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Nelek wrote: And in spain we eat rabbits and mussels, and in france frogs and snails... so what? My point was that different animals are differently "entitled" is different parts of the world.
So entitlement is just a cultural construct and by that logic, culture aside, people aren't more entitled than any other animal.
I think that's what you said too, except you interpret it as a reason to eat other animal while I do the opposite
Nelek wrote: Eat them doesn't necessarily mean cruelty. The eating doesn't, the production process does.
It's not just the way to the slaughter either, for many animals it's one cruel trip from the moment they're born.
I'm not so much opposed to the eating of animals as I am to the cruelty that precedes it, that's why I became a vegetarian 22 years ago.
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I will never try to hide that I am a fan of the short stories of Roald Dahl.
"Pig" (the short story, not the poem) is appropriate reading for this discussion.
I found a PDF version of it at the Internet: The Pig - Roald Dahl[^]
Another Roald Dahl story, also relevant here, is The Sound Machine - Roald Dahl[^].
Not perfect in formatting, but it was the first on-line copy I came across.
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Member 7989122 wrote: "Pig" (the short story We have a very different definition of the word "short"
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To take the "serious" approach: Yes, you are probably right. "Pig" fulfills several of the formal requirements to a novel, e.g. it spans over a significant period of time (and this is significant to the story told), and the main characters are affected by events that changes them in some significant way.
I High School, we studied a story (Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Faderen[^] for those who read Norwegian) that fits in single web page (or four pages in print), yet it fulfills all major "novel" requirements.
Both "Pig" and "Faderen" are presented as short stories, though: My hardcopy of "Pig" is from "Roald Dahl - Collected Short Stories". These labels can't really be interpreted literally. A "novel" may be quite old, even though "novel" literally means "new". In Norwegian, a longer "novelle" (linguistically, a diminutive of novel, a small novel) may be presended as a "langnovelle", literally a "long short novel" - one that has the . A non-short novel we call a "roman" (rather than novel), even when the story has not trace of romantic feelings.
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Aka “the virus that I will not name”
If anyone else is like me and interested in the progress on vaccines, this seems to be a decent (and understandable) post on the current efforts: A Close Look at the Frontrunning Coronavirus Vaccines As of April 23 | In the Pipeline[^]
The author works in the pharmaceutical industry (and the posts he has on “Things I won’t work with” are a delight while you’re there), so it’s not some random wahoo dripping opinions.
TTFN - Kent
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FOOF, everyone needs a little FOOF[^]
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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The whole series are absolute treasures, but that one I never get tired of.
TTFN - Kent
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Once again: proof to the fact that stupidity is far beyond infinity.
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I'm going to be super-generous and assume he was merely expressing the truism that any form of cure we insert into the body (by IV or some cavity) to cure an infection is by definition the injection of a disinfectant ...
So maybe it's the colloquial use of the word "disinfectant" that's the issue here rather than the intellect of the leader of the free world.
Ooh, hang on though ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: The Donald says we don't need one - just bleach will do it: Fake News. Come on, I would expect more from you.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The guy is a journalist. Meanwhile Oxford University started trials yesterday.
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Quote: got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He’s worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases. If he is "just" a journalist, he seems to have more knowledge about what he writes than many journalists
I give you that the magazine takes distance from what he writes saying it is a blog giving his own opinion and that he doesn't represent them in that column.
So I suppose sometimes is either not totally correct or not politically correct.
But I find this particular entry, pretty good written and giving information in a relative neutral and competent way (missing in many other places).
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He’s worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases.
And what surprise-the Oxford group is documented in the post you didn’t read.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “the virus that I will not name”
If anyone else is like me Nope, I am not like you. I actually remember the name of it.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 24-Apr-20 10:26am.
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Here’s your cookie, my hero.
TTFN - Kent
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I see the light a comin' refactin' round the bend
I ain't seen a rainbow since I don't know when
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Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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That's a good start. It has promise.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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And after that:
Quote: I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down down down
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Chuck Norris tested positive for the corona virus. The virus will be in quarantine for the next two weeks.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Heard he round housed it back to China!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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Hadn't heard a good Chuck Norris joke in a while. Thanks.
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