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by vzidex 6y ago
>do not believe that it actually exists on the moment Precisely. People have been voting and non-violently protesting for decades, and it hasn't worked.
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by vzidex 6y ago
>blacks represent only 13% of the population but commit 52% of the crime Odd, my dogs are barking
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by vzidex 6y ago
If you used these words with their original, negative, meanings, sure. But that's missing the point - words like "bitch", "queer", and the n-word are used to mean positive things in their respective communities.
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by vzidex 6y ago
An approach for people who are marginalized to feel stronger is to reclaim language that was previously used against them, and to repurpose it to mean something positive when applied to themselves. See: "queer" to the LGBTQ+ commu
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by vzidex 6y ago
I've often felt like I'm somewhere in between worlds - I'm studying at the "top" university in my country, working at a Fortune 500, etc., and on the other hand I know how to use a chainsaw, have done my fair share
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by vzidex 6y ago
I've got the same understanding - I asked my ophthalmologist about it as well because my vision is already quite bad and I'm a computer engineer. For breaks, she recommended the "20/20/20 rule" - focus your eye
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by vzidex 6y ago
Fair enough, I know that even in a city with lots of vegan options I sometimes miss the option of just throwing a pork chop in a pan and serving it with some steamed veggies and rice.
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by vzidex 6y ago
> we buy from nice, little, local farms (and that's expensive) > but the slaughtering itself has made me appreciate nature way more Sounds like we're mostly on the same page then :)
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by vzidex 6y ago
> slaughter methods involve less suffering than all of us are likely to experience at our deaths, and likewise less than animals in nature generally experience Sure, but that says nothing about the suffering these animals experience dur
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'd agree with you here, these animals already exist and I think it's extremely sad that their lives will have been entirely for waste. The point of my original comment was that in the vast majority of cases, the way they are be
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by vzidex 6y ago
> Not all animal slaughter is overly cruel Sure, but no animal wants to die. No matter how you kill it, you're still harming it. > there are local farmers that do care about the methods used to slaughter their animals The probl
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by vzidex 6y ago
Thank you for your thorough and thoughtful response. I'd agree with you that I'd be OK with meat consumption if the animals being raised for meat were raised under "optimal" conditions for their happiness, and only slaug
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by vzidex 6y ago
I would disagree with that point of view, I see no respect for the animals in a modern factory farming process - which produces the vast majority of animal products consumed in the Western world (see the documentary I linked in my origina
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by vzidex 6y ago
I disagree, Pascal's Wager deals with the situation where you don't know whether the (omnipotent) entity you're trying to please exists or not. This comment thread assumes the omnipotent entity (aliens) exists, and so you&#x2
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by vzidex 6y ago
Yes, but only because we (humans) wiped out the natural predators of many wild animals - the typical example being wolves and deer in North America. We then do indeed kill wild animals so that their populations don't explode due to a l
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by vzidex 6y ago
I'm guessing they mean that the population of livestock is orders of magnitude greater than the population of wild (mammals and birds) animals on this planet. I forget the exact figures and am lazy to Google them, but I remember that c
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by vzidex 6y ago
Thank you. In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm not successful in following a 100% vegan diet myself. I still get fried chicken with my significant other (who follows a normal Western diet) sometimes, as a guilty comfort food when I&#
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by vzidex 6y ago
To anyone reading this thread and thinking "The horror!": Being culled through these various methods is no better or worse than they would have experienced under "normal" conditions - i.e. being raised until they are fit
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by vzidex 6y ago
They used to be, that's how they got started. I remember watching their videos in the early 2010s on drugs - including one where the host of the video flew to the Czech Republic to do heroin there. Now? Yeah, I wouldn't call them
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by vzidex 6y ago
Yes, we're thinking of the same website. I've been around on 4chan long enough to know that "troll" most often is equivalent to what the site really feels, or at least some of the people on there. The "troll" o
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by vzidex 6y ago
That's what you'd hope for, but in practice that's not what I'm seeing. The anger I see online is directed at politicians in some cases - but usually for said politicians supporting social programs, pro-immigration polic
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by vzidex 6y ago
Anecdotally, I see it in lots of places - I was a part of those types of communities when I was younger (I'm better now, and I _think_ I'm reasonably well-adjusted), but I still keep tabs on those corners of the internet so I know
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by vzidex 6y ago
We know already where it heads - to young men being radicalized to hate everyone who isn't like them (i.e. not young, male, angry, usually white, usually straight).
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by vzidex 6y ago
The GP already replied, but I wanted to also make the point that it's possible they live somewhere where active heating and cooling are rarely used.
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by vzidex 6y ago
The funniest case will be if governments don't even have to step in - I've read cases of AirBNB hosts being extremely overleveraged in their "investment" properties. With some luck, they'll be forced to sell or conv
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by vzidex 6y ago
Hosts definitely are pulling properties already - based off stories I've heard/read, many AirBNB hosts were/are overleveraged on their properties and have had to sell or convert to long-term now that their income has dried up
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by vzidex 6y ago
Having used a '15 (I think) 13" Pro for two internships, I actually found it met my needs really well. I personally can't stand any 14"+ laptop, so the 13" Pro hit a great spot for me of being: * Svelte enough to wa
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by vzidex 6y ago
I disagree with you, however one aspect of the continental European model that I admire is the close integration between post-secondary education and industry. One of my cousins - who studied and now lives in Germany - did his Masters and P
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by vzidex 6y ago
I think it depends on what you're doing. If you want to be an artist or a writer, maybe community college would be a better deal. On the other hand, if you want to be an engineer then it's pretty important to go to a reputable ins
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by vzidex 6y ago
I recently saw Groundhog Day for the first time and loved it! Definitely a good example of ennui (at least until the end of the film).

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