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  • If you’re interested in the treatment of laboratory animals, Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation goes into great detail.

    Of note, the LD⁵⁰ test tasks how much of something needs to be given to animals before 50% of them die (n usually = 20 to 200). Sometimes that involves force feeding them via tubes, because the quantity required to kill is so vast.

    This is used for pharmaceuticals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, household cleaners, food additives.

    Typically death by this route is not pleasant.







  • I’ll steelman her POV because it seems people are (rightly) confused.

    Asexuals are requesting a day of recognition for what she sees as a negative-identity. Keep in mind, conservatives are often meritocratic.

    It’s like if there were a day for “coffee refrainers”, for everyone who doesn’t like drinking coffee. I’m sure if someone dunked on that day and the coffee refrainers, it’d all be in good spirits.

    But if someone dunked on asexuality, I’m sure it’d cause a lot of upset and defensive argument, which implies more “merit” to asexuality.

    While progressives can go “who cares, just leave em be”, conservatives see all “non-deserved” attention as an affront to meritocracy, that needs to be squashed.



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    18 days ago

    I was giving $20 a month to Effective Altruism, for years, before someone told me it’s a messed up organisation. I stopped, and since then haven’t given money to anyone. Except $3 a month to Wikipedia, but that’s small fries.

    I did a chunk of research looking for strong climate focused charities, but if they didn’t state veganism anywhere on them, I passed and come up empty handed.