Under pressure for what?

It has already been stated that the import of food items, in detriment of the higher EU food standards, will not be negotiable.

Two simple examples: chicken and beef.

For beef, it would be as simple as stop pumping cattle with steroids and attest the origin of the animal, two things american rancher are unwilling and often unable to do. Argentina and Brasil sell meat to the EU. Isn’t the US as capable?

Stop washing chicken with chemicals (likewise, eggs), treat the animals properly, with good sanitary conditions, no steroids, and it will be fine.

But the real issue is that the EU already produces enough beef and chicken indoors. And meat consumption has been in a sharp decline. No one will buy what they don’t.

Besides these two, it would make a difference if the US stopped using artificial food colorings, with proven bad effects on health.

There are more issues.

Was that lamb properly cleaned? Sheep and goat have glands throughout the body that need to be removed in order to make the meat more palatable; it’s still edible, just unpleaseant and smelly.

I personally prefer adult sheep or goat. The meat is very though and oily but slowly roasted, with strong herbs, it breaks down and becomes tender. The fat in the meat is superb to cook root vegetables in.

Nothing against horse; unusual nowadays but it helped a relative of mine to ward off a serious malnutrition, leading to low blood iron levels. Game meats are game meats. I personally enjoy boar but not being a hunter makes it hard to source such meats.

Nothing wrong, per se, just non sensical.

The animal does not have much to eat, the meat is though and very fatty and heavily scented. Also, unless it is “fat”, it is not edible, leading to badgers in the area becoming leaner and more muscular.

Allso, it’s a protected species.

People eat badgers in my country… stupid people will eat anything.

We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…

Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.

Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.

And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.

I do know they enjoy eating eggs from birds nests and other small animals are on the menu. But murderous?

Small acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.

Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?

Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?

Cute as these animals are, considering their invasive status, I expect culling efforts.

I stand corrected.

That one.

Never used it for personal ends. But I’m curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.

Signal.

And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.

Hate eats away your soul.

I would like to use a different expression but I lack one at the moment.

Stupid, despicable, divisive, angry individuals are plentiful. Small minds that feel empowered through anonimity and the sense of security coming from attacking other from their own space.

I don’t need to tolerate them but you also don’t need to allow their vitriole to poison your mind and sap your well being. It is not worth it.

Have a nice one. Good to hear from you.

You do you. Have a nice day.

Is my poor domain of the english language that is most concerning to you? I’ll be losing my sleep, tonight.

I’m bothered with all the people abusing her consent.

Start by your own privacy.

I boarded that train about twenty years ago. I tried the evangelizing route. I failed miserably. Which led me to care for myself first and foremost.

I started by abandoning Windows. Not of my own volition; I bought a computer that had no OS. Enter Linux. None of my family, friends or acquaintances understood. It was all about the convinience. When my machines started outperforming while outliving theirs, it caused a ripple.

Then came the usual slew of questions: where can I get a free anti-virus, office, media reader, whatever? That was when I introduced FOSS. After the initial resistance, things just settled into place. LibreOffice works. VLC works. PeaZip works. Thunderbird works. Etc.

When smartphones became a thing, I started moving as fast as I could towards FOSS. This made things a bit more laughable as “free” android applications are ubiquous. But they fill your phone with junk and ads. While my apps provided me ease of use, safety, security and privacy.

But when push came to shove, I just refused to join. First I left FBMessenger. I never boarded Whatsapp. I never entered Instagram or any major social networks. I discovered Signal and remained there.

It’s my way or no way.

Very well.

Let’s have all those people go back to the basic jobs: farming, hospitality, house cleaning, call centers, waste water management, garbage collection, recycling separation, etc, and see if they are willing to do it.

Then we can have a proper conversation.

I’m not advocating for generalized violence. My original remark wasn’t about that.

I’m not pointing fingers at the woman.

What I am trying to convey is that the men taking part in whatever that was never stopped to consider they were enabling and enacting harm on another human being.

And that could be prevented, if any person could recognize the wrong in the situation. Something which, apparently, missed everyone.