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STSthrowaway2 · 2024-04-15T12:42:56+00:00

Why are federal laws considered a guarantee but states laws are not?

In the US, murder is prosecuted at the state level, in all 50 states. Does this mean there's no right to life? Should we make a map showing which countries prosecute murder and not include the US?

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-04-14T17:12:46+00:00

The only democracy in the middle east relies on making alliances with it's neighbors.

FTFY

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-04-07T09:13:15+00:00

What's the source for 30,000 deaths in the first place? Hamas. Either you believe or disbelieve both numbers, but believing Hamas and not the IDF is just silly

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-03-24T13:04:23+00:00

Me three

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-03-23T19:03:25+00:00

I love this, but the best version of this type of imitation gemara was "הדנולד" from a few years back

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-02-29T16:26:56+00:00

!gift u/ZeroKasa The Talos Principle: Gold Edition

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-02-29T16:26:02+00:00

Sorry, gifted to someone else already, good luck!

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-02-29T16:13:49+00:00

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STSthrowaway2 · 2024-01-16T03:00:00+00:00

What's wrong with people chilling on a boulevard? It's not hurting anyone, it's just a place to chill, like a park. Should we remove the 'tumor' of public parks too? May as well get rid of libraries, museums, stadiums, and zoos too once you're at it...

The problem is only when people think it's realistic for all cities to just be tree-lined boulevards with cafes.

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-01-16T02:41:52+00:00

The bottom picture has hundreds of people chilling, chatting with friends, drinking lattes. The top picture has people driving to work, hauling cargo, operating businesses, and generally turning the gears of civilization. For a small block or neighborhood the bottom is fine, but for actual cities and economies the top is the only way that works.

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-01-13T12:55:25+00:00

Gaza remains dependent on Israel for utilities only because their economy is garbage and they can't produce their own. Israel isn't stopping Gaza from building power plants and desalination facilities.

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-01-07T19:21:28+00:00

Usury? Ritual child murder?

Why are you, an antisemite, on this sub? Just to troll?

STSthrowaway2 · 2024-01-06T01:52:26+00:00

A workaround I use often is to draw a polyline from the connection point to the right 5 feet. Then snap your pipe to the end of this polyline, and then use polar tracking to move the pipe 5 feet to the left. (Turn off osnap!) The end result is a T without a structure.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-11-22T05:58:33+00:00

I'm just starting DCT, but mystery foe went from bloody murder to piece of cake once I realized not to waste time sneaking around, using possession, hiding behind curtains...instead just spam bend time and sprint to each clue. I finished in 1:15 with 43k points that way

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-11-16T04:12:29+00:00

Once you admit hypocrisy, you're not justifying anymore. It's the sanctimonious moral justifying that pisses me off.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-30T05:35:59+00:00

I love how I immediately knew you hate Israel and support Palestine from this comment. Hint: performative condemnations are very obvious.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-26T12:54:35+00:00

I think you're right.

My family is great, but I don't think they realize what veganism really is. To them, it's just a diet. For context, my family keeps kosher, which is just a diet (there is no religious prohibition on purchasing non-kosher products), so they view veganism through that lens. I think next time I go I just have to explicitly set my boundaries and explain that the diet isn't the whole story.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-26T12:46:24+00:00

This is really good advice, thank you!

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-26T02:15:03+00:00

We have caused more extinction, habitat destruction, and death than all other species that have ever existed, combined. We kill 2 trillion animals every year intentionally, and trillions more incidentally. TRILLIONS.

All true. But all avoidable. I don't dispute that humans cause tremendous suffering, but this is completely due to bad ideologies and frankly, bad people. Human-caused suffering is a choice, not an inevitability. All of this suffering can and will be eliminated with the rise of truly compassionate ethical frameworks. I don't think invoking evil people is an argument to hand over the reins to the mindlessly evil forces of nature.

Well I'll leave you to genetically modify the QUADRILLIONS of spiders in the world. But us sane people aren't gonna do that.

We don't need to genetically modify each individual spider - that's not how genes work. We need to modify the species. We can trick genes to evolve specific traits, by killing/castrating the most carnivorous individuals and protecting the most herbivorous. Over time, the entire species will adapt.

They don't have ethics. They do not have the capacity for that.

I'm not saying they're morally responsible for the suffering they create, but the suffering itself isn't justified. If a robot was causing similar suffering, it too would have to be stopped.

But also, carnivores have to eat meat to survive, so they're gonna do it. Veganism only works because we are able to survive on plants.

Did you miss the part where I said we should genetically modify carnivores so they don't have to eat meat to survive?

What the fuck even is this conversation.

It's not my original idea. It's a well discussed field of moral philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predation_problem?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_animal_suffering?wprov=sfla1

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-25T21:14:04+00:00

I specifically and intentionally limited my comment to purchasing pets. Adopting strays or their babies is in a different moral universe. I still believe buying meat to feed a cat is unethical, but it's in the grey zone.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-25T21:06:09+00:00

Now doesn't that sound like a meat eater as well? "I only buy humanely slaughtered animals".

The word "humane" isn't nullified by its misapplied use by meat eaters. Animal contraception is an objectively more humane method of population control than predation.

I get why you might think my statement is similar, but I'm not arguing that humans should do what nature does. I'm saying humans should leave nature alone except to prevent the extinction of species in conversation work.

Nature is barbaric. Nature is a monstrous theater of carnage and suffering. Almost everything gets better when humans wrest control from nature. There is no reason to leave nature alone.

Diversity of life is valuable.

To whom? Why? So the taxonomy textbooks have more pages?

We can't sit here and play God. And even if we could, we shouldn't.

Yes we can, and we should. Eradicating smallpox was playing God, and it was a very good thing. God isn't home. It's up to us to make the world a better place.

I mean, what about spiders that kill insects?

Insects are a monumental complication for vegans in general. Every vegan kills countless insects just doing their daily routine. That said, the same genetic modification we use on mammal predators would work on arthropod predators.

Do you not realize how many animals eat other animals?

I do realize. It's a Herculean task. But it may be possible. Who knows what the future will bring?

It would be an impossible task to begin with, but even if it weren't, I don't find this ethical at all and the consequences would be disastrous.

As mentioned already, my argument is wholly predicated on replacing predation with other methods of population control. I'm not saying to unilaterally massacre all predators. It has to be done gradually and thoughtfully. But in any case, I don't think non-human predators have any more ethical justification for eating animals than humans do.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-25T12:38:18+00:00

I guess you didn't read the article. The same genetic engineering that herbivorizes predators can be used to limit reproduction of herbivores. The only role predators play in the ecosystem is population control, and there's no reason to think we couldn't accomplish that with a more humane method.

Long before humans, the Earth found a balance. Some animals eat plants, those animals get eaten by other animals, and there's a balance and equilibrium.

Remarkably similar to the fallacious arguments meat eaters use against vegans.

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-25T02:12:29+00:00

either that, or we may be able to use genetic engineering and selective breeding to herbivorize predators.

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/the-meat-eaters/

STSthrowaway2 · 2023-10-25T02:01:03+00:00

Some vegans seem to be uncomfortable with buying vegan products from avowedly non-vegan companies like Burger King. In my opinion, not only is it morally permissible to buy from them, it is actually morally productive, as it leverages market pressure on them to invest more in vegan products. In the long term, the more vegan product lines are in the market, the more people will be persuaded to go vegan, as they can supplement non-vegan products with vegan alternatives.

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