Be honest have you ever watched Chuck Schumer on CSPAN or do you only see him in the clips Jon Stewart shows?

Not enough people voted for Democrats so Chuck Schumer currently has less power than Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart has a much larger audience on his show (and therefore more influence) than Chuck Schumer has on CSPAN yet he devotes a significant amount of time complaining about Chuck Schumer.

It’s weird.

PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.

I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T

It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don’t you care about the suffering of these animals?

Yeah, you just have to know yourself. Personally I feel like I need to go into the office once per week otherwise work starts becoming an abstract thing. But I’ve known some co-workers I wouldn’t see for months at a time that were really on the ball. Ask an obscure question about something really technical on slack and get an answer within seconds kind of thing. I knew another guy that said he had to come into the office every day because his family was too distracting.

Everyone needs to know what works for them and be a responsible professional about it.

And yeah managers that want 100% RTO are just admitting they can’t handle working from home. Ok that’s your thing, but it’s not a thing for everyone else.

Anyway I got out the the RTO thing because I told them of the times some computers were having issues and I had to work the whole weekend (from home) to fix them. If I’m going to be 100% RTO then I’m 0% WFH and the next time something like that happens I won’t be able to start working on it until 9am on Monday morning. So I’m still in the office one day per week, weather permitting, which is my preference.

Well you’re in a politics community on lemmy, so you’re going to hear about all of the leftist populists constantly. But I don’t think lemmy is an extremely popular web forum.

Why are you so obsessed with the source of my meat? If you must know comes from a little French town called Dublé Entendré.

Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.

Moth friend is free!

I don’t kill things unless they deserve it… or if they taste good.

Weird way to be judgemental.

Their base? It’s at least equally cool to the leftist base to hate Jews now.

Nationalists and socialists coming together in their shared hatred of Jews… how original.

Yeah there have been many times already where it’s been “they have to get that he’s scamming them now, right?”

But they always go back and say “please sir, can we have some more?”

They’re already trying to work out that it’s all Pam Bondi’s fault. Trump is just getting bad advice, etc.

I buy all of my food from Food 'n Stuff… and most of my stuff.

Estimates with numbers like 80% and 99% are just made up on the spot. I estimate 99% of the world knows that.

Some website I’ve never heard of before that you term as a “random website” says “We estimate…” a bunch of times without any attempt to describe the methodology used for their estimates.

So that’s bullshit.

The problem with the vegan animal rights movement is you’re always going for the moonshot of ending an entire industry instead of even trying to identify and shut down farms with horrible practices or outlaw those practices. To accomplish the goal of ending an industry, you’re fudging numbers and coming out as being dishonest which means no one will trust you and you’ll accomplish nothing. If animals are indeed being boiled alive (I don’t believe you about this because you’re obviously making up shit on other things) then it will continue to happen because you’re trying to accuse an entire industry of doing things that only some in the industry might do.

If you cared about the boiling animals alive thing (if it actually happens) you’d be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you’re not doing that (you’re not even identifying any particular farms) so that leads me to believe either it’s not happening, or maybe you want it to continue to happen because it somehow helps your vain cause of ending all meat.

The poll says 46% of Republicans and 42% of Democrats outside of New York don’t have an opinion on a guy running to be Mayor of New York.

Clickbaitey article headline implies not having an opinion on a politician running for mayor in another city means the same as being unfavorable towards that politician. Yes he has a low favorable number but a massive “no opinion” number because should people give a shit about a politician in another city?

New Yorkers may like to to think they’re the center of the world, but shockingly over 40% of people outside of New York probably don’t know who this guy is because why should they?

It says 60% of mammals are livestock, not 60% live in factory farms. I’ve been around cows in normal (non-factory) farms, and they seem fine. Way better off than wild animals that starve, die of disease, freeze to death, etc.

I have family members that have livestock and if something bad happens to them it’s like someone hurt their child.

A seal in the 4% living in the wild may be eaten alive by a killer whale or torn to shreds by a great white shark.

We aren’t going to prevent all animals from suffering, because how could we do that? Kill off all of the predators? Then there would be animal overpopulation and animals dying of starvation and disease.

Maybe we just focus on ending factory farms because that seems doable. But that effort won’t be successful with obvious hyperbole claiming all livestock is treated like animals in the most horrible factory farms. Some people have actually been to farms that aren’t like that you know.

People aren’t stupid and if you misrepresent the facts, no one will believe anything else you’re saying no matter how emotional you are when misrepresenting the facts.

Why is it Americans never hold the GOP to account? Why is it when the GOP does something bad, you have to somehow work it around so it’s somehow the Democrats fault? Why do you wonder why it’s difficult to keep the GOP from getting power and doing horrible shit when everyone in the US blames everything on the Democrats even when they aren’t in power?

I’m Canadian and I wouldn’t blame the opposition party for something the governing party is doing. It’s a strange part of American culture to blame a Democrats for everything and it doesn’t make any sense. And it doesn’t happen the other way, I don’t recall people ever blaming the Republicans when the Democrats do something they don’t like.

It’s a weird thing about American culture and it’s resulted in the party that gets blamed for everything having no power to stop the party that never gets blamed for anything. But y’all continue blaming them for being in this situation.

“Bill Clinton and… other Presidents…”

Shocking allegations about the guy that used to creep around in the Miss Teen USA changing room!

You don’t seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren’t significantly different, I’ve had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.

Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we’re at a point that it’s only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that’s not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.

Yeah and that’s where the capitalism angle comes in. With supply side economics pushed by Reagan, wealthy people are supposed to do things that’ll create jobs. They’re “job creaters”, right?

Problem is they don’t have any good ideas. And that would normally be fine, you could have employees that know what they’re doing developing technology that’ll make a production line 2% more efficient. Those kinds of advancements are important… if we’re 2% more efficient, we can make 2% more stuff, and so we’re 2% better off. But that’s not exciting and doesn’t attract investment. So instead we get these big bold “visionary” ideas that soak up a lot of investment, and we have a whole lot of people making marketing campaigns to promote these “game-changer” ideas to attract even more investment. So we have a society where we’re near full employment but a lot of people not producing anything that has a benefit to society.

So those scientists in Jurassic Park (or the real life scientists at that “Dire Wolf” company) could be working on something beneficial like applying their skills towards curing diseases. But instead they’re working on useless things because the money goes towards “visionaries” that don’t actually have good ideas on how to contribute to society. But I don’t think that absolves the scientists from taking those jobs. But people have to pay the bills I’m not going to judge them for it either. The Dire Wolf thing seems stupid to me but nowhere near as dangerous as Jurassic Park. In the case of JP, at some point you have to ask yourself “is my job going to cause harm to people”, but the JP scientists didn’t seem to ask the question because they were just interested in the challenge of making a dinosaur.

But yeah the Dire Wolf thing is stupid and useless… for now. But hey, eventually that company might do something useless that’ll get people killed!