Fucking Adios Bradly honk honk

Ha ha…I’m in danger.

Vibe

I think Mormons would be so into this. Also, if Israel still wants to do some colonialism, Idaho is like, right there.

Lies. Nobody asked for this

Behold, a chicken!

get’in there gooby

Aight Iʻma go into your house and democratize whatever is in your fridge.

Maybe not 🧐 enough detail on their typology? Did you discuss their independent emergence in various unrelated mapping traditions?

It must be not discussing their emergence in various distinct mapping traditions.

Ahh but what about the macroplastics I put in there?

> with your fingers

Bruh why do we even have chopsticks?

Eh. They know how to text.

Shotgun time

Yeah production stopped but we’ve got warehouses of them still in their packaging. It’ll be decades before we go through all the brainlet wojaks produced before 2023.

No.

Stop it.

Stop trying to treat language like it’s something you can manage or manufacture. Its a repetition of the same issue which underpins AI, which is a basic under of what we as humans do things.

I mean maybe you are, but I’m making a critique of the article. The articles second point is immaterial to their premise.

we’re in agreement that plant-based diets are a bigger improvement which, to me, is the more important point.

It seems to you are more concerned with the moral signaling the article is doing, and evaluating the quality of the arguments based on how well they agree with your moral codex. I’m making the point that a plant based diet is immaterial to beef being good, bad, or indifferent.

I think we have different understandings of what the premise is/should be.

I’m taking the authors word for it with regards to their premise. Its the headline is the premsie of the article: “regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly”, and they make 8 arguments to support that premise. That’s the premise I’m evaluating the article against.

I think it’s unlikely that either of our minds will change on what that premise is in any case

You not having reading comprehension, or not understanding the article or forms of argument is a separate thing. You’re quite literally projecting what you want the premise of the article to be. You had an opportunity to have an informed discussion with someone who literally is a primary source for the contents of these kinds of articles, and you’ve done, whatever this is, with that opportunity.

You should take the time to learn to distinguish between tribalism and moral signposting, and actual argument. And if you aren’t going to make that distinction, expect regular pushback when you confuse these things.

But thats not the argument the article is making. And its still a non-sequiter. If your second point of 8 in an argument is a non-sequiter, it says something about the nature and structure of your argument, and it speaks poorly of your ability to reason and understand your own premise.

Honestly, I would take less issue if it wasn’t their second point. If the article was titled “7 reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly, and one bonus thing”, it would be better, because at least the other 7 points (agree or disagree) support the premise.

Plant based diets “being good” remains a non-sequiter to their premise, and serves more as a value signal than it does to support their arguments. It would be a strong thing to land on, and the article could have been ended with something like “… and even if these 7 things aren’t enough to convince you, (facts and data) plant based diets are demonstrated to be a (better for the planet) way of doing things”, yada yada. The second point is a moral signpost that might work for you or me, but it doesn’t support their argument.

The premise is “regenerative grazing can’t be made climate friendly”.

Any argument not in support of that premise is a non sequiter. Scenario B being climate friendly has no bearing on scenario A being climate friendly. This is a basic rhetorical mistake the author is making and it’s sloppy.

A and B are cars. The premise that I’m making is that car A won’t get you to Chicago.

If I make the argument that car B is sufficient to get you to Chicago, this has no bearing on my premise.

Vegetarian diets being “better” has no bearing on the sustainability of beef production. A diet of only dark chocolate would be “worse” for the climate than one which consumes beef. It also has no bearing on the sustainability of beef production.

You might feel that way, but these kinds of non-sequiter only work on people who start from the premise the argument is trying to lead you to. I mean its up to you to decide what your rhetoric is for, who it is meant to work/ operate on. If you are only interested in convincing those whom already agree with you, I guess this works on you (I realize you didnt write the article)

However, as a scientist and one that actively is doing research, working with other researchers, reviewing others research, collecting field data, building and applying large models to better understand the impacts of land use and land cover, you insisting on including an unrelated to the argument non-sequiter doesn’t add to your point; it takes away from it. You can still make your argument without that particular point. And the problem with injecting it, is that it frames you in as being unserious in your argument because “plant based diets being good” has no bearing on the sustainability or lack of sustainability of some other practice. Swap out “beef production” with “dark chocolate” production, and nothing about the non-sequiter’s point actually changes.