I did not make them, I just looked up train electrification map and found a site using Open Street Map data. The interface of said site is a bit annoying and I suspect probably AI generated, but if you really want to look at it https://railsmaps.com/usa/electrification

For context for others, US is abnormally very low in train electrification compared to other developed countries. It’s not zero though, for instance there is the Northeast Corridor which is electrified and the most used passenger train routes in the US

Here’s a map of what’s electrified in the US

And here’s it with the rest of the rail network

Meanwhile here’s what it looks like in Europe

There are now some battery-electric train options if the US wanted to use a stop gap solution to allow partial electrification to more quickly be a line without any diesel needed. Though a fully electrified line would be more ideal for the longer-term

Annoyingly those recalls are still mostly because of animal agriculture. Mostly diseases from manure and/or leaked manure from nearby animal farms

If anyone wants any inspiration for recipes to avoid the mystery meat !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works and !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

If anyone wants any inspiration !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works and !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

The beef industry is no stranger to creating problems and promoting things that come back to hurt the industry. See how they actively try to downplay beef’s green house emissions and that beef and meat consumption needs to go down for climate change. Climate change has then in turn lead to drought that has reduced ability to raise cattle

The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production.

In particular, it would like you not to be especially concerned about how meat consumption needs to be reduced if we are to avoid the most violently disruptive forms of planetary heating (even if all fossil fuel use ended tomorrow).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine

much of the U.S. faced a drought for much of 2020-2023. This made it more difficult to grow the plants and food that are used to feed cattle; as a result, cattle feed prices rose during that time, and many cattle farmers opted to either reduce or simply not increase their herd size in response to what was effectively an increase in their input costs.

Although drought is a naturally occurring phenomenon, it’s also exacerbated by global warming. This is relevant because beef production itself is a significant driver of global warming, due to the massive amounts of land used for feed crops and pasture, as well as the methane cattle emit as part of their digestive process.

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All of this is as ironic as it is unsustainable: The process of raising cattle for beef is, itself, making it more difficult to raise cattle for beef.

https://sentientmedia.org/higher-beef-prices-arent-good-news-for-climate-change/

The industry cares a lot about its image in general. For instance the beef industry has a dedicated team watching social media for beef related conversations online 24/7

Using checkoff money, NCBA has developed what it has called a “Digital Command Center” – a sophisticated online monitoring system that tracks media outlets and social media for more than 200 beef-related topics. Hosted in Denver in a space that “looks like a military operations center combined with the TV section at an electronics retailer”, according to a recent Cattlemen’s Beef Board mailer sent to ranchers, the command center alerts members of NCBA’s issues management and media relations team whenever stories or online chatter rise above a certain threshold. It’s staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with personnel redundancies built in to make sure someone’s always watching.

Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay

This industry is so horrifying that the current state is them trying to hide what they used to say in the open. Some quotes of the past are unthinkable to say aloud today, despite the industry very much still thinking that way

National Hog Farmer 1976

“Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory. Schedule treatments like you would lubrication. Breeding season is the first step in an assembly line. And marketing like the delivery of finished goods”

March 1978’s National Hog Farmer

“The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated as, a valuable piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine.”

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/08/forget-they-are-an-animal

You don’t think the industry cares about the impact of photos like this one from the article? 99% of people outside of the industry have no idea of the scale of the industry or that calf hutches even exist

People have a very idealistic view of what goes on in any portion of animal agriculture

One very recent study (Ventura et al., 2016), involving face-to-face interviews with 50 members of the Canadian public that had little or no experience with dairy farming, highlighted zero-grazing and cow-calf separation as particularly contentious for the participants. In fact, attitudes regarding the welfare of cattle on dairy farms, which were initially primarily positive, declined after the participants visited a dairy farm.

https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(17)30193-5/fulltext

The lawsuit is asking the court to order the Trump administration to withdraw the advice and forbid government agencies from using them in any future decisions while they develop new guidelines in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as has been the longstanding practice.

The previous somewhat more independent commission had reports that encourage more plant-based proteins over animal-based proteins. Not that we’ll necessarily get a commission like that

Can try other archives to see the site. Original site seems to load without Javascript for me (not archive.is) so I am not sure what the issue is

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZF2td

https://megalodon.jp/2026-0821-2054-09/https://www.greenqueen.com.hk:443/us-dietary-guidelines-trump-administration-lawsuit-meat-dairy-influence/

I think there must be some other issue since the original site actually loads without JS, or at least it does for me when I tested it. The archive one doesn’t of course

As an aside: not sure this a good comparison because veganism is not about the effects on oneself, it’s about the effects from animal agriculture on non-human animals and society

Aside to the aside: vegan BBQ is also quite good as BBQ sauce itself is almost always vegan

Huh, strange it loads for me

Can try looking at an archived of it instead https://archive.is/MtYYw

Immigrants are a scapegoat that Biden was more than happy to punch down against. He got no electoral benefit for adopting any of the far-right’s proposals. In fact, most people don’t even know that he did. The media’s coverage of immigration is driven by vibes pushed heavily by the far-right who aims to divide and conquer. It will not stop even if there were zero immigrants of any kind anywhere in the world. At best it just shifts to another group and starts all over again

>>> print("proof by counterexample in a python REPL")
proof by counterexample in a python REPL
>>> x = 2; print(x)
2
>>> print("this is not ignored"); print("it's just mostly useless"); print("but you can use as many as you want")
this is not ignored
it's just mostly useless
but you can use as many as you want

Starting this off with: I am not an epidemiologist and most of the epidemiologist I’m seeing online aren’t yet too concerned

That being said, they have not found any rodents on the ship, though that does not mean they didn’t just miss them in their search. The version on the ship has been confirmed to be the Andes Virus (ANDV) which is human-to-human transmissible in a way that most hantavirus are not

It’s hard to say exactly how the virus will behave outside of a cruise ship (which are known for spreading diseases more than other locations), but we can potentially look at a past outbreak in 2018 in a small town for an idea

In this work, we described the isolation of the strain responsible for the largest ANDV PTP transmission outbreak, which occurred in the small town of Epuyén and began on November 2, 2018. This strain, ARG-Epuyén, exhibited a high capacity for PTP transmission, necessitating the implementation of quarantine measures to curtail further spread [8]. The median reproductive number (the mean number of secondary cases caused by an infected person) was 2.12 before control measures were implemented and subsequently dropped to below 1.0 by late January

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12201636/

If anyone wants some plant-based recipes to save some money, there’s some good communities on here for that:

!veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

The technology for renewables is not the main limiting factor anymore. In recent years the economics have changed. Renewables are the cheapest form of power today and dominate (90-almost 100%) new global energy capacity because it’s so cheap. Grid scale batteries have become viable and are starting to be a significant portion of grid power in many countries

A number of countries did speed up their roll out of renewables because of that, though

The amount of oil supply removed is significantly larger this time. With the war in Ukraine there were also some more obvious places to get oil from instead. It’s less obvious this time

Don’t see a paywall on my end, but https://archive.is/VKgxt should work