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shalafi , to lemmyshitpost in Really?

Remember when Obama chastised his Republican Congress for failing to pass the yearly roads bill? Because they didn’t want him to get a “win” by signing it? Boy howdy! Glad those crazy times are past us!

return2ozma , to lemmyshitpost in Big Brain Energy
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Her: “Beth. My name is Beth.”

Her to him: “I never give them my real name, it’s creepy.”

OpenStars ,
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Surprise twist: substitute Beth for "Karen" sometimes, just for the lolz:-P

XTornado ,

Well… At least then you can call her Beth in a joke tone… better that hey you girl come.

Seasm0ke ,
bfg9k , to internetfuneral in Now why would you ever think that?
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That’s the AT&T Long Lines building, it is just a building full of servers and phone lines.

The NSA have an office there and would tap lines they deemed suspicious since most calls across the country were routed through it.

Anticorp , (edited )

And now it’s suspected of housing their mega-computers for illegal mass surveillance. The building is supposedly built to withstand nuclear attack. It’s a building built for machines, and an example of brutalist architecture.

ashok36 ,

I think you mean brutalist architecture.

Anticorp ,

I did! Thanks for the correction.

Remmock ,

I think you mean brutalist architecture.

GladiusB ,
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That sounds a lot like surveillance

AA5B ,
bfg9k ,
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If you want more of this sort of stuff wheck out Pine Gap

Lots of shady shit happening here in straya as well

XTornado , (edited )

😂 It’s getting more real every second and the fact it sounded stupid… ( the prediction part I mean )

Kbin_space_program , to memes in Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes.

Sorry, mountain dew tastes better than tea?

What garbage store brand floor scrapings sorry ass tea have you tried.

ericbomb OP ,

Okay okay you caught me.

I don’t drink mountain dew, or black tea. I do drink some herbal tea though. Caffeine makes me sick overall.

I had this meme stuck in my head, then just brain stormed what title would get me the funniest comments.

So far saying mountain dew tastes better than tea has gotten some banger responses like this one, so all is going according to plan!

freebread ,

Sometimes the best memes are made by those who are furthest away from the subject matter. I’m over here with the 9¢ green tea bags from Wegman’s though.

zalgotext ,

The meme is about 4¢ tea bags. That’s certainly not going to taste the best.

ArcaneSlime , to lemmyshitpost in Time to grow up.

“Know what Bessie? You’re right.”

BLAM

“Honey fire up the grill! Steaks tonight!”

HardlightCereal ,

Haha yes I love to kill and eat someone whose breast I’ve suckled at

hark ,
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That’s weird, I get my milk from the grocery store. Do you recommend I drink directly from the source like you do?

HardlightCereal ,

/uj I think you should drink oat milk like I do. You shouldn’t involve cows in your breast milk fetish. And you’d best believe the only difference between oat milk and breast milk is sexual.

crapwittyname ,

Only

The chemical makeup of the two liquids is different for a start, so you’re wrong in saying that.

ScreamingFirehawk ,

Do you really think you’re doing a good job of trying to convert people to using dairy alternatives by talking like this? All you’re doing is coming across as an insane zealot

HardlightCereal ,

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  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    So you prefer to fuck children then too…?

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  • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Trump is a pedo and you just told people to think of you as Trump. Qualifiers don’t matter

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  • WldFyre ,

    /uj

    Another former VCJ user? How’d you find Lemmy with your B12 deficiency??

    Stumblinbear ,
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    Oat milk is objectively worse in taste. I actually hate it

    abraxas ,

    It’s also a lot less healthy, according to the Mayo Clinic

    SCB ,

    And you’d best believe the only difference between oat milk and breast milk is sexual.

    As someone who pretty regularly drinks plant based milk, there is no way you believe the words you just wrote.

    MossyFeathers ,

    Damn, I’m really sorry to hear about your mom.

    GrabtharsHammer ,

    She deserves nothing less for spelling it as “weening”.

    Teppichbrand ,

    Lol, killing her after abusing her. So edgy and original! Never heard that joke before.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    milking cows isn’t abuse

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Unless you consider the fact that the only reason they need milking is that they were forced into pregnancy in the first place.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    that’s still not abuse

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Ya know, all you’re doing here is advertising the fact that you have no empathy whatsoever.

    Literally nothing else.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    i have empathy. cows giving birth and producing milk isn’t abuse.

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Makes sense you are a pro lifer

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    i’m a what?

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    A person who thinks it’s okay to force pregnancy and birth onto other life forms. In the US we call these assholes “republicans”

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    everyone thinks that’s ok: how could we have beer, bread, fruits, or veggies without it? that’s not a republican, it’s just a human.

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Ah yes the “well plants are alive too!” Argument that never worked before and still doesn’t

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    when you set the standard, and i meet it, then you change the standard, that’s called “moving the goalposts.”

    neshura ,
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    I mean disagree all you want but biologically speaking plants are life. And also biologically speaking a lot of plants have some form of “pain” reflex where they can react to damage. However that argument being a stretch is also true. It does work in some circumstances, mostly when you have a militant vegan insisting all life should be protected and no life should be ended for food (has happened to me once so by no means is this a likely event but it shows that the argument does work on very rare occasions)

    On a slightly related note: from a genetic perspective fungi (as in mushrooms) are a lot closer to animals than they are to “other” plants. Not trying to use it as an argument or anything just a fun tidbit of trivia while we are on the topic.

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    Write all the bullshit you want, plants aren’t animals and you’re a moron for insinuating otherwise

    neshura ,
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    ok point me to where I wrote “plants are animals”

    I wrote “plants are life” and if you disagree with that I’m sorry but you’re delusional.

    In case it relates to the mushroom tidbit: mushrooms also aren’t animals. They’re just closer to animals than plants but in the end they are fungi.

    abraxas ,

    This is an example of behavior that pushes anyone who isn’t a militant vegan away. I even know vegans who have second thoughts about their decisions over attitudes like those represented in the comment above me.

    SnowdenHeroOfOurTime ,

    I’m not vegan I just don’t lie to myself

    abraxas ,

    Neither do I. If I had my say, everyone would spend some time on a farm and kill their own food at least once.

    There is empathy, and there is misappropriation. Farmed animals have it better than wild animals.

    neshura ,
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    In all fairness that heavily depends on the type of farming. I highly doubt mass farmed chickens have it better than their wild counterparts given they have about 2cm² of space available before they have to trample on another chicken.

    Free range farming however I absolutely agree is better for the animals than living in the wild. Imo given the various benefits (mostly the extremely reduced need for antibiotics, seriously we have to stop feeding them to animals: it’s biting us in the ass already) it offers over industrial scale farming we should move back to it.

    abraxas ,

    In all fairness that heavily depends on the type of farming. I highly doubt mass farmed chickens have it better than their wild counterparts given they have about 2cm² of space available before they have to trample on another chicken.

    I’ve seen a chicken who escaped a fox. It lived for DAYS. I’d take a battery cage over that. But I do take your point to heart.

    Free range farming however I absolutely agree is better for the animals than living in the wild. Imo given the various benefits (mostly the extremely reduced need for antibiotics, seriously we have to stop feeding them to animals: it’s biting us in the ass already) it offers over industrial scale farming we should move back to it.

    100%. My home state has free range laws and I fully support them. Our eggs went up about $1/dozen, not exactly a big deal. I would 100% support humane treatment regulations that nominally increase the price of meat products.

    And I agree about feeding animals antibiotics. I understood why they did it in the first place, but now that we know it’s harmful it needs to stop.

    dx1 ,

    Yeah, it is. Actual industry practice - impregnate cow mechanically without consent, bring baby cow to term, kill majority of baby cows for veal after separation after a few days from birth, repeat after cows stops producing milk, until cow is used up (around 10 years IIRC, a fraction of their normal lifespan) and also killed for meat.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    almost no cows end up as veal.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    The normal lifespan of a dairy cow is 5 years. two and a half to 3 years for beef cattle.

    dx1 ,

    The natural lifespan of a cow is ~25 years.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    no it’s not.

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    no, it’s not.

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  • federatingIsTooHard ,
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    the linked article doesn’t support the claim being made.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    Do you have qualifications that exceed (or equal) those of the individuals who wrote the article I linked

    this is an incredible ham-fisted appeal to authority. what i said is true or false regardless of how well qualified your (irrelevant) authors are.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    there has literally never been a holstein that lived 20 years without human intervention.

    HardNut ,

    If a cow escapes the pasture, I wouldn’t be surprised to find it dead in 20 minutes. They require the aid of fences and the protection of farm dogs in the vast majority of environments they live in. Whoever is getting cattle to live 20 years is not doing so naturally, far from it

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    it makes no sense to discuss consent from cows. do you get consent from a lamp when you turn it on?

    ArmokGoB ,

    Talking about cows giving consent for sex is peak insanity. Do you think bulls take a cow out for a few dates beforehand?

    dx1 ,

    No, I don’t. Do you think the behavior of animals justifies human behavior?

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    no one suggested that.

    Teppichbrand , (edited )

    Yes it is (4 minutes animated short with no actual graphic images)

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    i know what artificial insemination is:

    it’s a veterinary procedure.

    your cartoon isn’t an accurate representation of what happens on farms,

    and

    comparing women to cows is gross.

    dx1 ,

    It’s incredible how this always goes the same way. Somebody points out the extreme double standard we apply between behavior that would be reprehensible to our species, and that same behavior performed to a different species (that most of us struggle with understanding or having any level of communication with), and without fail, somebody comes along and goes, “you’re being misogynistic/racist by demonstrating the similarity between exploitation of animals and the same ways we exploited humans in the past, using the exact same excuses and mentality as we do for animals now!”

    Let’s try applying the standards of medicine here to insemination of cows. Is it consensual? No. Is it medically necessary? No. Is it necessary to produce a particular consumer good (one that we have other widely available options for)? Yes. Are those your standards for medical ethics? I hope not, because they’re probably beneath the standards of the typical human trafficker.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    it’s not a double standard. it’s justified discrimination. speciesism is necessary for right conduct.

    dx1 ,

    JFC, it’s one comment, don’t reply to it with five other comments. Keep that up and you’re getting blocked. 10 replies from you in my inbox just now.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    there’s a block button. feel free to use it.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    it makes no sense to discuss consent from cows. do you get consent from your chair when you sit in it?

    firala ,

    Are you actually equating living and feeling species with objects?

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    in terms of their ability to participate in consent culture, yes

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    comparing women to cows is gross. you shouldn’t do that.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    the extreme double standard we apply between behavior that would be reprehensible to our species, and that same behavior performed to a different species (that most of us struggle with understanding or having any level of communication with)

    like burying zygotes in the ground and those who survive to maturity, you cut off their reproductive organs and then grind them to dust to be fed to people?

    i guess grain harvesting is totally evil.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    the extreme double standard we apply between behavior that would be reprehensible to our species, and that same behavior performed to a different species (that most of us struggle with understanding or having any level of communication with)

    like feeding them the most basic easy-to-digest nutrients and allowing them to live in their own waste until the waste becomes so great that literally every organism living there dies? like we do with beer and wine? yea. we are totally hypocritical monsters…

    SCB ,

    Man if you just ignore the absurd message they’re trying to promote and watch this kinda stoned as surrealism, it’s a really fun video.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Teppichbrand ,

    If you’d impregnate a woman without her consent, take away her baby and then her milk to drink and make delicous cheese of you’d go to jail. If you do that to a different mammal you don’t, yet. Because specisim. We do whatever the fuck we want with them. They’re just cows.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    comparing women to cows is misogynist. don’t do that.

    abraxas ,

    These Militant Vegans think they elevate animals to equal of humans, but instead they just reduce humans to the level of animals (or below) in their treatment.

    dx1 ,

    As the saying goes, I don’t eat, exploit or sexually abuse humans either, I just rule it out across the board, while you guys don’t.

    You sure do rationalize the shit out of how we’re worse than you because we have stricter/consistent moral standards though! Always some twisted bit of logic to explain that one.

    biddy ,

    But you do exploit humans. The food you eat, the clothes you wear, actually pretty much everything you use was made with exploitation. The fact you can choose to go vegan and complain about it on the internet means you are incredibly privledged. As am I.

    You talk about rational discussion but all I’m seeing from you is the opposite, “all meat eaters are evil”.

    The world is complicated and there’s a lot of things wrong with it. You chose one problem to focus on, and that’s great. But just because other people have other things that they prioritize doesn’t mean they are bad people.

    dx1 ,

    I did not choose one problem to focus on. This whole comment is a big “tu quoque” based on assumptions about me that aren’t even true. I buy local food, I get clothes from thrift stores, etc. And I made no claim about “all meat eaters are evil”, this is just the classic “take a vegan saying that eating meat is unethical and interpret it as an attack on your character”, which is another pattern I’ve had just about enough of.

    neshura ,
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    The question of the ethics of your diet are an objective issue one way or the other

    I have a problem with your choice of words

    ethics

    objective issue

    pick one. Ethics by their very nature are subjective. Anything relating to them as a basis is therefore also subjective. There is no such thing as objective ethics. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you did not write what you meant but as written this is contradictory in itself.

    dx1 ,

    Well, this is the crux of it, isn’t it. The principles you establish an ethical system with are indeed arbitrary (not exactly “subjective”) but the actual answers you derive from any such system have a remarkable way of showing that basic recognition of rights we afford to humans (FOR SOME REASON) also extend to animals. E.g., right to life, some basic degree of bodily autonomy, consideration of wellbeing, etc. Basically the only way to construct an “ethical system” that actually “justifies” animal agriculture beyond actual life or death scenarios is one that’s oriented purely around one individuals’ selfish desires (commonly called “evil”) or one that just axiomatically presupposes human supremacy. If you base it on something actually reasonable like, beings experiencing joy is an ideal and beings experiencing suffering is to be avoided, you rapidly end up with an incongruency between what’s right and what’s happening in the world today.

    neshura ,
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    axiomatically presupposes human supremacy

    not very hard to do. All it requires is a factor that excludes almost all animals and voila. For example: only being capable of communicating abstract concepts (for example: crafting) should be afforded these rights. Since the list of animals we have observed that in is also pretty much the list of animals we don’t eat there is no moral dilemma anymore.

    Granted I’m an unapologetic human supremacist so this is a biased take but concluding some sort of human supremacy in the animal kingdom is not hard given that we pretty much rule earth. There is undeniable proof that by simply being present humans influence biospheres harder than an apex predator suddenly showing up, so we have some form of elevation above other animals pretty much proven (whether that influence is “good” is another discussion). All that’s needed then is to find anything that separates humans from animals and you have your human supremacist theory. Given our rather distinct evolutionary path that is not really a difficult exercise.

    Without deeper thought I agree with the rest of your statement though.

    dx1 ,

    Well, choosing an arbitrary ethical system because it happens to jive with your own selfish aims, for all intents and purposes that’s basically the same as having no ethical system at all. This is why you get the analogies to things like human slavery, because the same logic was used to arbitrary exclude some from consideration (e.g., supposedly biblically-founded theories that purported to show black people were on a lower plane of existence than white people as ordained by a god). Again, we don’t even apply these sort of arbitrary criteria to humans (a person who’s in a coma with no end in sight, a person with a severe learning disability…). It’s just rolling the dice and creating some arbitrarily high criteria for deciding animals don’t deserve rights.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    comparing people with learning disabilities to animals is gross and you should feel bad.

    dx1 ,

    That’s it, you’re blocked.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    oh thank god.

    biddy ,

    You don’t axiomatically presuppose human supremacy? I don’t understand how that moral position works, and I want to hear more.

    In general, we empathize more with creatures that are more similar to ourselves, and creatures that are cute. Given that, human supremacy follows logically for me. Humans are top of the heirachy, followed by similar mammals, then birds, then fish, then insects. It’s sad that’s there’s a heirachy, but the alternative is considering the life of an insect equal in value to the life of a human. I think that’s a less moral position, but it would also drive you insane because we murder so many insects in our lives.

    I don’t believe it’s possible to have a consistent and non-hypocrytical ethical system, and if it was that wouldn’t be desirable. Every meat eater I’ve ever met agrees that agriculture kinda sucks, but they have other priorities.

    dx1 ,

    Experience, joy, suffering etc. are based in actual physical realities, neurological structure, electrical impulses, neurotransmitters, learning, etc. That’s how. It’s based on the actual demonstrable fact of animal experience.

    biddy ,

    That’s an arbitrary line too though. Insects experience some form of emotion, but it appears not as complex as a mammal. If you’re going to define value of life by (estimated)complexity of experience, then we’re both agreed on a similar heirachy with humans at the top.

    My point is that there’s nuance. Everyone has their own opinion and none of us are right or wrong.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    This whole comment is a big “tu quoque” based on assumptions about me that aren’t even true.

    it might be a tu quoque if it weren’t for the fact that you set yourself up as the standard, and you’re standing on a lie.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    take your pride and your identity politics and get them out of the conversation.

    we actually sacrifice something to try to do the right thing, and get treated like subhumans for it. Having an actual rational discussion is right out the window

    pick one?

    abraxas ,

    As the saying goes, I don’t eat, exploit or sexually abuse humans either

    First off, feel free to open with any scientific evidence that cows suffer the emotional trauma of sexual abuse from farming. Because the thing is, we have thousands of years of evidence and that doesn’t seem to be the correct conclusion. No, calling cattle insemination sexual abuse is a malicious lie.

    You sure do rationalize the shit out of how we’re worse than you because we have stricter/consistent moral standards though!

    This. Right. fucking. here. You are telling me that my moral system is less than dirt. That I am inferior to you. You don’t talk about it with any genuine respect. If I won’t “sexually abuse” my ethics, I’m dirt underneath your feet. You didn’t argue the points here, because I’m beneath you. Less than you. Let me guess, some of that human-hating-vegan propaganda where I either haven’t thought about it, or I’ve taken a retardation shotgun to my head because I “loooooooove” the taste of meat? Because I can’t just think YOU’RE wrong. No, I can’t do that. Because I’m too stupid to. Right?

    You wouldn’t really understand unless you’ve lived through it, but it’s a little nasty little bit of discrimination in its own right

    I’m a member of a fringe religion that my country tried to ban, so fuck “little nasty bit of discrimination”. YOU DON’T GET TO CALL YOURSELF A VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE YOU BELITTLING ME. That’s not how discrimination works. You sound like the Religious Right who think they are victims every time they don’t get to ban Mosques or gay marriage.

    and get treated like subhumans for it

    I don’t think you’re a subhuman. I think you’re a zealot. HUGE fucking difference. It’s not discrimination when you judge someone’s actions. I don’t call your horrible behavior “discriminatory” because you’re disagreeing with what I do and not who I am. The judgement is mutual. You don’t get to call it discriminatory because I won’t bend over for you and your bullshit pseudoscience.

    Having an actual rational discussion is right out the window

    You mean by calling the dairy and cattle industry “sexual abuse”? You start being the least bit rational, and then you can MAYBE try to judge the kettle. Let me point out that I was agreeing with somebody about treating cows and women the same being misogynistic, and you just fucking went off on me. Because agreeing that bullshit is bullshit is somehow “irrational” and attacking non-vegans for not accepting that bullshit is “irrational”. No. YOU are irrational.

    because god forbid you engage honestly with a “militant vegan” who’s lived through, rejected and moved past the thinking you’re still stuck on.

    Actually I was engaging with a decent human being I agreed with, and a militant vegan decided to approach me with a persecution complex. So in this thread, why should I care what you’ve lived through? Do you approve of being approach on the street by strangers and judged?

    And I’ve “lived through, rejected, and moved past” your thinking, too. I used to be an active member of a religion that has strong roots in both philosophical veganism and in philosophical omnivorism. Circle of live vs All life is sacred sects. You might not realize it, but a lot of people with a lot more understanding of ethics and a lot more philosophical background than you have spent a lot more time thinking about veganism than you have. And I lived through it, rejected it, and came out the other side.

    dx1 ,

    First off, feel free to open with any scientific evidence that cows suffer the emotional trauma of sexual abuse from farming. Because the thing is, we have thousands of years of evidence and that doesn’t seem to be the correct conclusion. No, calling cattle insemination sexual abuse is a malicious lie.

    Rambling article that fails to prove its central point. Points out that cows identify humans as “the predator” but for some reason think this doesn’t factor into a negative experience for human arms being jammed inside them? I don’t know why people feel so compelled to defend this.

    This. Right. fucking. here. You are telling me that my moral system is less than dirt. That I am inferior to you.

    This whole paragraph is literally the rationalization process. You internalize that somebody pointing out an ethical issue is attacking you personally, and from there launch into a whole thing about what a zealot absolute-fucking-asshole they must be for pointing it out, how they must think you’re stupid, how dare they, blah blah blah. I am literally just talking about how a practice is unethical and the negative experiences (like this) I’ve had discussing it with people, where people flare up into an emotional shitstorm instead of talking about it calmly and rationally. You’re doing it right now.

    I’m a member of a fringe religion that my country tried to ban, so fuck “little nasty bit of discrimination”. YOU DON’T GET TO CALL YOURSELF A VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE YOU BELITTLING ME.

    I don’t think you’re a subhuman. I think you’re a zealot.

    It is discrimination. We take an ethical position and this is generalized as a stereotype to some kind of critical fault in our personalities. That worse forms of discrimination exist, or that you’ve experienced them, doesn’t change that.

    And I’ve “lived through, rejected, and moved past” your thinking, too. I used to be an active member of a religion that has strong roots in both philosophical veganism and in philosophical omnivorism. Circle of live vs All life is sacred sects. You might not realize it, but a lot of people with a lot more understanding of ethics and a lot more philosophical background than you have spent a lot more time thinking about veganism than you have. And I lived through it, rejected it, and came out the other side.

    Now you’re belittling me, ironically. And what was the actual thinking that led you to “come out the other side”? At some point here are you trying to get past all the identity politics and being offended over whatever to actually talk about brass tacks here?

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    You sure do rationalize the shit out of how we’re worse than you because we have stricter/consistent moral standards though!

    You internalize that somebody pointing out an ethical issue is attacking you personally

    you are attacking them personally.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    where people flare up into an emotional shitstorm instead of talking about it calmly and rationally.

    lol. from the user who feels the need to announce a block because they don’t like when i tell them they’re wrong.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    What is the grand scientific/philosophical reasoning you used to decide that it’s A-OK to use & abuse animals for human gain?

    no one said abuse is ok.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
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    Buddha’s reasoning for when eating meat is excusable does not apply to animal agriculture at all

    i don’t think you’ve ever asked buddha about it.

    abraxas ,

    Rambling article that fails to prove its central point

    Glad you concede.

    This whole paragraph is literally the rationalization process

    Thanks for admitting to what you were about to do. I agree, you are doing nothing but rationalizing in that paragraph.

    It is discrimination. We take an ethical position and this is generalized as a stereotype to some kind of critical fault in our personalities - incorrectly

    Please admit that the above quote, too, is rationalization.

    Ironically the “zealots” were a Jewish sect that objected to the unethicalness of Roman rule and were trying to throw it off

    You are doing one of three things. Either you do not know what people tend to mean by “zealot”, or you are trying to change a topic you know you cannot win, or you are arguing in bad faith. Please let me know which.

    Now you’re belittling me, ironically

    Not really. I am telling you that you’re not the only (or most) educated and prepared person in the vegan/meat discussion. Unless we take “vegans are axiomatically right”, you have a fairly massive burden of proof if you want to continue being offended by the idea that a non-vegan can have a 3-digit IQ.

    Thanks for the discussion. Don’t reply.

    dx1 ,

    This is just obnoxious.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    when you try to right the ship to actually talk about the concrete issue, and the other person keeps trying to turn it into personal me-vs-you and who’s-better-than-who - they’re operating in bad faith

    jesus christ. there is no self awareness here at all.

    abraxas ,

    Thanks for the apology. Forgiven. Now onto the topic. I understand how emotional vegans can get on these issues.

    What is the reasoning that’s superior to vegan reasoning?

    Sticking with ethics, a few bullet points.

    1. “Nulla poena sine lege”… “Everything which is not forbidden is allowed”. A legal (and ethical) maxim. Lacking compelling reason to accept vegan reasoning, it is ethical to eat meat.
    2. Every ethical system has at least one argument that supports meat-eating. Joined with bullet point 1, there is no foundation worthy of continuing the discussion. A strong argument for veganism alongside a strong argument against veganism boils down to “Everything which is not forbidden is allowed”, so long as one pro-meat argument remains. Pick any ethical system if you want to dig in deeper, but I tend towards Utilitarianism.
    3. Similar to the above, life is suffering. The animals I eat live better lives than most humans, and would live WORSE lives or NO lives if they were not being eaten. (See Sir Karl Popper below)

    There is my ethical reasoning that is superior to vegan reasoning. If you’re interested in someone with better foundations than even me, look up Sir Karl Popper’s position on this matter (the philosopher of the “Paradox of Tolerance” fame). He holds to Negative Utilitarianism, and disagrees with veganism being a utilitarian virtue. It was largely in response to (and/or is used in response to) Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, a Utilitarian argument for veganism I strongly disagree with.

    Therefore, “Everything which is not forbidden is allowed”

    dx1 ,

    Mmn, so negative utilitarianism, the stance that people should minimize suffering. And for some reason this does not apply to animals?

    abraxas ,

    Check out Karl Popper’s arguments. I’d link you, but I’m having a hell of a time finding them (which sucks because he was one of my view’s larger influences).

    For my points, it’s simply that through any analysis, farming animals is more net utility than not. I actually hold to it by positive Utilitarianism as well as Negative.

    First is the utility of people consuming them (if there wasn’t any, everyone would just drop meat-eating in a heartbeat). There is undeniably utility in consuming meat/dairy. In a vacuum, this isn’t everything. Obviously there’s utility in a starving person committing cannibalism. In a counter-vacuum, it’s still not-nothing, since there is arguably negative utility in a plant being eaten (just not much).

    Second is the utility in domesticated animals. The alternatives are wild animals or anti-natalism. For the former, there is no question that even the worst case “veal cow with botched slaughter” is better than the best case of wild animals (life of constant starvation and fear, ended slowly and incredibly painfully). As for anti-natalism… I hold with Karl Popper. To exist and feel pain is better than not to exist. Farm animls have plenty of positive-utility moments.

    Third is the Utility Monster scenario. HUMANS are Utility Monsters, as compared to animals. This is not to be confused with human exceptionalism. Cows are not planning what to name their grandchildren, waiting for Christmas Dinner. They’re not excited for a delicious meal, slow roasted for 12 hours. The truth is, there is more Utility to 1000 families eating a hamburger or a steak filet than a slaughtered cow living 1 more year, even 10 more years. If one argues we are of equal utility to animals, then I do not see justification that any being should have less utility than any other. And that includes insects and, yes, plants. Either qualities of a species affect utility or they do not. One cannot have their cake and eat it.

    So to sum it up… There is no disagreement that agriculture creates net positive utility for humans, right? Well, I have shown that agriculture also creates net positive utility to animals. Disagree or not, even if you could somehow poke holes in some of those points, there is an avalanche of Reason to the idea that a non-vegan world is simply better than a vegan world.

    dx1 ,

    Agriculture in general creates net positive utility for humans but there’s a rough equivalency for that benefit between animal and non-animal ag (actually worse for our health to eat the animal products) while it creates huge negatives for the animals involved. The equation of people consuming animal ag products to proof that it “creates utility” strikes me as the same fallacy as saying smoking cigarettes has “utility” - I’d argue it’s an irrational behavior (in terms of selfish benefit alone) that prioritizes very short-term enjoyment over long-term enjoyment.

    I don’t know where you’re getting the idea animals are living “better than humans”, this is divorced from reality. Industrial animal agriculture is just that, an industrial process, animals in miserable conditions for their short lives to promote the bottom line of the company in question. Propagandized takes depict cows roaming around lush green hills and such, but essentially anything appearing in a supermarket had absolutely nothing to do with this.

    On top of that there’s the actual reality of the incredible resource (read: water, fossil fuels) usage associated with animal agriculture because it’s inherently wasteful at scale, which is a contributing factor to our destruction of the environment sustaining our existence.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    bravo

    abraxas ,

    Please note, I made a few last minute edits you may have missed. I don’t think it matters because you do not appear to have addressed (or understood?) my arguments.

    Agriculture in general creates net positive utility for humans

    Sorry, I’m being strict in my terminology. I am using “Agriculture” to refer to the husbandry and harvesting of animals for human consumption. For the latter, I would use the term “horticulture”.

    while it creates huge negatives for the animals involved

    I have argued the opposite of this fairly comprehensively. It is bad form to open as if the opposite of my argument is axiomatic. If you are going to concede that my point was valid, then you cannot presume its opposite. If not, you are better off addressing my argument.

    The equation of people consuming animal ag products to proof that it “creates utility” strikes me as the same fallacy as saying smoking cigarettes has “utility”

    Cigarettes DO have some utility. They also have tremendous amounts of negative utility because they cause people to suffer horrific, multi-month-long deaths. My angles and my arguments applied to cigarettes would (correctly) conclude that cigarettes are a terrible thing while STILL defending that meat-eating is a good thing.

    I’d argue it’s an irrational behavior (in terms of selfish benefit alone) that prioritizes very short-term enjoyment over long-term enjoyment.

    There is value in both short- and long-term enjoyment. If you think there is no utility in short-term enjoyment at all, please provide the argument… but please open with a reason why that is even relevant to this discussion.

    I don’t know where you’re getting the idea animals are living “better than humans”, this is divorced from reality.

    Just look at relative average stress levels of farm animals compared to humans. And how much they suffer throughout their life. And what percent of their days are good. To quote Martin Luther King Jr. “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.” Their lower consciousness has its advantages as well as disadvantages. But a cow on a farm will not suffer through 3 years of agony and self-awareness of death with metastatic lung cancer because they smoked as a kid.

    Also, I’d like to point out that your incredulity is not an effective response.

    Industrial animal agriculture is just that, an industrial process, animals in miserable conditions for their short lives to promote the bottom line of the company in question

    I agree. Ditto with certain human societies (ever seen homeless tent cities, refugees? Ever heard of a little thing called the Holocaust?). And as with human societies, we should be responsible for improving things. But if THIS is your crux, I would be happy to move forward on the discussion of Industrial Animal Agriculture if you will concede that (for example) free range chicken farming is 100% ethically sound. Otherwise, let’s stick to the topic of agriculture as a whole. If you want to have a chance to argue the ethics of veganism, you need to steelman meat-eating. You’re creating weaknesses in your own arguments by using points that most cattle ranchers already argue.

    Propagandized takes depict cows roaming around lush green hills and such, but essentially anything appearing in a supermarket had absolutely nothing to do with this.

    Of course not. Having cows roam in lush green hills is stupid. They don’t care about the color of the hills. Free range cattle roam around on non-arable land and eat the grasses and weeds that will grow anywhere. I often get to see the cows and pigs I’ll someday eat living pretty damn good lives. I’ve got dairy industry in my family, so I’m not “making shit up”. I’ll re-offer my point above. Agree that some meat eating is ethical and I will happily focus on the topic of industrial farming and where to draw that line. At that point, I’m sure we’ll find some common ground, and some disagreements.

    On top of that there’s the actual reality of the incredible resource (read: water, fossil fuels) usage associated with animal agriculture because it’s inherently wasteful at scale

    That is its own topic, and short of a magic bullet that doesn’t exist that particular thread can’t put a dent in ethics arguments. I think you either need to decide whether to concede the ethics topic we’ve already started and we’ll pivot to ecology, or stick with the topic at hand.

    See earlier point about short-term vs. long-term, except extended to the entire species. We would surely not enjoy an extinction event.

    And this is where you sorta walked into your own magic bullet analysis. Care to provide that magic bullet that dairy and meat will destroy humanity and individuals cutting out dairy/meat will save humanity? The farming industry I consume has the same carbon/methane footprint it had prior to the industrial era. Yet again, let’s stick to the topic shall we?

    dx1 ,

    Agriculture refers to both animal and non-animal ag. Hence the prefix “animal” for “animal agriculture”.

    “Huge negatives for animals involved” is the reality of industrial agriculture, which provides the vast majority of meat (animal products in general) for human consumption today. To your later point, “free range” is typically what’s referred to as “greenwashing”, where a company has to meet some bare-minimum criteria to get a stamp on their product. E.g., the USDA criteria for “free range” re: eggs:

    Eggs packed in USDA grademarked consumer packages labeled as free range must be produced by hens that are able to roam vertically and horizontally in indoor houses, and have access to fresh food and water, and continuous access to the outdoors during their laying cycle.

    Re: cigarettes - it should be clear I’m referring to net negative “utility”.

    Just look at relative average stress levels of farm animals compared to humans.

    Don’t know what your methodology is for determining this. Separation trauma at birth, confined spaces and health hazards from living in waste are not a formula for stress-free living.

    Ecology is not a distinct topic from ethics. Ecological outcomes have pronounced effects on human and animal experience. I alluded to this already.

    Care to provide that magic bullet that dairy and meat will destroy humanity and individuals cutting out dairy/meat will save humanity?

    Estimates on greenhouse gas emissions seem to converge at roughly 20-25% for animal agriculture, with roughly a 10x increase over more efficient plant agriculture. A comparable increase holds for water usage, fertilizer usage, etc., due to the caloric loss intrinsic to producing feed for animals versus consuming plant agriculture products directly. Part of the problem with this interpretation is that, even if you’re only consuming actual “free range”, chickens-walking-around-outdoors-pecking-bugs, cows-roaming-grasslands-nondestructively animal agriculture, the actual vast majority of animal agriculture does not fit this profile. (Side note, it is remarkable how almost everyone you talk to about this only eats the “free range” “humanely produced” animal products, when the vast majority of the products are not). The negative effects of animal ag on animals are less pronounced in non-confined spaces, but still fit the profile of exploitation for human use at negative benefit for humans relative to plant consumption.

    Your central point seems to be that the benefit derived from eating animals for humans outweighs negligible negative effects on animals in an isolated best-world case of free range, “humane slaughter” scenarios. I would dispute that it’s a net positive for humans in the first place, and you’re basically putting the actual vast majority of animal agriculture in a special category you get to ignore because, supposedly, there are negligible or no negative effects on the animals that you consume. Which, first off, I doubt, but second, hits the ethical question of killing, which bears mentioning the ethics we apply to humans on these grounds. We do not consider it ethically acceptable to kill a random human walking down the street, of your own volition. Why? Something like, the trauma that their family/friends/acquaintances would endure, and the cost of denying them the rest of their life. For some reason these same points are not held true of animals? You may deny that they experience such trauma, but that would be incorrect. And the cost of denying them the rest of their life is undeniable.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    Agriculture refers to both animal and non-animal ag.

    they told you how they’re using the term. you can’t correct them about that.

    abraxas ,

    Yeah, this was petty of him, showing he’s still really emotionally invested.

    The agriculture/horticulture split is established terminology and he concedes nothing by accepting my use of it.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    You may deny that they experience such trauma, but that would be incorrect. And the cost of denying them the rest of their life is undeniable.

    you assert this without evidence.

    abraxas ,

    I’m going to back him on this (crazy right?!?). If I am arguing that “having life” is utility (which I did, by directly confronting anti-natalism before he could bring it up), he has the right to include the utility of existing in his argument.

    He did not, however, actually make an argument with it. He kinda shot that one out without any real direction.

    abraxas ,

    Agriculture refers to both animal and non-animal ag. Hence the prefix “animal” for “animal agriculture”.

    Are you really arguing definitions of words meaninglessly? “Animal agriculture” is an awkwardly long term for what they call “agriculture” in the industry.

    “Huge negatives for animals involved” is the reality of industrial agriculture, which provides the vast majority of meat

    Yet again, either address the argument directly or concede the argument and I’ll be happy to change topic.

    To your later point, “free range"

    Thank you for reminding me I know what “Free range” means. Did you have an argument?

    Re: cigarettes - it should be clear I’m referring to net negative “utility”.

    Well then, you didn’t provide an argument at all. Just an indefensible analogy. Care to provide an argument instead?

    Just look at relative average stress levels of farm animals compared to humans. Don’t know what your methodology is for determining this

    Simplest answer is to look at stress-response. Humans and primates have more stress-related illnesses. There are those who think it’s because animals handle the stress better, but it at least prima facie demonstrates that animals don’t suffer from long-term stress like humans do. Further, just look at wildlife vs domestic animal stress. Farm animals show less stress factors than wild animals (who show less stress factors than humans). It’s a selfish thing, but animal meat tastes better if they are stressed less, therefore it is of value to farmers to keep the animal stress down.

    None of the above is unquestionable fact (except the part where stressed animals have worse-tasting meat), but all of the above is consistent with experience. It is reasonable to believe it and (imo) less reasonable to reject it.

    Ecology is not a distinct topic from ethics. Ecological outcomes have pronounced effects on human and animal experience. I alluded to this already.

    Do you know what gishgallop is, and why it’s intellectually dishonest? I’m not going to let you keep widening the net until it’s impossible to have a stance regardless of the real strength to my arguments and lack of strength to yours.

    Estimates on greenhouse gas emissions seem to converge at roughly 20-25% for animal agriculture, with roughly a 10x increase over more efficient plant agriculture

    This is why I’m trying to avoid the topic swap. This is NOT a magic bullet. Not only that, but it introduces a mountain of logical fallacies that’ll take hours to argue out. Again, I’m happy to address it when we have resolved ALL THE OTHER TOPICS that have already been brought up. If I am wrong in my direct utility arguments, you don’t need to bring up the environment. If you need to bring up the environment, concede those points and we can move on to that topic.

    So in summary, do you concede that:

    1. Meat-eating is net-positive for consumers?
    2. Non-industrial farming is net-positive utility for animals?
    3. Farm Animal life is ethically better than wildlife and anti-natalism?

    If so, great. I’ll be happy to move on to the environmental impact challenges. If not, then let’s get back to the topic at hand shall we?

    dx1 ,

    Yep, calling it here.

    abraxas ,

    Thank you for the discussion, for whatever it was.

    I’m assuming you thought I didn’t know what I was addressing, and instead realized I’m fairly well-acquainted with it. I did try to warn you of that fact.

    dx1 ,

    It’s not that.

    abraxas ,

    I accept your concession.

    Thank you for recognizing it and bowing out. You’re a better person for it.

    dx1 ,

    It’s not that either.

    abraxas ,

    If that’s the case, I mean you could explain what it is. Because I do believe I’ve accepted it correctly (if more charitably than you intended it)

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    bravo

    abraxas ,

    Gracias.

    The issue with veganism is not that there’s no arguments for it (there are some). It’s that there’s plenty of arguments for meat-eating that are just as good… and that so many vegans aren’t willing to take those arguments seriously.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    We take an ethical position and this is generalized as a stereotype to some kind of critical fault in our personalities

    it’s not about your ethical position, it’s about your personality faults.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    no one is sexually abusing animals, either, and you most certainly do exploit other people.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    Having an actual rational discussion is right out the window because god forbid you engage honestly with

    someone who understands your arguments and doesnt fall for them.

    dx1 ,

    I’ve read this reply in so many forms over the years, and it absolutely misses the point. It’s not misogynistic, the point isn’t to downgrade human women, it’s to point out the horrendous inhuman actions we do to animals and how they absolutely fail the basic moral reasoning we apply to ourselves.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    I think it’s reasonable to expect that we treat women better than cows.

    neshura ,
    @neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

    wow the absolute irony of this statement being downvoted. Turn it around and it would be, rightfully, absolutely shat on for being misogynistic to the max.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    it’s a pretty obvious brigade

    neshura ,
    @neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

    even if not intended you do downgrade human women. Even in the best case scenario a cow is still incapable of holding a conversation on a human level. There are very few animals that can hold a candle to our intellect and by claiming you should treat human women the same as an animal incapable of higher conversation you ARE insulting them and downgrading them.

    dx1 ,

    Except I didn’t even say that.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    talking about consent from cows is absurd: do you get consent from a door before you put your whole self through it?

    dx1 ,

    Don’t confuse you not being able to obtain consent from them, with them having an inability to not want something. This speaks to you having no clue what’s going on in their heads.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    sentence and consent are unrelated. One has nothing to do with the other.

    dx1 ,

    An animal can indicate things to a human, i.e., “I want food”, “please scratch me”, or “where is my baby that you just took away”. They can’t sign their name on a legally binding contract but that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of wanting or not wanting something. There is a connection between the two things, namely that their sentient experience involves wants and non-wants, likes and dislikes, joy and trauma.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    none of this means the consent is a relevant topics for any species except humans.

    federatingIsTooHard ,
    @federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world avatar

    speciesism is necessary for right action.

    SCB ,

    We do whatever the fuck we want with them. They’re just cows.

    Your tone suggests this is sarcastic, but this is 100% correct.

    phoenixz , to technology in Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

    Mofos

    Return me ALL my money for that, fuck your girftcard coupon shit! That is the least you can do and still doesn’t change the fact that I can’t buy to own anything there, so why the fuck would I?

    Jellyfin and torrents for the win!

    brax ,

    Gift cards and store credit are such a kick to the balls. Unless they let you buy shit AT COST then they’re literally not out anything.

    DarienGS ,

    They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they’re probably taking some sort of loss.

    brax ,

    Admittedly, I missed the second £5. That said, don’t you need to pay for a Prime subscription to get access to this service in the first place? They’re gonna get that money back pretty quickly.

    DarienGS ,

    They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

    Malfeasant ,

    The house always wins.

    phoenixz ,

    It’s store credit in principle it costs them nothing

    DarienGS ,

    Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

    cantstopthesignal ,

    I buy DVDs for this reason now

    Maalus ,

    Dvds won’t last years either unless you copy them over

    OldQWERTYbastard ,

    Nevermind the fact that the standard definition playback looks like a smeared turd when you play it on a modern high resolution display. I’ll stick to ripping Blu-ray.

    Malfeasant ,

    I think when someone casually says DVD they’re including Blu-ray, like if you say Kleenex, you might be talking about Puffs or Scott or something else…

    cantstopthesignal ,

    Nope, DVDs are like $3-5. I don’t care about resolution. I watch old shitty movies.

    uloske ,

    jellyfin+cloudstream for when I don’t have the mood to click a couple buttons on radarr/sonarr is the perfect solution

    DarienGS ,

    You’re saying you can’t buy to own anything… at Amazon?

    Honytawk ,

    Not in their cloud, no.

    DarienGS ,

    Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.

    PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

    They generally credit the original payment method. It could be likely that he paid for the movie using an Amazon giftcard balance.

    starman2112 , to memes in Daylight savings is a silly invention
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Every time I see a meme like this, I freak out a little bit because I wonder if it’s happening soon

    I’ve been an adult through 20+ changes of the clock, and I still will not know when it’s time to change them until 3 days before

    5dashes ,

    3 days before?
    If anything I notice the wrong time on my oven.

    Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
    @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

    Found the guy without kids. Each switch is hell for 3-7 days, regardless of age. I like to know it's coming way ahead of time so I can start adjusting their schedules to limit the damage.

    RQG ,
    @RQG@lemmy.world avatar

    This guy kids.

    I hate daylight savings even more since I have kids.

    Cheez ,

    Yeah 3 days before? I only found out it was DST this weekend just gone because I happened to still be up.

    Me: man it’s almost 2am, I should go to bed
    DST: lol 3am

    hoch ,

    TIL Austrialia has their own weird daylight savings time

    Cheez ,

    Yeah we stopped being on Arizona time in the 70s.

    bamboo ,

    20+ time changes just accounts for the last 10+ years (assuming you live in an area with DST)

    starman2112 ,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    And I’m 28, the math maths

    GrimSheeper ,

    Perhaps the only good thing about living in Arizona is that I don’t have to deal with daylight savings time. We have too much daylight here as it is

    kep , to memes in welp.

    There’s a grain of truth in here, but not quite. One in every four or so (not quite, but we can roll with it regardless) identified species of animal is a beetle. Not one in every four animals, by population nor overall species.

    The reasons for this is are many, but may include because beetles are big, easy to catch, agriculturally-significant, and are particularly easy to pin and study, dramatically boosting the count of beetle species we work with on an academic level (lending to higher identification rates). There are also just a shitload of beetle species, naturally.

    Scientists estimate something closer to ~10 million species of animals, which would still make beetles a huge percentage of the species, but a far cry from 25%. If you looked at the total number (estimated) of individual animals, beetles are pretty insignificant.

    Source: Studied entomology and love me some Coleoptera

    greenfish OP ,
    @greenfish@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s exactly what a beetle would say

    Jay , to memes in 5 parallel universes ahead

    Who will explain the concept of a regular printer to him?

    ssboomman ,

    Teachers are starting to enforce hand written assignments to stop the use of chatGPT

    Jay ,

    Sure, but you can clearly see from the result that it’s not handwritten. The person could have used a normal printer.

    SirAtomic ,

    This video says it’s possible to make it look like a human wrote it.

    Jay ,

    That’s really cool

    Hamartiogonic ,
    @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

    If you’re wondering if this is more work than writing the actual essay, we don’t talk about that here.

    GigglyBobble ,

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  • ssboomman ,

    It’s a deterrent, not an end all be all solution to end cheating.

    protist ,

    They want you to hand copy what ChatGPT outputs and turn it in? That’s a terrible response to AI. If they want to hold you accountable, they should have you write it right there in front of them.

    ssboomman ,

    It’s a deterrent, not an end all be all solution to end cheating.

    VikingHippie ,

    Now you’re sounding like Elon Musk demanding that people who work better from home return to Tesla offices…

    Only worse, since you also want to add an extra anxiety-inducing and impractical layer of in-person surveillance 🤦

    protist ,

    This has nothing to do with work from home policies. I also don’t know how to approach the concept that completing schoolwork in school is “in person surveillance” and not just “schoolwork”

    VikingHippie ,

    It’s like (lack of) work from home politicies in that it’s forcing people to do things a specific way in a specific place even though it’s much less convenient AND much less efficient.

    It’s in person surveillance because “right in front of” implies physical proximity where the teacher is watching, making some students unnecessarily anxious.

    I get that you probably grew up in a more primitive time where such methods were the norm, but things change as society progresses and your industrial age solution to an information age challenge is likely to cause a lot more harm than good, if it even does good at all.

    protist ,

    Ok, so if you think students demonstrating their knowledge in class is “primitive,” can you describe how you think school should work?

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    He thinks AI should do all the thinking for him and he should be able to take all of the credit, so he doesn’t have to learn anything. Ignorance is something to strive for to these people because ignorance = less work.

    VikingHippie ,

    Nope, never said any such nonsense. Sounds like you’re projecting your own ignorance onto me and whomever else “these people” are.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    I said you think, and you do. Anyone who advocates allowing young people to let AI do their schoolwork for them thinks that way. All your arguments point to letting people do such, therefore that’s what you want and what you think. I am an adult who actually paid attention in school and I can read context of conversations… You’re not getting anything past me.

    Now go do your homework, lazy fucking brat.

    VikingHippie ,

    First of all, I never once advocated for AI to do homework for people. On the contrary.

    Second of all, even if I had, you don’t have the amazing mind reading powers you seem to ascribe to yourself.

    I’m an adult who actually paid attention in school too. Guess the difference is that I didn’t STOP paying attention and developing my view of our ever-changing world the moment I left school like you seem to have done.

    VikingHippie ,

    I think students ONLY demonstrating their knowledge in class and being forced to do work that would be better accomplished elsewhere is primitive, yes.

    I think school should take advantage of modern technology such as computers and the internet without letting doing the pseudo-plagiarism of having GPT do everything. Enforcement of the latter doesn’t necessitate going back to how things were done in the 80s and earlier.

    protist ,

    You said “Schools should use technology; students shouldn’t use ChatGPT,” but this is devoid of actual ideas on how to address what we’re talking about

    VikingHippie ,

    If absolutely necessary, you could install software that detects and blocks ChatGPT. It’s probably already available. You don’t have to go back to the stone age every time a new technology poses potential problems.

    protist ,

    Writing an essay in class without using the Internet is not “going back to the stone age,” it’s a basic application of learning…

    VikingHippie ,

    Ever hear of hyperbolic expressions? I was using one of those.

    Basic isn’t always best, especially when “back to basics” is outdated and impractical methods that unnecessarily favor some students over others by rejecting valuable tools and methods that will be crucial for life after school.

    protist ,

    We’re talking about doing an assignment in class

    VikingHippie ,

    First of all, we were talking about homework. By definition you don’t waste instruction time doing that in class. Second, you were insisting on it being handwritten as if it’s the 80s or earlier.

    Just give it a rest with the reactionary backwards reform ideas, grandpa.

    protist ,

    If a teacher needs to evaluate a student’s level of comprehension, they have students demonstrate their level of comprehension in class, I just don’t get what you think is a “reactionary backwards reform(?) idea.” Homework itself is largely an outdated and “primitive” teaching method that has shown to be counterproductive to student well-being and learning when applied indiscriminately. I never said anything about hand writing, the word “to write” means “to set down in writing.” Of course students could and should type their work lol

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    You sound like a lazy spoiled brat who just wants to get out of doing homework and play video games all day.

    pankuleczkapl ,
    @pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Homework requiring writing some shit down from Wikipedia is useless homework anyways - and here this seems to be the case.

    pinkdrunkenelephants ,

    They’re trying to make sure you actually read the material. 🤦

    pankuleczkapl ,
    @pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    But why would you? You should be able to use any sources you want to learn whenever you want, just be prepared for the exam. I wrote hundreds useless homeworks like this in middle school and I remember nothing from most of them.

    pinkdrunkenelephants , (edited )

    Because participating in life means you have to know things, not Google.

    If you won’t, we’ll just use Google and save money by not even hiring you. If you can do it with an AI, so can we, so we don’t need you. It’s as simple as that.

    Stop being lazy and pay attention in class.

    BigNote ,

    You won’t be prepared for the exam unless you actually do the work ahead of time. That may not be immediately true in middle school, but it’s definitely true by the time you get to upper division undergrad coursework, at least if you’re in a competitive program. You really are only selling yourself short in terms of being competitive at the next level.

    This is even more true in grad school where you are expected to produce twice as much in half the time.

    VikingHippie ,

    Never said anything of the sort. That’s your own uncreative view of the world refusing to see any alternative to how things were done back when they didn’t have the technology we have today.

    BigNote ,

    Ok, so hand copy all your assignments from ChatGPT all semester and I, the instructor, will count them as 50 percent of your final grade. The other 50 percent is based on a hand-written final essay written in class. How do you think you will do?

    I am old so all of my formal university education was completed decades ago, but people cheated back then too and in my experience it’s usually way more effort than it’s worth as opposed to just doing the work and coming out with the skills you’ll need to be successful at the next level.

    That’s my dreary little bit of moralizing for the day.

    VikingHippie ,

    Sounds like a disability act lawsuit waiting to happen tbh. Some of us have very poor fine motor skills or worse and would be severely disadvantaged by having to do even short hand written assignments…

    u202307011927 ,
    @u202307011927@feddit.de avatar

    What the actual …

    Kolrami ,

    If someone actually had a disability, they wouldn’t have to do it or would be given other accommodations. That’s basically how it was for thousands of years before people had word processors.

    VikingHippie ,

    Yeah, except many schools don’t have the tools to properly do such accommodation, meaning that the students with disabilities are inevitably left behind.

    Especially the ones like me with hard to detect disabilities such as ADHD who would have to fight tooth and nail to get their disability acknowledged in the first place and then to convince them of the fact that ADHD, while being mainly mental, DOES significantly impair fine motor skills used for hand writing.

    moosetwin ,
    @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Lemmy accidentally deleted my comment right before I was going to post it, I had to rewrite it.

    I’ve fought for years to get accommodations that I was legally obligated to, (504 Plan) fought with a school, (they were actively refusing to give accommodations, illegally) for 3 years, before giving up and switching schools.

    The next couple of schools I tried were not well equipped to provide accommodations, albeit not malicious, (in one case not telling anyone until two months in)

    Even after I finally got what I was legally owed, I still had to put up with often writing assignments by hand, (I have fine motor coordination disorder, as the commenter above mentioned), including an entire test. (One of the end of year ones for my sophomore year)

    I also have CAPD, which allowed me to skip taking Spanish class, after two years of fighting for it. (I failed the first year of Spanish for obvious reasons, I had to retake it the next year.) (This was at the first school, I don’t know why I was able to get this accommodation but not the others, I was in middle school)

    HenriVolney ,

    Fun fact, fine motor skills are taught differently in different countries. In some countries, children spend a considerable time improving their writing skills and even the less gifted reach a reasonable level. Of course, I am not talking about children with central nervous system or physical disabilities.

    Also, spending so much time on fine motor skills reduces their ability to work in other, somewhat more relevant skills.

    VikingHippie ,

    I’m not talking about students who haven’t done their cursive exercises, I’m talking about students with disabilities making hand writing inherently much more difficult than for other students, especially the ones who’d have to fight tooth and nail to prove it because their handicap is generally thought to be “only mental” in spite of being more complex, like ADHD.

    ylai ,

    Germany traditionally is quite shocking in their practice of segregating children with disabilities into special Förderschulen. Whereas the U.S. has the Individual’s with Disabilities Education Act since the 1970s, Germany was basically forced into integration recently after the country signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. And even then, they are taking their sweet time to integrate. See e.g. aktion-mensch.de/…/inklusionsquoten-in-deutschlan… as how currently, slightly less than half of German students with disabilities go to a regular school (the Inklusionsanteil).

    BigNote ,

    They would almost certainly make accommodations. I saw many such examples throughout my years of schooling.

    Blastasaurus ,

    Could one not just copy a chat got essay by hand?

    WiildFiire ,

    Can’t jack off, play league, and write your homework with just two hands

    SnipingNinja ,

    This is why the first popular body mod will be more hands (also you can then designate hands for clean and “dirty” work)

    Plswrk ,

    As soon as we get interchangeable genitals no one will give a fuck about the gender wars anymore haha. Like come on, can’t tell me you wouldn’t try a vagina on, even the most bigoted bastards must think about it.

    SnipingNinja ,

    For sure. I just suddenly got too many thoughts on this…

    Some people might take the “my hand is my gf” meme too far

    There will be people with both genitals, no genitals, entirely new types of genitals (I thought of one, a penis which acts like a sleeve vagina)

    If we can remove the need for excretion or release it as particulates from our feet, some might replace their butthole with a vagina

    (My mind really decided to overthink this)

    electrogamerman ,

    That would actually help to learn the subject

    DavidGA ,
    @DavidGA@lemmy.world avatar

    Who will explain the concept of a plotter to you?

    Jay ,

    You?

    DavidGA ,
    @DavidGA@lemmy.world avatar

    Plotters are awesome.

    Like a printer, but with pens.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

    Jay ,

    Thanks, I’ve never dealt with that before. But from what I’ve read, a regular printer would still make more sense for such a task.

    Oszilloraptor ,

    Benefits of a plotter in this case:

    • easier to align with the existing lines on the paper
    • the ink doesn’t look printed (depending on the pen; I would use a blue ball-pen to make text look more authentic)
    • there are pressure-marks left on the paper, you wouldn’t have these on regular printers
    Jay ,

    And as I found out in this thread, you can also adjust the handwriting. That’s cool. But in the picture, the writing looks so artificial that the person could have used a normal printer.

    Oszilloraptor ,

    You can plot anything.

    I use it mostly to print drawings onto birthday cards.

    (btw, I totally agree that OPs results are far from look handwritten; just wanted to stand in for some benefits of plotting in general. If I would try what op does I guess I would try things very differently)

    Scrof ,

    Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

    captainlezbian ,

    Wait shit I just use one as a printer for bigass drawings. I didn’t realize it used a pen

    amminadabz ,

    Most modern “plotters” are just bigass printers. The word used to only mean pen-based vector-drawing machines, but the overlapping use in architechture and engineering meant that as cheap inkjets supplanted the pen plotters they co-opted the name.

    starman ,
    @starman@programming.dev avatar

    Theoretically it could be 3D printer but used like a plotter here.

    ArbitraryValue , to memes in Don't let him see you cry.

    One time I went to an Indian restaurant with my boss (from south India) and a Mexican coworker. I ordered my food mild, my boss ordered his medium, and the Mexican guy ordered his hot. My boss tried to warn him but he insisted that he could handle spicy food.

    The food came out, the Mexican guy had no problem eating his, and he started gloating. Then my boss told him that he was actually eating my boss’s medium food. After they switched plates, the Mexican guy turned red, started sweating, and had to ask my boss to switch back.

    (My boss had no problem eating the hot food; he just preferred the taste of medium.)

    NoIWontPickaName ,

    My brother is half white half Mexican and I am pretty much full white.

    He decided to order his as hot as mine even though we all warned him not to.

    His food tasted pretty good at about 3:30 the next morning

    Schooner ,

    This makes it sound like you ate his shit…

    NoIWontPickaName ,

    It's 2023 don't judge me. ;)

    TheBat ,
    @TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah too much spice kills the flavour. You should be using spices to enhance the flavour, not smother it.

    ProvokedGamer ,
    @ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca avatar

    Yeah that’s true. If I wanted to drown in only tasting the spice, I’d eat a few peppers or something. Spice is good, but so is flavour.

    NuPNuA ,

    I took a mate out to an Indian place I regularly eat at and we had a few pints before. When I ordered the “devil potatoes” they warned me as they always do about the spice, I drunkenly bantered with the waiter that I’ve had them before and can hack it, then jokingly added “in fact make them extra spicy”. Anyway, they did cook them extra hot, probably thinking he could embarrass the cocky British bloke. I wolfed them down no problem, my mate had one and I just watched his face go red and start coughing. Felt so bad.

    FlashZordon , to pics in Maui Fire Before And After
    @FlashZordon@lemmy.world avatar

    So many historical sites just GONE. Spent Summer’s in my teens working jobs along Front Street. Extremely sad and I hope they get the hope they need soon.

    ChamrsDeluxe ,
    @ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world avatar

    They’ll get the hope they need for sure! All those thought and prayers will surely build their hope.

    gornar ,
    @gornar@lemmy.world avatar

    In this economy?!

    twosalad ,

    My grandma grew up in Lahaina and sadly her mother’s ashes are gone with the Buddhist temple that burned down :(

    EatMyDick2 ,

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  • MrJameGumb , to lemmyshitpost in There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ?
    @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m always amazed that anyone actually thinks Donald Trump is a Christian lol

    downpunxx ,
    @downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

    the racists don't care, and they're all racists

    Okokimup ,
    @Okokimup@lemmy.world avatar

    According to my grandfather, the fact that he’s supposedly anti-abortio makes him a “man of god.”

    CrypticFawn ,
    @CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Is your Grandfather aware there are people of other religions that are also anti-abortion or does his thought process not extend that far?

    Okokimup ,
    @Okokimup@lemmy.world avatar

    He’s 95 and I’m positive he’s autistic. I have no idea what his thought process is.

    Ragdoll_X ,
    @Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world avatar

    Bet he wouldn’t vote for a conservative Muslim even if they opposed abortion.

    HardlightCereal ,

    I want to reduce abortions by providing easy access to sex ed and free condoms. Abortions should still be 100% legal and easy to get, but there ought be less of them cause they suck to go through.

    Anyway, hail Satan.

    PerCarita ,
    @PerCarita@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Hear! Hear!

    sarcasticsunrise ,

    Ironic and apologies for your dumbass grandfather; Trump has probably paid for enough abortions and NDA’s related to fund the capital of a small town

    ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI ,

    I mean, he probably is a christian, he’s just not very good at it.

    can ,

    So he’s a Christian?

    sarcasticsunrise ,

    Ain’t no way. The only “religion” that shitbird subscribes to is the narcissism of self-adoration. He doesn’t believe in anything, his life is eternally rooted in being seen. So yeah, a classic GOP Christian, right on

    MrJameGumb ,
    @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

    No. He would show up holding the Quran, the Torah, or even the Satanic Bible if he thought it would get him a single extra vote. The only person Donald Trump worships is Donald Trump. He is incapable of believing that there could ever be any authority higher than himself.

    ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI ,

    a) Being a christian really only requires a declaration of belief, AFAIK b) I’m genuinely convinced a lot of grifters believe their own bs. Not all of it, obviously, but I think he really does believe that he is a christian paragon and that the US should be returned to being christian nation, and any falsehood he knowingly advances is justified because it advances those goals. Not to say that this wouldn’t change if the tides in US politics turned, but I’m pretty sure that most professional liars like him genuinely eat their own manure.

    PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

    He posed for a photo with a bible once (just after having a peaceful protest violently disbanded), and he occasionally says the “God Bless America” platitude.

    That’s all most conservative religious people need

    MrJameGumb ,
    @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world avatar

    As I recall he also managed to hold the bible upside down for that entire shoot.

    eleefece , to mildlyinfuriating in Capitalism indoctrination in progress.
    @eleefece@kbin.social avatar

    A ping pong table? What for? So HR can punish you when you use it?

    kurosawaa ,

    seriously,who has time to use a ping pong table at work? It’s like a decoration to remind you you’re not having fun.

    shyguyblue ,

    You can only enjoy the perks during your 45 minute lunch break. Food or fun, your choice …

    myplacedk ,

    Where do you live, where taking breakes is frowned upon? That’s crazy.

    Here in Denmark, I’m being reminded to take breakes and go home. I have been asked if I’m sure it’s not hurting my work/life balance, before getting overtime approved.

    It’s also common to stay at work after hours to hang out, if there’s a nice place to do that.

    BrooklynMan ,
    @BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

    this sounds like a sci-fi novel

    1rre , (edited )

    Same in my office in the UK, I got asked if I was not taking enough breaks or doing work outside of work hours as I was doing more than they expected and my manager was worried about me burning out, but having a chill atmosphere and a nice place to hang out and chill in the office just means that I can be more productive and happier at work so it’s a win-win… A lot of HR types don’t realise that it takes a nice office in both material and culture to make people productive and just go for the former which has the lower effect of the two when used alone.

    Pandantic ,
    @Pandantic@lemmy.world avatar

    Listen, speaking as an American, we know Danes have better quality of life, but we’ll be damned if we will sacrifice capitalism to get there! Our motto is “if you’re not working, you’re losing money!” That only applies to the lower ranks, of course.

    Seriously tho, I would love to live in a society that expects companies to hold the well-being of their employees over profits (not that these two are mutually exclusive), and the culture is changing slowly, but we’re not there yet.

    SCB ,

    Denmark is capitalist. High investment rates are literally their biggest internal economic driver.

    Pandantic ,
    @Pandantic@lemmy.world avatar

    from Wikipedia:

    The labour market is traditionally characterized by a high degree of union membership rates and collective agreement coverage.

    Well, there’s the problem. Our capitalists say that’s stupid, they’ll just lose money!

    SCB ,

    I’m a capitalist and unions are dope. The two are clearly not incompatible.

    Let’s get union reform like these countries too

    Pandantic ,
    @Pandantic@lemmy.world avatar

    I agree. I wish more capitalists in charge did!

    SCB ,

    Tide definitely seems to be turning, at last

    myplacedk ,

    Exactly, that’s the thing. Here in Denmark, many (most?) companies think that happy workers are more productive.

    I might be colored by mostly working in places where it’s very expensive to replace an employee, but then again, for Americans I mostly talk with people in a similar kind of job.

    TurtleTourParty ,

    My guess is USA or UK

    Source: live in USA. Taking breaks is seen as being lazy. As is taking days off when your sick.

    myplacedk ,

    I’ve been told multiple times to take more sick leave.

    Usually when I come back from sick leave, I’ve been told I should have taken a day more to recover fully. But after days in bed, I just really want to start doing something, even if I’m tired.

    Solemn ,

    I know that the American capitalism thing is a meme at this point, but working in software, every company I’ve worked for isn’t against you taking breaks or doing whatever as long as things get done. I’ve played foosball with my VP during normal hours before, and it was slightly awkward but good fun.

    The usual issue I see in my industry is that you constantly accumulate more responsibilities without any corresponding increase in pay. It’s especially bad for morale when you see someone leave, and their responsibilities get distributed to the team, but no one gets any part of the old person’s salary as a raise to make up for the added responsibilities even when the higher ups refuse to hire a replacement since you’re all clearly handling it fine.

    WilliamTheWicked ,

    Ok, calm down there, commie. Maybe you’d better go check in with your “family” and your “adequate housing”. The rest of us are here to make money… For other people.

    Rhynoplaz ,

    Come over to America! A magical place where you are only worth the money you make for your corporate overlords, and despite being told by your boss that they are SO glad that they hired you, your performance review is a 3/5 because they don’t want you getting too comfortable and “there’s always room for improvement!”

    myplacedk ,

    Ah, here it’s very different. In multiple companies I’ve gotten consistent 5/5 and told by my own manager that I should really get a promotion, but they can’t give me promotion or even a raise. Just the 1-2% salary adjustment everybody gets.

    Feels so good… 🙄

    Rhynoplaz ,

    You guys get 1-2% salary adjustments?!?

    myplacedk ,

    At least for me in IT, everybody usually gets an adjustment that’s on average above inflation. So if you work the same place for ten years without ever getting a raise, you still keep up with inflation.

    I think my lowest was 0% and my highest almost 3%. Some years slightly below inflation, but in any 3 year period I think I’ve been above inflation.

    Then any raise is on top of that.

    Holzkohlen ,

    That’s nice and all, but staying after hours to hang out sounds awful. I don’t want to befriend those losers, I want to get on with my life. They can all rot in hell for all I care, I’d sell them out in a heartbeat.

    myplacedk ,

    That’s fine, I can’t expect everybody to like that kind of stuff.

    But it’s still important to have that for those that do. And of course that people more like you, get what you want.

    glad_cat ,

    Every shitty company in France is like this. And I’ve seen a lot like that.

    speaker_hat ,

    This is so true, and I don’t even have a pingpong table at work

    N0body , to politics in Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC

    Unknown political consultant could be the first informant who might never even be charged.

    Rudy offered a proffer not that long ago. If he gave them anything they didn’t already have, he’s worked out a deal and has flipped. If not, the case is much stronger than people are saying.

    They have Eastman’s phone, and they took it with zero warning, so they have all his communications.

    A former colleague of Jeffrey Clark is cooperating and claims to have turned over hundreds of documents and sat through “many hours of recorded depositions.”

    Not a good day for Team Trump.

    YoBuckStopsHere OP ,
    @YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world avatar

    Rumor (grain of salt material) is it is Ginni Thomas.

    btaf45 ,

    Unknown political consultant could be the first informant who might never even be charged.

    It’s likely Steve Bannon and he will be charged.

    Zombiepirate , (edited )
    @Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s who I figured, too.

    Edit: Oh, I forgot about Roger Stone. That was nice while it lasted.

    drewisawesome14 ,

    I think the consultant is Roger Stone

    Philolurker ,

    I really hope it will turn out that they got a bunch of useful stuff from Alex Jones’ cell phone data.

    Jackolantern , to mildlyinteresting in "Progress"

    Why is there open and close quotations? Isn’t this progress?

    marmo7ade ,

    BMW sold 10% more cars than the year before.

    This is change. Progress is subjective.

    Ryctre ,

    …what?

    Diprount_Tomato ,
    @Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world avatar

    What’s with that?

    jerkface ,
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    Because when the word “progress” is used, it is usually a loaded term with some specific connotations. The quotes indicate this is a reference to the word “progress”, not a use of the word “progress”, and it’s intended to draw your attention to the fact that this change, while clearly a positive and desirable one, contrasts strongly with what is usually meant when a person says it.

    flyte ,

    Nice explanation, jerkface

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