Yeah, I was a bit strategically ambiguous, because there are edge cases that could really make it go either way.

Most victimless (or self-victimising) crimes should be legal.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet

Just dropped by to make sure this comment was here… twice.

I’m having a c-section, cause ain’t no way that’s coming out of my pp.

But when I looked outside of the United States, I found that basically every other country with a major wildfire season is now giving crews masks to protect against smoke. And they have not seen an increase in heat stroke. Firefighters are not collapsing because they’re getting too hot. They basically just take off the mask if they’re starting to overheat.

My sources at the Forest Service told me what’s really going on here is a fear of admitting how dangerous smoke is. They said if the Forest Service were to acknowledge how risky it is to work in smoke, the agency might have to start taking on a lot of extra costs. It might have to start paying for more health care. Or hiring more firefighters so that workers could take breaks. And it could also just become harder to recruit for these jobs that are already pretty grueling and low-paying.

Seems the orphan crushing machine is working as designed.

My first assumption was that it was only the Democrats voting, which seems to have been the case, as it was a DNC internal vote. If there were more than democrats voting on it, then to say that it was the democrats who were voting would seem to me to be unnecessary or misleading.

They certainly could have mentioned the DNC in the title to make it more more clear, though.

Honestly? takes a sip of Monster Energy™ Original I expected a bit more heft.

Yeah, I understand, I was a huge meat lover too. I definitely took some pride in my ability to cook a perfect steak. One day I just said I can’t morally justify it, so I’m done, and went… vegetarian.

From that point, I think I did intend to go vegan eventually, but it ended up taking me quite a while because i didn’t think cutting everything all at once would’ve been sustainable for me. I kept going back to r/vegan and reading/getting in debates about ethics and it all pushed me to eventually cut animal products entirely.

There were definitely people who were quite blunt with me along the way who I now appreciate, and wish i could be more like, sometimes, but I’m way too non-confrontational for that.

But one thing I found I asked myself a lot was: “am I really doing my best to live according to the morals I believe in”.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

To be fair, I didn’t lose any weight after going vegan. You can still stuff your face with vegan junk food. Lol.

I ate tofu before I was vegan, but man I’ve upped my tofu game since then. Pan fry it and finish with sesame oil and soy sauce, and its a game changer.

I know it’s a bit of a meme to say “you just haven’t had the right one yet”, but I think a lot of people get the idea of mushy plain tofu and are rightly turned off. It’s so frickin good when you make it right.

Here’s the recipe I use.

This seems like either a deliberate attempt to coopt the term “enshitification” or someone talking out of their ass.

I personally think that humans do “matter more” than most other animals, but I’m not a human exceptionalist. I think there’s a spectrum of neurological complexity (for lack of a better term) that determines a lifeforms ability to experience complex emotional life. The more sophisticated that machinery is, the more moral consideration a being deserves.

One of the benefits of this is line of reasoning is that it also rejects speciesism for a more fundamental categorisation, but still fairly trivially answers questions like: Why can’t animals vote? Or, should killing a sentient animal (an ant, or bee, perhaps) deserve the same punishment as killing a human?

I also think that there is some threshold where there’s essentially no complex emotion processing capability. This, to me, provides a clear and consistent answer to why it is OK to kill some life (plants, microbes) for our own survival, but not others.

Of course there are some problems. The “emotional capacity” or “neurological complexity” measure kinda hand waves away a lot of tough questions about the nature of consciousness that’s at or beyond the limits of our current sciences.

If you asked me to elaborate, in the “name the trait” scenario, and kept digging, I’d quickly run out of my depth, because it’s not my area of expertise.

Hancock said the “whole process has been unfair” and said the union will challenge what it called an unconstitutional order. Air Canada flight attendants picket at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Saturday.

“Air Canada has really refused to bargain with us and they refused to bargain with us because they knew this government would come in on their white horse and try and save the day,” he said.

Based.

daww I can’t help but give more headpats for cute anime girls. *patpatpat*

*patpat NEET-kun* do your best!

They place them majestically on their hips, as if they’re the captain of a boat.

I love Tab’s unmistakable style. He uses so few hard lines, and everything always looks so soft and clean. It’s like sinking into a giant bin of pillows.