I'd be interested to hear your alternative.

Genuinely, the law system is suspect at best, in many places.

The science is the means, not the truth.

Well, the scientific method is, not sure if that also applies to the definition of science as s singular word.

it's in the second link (or at least the dev's side is)

If you’re going to cherry pick at least cherry pick from the text being mentioned.

Your whole comment was :

If we cut beef consumption by half, literally oligarchs would not have an economic reason to deforest the Amazon, because of the price drops. But no one wants to do that.

and wasn’t the comment to which i was responding.

Beef is the major factor in the amazon, by a large margin, as in my original comment. Palm Oil is not a significant part in Brazil, nor real state. Mineral is mainly in Roraima, but not as big as beef, because it’s based on small operations, there are a lot of sources on this for gold mining and the local Yanomami indigenous population that fights agains this (as this is done on their land).

Cool story, still irrelevant to my point which was:

Oligarchs gonna oligarch

Create a revenue vacuum (like removing the biggest value stream in a region) and oligarchs gonna oligarch right in and expand another value stream to make up the difference.

I’m not advocating for this to happen, I’m saying that expecting beef reduction to remove oligarchs from the amazon is unrealistic.

OK, I’ll bite, how is it an argument in favour of veganism, I’m genuinely not seeing it?

That would be covered by the

and we sure as hell don’t appreciate pre-compliance to the demands of increasingly fascistic states.

part.

I really enjoyed the first two chapters, it's up in my top 50.

To be honest I’ve only made it to the beginning of the third chapter but that's mainly because i didn't want to get further into something that wasn't complete yet.

Which was more prescient than i imagined because it was 6 years ago.

It really doesn’t suck at them. AI writes great code; I think we just want it to suck.

Citation? I’m really asking because I’ve yet to hear about anything above a toy project that has had any verifiable success with AI code generation as a major component of their workflow.

As in a like for like improvement in code quality, security, bug occurrences and severity, developer efficiency, all that jazz, not just the standard "we've funnelled so much money in to this we are almost fiscally required to claim success"

its not a dig, i really want to see one so i can found out how it was done.

Does the fact that the democrats are shitty politicians somehow negate the fact that trump is an incompetent manchild with apparently no checks and balances ?

Or are they, in fact, two entirely unrelated things that can both be true ?

An unrelated strawman is a poor distraction from you not actually addressing what is being said.

Though i suppose if you don't actually have anything to say on the subject a strawman is better than nothing, for a given value of "better".

There's a black hole sized gulf between "perhaps there is a reason for homosexuality" and "homosexuality is caused by Teflon and micro plastics"

If you aren't going to even attempt to point at something that even comes close to backing up your claim then you're going to be very disappointed with the amount of people who take you seriously.

As an organisation they have historically been and continue to be, truly shitty.

But what are you using for sources here ?

i'd imagine a part of the problem is that at least some of them do in fact see those things as "traditional american values" so from their perspective they are conserving their version of reality.

Genuine question as i don't actually know the answer, is conservatism considered to be the conservation specifically of "traditional" values. Like, is there an agreed upon timeframe in which these traditional values were held or is it more of a moving target sort of thing ?