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nobody has to use an operating system made by an advertisement company.

My device’s bootloader can be unlocked in 5 minutes, yet it’s not on any of these lists you shared

The difference is not my point at all.

If my brother, at a very young age, had made the reasonable decision of pursuing higher education as a path in life, and due to a wide variety of circumstances is in financial trouble and I could help…

Guess what, I’m helping. I do not give a fuck if there’s a difference, my guy. And I also know my brother would stop in the middle of a career defining work meeting and come rescue me if I was in trouble.

And I wouldn’t trade that kind of relationship for your world view.

If that’s how you see our familiar relations sure, you’re your own individual. But boy I’d hate to be your family member.

Maybe my phrasing was a bit accidentally misleading - when I mentioned they are where everyone wants to study at or the ones publishing the most research, I meant locally, for Brazilians and to some extent our LATAM neighbors.

That’s why you probably never heard of them by name, they don’t carry the weight of an “Oxford” or “Tokyo University”.

That said, you absolutely interacted with fruits of their research. The term “ultra processed food” comes from the University of São Paulo and their research.

Decisions have consequences

I’d still help you out if you were in a car crash, even though it was your decision to drive a vehicle.

Though of course, this doesn’t mean helping out is mandatory.

The best universities in Brazil, the ones everyone wants to study at and the ones producing cutting edge research… Are all free, they’re public universities. The private ones can’t compete on most metrics.

So yeah, maybe americans should drop the whole “first world” tag to pretend they’re special and rebalance their priorities.

Nooo I did not need to hear that

That’s what they are saying, yes. They are wrong.

It is not a Christian cross, the symbol is the dagger † which is also often used for adding post-scriptum information or challenging parts of a text.

People often mistake it for a cross, given the look, but there’s no actual preference towards any religion here.

The cross is an entirely different unicode character: ✝

In that case, thanks for informing us that cows can eat grass. We are very proud of you. We absolutely had that knowledge already, but still, thanks for your effort.

The only way this is a strawman is if your statement is a non sequitur. Otherwise, my reply very much holds.

You can’t counter “raising enough cows to supply our current meat demand takes a lot of resources we could be eating instead” with “its okay for them to eat grass :D” unless the implication is that eating grass is sufficient to meet that demand.

Otherwise, you’re just commenting that cows eat grass. Which congrats, I guess? I think I know some middle school students who might be surprised by the information?

You’re delusional if you believe most of the meat you consume comes from cows eating naturally growing grass in areas no other crops can grow.

most people don’t want to eat grass or soy cake

If only we mastered farming, allowing us to plant a wide variety of crops. But alas, we are left eating grass.

That’s a very reasonable and effective individual strategy.

We don’t need everyone becoming a vegan - but we absolutely do need to stop denying the necessity of reducing meat consumption.

This is true, and also not usually well taken by most people, even the ones claiming to be pro environment.

Wait until this thread gets full of people saying that their habits are irrelevant because companies pollute much more - which they do indeed, but that absolutely does not negate the many studies we have that calculate a major impact if we simply dropped red meat.

Which is again quite obvious if you think about the energetic demand of growing food only to feed an animal that then will become food, rather than skipping this step and eating the original food instead.

It’s so sad such illiteracy means people like you associate the dash with AI

You can repeat “no harm done” at the end of every comment, and it wouldn’t change any of the data we have proving it does, in fact, a lot of harm

You can’t compare prohibition in a broad context to restrictive usage.

You can’t drive a vehicle in the sidewalk either, doesn’t mean you’re forbidden to have a car.

Have your phone - download TikTok, Canva, Wikipedia, WhatsApp, go nuts… Outside of a classroom.

Other Sunni schools of jurisprudence rely on early Islamic scholars who state that a fetus can “sleep and stop developing for 5 years in a womb”

Glad to hear this justice system is so smart, well developed and based on ground realities!

Maybe not directly for “being too Western” but certainly it’s the one providing the moral framework for allowing murder for ideological and behavioural differences.