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    Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’

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  • I don’t care what anyone says, take some dry aged ribeye cooked to perfection, or some smoked ribs falling off the bone and compare that to some frozen tofurky log and tell me with a straight face that that’s an alternative. Forget about ballpark, gardein and beyond aren’t even playing the same sport when it comes to something like a smoked turkey leg.

    Veganism is admirable. Animal welfare, carbon emissions, nutrition, these are all good reasons to stop eating meat altogether. But let’s not delude ourselves here, meat can be just about the most delicious food in existence. I have tried tons of fake meat products and they all taste like sodium cardboard nuggets.

  • Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops?

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  • Hippie 1: Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.

    Hippie 2: Yeah, we'll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people's safety.

    Kyle: You mean like a baker and a cop?

    Hippie 1: No no, can't you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?

    Kyle: Yeah, it’s called a town.

    Hippie 1: You kids just haven't been to college yet. But just you wait, this thing is about to get HUGE.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • Rent for single family properties is higher than the mortgage of that same property. In theory. So ideally no single family property should be rented as its purely a parasite relationship. Again, in theory.

    The problem with this theory is that it’s wrong across the board.

    Take a look at houses on realtor dot com or the like… they show estimated mortgage and also estimated rental value. Single family homes typically rent for far less than a new mortgage on the same property, partly because housing prices are so inflated and partly because as you pointed out, someone who got a mortgage on a property 10 years ago who is renting it out now may be renting it out based on the cost of ownership 10 years ago.

    Secondly, your conclusion doesn’t follow even if your premise was correct.

    Let’s pretend sfh rental prices were higher than the cost of a new mortgage on the same property. How would that then translate to ‘people who can only afford to rent shouldn’t be allowed the dignity of living in a sfh and instead should have no other option but to live in a shared housing environment… how does that follow? How could you possibly think the answer is an increased limitation on what people can rent?

    The real solution is getting rid of corporate ownership of more than say maybe 20 properties at a time.

    I would certainly prefer having hundreds of thousands of small time landlords with 5 or 10 properties, as opposed to dozens of billionaire corporation who each own tens of thousands of properties… be they sfh or condos or whatever is irrelevant.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • There are people who do want to rent, and people whoneed to rent, but that should happen in priperly dense apartment building designed specifically for that.

    Who are you to say what people should or shouldn’t rent. Should all renters be piled on top of each other in over packed buildings with 600 square feet to themselves? Why can’t I rent a 2000 square foot town home for my family so that they are safe while I save up to buy my own home?

    And say I rent a townhome for 10 years, then buy my own townhome, then 10 years later I rent it out to someone else while I buy something bigger? What’s wrong with that.

    I think what we all have a problem with is housing affordability and a lack of systematic focus by the government on eliminating poverty.

    The issue isn’t some small time landlord with 5 condos, it’s the investment groups with 5000 condos which artificially juice the rents year after year.

    It’s insulting to say that all of the poor people who cannot afford to buy a home should have to live in densely packed buildings.

  • What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around?

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  • Notepad ++ is invaluable for writing code, I’ve used it for a long while now.

    Also great is paint dot net which is a super advanced paint application that is borderline as good as photo shop, particularly when you add on all the community-created functionality.

    Revo uninstaller is the first thing I put on a new machine before I delete all the bloatware that comes with a fresh install of windows. You would be surprised what is left over when you only use the built in ‘remove a program’ process.

    Lastly, browser based but free and excellent, is sketch up, which is an architectural rendering application great for designing restaurants and retail spaces. A little bit of a learning curve but very smooth and functional once you get the hang of it.

    Edit - VLC goes without saying right?

  • Authorities fear a Pennsylvania woman was swallowed by a sinkhole while looking for her cat

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  • A lady is probably dead wtf is wrong with you?

  • don't be a coward

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  • Preferred Pronouns

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  • I doth hath no fukin idea what you two are talking about

  • X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

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  • Unless you use Mac or windows

  • The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma

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  • To quote something I made up and say all the time, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.”

  • The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma

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  • This was super funny, this person has a great career ahead of her. Very Tim and Eric style obscure indie comedy, I loved it.

  • This world is cruel…

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  • Getting high and playing video games?

  • Alex Jones' media company sold to The Onion at auction

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  • For how much???

  • OpenAI, Google, & Anthropic Face Hurdles In Advancing AI Models, Casting Doubt On Near-Term AGI

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  • This just in, something that only exists as a sci-fi trope which has never been demonstrated to be even remotely possible is not on the verge of spontaneously emerging from something that is completely unrelated and comparatively unremarkable.

  • I hate that that happens

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  • Because your example sentence uses the word ‘went’ rather than ‘was’, you need a comma because those are two separate I dependent clauses.

    You and Dave were together and then Dave leaves you and goes driving by himself… me and Dave, then Dave went.

    If you used ‘was’ then those would not be independent clauses and therefore a comma would not be used. It was me and Dave and Dave was driving.

    Edit: also, why the downvote, we are having a conversation here ??

  • I hate that that happens

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  • I don’t believe that’s accurate.

    There are only two things in the list, pig & whistle.

    They want more space between pig and &.

    They also want more space between & and whistle.

    If we were listing three areas where they want additional space we would need at least one comma, and I would argue for the Oxford comma as well, however we are only listing two areas where we want more space and so no comma is needed.

    Sure it’s nearly unreadable, but I think the punctuation is correct.

  • I hate that that happens

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  • They refer to the same and twice.

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  • Because if we were all somewhere else, you would be asking the same question about that place.

    “This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.”

  • Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June

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  • Hate to be a shill, but were they of the Bic brand or were they shitty knock offs?