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I'm sure EA vegans have argued about this ad nauseam, but if you stressed more selfish things like health benefits, as well as halfway things like ovolactovegetarianism, would that decrease the number of animals eaten? Someone who is otherwise vegan but eats a hamburger once a week for B12 is still decreasing the number of animals eaten considerably. The perfect is always the enemy of the good.

The awkwardness onion--see, the thing is once you've had enough disastrous things happen you basically go through life thinking there's basically a 1% chance any social interaction ends in disaster. I do agree the coverup is often worse than the crime.

Wow, the ideological diversity thing is depressing, but hardly surprising. I suspect the financial backers were probably hoping to build a conservative university. For media outlets you can always do the whole "I read multiple sources", but for universities I guess you just have to pick your side. It is too bad, though.

As far as EA achievements, didn't Bentham get the shrimp welfare on the Daily Show? They were making fun of him but he did get his idea to a wider audience!

Apparently my scifi gender is demimale. Can't really say I'm surprised--basically a cishet male, but the lame kind.

I knew there were adverse effects to therapy! I would hope stigma's going down, but maybe not now. I wonder if they can figure out what the benefit-harm ratio is in different situations?

Julia's avatar

My impression is that in the real world, stressing health benefits of reduced meat input intake tends to result in people eating less red meat and more chickens, unfortunately.

Anonymous Dude's avatar

I figured the EA vegans had looked into this already. Thanks for explaining!

Doug S.'s avatar
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I am not entirely surprised by what happened at UATX. The Right has been canceling - and trying to cancel - people a lot longer than the Left has. Sinéad O'Connor, The Dixie Chicks, "more popular than Jesus" John Lennon...

hongkonglover77's avatar

The David Bessis math theorem post: I'm not impressed. The core observation that broken theorems are usually fixable is intuitively obvious to anyone with an undergraduate familiarity with math, and as is common with this genre of articles, I find its attempts to turn its observation to a philosophical claim unconvincing.

The frogs: Not caused by eating other frogs, but probably caused by parasites

Doug S.'s avatar

The link to the article about Regulation E is broken.

Woolie Wool's avatar

The LOTR movies don’t even convey the full extremity of the hierarchy here, because to go by the books, Legolas and Aragorn should be the size of NBA basketball players while Boromir is just a regular guy.