https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68977469

Edit: TW genital mutilation

Part of the purpose of any media is to illicit a reaction. In print media especially news, the “art” of writing has been distilled down to this because it is a easy way to garner views which in turn drives advertising/product sales. It’s been shown that even negative publicity drives engagement without long-term consequences.

With content-engagement algorithms our monkey-brain doesn’t stand much of a chance. Multiple of your favourite interests dispensing serotonin shots minute after minute. With the scroll confirmation giving basic feedback, let’s not even get into the camera. I’ll put money on pro versions not needing scrolling soon enough. Then doom scrolling will just become…

They also had power users who dominated post and drove the control of conversation. (MrBabyMan?)

I can see this being used against ex-employees.

Interesting development that I didn’t realise they had. 4 trillion operations per second at 2watts.

Its just another inflammatory post to rally everyone in a single direction. Either worry or don’t worry. Your choice.

Battery-powered silent leaf blowers. We really are in the future.

Driverless car company. What that means in legal terms is beyond my understanding but companies kill people everyday so there’s probably precident.

Ok so ten years then. In that time nearly all average family cars will be smart. They will have self-driving (they can come pick you up). Will have a few years of insurance claims and premiums showing they are not responsible for 99% of crashes and insurance will react accordingly pushing up the insurance of the last holdouts so far that it becomes uneconomical for the average person to drive “manual”.

What is your definition of immediate to begin with, 1year to 10years?

Insurance says so

Narwhal tusk laddie, do you have no style?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50870309

Didn’t own the company just the sole British distribution rights

edit to add: He lived on the south coast, used and enjoyed the product, and was moving out of the way for a pedestrian on a narrow path and went backwards over the cliff edge. A tragedy that doesn’t belong in this thread.

12 year old article, here’s newsweeks factcheck from a few years ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532

Meeeeèeee

If you eat more meat because of what someone said you’re clearly deranged.

Sabotage, lol, keep on coming up with excuses. Pretend it’s not you who’s the shitty person. I started my movement when I was a child and didn’t even know the word vegan. For a lot of people vegan is a personal thing and the fact there’s a community is a bonus, but you wouldn’t understand.

That is a man who was the Govenor of California. Eats and drinks weird stuff? You mean healthy and lots of protein?

You’re just making shit up to try and justify your stance. It’s hilarious.

You could choose to stop murdering animals, yet here we are.