Jim East
I am not Jim West.
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I know what it means; I wasn’t being serious. I know that Sunshine is not the type to use speciesist slurs. :)
Is that a slur? When used as a verb? And would that be against the rules here? If so, oh the irony. 'Twas nice knowing you, valiant Sunshine…
2·2 months agoMost people in South America don’t speak English; something may have been lost in translation there. /j
In 2024, Colombia lost 113,608 hectares (about 280,700 acres) of forest, a 43% increase compared with 2023, when deforestation had dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades. But while organized crime, ongoing armed conflict and wildfires have been partially blamed for the spike, land use change for cattle ranching remains a huge driver of deforestation.
Animal agriculture is the leading driver of Amazon destruction and climate change as well as species extinction.
2·2 months agoI hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code years ago and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won’t start by learning Rust. Baby steps.
Is Rust really so obscure? I’m not a programmer, but I seem to hear about Rust frequently in any remotely halfway-techy space.
The causes of the rapid recent declines are the continuing destruction or damage of habitats caused by agricultural intensification and land abandonment, draining wetlands, overgrazing by livestock, and the use of fertilisers and pesticides including neonicotinoids. The fragmentation of pollinator-friendly habitat greatly increases the risk of local extinctions.
Global heating is also revealed to be a major threat: 52% of all endangered butterflies in Europe are imperilled by the climate crisis – approximately twice as many as a decade ago.
So there is really one main cause.
2·2 months agoNot only that; at this point, reducing fossil fuel use too quickly would actually be suicidal.
2·3 months agoDepending on the study, estimates of animal farming’s contribution to climate change vary considerably. Widely cited, peer-reviewed sources — including the United Nations report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” and subsequent academic analyses — consistently place the industry’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions between 16.5% and 28%.
A 2013 UN report gave a lower estimate of just 14.5 percent, but this figure has been widely criticized for contradicting available evidence and for being influenced by industry lobbying.
and the follow-up
Always check terms and privacy policy before signing up, but these seem like they will be here to stay:
Those are all Lemmy and PieFed, and I’m not so familiar with Mastodon and others. Maybe look at mas.to ?
3·4 months agoThe underlying problem (in the legal context) is that children are basically treated as property in much the same way that non-human animals are, just with some additional restrictions on the types of abuse that are allowed.
Librewolf is also an option, which is basically just FF with arkenfox preinstalled.
I don’t think that it’s just that. Librewolf probably makes many of the same changes, but from what I understand, it is a completely separate project, so not all of the arkenfox changes are included in Librewolf and vice versa.
Descartes should have just said “cogito ergo sum” and published his coordinate system and quit while he was ahead.
Also this, but I thought it went without saying.
“Close enough” is not close enough.
No reason to think that Parkinson’s would be any different.
The safe zone at the equator is narrow. If choosing to settle near the coast, there really isn’t much choice when it comes to latitude.