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Devs please nerf orcas.

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They need to make that subclass an alternative food source for other classes in a future update.

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The carrier operations are shared jointly between several NATO countries, and would mostly be covered under the Yearly International Freedom Fund (YIFF).

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Love this season 1 scene: youtu.be/jI23PjBjQKM?si=skQMmXGhaTP0FISl

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AI?? I thought they looked weird because they were aliens.

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Worker: “Well, I got laid off from the job I’ve been working for the last 20 years, but at least I have the skills I picked up along the way!”

Company: “Actually, those belong to us too.”

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Considering how pain is a trigger for an animal’s fight or flight response, and considering plants can neither fight nor flee, it would seem like a cruel cosmic joke for plants to feel pain. What purpose would it serve, evolutionary speaking?

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The idea that humans are at the top of the food chain is largely disputed. On a global level we are at about the same trophic level as anchovies.

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The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?

Jeremy Bentham, 1789

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Isn’t this standard for journalism, that you can’t technically say a crime was committed until they’ve been found guilty in court?

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Out of curiosity, have you personally looked into how pigs (especially factory farmed) are raised and slaughtered?

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I’ve yet to see a proposal more convincing to me than just avoiding animal products altogether. Don’t get me wrong, I used to enjoy things like meat, dairy and eggs, but I realized the cost far outweighed my own pleasure.

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Sadly not. If you’re interested in cutting back support for these industries, I’d be happy to throw you some recommendations for alternatives. Just let me know what country you’re in and what you like to eat!

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Why do you value the lives of other humans? If it’s intelligence that’s the metric, then why value babies or mentally handicapped people? If it’s their ability to feel sadness, pain and fear, then all land animals we eat have shown those same characteristics.

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Here’s a good reference on the sentience of animals: www.worldanimalprotection.org/…/sentience/#:~:tex….

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I think we have fundamentally different outlooks on animal agriculture. It seems like your position may be based on the idea that animals used for milk and eggs are treated well, live long natural lives and are killed at the end of their lives when they would have died naturally.

I wish this were the case.

Animals used for milk and egg production live a small percentage of their potential lifespan. The effects on dairy cows of repeatedly being impregnated, giving birth, producing enormous quantities of milk, and going through the cycle again takes a harsh toll on their bodies. It’s normal for a dairy cow to only endure 4 or 5 cycles of this before they literally cannot physically continue, at which point they’re no longer profitable and are sold for slaughter. Similarly for egg-laying hens, the stress and mineral demand of ovulating multiple times a day means that they rarely live past two years. For the males of these breeds, it’s even worse. Male chickens of the egg-laying breeds are mostly useless to the industry, so they are killed immediately after hatching, usually by way of an industrial macerator or gas chamber. Male calves might live to 8 months to be slaughtered for veal, but if there’s no market for veal they are frequently killed immediately after birth.

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Modern egg laying chickens and dairy cows are man-made breeds far removed from their natural wild counterparts. Hens trace their lineage to red jungle fowls, who naturally will have a single clutch of roughly 12 eggs once a year. Selective breeding has increased this amount to once a day, sometimes even more. The extreme pressure on their reproductive system frequently causes health issues like egg yolk peritonitis, cloacal prolapse, and osteoporosis. Similarly with modern dairy cows, bovine mastitis, udder sores and infections are common due to our selective breeding to maximize milk yields. Even otherwise healthy animals face grueling lives because they’re part of a species that was selectively engineered for one purpose: profit.

Modern animal agriculture is overwhelmingly inhumane, which is why livestock animals are almost always excluded from animal abuse legislation. Ignoring the above points about how they’ve been selectively bred and are worked to exhaustion, investigations into egg and dairy farms have found absolutely shocking treatment. If you have the stomach for it, they’re worth watching to understand the scope of animal abuse that is commonplace in our society.

chetradley ,

Yeah, because buying eggs at the supermarket is bushcraft survival training

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I’ve noticed that too lol. People generally don’t like to have their beliefs challenged, especially if it’s about something they enjoy doing. Hell I know I struggled with it when considering giving up animal products and dairy specifically, but I’m so glad I did!

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The article is about faked images, so it makes sense they’d make the thumbnail image appear fake at a glance.

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“Let’s pack hundreds of animals together in a confined space, what’s the worst that could happen?”

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Which comes first, the progressive candidate or the progressive voter?

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I would highly recommend donating to a specific organization rather than as a “uniform anatomical gift”. Unless you’re fine with being sold by a body broker and used for explosives/crash testing, or forensic entomological decomposition research: cbsnews.com/…/bodies-donated-to-science-largely-u…

chetradley ,

Anyone got a good FOSS alternative to Adobe Illustrator? I like Photopea as a Photoshop alternative.

chetradley ,

Thank you! I’ll give it a shot. I regularly use illustrator and Photoshop for work and I’m really looking for more lightweight programs for personal use.

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If Lemmy has taught me anything this is a Linux user’s dream because now they can install Linux on the machine.

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It’s annoying but I get it. If you want to make it or stay big on YT you gotta play the game, and the majority of people eat up click-baity titles and obnoxious thumbnails.

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ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM

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Even brands like log cabin who claim to use “no high fructose corn syrup” are just corn syrup and sugar. There are people who go their entire lives eating pancake syrup and table syrup on their pancakes, and die never having tasted actual maple syrup.

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I’m assuming you’re asking in good faith. I found this type of question to be especially controversial due to the legislation against gender-affirming care, especially puberty blockers. In researching further:

As others have stated, cases where permanent gender-affirming care was given, such as HRT (hormone therapy) and GRS (genital reconfiguration surgery), instances of regret are incredibly rare, and almost always predicated by lack of support for the individual. They are far outnumbered by instances of trans people undergoing puberty incompatible with their gender, which is itself damaging and irreversible.

The type of care discussed in this article, GnRH (puberty blockers), has been shown to not have long term consequences, and is only used to delay puberty and the potential long term effects, giving them enough time to make an informed decision about their transition. From the Mayo Clinic:

GnRH analogues don’t cause permanent physical changes. Instead, they pause puberty. That offers a chance to explore gender identity. It also gives youth and their families time to plan for the psychological, medical, developmental, social and legal issues that may lie ahead…

When a person stops taking GnRH analogues, puberty starts again.

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It’s also the worst type of wrong: the type that has the potential to seriously harm people. Hopefully they retract it instead of continuing to double down.

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That’s my least favorite pathway.

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Another great charity evaluator is www.givewell.org. Their mission is to find charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar spent, and their findings are research-backed and evidence-based. 100% of your donation goes to the charity you support. They also evaluate the lowest cost to save a human life, which is currently about $3k-$5k. Their top rated charities are involved in malaria prevention:

  1. Malaria Consortium
  2. Against Malaria Foundation
  3. Helen Keller International
  4. New Incentives
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More shitty Neil takes: vice.com/…/neil-degrasse-tysons-tweets-are-so-bad…

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Unit one: French fries and milk please.

Unit eight: You will not find the children.

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I’ve started reflexively putting the seat and lid down because otherwise my toddler will put whatever he can in the toilet.

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I really wish all of these companies racing to replace their existing software features and employees with LLMs understood this. So many applications are dependent on a response being 100% accurate for a very specific request as opposed to being 80% accurate for a wide variety of requests. “Based on training data, here’s what a response to your input might look like” is pretty good for conversational language and image generation, but it sucks for anything requiring computation or expertise. Worst of all, it’s so confidently wrong about things I might as well be back on Reddit.

chetradley ,

I’ve literally never heard a vegan claim to not eat any living thing. We know plants are alive lol.

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Based and B12-pilled

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Grass fed: small minority of beef cattle, finished on grain after grazing for about a year. Typically slaughtered at 18-24 months of age.
Grass finished: even smaller minority not fed grains and allowed to graze their entire lives. Typically slaughtered around 18-24 months of age.
Normal: majority raised in feedlots on heavy grain-based diets. Typically slaughtered closer to 16 months of age.

All are slaughtered well shy of the 20+ year life expectancy of a cow in a sanctuary.

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According to this study, we would have needed an area about three quarters the size of Texas to meet 2010 demand. Who knows what it would be today. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/2/2/127

chetradley ,

You’re saying “vegans” as if we’re a monolith. I’m sure there are vegans who aren’t aware that plants are considered living, but I’m sure there’s about the same percentage of meat eaters who aren’t either. If every vegan you’ve ever talked to (or some, since you’ve made both claims) has this misconception, I’m willing to bet your sample size is extremely small, or you’re being intentionally dishonest to support your initial claim.

chetradley ,

Based on our understanding of biology, a prerequisite for sentience is a central nervous system. Plants have really amazing abilities to pass chemical signals, but they lack any mechanics that would allow them to internalize the signals they receive. For example, I wouldn’t say that my doorbell is sentient just because it can warn me when someone is at my door. Importantly, animals are different from plants in their ability to internalize pain, fear, sadness, etc. This is why animal ethics and welfare are considered important discussions, and why it’s damaging to invoke plant sentience to distract from that discussion.

chetradley ,

Fair enough. Have a good one.

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Aww man, why is the answer always “practice”? /s

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K-pop agencies are reportedly keen to promote their stars as romantically obtainable, while in Japan many pop stars have “no dating” clauses in their contracts.

Wouldn’t being banned from dating make you the opposite of “romantically obtainable”?

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Yes, but also more homes for the good boys already in shelters waiting to be adopted.

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