In India we do have affordable public healthcare but 99% of it is so shit, corrupt, with pretty poor medical infrastructure, long waiting, unhygienic surroundings, poor security, poor air conditioning, and so on. So that one has to visit a private hospital or clinic to get treated. And most of the times they don’t accept public healthcare insurance coverage like ESI (Employee State Insurance) or Ayushaman-Bharat so you have to shell out extra out of your pocket to get a Private Health coverage plan. If you have a private plan, the private hospitals then submit invoices with higher fees to the insurer to mint more money from them thus reducing their cash to pay for other patients. The central government barely allocates any budget to healthcare and education.

I heard about a case from Bihar (one of the least developed states) where they constructed a public hospital for millions of dollars (which is very high thus some corrupt official or politician ate that money) only for it to be incomplete and abandoned.

ADHD + stupidity?

Lol if you can’t counter and actually bring new insights to this debate and instead accuse the other person that their response is pasted from some stupid LLM, then your cause of spreading veganism has failed.

So this is the end of debate then. Please don’t reply. IDGAF about vegans at this point.

When the logic collapses so hard you have to summon a child sex offender.

I literally answered your points of concern one by one with sources and you call it ChatGPT like some “gotcha” lol.

Have a good day.

I don’t think veganism actually  solves major problems like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics or any public health issues especially once you look at how these issues play out in reality rather than in an “influencer idealised” narrative.

1. Climate Change & the “14%” number is very nuanced

Livestock is definitely responsible for around 14-15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That number comes from lifecycle assessments by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)that include feed production, enteric fermentation, manure, land use change and processing, not just the emissions from the animals themselves. (FAO))

That figure is usually misinterpreted or understood:

• It isn’t directly comparable to the way energy or transport emissions are counted; those are measured differently. (FAOHome)

• Roughly 1/3 of total global emissions come from food systems overall, and within that portion, the livestock share varies depending on methodology. (ipcc.ch)

• Other studies show the livestock share can fall closer to 12% of total global emissions when measured differently. (OECD)

So yes, livestock contributes significantly but it’s misleading to treat that figure as a simple causal claim that eliminating meat will solve climate change. Deep cuts in fossil fuel emissions from energy, transport and industry are still the dominant needs.

2. Reducing livestocks doesn’t automatically eliminate animals

Even if people eat less meat, that doesn’t guarantee livestock populations disappear. Animals don’t just vanish because Williams decided to not eat meat:

• They may continue to exist for milk, labor, manure, cultural or economic reasons.

• Reductions in consumption don’t automatically translate into reductions in livestock biomass or methane outputs unless there are explicit policies to manage breeding and animal numbers.

This means the assumed climate benefit is not automatic and depends on how production systems are actually managed, not just what people choose to have on their plates.

3. Reducing livestock doesn’t mean Less Food

Cutting livestock doesn’t reduce the need to produce calories or balanced nutrition. You still need to produce protein and micro nutrients at scale. That typically means expanding crop production which has its own environmental costs (fertilizer use, land conversion, water use, transport, processing). The narrative that plant crops are automatically lower impact ignores the fact that:

• Many plant based proteins are highly processed and energy intensive.

• Removing animals from small & mixed farming systems will actually reduce soil fertility and increase reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

4. Antibiotic Resistance

The core issue isn’t simply that people eat animals but it is how antibiotics are regulated, prescribed and used in both human and animal systems. The FAO projects that without policy changes, global antibiotic use in livestock could rise by up to 30% by 2040. (DownToEarth.org)

It correlates with a lack of proper regulations and overuse of antibiotics in both human healthcare and industrial farming.

5. Many problems are Western Industrial Systems problems

A lot of the environmental framing around livestock comes from industrialised, Western models of agriculture (feedlots, monocultures, long supply chains). In much of the Global East, livestock production is integrated into local food supply systems and serve roles beyond just meat supply that provides manure, traction, nutrient cycling and financial assets (I don’t like to see living beings that way but that’s the way it is). Treating Western industrial problems as universally applicable heavily ignores these differences.

6. Nutrition & Public Health vary by context

Claims that veganism improves public health assume widespread access to balanced plant based nutrition & supplementation. In many parts of the world like big vegetarian populations like India, protein and micronutrient deficiencies (iron, B12) are widespread public health issues. Meanwhile animal source foods actually provide dense sources of these nutrients that are difficult to replace without reliable supplementation and access.

I really don’t get it why the people want to control what other people it? Eat whatever the fuck you want.

It can be turned off

I think only the Americas use Gasoline, while rest of the world uses Petrol.

Yep the same issue. I also have a Asus TUF A15. Will wait for the kernel 6.18.8 or 6.19 update. Although there wasn’t a kernel update when I ran the update command, it might be some sort of regression of some package I didn’t notice while updating. And also I changed the refresh rate from 60hz to 144hz in x11 session apart from the scaling. Wayland was already on 144hz.

Give it a couple days time and upgrade again

Yeah I will try next weekend and maybe wait for the kernel 6.19 update.

Paru -Syu ≠ pacman -Syu There were only 2 AUR packages that needed to be updated — Brave and Librewolf. So in this case they were pretty much the same unless paru does something different with official arch repos that I am unaware of.

One answer: People love their defaults. Computers come pre installed with Windows, MacOS, (Bad) Android. Creative professionals are trained on Adobe Suite. Business professionals are trained and certified for MS Office and SaaS ERP Software. They don’t look beyond the defaults because their goal is not to determine which software/tool gives the most value or teaches them the most but which software/tool is the default that will give them a job and unfortunately FOSS is not the default for 90% of those people.

2 Girls 1 Trump. Shit that sounds very wrong.

The current Indian Prime Minister bootlickers bring up some GDP growth rate numbers and compare them with Pakistan and Bangladesh thus giving a false sense of superiority that India is developing rapidly—I mean yes but only compared to those countries. So the people who still have their brain cells started this meme trend.

Why spend on alcohol when I can buy more books, games, travel the world or join a sports club instead of damaging my own body and end up paying more with hospital bills later in life?

GIMP ftw

Take a chill dude. Don’t use it if you don’t find it useful. You don’t have to question its existence lol.

And about Proton being a product of Valve doesn’t matter when it’s open source—anyone can fork it and continue development (Proton itself is a fork of wine). It’s just if Linux becomes the default for everyone, Valve can enshitify themselves just like any other corporation and thus maybe not allow 3rd party installations or even add a Steam Shortcut. It is great for what it is now but I won’t put all my eggs in one basket; least of all a corpo basket.

Lutris is your answer. https://youtu.be/LZUhBRJwp4M

Cuz I don’t want to be dependent on a corporation. If, god forbid, Valve starts to enshitify, I don’t want to go back 10 years in Linux Gaming. And Lutris works just as fine as Steam. So having options is always nice IMO.

Just use anti-paywal filter in ublock or adguard or brave or adblock plus.