an ideal world I think we could resolve this with sterilizations and such - in fact I think if humans survive and flourish, we will reshape earth’s ecology completely to eliminate almost all suffering.

Right, but that wasn’t the question at hand. My response was solely based on the proposed question of what if we passed a law that prohibited the killing of any animal.

Just banning animal farming would already eliminate so much unnecessary suffering that it’s a worthwhile thing on its own.

Yeah, I’d be down for banning the commercial meat industry, but that wasn’t the question. Just from an ecological perspective, farmed meat is going to kill us all in the long run.

I just don’t think that reflectively banning all harm to animals is as simple as this question presupposes.

Ehhhh… I mean it would likely eventually lead to an ecological collapse. There is no such thing as a truly natural ecosystem in North America.

Even before Europeans cut down virtually all old growth Forrest, native Americans spent thousands of years reshaping the forest ecology to suit their needs. Resulting in large game like deer to have very few predators or competition to manage their population growth.

Deer need to be hunted to manage their own population from diseases stemming from over population. They also need to be hunted so they don’t strip the forest floor from low lying vegetation that other animals depend on for food and habitat.

And no, reintroducing wolves would not take care of the problem, not at least for the vast majority of north America. It would help, but wolves weren’t exactly out competing humans when it came to hunting big game in NA.

Chock Full-0-Sea ports

Is really the big reason. Less and less portage is going through the traditional East Coast hubs of NY and NJ, mostly going to places like Louisiana , Texas, and Florida instead.

Historically Florida has always been pretty big on trains as well. In fact you used to be able to take a train from Florida to Cuba…kinda. You could take a train across the overseas rail line to Key West where they would ferry the whole train car over to Cuba.

We used to be an actual country that did stuff, and that’s because we weren’t afraid to do cool stuff with trains.

Yeap, one small scale meta data analysis isn’t going to be able to prove causality. Plus, the analysis was done by a researcher who’s been actively participating in a lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol.

The problem with using meta data analysis is they struggle with causation vs correlation. As you suggested, it could have to do with fevers. Or it could simply be that mothers who have high quality access to gynecological services and prenatal care good enough to study umbilical samples also have greater access to diagnose their children with autism later in life.

Large scale metadata analysis can provide us with information we can use to hone in on what to study in greater depth. Small scale metadata analysis imo aren’t’ very useful in any meaningful way, and are more often than not used to subjectively validate claims to the scientifically illiterate majority.

Which party member shot Charlie Kirk?

I can’t believe that it’s so hard for people to believe that someone who made a career being a hate monger was murdered for it.

The kid who killed him was not a politician, he didn’t even vote. He was in a relationship with someone who belonged to a group that Kirk made money on by saying heinous shit about constantly.

Not really that surprising, a lot of natural materials have really good insulating qualities. Considering that it’s mostly cellulose and water, I wouldn’t really really think it would be flammable unless dried out.

Social mores dictate morality… For all we know some forgotten tribe of humans would sacrifice their first bornes to be transported to flavor town via cheese drink, let alone swiss miss Mac.

Hell, I imagine if we gave swiss miss Mac to a person that predates humans indulging in complex carbohydrates they’d deify us.

While I agree fascist tend to indulge in self harm via factionalism, I don’t think this is really that, nor is it late stage. We’re approaching the stage where the fascist shed their traditional conservative mask and start enforcing their real ideology over the traditional conservative party.

People forget that 4 years before the Nazi started their purge on greater German society during Kristallnacht they first purged and consolidated power in their own house during the night of the long knives.