commie

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you’re here because you think i’m antivegan, i want you to know i’m not

i am more than willing to engage on any positive claim you want to make (i probably agree with a lot of them). what i’m not willing to do is tolerate personal attacks and dogpiling.

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commie,

we impose meaning on the world. even the idea that each of us is an individual instead of one unit is a construct. so while we can distinguish between different biological markers, the meaning we impart to that distinction is a construct. we can draw the lines arbitrarily (and we do). the distinction of race is no more natural or meaningful than a distinction based on country of origin.

commie,

disease and lactose intolerance are also constructs. all meaning is constructed. without an observer, there cannot be meaning. you get to decide which constructs you uphold.

commie,

I heard they just renewed fisa. fuck every politician.

commie,

all rentals must offer an option to build equity and own the dwelling in at most 35 years.

incorporate as a city with municipalities sharing the same school district.

bds.

edit: fuck those downvotes are fast. I guess some people love landlords and Israel.

commie,

i live in something like a resort town. the property is impossibly expensive, and the rent is punitive. i don’t want the looky-loos feeling too compelled to stick around, but people who work here should be able to afford to live here. i wrote my real wish.

commie,

as annoying as vegans are, they ultimately are ideologically right

about what?

commie,

the amount of food it requires to feed the meat we eat is extremely wasteful

a lot of what we give livestock are parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. that’s the opposite of wasteful.

commie,

Factory slaughtering living things that grew up in what’s effectively a prison is not lessening harm.

you can’t know that. consequentialist ethics run into this all the time: you can’t actually know what the future holds, and it may be that without the current agricultural system, even more harm would have been done.

commie,

thinking how a pig in a meat factory feels is just speculation

that’s not what i’m saying here. i’m saying that they could be experiencing an immense amount of suffering, but we can’t know if that is saving the world from an even greater suffering sometime in the future.

commie,

i’m talking about waste product from our crops, like cottonseed from the textile industry or soymeal leftover from making soybean oil or silage.

commie,

you can’t really know, though. the model you presented for right behavior precludes you from ever knowing if you’re doing the right thing.

commie,

And he’s talking about crops specifically grown for livestock.

what i said was true. what they said wasn’t nuance, it was stated as a contradiction. your framing of it as nuance is a red herring.

commie,

orgzly+syncthing

emacs org-mode on desktop

I admit, it is not terribly easy to get started. I think the emacs tutorial alone takes half an hour then you need to learn org-mode.

but it’s pretty badass

commie,

for some people this might be true.

commie,

Going vegan is a solution to the problem at hand.

did you try that?

commie,

lots of people have tried that. it hasn’t worked.

commie,

We’ve become so extreme in our conversations vs. being moderate to the point that people hate you for finding common ground. They want you to say they’re right and that’s it.

if they are even listening to what you say in the first place. you can literally tell them what they’re right about and they demand that you address other aspects of their comments.

commie,

but it didn’t stop cows from burping.

commie,

I believe there are more cows now than ever before

How to intentionally get terminated from a job without sacrificing unemployment benefits?

My friend is a customer service rep who is ready to retire. Her company is talking about layoffs with 13+ weeks of severance, but when she asked (anonymously) if they were accepting volunteers, they said no. In case she’s not one of the ones told to clean out her desk, what are the ways she could get terminated while...

commie,

automate her job. build a script that can do the job, and train her boss to use it. now she’s redundant.

commie,

The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

under what ethical system?

commie,

there’s no reason to believe what you claimed. a claim made without justification can be dismissed without justification.

commie,

The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.

i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.

commie,

that’s doesn’t follow

commie,

when you drive over a bridge, do you tip the engineering form? the contractors? they’re the ones who created this experience for you.

commie,

not the owners: the designers. what if I copy the bridge and put it in my front yard: do you think I owe royalties to the engineering firm?

commie,

they still have the design. I haven’t taken something from them. I don’t owe them anything.

commie,

your might owe under almost any circumstance, but almost all of them have to drop with a mutually agreed contract or transfer of property. what circumstance do you think created the debt here? and what if someone walks across my front yard bridge? do they owe the engineers too? it’s just silly.

commie,

rent is immoral

commie,

Ergo it’s on you to contact the owner of the design, and it’s on you to collect a fee from people using your bridge if that is what you want to do.

why?

commie,

private property is theft.

commie,

They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them.

but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.

commie,

so use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.

commie,

this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.

commie,

github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.

commie,

there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.

just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?

commie,

“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.

commie,

no, they don’t: people make things without being paid all the time.

commie,

you’re moving the goalposts.

commie,

you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.

commie,

You know it and you are simply arguing in bad faith

this is rich coming from someone who is moving the goal posts.

commie,

I know actual game developers who released their games for free or under a pay-what-you-want model. They refuse to do so again because they can’t support themselves by doing it. I am a game developer and I won’t release my games for free because I need to support myself. There is all the data you need.

the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”

commie,

your insistence on relevance is giving the lie to your denial about moving the goalposts.

commie,

everyone’s rights are controlled by politics

commie,

oooh. we should take bets on this. i would guess it’s his business plan for 2024, so i expect to see him making a public appearance sometime in january.

commie,

You don’t have to invoke the fifth amendment in order to not speak with police

courts have found that simply being silent can be a confession. you must explicitly state you are exercising your right to be silent.

commie,

your right against self incrimination includes a right to be silent. it’s not separate: it’s inclusive

commie,

the network is self-adjusting. if hash power begins to decrease, the network will decrease difficulty to maintain the target of 10 minute block times. lots of things could lead to decreased hash power. the whole network could be run with a cleverly configured raspberry pi

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