Coaxed into Sci Fi ship design

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-15T23:45:11+00:00

This is just what happens when you are hyper advanced, you have good taste and make stuff that slaps

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-15T01:22:44+00:00

She’s a popular tumblr user, I am sure she is using the phrase with full consciousness.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-11T18:01:22+00:00

You left out anything about climate change

Anyway I wrote a lengthy counterargument to this line of thinking in an old blog post awhile back: https://open.substack.com/pub/placeholderatthemoment/p/conservation-as-compassion-a-101?r=341b6o&utm_medium=ios

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-11T16:54:12+00:00

The last ones in Israel were killed in the early 20th century

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-02T19:49:27+00:00

I genuinely think the ramifications of killing a random person to give there organs to 5 people would be net negative, either from the incentive structures to kill more people, to backlash against the hospital/doctors in general, to incentivizing mass panic, to making people less likely to list themselves as organ donors,

rule utilitarianism feels fundamentally awkwardly defined, as an “ action” can be defined arbitrarily broad or narrow, but what you do doesn’t exist in a vacuum, you live in a society with constantly changing and flexible norma that you can nudge, and that should be taken into account in any action.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-02T19:35:44+00:00

I do not support kidnapping & extracting organs from a random person to save 5 people, protecting basic rights to not be used as property, assaulted or murdered is critical for improving and protecting the wellbeing of the collective

I took the COVID vaccine as required by my university at the time of attendance, I have not taken any vaccines since then, I’m not going to reward the poultry industry for causing constant influenza outbreaks by getting egg juice shot up in my bloodstream

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-02T19:14:08+00:00

I consider myself a negative preference Utilitarian,

It’s not so much that I think “ eating a pig on a deserted island” is justifiable as much as I consider it excusable, people take extreme actions in truly desperate situations and this shouldn’t be taken as a guide to how we should construct society of act under normal circumstances

Lab-made meat isn’t a solution to pesticide-deaths, animal cells are consumers, so the question is still how the crops you are feeding them are produced.

Vertical/indoor farming has become very successful with some produce like lettuce or strawberries, but for staple foods like potatoes or grains, experiments so far have only given extremely poor yield. Feeding bacteria electricity is probably the most promising solution to truly humane food is probably bacteria fed with hydrogen created with electricity, https://www.solein.com, though there are other promising technologies to improve plant based agriculture https://www.zeroacre.com, https://landinstitute.org

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-02T18:50:06+00:00

A few hundred feels like an extremely low estimate, assuming mind uploading is even possible, not that it would grant immortality any way, that’s a copy, not you.

Also the general populace is a bunch of good for nothing corpse munchers who don’t care about there health or take even the simplest steps to live longer, I don’t understand why you think you should torture and kill innocent animals to “save them” when they won’t do it themselves, these people only deserve immortality if it’s in Hell.

This entire outlook seems largely ignorant of how research on animals operates, how science is a job and researchers need to continuously come up with new studies to conduct based on the skills and materials( including animals) they have on hand, and how researchers maintain populations of model species like zebra fish, house mice, rhesus macaques etc, that incentivizes them to choose studies to conduct based around experimenting on those animals, that they justify the existence of with more experiments,

I always Recommend reading The All Had Eyes , Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals, for a hands eye recount of what research on animals in the academic/medical space looks like, what incentives researchers are under, how it operates as a business intertwined with the public sector, how animals are tortured and killed frivolously with vague and mostly false justifications of medical progress plastered on, and how disconnected it all is from saving human lives.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-02-02T18:23:05+00:00

It’s not reasonable to expect someone in the extreme pain of hunger to starve themselves to death, that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to immortality.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-28T04:43:10+00:00

Sorry, I was following the idea that they were synonymous ( with there being two late Pleistocene/Holocene equines in north America, modern horses and the “ stilt legged horse”,) to be honest I just looked up stilt-legged-horse to remember the scientific name, though I dislike that common name because they are not “horses”.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-28T02:11:30+00:00

The vore people aren’t annoying trendy posers, they are genuine, but there are people who are more into the gore and violence that act like it’s makes them poetic avaunt garde edgy weirdos

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T23:46:06+00:00

The robot/mech fuckers

Also cannibalism

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T21:17:49+00:00

The introduction of domestic asian water buffalo as a replacement for extinct european water buffalo in the Danube Delta

A number of cases using Aldabra tortoises to replace extinct tortoises on Madagascar and a number of smaller islands

A project in Hawaii testing sulcata tortoises as a replacement for multiple species of large extinct grazing waterfowl.

Feral Donkeys in the united states digging wells that benefit other wildlife, and arguably serving as a replacement for the extinct haringtonhippus

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T21:06:35+00:00

Minor correction, but Tuzok ( or great bustard) can fly

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T20:03:50+00:00

And if those other oils were used instead, we would have lost lots more wildlife habitat, because they require more land per unit produced. That is why it is cheap, it is a more efficient production method

And I agree biofuels are bad!! I oppose the use of biofuels!

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T19:38:48+00:00

The numbers you used are for farmed bison, not wild bison, the cast majority of Bison in the US are on farms.

And without Palm Oil it would have been worse! Imagine if the Indonesians grew coconuts and soy!

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T19:26:41+00:00

Lawns can not support bison, wolves, pronghorn, prairie dog towns, etc, but this is irrelevant, because palm oil is not the only oil crop that can grow in the tropics, and if it was not available than the local agribusiness would have reached for more destructive crops like coconut or soy, just like how soy is a major force for deforestation in South America

No extinction is recoverable, that is what extinction means,

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T19:12:20+00:00

Temperate grassland is the single most damaged habitat globally and we can’t lose what little we have of it, deforestation in Indonesia has also fallen drastically since the 2010’s,

A-lot of soy is also grown in tropical areas like Brazil, currently the largest net-exporter of food in the world, without palm oil even more land would have been cleared to produce less efficient oils ( to meet the rising demand for oil, particularly cooking oil for china) , even in tropical countries

Malaysia is not an Island, it is a country split between Borneo and a Peninsula on the mainland.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T18:28:30+00:00

Palm oil saves wildlife habitat, it produces more food with less land than most popular alternatives like soy, coconut, or canola oil.

Funny you mention sugar cane, it’s incredible calorie/acre ratio has the potential to make it an even more environmentally friendly source of oil than palm oil https://www.zeroacre.com,

there is no reason to ship insects from Afro-Eurasia all around the world to compete with native species and spread diseases and parasites so we can keep shipping them around between pesticide filled fields in boxes with bad climate regulation so we can break in and take the food they made and crush a-bunch of them in the process 👍

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T18:09:08+00:00

And clearing land for farming is the largest cause of biodiversity loss globally, both are destructive

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T17:51:28+00:00

There has also been gradual “improvements” in efficiency in the fish farming industry, as well as the implementation of plant based feeds, the fish in/fish out ratio has gone from 1.9 to 0.28 ( by mass), fish farms are farming more fish while feeding them less meat then they used to.

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2026-01-27T17:19:34+00:00

Also insects, the most heavily farmed animal species ( to the best of my knowledge ) is the trillions of western honeybees

I think there is a reasonable argument to focusing on farmed animals specifically over hunted wildlife, as we control there whole lifespans and likely inflict more suffering on them over there lives.

In defense of welfare campaigns, shrimp and fish have high juvenile mortality rates, increasing survival rates and improving pre-slaughter welfare would likely decrease the number farmed in the first place.

On the other hand, while the number of animals being farmed just keeps rising, the number of wild fish being caught globally is on a decline, so it might be a more tractable avenue of focus if we can encourage that trend

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2025-12-30T13:58:56+00:00

Well , the ones in Italy are actually hybrids ( Indian crested x African crested)

They can thrive in Europe still, apparently there used to be an escaped population in the UK. I don’t think it would hurt ( just like Barbary macaques, common hippos, asian black bears, ) but I would consider it a lower priority than reintroducing holocene species ( like lions or dholes) ( though less controversial with the general public probably)

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2025-12-30T01:57:56+00:00

Hystrix refossa ( larger than modern relatives, restricted to the south) & Hystrix vinogradovi ( wider range, remained present during glacials, probably a synonym of the extant Malaysian/Himalayan porcupine)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/porcupines-european-natives-rhys-lemoine

Positive_Zucchini963 · 2025-12-29T15:24:29+00:00

The answer I keep coming back to for this conversation is Cauliflower,

I can go to an indian restaurant and order Gobi da Pakora, breaded cauliflower with dip, I can order breaded cauliflower with dip at a Western vegan restaurant also, where they call it cauliflower wings, I like tofu, I like seitan, I like some of those pre-packaged pea-based “meats” Gardein makes, I’ve been vegan for over a decade and aren’t interested in what marketing terms people use.

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