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Being cringe A.F., as the kids say, is a power that grows with age. (:

I didn’t even realize where we were until I read your comment.

I cast counterspell. I’m now thinking of puppies.

What’s truly fucked is they got caught doing it, then got released on bail and it went on for another year before they got caught again. I hope these sick fucks go away for a long, long time.

Honestly, a part of me was a bit disappointed that’s not what it was. I was so invested and curious to learn why that could even happen, only to find it didn’t.

Glad he’s ok-ish, though.

That shit works IRL too. Why do you think therapy practices often have themselves positioned in front of a wall of books? Not that it’s a bad thing; it’s good for outcomes to believe your therapist is competent and well educated.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re not going to address your labour shortage by making things worse for labourers.

What are you talking about? The billionaires love cheap labour.

Oh, his voters. Yeahhh…

There’s a difference between not buying anything from China, which would be nearly impossible, and not specifically having your own merch made there, though, especially when you get to choose the manufacturer. It’s not like China is the only place you can have these things made.

There’s nothing wrong with shearing sheep if there’s no exploitation occurring. The problem is when you add a profit motive to keep breeding animals designed with their exploitation in mind.

However, I’m going to go out on limb here, and there probably aren’t many sheep in the care of vegans except on animal sanctuaries. The important thing is to stop buying wool and funding animal exploitation.

Lol, yeah, same. r/VCJ helped me go vegan too. My first time there was so confusing and anger inducing.

Might also want to make an image of the device with dd if=/dev/DEVICE-NAME conv=sync,noerror bs=128K > sd_card.img first. It’s often a good practice to make a raw backup before doing anything that changes the device.

Didn’t WaPo recently get bought out? Or was that another paper I’m thinking of?

Edit: Nope, just reorganized, it seems.

“Rectuma Dentata”, what a wonderful phrase

Rectuma Dentata ain’t no passing craze

I always get “I barely eat any meat.”

My dude, if you need to make a confession, see a priest, or a shrink.

Called it.

Different city, but same exact play.

Haha, yeah, that’s why I said it’s my diplomatic answer, as it doesn’t utterly reject a capitalist framework.

Here’s my mildly diplomatic answer that’d probably get tossed:

Piracy has become a plague on our society, but there’s a more sinister cause to it. The average labourer can hardly afford to pay the same fee to access culture that the wealthy person can, and this has caused a significant and justified uptick in piracy.

This situation can be averted by increasing minimum wages and supporting universal basic income. If everyone knew they could at least make ends meet, they’d have some left over to pay for the culture that mattered to them.

I’d have to ask, what do you mean when you say the “cost […] of animal welfare”?

I agree the chart is unrealistic, but perhaps for subtly different reasons.

Surely there are some who would be happy to put a pricetag on the suffering of others, but on principle, I think such thinking should be avoided by vegans, regardless of if other people are comfortable doing so.

What’s the cost of an animal’s life, human or otherwise?

I recognize you’re trying to add in externalities that haven’t been included, but determining a cost of life links it to some sort of utility, which I don’t think it should be. Sentient lives should never be treated as a means.