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We can probably feed everyone given expected population growth through 2050 with a lot of work, unless there is some huge disaster: https://www.wri.org/insights/how-sustainably-fee…

People don't talk about world population because population growth is mainly happening in the developing world where environmental damage is small per capita compared to the develo…

"Asylum seeker" is a specific term, for example see this UN glossary: https://www.unhcr.org/449267670.pdf . In particular it's not about huddled masses, it's about people escaping …

From https://beautyschoolprograms.com/cosmetology-licensing-requi... you can see that some states have licenses available with lower requirements. Two examples from the link: * Ida…

I never said a good job, I said a minimally correct job. You can't evaluate whether someone can trim around the ears safely if their haircut is so bad they don't trim around the ea…

If you can't give a haircut then you can't give a safe haircut. Specific example: most people expect a basic haircut for a man to trim around the ears. If I never trim around the e…

Every state has similar requirements: https://beautyschoolprograms.com/cosmetology-licensing-requi... . Anyway no one is going to die or go to the ER from lice or getting their ear…

To check that someone can give a haircut safely you have to check that they can give a haircut at all, which means the haircut needs to be at some minimal level of quality.

You still need some licensing to ensure people understand the basics, like hygiene, since everyone has an interest in making sure hairdressers won't spread lice or accidentally cut…

A lot of barber/cosmetologist training is hands-on with customers while an instructor watches. Also keep in mind that a lot of work on hair can be complicated using dangerous chemi…

You might like to consider Noam Chomsky's take on the Financial Times in https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87... from 2013: > [T]he business press has a dif…

> Advocating for higher wages to fight inflation is non-sensical. It just exacerbates inflation and requires even further wage gains to keep even. By exacerbate I suppose you're im…

In practice in the U.S. the early part of a PhD program can be very similar to a master's. It's relatively common for people who leave PhD programs to walk away with a master's deg…

It looks like Ubuntu Core lets you disable automatic updates for snaps: https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/refresh-control .

Farming as a necessity didn't happen until late prehistory and early history. Before that people hunted, fished or foraged for their daily food. They had nothing worth stealing or …

There is plenty of meat available that is almost cruelty-free. A factory farmed broiler chicken lives its entire 60,480 minutes (six weeks) in agony, while a hunted deer or pasture…

I'm vegetarian and not vegan partly because the full purity and ingredient checking and all that is not good for my mental health. So maybe I understand where you are coming from, …