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I think the purpose of the 'overall karma' button on comments should be changed.
Currently, it asks 'how much do you like this overall?'. I think this should be amended to something like 'how much do you think this is useful or important?'.
This is because I think there is still a too strong correlation between 'liking' a comment, and 'agreeing' with it.
For example, in the recent post about nonlinear, many people are downvoting comments by Kat and Emerson. Given that the post concerns their organisation, their responses should not be at risk of being hidden - their comments should be upvoted because it's useful/important to recognise their responses, regardless of whether someone likes/agrees with the content.
Lab-grown meat approved for pet food in the UK
"The UK has become the first European country to approve putting lab-grown meat in pet food.
Regulators cleared the use of chicken cultivated from animal cells, which lab meat company Meatly is planning to sell to manufacturers.
The company says the first samples of its product will go on sale as early as this year, but it would only scale its production to reach industrial volumes in the next three years."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c19k0ky9v4yo
Also in the article "The Animal and Plant Health Agency - part of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - gave the product the go-ahead."
I think there are a bunch of EAs working at Defra - I wonder if they helped facilitate this?