@SashaGusevPosts @Benthamsbulldog What makes shrimp welfare a negative?
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Weird Fish
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@Benthamsbulldog away from immediate human impact e.g. shrimp welfare and x-risk.
I think if there was a causal estimate then the argument for EA could be the shortest blog post ever written: X lives were saved. On other hand, without a causal estimate it seems a bit un-EA-like to claim that ...
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@CoreyWriting @alexbronzini Lmao do republicans actually seethe at "we are charlie kirk"
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@alexbronzini I mean, he mocked the guy killed at the Trump assassination attempt and also mocked Charlie Kirk's death. I think when you cross the line into celebrating death, you become too toxic to touch.
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One funny thing about the recent Hasan Piker discourse is that a fairly popular centrist streamer *does* exist. He just behaves like this online, so no elected official or think tanker can acknowledge him
Destiny | Steven Bonnell II@TheOmniLiberal
@jstlk_ @hutchinson Nah I was just in the shower and now I’m hanging out with a friend, hbu?
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@sermonfanclub How do you not see nonvegans as animal abusers? Even when I wasn't vegan i saw myself as an animal abuser
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Why should we be the only ones to talk about… *checks notes* animal abuse? So nobody else can talk about that? What is this random dig you’re trying to take at other vegans while slyly covering it with a faux pro-indigenous sentiment? for brownie points?? Girl
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@CasparBergliez6 @jojotraab @02ZUB @Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp Interesting. It does seem like a very American thing to be extremely uncomfortable around nudity but in the Midwest at least I haven't seen anything more than like 4 individual stalls which most people don't use
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@gefiltefishy @jojotraab @02ZUB @Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp I’ve lived in the southeast and northwest of the US and I have never seen this either place in any state I have lived in or visited
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Where the fuck does this "watching little girls undress" come from.
Im yet to understand what context this person would be in proximity to a undressing child.
MaryCate Delvey@marycatedelvey
Australia says that this is a woman, and can legally watch little girls undress
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@CasparBergliez6 @jojotraab @02ZUB @Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp Genuinely curious because this is how every pool locker room I've been in across several countries including the U.S. has been. Where in the U.S. specifically?
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@jojotraab @gefiltefishy @02ZUB @Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp I live in the US and this does not happen anywhere I’ve been. Idk what this fucker is talking about
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@02ZUB @Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp Not transphobic but this is extremely normal. you get changed in the pool locker room. Your experience is not the only one or even the usual one!
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@Super_Scoopy @NewsProspector @ElegabalusGroyp right like? when i was a kid and i knew i was going swimming i wore my bathing suit under my clothes for maximum efficiency and even so my mom was always right there?
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@LinkofSunshine Expelled from NYU is different from life ruined forever
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@KelseyTuoc I took algebra in 4th, but it was not an offering but rather something fought for by my parents
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In fact, I took algebra in 6th grade! Good middle schools offer algebra in 6th grade! The difference looks minor only because 8th/9th is a really important difference for college preparedness and worth fighting for, not because 8th/9th are the range of reasonable views here.
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This is an incredibly unstrategic fight to pick but every time I wade into a battle over whether to allow eighth graders to take algebra I just want to say "actually, a good school offers algebra in sixth grade and a great school offers it in third."
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@Jbn3ex Maybe work on basic reading comprehension before calling English students stupid?
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I wish the humanities were still serious disciplines. I have never met an English major who was particularly bright or curious
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster
You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it. English: N + eight = Night German: N + acht = Nacht French: N + huit = Nuit Spanish: N + ocho = Noche Italian: N + otto = Notte Portuguese: N + oito = Noite ⬇️
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@tofuafficionado PETA has probably done the most good out of any active organization. It's had some major policy wins
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PETA has some legit criticisms 100%, but please remember that there are VERY powerful industries at hand that have vested interests in maintaining the status quo. There is every reason for them to influence public opinion on animal rights discourse. Be critical of EVERYTHING.
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@justalexoki @Liberty_Vegan I didn't know anyone since Descartes unironically believed animals are p zombies. I don't even think Descartes did, he was just coping
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@Liberty_Vegan p zombies. either way, anything that serves humanity is good. killing animals is not a bad thing
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i was vegan for 10 years and the thing that made me quit was realizing i would personally execute every cow in the world to save my child
Aella@Aella_Girl
a great test of "would you have been chill with owning slaves, if you'd been born into a slave-owning family" is whether or not you're vegetarian today
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@Seraphaestus @mags_mclaugh In most cases, an individual purchase won't have an impact, but in the rare case it does, it has a large impact - say a shipment, so it averages out to 1 animal killed per animal bought.
In practice, due to imperfect elasticity, closer to 0.75, but you didn't break math, sorry
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@mags_mclaugh Sadly life isn't a trolley problem; an individual will have no impact on the supply/demand of the meat industry. They'll slaughter the same no. of animals to put on shelves & thrown away if not eaten
The only real impact you can make is change minds or organize collective action
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Most of life is just trying to do marginally better and not beating yourself up too much for not being perfect. I don't cook meat in the home anymore really. On occasion will have meat at a restaurant. It's pretty easy
elizabeth 🪢@OneFeIISwoop
this mindset changed my life
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@Staroxvia @yhdistyminen Last I checked it was because landowners along the proposed route jacked up their prices, and the state refused to get tough with them
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I wrote a thing on housing. You should read it.
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@xwanyex @rowanfornow The only other tweet from you I've seen was you complaining that liberals don't like you?
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The thing is... that's right, I unironically can't model that. Because if I thought someone was proudly advocating for 1 million literal murders of literal babies every year, I would spend exactly 0 minutes per day crying about how that person doesn't want to be my friend.
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@Wizardking42 @__Siffa @discordspies @overeasysteezy @brianonhere The tech industry is thriving and only getting bigger! I'm not even sure how you can try to make your argument. Do you expect AI to create a long, complicated computer program which cures cancer? The effect can only be measured in aggregate, and every measure says tech is huge
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@__Siffa @discordspies @overeasysteezy @brianonhere Ok so where is all this productivity going towards surely there has to be something new for the public to show for all of this money and effort. There should be a Cambrian explosion of new stuff that rapidly improves right?
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@bayonettaNYC @Mike_from_PA Platner is an average person with a normal life? A mercenary?
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@Mike_from_PA But there are a lot of people who genuinely have good takes on politics (on SM) but they don't run for office. They are like Platner, average people with normal lives & they should run. That's how we get our society back.
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@marxiananark @gefiltefishy @TrueSlazac He was replying to me, in the metaphysical sense of course, by telling you
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“What if you were born in Sudan”
“But I was born in America”
“I know, it’s a hypothetical, how would you feel if you were born in Sudan”
“But that’s impossible, I was born in America”
taoki@justalexoki
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
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@vicki4088389843 Almost couldn't believe it. That's great news,I have to be less cynical
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@gefiltefishy @ostonox The demand for diamonds has decreased 50% over the last 4 years.
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the US gives $38 billion in subsidies to the meat and dairy industry, and without them meat would be 40% more expensive
if you switch those subsidies to produce and lab-grown meat people will naturally switch. we must run a secret totalitarian vegan for president
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SB Ⓥ@sibaburck
Can a leftist explain to me how we create a vegan world without individuals voluntarily giving up meat?
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@vivian39_ Read All Animals Are Equal. The original book's first chapter was close to that essay, but the revised version cut out most of it. It really makes a very compelling case for the concept of speciesism and I don't think he should have cut it from the book.
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