This isn’t a news story, it’s a fucking ad.

Good, force them to vote on it so we can see who supports genocide.

Sadly, encouraging people to vote goes against the Republican platform, because a higher voter turnout would absolutely demolish them.

Like it or not, elections are a popularity contest, and having Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark showing support for Harris is a good thing.

Even if you don’t know who they are, they’re big names who will turn out voters.

And if you think having a platform disqualifies you from weighing in on politics, then tell that to Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan lol.

Why wouldn’t you fight against animal cruelty?

He’s pandering to his right wing sycophants and pushing the boundaries of free speech on his platform so that when he inevitably faces consequences, he can immediately play the victim and say “see, I told you this is what the left would do!”

Normally I’d say don’t give him the attention, but he’s a Nazi sympathizer, and those motherfuckers deserve condemnation.

I’m afraid I’m going to need a better argument than “I support killing animals because it makes me feel good.”

The one saving grace for me this election cycle is watching the Republicans panic over some dumb shit the guy they nominated says. You let this raccoon inside, don’t be surprised about all the garbage everywhere.

Dried prunes, apples and pears have, I believe, the highest poop to volume ratio of any food.

I’m a fan of STAR voting myself, but anything is better than the first past the post system we have now.

Yeah it’s a lot of work and it sucks no matter what. Hopefully the tips I posted can make it a little quicker and easier for some!

So I’ve gotten pretty good at applying for jobs having moved quite a bit and needing to change a few times in the past decade. Here’s my unsolicited advice for people getting sick of the application process (it sucks I know):

• Make sure your resume can be easily OCR’d. OCR, or optical character recognition, is how programs and machines convert image-formatted text into plain text. Sometimes it works pretty well, and sometimes it spits out a garbled mess of text. If you’ve ever done an application that auto-fills fields after you upload your resume, you probably have a good idea how readable your resume is by a computer. Like it or not, the first step for a lot of companies is to filter by OCR converted text fields, and if yours isn’t legible, you may be out of luck. Use a simple, consistent font and don’t do any special formatting. If you want a second “fancier” printed version of your resume for interviews, go for it.

• Fit your resume to a single page and highlight your skills at the top. You can change these from application to application if you want, and if you do, I suggest using verbiage from the job description because these are the keywords they’ll be looking for.

• You’ll probably see a few jobs that really seem like a great fit for companies you really want to work for. CALL THESE COMPANIES. Trust me, employers don’t love the hiring process either, and if they’re actively trying to fill a role and they get a call from someone interested, they’ll probably respond. They may just politely tell you to follow the standard process, but that’s really the worst case scenario. And even if they do, they’ll probably keep an eye out for your application.

Fox News is betting that if people are too distracted by what “the woke” are doing, they won’t realize that the ultra wealthy are robbing them blind.

Their entire business model is drumming up culture war bullshit to keep people distracted from the fact they’re losing the class war.

The idea that humans are at the top of the food chain is largely disputed. On a global level we are at about the same trophic level as anchovies.

Isn’t this standard for journalism, that you can’t technically say a crime was committed until they’ve been found guilty in court?

Yeah, because buying eggs at the supermarket is bushcraft survival training

I think we have fundamentally different outlooks on animal agriculture. It seems like your position may be based on the idea that animals used for milk and eggs are treated well, live long natural lives and are killed at the end of their lives when they would have died naturally.

I wish this were the case.

Animals used for milk and egg production live a small percentage of their potential lifespan. The effects on dairy cows of repeatedly being impregnated, giving birth, producing enormous quantities of milk, and going through the cycle again takes a harsh toll on their bodies. It’s normal for a dairy cow to only endure 4 or 5 cycles of this before they literally cannot physically continue, at which point they’re no longer profitable and are sold for slaughter. Similarly for egg-laying hens, the stress and mineral demand of ovulating multiple times a day means that they rarely live past two years. For the males of these breeds, it’s even worse. Male chickens of the egg-laying breeds are mostly useless to the industry, so they are killed immediately after hatching, usually by way of an industrial macerator or gas chamber. Male calves might live to 8 months to be slaughtered for veal, but if there’s no market for veal they are frequently killed immediately after birth.

Modern egg laying chickens and dairy cows are man-made breeds far removed from their natural wild counterparts. Hens trace their lineage to red jungle fowls, who naturally will have a single clutch of roughly 12 eggs once a year. Selective breeding has increased this amount to once a day, sometimes even more. The extreme pressure on their reproductive system frequently causes health issues like egg yolk peritonitis, cloacal prolapse, and osteoporosis. Similarly with modern dairy cows, bovine mastitis, udder sores and infections are common due to our selective breeding to maximize milk yields. Even otherwise healthy animals face grueling lives because they’re part of a species that was selectively engineered for one purpose: profit.

Modern animal agriculture is overwhelmingly inhumane, which is why livestock animals are almost always excluded from animal abuse legislation. Ignoring the above points about how they’ve been selectively bred and are worked to exhaustion, investigations into egg and dairy farms have found absolutely shocking treatment. If you have the stomach for it, they’re worth watching to understand the scope of animal abuse that is commonplace in our society.