Also: having sidewalks at the very edge of the road is dangerous. They should be set back a few feet

A closed loop system would achieve this, or at least after the initial filling of the system.

They are common (if not standard) in 2nd and 3rd row seating.

I get a difference in frontal impacts, but a number of people have specifically cited side impacts.

Bigger in the context of vehicles means not only heavier, but also a higher point of impact. It could be the difference between getting hit in the legs vs the torso. Or the difference between rolling onto the hood vs knocked down and run over.

It’s probably never been a better for indie games.

Does the stock market qualify as gambling?

I use Discord because of network effect (i.e. that’s what people use, so I’m sort of stuck with it).

I refuse to install the app on my devices though. For PC, I use the web-based version. For mobile, I use Matrix bridging. The bridging only works for messaging, not voice/video, but I don’t need that on my phone.

If you are asserting that plants have consciousness, then this supports eating a plant-based diet due to how trophic levels work.

I’m glad that we are on the same page with this.

In the de-personalized age of the internet, it does seem like a lot of people are behaving that way. But I would say that this is the difference between friends and acquaintances.

I grew up before the internet became ubiquitous, and friends were far more integral to one’s social life.

Vegans’ moral arguments are just fine, it’s just that most people don’t give a shit. When you realize how shitty most people are to other people, it makes the need to take a different approach very obvious.

They are completely unrelated

“Plants feel pain” is an argument that supports a plant-based diet because it is more efficient to consume plants directly than to feed them to animals.

They use a different point of reference

However, I appreciate your mathematical explanation

Other way around. Not comparing slaves to animals, comparing animals to slaves.

What is worse, living and then dying, or not living at all?

Laughs in antinatalist

More commonly, I think people would base this on quality of life. An animal being born to spend its entire life in a tiny, disgusting cage in generally deplorable conditions doesn’t make the cut by any reasonable standard.

Or you could simply off your opinion based on the information as presented.

This seems like an attempt at trying to sidetrack the topic rather than providing an answer. Which is odd given that commenting here is opt in. It’s not like someone directly approached you and asked the question.

This is an argument in favor of plant-based diets, since it results in fewer plants being eaten

People seem to focus on the ills of the dairy industry when talking about vegetarians, but the egg industry is particularly egregious.

Minimizing harm to others and harm to the environment is more ethical than not minimizing harm to others and harm to the environment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy