Comments in the Margin

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Comments in the Margin

Comments in the Margin

@ComInTheMarg

Software Engineer. Rationalist. Effective Altruist. Vegan. Anti-woke. I like intellectual subjects

New York Katılım Temmuz 2015
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
Ohio has enacted a law banning the use of restrictive metal gestation crates for pregnant pigs, with the ban taking effect in January 2026, the result of a 15-year campaign by animal welfare advocates. These narrow metal stalls, about seven feet long and too tight for sows to turn around, have been criticized for causing physical problems and stress-related behaviors such as sores, lameness, bar-biting, and depression. The new restrictions aim to reduce the constant confinement that contributes to these welfare issues. By limiting gestation crate use during pregnancy (though not banning farrowing crates used at birthing), Ohio joins other states including California and Michigan in tightening standards for pig housing. As the 11th state to adopt such measures, the move reflects a broader trend toward integrating modern animal welfare science into livestock production practices. Source: Ohio Department of Agriculture (2026) Regulations on Gestation Stall Confinement for Swine
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Comments in the Margin@ComInTheMarg·
@Aella_Girl I agree, a voting test would be nice, but the questions should be phrased as "according to the majority of economists...."
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
like in order to vote u gotta pass a basic class where you personally have to run a simulated small business, or can answer "no" to the question "are rent prices different in different areas because some landlords are greedier vs more generous in different areas?"
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Josh Balk
Josh Balk@joshbalk·
The pork industry lost with voters. Lost at the Supreme Court. So they turned to Congress—and got the "Save Our Bacon" Act buried in the House Farm Bill. It's the biggest rollback of animal welfare protections in U.S. history. A thread. 🧵
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Lewis Bollard
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard·
Tucked inside the farm bill the House passed Thursday is a provision that would likely gut state bans on the sale of horse meat from Texas to Illinois. The Save Our Bacon Act is meant to wipe out state bans on the sale of pork from crated pigs. But its text is much broader. It bars states from regulating the sale of all meat from "covered livestock" based on how it was produced elsewhere. Horses raised for slaughter fit the bill's definition of "covered livestock". So its plain text would force states to allow horse meat sales, invalidating bans like Texas's -- on the books since 1949. I doubt the reps who voted for the farm bill knew it would do this. But they knew it would wipe out state crate bans. And they didn't care enough to ask what else would go with them.
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Comments in the Margin@ComInTheMarg·
@Dr_Gingerballs The issue is not oxygen displacement but CO2 itself. In your lungs, you blood picks up oxygen and drops CO2. I think when thr concentration is sufficiently high in the air this process is impaired. That's my understanding at least
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Dr_Gingerballs
Dr_Gingerballs@Dr_Gingerballs·
This is one of the downsides to measuring and analyzing everything: it makes people neurotic. Air has about 21% oxygen, the rest being mostly nitrogen, nitrogen, and CO2. An increase in CO2 of 1000 ppm implies a decrease in oxygen of 0.1%. Humidity, or water vapor in the air, can displace oxygen on the order of 1%. So the nightly build up of CO2 this person experiences results in oxygen changes 10x smaller than natural variations due to humidity changes. There is no problem to solve here. The solution is to simply stop worrying about CO2 concentration.
@levelsio@levelsio

I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?

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NothingIsArt
NothingIsArt@NothingIsArt·
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.”
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hamsters🌐🐹@sigmahamster2·
The post Keynesian dream
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Josh Balk
Josh Balk@joshbalk·
Renown author @sapinker is the latest voice against the horrible so-called “Save Our Bacon” Act. This legislation just passed within the House of Representatives’ farm bill. It’s as dire a threat to animals as any legislation in Congressional history. We have to now stop it in the Senate.
Steven Pinker@sapinker

It may be unrealistic to expect the world to become vegetarian (at least not until synthetic meat is produced at scale), but that doesn't mean we must treat farm animals with vicious cruelty. Small protections can reduce massive harm at tolerable costs. Tell your senator to vote NO on the Farm Bill if it includes the "#SaveOurBacon Act."

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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker@sapinker·
It may be unrealistic to expect the world to become vegetarian (at least not until synthetic meat is produced at scale), but that doesn't mean we must treat farm animals with vicious cruelty. Small protections can reduce massive harm at tolerable costs. Tell your senator to vote NO on the Farm Bill if it includes the "#SaveOurBacon Act."
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Comments in the Margin@ComInTheMarg·
@Gaming0wl I feel like leftists have this mental image of a peaceful, calm, small society where no one is hurting anyone else and they blame all differences between our world and that one on the nameless, faceless, capitalism. Very ineffective for making actual change
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The Gaming Owl After Hours
The Gaming Owl After Hours@Gaming0wl·
I think most people hate vegans because they individualize the problem of the meat industry and refuse to actually organize against capitalism to legitimately challenge the systems that make the meat industry so odious
Maya Luna@envisionedluna

Non-vegan leftists hate veganism because it's the one "morally correct" position you actually have to put effort into and can't just virtue signal (ie anti-fascism, anti-billionaire, anti-racism pro-LGBTQ).

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Matthew Dominguez
Matthew Dominguez@Matt_Dominguez·
Breaking: The Farm Bill has passed the House with “Save Our Bacon” language that harms family farmers and strips states of their right to pass food safety and animal welfare laws. The fight for family farmers, states’ rights, and animal welfare is not over. This is yet another reminder that @NPPC is more interested in keeping mother pigs locked in crates than listening to consumers who want the pork industry to move away from cruel confinement. Now it moves to the Senate — and senators need to hear from you. Call the Senate switchboard now and ask to be connected to your two U.S. senators. Tell them to oppose any Farm Bill that includes “Save Our Bacon” language. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 We’ll keep fighting — and we’ll win in the Senate. Then send a follow-up email: ciwf.com/farmbill
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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
Just to put this in perspective, the difference in emissions between an average gas and electric car is about 2,000 median chatbot prompts per mile. Replacing a single gas powered ride share car with an AV would collectively stop the emissions of 60,000,000 prompts per year.
Andy Masley@AndyMasley

If climate change is such an emergency that you can't use a chatbot, it's enough of an emergency that you should prefer swapping a gas powered ride share for an electric AV.

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Lewis Bollard
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard·
Despicable: the House just passed a farm bill that includes the SOB Act to keep pigs imprisoned in crates. Our last hope is to keep this out of the Senate farm bill. Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and tell them NO farm bill bill with the Save Our Bacon Act in it.
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill. The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates. We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House. Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive. The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.

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Comments in the Margin@ComInTheMarg·
@FANOwND @birchlse No, causality exists. Your one boxing causes a different amount of money to be on the right side of the room. It's just the time that gets reversed
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Fano
Fano@FANOwND·
@ComInTheMarg @birchlse Then causality doesn't exist, words have no meaning, and I can pull however many billions of dollars out of my ass as I want with no justification.
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Lewis Bollard
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard·
Update: the House may vote on the farm bill tomorrow. This is a critical time. @RepLuna is leading a last minute fight to strike the SOB Act from the farm bill. Call your reps. We need a vote to strike SOB. If leadership won't allow that, we need to kill the farm bill.
Lewis Bollard@Lewis_Bollard

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill. The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates. We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House. Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive. The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.

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Fano@FANOwND·
@ComInTheMarg @birchlse Right, so in your model, causality is violated. But causality can't be violated, therefore your model is false. In my model, the predictor, despite being right several times up to this point, might not be perfect. This is obviously true on it's face, but also a logical necessity
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@Aella_Girl @Dr_Gingerballs @sapinker @Gaming0wl @NPPC @morallawwithin @FANOwND @birchlse