grrgyle
@grrgyle@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 1 day ago:
They’re just less able in that category
- Comment on A fine vintage! 1 day ago:
A fine vintage of pisspost, well done
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t put Breaking Bad over many things. I’m still sore I made myself watch the whole thing.
- Comment on Shaving not necessary 5 days ago:
Oh they’re out there
- Comment on We live in a society... 1 week ago:
I get ya. One step at a time. I believe there’s value just saying these things out loud, getting it in the zeitgeist, helping people imagine the possibility.
- Comment on We live in a society... 1 week ago:
Ads
for gamblingshould be prohibited,just like those for tobacco and alcohol. - Comment on Become the Thousand Servers 1 week ago:
That also means resisting the temptation to make ourselves indispensable. Being the person everyone has to call when something breaks can feel like a sign that we are contributing something important, but […] the goal should be to make ourselves increasingly unnecessary by making the knowledge we carry increasingly available to other people.
What a beautiful sentiment. Very well said.
To my chagrin, I’ve seen the “private sector” learning this lesson very well, with the practice of codifying configurations of machines and networks in “infrastructure as code” documents. Though these still require special training to decipher and apply, they make people (or workers) much easier to replace.
Although, I’m not sure I want reproduce the patterns I’ve learned from the corporate world, I’m curious if there’s merit to using some of this technology to make infrastructure more easily "spin-up-able. " Or maybe SH hardware will vary too much to make something like OpenTofu useful in a non-cloud setting.
- Comment on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee 1 week ago:
I don’t love this analogy. You’re comparing something out of living memory with something that’s still actively going on right this second.
I think it’s always worthwhile to at least mention it, or else you give the impression we’ve collectively moved on.
- Comment on Pilot project 1 week ago:
I don’t understand your point. It sounds like we agree, I just consider work potentially uplifting when it’s not for money. That is to say no one is paying me to do it.
The work I do for my job is not uplifting. I just do that so I have money to pay the man.
- Comment on Pilot project 1 week ago:
It’s assuming a lot, but running with the premise of bots totally replacing human workers (dubious), either workers keep working even though they don’t need to (pointles toil), or they cease to exist as they last lever on power is removed (the ability to bargain by withholding their labour).
It’s silly
- Comment on Pilot project 2 weeks ago:
Semantics, but my interpretation is that work can be uplifting. Like yard work is work. Helping friends move is work. Working on your life drawing is work. Working out is maybe even work.
Jobs on the other hand are what I could do without.
But like I said, it’s just semantics. I agree with you.
- Comment on Pilot project 2 weeks ago:
Because the alternatives are pointless toil or perishing (spoilers: neither of these are off the table)
- Comment on Pilot project 2 weeks ago:
The only silver lining to ending slavery for the owner class was that at least now the cogs were responsible for their own room and board and etc
- Comment on Pilot project 2 weeks ago:
Lol yeah it’s the exact same [facetious] logic as expecting increasing the working day from 10 ~> 20 hours to lead to increased productivity.
It’s almost like ample and adequate rest need to be baked into scheduling?
- Comment on "I am an ancient nobleman and need some coin made prove to me youre a craftsman that can make quality coin" "check this thing out." 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 2 weeks ago:
I feel like there are still many active forums around, it’s just that more generic spaces like this one are even more prevalent.
There were loads and oodles of dead forums around back in the day.
I also think we should differentiate between dead and just slow. Most forums are unlikely to be as lively as a social media thread.
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 2 weeks ago:
I used to be much more of a hardcore archivist. Nowadays I’m glad some of my most prolific years’ output is just gone, never to be seen again.
- Comment on A tale as old as time... 2 weeks ago:
They also didn’t think birds had sex, so I don’t put much stock in making the connection between humans and other animals. They probably didn’t even see people as animals
Speaking monolithically
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 2 weeks ago:
You’re kind of aggressive, aren’t you? Anyway, I’m not vegan, I just don’t eat animal based stuff.
I don’t see anything factually wrong in your points, except one note
and my point is that being nutritionally complete is easier if you consume animal proteins.
Correct, but if you do your own cooking already then it’s not actually hard to to just sub out one source of protein for another. Throw in some vitamins and you’re good.
For me that’s a very worthwhile trade for reducing my reliance on animal agriculture.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
Rereading, rereading… Oh, I see it. Yeah that’s an aside to their aside. That wasn’t my core point, or even I think theirs… They were talking about how vegans could make a more compelling case by avoiding “the morality argument” how they already agree with them etc.
I can’t believe that someone who’s clearly thought about the vegan position believes that they want to bring about some kind of “animal genocide” … I feel like I matched their tone pretty well.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
Alright that’s an answer, maybe I should be more conscientious of my tone. If that’s what you honestly believe I’m not going to say your perspective is wrong just because I don’t see it.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
I reread my responses and it’s possible they see things as you do, but I think it’s also possible you’re reading into a my comments a tone that isn’t borne out by the text or context.
Anyway, whatever it was, I guess it wasn’t the right approach. I really don’t think I “threw” a link at anyone, or said anything patronizing.
Also no one has answered any of my questions, so I’m not sure what I’m even doing here…
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
I was hoping they would read the like three paragraphs on that website about their points and maybe come back with a bit more nuance.
At least you’re actually engaging. The other one seems to have lost interest —maybe from me calling our back and forth cliché.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
You replied to the wrong comment.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 2 weeks ago:
They have multiple points, but a big one is that you can live a happy healthy life without eating animals or animal products, therefore eating those is optional.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 2 weeks ago:
To my surprise I found you could get vegan chicken and beef stock, because I guess the flavour for those is mostly from salt and whatever spices we associate with that stock.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 2 weeks ago:
It’s like asking an atheist if they enjoy Christmas without the Christ stuff — I mean sometimes? Most of it isn’t Christian, you’ve just come to associate them.
Like yes, I still enjoy salt, fat, and sweet smoky flavours even if they’re not from warming body parts of dubious provenance in my kitchen? I’m quite happy to leave that part out, thanks!
[Some kind of body of Christ pun.]
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 2 weeks ago:
Why are you so obsessed with how rocks taste, just east the food
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
Hmm I’m actually not sure what you mean. Maybe I’ve lost the script, do you mean like my response to the one commenter implying it’s hypocritical to eat plant based or pointless or something (they didn’t elaborate) because there’s evidence plants have feelings?
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
Do you really believe that? :(
I’ll fill you in. Maybe you haven’t heard these points before, but vegans hear them every time they talk about what they won’t eat and why.
Is it intellectual laziness if the objections/rebuttals are so cliché that you can predict both sides with a bingo game? My hope was that would give readers pause about why they feel compelled to make the same points over and over again and again, expecting people on a PBD to justify their decision not to eat animal products.
