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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzHoney
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    19 days ago

    The harm side comes in multiple forms:

    Harm to the animals; by removing their nutrient dense food source, and feeding them sugar water in its place, impacting colony health

    Harm to the ecosystem; by mass producing honey bees we are choking out other pollinators, and the selective breeding for honey bees prioritizes output and makes colonies more susceptible to disease and collapse.

    Even if you feel like the bees we’re farming lead a good life, that life comes at a cost of other species - we are choosing a winner in the food web in a way that could be done less harmful for similar end result (i.e., plant sugars / syrups). Much of veganism is about harm reduction.

    Knowing the importance of pollinators to our food supply, as a vegan I would probably not have much of an issue with pollinator farming if there goal was maintaining biodiversity, instead of min-maxing profit.





  • You know who is implementing RCV? Jill Stein.

    No she’s not - she’s a physician, not a legislator. She’s not implementing anything except (hopefully) health care for her patients. She’s promising to make RCV a political priority, but even if elected, the president doesn’t write the laws.

    And that even if is doing some heavy lifting, because it’s impossible for her to get enough votes (50.01%, because a plurality goes to the legislators to decide) to win.

    What she can do, is syphon enough votes from from Harris to hand the country back to Trump (who I promise you will not solve the problem of genocide in Palestine), which is why the RNC and hostile foreign powers love to prop her up





  • It’s a poor analogy, but imagine a public IP like a hotel, there can be lots of guests (clients) at this hotel. Hotel policy is they won’t let any outsiders in unless you know the room number (port) of the person you’re trying to reach.

    Imagine you and a friend are staying in separate hotels and want to give each other copies of your favorite Linux .ISOs, but neither of you knows the other’s room number - you show up at the hotel and the front desk tells you to pound sand because you don’t have their room number.

    As long as one of you knows the other’s room number though, you can meet.

    Torrenting without port forwarding means you can only trade your favorite .ISOs with people who have port forwarding enabled (sharing their room number to the tracker), which makes you less effective of a seeder. Enabling port forwarding allows you to share with anyone (sharing your room number with the tracker).




  • I literally, unknowingly, watched this unfold with my dad recently. He got a text along the lines of “final notice of unpaid toll from [local toll road entity], pay by end of day to avoid late payment fees” with a link.

    He (on the side, while we were all doing something else) went in, entered his drivers license info, date of birth, and credit card number to “pay” the toll.

    About 30 second after setting his phone down he just goes “shit, that was a scam, wasn’t it” and describes the text to us.

    A little bit too much trust, and a false deadline can go a long way.