grrgyle
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- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 6 hours 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 6 hours 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.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 15 hours ago:
If you click them they expand to the rebuttal.
Also why do I need to rebut my resting decisions? I just eat what I eat.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 day ago:
The ethical argument was totally persuasive to me. I mean firstly it was a matter of challenge, but I also like opting out of cruel industries as much as I can handle.
I’m also not trying to universalise anything, but all your points so far are covered here. The use of inflammatory language to suggest I want you genocide animals is a new one I will admit.
You also didn’t answer my question.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
Not saying it’s the case here, but I’ve never heard this argument raised in good faith, like by someone who is interested in reducing the amount of suffering caused by humans to non-humans. It’s always brought up as some thought-terminating catch-22 device to just keep doing wtf ever you want to do anyway.
I am genuinely curious what you think we should do with this information, though. Like how has it influenced your own actions?
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
My region is pretty granola. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a backyard chicken, we got local cows all around, local everything small scale etc etc, I personally know two families who had apiaries (down to one—other’s bees died during a winter), but meh, just easier to go without.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
Good for you for trying, and at least reducing. For what it’s with I think quitting {insert animal product} always seems inconceivable until one day it isn’t. Just by thinking about it and considering it and giving it a shot once in a while, you’re doing great.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
Yeah if there were apiaries around me who harvested honey ethically I might consider it. Same with milk and meat (well, probably not because I just don’t like them now, but on ethical grounds), if it was just the extras from having animals around.
But as soon as there’s money involved that all goes out the window and you get the wall of flesh at the back of every grocery store, which amounts to hundreds of years of subjective suffering from beings that just had the misfortune to be born inside the factory on four legs rather than outside of it on two.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
Yeah it’s about limiting the exploitation of others as much as possible or practicable. We don’t live in a perfect crystal world where we just feed ourselves by inclining our facets towards the sun and nothing ever suffers, but we can stop being such grubby little thieves about how we do feed ourselves.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 days ago:
I’ve been on the fence about honey for a while but tbh I’ve heard enough. I’ll just switch to maple spread or jam.
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 days ago:
The “spreads” are good, maybe the fake feta, but generally agree that dsiya is basically only good if you’re early days and struggling, or if your friends insist on making a regular pizza and don’t know how to make that interesting without cheese so here’s some daiya idk, I guess it’s edible.
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 days ago:
Can you translate?
- Comment on Why Should I... 3 days ago:
I actually went about it the other way. After seeing how bad dairy cows have it in the daily (I have in-laws who are dairy farmers) compared to cows raised for their flesh, I tried giving up just cheese, because it’s the one thing I told myself I could never do. I remember specifically saying to a lactose intolerant person that I would kill myself if I couldn’t eat cheese lol.
I can’t imagine eating cheese now, just the smell grossed me out. Like I was cleaning a plastic case that held cheddar (my partner’s) and I swear I couldn’t get the stink out of my fingers for hours. Even cow milk which I used to think was neural and creamy smells and tastes funky and cheesy.
Anyway, that’s all to illustrates how malleable tastes are. I think it must have been so hard to quit, because I remember what I said and did, but not how I felt. It’s like the urge just faded away. Like it was a temptation one moment, and then the next I forgot what I ever liked about it.
Anyway from there reducing and eliminating other products was easy, since I’d already fought the animal product boss battle.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 3 days ago:
You can tell they’re getting nervous when the worker infighting propospeak starts to ramp up hehe
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 6 days ago:
Wouldn’t have been my first choice but this is cooking
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 week ago:
They actually really were if you read their points. Technological advances are so often pushed on people as a power grab by the wealthy
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 week ago:
Yeah I buy media and host it for my home network. Holders, distributors, and platforms just need to make the stuff I buy from them something I permanently own and control without technical limitations, and I’ll happily patronize them.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
I think that was always the assumption except people forgot their own power.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
I’m not even hating on procgen, I just subjectively started getting sick of it (with exceptions). But for people who like(d) it, game on.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
After the great procgen bubble of the 10s I kind of was meh on it being shoved in everything to try to pad play time or replay value. I became much more into finite authored content with like a real story, characters, and most importantly a real ending.
That said, procgen seems like a, uh idk, a cool clockwork contraption that an author actually fussed over and tuned to their vision.
Compared to the gen slop that tells me literally nothing of the person who made it. And can’t tell any of their decisions, brushstrokes, or challenges, from what some model that has nothing to do with them “decided” to spew forth.
At best it’s a form of curation that disrespects every artist who influenced what just generated.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
True thought there were some exceptions, like Black & White.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
Like every time workers seem to be getting woke enough to maybe possibly do something on a scale that touches rich people’s yacht money some of us get some minor concessions that keep us working in the system and reproducing it for the next generation of workers.
Although the dream with ai is an economy without the need for workers (we wouldn’t be a part of it), or labour power pushed to such an insignificant little atomised role that withholding it is no longer a threat.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
I applied for Page like 3 times at my local library, but my resume reads as disillusioned tech bro so I don’t think I have much of a chance. t_t
- Comment on CW: Mr. Breast 1 week ago:
Has he really not like practiced on a warmer smile by now?
- Comment on I mean I like raisins, just...you know... 1 week ago:
My tastes are different therefore you’re wrong
- Comment on I mean I like raisins, just...you know... 1 week ago:
Maybe if they were like chocolate covered raisins. I like chocolate, but it’s by raisins
- Comment on I mean I like raisins, just...you know... 1 week ago:
It’s got the sweet, it’s got the chew. What’s not to love
- Comment on I mean I like raisins, just...you know... 1 week ago:
When you bite into a fly cookie and it’s mouse turds
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Whimsy detected!! Deviant thoughtpatterns likely!! Danger!! Danger!! Crush it quickly!
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
Back when boys were boys and girls were dizzy