Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 6 days ago:
I didn’t know that spiders could get any cooler
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
I don’t think that anyone in this chain of replies has argued for flat out ending all animal meat production. Sure, plenty of vegans are motivated primarily by animal ethics and thus want to categorically ban growing animals for food, but here almost everyone seems to be talking about the sustainability aspect of modern mass animal agriculture, myself included. Although less ethical scruples is a welcome byproduct in my opinion.
I’ll take lab grown meat seriously when it’s been proven to be financially competetive and most importantly scalable. Technofixes have a bad track record of turning out to be mostly just investor bait. Kinda like all the bullshit high-flying transportation concepts as solutions to problems where just slightly better urban planning and prioritizing public transit, cycling etc. would work wonders.
Plant based food on the other hand has been most of what we have been eating for most of history. It wasn’t that long ago when meat was still considered a relative delicacy, back when scarcity necessitated efficiency. That’s the kind of efficient, sustainable, healthy and local (so logistically simple) food production system we should try to strive for in my opinion.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
Our economic systems only work with infinite growth because otherwise what would be the point of lending money if it won’t grow interest. They are essentially giant pyramid schemes. And that requires new blood to provide labour. This is incredibly dumb on a finite planet with limited resources, but that’s mainstream economics for you.
Also if the population shrinks too fast, then the pyramid becomes unstable with not enough younger people to take care of all the old people (while also maintaining the economy).
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 week ago:
That resource and logistics management problem is a direct result of people eating so much meat, the production of which is inherently inefficient for the purposes of feeding people. Of all the resources that we spend on maintaining and growing an animal, we only get back what goes into growing its muscles. The vast majority is wasted in maintaining the animal so that it doesn’t shrivel up and die before slaughter. Scale back meat production and you get a lot more food for a lot less resources, energy and land. You can’t get that efficiency otherwise. It’s precisely about what we eat.
I’m almost impressed by how much completely unsubstantiated ad hominem you managed to cram in there. Personally I couldn’t have guessed any of that from the comment you replied to. But if you wish to be taken seriously, maybe focus instead on the actual arguments next time.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 2 weeks ago:
- Always remember to have fun!
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 2 weeks ago:
Searching for something in a place you’ll never reach is about as useless. By the time you reach it, it’s no longer called the future. All there is is the here and now. It’s ever changing and infinite, so keep looking.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 2 weeks ago:
The idea is good enough that it would’ve deserved at least some effort in the final execution.
- Comment on Just.....why? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the experience of a toothbrush collecting data about your daily routines to sell for profit.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
What do you think they meant with the alternating caps and the emoji? Personally, I think that it’s quite clearly an attempt to ridicule the meme and those who agree with it, built on the preceding facts about modern white collar work being relatively comfortable, which is (as per my previous comment) irrelevant to the question at hand. If you disagree on this, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Good day to you.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
Oh I’m actually quite happy with my own job in the public sector. It’s varied and at times challenging work that benefits society as a whole. The pay isn’t all that much, but we’re talking about fulfillment here not salaries. Unfortunately for my peace of mind, I posess empathy and the knowledge that most aren’t as lucky. Companies either grow or die, so massive faceless corporations provide a large and growing share of all employment. And it doesn’t even need to be a big corp for the job to be a bs job.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
Huh. It’s almost as if all the various alternatives to capitalism couldn’t be lumped into one… Revolutionary Catalonia was Anarcho-Syndicalist, so about as far from the soviet system as possible.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
The meme is about a lack of fulfillment, not of comfort. The comment by ikr muddles these two off the bat by focusing on comfort as a retort to the meme, and my reply was to intentionally follow that flawed reasoning to display its absurd conclusion. Modern comforts will not make a job fulfilling.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
Usually when people call anything a luxury, the implication is that they should be happy about it.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
How is that a strawman? Sure life could be worse as you said, but life could also be a lot better. The meme takes no shots at the former claim, instead making fun of people who fail to imagine the latter. Talking about how we already live in relative luxury is also a very common deflection from arguments for why we should improve society, without actually countering said arguments.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
I am not a slave, therefore I should be happy to waste my life in an office generating shareholder value. Got it.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 4 weeks ago:
Impulse is the integral of force over time, but I get what you’re after.
When pecking at a tree, the maximum force exerted is what pushes the wood beyond its breaking point. That maximum force can be increased by increasing the impact energy as a whole (wasteful and costly) or shortening the impulse. A woodpecker isn’t trying to do soft blows to shake some branches, it’s trying to shatter a small portion of the trunk, much like someone looking to shatter their opponents nose would choose bare fists over boxing gloves.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 4 weeks ago:
IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.
- Comment on New Lemmy meta just dropped.. 5 weeks ago:
I remember seeing some posts by that user. Genuine schizoposting.
- Comment on Hexbear really likes kings 5 weeks ago:
Ai slop
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 1 month ago:
That’s a different question. However society enforces norms. Personally I would prefer some consensus seeking mechanism.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 1 month ago:
It stops being a paradox if you treat tolerance as a contract between parties in a society, instead of a principle. They break that contract and thus are no longer covered by it.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
Quite a low bar considering I don’t own a car.
- Comment on MEN. 1 month ago:
The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.
- Comment on Good point 1 month ago:
“Apex predator” my ass, I will hug the teddy bear.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
All of them will be very rude to you
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 months ago:
Rammstein disagrees
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 2 months ago:
You asked for it
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- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 months ago:
Every other human around you has almost the same genes as you. Just being kind to others is already a tiny contribution to the survival of the species and the genes we share. Pretty sure one would have to be actively suicidial or a Bond villain in order to not to help the genes that survive on with every breath anybody ever takes.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 months ago:
It’s not limited to direct reproduction of one’s own genes. Keep in mind that we live in a society. Contributing to that society means helping others of our species (with almost the same genes) pass their genes on. Just being kind to others is already great. You’re valid.
