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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
I highly doubt that the farmer down the street from me is testing for avian flu. Their eggs are fantastic, though!
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Source for the claim they are removing the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content?
There is no real source, it is a lie. https://chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-preside... The order is to remove gender ideology, i.e. trans. Switch gender back to sex (binary).
Biology is hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.
Prices aren't high on anything except for housing. No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.
And health care, and education, and child care.
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The internal incoherence is a feature of a cult, not a bug! The more deliberately twisted shit they can make you believe, the more dependent your entire cognitive architecture is on them.
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I was wondering how I could provide evidence for you other than walking to the grocery and taking a picture, but I found at least one of our local farms that has their prices online: https://www.maplewindfarm.com/collections/retail-store -- I'd expect it would be quite easy for them to change their prices on their own storefront and in their farmstand, where I often buy their eggs. A dozen large eggs there right now…
Anecdotes aren't data, but I'll chime in to agree - the locally sourced eggs have gone up in the last few years, but only from like $4.99 to $5.59. The "generic egg" have gone from $0.25 a dozen during some price war 6-7 years ago to $6.99. That price has caused the local eggs to sell out first where they used to always be available.
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Ok, but, you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs". While it's nice you buy six eggs at a time from Joe Farmer off the back of his '72 Ford, but factory farms are an unfortunate necessity to feed everyone that isn't so privileged.
> you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs" i think the opposite, i would like to hear a good argument why you can't.
This is an extreme example, but still applies to every other metro area too.
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A minor difference being that one is a bunch of bluehairs Twitterati and social science professors using a goofy word and the other is a systematic purge of scientific literature and government data... Minor difference though!
Actually I'd argue that left-wing language engineering contributed to right-wing lunatics getting in control. This poll says 56% of Hispanics in the US are uncomfortable with 'LatinX' https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31120958/questio... These are a swingy group that could go either way. This podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-tariffs-end-trump... describes polls that make it clear that Amer…
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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?
Still works fairly well as long as capital owners are smart and use insurance (who in turn advise their users on how to reduce their risk).
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Consider for a moment: what if it did include those terms? What do you think it'd indicate if some hypothetical government decided to hunt down those words across the scientific literature and subject them to review? Would that indicate something meaningful to you? Now keep that thought in mind... and now acknowledge that that hypothetical government is actually the current one. Pay close attention to what your mind…
There is no executive order banning use of the words women and female.
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Yes. Vegetarians don’t eat meat (including fish, although some religious sects have a marketing deal with fishermen to count fish as a vegetable for some reason), do eat animal products. Vegans don’t eat meat and also don’t eat animal products.
I always found this a funny etymological thing. Going just by the words themselves, if you asked me to guess which was which, I'd say they should be reversed -- "vegetarian" seems to clearly imply "eats a diet made up of vegetables" whereas "vegan" is more ambiguous and seems to fit "mostly eats vegetables but also will eat some non-meat animal products". But what I'm guessing happened is that the less-strict diet ca…