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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I do what I can to give my animals a good life. Mostly, that means keeping them protected and giving them a lot of space.
I definitely hate factory farming. It’s a cancer, and allows people to eat meat without processing death. …and so, in soft ways that have hard consequences, they look away from death, and look away from any conflict -or only enough to decry it, and complain that someone should do something about it. But that mentality pervades everything they do.
Thanks for contributing to the ultimate destruction of factory farming. You have my respect.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Lol I didn’t downvote you, and your self-righteousness is more of a block to getting the industry changed than it is a benefit.
Swallow your pride, don’t be a dick. Be humble, be honest about how you feel, and live up to your own ideals. But being an insufferable twat just drives people away from your ideals - you should really only do that to insufferable twats, otherwise, the thing you stand for isn’t saving animals, it’s self-righteous intolerance - and people look at you and think “glad I’m not like that guy.”
Win the hearts and minds, don’t just stab people for being wrong - or you’ll keep stabbing until you finally stab yourself to death.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I eat animals I grow, except in a few exceptional circumstances - minimal enough that, if everybody ate meat the way I do, the industry would fall.
It’s good you’re living up to what you believe in. It’s a bad idea to live off of suffering you can’t yourself bear.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Yep. It’s not the way of life, it’s the pretentious self-righteousness, and most people aren’t that way. Is like the ‘bad Christians’ fucking it up for all the ones that are basically love-and-forgiveness believers that are largely benign.
Most people - Christians, vegans, meat eaters - are generally pretty chill. It’s the inciters that suck.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
That moral high ground you’re claiming looks to me like just another niche for life to exist. …but you’re not going to stop predation, carnivorous or omnivorous. That you think it’s a good idea to do so is just eye-rollingly banal.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I don’t hate that people choose to be vegan. I hate the self-righteous bullshit humans get about veganism, science, religion, and anything else they start considering a moral high ground.
You don’t have a moral high ground. You have a biological and/or social niche. That’s enough to be proud of, without dissing other people’s shit, or pretending yours doesn’t stink.
- Comment on Trans community ally 1 week ago:
It’s social harassment, whether or not it is civil harassment.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
Third and fourth-gen nuclear addresses these issues to a very, very significant degree.
Like, less than 1% of the current waste stream, and waste that lasts around 300 years (as opposed to the current 27,000 (fucking) years.
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
Heck, you don’t even need an absolute infinity. Just a universe with enough fluctuation, and there are quite a few theories with that.
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
Boltzman Brain.
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
Meh.
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
I believe there’s an absolute infinity.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
The other particles and patterns of information that I’m most entangled with, temporally and atemporally.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Nah. Location is relative.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Neat! I’ll have to read up on those.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Looks like an inductor does work, but has to be fairly large, so isn’t worth it, particularly with cheap capacitor solutions available.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
I wasn’t sure that, specifically, would work. But, the thing with the capacitor does work.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
“Cite a study or it doesn’t exist.”
I use that to get my way all the time.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Systemd turned me into a newt!
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Phillips really is the way to go. You can get different color temperatures, smart bulbs, and ‘vintage’ bulbs all flicker-free.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
The kicker is, this isn’t even necessary. It’s not LED lights that are the issue, it’s poorly-implemented dimming of LED lights.
In some cases (home lighting dimming), you can either buy a dimmable LED light or buy a dimmer made for LEDs.
But sometimes, it’s just built in to the device, and there’s nothing you can do about it. All it technically takes is a really simple circuit that adds capacitance to the line.
If toy have a cheap strip of LEDs dimmed by a cheap PWM controller, you might even be able to just take the positive and wrap it through and around a ring magnet multiple times. I’m not sure that would work, but I’ve seen it done before for noise filtering, which this is, effectively.
What that does is averages out the highs and lows, significantly reducing flicker. There are some devices out there that do the (small amount) of work that is required not to flicker. It’s just… …dimming by flicker is really easy, and if a manufacturer can save a few cents at the cost of quality, a lot of them will.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 4 months ago:
Woesome.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 4 months ago:
That’s fairly typical. WTF would you do in an outage?
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 4 months ago:
A tiny heater running all day would do that.
1kw is a small heater. 0.8kw is a tiny one. 0.8x24 is 19.2. Assuming they have other basic appliances, that’s already more than enough to account for their usage.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
This isn’t super viable right now, but it’s true.
If you want to do something about it: start a company, and be reasonable. There will be a lot of pressure to do otherwise, though.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 5 months ago:
Oppenheimer wasn’t easy, it’s true. But I rate Barbie below it because it’s current.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 5 months ago:
Watching Oppenheimer is just easier on the soul.
- Comment on art 5 months ago:
A butterfly crushed under the weight of watching another butterfly’s self-obsession.
- Comment on Sounds like an amazing date night. 6 months ago:
Firearms before food!
- ❌ greasy hands on firearms
- ✅ heavy metals on your hands while you eat
- Comment on Magic man 7 months ago:
Most magic users.