powerful God. FYI, God doesn't need your money either. Another benefit is lower crime rates, child abuse, poverty... and duh, over population.
You can't produce enough meat without another planet. just look at the land used for farming now and how much of that goes to producing meat. That is with a minority consuming insane amounts of meat... to the point they die from eating too much meat! You can't ever reach a production level for that consumption level without some fake meat like soylent green.
You can have meat at every meal if you treat it more like seasoning instead of making nearly the whole meal a slab of meat! The poor westerners have a long history of stretching out their meat as well due to it's cost.
The Chinese diet (from The China Study) use meat more like a seasoning, an ingredient which gives taste. In big part because of COST this has always been done and their fancy rare special expensive meals will have more meat... so if they had $$$ they'd have turned into us sooner. (source: Asian girlfriend, friends; as in nationality.) It's much more HEALTHY and more sustainable, but no official US movement will happen because of rural lobbying power. The patriot act had beef protectionism written into it!