A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster (vox.com)

>Sad to see so little empathy for these animals.

I didn't know offhand how many cattle are slaughtered for meat every year.

The answer appears to be something around 150 million. (22 million in the US, divided by 15% global share)

So, that would be like eight thousand for every one of these that died by fire.

I don't have a particular point, except I'm thinking of the quote attributed to Josef Stalin:

"If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics."

For a cow, every year is like 30 Holodomors.

So if you have 1.800,000 people in one district, their housing isn't the most humane? That's only their living room, the area is huge there.

South Fork Dairy https://maps.app.goo.gl/q7gUax7dNXRFfdhB8

And now consider the trillions of lives and many thousands of species prevented/extinguished by clearing land to feed that machine (and other associated externalities).

Makes you think the "rogue AI ending" may not be so bad.