polite leftists make more leftists
more leftists make revolution
Yeah, definitely true for the Texas parade. I know somebody who is ashamed of being straight though, so there probably could exist an earnest straight pride community. What there is definitely not a need for is a straight lib movement.
you must be mistaking me for user gandalf_der_12te, earlier in this thread.
There is a straight pride movement. Wasn’t there a heterosexual pride parade in Texas last month or something?
Are Becky and Kyle the new Karen and Chad?
Okay so I must be in the minority, but I don’t feel any particular pathos for these billions of slaughtered animals. Seeing myriads of baby chicks ground into dust doesn’t really move me in the slightest. Just understanding that the farm industry causes intense, agonizing, slow deaths for billions if not trillions of creatures every year is enough for me to understand its morally imperative to not consume the vast majority of animal products. Bentham’s Bulldog has been quite moving for me.
Yesterday I decided to stop buying honey after reading his article about how honey plausibly causes orders of magnitude more suffering than everything else. I’m also vegetarian, and I have replaced most of the dairy in my diet with plant-based alternatives. I still haven’t eliminated cheese and eggs from my diet though. For cheese it’s because I don’t think there’s good evidence the cheese I buy causes any agony in particular, but eggs is the next step for me.
It’s been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.
Given the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it’s certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.
Possible, but they’ll probably have to actually try somebody for a capital offense before people are legitimately scared of capital punishment.
well, they have someone in the oval office, so they already have legitimacy. I think we’re well past one-nazi-walks-into-a-bar by now.
They were able to take away the legitimacy of “woke” instead of avoiding using it to deny its legitimacy. Worked for them, might work for us.
i hate phones
(i have no other comment.)
Ontop of that, factory farming is a lovecraftian horror that floods the universe with terrible agony. And there’s very good reason to believe that the suffering of animals is as real and awful as yours or mine.
yeah, this is why I’m #fuck-ai to be honest.
I hate the TSA, and I strongly suspect they are largely a mirage, but I don’t agree that this indicates they are admitting it’s a mirage. It’s almost never the purpose of any kind of inspection to have 100% coverage, just to shift the balance of probabilities as far as necessary until it’s a deterrent. They could be shrugging and giving up in the face of a large number of people to process, but they could also just be making a well-informed trade-off.
Protect the children is basically always cover for something sinister. If there were easy gains to be made protecting children without sacrificing some critical personal liberties like privacy, I think those gains would have already been made.
Anyway I agree with you that everything is really bad, especially for queer people who are now a scapegoat. Or, just a target of hate with no particular scape in mind, I guess. But it’s rather detrimental to make stuff up (i.e. about this specific law) to make things look worse than they are. You have already shown you have dozens of actual established facts with the links you’ve posted, that show things are really bad and getting worse. If you want to speculate that the death penalty is coming, that’s fine, just please be clear that it’s an inference, not present-day reality.
The notion that AI is half-ready is a really poignant observation actually. It’s ready for select applications only, but it’s really being advertised like it’s idiot-proof and ready for general use.
may well be a Gell-Mann amnesia simulator when used improperly.
In the situation outlined, it can be pretty effective.
idk, I’m not them. I convey explain their feelings with any justice.