HumanOnEarth
@HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
- Comment on whatever tf this is 6 days ago:
My dude the other guy was being facetious…
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 week ago:
More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
I get it, I really do. I’ve read Peter Singer. I’ve gone through the arguments, the logic.
You’re not wrong…ish, in my opinion. The scope of harm is horrific. What is done to animals in industrial agriculure is indefensible.
That being said, I find a lot of things indefensible. It’s impossible to avoid being a hypocrite in any way at all times. So I’m a hypocrite. I eat meat, way way less than average but I do. I’m aware it makes me a hypocrite. But I’ll never buy that it makes me a monster.
And if it does make me a monster? Then Schindler was a monster for not saving every Jew? Or is a better way to look at it that he did the best he could and he saved a lot of lives, certainly more than the average person.
I appreciate that vegans feel extremely strongly about animal rights. That’s good, we need passionate people in lots of different areas, advocating for the right things. But you cannot expect everyone to apply the same weights to every part of the picture.
You, in your specific circumstances, your environment, your socioeconomic status, your childhood trauma or lack thereof…YOU have taken all of the information you’ve received in your life and run it through your circumstances and the result is a vegan.
Someone else gets more of certain types of information, less of others, different circumstances, and you get a Greenpeace activist. A black panther. A doctor without borders.
Throw all that away…at the end of the day, the cold hard logic your view relies on also makes something else clear: an individual aggressive/militant vegan likely causes more animal suffering than the average meat eater. By communicating in one dimensional extremes, you’re basically guaranteed to alienate more people than you successfully convert. How many more plant based meals might some people have eaten if the vegan stereotype wasn’t what it is?
Think it through.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried not doing exactly what you’re accusing them of doing?
Everybody needs to move away from the extremes, both sides, all of us.
Not all vegans are militant. Not all meat eaters are blood lusting demons.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
Not vegan, but hate the idea that they’re made fun of for trying to spread awareness. I’m not including the militant vegans here. They do more damage than they fix.
I’m sure some people do it from a high horse but vegans are far from the only type of people that do that. And the message is absolutely important, besides the cruelty part, eating animals is a huge part of the climate change problem.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 3 weeks ago:
Yep this is the main line of attack.
“UnIoN DueS wILL sTeAL yOUr wAgEs”
$700 per year is 37 cents per hour, and you’re sure as shit to get a better raise than that every year in a union (on average).
Every sign like that just needs a little sticker: “That’s $x.xx per hour and they work to get you better raises”
Propaganda defeated
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 3 weeks ago:
I was radicalized when I worked (as a supervisor) for a big box electronics store, and there were staff interested in joining a union.
Boy let me tell you how many anti-union trainings I had to attend. And the way they villified and attacked the person who was the “leader” of the people interested.
I’m not sure exactly what they were expecting from me/us as a leadership team, but I came away from that with a crystal clear understanding of how scared corporations are of unions. And so I’ve been staunchly pro-union since.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 month ago:
Demonstrative bullshit. I don’t know if I can wait 11 months for Americans to figure out things are actually kinda bad and they might want to start I don’t know, doing stuff.
Let me be abundantly clear: If you are an American, and you think legitimate midterm elections are going to happen this year, congratulations, you are a blithering idiot and part of the problem.
- Comment on Of course there is. 2 months ago:
There really is a theme to meth use over the years, isn’t there.
Gonna start calling it fascidust
- Comment on Solidarity 2 months ago:
Ah I see you know your Choco Pies well…
- Comment on Solidarity 2 months ago:
I’M SPARTACUS
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
HELL yeah
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
Does it?
The world I’m in, I can practically see the flames licking at my feet…
- Comment on Another one! Take a guess! This one is pretty easy. 2 months ago:
That’s where I went too lol
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 months ago:
I prefer a simpler view… leave people the fuck alone as long as they aren’t harming anybody.
- Comment on Would you date someone that uses a hammer? 3 months ago:
Gee I’ve never seen this argued before. By golly you’ve cracked the code. Checkmate!!
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
Yes, you nailed it. Woe is me.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
Oh you’ll remember
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
Remember this conversation. Seriously. Don’t forget it.
Obviously so you can laugh at my misfortune later, no other reason.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
I just bought another $100, thank you
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
And that doesn’t worry me…at all.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
forbes.com/…/bitcoin-is-a-step-closer-to-being-mo…
Isn’t it worth 95,000?
I’ve been having conversations with doubters since it was 2,000 dollars. I wouldn’t waste your breath on me. I’ll be alright.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
Not at all.
Predictions for the price of Bitcoin in 2030? Give me a number. And then don’t forget it.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
That’s a shame
“What problem does this technology solve? What does it do that other, much cheaper and easier-to-use technologies can’t do just as well or better? I still haven’t heard a clear answer."
Bitcoin (not crypto) solves the problem of centralization and control of money. It is a harder form of money than gold. You can send a billion dollars for pennies across the world in 10 minutes. It is completely transparent. It can provide access to finance to people who are traditionally excluded. It cannot be censored.
If he hasn’t heard a clear answer, it’s because he’s willfully ignorant at this point. And again, crypto is 99.9% BS. Bitcoin was not the first crypto, and it won’t be the last crypto, but it is the only one of its kind and if north of a trillion dollars doesn’t convince you of that, including institutional money, then nothing will and I invite you to invest in the stock market instead and hope inflation doesn’t steal your retirement away.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 months ago:
He should’ve taken an economics course.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
But did you die?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 months ago:
Check which sub you’re in lol
- Comment on Rollercoaster 5 months ago:
I’ve always called it HTS…Home Toilet Syndrome.
- Comment on Amen 5 months ago:
Shut up Farva