If you're interested in energy/climate you've probably heard the nugget that "kerosene/crude oil helped save the whales", by reducing demand for whale oil in lanterns.
I've even trotted it out myself🤦‍♂️
But it turns out it's NOT true.
Here's what actually happened edconway.substack.com/p/no-kerosen...

President Jimmy Carter's greeting to the cosmos, launched in 1977, is still heading boldly into interstellar space aboard NASA's Voyager spacecraft, humanity's first emissary to the stars.

Somehow I don't think this is the real Kier Starmer

I often see it said "animals don't have the same capacity for emotion, so they don't really 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 pain"

Firstly, potentially not true

Second, even if many don't have the same experience of pain we do, emotion isn't relevant to defining pain in animals

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11649998/
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