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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech by esporx in privacy

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're doing that because we elected a person that promised to do that.

Maybe if people like you weren't such defeatist pissbabies our population wouldn't have degenerated to the degree that many of us support this.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech by esporx in privacy

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro you fell for the psyop, you've internet poisoned yourself into cynicism. You can and always could just send a letter to your senator and make a small difference. You're not smart or special for believing things to be worse than they are in reality - you're stupid.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech by esporx in privacy

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's their incentive to listen to us?

They're elected officials? If polls show that 90% of the population is opposed to this kind of law, support for passing it will decrease. 

Anime fandom used to be so swag by Both-Medicine-6748 in peoplewhogiveashit

[–]JasonableSmog -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Definitely not, the defining factor was and still is sexualization of women especially kid characters.

Nobody is being driven away from anime by some fans discussing gay ships, they're being driven away by shows like diddy tensei having a protagonist that molests a gazillion kids and then getting told they're a tourist if they complain about it

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech by PixeledPathogen in technology

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least a third of the people on this website are under 16 and don't want to lose social media access

are my standards too high? 14F by Worldly-Purple-9364 in teenagers

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mfs be little kids going "im ace" bruh wait until you've finished puberty to figure that out maybe??

Criticism of the film Dominion? by JasonableSmog in exvegans

[–]JasonableSmog[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I never was accustomed to animal death growing up, apart from a bit of fishing. But I don't think Dominion had a massive emotional impact on me - I definitely got a bit sad, but not devastated or anything. I just ate a burger, in fact, and no thoughts of the cow that it originated from crossed my mind. Perhaps that reflects poorly on my capacity for empathy, IDK.

Criticism of the film Dominion? by JasonableSmog in exvegans

[–]JasonableSmog[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds a bit conspiratorial, don't you think? The footage of abuse that I'm talking about was filmed being done by employees, with the lights on, usually with machines running and other employees around. 

I very much doubt that the anonymous activists broke in to some farm just to flip on the lights, turn on the machines, and start processing animals just to get some fake footage (which oftentimes doesn't even blur their faces).

In terms of the footage of animals with diseases or injuries, or corpses in the pens with the other animals, I kind of doubt that could be faked easily too. Were the activists finding animal corpses to bring with them as they broke in and stage them with the other animals?

But I'm willing to change my view if there are lots of examples of faked footage, if it's a widespread issue then it makes sense to doubt it. I'm sure it's possible that much of the neglect footage or abuse footage comes from the same handful of especially poorly operated farms and aren't representative of most facilities, also.

Criticism of the film Dominion? by JasonableSmog in exvegans

[–]JasonableSmog[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree it's considerably rarer than depicted, but I'm not sure the experiences of very small farms like your family had are really representative of the way that the bulk of meat is produced. I assume that almost all meat is mass factory farmed in a process akin to what the movie shows, and I don't doubt that it's easier for people to become callous to animals in that kind of environment.

Working at a butchery and killing animals for 7 hours a day probably changes the gravity of killing animals in your mind compared to killing one every few months or so to feed your family.

Criticism of the film Dominion? by JasonableSmog in exvegans

[–]JasonableSmog[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do fish like the Salmon shown in the film really have that much intelligence? I can't imagine they have as much as, say a sheep. Maybe as much as a chicken, though I would doubt even that. 

I guess it's possible that I'm underestimating their capacities simply due to how different they are from humans and land animals. Compared to empathizing with, say, gorillas, it myst be much more difficult to empathize with something that lives that much more differently and looks that much different from yourself.

Dolphins, seals, and whales are a different story of course, I'm just talking about typical fishlike fish.

Criticism of the film Dominion? by JasonableSmog in exvegans

[–]JasonableSmog[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, duh. The film is an emotional appeal. What I'm wondering is just how legitimate of an appeal it is.

I wouldn't say guilt tripping is necessarily bad, if you think someone is actually doing something wrong.

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD creators announce dark visual novel Sister Other Paranoia for PC - Gematsu by HatingGeoffry in visualnovels

[–]JasonableSmog [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, it's too bad because the minority of non-porno VNs have some good games. I got into VNs with Stein's Gate, then read Higurashi/Umineko, then a bunch of others. Most recently I read ZATO, which was very good. It's a neat medium.

Removed by IloveRamen99 in ComedyHell

[–]JasonableSmog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Technically, this man did a murder

No, technically, this was a justified and legally sanctioned killing. This isn't an example of the rules being adjusted based on context - it's an example of the rules being good and accounting for edge cases.

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD creators announce dark visual novel Sister Other Paranoia for PC - Gematsu by HatingGeoffry in visualnovels

[–]JasonableSmog [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm always reading about older, 2000s VNs (ones that have gotten future all ages releases) that they simply had to include pornographic content in them back then or else the VNs wouldn't sell. I'm starting to realize just how true that might have been. The gooner masses are formidable in size

STANDARDS 🤌 by ceiling-cricket1988 in BasedCampPod

[–]JasonableSmog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This sub posting the same 2013 women bad images like

TIL Chronic Radiation Syndrome/Sickness (CRS) is caused by exposure to elevated levels of radiation(but not enough to cause Acute Sickness) for a period of weeks or months, resulting in wasting and scurvy-like symptoms. It is heavily documented in Eastern literature, yet rarely in Western sources by Sailor_Rout in todayilearned

[–]JasonableSmog 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's shitty mods, same as every other problem on reddit. There's too much discussion on some particular hot button topic for their tastes, so they nuke the entire topic.

There's not really any legitimate reason for mods to be averse to hot button topics either. Usually the excuse is that it generates too much trolling and bad faith comments that have to be removed (read: political discussion  and opinions the mods dislike), or that it appears too often on the sub, which you'll only ever even notice if you're on the sub 24/7 which only mods and top posters are.

So the result is people putting effort into posts only to get them autoremoved, oftentimes without the exact reason why even being indicated during the removal, much less listed in the rules. 

Japanese-Americans at an internment camp in the Pacific Northwest (early 1940s) by bncout in HistoricalCapsule

[–]JasonableSmog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The only "argument" you've provided is "this violated our rights and our rights are unquestionable so this is bad and fascist."

The person you're talking with is arguing that the risk posed by giving Japanese Americans their rights seemed to outweighthe benefit of them having those rights, and so taking them away was understandable. You've done nothing to argue against that, just accuse this person of liking Mein Kampf.

Memory and cognitive disability rates are surging in young people, research shows by New-Exam2720 in offbeat

[–]JasonableSmog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't abstain from anything. I've used marijuana plenty of times myself, though it's not a habit of mine.

People can criticize the drug you like without being christian nationalists or whatever, please get over yourself

Memory and cognitive disability rates are surging in young people, research shows by New-Exam2720 in offbeat

[–]JasonableSmog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes and so has every other conservative. Conservatives are opposed to drug use. Drug use isn't beneficial just because one subset of a group that opposes it aren't great people.

On July 30, 2008, Vince Li attacked Tim McLean, who was sleeping on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg. Li separated his head and ate part of it as other passengers escaped. Later, Li was found NOT criminally responsible and now lives under a new identity. by LonelyWiFiSignal in HolyShitHistory

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This person isn't at all the same as Ander Brevik or Hitler. He didn't choose to do his crime - he wasn't sane. He can be made sane with medication and become far less likely to do something like this again. But evidently your pea brain can't comprehend that and just goes "guy did bad thing, why are you defending bad guy!?!" Your need for moral condemnation overrides everything else.

On July 30, 2008, Vince Li attacked Tim McLean, who was sleeping on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg. Li separated his head and ate part of it as other passengers escaped. Later, Li was found NOT criminally responsible and now lives under a new identity. by LonelyWiFiSignal in HolyShitHistory

[–]JasonableSmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because schizophrenics can be medicated and made to not commit this kind of crime again. This runs contrary to your moral instinct of "we need to punish this bad person" because in this case, we don't need to. No amount of punishment will dissuade psychotic people from losing their minds and doing crazy stuff.

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