bitcrafter

Even if someone worked very diligently to save money, it would take a whole lot to save enough to be able to afford an entire second house.

Praise His Noodliness for his great beneficence!

Okay, so just to be clear: the article did not actually say what you claimed it said, but rather you are conjecturing the basis of the FSF's decision not to assist this person based on quotes describing this person's own inferences from a conversation they had with the FSF rather than based on anything the FSF has actually said.

You may be right about this, but it is still conjecture.

I am unable to find that in this article. Could you quote the paragraph you are referring to?

The word "imperialism" does not mean what you think that it means.

Fair enough; I appreciate the in-depth take!

I was a nerd, so I tried really really hard to prove logically that my religion was the correct one... and failed.

I see no problem at all with lab-grown meat being the solution, but I would push back a bit on the notion that eating bugs is inherently unpalatable. The truth is that what makes eating bugs unpalatable is our current habits and inclinations think of this as being inherently "icky", save for certain species that come from the sea. Changing these habits would not only switch us to consuming animal protein with fewer ethical and environmental issues, but also would open us up to new culinary experiences which we are currently depriving ourselves.

Having said that, I have never tried hard to overcome my own habits and inclinations, even though I probably should, so I am not going to judge anyone else for not having done so; the above paragraph is a musing rather than me trying to dictate anything to other people.

I could not agree more that anyone who points out the negative ethical and environmental repercussions of eating meat and suggests that it would be better if we all switched to eating more bugs and/or lab-grown meat instead is really just trying to oppress the poor!

(Just to be clear: I myself find it extremely hard to change my habits so I do not negatively judge anyone else for continuing to eat meat, but I do negatively judge people who derail the entire conversation about the best way to proceed given the reality of problems with eating as much meat as we do by accusing me of having bad intentions.)

No, because the people who really think that this is what is going on are also people who are stubborn about changing anything about their lifestyle, so they will continue to eat meat.

Ah, but you see, JavaScript is not so straightforward. It tries to help you by automatically inserting missing semicolons, but the approach that it uses is that it will insert them in the first place where doing so would make the code parse. This, unfortunately, means that semicolons are often inserted in places where you were not expecting them, so the advice is to always include them manually yourself so that you are never unpleasantly surprised.

Nice try, but this post is actually now talking about JavaScript, which means that the close parentheses areautomatically inserted.