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We've done a lot of other awful things since forever: forced child "marriages" (or just sexual abuse before then), child exploitation, some form of slavery, have all been a thing for millenia. And yet many societies now frown upon those, punish the perpetrators and help the victims.

What makes you think this (or other awful shit we still do) will be any different?

All those actions are no more or less "in our DNA" then meat consumption.

And, well, vegans have convinced some non-trivial amount of people, as you can deduce by the fact that many companies put "vegan" stickers on their products, because they think it will increase their profits.

X201 is pretty small, I've never had a problem of it not fitting somewhere. Otherwise completely accurate.

Yes.

Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether.

It is the only solution, it is not actually that difficult, and it is an inevitable outcome of human development.

In a few centuries, humans will look at today's animal explotation the same way we look at cannibalism and slavery.

It is poorly trained LLM garbage and you should not trust it at all. Or at least that was the state of it when I last tried it a few months ago. Here it is, hallucinating two completely different definitions for the same word (Georgian mountain name):

Such a weak excuse. Why not make the more populous states do the same thing? Oh right I forgot, all your politicians are completely bought by the oil&car lobbies, they DGAF about your safety or wellbeing even a little bit.

This has been known for a while.

To be clear, recycling itself is not the problem. We do need it and we do need more of it.

The problem is that it's touted as a "solution to plastic waste" and has been used by oil manufacturers to push even more plastic shit upon us. This is the wrong approach, we need to be reducing plastic production as much as possible, down to the absolute bare minimum.

It is fucking awful when it gets in the environment (and some of it will get into the environment, no matter how good the recycling infra is); also, plastic has a very limited amount of times it can be recycled before losing most of its useful properties.

Even with a solid majority, the house and senate democrats will be too full of individual self-interests too do anything of the sort.

It's not individual self-interests, it's pretty blatant corruption to protect their donors, the US oligarchs. Any real investigation into republicans will implicate "democrat" billionaires as well.

I mean, it should. But it doesn't.

No it isn't, it's neither on wiktionary nor on UrbanDicitonary (and yes I've scrolled through 14 pages of stupid jokes for that), which means it's not in common usage at all, likely anywhere.

I think I've seen it on forums and stuff when I was a younging, but that was a long time ago and that time is gone. Get with the times, you are asking for help, it is your job to be understood.

You can also get away with being queer in Yerevan. Not anywhere else in Armenia sadly.

Armenia is perfectly safe as well and everyone speaks Russian there.