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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
My understanding was that the administration hadn't changed the appropriations, they'd just ensured that those appropriations couldn't be spent on anything (i.e. they did everything through the executive, not congress). I'm hoping I can be happy about this, but it reads to me like status quo.
The global fund bit is maybe more of an update.
(I'm aware I could just ask an LLM but I thought there may be value in being confused in public, in case anyone else feels the same)
I think a point here is based off last year’s executive cuts & statements we expected like a 50% global health cut officially put into the budget, but we are actually only seeing like a 25% cut.
It’s true that Trump may still solely & unlawfully block spending, but this indicates those actions would likely not continue beyond his term & also the resulting suffering & deaths would really be solely on him.