Kretinsky

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by Kretinsky 3y ago
> I don't think i exploit other humans for profit. What makes you think I do? Unless you live in the forest, with no identity card and no social security, eating mushrooms and berries, you have transactional relationships with other
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
> I'd love to see a paper on the sponge with hormones, I've never heard of that. Please send me any link to this claim. You can find many experiments regarding fertility using sponges. Regarding the milk production, sorry I don
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
> I think what the former special forces guy explained in the video I shared previously applies to you. You use a flexible morality. When it suits you, you compare yourself to wolves or other carnivores to justify your actions of support
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
- Many animals kill out of pleasure/instinct, not to eat. Ask any shepherd, wolves will often come, kill a sheep, and leave it. Humans cook meat to increase their caloric intake, which reduces the amount of meat needed to eat. I don&#x
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
- It's not a life and death solution, humans have become what they are because they could eat animals. I don't share your opinion about "exploiting animals for profits" - why is that bad? Will you stop using other humans
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
- Do you imply that industrial farming is the only way to farm? If not, why wouldn't we develop alternatives instead of advocating for abstinence. It's as if you were asking people to be naked in the street because some clothes we
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
— You are using an all-or-nothing rhetoric, which is ideological, not rational. If animal well-being were your concern, you'd seek ethical alternatives, not advocate for abstinence. Yes, factory farms exist everywhere, but you don&#x27
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
- Responsible slaughtering requires stunning the animal before killing it. - In many countries/biotopes, livestock farming is the only type of farming you can do, because the earth is too poor to have something else than pastures. As s
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
If consumers were signaling their demand for meat from ethical farming, then be sure that American capitalism would change plenty of things to improve animal conditions. Because vegetarianism is mainly a habit of the wealthy in the US, it m
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by Kretinsky 3y ago
It's a common mistake to think all farming is done like american industrialized farming. If you want to start eating meat again, I'd recommend you come to France's Morvan to see Charolais cattle in the green pastures, living
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
You'd be surprised by the large number of EU civil servants with fake/complacency PhDs. There is a cottage industry of PhD candidates writing theses for EU servants, for $$, to make ends meet.
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
I worked for my government, in the EU, and participated in the creation of such laws. The vague wording and the complexity is here to give the legislator a lot of freedom in the interpretation of the text. Bear in mind that those “technical
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
The fact that there's a vote at some point of the system doesn't make it democratic. Most authoritarian regimes require some people to vote, but they're not democratic. Moreover, even at the universal suffrage, “democracy” do
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
There is a clear causation and correlation between belts and accidents. As for regulation and crises, the current one shows that it's quite unclear. What's happening, however is that, since the Patriot act, financial freedoms and
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Crypto didn't exist when securities laws were created.
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Thinking that the federal state, in the USA, is a representative democracy is delusional. It's an oligarchy, where power is shared between different interests coalition, such as the war industry, the financial sector, the ruling famili
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
What is the crime here? Crypto trading is done by willing individuals, no one is forcing you to participate in this market. Moreover, “regulation” is not a synonym of “good and righteous”, especially in the US, where things are quite shady
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Which bad decision? I'm very happy to have a kid, and I wish I had one earlier. Who's going to take care of you when you'll be old, either physically or financially? Someone else's kid. Please let me know how this is wro
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Today's kids are going to pay for your healthcare and pension when you'll be old. On average, 50% of an individual's medical spending is spent during the last 6 months of its life. Add around 30-40 years of retirement income,
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Well at least OpenAI's answers are nice and welcoming, unlike SO. For most newbies, it's daunting and I'm sure we could do better.
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Considering criticism as "anti-Estonia propaganda" is something very Estonian. I guess that when people criticize North Korea, it's just propaganda? No? How about facing the facts? - The E-id has a lot of tech debt. - Estonia
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
> It's open source and on github. Check out any of the ~50 repos https://github.com/orgs/open-eid/repositories --- not sure why this would be less trusted than any other open source software. Would you i
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
The State currently fund the vast majority of schools, among which many are russian-speaking. Forcing those schools to switch to Estonian, without having enough teachers to do it, is going to create a lot of problems. The solution found was
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Expensive (25% inflation), people aren't nice here - it's not about foreigners, it's the Estonian society. People just don't really like to hang together, or make friends. If you're a bit different, you'll get
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
You also now have to pay yourself a salary in the mean of your industry, otherwise the Estonian tax administration may come after you.
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
The e-id system has horrible UI. Also, their enterprise website hasn't been updated since the 2000', and any expat there can tell you that most services are done as if you still were in the USSR. 0 care for quality, nor customer s
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
Sorry to break the carefully chiseled communication of the Estonian government, but e-services in Estonia aren't so great. Source: I leave here. The Estonian e-id is a good idea, but very badly implemented, and quite creepy: - You nee
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
This is a statistic: for your life, it's a gamble not really worth trying.
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
I have a 1 year old toddler at home weighting 12 kg, so thanks, but I have a direct experience of it. It's a pleasure to be a father, but yeah, lifting him, the stroller, waking up at night, while having to provide for the whole family
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by Kretinsky 4y ago
I'm not saying it's a "death sentence", just that physically, your body tends to deteriorate with age. The situation isn't a binary one: being young, your body is much more forgiving, which eases parenting, especial

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