It really fucked me up when I learnt that humans, livestock, and pets make up 95% of mammal biomass. All wild mammals together are only 5% of mammals by weight.
The breakdown within those categories is insane too. 38% of biomass is cattle. Another 34% is humans. Two thirds of mammalian biomass is one species farming another.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands
This is how I convinced my conservative grandma that the gays do also need marriage, actually. My grandad died when I was 4 and I asked her to imagine not being allowed to see him or make decisions for him or be entitled to an inheritance and she got very quiet and conceded the point. Marriage doesn't intrinsically mean anything but as a legal framework it is really, really important
Getting all this stuff together for a REALID is fucking stupid. It's just the stuff you made me get over the years to get my current license. I showed you my birth cert and social card both to get my first license, I've proved residency every time I had to move or renew my license. What are we proving here? Nothing. Pointless theater that's just a pain in the ass if you're just a person going about your life. No one can fly planes anymore? congratulations on ruining the airline industry. Fucking pointless. And we both know in 10 years they're gonna make me get all the same paperwork back together, plus my signed blood sample on my citizen loyalty papers, to get a REALERID. Horseshit beaurocratic nonsense.
West Papuaâs Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: âThese products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where theyâve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
âThis is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who theyâre dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.â
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the worldâs largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the worldâs biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
âWest Papuansâ, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,â said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
âIndonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua ⊠After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasnât fair, which wasnât under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
âSo this is the foundation of the Indonesiaâs colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.â
Going outside with wet hair from showering is humiliating because everyone sees you and thinks stuff like "eww gross here comes the wet girl". But going outside with wet hair when it's raining? Unambiguous boon because now everyone is thinking stuff like "wow, she's so topical" and "her hair is a scathing critique of the times we live in"
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