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Our nonprofit savescienceoregon.org Is fighting the closure of the ONPRC (Oregon National Primate Research Center) which produces important publicly available biomedical datasets.

These attacks are politically motivated and poorly thought out. Some infamous politicians linked with the NIH are pushing ideas like "We don't need animal testing anymore now that we have AI", which is problematic for a lot of reasons.

We are running an email campaign trying to get more people with deeper than surface level understanding to email the representatives who can do something about this. If you would like to help please send one yourself or just spread the word.

Right now we are running an Oregon trail themed campaign about ONPRC at https://savescienceoregon.org/stay-alive. However our primary goal is informing the general public as nuanced debate on animal testing is difficult due to the subject matter.

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One project investigating impacts of feed additives on reducing methane emissions from the burps of beef cattle over their lifetime was allocated almost €1.5 million.

The research will look at ways of reducing methane emissions in Irish beef systems through strategic use of feed additives and early-life interventions.

The vast majority of methane - a greenhouse gas - released by cattle during digestion is by belching, rather than flatulance.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/vid/p/1074105/we-uncovered-a-multi-million-dollar-plot-to-change-what-you-eat

General Mills, Danone, the beef industry, and more had financial ties to the scientists writing the new dietary guidelines.

RFK said he couldn't be bought, then he let Big Food write the nutrition guidelines.

I saw a post from the rescue I volunteer at saying we got this absolutely adorable 2 week old groundhog!

It was found all alone outside its den, so now it will be living with us until it grows up and is ready to start a den of its own. This little one doesn't even have those big sharp teeth yet.

Despite its scary situation of being lost by its family and then found by scary humans, it looks to be having a nice nap and some active dreams.

Some people may not enjoy these critters, but they are just as special as any other!

https://x.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/2049899806709915761

I was going over there to find a video clip to post here of a child who'd been shot by the IDF and was being used as bait to shoot anyone trying to rescue or retrieve him only to find out the subreddit the video was on has been banned.

Not surprised, just frustrated.

ACTUAL thought policing at work and no one actually gives a damn; heck, on reddit the libs would probably prefer this if it risks the next dem candidate losing.

Take the following premise. Bob sees Mike (who has blue hair) rob an orphanage, and considers him a bad man.
Bob exclaims in a public forum, "That blue-haired sneak! He should be found and put in jail."
Mike (wearing a mask while on the run) highlights this statement, replaying a record of it in another location, and adding: "I can't believe Bob would say such terrible things about blue-haired people! This is extreme bigotry!"
Jill, who also has blue hair, and Derek, who simply doesn't like bigotry, both miss the context of the robbery that happened earlier, and are shocked at the isolated statement.
When the town meets later, the issue of a robbery at the orphanage is downplayed, and the town instead spends the meeting condemning Bob's bigotry.

While a lot could be said about the whole sequence, I want to find out if there is a shortened term used to refer to the deception by Mike when deliberately misrepresenting the grouping of a targeted statement; eg, to build class solidarity the wrong way. The closest I've found might be "Strawmanning" or "Divide and Conquer" but it seems common enough I'd like to see if there's a name.

I tried to generalize by picking "blue hair" for the example, but I admit it'd be an odd, off-color statement by race or appearance. There are still other forms of grouping that are more common to state in conversation, like "gamers" or "voters", or "farmers", in which such statements could apply to all, or just some, of that broad group.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46257200

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More than 52 percent of countries are now classified as 'difficult' or worse for press freedom, compared to only 13.7 percent in 2002

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Celebrating labor day/may day/vappu always starts on the eve here so been fully into it all day today already and made some vappu donuts to go with the sima (mead) we made last weekend. These are THE treats for labor day around these parts.

The donut dough is nothing like the donut dough in US of AmeriKKKa. This is basically the same yeasted dough that is used to make pulla (sweet bread), it has lots of cardamon in it. I make these with sourdough as the levener.

Along with the donut shaped ones I also made a few of these square ones that are literally called porkies because of the shape. Put some homemade apple jam in them.

Finished "porkie donuts".

Finished vappu donuts.

This here is the combo. Ate this while listening to old commie songs.

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When Reform UK launched, the party styled itself as an alternative to the Tories and Labour. You could see why this would be popular with working class voters, because under the Tory-Labour duopoly many of them have only gotten poorer and poorer.

However, at some point along the way, Reform forgot who it wants to appeal to. This is why Reform’s Scottish leader was bragging about how many houses and boats he has in a televised debate:

I hadn't thought of a yacht tax before now, but it seems Lord Offord's fleet would raise enough to plug that hole in Scotland's finances. https://t.co/MBdjhw91iK

— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) April 28, 2026

Reform’s man in Scotland

Of course, it’s unsurprising that lord Malcolm Offord would act and sound like a Tory. As we reported, he’s the former Tory donor Boris Johnson elevated with a peerage:

Malcolm Ian Offord is also known as ‘baron Offord of Garvel’, which is a fun thing to say out loud because it sounds like you’re speaking with a mouth full of toffee. As noted above, Offord isn’t just a peer; he’s also a millionaire and an ex-Tory donor.

Fair play to Reform for convincing anyone they represent the British working class, because it can’t be easy to pull that off when your party is waist deep in wealthy donors.

In the clip at the top, Offal of Garble is debating the Scottish Greens’ Ross Greer. Here’s what the lord had to say:

I went to London 40 years ago with £2,000 in debt. And full of ambition, I worked hard and I was successful. Today, I own six houses, five cars, and six boats. And in a 40-year business career, I’ve employed hundreds of thousands of people and paid £45m in tax. I don’t say that to boast. I ask you this question. Mr Greer, in your Scotland… Do you want more people like me or fewer people like me?

When he says ‘more people like him,’ how many more is he talking about?

10?

100?

1,000?

Because there are 5.5 million people in Scotland, and no one is deluded enough to think every one of them could own six houses. This is the problem — if the wealthy are only ever going to be an ultra-minority, why should the majority of voters care?

The ultra-minority of rich people we’re talking about have obscene levels of power, influence, and spending power, allowing them to create a situation in which they get richer and richer on our hard work. They achieve this by buying the services and properties we rent back from them; they achieve it by buying the politicians we need to represent us; they achieve it by owning the land we need to live on.

What Offord is proposing would benefit no one besides him and the six guys he plays golf with.

Fewer, thanks

Greer wasted no time in responding, hitting back:

Fewer people like you. I’m glad you finally admitted how many homes that you have, Lord Offord. I think it’s worth at this point in the debate pointing out that there are three times as many holiday homes and empty properties in this country as there are homeless children.

You don’t need six homes. You don’t even need two homes. Everybody just needs a home to live in.

Surely, if we’re to tackle the housing crisis, the super-rich, elite individuals like you should be giving up some of those homes so that people who desperately need a roof over their head actually have somewhere to live.

Absolutely right.

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