Carsharing? Yes. Personal cars with a subscription? Not really.

There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.

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Technically, it’s 1000 bytes per KB and 1024 bytes per KiB. Hard drive manufacturers are simply using a different unit.

No, it happened because people with guns killed or threatened anyone who didn’t do their jobs.

As far as I know, there are no documented examples of people actually being killed for refusing an assassination order. While you might end up being shunned by other members of your battalion, you could always ask for redeployment.

Don’t do that if you have an OLED, though. AFAIK, they need to turn themselves on from time to time to do some panel refresh stuff to prevent burn in.

Veganism isn’t so much a “dietary preference” as a way of life that recognizes animals as sentient beings and aims to minimize their suffering as much as possible (i.e. it’s not only about not eating them).

That aside: In my experience, giving a shit about the well-being of others, regardless of race or species, isn’t exactly common on the political right.

Livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land, while supplying only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.

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