MachineFab812

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, you're missing that subsidies ensure the same amount of beef gets produced no matter the demand. In fact, that amount is set higher than demand. Demand is artificially increased due to the high availability and low prices resulting from these policies. Removing the subsidies would lower both Availability and Demand, as the lowered availability would increase prices.

TL;DR: Consumption gender ratios have NOTHING to do with the amount of beef that is being produced, nor, therefore, its impacts on the environment.

I can only restate the obvious so many times, and I HAVE already restated the facts on this at least twice prior to your question. Are you dense, or just insincere?

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Incels gave up on being "manly enough". Their whole schtick is that its "un-fair" that "only the manliest men get laid", and that they believe they deserve sex just for being born with a dick.

I'm not saying all the "red-pill"/"sigma-pill"/"incel" groups/narratives don't feed into eachother, but you've gotta realize these people are already in the minority. It's not their influence keeping the subsidies going, it's the public's wallets keeping demand just high-enough to "justify" the subsidies, and the fact that the subsidies are backed by decades of established law.

There is no point trying to reason with the die-hards that will keep on consuming long after increased prices drive the rest of us away from beef consumption. The subsidies that keep their bull-shit lifestyles affordable and convenient should be the focus of our efforts.

Let them waste more money on being single and lonely. Their pocket-books will shout at them louder and more convincingly than the rest of us ever could.

Maybe, but that's just to keep demand anywhere near high enough to consume the products that subsidies ensure they will be producing anyways, so they can argue that the current subsidies are necessary.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Imagine thinking toxic masculinity is a bigger problem for this issue than beef/dairy subsidies and entrenched market forces. Nice distraction piece, NPR.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Nah, how about "fish is expensive and chicken is unethical"? Meanwhile, beef is subsidized all to hell, and NPR is focused on the wrong issue. We're long past the point where it looks like they are just running interference for industries that don't want to change.

Men who refuse to acknowlege there is a problem with beef aren't the ones having a problem with attempting to eat less of it. Its market forces all the way down; Less available and/or more expensive beef is what it will take to wean the die-hards.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

A state that pays more to the Federal Government than it gets back in funding need fear nothing like so.

The rest of the US should be afraid of such states secceeding. This would be the opposite of the last civil war, as back then it was the less economically powerful, less populous states attempting to split.

NICE. I would like to see the Cybertruck and BYD vehicles added, among others, but I will definitely take a broader chart over a cherry-picked up-to-date one!

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll my favorite songs by her, aka the only ones I can stand, are about enjoying/being okay being single.

This tracks. Give it a catchy beat and send it to the top of the charts.

Not meant to be profitable to viewers...

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Opposite of Bravado. I see myself as disposable vs most people until shown different, and most people I know who say such things as I have here and mean them seem to feel the same way about themselves. A mistake I don't live to learn from(or learn of) is less terrifying than a failure to do right by others.

I'm not saying I definitely won't just hide, cry, piss and shit myself, but I didn't do any of that(until hours later) the last few times I had guns pointed at me, and no, I don't mean by friends or due to personal shenanigans(unless you count signing on certain government forms). It has been over 15 years since the last time though.

Seems OP would settle for "as ethically as possible from among the available options", and is looking for pointers towards that direction.

Honestly, displays are everywhere if you carry the right adapters or your device has the ports. Mice and Keyboards are a whole other beast for portability and convenience. Think I would rather skip from a laptop to a tablet, versus a mini-pc.

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