LesZedCB

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by LesZedCB 5y ago
haha yeah, i've been conflicted about it since starting, and still am. partly i have moved past the black and white moralization of it, into something that's more of a heuristic of minimization in order to guide me through the mor
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
the reason for them doing this is we process a lot of these animals industrially for food. they are providing a scientific justification for humane practices in treatment and processing of these animals.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
Here's a nice video[1] of somebody adopting a supermarket lobster and nurturing it back to health. clear demonstration to me that they are sentient and have personalities and mood (of a sort). after watching that, the grocery store lob
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
because the kind of work we want the machines to do is degrading and monotonous oscar wilde's the soul of man under socialism probably better describes the idea.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
GP is making up definitions for concepts in ways that make no sense. denying the existence of games because you find them morally reprehensible doesn't change the fact of their existence. of course games are executed with moral repercu
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
it is a game in a game-theoretical sense. if those other individual actors lie and massage their resume, does it increase my chance of success by being honest, or by lying a little better? all players do use that move. whether you realize
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
haha yep i really loved that movie. the fact the media hated it so much is just perfect. played right into it.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
my mood is generally more sour, tired, and insanely bored. mostly due to climate anxiety. pandemic fatigue is there still too, but not as much. but we can't talk about climate shit because people either 1) don't wanna be depressed
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
ultimately I think we are in agreement and I apologize for coming across so strongly in my original post. I am also so frustrated at all the propaganda being disseminated by oil companies and bought out YouTubers alike, about doing only the
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
I disagree with not taking a multipronged approach to tackling life restoring processes. if we shut off all fossil fuel burning tomorrow, sure maybe we would be able to make up for destructive practices of agriculture. but that won't h
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
food, land use and agriculture makes up 24% emissions. energy use is 25%. see the graphic I linked. to say "we should be primarily focused on energy" is ignoring an equally large factor. fossil fuels enabled the food and agricul
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
holy fucking shit, no. https://drawdown.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Drawdown_Graph... i know there has been a lot of pushback because of the individualist nature of exxon et al's carbon footprint r
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
I guess you could say the alcohol lobby was "cooking with gas"
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
macs make up 10% of apples quarterly revenue[1], with iphone being pretty much always at least 50%. with something that makes up a practically annual or semi-annual purchase (iphone) vs mac (maybe every 4-5 years?) i think the social value
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
i have had 4 phones since 2011. iphone 4 (2011) iphone 6+ (2014) nexus 6 (2017 - hand-me-down from my partner) oneplus 6t - Nov 2018 to present, and i can't justify buying a new phone yet. i will probably need to replace the battery so
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
> While blue-bubble FOMO is certainly real, suggesting that it’s the reason people want iPhones is A-grade, uncut “people only buy Apple products because they’re status symbols” kind of delusion. ~ Macworld.com yeah, ok... > Since App
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
LOL chaz, really? try harder. if you want to read about how anarchists want to restructure society, read about spain's 1936 revolution.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
> There will always be edge cases, disabilities, and people who truly need the governments support. But if someone is mentally and physically able to work and contribute to society, they should reap what they sow. ultimately this is your
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
right to a dignified life instead of need for money. guaranteed basic necessities: housing, healthcare, education, food. this is the platform of antiwork. what future is a future defined by a career? that may be satisfying for some, but for
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
best explanation i've heard is the game has 100 doors. you choose 1 of 100 possible doors. the host then opens 98 doors, all with nothing behind them. at that point it's much easier to see that you chances improve greatly by switc
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
can you elaborate? considering we (humanity) are de-sequestering thousands of acres of captured carbon in order to create new cattle farms, i really hope by destroy you don't mean monopolize and grow.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
actually, i watched a video about it after this that also said it was optimistic, and now i understand what you meant. it's optimistic in that it's not yet a realized future and we still have the opportunity to change course. i ag
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
optimistic? did we watch the same film? imo it couldn't have been more sardonic. absolutely second the recommendation of watching it!
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because i like to use firefox?
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`sudo vim /etc/hosts` often not far up the history...
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s/happiness/meaning end up in the same boat
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i suspect many nihilists learned from Nietzsche, who's concept of "will to power" is quite contrary to "doesn't want to effect change in society"
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cause you allegedly need to own property to compost..? a bucket in a freezer works great if you have zero room. a small pot indoors with a lid works if there's municipal compost.
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by LesZedCB 5y ago
well hugs can be directional or mutual too. two friends hug each other, mutually. a comforting partner gives their partner a hug, who receives it. a parent praises their child with a hug.

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