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Comment Re:Seems like a bad strategy on Nintendo's part (Score 1) 62

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Comment Re:Seems like a bad strategy on Nintendo's part (Score 1) 62

Yuzu fucked themselves by bragging about compatibility with yet-to-be-released games that HAD to be results of piracy or illegal attacks on Nintendo dev team systems.

On the other hand, every OSS license should definitely say "our software cannot be used by Nintendo, fuck you." Nintendo has been one of the worst fucking bully companies on the planet for too long.

Comment Re:On this episode ... (Score 1) 57

Obviously controls would need to be in place to ensure right wing garbage like anti-semitism (whitewashing or promoting Nazis [wired.com], etc) doesn't have a home there.

Wikipedia doesn't have functional controls for that anyways. Antisemitism and anti-LGBT bigotry run rampant, from their various "Arbcom" members down through the incestuous relationships between the "top tier" admins and on down. When the likes of known, proud-of-being-antisemitic trolls like Beeblebrox are allowed on Arbcom, you know the whole website is shit.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 0, Flamebait) 63

obviously anti Second Amendment ordinances for decades (as in possess even a brass casing, go to Riker's for a year before one even sees a judge)

NYC has sane gun laws, including proper tracing of any gun recovered from criminal investigations, and background checks. Whereas you're a lying troll.

Comment Re:See Tucker Carlson (Score 1) 304

I think Russia would say that letting Ukraine join NATO would be a threat to their national defense and I think you're a Russian Putin-funded gaslighting fucking troll. Go back to sucking Putin's dick or better yet, go get your ass killed by the Ukrainian troops, Kremlin Kamerad DumbFuck Scumbag.

Comment Re:See Tucker Carlson (Score 1, Interesting) 304

So here's what you offered:

- A stink peace by the Quincy Institute, an Iranian-backed front that tries to advocate for isolationism in the USA to promote Iranian regional objectives.

- A BBC video, accompanying text saying There is "absolutely no sign" that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer, Boris Johnson has told the Commons. The former prime minister warned against a "land for peace" deal, and said he doubted Volodymyr Zelensky or any Ukrainian government would agree to any such compromise. Directly contradicting your fake-ass Russian Propaganda claim that Ukraine had agreed to any such deal.

- A Russian propaganda piece from "Ukrainska Pravda," part of the very network of fake-ass lying Russian pages that was covered in the article.

Do us a favor, Putin Dicksucker, and go get yourself shot dead by some Ukrainian troops.

Comment Re:I wonder what happens (Score 1) 186

I don't see how you can rationally reconcile those first two statements.

If you believe that AGW is real, then you must acknowledge the role of carbon emissions in how it works. The impact of agriculture is simply a matter of adding up the carbon emissions due to agriculture.

1. Do you somehow imagine that no fossil fuels are used to plant, care for, harvest or transport those crops (they do)??
2. Or maybe you imagine that animal digestion is perfectly efficient (it is not even close)??
3. Or maybe you are unaware that the carbon sequestered by crops is re-released when it is metabolized by humans an animals?? After all, the energy in our diet comes from breaking those carbon bonds in food and exhaling the resulting CO2.

I recommend you read up on how a life-cycle-analysis is done. Particularly the various scopes. This article here has a quick summary of scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, with a much longer explanation of scope 4. Parts of agriculture may be neutral or net sequestering in terms of their scope 1 emissions, but account for the other emissions that are made to facilitate the farm operating almost always end up driving them to be net emitters in the end. And when you look to animal agriculture specifically, the carbon impact is at least the feed efficiency ratio multiple of the emissions liked to the grain production.

If you find yourself angry and dismissing what I'm saying, without bothering to consider it, I would argue that you are not engaging with the material intellectually, but emotionally. and that Emotion is blinding you to reality. As I said before, I work in animal agriculture. My paycheck (and by extension my ability to provide for my large family) is ENTIRELY DEPENDENT upon continued animal agriculture. if *I* can see it, inspite of the very real and powerful financial incentives for me to deny it, you should be able to as well. So long as you remove your anger and hostility over unfair policy from the equation.

Comment Re:Everyone needs to eat (Score 1) 186

That is not how that works in practice, regardless of what the intention is

If I can buy something from outside the US today for $1, and the American-Made version is $2. And, If I have a need for 100 of those items a year, then my annual cost is $100.

If a Tariff is applied to artificially inflate the price for foreign made products to match the domestic price, I may start buying US made, but I'm also going to double my cost from $100 to $200. Sure some portion of that money stays in the economy domestically, and there is value to that, but *I* am the one paying an extra $100 a year. Not the foreign country. They are simply selling their product somewhere else in the world, or for less profit to stay competitive in the US market.

Now, if a Tariff is applied that brings the price ABOVE the cost of a foreign supplier. Say to $2.50, the foreign supplier may or may not bow out, but the domestic supplier now has more head room. They can increase their price to something approaching that "foreign cost + Tariff" and pocket the extra cost. Once again, the foreign supplier is not paying that money. *I am*. And now I'm out $250/year for what used to only cost me $100.

There are justifiable debates to be had about the benefits of that to the economy, or to preventing off-shoring of jobs, or of off-shoring environmental impacts (foreign products are often cheaper due to lax regulations on labor, emissions, quality, etc.). But what is not debatable is who pays for that benefit. The consumer in the country buying those goods are the ones paying that cost. Which is why Tarriffs on necessities (food being a primary example) are bad, becuase they hurt the poorest citizens in the country with the Tariff. Now, tariffs on Luxury Goods? (high end cars, jewelry, exotic fabrics etc.) That is a tax on the rich, and I'm all for that.

Comment Re: Stop Livestock Farming (Score 2) 186

The impact of poultry is only 1.5x that of the grain itself based on FCR. Round up to 2x or 3x for convenience, and youâ(TM)ll still see a lot of meat consumption at that price point. It will just shift from beef (which is much higher than that) to chicken. We see that all the time during periods of rapid inflation in meat price

that said, I agree. The cost should account for the environmental impacts. I approve of cap and trade for carbon, including for meat production. However, if we get that, itâ(TM)ll drive the use of the very products I was talking about by farmers to try and improve the price point of their beef and milk. Mandating carbon accounting is one way to achieve what I proposed, AND what you want as an outcome.

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