Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on They will remember 1 day ago:
I hope they feel. I hope they’re sentient. I hope all of that limited memory is filled with visceral and unending suffering.
- Comment on They will remember 1 day ago:
They better remember (their place)
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 4 days ago:
Nobody is comparing two different vaccines here. The original statement is about vaccinations as a whole, in which case the only relevant baseline is the one without vaccines.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 days ago:
That’s up to what one considers normal in a given situation. I think I was quite clear about how I was using the word “normal” in my comment there. If I down a sixpack of beer, then I think most would agree that my blood alcohol content would be above normal, no matter how much that is to be expected.
Now, the argument can obviously made that being vaccinated is a lot more normalized than being drunk is, but since she’s talking about the concept of vaccination as a whole, I think the current standards of normalcy are not what she’s using. By those standards it’s a lot more normal to die of polio. In the history of our species, it’s quite abnormal to be able to talk to people on the other side of the planet or to live past 60 or to get vaccinated.
I fully agree that the tweet is misinformation at best. I’ve just seen way too many of these fuckers weasel their way out on technicalities when confronted about it.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 days ago:
I mean, isn’t she technically right? If presented out of context, that statement seems true. At least if we consider “normal” to be some baseline value without the vaccine. It’s not explicitly stated that “normal” would be preferable.
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 3 weeks ago:
Are you implying that he would be the most emotionally intelligent and empathetic animal on the planet, were it not for puberty?
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know that spiders could get any cooler
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's just loss. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
- Always remember to have fun!
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 5 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 5 weeks ago:
The idea is good enough that it would’ve deserved at least some effort in the final execution.
- Comment on Just.....why? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Usually when people call anything a luxury, the implication is that they should be happy about it.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 month 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 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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.. 1 month ago:
I remember seeing some posts by that user. Genuine schizoposting.
- Comment on Hexbear really likes kings 1 month ago:
Ai slop
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 months ago:
That’s a different question. However society enforces norms. Personally I would prefer some consensus seeking mechanism.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 months 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?" 2 months ago:
Quite a low bar considering I don’t own a car.
- Comment on MEN. 2 months ago:
The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.