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You literally put the money + a piece of paper with your account number into an envelope and mail it to them

And don't forget if you feel bad, donate some profits towards good causes

Nice to hear you take proper precautions. Second hand smoking gave me a chronic bronchitis and my cat asthma, so I'm more than aware of the risks.

Unless you can walk away 10m+ (depending on if kids are there) you might want to reconsider smoking at all in those places

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-023-01435-9

At this point we should turn Rule 5 into it's own joke. Bad vibes? Rule 5. I don't like you? Rule 5. I'm having a bad day? Rule 5. The great servers need a sacrifice? Rule 5. Bitching about Rule 5? Believe it or not, Rule 5.

Those who continue to do business with them will be punished

I think a big difference is how seeing it happen in real life is much more impactful than on a video.

I grew up around butchering animals, and even got to visit a nearby family-owned slaughterhouse on occasion, for me slaughtering and butchering animals is something that I'm much more aware of due to these experiences, I've even been taught how to slaughter animals, and though I would never advocate to have everyone who wishes to eat meat slaughter an animal themselves, I think it's absolutely important to see the process in person and not just on video.

Something that happens a lot in my experience is that specific animal parts are considered "gross", entrails and such are usually the most common parts considered as such. That's probably the easiest way to figure out if someone is aware of what butchering means or not, no, considering them gross is not directly a problem, but going all "eek" and stuff is a great way of telling me that the other person is ignorant of the meat industry.

There is very much a problem with a lot of people simply refusing to accept what butchering actually entails.

There was a public experiment done by a reputable German science magazine where they asked a farmer to set up a stand for freshly butchered geese at a nearby city's outdoor market. The catch was that the geese were still alive and they'd be killed and butchered at the location. So many people reacted with outrage, and in the end only one goose got slaughtered, because the buyers themselves were more than aware of the butchering process. The rest of the geese were rescued by an animal rights advocate who bought them all to be kept at a rescue farm.

Here's the video, obviously fully in German, but you can see pedestrian reactions: https://youtu.be/9AXt-6mAVEo

Most AI models used Books3 as part of their dataset which is a collection of pirated books. Here are a few articles talking about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/20/24224450/anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-pirated-books-ai

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-29/australian-authors-copyright-books3-generative-i-chatgpt/102914538

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

My biggest gripe with vegan communities is that a lot of them have an "All or Nothing" mentality, going fully vegan is a luxury not everyone can afford, and yet I find mainly malice when trying to talk about reducing ones own reliance on meat and other animal products in online communities.

And veganism, if taken to the "no suffering of sentient beings" full extreme, forbids buying things (not just food) produced by slavery. And those things, especially electronics and clothes, are not financially viable for most to be bought without any slavery involved in any step whatsoever.

Small boys are the best, you can use them as an arm rest, and if need be they can be picked and held up to give you a tactical advantage for spotting potential predatory species ❤️

Networking in DC is an extreme sport