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by fnovd 6y ago
> Hunter-gatherer societies have routinely been found to be happier and involve significantly less work than industrialized societies. Yes, grasshoppers are typically happier and less hardworking than ants. There's an old fable that
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by fnovd 6y ago
The dual, contradictory model predicts reality better than a unified one can. A set of contradictory rules might create better outcomes than a set of straightforward rules.
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by fnovd 6y ago
Light behaves as both a wave and a particle. This goes well beyond human eccentricities. The universe does not care that our simple brains want to model it simply.
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by fnovd 7y ago
>"Wealth" is a measure of relative living standards. No, it is not. This is like saying wealth is a measure of how fancy your car is. Correlated, sure, but calling it a measure is inaccurate at best and at worst an attempt to e
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by fnovd 8y ago
Technically vegans are omnivores, too: being an omnivore means you are able to consume both plants and animals. Humans as a species are omnivores. Choosing to consume animal products is something else. I had always considered being an omn
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by fnovd 8y ago
Do you have any sources on the percentage of grain that is not of human-quality? Are there any estimates of what percentage of the non-human quality grain can be filtered to become human-quality? We're not talking about fundamentally d
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by fnovd 8y ago
>Africans, like most humans, are[0] (physical substrates containing) people; they're for doing whatever it is the person in question wants. Cows aren't[0]; they don't have any inside influence to bestow purpose upon them.
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by fnovd 8y ago
That's exactly what I said: >Words like "warp" and "profit" are a symbol of a fundamentally different way of thinking about what a "reasonable" relationship with an animal should be. It's not a &qu
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by fnovd 8y ago
As far back as 1997, over half of all grain grown in the US goes to livestock [1]. So, going from animal protein to plant protein is a net reduction of farm labor and therefore requires less exploitation. [1] https://news.cornell
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by fnovd 8y ago
At the end of the day, a cow to a dairy farmer is just a machine. Whatever airs people may put on when describing how they treat their animals, the reality is they would (and do) sell them off to the highest bidder once the the juice stops
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by fnovd 8y ago
To the contrary, we (as a society) do worse things to animals when we aren't able to actually see it happening. If I were a boar, I'd rather have lived a natural life and suffered a tragic end than have been born and die in brutal
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by fnovd 8y ago
This is slightly meta, but I find it interesting that the person you're attacking is questioning the utility of a point-based system and yet that very system is trying to silence your speech rather than theirs. The mob wants you to kno
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by fnovd 8y ago
It sounds like you're trying to imply that the vegan food industry is particularly harsh on bees. This is not the case. Livestock consume far more of our crop yield than we humans do, at least in the US. We would need fewer commercial
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by fnovd 8y ago
Plants don't have a central nervous system that can experience discomfort or stress. The terms are used as an analogy. My laptops emits heat when it is "stressed" as well.
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by fnovd 8y ago
Apparently the concept I was referring to is called appeal to nature, not a naturalistic fallacy.
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by fnovd 8y ago
The largest consumer of crops grown in the United States are our farmed animals. Eating soybeans directly instead of sending them to factory farms reduces the amount of animals killed, both in the factories and on the fields. There is no tr
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by fnovd 8y ago
It's a bit silly to compare killing a plant to killing something with a central nervous system. Plants don't think or feel. Birds and mammals certainly do.
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by fnovd 8y ago
Unfortunately there is a part of our brain that just wants to eat the stuff we're used to eating. It's really hard to change your diet, whether that's to lose weight, to mitigate a disease like diabetes, or to eat with your e
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by fnovd 8y ago
>I'm really into bodybuilding but the human body simply can't recover unless it eats beef/salmon/eggs/chicken/etc at least one or more times per week, especially after the minor injuries that inevitably come
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by fnovd 8y ago
>Eating meat is natural Relieving yourself outdoors is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. Killing intraspecies rivals/competitors is natural, and we've been doing it for ages. Dying of a preventable disease is natu
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by fnovd 8y ago
You can be a free-market capitalist and also realize that corporations are superorganic entities that, like their organic components, don't always make the "right" decision when faced with a choice between mutual gain and zer
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by fnovd 8y ago
He's making too much in nominal profit and needs to put money somewhere productive. Today, that place is his workers' wages.
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by fnovd 9y ago
Comcast owns 30% of Hulu through NBCUniversal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu
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by fnovd 9y ago
That's not really an answer at all. Eating dog isn't seen as abhorrent because of the possibility of consuming parasites or the quality of the meat. It's seen as abhorrent because we view dogs as trusted companions capable of
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by fnovd 9y ago
Using DoorDash or UberEats as your delivery service instead of building your delivery staff in-house is like using AWS or DO instead of building your own in-house ops team. Since most delivery workflows are pretty much identical (go to rest
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by fnovd 9y ago
People typically don't buy luxury bags with the hope of selling them for a profit, though.
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by fnovd 9y ago
Heroes 3 has been working on Wine for years, when was the last time you tried?
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by fnovd 9y ago
I'm now imagining a disenchanted musician spending 8 hours a day at the cubicle making "business music."
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by fnovd 9y ago
All Apple would have had to do is enable a "Battery Saver" mode in some deep nested menu and turned it on by default, and this would have never been an issue in the first place. The fact that they hid it and denied it is going t
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by fnovd 9y ago
>As a Jewish Kekistani, it infuriates me. I don't like identitarians, I can't tell if you're deliberately trolling or not, which I guess is the point you're trying to make.

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