The provision of parking is expensive, so it used to be subsidized significantly. Many people go to the hospital by public transport. It wouldn't be fair to them that there'd be less money available for healthcare services because the NHS is subsidizing parking.
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One that is capable of burning M-disks. They are available in sizes up to 100gb and are supposed to last a few hundred years. They can be read by most Blu-ray players made after 2011.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
Of course, this is more suitable for genuine family photos and videos. For "family photos and videos" you could use any Blu-ray disk, but I doubt it's the cheapest way to store them.
It's okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you've explored this.
Google Trends shows that it's most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.
Taiwan is a full democracy, not a flawed one. At least according to the widely respected Economist Democracy Index.
Taiwan is more democratic than Canada and Germany. And a lot more than the US, but that's not surprising.
European here.
Have never shot anyone. Not owning a gun means that I'll probably continue not shooting people. It's a very effective method.
How is that respect?
Hi lamb, I respect you. However, I'm okay with you being killed to become with food. You don't want this, so I guess I don't respect what you want. But other than that I respect you.
Doesn't sound like real respect to me.
As a vegan, don't you respect the plants you eat?
Like a dead lamb, plants don't benefit from my respect.
I'm vegan now, previously vegetarian. But before this I was in exactly the same position as you describe. It's the first time that I'm actually hearing of someone who admits there can be an inconsistency between your own behaviour and your values.
Depending on what it is, sticking to your values is hard and requires changing your behaviour and habits. Your environment matters a lot. For me it was easy to switch to a vegetarian diet because my partner loves experimenting with cooking and collecting recipes. For many it won't be this simple.
I used to think it would be easy for people generally to admit that it's pretty unlikely that they're sticking to all of their values, but apparently it's not. I think it's impressive how you're managing not to let personal pride determine your opinion on this!
Read this other comment and understand why people mention they are vegetarian or vegan: https://lemmy.world/comment/4652396
It's only admirable to be vegan if I agree with veganism, and I don't.
Veganism is mostly a diet.. not a religion. What does it even mean to say that you disagree with it? If some people feel like they should be vegan and they put effort into it and are willing to give things up, why shouldn't this be admirable?
If lions were able to eat predominantly plants and fruits they would do so because it's easier and requires less energy.
If humans were meant to eat meat, we'd have teeth specifically adapted for it and digestive systems designed for omnivorous diets. Oh wait...
Since we're the product of evolution we're not meant to do anything. Evolution is reactive to changing environments. In terms of what our physiology is most suitable for is predominantly hunting and gathering, with a bit of meat from hunting occasionally.
The fact that we have some sharp teeth and can digest meat doesn't mean that we have to consume the enormous amount of meat that we're currently eating. The health department of pretty much every Western Country says that its population eats unhealthy amounts of meat.
death is a part of life, and having meaning in death to provide nutrition for continuation of life is just a reality.
You're missing something pretty important here. Death is part of life is an argument that you'd use to try and justify hunting. Farming also means breeding more animals that will be raised for their meat and killed after a few years.
Globally, 60% of all large mammals are livestock. It's a crazy number and there is nothing natural about this. The killing isn't the root problem, producing/breeding huge numbers of animals is.
Death might be a natural part of the circle of life, but we're artificially starting this circle for many farm animals. If we'd stop doing this at such an insane scale, we wouldn't need to discuss their death (or quality of life)
Importantly, this is something that we choose to do even though we don't have to. The owl has to hunt for mice and isn't able to choose not to. This makes our moral position not comparable to owls or any other animal.
But let's also be reasonable.
Eating cats and dogs is controversial. So is eating sharks or whale. Some diets are unnecessarily harmful. Since we all live on the same planet, that affects others and it makes sense to have an opinion on this.
Outside of the US, it's not controversial to say the average meat intake in the US is too high: for health reasons and for the environment. I think it's okay to judge people when they eat abnormal amounts of meat.
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Except for, you know.. cars that don't solely rely on optical input and have LiDAR for example