jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
- Comment on Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history 1 day ago:
That is not the correct pronounciation.
- Comment on Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history 1 day ago:
You can’t even fucking impeach him
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 2 days ago:
Yes, that is not an evolutionary pressure. Long manes serve the same function in humans as a peacock’s tail or a baboon’s bright red ass.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 2 days ago:
If you have a shaved face or cropped hair, it means you have access to and are possibly carrying a sharp blade. For a million years, that was high tech.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 2 days ago:
Demonstrates health history over the last potentially several years.
- Comment on How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English. 1 week ago:
I suppose a product of growing up with anti-intellectualism is that it seems threatening when someone stops everything and turns everyone’s attention to a word that you just used without conceit.
- Comment on How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English. 1 week ago:
I hate it when people stop a conversation to talk about a word I used. It doesn’t land as a complement.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Yes please lets have a semantic debate in which no one defines their terms
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
Good.
- Comment on Nope 2 weeks ago:
Okay, we’re good.
- Comment on Nope 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh, fine, I guess it’s my turn anyway. I’ll be back in a bit.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
It’s not talking about music, it’s talking about humans.
- Comment on 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 🌈 🏳️🌈 2 weeks ago:
awwww my weird little pet had that exact poster
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
as if this chart had the centuries of data needed to be meaningful
- Comment on Why do people hate the Kardashians? 4 weeks ago:
You… admire them??
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
okay. now what?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
Do you really want me to tell you what I think about Islam and animal abuse?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
You can place an animal in the open back of a truck in -30C weather and ship them 1,000km, knowing the whole time that the animal will arrive dead, and it is not a crime. No one will bat an eye because it happens THOUSANDS of times a year here in Canada.
You can take a perfectly healthy and happy animal, and stab it right in the throat, because you want the meat, or because you like stabbing animals, and it is not a crime. This also happens thousands of times a year here in Canada.
Certain animals (mainly pets) have very limited protection against abuse, but those laws do not protect the life of the animal or protect the animal from needless suffering, cruelty, or violence. Factory farming exceeds these protections routinely, but the law is set up in many provinces to make reporting these crimes effectively itself a crime.
You can do whatever you want.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
ha ha okay
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 1 month ago:
Because while euthanasia is generally a good thing, there are also big potentials for abuse and unnecessary tragedy. We maintain a pretense of caring about these things with humans and so most governments err on the side of caution while others think they’re such hot shit they can dance their way through the quagmire. Meanwhile, we openly don’t give a single fuck what happens to non-human animals, and our culture is predicated on treating them like objects, so you’re allowed to do whatever you want with them. Kill them because they’re suffering, kill them because they bark too loud, it’s all the same. It’s your dog-shaped object, go nuts.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 1 month ago:
I haven’t had anyone to take care of me since the 90s and honestly, most stuff just doesn’t get done.
- Comment on basil 2 months ago:
This didn’t happen on its own, it’s a basil grafted on some kind of heartier base.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
I know you don’t really mean it, but I’m going to use your bad faith arguments to point out some things you should know but have probably never thought about.
Let’s accept that you are a fully committed plant’s rights activist. You considered killing yourself out of respect for your plant brother’s experiences, but ultimately you decide that no creature should be obliged to kill itself simply because of its own inherent nature. You cannot help that you need to eat. So what do you do?
You decide that while you have to eat to survive, that doesn’t mean that you can just eat wantonly, whatever and however the urge strikes you, because there are these serious consequences to your plant friends. You look for the way of life that minimizes the number of plants that you have to kill. Easy, you think, you’ll just eat animals!
Until you realize, those animals eat plants. Those animals ate WAY more plants than you would have if you hadn’t eaten any animals. Oh. Shit. The more animals you eat, the more of your plant sisters you are killing. You realize that your ethical convictions demand that you instead eat only plants, and only as many as you need to survive. Because that is the only solution to this ethical quandary.
But of course, in real life, you are not actually concerned with plant’s rights. It was just a ruse you were pulling. You did not go down this train of thought to its logical conclusion. These are not issues that you have spent years and years thinking about. Rather, like most people, you have been trained to not think about them. You’re not engaging with intellectual honesty, you have begun to attempt to frustrate meaningful discussion. I’m giving you a lot of grace here because I don’t think you realize you did it, and I’d like to give you a chance to see it.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Okay, I can see you have become defensive. It’s understandable. When I finally accepted the vast cruelty and violence I was a part of, it fucking broke me. That is what you are trying to avoid. That is what I tried to avoid for a very long time. Eventually I accepted that I could not be a kind, decent, good person, and continue to use cruelty and violence to exploit unwilling individuals.
I’m going to let you take back your bad faith arguments.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Just for clarity, I don’t accept that it is okay to keep animals as pets. But that isn’t relevant to the current discussion so I didn’t get into that.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Those chickens didn’t just happen. Their very existence is abuse. Creating an individual with the preformed intent that you prevent it from becoming able to care for itself, that it will be dependent on you for everything for it’s entire life, that is one of the most abusive things you can do to another individual. Fine, rescue your cats or whatever, but that’s not what you’re talking about right now. You’re talking about a captive individual who exists to convert calories for you, like a machine. They wouldn’t lay eggs anyway; they wouldn’t EXIST. Not as an individual, but also not as a genetic line that is cursed to lay far more eggs than its own interests have any reason for it to lay. It lays so many eggs that its body becomes depleted. It is not natural for chickens to lay eggs so often! That is something that we did to them. And it’s yet more abuse!
The abuse in inescapable when you use an individual’s body for your own purposes.
And again, we are talking about fucking eggs. There is no food shortage. So there is no justification for even a little bit of cruelty and violence. Plus, eggs are not good for you in the first place!!
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Individuals must be treated as ends, never as means.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
That’s cruel and requires violence. There are situations that justify cruelty and violence, but given that there is no food scarcity, it is not justified now.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
We can easily grow more plants than humanity can collectively eat, and still have plants left over for global industries. There is just no need to be that frugal with food.