actionjbone

@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any word of the how the tariffs or taxes that will be imposed by next USA government affect consulting from external countries?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All we know is, lots of people will get hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is whether a time loop is a form of time travel.

  Are they actually going back in time? Or is time itself looping back on itself? These aren’t the same cause, though the effects can look the same

  So I suppose, conventionally, it can be thought of as a subform of time travel. But from a technical perspective, it may or may not be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people politicizing Peanut the Squirrel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it bad that I can’t tell whether 4 billion chickens is an exaggeration?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (the one simple trick is diarrhea)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about the government not knowing.

  The government already knows if you have money.

  But there are lots of programs available to help defer money. A good financial advisor will know how to take advantage of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talk to a financial advisor.

  Do you belong to a credit union? You may have access to one for free.

  They’ll be able to tell you how much you can squirrel away for retirement (legally).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or an engineer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not trying to justify anything to you, or to anyone else.

  Ethics don’t exist in the world outside of humans. That’s simply a fact.

  And many different human ethical systems exist. If you believe that eating animals is always unethical, that is your ethic. If that means you believe I am unethical, then that viewpoint is valid within your system of ethics.

  It’s not possible to sway somebody by contradicting their own ethics; the only way to change a person’s ethics is to appeal to them by showing the commonalities between belief systems, then showing them the benefits of certain variations that you believe.

  Neither you nor I like animal suffering. The difference is, I’ve seen plenty of animals lead relaxed, happy lives, that end painlessly before the animal is turned into meat. I understand that the notion repulses you.

  I’ve also seen plenty of “free” animals who’ve led short, painful unhappy lives. I’m sure you and I can both agree that this is not good. And if the animal led a short, painful, unhappy life in captivity directly because it was destined to be food? That’s an inherently bad thing.

  I’m not criticizing your viewpoint, and I’m not trying to justify my viewpoint to you. But my viewpoint exists, and many people hold it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That statement is untrue, because many different sets of ethics disagree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m not vegan because I love animals. I’m vegan because I hate plants.”

  -SMBC, I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An omnivore is predisposed to eat anything. Absent synthetic food processing? Yes, an omnivore must eat both meat and plants.

  Humans are the only species (that we know of) who chooses whether or not to eat something based on a system of ethics. But at the same time, most of the world doesn’t have the privilege to decide whether or not to eat only specific things. In parts of the world, if you don’t eat meat, you don’t eat. In other parts of the world, if you don’t eat plants, you don’t eat. It’s simply nature.

  I don’t criticize your reasons for not eating meat. And I don’t criticize your perspectives and responses to me, because I understand your viewpoint. But if you think your arguments are novel to me, you’re wrong. And if you think I eat meat only for flavor, you’re also wrong.

  All that said, Americans do eat way too much meat. We need to reduce the amount of animal protein we take in - not because of ethics, but because it’s unhealthy too overindulge. Similarly, we need to reduce the amount of sugar we take in.

  Reality is complicated. I don’t deal in absolutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My cats eat a diet almost entirely of delicious, delicious meat.

  None of it is made of cats.

  Nor do I eat cat meat.

  There’s nothing wrong with being omnivorous as long as you’re ethical about it.

  There’s also nothing wrong with veganism as long as you’re ethical about it.

  I draw the line at cannibalism, though. Way too easy to spread human pathogens that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct. His statement wasn’t about technology, it was about expectations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer, probably not. Anatomy is complex, and the source of the pressure may or may not be at the single point where you most feel it. Even if it is a single point, you wouldn’t be dealing with what caused the pressure, and the body would seal the wound as quickly as it can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …I’m not sure how else you’re trying to be seen, based on how you keep responding to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about how it was seen. I’m talking about how it is. There’s a difference.

  Cutting off hands was seen as socially acceptable at certain times in history, if someone was merely accused of theft. But it is horrific and terrible. How it was seen as irrelevant to it being terrible objectively terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it was harmful.

  I’m talking about the objective harm of encouraging underage girls to avoid study and live their lives in the service of older men. There is nothing good that can be said about such a thing. It’s basically indentured servitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can both agree with your statement AND assert with evidence that something is objectively bad. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is iceraven a good fork of firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not possible for one person to know every browser in existence, and on what platforms they’re available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is iceraven a good fork of firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mobile wasn’t specified :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As disgusting as we see it now, keep in mind that, back then, child marriage was not only condoned but sometimes encouraged in those parts of the Southern U.S.

  We’ll never know if he did it because he had a thing for young girls, or if he did it simply because it was an accepted practice.

  Regardless of why, it’s objectively terrible that he did that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is iceraven a good fork of firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, I’ve been using Librewolf because it’s out-of-the-box security and privacy settings are tighter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Lemmy can we use the NA word or do we get ban? Not going to type it out because I do not want to get banned.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were that smart, you realize we wouldn’t buy your bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re a pair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nipples killed my dad :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or to start with the wealthiest people and biggest corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll say. Even Thanos only wanted to kill HALF the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it refers to hatred and persecution of semites.

  It says so right in the fucking word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever had a phone call interrupted by a 3rd party voice saying "this call is being recorded"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t try to reason with someone who puts their wants over others’ consent.