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by yawpitch 2mo ago
You tell me where the consumption of dairy products must result in harm to the cow. I grew up around small-scale, subsistence-level dairy farming, it doesn’t inherently require any more suffering than either egg-harvesting or apple-growing
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Depends a great deal on the planet and the snowball, doesn’t it? But, that said, a mark of being more important than a lesser being would kind of be the virtue of still empathizing with that being, even if we assume there’s a hierarchy. And
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Self-improvement, for one.
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Ever met a Jain?
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
If your circle of empathy doesn’t include fruit flies, endeavor to expand your circular of empathy until it does. Goto 0.
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Ethics has nothing to do with how an action is perceived, rather its focus is on is the action moral. One should never take any action without considering the ethical implications of that action. Being capable of that is, arguably, the sole
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Yeah… so the food that would have only been available to those with excessive wealth is now available to everyone, leading to problems that used to be reserved to those who could afford excessive calories being the problems of everyday peop
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
> this problem literally did not exist until the 80s. Henry VIII might have a word for you on that one, as would many other of history’s aristocrats. The only thing that’s really changed is the cost of food that used to be reserved for k
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Well no, nowadays you don’t get a bathroom, you get a juice bottle on your “break” between sprints around a Bezosian Labyrinth. Also, bit of news for you, the USSR no longer exists, while the people who still see communism everywhere carry
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Interesting question: if you find something your government already knew was there, did you in fact find it?
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Of course you’re now living through the capitalist dystopia where prioritizing “productivity” is making everyone’s life worse than said communist professional urbanite, but with the added benefit that burger flipping is coming back as an em
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
This would definitely be in the apres-Kojak, just before sign-off part of the evening.
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Anthropologists announce that human populations tend to congregate towards urbanity. Next sports.
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by yawpitch 2mo ago
Wooden. Definitely wooden.
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
But wouldn’t Tau be twice as good as Pi?
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
[reading headline] Really? [reading article] Oh… no. Please, world, keep banning this thunderously ignorant dipshit. Here, do better. https://youtu.be/GecyqKkcFsI
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Truly we are in the fuckwit timeline.
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
If you let something built with programming languages speak on your behalf in programming languages and you can’t read those programming languages, you’re not long going to enjoy the benefit of programming languages.
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Account for the people think the war is going to bring an entirely fictional End Times, and the support drops to significantly < 5%. Of course magically rapture the same folk from political power and Washington would be instantly devasta
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Do you think they know that you can’t launch a Golden Age, or that you can only find out, after the fact, that you used to be in one? Oh, who am I kidding? These folk are still not even half way up to Base Camp on Mount Stupid. They, quite
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Actual statement is “fewer than 400”, there’s no indication given reflecting closer to 0 or closer to 400. https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/2026/approved/20260721a.sht...
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Here’s the article without the paywall. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/chatgpt-convinced-an-al...
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
> So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its way back to The Good Times. Ah, MEGA thinking… now, as we’ve now, eventually, learned (often to our collective horror) to do with the MAGA-thinking folk, can the author
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
Makes you wonder if Putin had something slipped into his borscht.
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by yawpitch 3mo ago
… for now. Thanks RFK Jr.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
I’ve had the “pleasure” to get to sit fifteen feet from the guy, right behind his version of Number Two, and listened to his monologuing. I’ve watched his round table of minions nodding. The only things that would have made it more fitting
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
If you’d ever seen the bubble of sycophants that insulate this particular Dr. Evil wannabe from reality, you’d know it’s not that weird.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Well, if that’s true, and if after the fact even one can, then my hypothesis of a massive increase will be correct!
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Well, that would end up with a massive increase in the number of MAGA evangelicals who’ve actually read any part of the book.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
http://archive.today/uzhGL

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