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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth inequality will destroy America.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mod log just says “Ban evasion, repeated violations of ToS” across a few dozen coms. I guess mods got sick of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Drugs are generally a thing that people use consensually on themselves, generally taking care as to any consequences.

  Guns are something you typically use non-consensually, on someone else, often when the consequences be damned.

  I’m personally against gun prohibition, but the logic differentiation between guns and drugs is pretty basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, Beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beans are awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bisexuality released in 1995 and the devs still haven't dropped an update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but that first ranked season before everyone figured out the new meta was so fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He escaped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro kited that cop away from his bike like it was an MMO, absolutely marvelous talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you misunderstand me, I’m comparing the mushroom claim to an equally silly claim that often rears it’s head in these discussions, not saying it happened here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is actually fantastic, I’ve never seen so much open discussion about veganism between vegans and non-vegans with so little malice so I’d say you hit pay dirt.

  I like your utilitarian determination of pain more than most utilitarians, who require a complete nervous system and therefore eat shellfish. Your test has a higher standard than theirs, because shellfish still retract when poked nervous system or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that paying for it or not paying for it changes anything about the ethics of how it came to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to all life on Earth cats and bees are almost the exact same thing. I’m not a bot, I’m a human with ideas that are apparently so challenging to your own that you immediately resort to ad hominem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: Honey-eating vegans getting ethically roasted by non-vegans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are at least a dozen inter-related reasons to be vegan and no hard line of what diets are and aren’t vegan. All vegans check at least one of those boxes, many of us check multiple. Some vegans only care about avoiding the suffering of animals who experience life through a nervous system, therefore will eat shellfish which have no nervous system. Honey is excepted usually by utilitarian vegans doing logical gymnastics to claim that the way in which it’s farmed does no harm to the bees, or that while it harms the bees it doesn’t hurt their nervous systems and cause them direct pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cause we don’t, the only time I’ve ever heard this mushroom fud come up is from non-vegans. “Did you know that grass screams when you cut it?”-tier territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is far more debate about veganism within veganism than there is outside of veganism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah all of those things sound pretty likely in most honey farming settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And my cat always keeps an excess of food in her bowl. If I fed her only the amount she actually ate, she would just eat less. These are evolved survival behaviors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why when someone asks me “Well what about indigenous tribes? Almost all of them hunt, are you doing to tell them they’re morally wrong?”. No, no I am not, because they are not morally wrong. They’re hunting for survival, in relative harmony and reciprocity with the ecology that completely enveloped every aspect of their social development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumpster diving still relies on industrial agriculture happening and doesn’t scale to more than a small portion of the population, some of whom have no other choice but to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also responsible for a not-insignificant portion of the meat industry’s carbon footprint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah veganism isn’t a single set of beliefs, it’s a range of practices and the people who do those practices do so for a rather wide variety of sometimes-overlapping reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with the carveouts that utilitarian vegans make for honey is that they’re largely falsifiable feel-good industry apologia. The claim that harvesting honey doesn’t harm bees is complete bollocks, really it’s in the same realm of the claim that milking a cow doesn’t harm the cow because she can always make more. The hive does need to downsize and drones do have to die to accommodate the loss of surplus, workers do forage further and compete more with other insects for nectar, while honey harvesting rarely harvests at the low extraction levels claimed to be harmless. If it were harmless the bees would never bother to make it, it takes a shitload of energy for them to produce it. It’s turn-brain-off dissonance territory but because Peter Singer said it’s OK they’re all willing to make the huge leap in logic to eat something that could just as easily have been maple syrup or agave nectar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Should I...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re taking a hit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Should I...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially funny because while there are other things vegetarians will eat that vegans won’t (Other dairy, eggs), cheese is actually physically addictive because the same protein that makes it curdle breaks down through digestion into a substance that acts like dopamine. It really is the “one ring” of veganism and often the last / hardest thing to give up when one goes vegan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro this is a weird fucking hill to die on. You sound really fucking weird right now. Relax on the terrorism accusations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The draft will never happen because all the commanders would get fragged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying I still might have a chance to frag a commander, after all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Short guy in the last photo is Derek Simnett, Canadian vegan who has a youtube channel with a lot of fantastic easy vegan recipes and guides that really helped me not be a total disaster when I went vegan. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just precedent for the economic effects, I don’t think they meant it to be a complete analogy or a point of advocacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And as for abolishing an industry that seemed too big to fail, while having already been abandoned by the rest of the world as horribly immoral… We do have one very big precedent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I went through your post history and so now I feel confident stereotyping you” is a borderline temp ban red flag, imo. It definitely indicates that the person is tilted hard enough, for one reason or another, to not take the discussion rationally and maybe need a break. If your community excludes certain harmful opinions then a post history check can be helpful for moderation, but using it to ad hominem someone in a discussion forum where all the important information should be in the discussion is flame war tactics and can lead to stalking.

  Usually doesn’t happen here to the degree it happens on reddit, but literally this week I had someone do it to try and claim that I hate cars because I post in /c/fuckcars@lemmy.world, even though I own two cars. Indeed, it was a stupid topic that dependably gets some people irrationally incensed, which primed this guy to try and make it personal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Living out of a car or living on friend’s couches is considered homelessness. It’s why some people say unhoused instead.