socraticmethod

You're correct. There's nothing special about taurine delivery, which is the obligate nutrient for obligate carnivores like cats.

>I contend that you are cause of just as much loss of life as I am through your actions.

That's patently false. More than 85 billion land animals alone are slaughtered annually for food. Trillions if you include sea life. Regardless, any incidental deaths like rats or frogs getting crushed while harvesting vegetables are just not on the same ethical plane as factory farmed animals whose entire purpose for existing is to be slaughtered for mere human flavor preference.

In 2023, eating animals is unnecessary.

> I’ve never committed violence to animals. Nor do I promote it.

Do you eat them?

>I'm just not here to impress, and anyone passing judgement about someone else's lack of alcohol consumption is a loser. Seriously.

That entirely depends on the reasoning behind abstinence. Bad reasons or bad faith arguments are open to criticism.

Either way, fair points, particularly when various substances can have drastically different effects from person to person.

> Who wants to be known as the Christian

Christians do; many quite vocally, even aggressively. Thus the pushback.

>Spending that time with dulled senses

What exactly is the fear of dulled senses? What are you gaining by being a bit sharper on Friday night that drinkers are losing? Is anything actually lost?

I'm genuinely curious because most of the time the dulled senses bit is brought up it seems like there's almost always some kind of guilt on behalf of the speaker that causes them to feel uncomfortable with intoxication in a way that others simply don't experience.

I would guess the average casual drinker dismisses the person that is worried about "staying sharp" as being uptight or unnecessarily rigid, because as you said, life is short and who really gives a damn about being 100% cognitive all the time?

>Two indicator lights (red/green) serve as attention getters and ensure a far reaching call function when a respective message is displayed. The red light is used for system and emergency information, the green light for communication information. The lights are steady in normal situations and will flash in emergency situations.

>The ACPs give a long-range visual indication about the system status (e.g. PAX call active). They are installed at the ceiling in the middle of the aisle between the passenger/crew doors, close to the attendant stations.

>The lighted segments are activated either continuously (steady) or flashing. In case of "normal" calls they are not flashing (steady), in case of "abnormal" or "emergency" situations they will flash. Only the blue PAX call field will never flash, this will be always a "normal" indication

These indicator lights would be helpful in narrowing down if the emergency system was being engaged or not. Could potentially point to exploitation/hack of the PA system rather than rogue utilization of normal functions.

>Sound engineers need to stop needlessly flexing all that dynamic range that modern tools give them, and just produce a watchable movie.

Audio component manufacturers have actually responded to this tendency by adding in-line compressors to the audio channels that can be enabled/disabled. Sometimes this is labelled as the "Dynamic Range" feature in AV systems. Essentially it squashes the loudest sounds, which in turn brings up the average volume of the quietest sounds, thus evening the overall volume and allowing for a single volume setting to be used throughout the movie.

>WiFi Sucks...Including 6E

Outta curiosity, why do you say 6E sucks?

Imagine saying "Awww yisss" as an emoji, only you don't actually have to say "aww yiss."

>Narrator: "It didn't."

Yuck. I read HN to avoid these kind of low effort canned responses.

Even textualism is an interpretive process by very human judges.

I've been seeing more and more talk of how global opinions of the US have really taken a hit in the last year. With that in mind, do y'all think as quickly as it went down it can recover?