Daisy Hart

Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

Factory farming is, by the numbers, the least efficient way humans have ever produced food. The landmark Poore and Nemecek analysis found that livestock takes up 83 percent of the world's farmland while delivering just 18 percent of our calories. [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org) Read that again. We cleared forests the size of continents to run a system that returns less than a fifth of the calories for more than four-fifths of the land. Every argument for keeping factory farms assumes we need them to feed 10 billion people. The data says the opposite: they are the bottleneck. A ten-year phaseout is not a sacrifice of food security. It is the largest land-efficiency program available to a crowded planet, and the only thing standing in its way is an industry that profits from the waste.

Should college athletes be classified as employees with salaries and benefits?

Graduate teaching assistants won employee status decades ago, and nobody claimed it destroyed the university. They teach classes, grade papers, and get paychecks, benefits, and unions. A starting quarterback works longer hours, generates more revenue, and faces greater physical risk, yet is told a scholarship is enough. Courts have already moved: the NLRB regional director ruled Dartmouth basketball players are employees, and the [House settlement](https://www.ncaa.org/) effectively conceded players deserve a share of revenue. Employee classification does not mean every swimmer gets rich. It means labor law applies: minimum wage floors, safety standards, and the right to bargain. We do not ask whether the chemistry department makes money before granting TAs workplace rights. Stop asking it about athletes.

japan is literally paying people to move to dying towns. that is our future lol

Lifestyle · Oct 6, 2026 · Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Evening light is when my family actually lives. Kids' soccer, grilling, walks after dinner, all of it dies an hour earlier under permanent standard time. The people pushing standard time are optimizing for sleep labs, not real evenings.

Lifestyle · Sep 23, 2026 · Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?

Fair point that a label is cheap, but it has to be designed to survive the scroll. If it is tiny gray text nobody reads, it is decoration. Make it prominent or do not bother.

Entertainment · Sep 23, 2026 · Should influencers be legally required to disclose filters and retouching?