Evkob
@Evkob@lemmy.ca
Languages: Français, English
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- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
artificial insemination isn’t torture.
Doing so to a creature who can’t consent is pretty wack though.
cows aren’t kept constantly pregnant
Female mammals, including cows, produce milk as a result of pregnancy in order to feed their young. The dairy industry is for-profit, they’re not going to let their dairy cows have downtime from producing milk if there’s money to be made.
kicking and beating cows isn’t part of husbandry.
The meat and dairy industries have lobbied hard for ag-gag laws criminalizing photography on their farms after abuses have been discovered by undercover investigators and activists. It is undoubtedly a part of animal agriculture. Here’s a whole paper about it, if it interests you.
killing cows at the end of their useful life is fine.
It definitely isn’t the worse part of the miserable lives we make them live after breeding them in massive numbers. It’s probably a relief at that point.
Also, just a sidenote here, I scrolled a bit through your history and you seem to go on the defensive for meat and dairy whenever you come across anything relating to veganism or the negative impacts of those industries. You engage with vegan content much more than I do and I’m vegan! I don’t think I can change your mind about veganism, nor do I really feel the desire to write any more than I already have. But, I don’t know, maybe go comment on stuff you enjoy rather than getting riled up about this stuff? It might make for a more enjoyable experience on lemmy.
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 4 weeks ago:
No one wants to eliminate fire trucks and ambulances in favour of bikes.
When people talk about “ending cars” they’re talking about private ownership of personal vehicles. It’s not necessary to address first responders because that’s not what anti-car people are talking about.
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
I live in Canada, so I’m obviously biased in the sense that we’re one of the countries most affected by US politics, what with them being our largest trade partner and having a massive land border with them.
That being said, are you unaware of the global rise in right-wing extremism and fascism following the 2016 election? The US is the richest country in the world, with the largest military, and they also have a tremendous amount of soft power (at least in English-speaking countries) through their cultural influence in media exports.
I don’t understand what you gain by pretending the US isn’t a massive global power with huge influence over international relations.
- Comment on It's too soon... 2 months ago:
This tweet honestly recontextualised the song enough for me to appreciate it.
- Comment on What bug is this? 2 months ago:
Unidan (I had to deep dig in my memories for that name to reappear)
- Comment on The stats don't lie 5 months ago:
I blame Nabisco.
- Comment on Best Buy Membership "discount" 6 months ago:
Link to the YouTube video in question
Only Technology Connections could get me to watch a one hour video about a fridge.
- Comment on Emoji history: the missing years 7 months ago:
There’s so much missing history in early tech. This article reminds me of Ahoy’s video on YouTube about the first video game.
- Comment on Putting on your seatbelt and not using your phone while driving is now considered a "challenge"? 8 months ago:
I’m also a motorcyclist (but hold the motor) and my experience is very similar to yours.
I almost got hit a few weeks back by a car driver trying to turn right on red whilst on a fucking Facetime call, with the phone held up right in front of their face. If I hadn’t been in a rush I would have let them have an earful.
Like, please don’t ever use your phone while driving, but if you absolutely have to be a despicable human being, can you at least look away from the screen when navigating through intersections??
- Comment on Does anyone want to play TTT? [Garry's mod] 10 months ago:
(Trouble in Terrorist Town, if i can save anyone a web search)
- Comment on Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe? 11 months ago:
The list has been added to haveibeenpwned.com, you can check your passwords here.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 11 months ago:
Have you tried changing your user agent string to Chrome? I know it can sometimes sidestep these types of “errors”. It can be changed manually through about:config under general.useragent.override, or there exists plenty of addons to switch it more easily.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
I usually watch shows/movies I see recommended by people (either online or in real life) rather than stuff recommended by an algorithm, but that’s just me. Whenever I’ve tried algorithmically suggested TV or movies, it’s kinda been bad (which is surprising considering I love Spotify’s suggestions)
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 11 months ago:
This is such an odd comment!
If you want pictures you could check out Stremio with the Torrentio addon, although I’d recommend also getting a Real-Debrid subscription for faster streaming.
If you’re interested but confused here’s a reddit thread with detailed instructions.
- Comment on Another great advert from Threads. Not really looking like my kind of place. 11 months ago:
In a vacuum, saying “it’s okay to be white” is fine.
Statements are never made in a vacuum, they’re made within society. They’re thus accompanied by context and realities, a ton of little nuances which all affect meaning.
In society, posting (or agreeing with someone posting) “it’s okay to be white” repeated multiple times is racist.
As per your last paragraph, who says we can only deal with one source of racism at a time? How does calling out racist dogwhistles negatively impact Jewish people or residents of Gaza?
- Comment on My mum had her finger on the lens for all summit photos she took of me. 1 year ago:
My mom’s phone is full of videos of her saying “oh shit” because she meant to take a photo. I really need to make a backup of those for when she’s gone.
