Tonava

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no problem with farming as long as the animals are kept (and killed) well, since having a safe life, with no parasites and fell fed, and then a quick death, is a lot better than most animals ever get in the wild. There’s absolutely no need to keep and treat them as horridly as we do now for profit, you can just let them graze and be pretty naturally depending of the climate and all that, though in many places you have to have livestock guardian dogs at least with them so they don’t get eaten by the wildlife.

  That kangaroo hunting is very comparable to hunting in many places, since a lot of it is done because humans have erased natural predators and their numbers need to be controlled to prevent overpopulation. Killing for sport is not the reason for hunting everything everywhere else, though even trophy hunting can be done relatively ethically, since the locals can use the money to protect the species and the trophy hunters get to cull the ones that would be killed to keep the population healthy anyway.
  And reindeer herding has some similarities to that aboriginal style, though the siberian nomad tribes don’t stay in one place but herd the flock around in certain places depending on the time of the year, and the more stationary way is done for example up in Lapland. They release the reindeer in the nature and then herd some of them in one place only on certain times of the year. But on that more stationary way they lasso them and put markings to their ears, so I don’t know would you be okay with that. And a lot of them get eaten by the wolves

  I’ll also add that “no white tradition” is a pretty vague assumption, since I do not know what does “white” include to you. For example the traditional way of keeping cows around here was pretty good since you’d keep them for milk foremost, and mostly the excess bulls and old cows only for meat. You’d just let them go graze in the morning and call them back for milking for the night, though they did have to stay inside all winter since it’s so cold here, so maybe that alone would mean it doesn’t count. And we finns weren’t considered white in USA before 1908 so that way of keeping was done by “whites” only for some decades before the modernization took over anyway.
  It’s been done in a similar way in many places in Europe (especially the remote mountain areas), with sheep and milk cows at least. But maybe those require more herding than just calling them back, I haven’t looked deeply into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people in “civilized” nations might also have forgot it, but cows for example can be incredibly important in places with bad conditions for growing food. You get two years of bad crop yields and everyone is dying of hunger, unless you have that cow that can eat the grass that still grows, and gives you milk that keeps you and your family alive until you get a better yield

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t farm and eat whales, apes, crows, parrots or elephants for example either. Where’s the threshold for what’s intelligent enough to eat? I don’t know, but it’s not a cuteness factor, I would farm and eat rabbits and I’ve kept pet rabbits and love them. Or I would eat a beloved horse that had to be put down, that’s just the respectful thing to do. Would you require that the random siberian nomad leaves their lifestyle and gives up their culture, just because you’d deem them keeping and eating their reindeer worse than you eating crops that are killing millions of birds, insects and rodents? Considering all animals equal, they’re still killing way less than we are

  Though I also wouldn’t eat humans because it increases the risk for prion diseases. Especially the brains should not be eaten

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Animal husbandry is not an unique thing to humans only. I think it’s incredibly arrogant to think we’re so above nature we aren’t part of it just like ants, rodents, deer or tigers or whatever are. We should strive for eating as few animal products we can since we’re killing the planet with our over-consumption - and factory farming is a grotesque crime against nature. But some random siberian nomad with their reindeer is living way more sustainably than any vegan that’s sitting on a computer and writing here is.

  Farming always requires killing, even if it’s just growing crops. Just controlling the rodent populations alone means either poison or cats. And the bigger the operations, the more you need to kill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should also ban animal agriculture.

  I’d ban animal agriculture only in places where the land can be used to grow crops, but not in places where only grass grows and you can’t really produce enough food without animals. This would also focus on banning factory farming, since now many animals are just fed with feed that’s grown elsewhere and transported into places, which allows to sustain massive populations that wouldn’t be possible without it. But mountain range with sheep and goats? Northern nomads with their reindeer? Homesteading with couple pigs and cows? I see no problem as long as those are sustained by the land (and kept lovingly).

  I also would absolutely not ban stuff like keeping chickens (except the factory farming situations of course) since having them on your backyard is good - it produces cheap animal protein that doesn’t really require much killing (eggs) and chickens can eat a lot of food waste that would just be tossed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accepting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some sites do those blocks very haphazardly and you can get past just removing couple html-lines, they don’t really care since most people won’t bother to look (or don’t know you can do it). At minimum it might just be “overflow: hidden” added on the top somewhere lmao. It’s a pain to do but if it’s something specific you need only once, might be worth to check

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cultural impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen ferngully so I can’t comment on that, but at it’s basic level the plot of Avatar is so generic and bland you can take any story where a character representing the viewers culture interacts with some native, a more natural setting inhabiting people, and find multiple similarities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it’s less dangerous (not dangerless obviously), in Europe the swat teams tend to be better trained and way less trigger happy than in USA. Had they busted in there they likely would not have shot an elderly woman found inside, whereas in USA that’s more likely to happen. They don’t just go in and start shooting, otherwise we would have “random kids and women accidentally murdered in a police bust” headlines all the time as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I like to post these small animal facts just so if someone reads these they also get answers!

  My anecdotal evidence is that I raised a couple litters in a stressful environment few years back (we have active dogs so there’s quite the commotion most of the time) and had zero babies eaten, so what I did with the diet likely worked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Insects are good, for example something like dried mealworms is an easy way to add protein that’s pretty natural to them. These days good quality hamsterfoods usually have enough protein already, but you should always check the protein, fiber and fat percentages just to be sure (and the ingredients as well, the foods shouldn’t have colorants at least). The good numbers are around 20% protein and 10% fiber, in fat there’s bigger variance depending on the age and weight etc. but it shouldn’t be over 15%. I haven’t checked what the latest research says though, these numbers and recommendations for diets can change over time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or did I just say it wasn’t considered a genocide?

  If part of (be it sixth or less) a cultural minority is put into internment camps, such a big portion of one ethnicity to be criminals in any common means is so unlikely it’s clearly a state approved genocide. You denying it to be one is intentionally downplaying to make the issue seem less important and direct the discussion towards something else. I do not care what is the government structure or whatever it prefers to be called if they’re putting minorities into camps. There’s nothing to be defended in that, be it USA, China, or whoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.

  Do you really want to defend holding any percentage of people in an internment camp based on their ethnicity? And this applies to USA too. Holding anyone on an internment camp is bad enough, but because of ethnicity?! That’s not only racism, that’s fast track to genocide if it’s not already happening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then we agree on a lot of things. It is true that these tyrants and fascists will only respect violence, so sometimes that is what we must use - to defend, and sometimes even to attack to prevent even worse things. I cannot see any fault in what Ukraine is doing right now for example, they have all the right to attack Russia back. But targeting schools or hospitals like Russia does? No, that would be unacceptable even as a counter.
  My point is more that even the nazis still got a trials after the immediate warring was over, before they were hanged. We cannot just start random murdering, it has to be based on the moral rules we are trying to uphold, or we lose the things we are trying to defend. Where the point is when violence is needed, then, is the better question, yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what’s the point of fighting against them, if we’re just going to become the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most could work on anyone really⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just feel extra autistic since I don’t understand why’d you react emotionally to any of those. Who cares if some random moron insults you? Especially if it’s online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pointless, then they go on a tangent about how it’s the word of god etc.To them god is real and everything is about god and if they have to make leaps in logic it’s just because mere people can’t understand god’s will

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it is middle aged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I had the exact same route and for the same reasons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, and if someone happens to be interested in the actual history, frog coffins were a real thing in Finnish folklore, though they were usually good luck charms. You’d bury them under the church floor, the closer the altar, the better. I also used juniper wood, which was considered the most pure and beautiful wood, so I’m taking creative liberties here! But the people of old are gone and forgotten, and so is their magic. I’d say magic is meant to change and grow as people do anyway, so if I can borrow even a bit from the old to create new, I think that’s enough to keep the spirit of it.
  And a lot of the magic was indeed used for curses, so I’m keeping that tradition alive for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The traditional way would require an actual frog corpse, so this was the most ethical way I could make it (and it’s not like I have plentiful access to frog corpses). If it helps, I made the frog look very mean on purpose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a quick translation of the spell I cast on it, it’s a curse of rotting. I left out the most secret part and I won’t reveal the actual ritual either, but the curse itself should tell what it contained. Next I’m going to bury the effigy in it’s coffin in the old graveyard after the sun sets, to finish the curse.

  Now, do I believe in this stuff? Well, no. This is more of a play for me, to keep some magic in the world, and old traditions alive. Or maybe I’m lying, and just covering my tracks so nobody can blame me of anything. Who knows, the internet is full of weirdos. But hey we all have our ways to deal with all of this shit, some get drunk, others turn to witchcraft

  Women oozing hate, rancid men,
  half-wit enablers, genociders,
  filthy rich acting like pigs, those that have raped even children,
  every greedy fucker that’s robbing the eco-sphere;

  (I command) meat melt away, guts rot,
  (become) full of pus heads mean and stupid,
  gnaw those bones, bad cancer,
  every one of you fascists, putrefy alive;

  in behalf of the weakest, I become hateful,
  I curse with blood, I curse with iron,
  I curse with spit and salt,
  I cover (them) with ash too,
  like this, cruelly in revenge I chastise the ones destroying(/shitting on) the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey etsy witches got Charlie Kirk, so might as well

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s animal cruelty. If you don’t want to toss it, just eat it like any proper predator would

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that moment you stop eating and stare them down, birds don’t like you staring at them because that’s predator behavior. And if the bastards try to lunge at you, you just swiftly try to grab them. In my experience you need only one grab attempt and they don’t dare to come close anymore. Also if you actually manage to yoink them, just throw them away lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turtle Wax⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’m relatively good at written english, but the spoken one always gets me…