I don't agree. In fact you could fix a lot of what's wrong without even spending more money to do it than it would have cost to do right in the first place. Modifications to slaughterhouses like having the cows go through a curved passage so they can't see what's happening to others in front of them for example. Obviously you can't fix feedlots without eliminating them, so some things are basically unsolvable, except that we don't actually need feedlots and could eliminate them.

Therefore I'd say the sad fact is that we don't even give a fuck about reducing the cruelty.

You're frequently insulting, apparently without realizing it, which implies that you're a lot dumber than you think you are. Learn not to be insulting all the time if that's not your goal, or continue to be looked down on for people you sound like you're looking down on when you talk to them.

Nobody is less familiar with history than Slashdotters, who think they're smarter than everybody.

This is why average people hate techbros.

False. Learn to read.

What he stated as fact was "nobody is just going to shrug and abandon the lifestyle we have all enjoyed the last 50 years" but that is completely fucking irrelevant and places the blame on the masses whose fault it isn't. They will use what they are forced to use, as always. The people who are deciding what they will have available to them are the culprits, as always.

I take it back. You don't need to learn to read. You need to learn to think.

Are they the exception? Given what we know about shelters, there's no shortage of cruelty. The difference is that instead of enjoying it, we pretend it doesn't happen. On one hand that's better because it's not a celebration, and on the other hand it's pathetic weakling bullshit with people too cowardly to face the results of their own actions. And that's before we even get into how CAFOs didn't even exist before the 1940s or so... Everyone who eats meat (myself included) is funding whole new levels of institutionalized animal cruelty.

It's NOT an advance to PRETEND that you're not cruel.

Tell us more about how you're smarter than the experts who actually did what you say they didn't do

They are truly awe inspiring achievements. It's too bad that if history is any indication, and IBM history in particular, they will be used to murder people efficiently

You cannot solve this problem with advances in technology simply existing. They have to be implemented. We've had solutions which don't require the masses of people to change lifestyle for decades. We don't implement them so that a tiny number of people don't have to change their lifestyles. You're blaming the victims, a favorite slashdot pastime which accomplishes exactly dick.

Oh good, it beats older models! You can be out of date with just the RAM you have already!

I don't give a shit about Rey or Luke either way, as neither ever existed in the really real world. I'm solely explaining why your argument doesn't make sense even in the context of the goofy-ass pulp sci-fi canon.

This all stems from a legal system which does not require punishment of crimes. This is supposed to make it more fair because we have the option to let people off when punishment won't actually help anything, but in practice it means that the wealthy can buy their way out of it and the poor cannot, and the judicial system is hard on the poor to make it look like it's strict when in fact it's only strict with the poor. We must require that all known crimes be punished if we are to change our laws, because there must be consequences for breaking laws for the people with the ability to actually change them.

In star wars land they have repulsors that let ships hover, and clearly they have input filtering as well given how we've seen people handle controls, so gravity isn't a deal breaker. Obviously you have to suspend disbelief to some degree for all fiction, but Luke at least has actual seat time experience, and the extremely force sensitive main villain was distracted by trying to get a line on the extremely force sensitive main hero.

Through surprisingly small holes, same as every other building. You use split systems where the bulk (literally) is outside.

You should google "mini-split" as no, it is not impossible to retrofit in most residences. It's cheap and easy and you only need three half-inch holes to run two coolant lines and an electrical line through. Pretty ironic that these are in use across all of the former French colonies but you learned nothing from them. Power budget is an issue, but French people keep telling me that is not a problem because of their nuclear program.

Absolutely nothing about talking on Slashdot is like talking in person, so what's the relevance of that? In a real conversation you get a chance to interject when someone starts talking abject bullshit that makes it clear they have no clear what they're talking about. Or, you can walk away mid-sentence. Only on web fora do people get the chance to post an entire screed uninterrupted.

None of that means that response was necessarily warranted, personally I like to save the depths of my derision for people who are actively insulting, with double extra bonus points when they were not even intending to be so but just can't help it. Those are the people who get the most indignant about having it returned to them. But don't mistake Slashdot for a conversation in meatspace. It clearly and obviously is not one.