HexesofVexes

Read the reply again - notice the meaning is not in question, merely the use.

Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!

The first times I saw “cis” being used, it was a punch back against anti-trans slurs; the use was intentionally pejorative but it was justified. A bit like calling a white supremacist a cracker.

I suspect the wider use beyond this aim was to teach transphobes a lesson by giving them an undesirable label (“cissys” was used if offence was sought) in an attempt to create empathy. The “it’s a technical term” argument did offer a funny balance to the “biological” argument which helped de-tooth some anti trans talking points…

Of course, this approach also probably drove more of the indifferent to oppose the trans movement, rather than garnering empathic support.

It likely did more harm than good, and is likely a hill a lot of folks are going to die on. Then again, maybe that was the point?

That’s an interesting perspective - no promises but I’ll give it a go and audit the stats on those papers.

If true, the price may be worth it.

Very true but coffee has a very unfortunate effect on my innards so I’m locked out of that one!

Reduction in waste is also a key step yes, one in which gains are being made. Teaching simple preservation techniques (e.g. oven toasting old bread) is also a good route to doing this.

Honestly, I’m in favour of this, but that worries me.

In general, such actions will also raise the price of other goods as demand increase. You’d also need to keep non-meat prices low, and that’ll be expensive, meaning cuts elsewhere.

Making the world vegan isn’t just about stopping the meat industry, that’s rather like pulling cogs from a machine and praying it still runs. It’s about designing a better machine that doesn’t need those cogs, sacrificing to build it, and making sure it really is better.

For the vegan path that means sustainable agriculture (it isn’t at the moment), replicating tastes and caloric density (a key element of human culture), avoiding creating new issues (e.g. overuse of sugar, dietary issues with mycelial/nut sensitivity), and pushing food costs down.

So, if you want the world to be vegan, drop your current life and start working on the above!

Straight to ad hominem - nothing of value to engage with here.

Vegan milks are nice to drink, but they are very very different to real milk. Having tea with oat milk is a sacrifice (almond and coconut are worse for tea - they lack the sweetness that counteracts the bitter elements of tea), it doesn’t taste as good but it’s ok. It’s a small sacrifice to make, but a persistent one (given that many of us rely on caffeine to function at work).

There is a moral argument to be made, and the moral argument has the high ground if you avoid looking too carefully (nothing in life is simple).

The real crux of the vegan argument is “can people also sacrifice this”, or is it one sacrifice too many in the world of compromises we endure. That’s a personal choice, and given the state of the world today, it isn’t one many will be able to make.

My gen Z students don’t even fight adverts anymore… They all look amazed that ublock origin exists, and it’s sad because they look so happy not to have to deal with ads.

We millennials grew up through the great recession (many of us started out working lives in it), but the one good time we did experience was early 2000s internet.

Some of us are trying to bring it back… https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49

Windows on an external drive isn’t officially supported if I remember right. Your screenshot seems to support that.

Honestly, I’d be leery of installing an OS on an external drive as they tend not to age well with heavy use.

Are you trying to necro a laptop with a dead drive? If so, depending on the model, it might just be worth replacing the internal drive so then you can go ahead with your dual boot plan.

Also, quick tip, install windows, then disable fast startup in windows, then disable safeboot in your bios. Otherwise, when it comes time to install mint, you might hit issues with windows saying “NO, MY DRIVE”.

If you install mint and get no grub screen, just boot mint with your live usb and look up repairing grub - should be nice and easy.

The purpose of an education is to learn how to think, not how to work.

A lot of universities are being treated as training centers for the world of work - and this is not ok.

It’s all about probabilities.

Truth is proof, and the article contains no details to establish this absolutely. So, we are left with supposition.

This wasn’t an isolated man with nothing to live for - while his career in AI was over, he’d left it to pursue a moral agenda. Suicide is not likely until AFTER he testifies and discharged this.

The fact he supposedly had documents and a testimony that could heavily harm a company is enough to make it very likely his death was the cost of doing business - why pay a billion in a court case when you can pay a million for a professional hit?

On the balance of probabilities, it looks more likely to be like foul play. As they say, Epstein didn’t kill himself.