Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

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Wow. That's hot. And cold. I am suitably impressed that you've experienced temperatures that most people will never see.

They work well with herbal flavors like spearmint, wintergreen, clove, ginger, allspice.

But I'm weird. I actually like spiced gum drops and Necco wafers.

Yeah, I was wrong on that. The article did actually make that point near the end. I didn't read that part before I commented.

I read more of the article:

There are shortcomings to FSIS’s testing program. The tests performed didn’t distinguish between selective antibiotic use to treat an illness and constant low-dose exposure to antibiotics administered directly into the animals’ feed. While both are prohibited under the labeling program, the excessive, chronic use of antibiotics poses a much more serious risk to public health, contributing to the development of antibiotic resistance.

Seems that the labeling program doesn't actually make the distinction I thought hoped they did.

20% does sound like a lot, but given the nature of the problem they are trying to solve, I'd call it at least a partial win. With 80% testing negative, they clearly aren't adding it to the feed. 20% indicates selective use. I don't know how much lower it could feasibly go.

(I'm not particularly concerned with strict adherence to this specific labeling program. My concern is good animal husbandry, not bureaucracy.)

I could be wrong, but AFAIK, "no antibiotics" means no prophylactic antibiotic use. It means they don't dose the whole herd when one animal has some sort of bacterial infection, but they will treat that particular animal with antibiotics.

I agree that antibiotics should not be used to try to prevent infection, but I think it is inhumane to withhold antibiotics from animals that actually need them.

You.

You can be deputized by this judge. Anyone can be deputized by a federal judge.

Judges don't regularly use that power, but they do have it.

They can deputize anyone they want. There is no requirement that the individual be a sworn law enforcement to officer beforehand.

Want to arrest crooked cops? Go ask the judge to deputize you, so you can lawfully execute their judicial orders.

You're saying that voters in Ohio and Florida are single issue voters

I am saying that Ohio and Florida were pretty evenly balanced, politically, back when concealed carry was prohibited.

Then both states adopted concealed carry licensing.

Both states saw a flood of voting-age people go out and prove they weren't felons. Those people also spent thousands of dollars on classes, safes, ammunition, holsters, range time, targets, shooting glasses, ear protection, range bags, gun locks, and, of course, the firearms themselves. They spent more money buying pants that could carry those holsters inside their waistbands, and belts that would comfortably support those in-waistband holsters, and shirts that would reliably conceal their holstered firearms.

I am saying that they are significantly invested I'm their hobby, and are largely responsible for having tipped the scales in Florida and Ohio.

8 states didn't adopt liberal concealed carry licensing policies since the early 00s. 42 states did.

Outside of those 8 states, 30 million people obtained licenses. The overwhelming majority in populous swing states. Their children grew up with armed parents. Their children are now of voting age.

The polls you're talking about oversample the 8 blue states that didn't adopt those policies. The DNC has utterly failed to recognize that the nation's attitude on guns has shifted drastically over the past 25 years, especially in the swing states.

Which is exactly why states like Ohio and Florida have shifted from swing states to reliably red.

Entrenching a new permanent fixture is not an improvement.

And who says he isn't progressive?

He calls Nancy Pelosi a "fighter who is delivering", rather than an architect of Democratic failures.

We don't need a bunch of Nancy Juniors drawing on the walls of the Capitol.

Replacing an "oldster" with a younger version of the same "oldster" is not an improvement. We'll win one election cycle with that approach, and then it's back to the Nazis.

We need actual progressives in office, not people who say "Yeah, that progressive policy would be nice, and you should vote for us because we agree that you think it's nice, but we're not going to actually do it."

You say pro gun-control candidates will cost the Democrats votes, well I think I just found a single issue voter.

It's not my vote you need to worry about. I voted for Harris, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Obama, Kerry, Gore, and more Democratic governors, legislators, judges, commissioners, and administrators than I feel like counting. Democrats didn't, and won't lose my vote over gun control.

The votes you should be concerned about are the ones who aren't here, arguing with you. The votes you should be concerned about are the ones that turned former bellwether swing states into reliably red states. Ohio for example. A state that voted for the eventual winner in 36 of the last 41 elections, going back all the way to the civil war. A state that is now considered reliably red.

Democrats did nothing to prepare for the kids and grandkids of the first generation of concealed carriers across the country. Kids who now have their own carry licenses. The Democrats never bothered to consider the effects of 30 million new gun licensees in 42 of the 50 states, nor their families and friends. Never bothered to consider that voter opinion on guns might have shifted since the civil rights era.

Gun control is one of the more prominent issues of dissatisfaction with the Democratic party.

If you couldn't trust anything, that would work.

But you'll still trust whatever truth you discover on your own. And when a source repeats something you know to be true, you'll believe them when they say something else that you can't verify. So long as that source is internally consistent, they are going to become the verification of what is "true" for you.

For your system to work, the individual must not be able to trust their own truths.

"The Weather" has never come close to 100C. "The Weather" is rarely below -17C and rarely above 37C: 0F to 100F

"The weather" makes far more sense in F than C.

Cooking makes sense in Celsius. We are regularly concerned about freezing and boiling when we are cooking.

Hogg idolizes Pelosi and Clinton. He's not progressive. He's trying to turn an old corporatist party into a young corporatist party.

Or is there a way to keep them while still deleting my account?

Aye, matey, there is a way.

They taste something like bald eagle, with a hint of condor.

Anon, who'd you get the BJ from? They can't give it to you again...

Do you know what gametes I produce, if any? Do you need to know what gametes I might produce in order to conduct this conversation?

I think I'm managing to convey my meaning to you, and receiving your meaning in return, without knowledge of what's happening in your abdomen/pelvis.

Whatever concern you have about the terms "sex", "binary", and "immutable", it isn't scientific.