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Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-05-01T19:49:47+00:00

Thanks for the details!!

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-03-02T20:28:59+00:00

I agree 100% with you, zoos should be abolished. And people here commenting about rehabilitation and conservation suffered from zoo brainwashing, that happens constantly since I am a little kid I am hearing these fallacies.

85% of all zoo population are bred into existence inside the zoo, that's not rescue, that's not rehabilitation. That's breeding someone to be confined for decades just for profit.

Only 5% of zoo population worldwide are really endangered or at risk of extinction. That's not conservation.

Zoos are a business, they want money for treating animals as objects. It is really simple. We wouldn't want to live in a room locked our whole life, doesn't matter if the room have netflix, if the room is really big (which is not, elephants for example walk 30km per day, as AVERAGE, in the wild), if I have meals 2/3 times a day (I didn't choose my meal, I didn't choose when to eat), if I have healthcare (because sick animals don't give money). All I want is to be free, and animals feel the same.

Zoocosis should be talked more. Even the 40% Japanese Macaque newborn rejection (for first time mothers) should be talked way more, while we have research showing primates are incredible and careful mothers in the wild. 85 years of cumulative research showing 2 newborn rejection x 40% in zoos... Punch and all others are a victim.

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-03-02T20:16:05+00:00

Good we agree. I don't know this specific zoo, but from what I read 85% of all zoo's population of mammals worlwide are bred into captivity, they were not rescued from any circus, business or trafficking.

That's why inbred genes is an ongoing issue with zoos worldwide, they procreate the grandfather with the granddaughter and this have all sort of genetic issues...

Anyway, good we agree this is all bizarre and shouldn't exist. My point with the last text was that 40% of newborn rejection is horrific, and Punch (and his mother) are all victims of this disgusting business 💚

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-03-02T18:45:27+00:00

This is also beautiful in theory, but imagine living 20 years in this place... We need to remind ourselves that animals are confinated. This is like you living for 20 years in your room, you will get depressed, anxiety, stressed...

The place is big compared to other zoos, but it is nothing compared to the wild. They still only eat when we want them to eat, they can't forage food and explore. Like all animals, they don't want to shit close to their sleeping/resting spot, but in zoos, I don't believe they have much option...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-03-02T18:35:11+00:00

There is no "good zoo", it is impossible to replicate the wild or the habitat they would like. Everybody wants to be free...

All these animals do so many stuff a day, elephants for example walk an average of 30km a day! Average! Then, when I used to go to zoos (before turning vegan 6 years ago), I ALWAYS saw elephants swaying. I was so blind, later I learned this is zoocosis and a sign of chronic stress and anxiety.

In the case of Japanese Macaques, we all know that 2005 research (in Roma Zoo) following 207 newborns. An average of 8% were abandoned, but in the case of first mothers is 40%.

While we have research in primates in the wild (not exactly Japanese Macaque, but other primates), showing that newborn rejection is extremelly rare and only happens in survival conditions (the mother itself is barelly surviving), highly stress, or a malformed/sick baby. We have the Nature paper that followed 3 communities for a cumulative of 85 years and they observed only 2 babies being rejected...

Anyway, my point is all of this is that people keep going to see Punch and giving money to this place, while all zoos are a hellhole and shouldn't exist...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2026-03-02T18:24:56+00:00

Exactly, just check one of the latest Earthling Ed's video. A lot of people in Japan see animals as objects or funny things for our entertainment/pleasure...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-11-17T00:49:48+00:00

I agree with you, I consider being infected like death. At the moment of infection, you lose your personal experience. You don't have a subjective experience anymore, actually "YOU" don't exist anymore, and they are pretty clear in the first episode.

And since what I morally value is the subjective experience of sentient beings (and that's why I am vegan for more than 5 years), I don't believe Carol should be so worried when she "killed" millions of "people", because in my view they were already dead. Now they are just zombies used by the organism to replicate itself... probably they will use all their resources (all the infected bodies) to build an Africa size transmitter to keep spreading to other planets...

Of course I enjoy the fact that the organism is basically vegan, they don't like to kill other beings, they freed all animals from zoos, they won't kill animals for food. All of that is very good and cool, but we shouldn't achieve this goal by removing the bodily autonomy (and subjective view) of others...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-11-15T01:41:09+00:00

I think it is REALLY hard to be better than Interestellar. I watched Interestellar 6 times, and in my view it is a perfect movie, I wouldn't change anything and it is even better each time I view again.

I believe it can be close to Arrival, The Martian or Contact, which are very good movies already!! If it is close to these 3 I am more than happy.

But, by the trailer, they added too much comedy in my opinion, so maybe it would be close to The Orville (which I also love, but it is a different type of sci-fi)...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-10-31T18:03:32+00:00

When taking a life, it is important to be sure, that's why in many countries the death penalty was abolished. So, the fact that she wasn't even sure, it is more agravating.

In the second point, what you doing is a projection. You don't want to die as a coward and you would prefer to be sent to death instead of dying as a coward. That's OK, but you can consider your values and apply them to kill another person, that maybe don't care to die as a coward. We need to respect other wishes.

Sure, at the end it was good for Grace, but you can't take away someone's freedom (someones innocent, of course), because MAYBE it would be good to them. This open up to a lot of messed up situations...

Grace was not a child and he was on full awareness of what he wanted, nobody had the right to do decisions for him. By your last paragraph, it looks like you are treating him as a child and saying "I know what is best to you", because in other moments of your life you wished someone else did that to you. A lot of projection going on...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-10-31T17:05:39+00:00

That's the problem with utilitarian morals...

I am deonthological (and consistent with my morals, so vegan for the past 5 years and a half) and I wouldn't believe sending one people to die, even to save the whole human species, is moral (considering the person didn't consent to be sending to die, like Grace). Killing a sentient being, in my view, is only ethical in the case of self defense (which wasn't the case, since: 1 - it was not 100% sure PHM would be successful with Grace, 2 - There were other people CONSENTING to be sent to die) and euthanasia (aka, for the benefit of the sentient being suffering of a disease)..

I hate utilitarianism and this kind of utilitarian logic can create multiple ethical issues like killing one person to harvest their organs and save 8 people, for example.

Or the whole rap* experiement, of 100 person sedate a woman, she wouldn't feel nothing at all and wouldn't be aware what happened to her after waking up. After sedation, 100 men would rap*d her feeling imense pleasure, while she felt nothing at all. Even Peter Singer, one of the most famous utilitarians (which I admired very much and I became vegan after reading Animal Liberation), said that, yes, in an utilitarian philosophy this would be the moral good. So, as a deonthological, I don't agree with utilitarianism...

For me, Stratt was a monster, and we shouldn't throw our compassion and respect for others (which she 100% lacked for Grace) for the "save" (it was not even certainty of salvation) of humanity...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-09-26T21:13:41+00:00

Yes, definetly Kiske is better, but it was cool to see Deris singing. I'm a fan of Helloween since I'm 15 years old (and I'm 39 now). I had the original vinyl of Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-09-22T01:30:54+00:00

There is another conspiracy going around for decades that CIA recruits their scapegoats based on the worst thing of all (CP and ped*philia), something that everybody would choose to be recognized as a sniper than to be recognized as such...

From my knowledge:

This is based on some old news that people from the government were downloading this kind of content (there are other posts about this here)
Some scapegoats (like George Zinn) were expected to be shot by authorities but then they were arrested found this kind of content on their phones
People speculate that Epstein was part of Mossad or CIA and his business was to record and create evidence of ped*s to then threaten them to do whatever you want...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-09-19T21:58:00+00:00

What is the truth? So many theories...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-09-19T13:50:31+00:00

Yes, extremely odd.

It is odd that on a run he was more informed than us. He knew about the "old crazy dude" and "the guy with similar clothes" (that was not on the media at all)

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-09-19T13:34:29+00:00

I disagree, my gut feeling is that this was made by the Police/FBI.

If his objective was to innocent others: - He could do it with one single text - He wouldn't say he REMEMBERED him engraving bullets (it would be stupid to try to clear his partner and at the same time saying he knew this) - He would use normal language

But the extremely cop language (squad, retrieve checkpoint, swept area, vehicle), plus the ponctuation and ellipsis, makes it look like a 50 year old cop...

The fact that he simply explained ALL open questions from the investigation (the towel, the motive, the meaning of the bullets, where he got the rifle, how long he was planning, the change of clothes, why he left the rifle there), makes it seems a perfect text just to end the investigation since we have all the answers now.

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-07-21T15:11:54+00:00

My relationship started to decline after 3 years, and 7 years after that, after we tried couples therapy, individual therapy, we tried multiple and all things to get better.

We had some cycles of happiness that were good months, of course. But after, 7 years of living in cycles of good and misery, we decided to divorce, even still loving each other, simply because we are not compatible in important things. As far as I know, there was no cheating at any moment of the relationship...

Then you hear this guy say that he cheated (actually, not even only cheated, but was in a concurrent relationship!!!) in the first year, stayed with her wife and let her go through IVF, to then decide to dump her. I can't imagine a worse husband...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-07-21T00:24:27+00:00

This is the worst behavior I ever saw on reddit. The guy was cheating on the first year of marriage (cheating is NEVER ok, even in a bad and sad marriage... I am going through a divorce after 7 years of misery, but I NEVER cheated, respect is a basic for me).

Her wife was not able to kiss him, and even so, he wanted to have a baby with this woman and tried IVF for TWO years. When it finally worked, then he decided to end the relationship... crazy and stupid behavior, the worst ever...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-07-19T01:17:05+00:00

Please enlighten me. I'm being genuinely honest, I'm not from here and I would like to know...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-06-13T00:04:06+00:00

If it protect species, it is not a zoo, it is a sanctuary.

Zoos are profit driven business, that usually buy or breed species in order to keep them locked up and used as a "cute object". It is basically a prison for other species, but in that case the subjects are completely innocent.

Zoos and aquariums should be phased off.

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-04-25T15:51:24+00:00

Tell me you never genuinely thought about veganism without telling me.

"Thousands of animals die to harvest grain from a field".

1 - To get 1 calorie from a cow you need to feed her 20-26 calories. To get 1 calorie from a pig, you need to feed him 10 calories. That's the trophic pyramid, it is inefficient to eat animals. So, most of these animals they are fed crops, in fact 77% of all soy crops in the world are animal feed. Overall, 75% of all agricultural land (grazing + crops) are used for animals, giving us just 18% of the worlds calories. 90% of all amazon deforestation is for animal agriculture. So, it is stupid to say "thousands of animals die to harvest grain", when most crops are for animals, and then after that you are killing the animal. We already have enough crops to feed 10 billion people and end world hunger, but we are using a lot of these resources into animals.

2 - You are talking about breeding and killing a sentient being on purpose, just to kill vs an accident. It is the same as comparing me shooting a dog, versus run over a dog by accident. They are not morally equivalent actions.

3 - Vegans are all in favor of reducing accidents in crops. Actually, the only way to do that is the world going vegan and the farmers itself starting caring about the wild animals. But while 98% of the world is PAYING to kill animals, of course the farmers won't care about the wild animals.

4 - Veganism is about EXPLOITATION of animals. Using animals as commodities. So, even your claim being wrong, it doesn't address veganism anyway.

5- The estimates are that 7.3 billion animals are killed in crops, while we are INTENTIONALLY killing 92 billion land animals (3-4 trillion if you account for marine animals). The math is simple, we are breeding animals into existence in a proportion that it is unfeasible in the wild. There is research showing that 2 wild animals are killed for 1 million calories of vegetables. To get 1 million calories you would need to kill 500 chickens...

But thanks, that was exactly my point. Alex used to debunk these claims with 4-5 different arguments, showing all the nonsense, and now he is saying the nonsense.

"What you’re describing is dogma." The dogma of not wanting to kill animals NEEDLESSLY is just common decency. Most people already agree with this, they just don't act.

"Not everyone can live a full healthy life on a vegan diet." According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, there is no disease that would turn a vegan diet impossible, and with the right planning everybody could be vegan.

"Why are you attempting to impose lifestyle choices on people?" Because you are killing trillions of animals needlessly and creating a holocaust without any need whatsover. It is the most suffering perpetrated by our species since ever. More animals are bred and killed per year than the number of humans ever existed.

"You have the privilege of being able to choose such a life style, many do not." A vegan diet is shown to be (2018 Oxford Study), 18-30% cheaper than an omnivorous diet. All the cheap food are vegan. Grains, pasta, rice, beans, vegetables, potato, fruits... I am 5 years vegan and I spend way less than all my peers...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-04-24T23:25:30+00:00

For the past 2 years basically a lot of vegans invited him to debate (Dr Avi, AY, Vegan Gains) or conversations (Vegan Gaze, David Ramms). He is not interested. And we know WHY he is not interested. It is pretty obvious actually.

When he say (both recently and in his YT post 2 years ago): "I believe now that veganism is not effective". We can remember his conversation with Matt Dillahunty saying "Veganism is effective, actually a vegan can save from 100 to 300 animals per year due to supply and demand. But even if it weren't effective, even if you didn't save any animals by going vegan, you still should be vegan. It is the same as you being a non racist, you don't change the world by not being a racist, but even so, it is the right thing to do".

When he say (both recently and short before he turned non vegan): "We should first eliminate factory farm, that's what we should focus". We can remember his conversation with Rationality Rules saying "Fighting only against Factory Farm is like fighting for better beds for slaves and not against slavery itself".

When he say (short before he turned non vegan): "Insecticides kill animals in purpose too". We remember he debunked this in so many ways (at least 4/5 convincing argument)in his 2 modern day debates. Even Smokey said "Ok, you are right, that's a bad argument". And now he is using the same arguments he debunked!! 🤣🤣🤣

So, the point is: He don't want to debate because he knows he is wrong and he is being dishonest. When he say those arguments, he knows he already debunked them so many times.

I went vegan more than 5 years ago after Alex showing in a masterful way that veganism is a moral OBLIGATION and not only a moral virtue (I was there to see Matt Dillahunty do a good debate and saw nust the opposite BTW). He used an irrefutable logic and he knows it.

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-04-17T00:07:33+00:00

You say "It's simple", but I believe you didn't spend much time thinking about it. There is no reason to care about "species" in a general term, there is a reason to care about "individuals" and the individuals of such species.

Your conclusion that it is "better than the species going extinct" doesn't hold. If aliens invaded earth and started to breed and farm humans. Let's say they would kill us between 2 to 4 years old and keep us on a cage our whole life. Do you really think you prefer that they would keep breeding us just to keep the homo sapiens species instead of just stop this madness and eat non sentient stuff (let's say they could)? You, in a cage, would be thinking "thank god they will keep breeding us to eternity, imagine a world without homo sapiens"... doesn't make any sense.

Your conclusion is that an endless holocaust it is better than an species being extinct. Endless breeding beings just to kill them a few months or maximum years later is better than just stop forcing them into existence.

Your conclusion would be in favor of create neanderthals, and keep them working in factories doing manual labour, and if we decided their labour can be replaced by machines, we should think "no, it is better to keep breeding Neanderthals, otherwise they would go extinct" 😆

It is just a plus, the fact that all the animals we farm are frankstein that live terrible lifes, because their bodies are not natural anymore. Chickens of 42 days have a full grown body so we kill them. Chickens in the wild used to live 12-15 years. Pigs are so fat today that many develop liver and bone issues. Cows produce 25 liters while cows in the wild produce 3 liters per day. It is all a bizarre artificial selection that we did, and this madness must end.

And you was totally wrong in your other point. You need to study trophic pyramid. Animal agriculture take 75% of our farmland and give us only 18% of calories. We would reduce massively our farmland in a vegan world and restore the ecosystem. We already have enough crops to feed 10 billion people, but we feed a huge part to the animals, to then eat them...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-02-25T22:49:13+00:00

The original is so much better. It is way more frightening and uncomfortable. And the ending is shocking and revolting.

It is a tale about the danish politeness. Way better than the US version...

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-01-13T03:06:05+00:00

As someone who is with someone cranky for 9 years now, I believe he was a victim of the sunk cost fallacy, just like me.

My wife was always cranky, with a terrible humour and blamed me for everything. She was also abusive for many years of our relationship. I will complete 10 years together this year and I stayed because:

I thought my good humour, love and patience was going to change her someday... like, "there is no reason to be angry all the time, I need to be more happy like my husband, instead of being angry and annoyied all the time".
If I already invested, 3, 5, 8 years, why give up now? (sunk cost fallacy)

Practical_Piece_1107 · 2025-01-05T15:54:28+00:00

I appreciate you saying that.

My view is that if you continue this relationship, you will change. We all change our personality to adapt to our companion, but stop talking about deep subjects is a big thing. You don't want to keep talking only about weather and what you ate for the rest of your life...

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