If you pay money for a product and then the creator of that product remotely deactivates it, you can complain. It may or may not have an impact, but it is a legitimate complaint.
> The average American consumes about 127 kilograms of meat a year
That's less than a pound of meat per day, how do these people survive ?
> The Eat-Lancet Commission recommends people consume no more than 15.7 kilograms of meat a year.
43 grams per day, imagine living on 1 ham sandwich a day.
> But politicians in richer nations typically shy away from policies aimed at influencing consumer behavior, especially where it involves cutting consumption of everyday items.
There aren't a lot of games you can actually win at, poker is one of them. And if anyone calls themselves a "talented gambler", I would challenge them to go to a casino and get escorted out. Bonus points if they recognize you at the door and bar you entry.
When I say the university system must be immediately defunded, it's not because it's a waste of money, it's because they are breeding a race of super-crazies who are going to eventually kill us all.
You can trust people to be "honest", but there's a million miles of difference between "honesty" and telling the truth.
Trusting in the political views of a professor is like trusting in the information security of a grandmother. Both professors and grandmothers are very honest people, but that doesn't mean they are reliable in said domains.
It's not just that people *lie*, people make mistakes, they are overconfident, they repeat someone else's lies.
Trust The Experts is a really sure way to eventually get wiped out.
And right now we're living through what can only be described as persistent information warfare. Forget about mis/dis/mal-information, the real misinformation attack is when the attacker gets the censorship team to censor the truth so that their attack message is totally uncontested.