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If we are extrapolating results from rats to humans, why can't we just simulate a rat brain and avoid torturing more? Probably because rats are cheap, and supercomputers, well, are super expensive.
I don't think it would be difficult to simulate a fully functional rat brain with state-of-the-art technology and bright people.
But that's talk for another topic. On this case, you'd want to emulate only the physical functioning of our brain and body and not our minds.
I can't picture the day where people stop eating meat. It just won't happen, not matter what arguments you present.
The best way to go is replacing it, and the perfect postulate is lab meat, which I hope, is going to be massively produced at low cost in the next ten years. And even if it doesn't ill people, tastes the same as natural meat, you will find resistence.
So, to summarise: lab meat at lower cost than natural meat, demands plunge, billions of animals are saved every year.
I never said it was easy. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world, and most of the time you have to make sacrifices in order to do what you love. In your case, it means lowering your living standards, but that's up to you, I respect that.
If you have all your limbs and can walk, you can perfectly dance whatever is that you want. If you're fat and can't dance no more that one minute without getting out of breath, get in shape and train endurance. As simple as that.
If you're 5.4" or less and feel intimidated dancing with a taller woman, find yourself a woman of your same height.
You shouldn't be cutting away wings and locking up birds in cages telling them they can't fly.
Mental handicap imposed by oneself -or others, which at the end of the day ends being oneself- is the worst of all.
Creativity is not only doing aesthetics or poetry, the bare concept of creativity is unifying things that otherwise don't seem unifiable. Associate a dog with a circuit, that's creativity; innovation.
And boy, you have a lot in bare programming. There are many ways to write a code that does the same thing. Sure, not every code involves the level of creativity a painting can, but that's not to say programming doesn't have creativity whatsoever.
React, Redux, Sass, those all are great examples of programming creativity, just beginning by the problem they solve, it's creativity on his own...
I wholeheartedly disagree with the OP of this line of commentary. Saying anger is good and one should embrace it is a really bad suggestion.
Anger makes you blind, it fogs your rational thinking and makes you do things you'll probably regret afterwards.
So, avoid it and think rationally.
Again, what are you talking about mate? The fact that their country is doing well doesn't mean it's ok to decide on the lives of people just because you're the son of a monarch. There could be a lot of people more prepare and that could do better.
Apparently we have some UK's Queen fans, since my comment is down voted.
Abolish monarchy!!!