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49·4 months agoThe X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk’s platform said on Saturday.
Wait so what do they mean by stopping operations in Brazil then? Just the offices and staff? The article isn’t super clear on it
4·5 months agoNot the person you are replying to but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market
Not OP, but as someone who was at one point excited by the potential of crypto, the ecosystem has moved more and more towards what it claimed to stand against initially
It’s supposed to be decentralized, but things like mining pools have lead to heavy amounts of centralization in block production. If we look at Bitcoin, for an example, we see that over 51% of block production is controlled by just two mining pools. That’s not limited to just Proof of Work mining either. Proof of stake sees centralization in staking pools as well. That’s only just looking at one aspect of the network
It has also not really been seen as a currency. People’s view of it as an “investment” which have the opposite qualities you really want to see. People are encouraged to hold it and never let go, meaning they won’t want to spend it which is adverse to its use as a currency. This has also lead to it being incorporated and dominated by the very financial systems it was initially supposed to move away from
I don’t want to type out an essay, but I could keep going on in other ways that’s not really lived up to its promises.
112·5 months agoRaising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t think it’s nothing
Part of the goal is to encourage their campaign to get more of a mastodon presence
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here’s a good article looking at just that
Not saying she’s perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
4·7 months agoHowever it’s often used in the context of already existing systematic issues. The bunch has already spoiled
Quite a range of things. It’s so many It’s hard to list them all. Some of these are more global than others:
Eyestalk ablation is the removal of one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) eyestalks from a crustacean. It is routinely practiced on female shrimps (or female prawns) in almost every marine shrimp maturation or reproduction facility in the world, both research and commercial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation
Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal farming industry has no use. It occurs in all industrialised egg production, whether free range, organic, or battery cage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy.[1][2][3] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm).[4][5]
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There were 5.36 million breeding sows in the United States as of 2016, out of a total of 50.1 million pigs.[8] Most pregnant sows in the US are kept in gestation crates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation_crate
Ventilation shutdown (VSD) is a means to kill livestock by suffocation and heat stroke in which airways to the building in which the livestock are kept are cut off. It is used for mass killing — usually to prevent the spread of diseases such as avian influenza. Animal rights organizations have called the practice unethical.
Marium webster has a good article about the history of the misappropriation of the phrase
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/one-bad-apple-spoil-the-barrel-metaphor-phrase
17·7 months agoThe tricky part will be enforcing it. Illegal fishing is rampant all around the world because enforcing things at sea is rather difficult. 1 in 5 fish are illegal caught
In most species, bird flu is both highly infectious and very deadly. A disease being very infectious can make up for its lethality
Where do you have that? I haven’t seen that in most places
Stickers don’t break down, however. They’re super annoying for composting stuff because you have to remove every single one
It seems I shitposted too close to the shit
From global estimates
It’s estimated that three-quarters – 74% – of land livestock are factory-farmed
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Combine land animals and fish, and the final estimate comes to 94% of livestock living on factory farms.
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed
In the mean time, there’s plenty of plant-based meats along with plant-based dishes and the like. If we only wait for cultured meat, harm will continue to be done
It’s vote and build pressure. Doing only one of those will leave you in a bad spot
Not voting will leave you with republican who wants to bulldoze gaza and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Who’s former white house advisor thoughts about the war was how gaza’s waterfront properties were economically valuable. Who’s planned response to peaceful protests is to deport US citizens protesting