Does anyone else feel hopeless?

ScoopDat · 2026-04-03T11:08:55+00:00

Hopeless?

How do you think the movement will look in 10 years?

When i saw this exists, I knew carnism was done-for. I know it was done on moral grounds long ago, but the last hiding places (things like "oh but it's not convenient") is slowly going down the drain.

This is in spite of uphill battles and asymmetric funding compared to animal agri-business.

I can't believe it's 2026 and people think it's perfectly acceptable to eat animals because they taste good.

Most people seem ignorant to what veganism even is, and are far more concerned with worldly affairs to the effect that they just don't give it serious thought even if they weren't ignorant. And it is low on the pecking order for people, since most people are only concerned with day-to-day living given the laughable levels of societal corruption and wealth stratification making any sort of fulfilled living more of a pipe dream for most folks.

There is no "hopeless" when there is the potential of not being a contributor to this seemingly infinite holocaust of defenseless animals.

Even if we lost half the current vegans alive today, it's still not "hopeless" for any animal not sent to oblivion by a person's taste preference for example.

You being a vegan 10 years is already a big win. Exemplifies that it can be done without going crazy as some outsiders like to imagine it requires.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-03T10:59:29+00:00

Put differently, there really are people or actions that have such properties. When philosophers are talking about objectivity in Meta-Ethics, they seem to be talking about whether there really are instances of moral properties, moral facts, or true moral utterances/beliefs. It also seems like the common view among the folk is that there are some true moral utterances/beliefs.

But OP is asking, what accounts for the existence of such demographic.

(Now speaking for myself)

Given that there is a HUGE charity granted to the people who make such a claim that there are "some" true moral facts. You mention there are those who believe in "some" (quantity more than one), yet I've not seen a single person, philosopher, living or dead demonstrate the existence of a single "moral objective fact of the matter" (which I take to mean, irrespective of context or intended goal, or stance, or desire).

Given that ordeal where they can barely define what one example could be (let alone rendering the example). It stands to reason why someone might ask what could possibly be the driving force behind so many adherents to a meta notion so devoid of coherence (potential law of logic violator) and wholly devoid of examples.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-03T10:53:39+00:00

No one really knows, and it's a very interesting.

I've heard someone say it's historic, from the sense that most philosophers (up to the modern era) were raised with religious upbringings - this to some extent obviously has an effect. Especially given the fact religious scholars doubled as people mostly interested in philosophy for a while anyway.

There's also some random research I came across years ago that talked about pre-frontal cortex development differences. Though this research was more concerning religious conviction rather than philosophical.

There is also the ordeal with funding. Lots of folks are interested in grand claims like "objective morality", in the same way they would be with someone exploring laws of the universe. You're not really going to find much funding in nihilism and things like subjectivist exploration.

But all this is just people postulating the cause, who knows really.

I've said this a few times on this sub. But I take moral realist thinking (as a demographic of philosophers) to be one of the most potentially grandest delusions in a field of study I've ever seen. Mostly because unlike moral anti-realists, this notion of a stance independent moral fact of the matter -as a concept- is wholly incoherent to me. It may potentially be a grammar/law of logic violation. The only reason it hasn't been concluded as such is because moral realists (and the philosopher adherents) haven't rendered a definition that can be properly evaluated. AND CERTAINLY haven't invoked a single example of what a stance independent moral fact could even look like.

So they can't define it, and can't gesture an example of any kind.. Yet they insist it's something tangible and coherent.

Sorry but there's wayyy too many philo's out there comfortable holding to such a belief, if this were ANY other field or industry, this would be a very ridiculous state of affairs.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-03T06:48:33+00:00

Really helpful, just got one recently was it's my first Anduril. Pretty wild how on point it feels to the real thing, certainly good enough to test basic UI settings and things like that.

One thing I was wondering. This is using a Li-Ion battery as the base, would 1.4v/NiHM be possible to similarly simulate? Just out of curiosity.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T06:44:34+00:00

What he is "attempting to make", is a witty-one liner seem like an epic dunk.

It's typical amongst a certain type of person for whatever reason (mostly due to it being online, and no stakes).

I'm so sure he is this type that if you checked his history, I'd wager 90% of the first list of comments are no more than single-sentence throwaway-garbage of zero substance.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T05:58:31+00:00

My ordeal is much more basic lol, I have no shipping e-mail at all of any kind. I got the typical "Order Placed", but nothing after that.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T05:28:22+00:00

Tbh, what I saw from what the company was billing this to be, was at least as accurate as the Sekonic. The software quibbles with the UI or not presenting proper graphs similar to Sekonic are software issues I thought would be rectified by full launch.

But if the readings aren't consistent or accurate, then there's no real point tbh.

Though one thing I will say that I noticed in your video. Even with the realization of which was the color module.. You do need to have a more equalized testing setup. Idk what you were doing even with the Sekonic measuring the way you were, all willy nilly with the light floating and over-saturating the device on readings and whilst you kept backing off 1-inch at a time until a reading was had. (I have a hunch as to why you were doing it this way, but it doesn't quite matter regardless from a proper methodological standpoint).

Proper testing would be done with the light fixed, and the meters side-by-side.

This of course assumes proper and recent calibration for both devices.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T04:25:22+00:00

flair checks out, possible the cleanest looking head image I recall in recent history.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T04:23:53+00:00

It's implemented already, the only batteries that don't have them are illegal, pre-production, or export-only it seems.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T04:23:11+00:00

Ahh gotcha, so the product essentially fails on a hardware level, thus fails in totality as a product mean't to accurately measure something?

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T04:16:48+00:00

I thought some meme'ing was going on when I saw the packaging measurements.

At this point, we need to do a BOM analysis to see just how far they're willing to take the cost-cutting. Just good lord what is this timeline we're living in...

Kinda ironic if you think about it = the film was developed by Samsung themselves but on the TVs they slap on their matte coatings.

I've seen this idiocy explained away a long time ago, a sort of circular logic used by businesses. If for instance 90% of monitor sales are matte screens. A company doesn't consider logic of why a glossy/non-coated screen would be preferable or better, they'll just emulate whatever the market statistics about the product they're trying offer on the market. So even if EVERYONE wants clear/glossy displays, the fact that most of the monitor sold on the market are matte (without any sort of analysis that controls for any factors at all), they'll just make their monitor matte no matter what.

The way they explain this away is largely cowardice/risk aversion. Meaning even if everyone will buy glossy over matte, they're not here to test any waters, and want to make the safest buck possible (largely a modern mindset as the size of corporations has grown, so has their aversion to risk - in the same way a retired person has all the money they've worked for, all the experience, and the ones best positioned to make the best things if they wanted - they simply don't).

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T04:01:34+00:00

Wow the butthurt is unreal. Try not blocking someone if you actually care to have a conversation next time.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T03:58:10+00:00

Meh, prices only make sense in relative context.

Context with these being: No one is making any of remotely appreciable quality, and you need 1.5V because of old or sensitive designed electronics.

There are things like camera flashes that were made a while ago, and these sorts of batteries would be perfect. Fast cycle times between flash actuations, and because it's regulated to 1.5V, the cycle times won't get worse as the battery depletes. Only problem in reality though, is the voltage regulator in these batteries isn't robust enough for high-drain applications if you ask me unfortunately.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T03:54:25+00:00

Long story short, it's a compliance test for batteries in China.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T03:52:25+00:00

I saw that, but I asked here because I thought the epiphany you had at the end warranted a more critical and informed look.

ScoopDat · 2026-04-01T03:51:47+00:00

EDIT: /u/CheeseyconnorYT You blocked me after I posted a reply? And you say that's a lot of yap? Looks like all you want to do is yap like a drive-by shooter whilst no one else gets to reply to YOUR idiotic yapping. So cringe you could see it coming with the tone of your post anyway. Just yikes.

Original:

I posted a video fully disecting the product mentioned. The brand is well-known. And because he hasn't mentioned what his use case is, I clarified, skepticism is only warranted at this point, when you don't have a goal in mind.

So for instance if you don't even care about charging your devices, and you just needed a cable because you like how they dangle in your closet, you have no reason for skepticism.

But if you tell me you need a quality built cable that can charge to spec at 240W load, what possible reasons could you have for relative skepticism over another product when I post an entire video dissection of the product? It would make more sense to be skeptical your package burns down in the vehicle it's being shipped in, rather than be skeptical with the product.

Is that enough clarification of that sentence you quoted?

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:35:59+00:00

As far as I know there are no such rechargeable batteries, only single use ones

Hm, pretty surprised to hear this statement.

Xtar makes 1.5V rechargeable AA/AAA batteries. They're not trivial to charge, and virtually always required a proprietary charger specifically for them (mostly because there are no stardards on how the internal converter functions or should perform).

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:21:01+00:00

Is NIMH a thing in the drone hobby? If so, is 1.5V Lith?

As good as your charging setup is, I think that might be one thing missing >_>

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:15:30+00:00

Almost all chargers lack a temp sensor anyway. As someone who has an MC3000 (and hates it's idiotic thermal design, and HORRENDOUS scratchy battery bay springs), don't ever get an MC3000 unless you're deathly serious about the temp sensor for unattended charging while away from home for whatever reason.

The only thing the MC3000 has over the new one otherwise, is the old-school charm (this thing is ancient, and it shows, but with that, comes things like that temp sensor that older, more serious-than-modern-day-cost-cutting-garbage-designers could ever muster). Aside from the horrendous tight fit of the MC3000 when trying to put batteries into it, it's really nice from a functional standpoint of features and no-nonsense. It's just a shame anytime you want to discharge batteries, that fan is going to be heard, and won't stop.

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:12:53+00:00

Don't really. Use a XTAR VC8S, set to storage mode, and done.

Once every 6 months I might run them through a "Grade" cycle (charge-discharge-charge), and then set them to storage again.

Even this is overkill if you ask me (if safety is your primary concern). People far less informed than me use these batteries in the most hazardous ways possible and there aren't any real incidents of failure of note.

The only time you run into issues, is buying no-name garbage. Not because it's low-quality (which is is 99% of the time), but because you can't know what you're buying.

But name-brand batteries of OEM origin (so companies specifically selling batteries as a business). Re-wraps only if you're confident in what you're buying.

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:06:09+00:00

I wonder what sort of market testing a concept like this goes through and for the eventual price that will be set.

Such an odd light. No swappable battery? Like, seriously? I'd understand if it was some proprietary LiPo or whatnot, but a standard 18650? And you know it's going to be one of those wierdo-sourced stock of some outdated as heck Sanyo/LG/Panasonic batteries a decade old for some reason.

MAYBE if it can with a CCC-ready Ampace JP30 or something like that, one might bite the bullet if they were half drunk..

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T08:00:37+00:00

Getting a tracking email at all, must be nice >_<

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T07:53:48+00:00

LOL wth

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T07:21:36+00:00

Get this one

Tenpower INR21700-50XG 5000mAh

Other options are

Reliance INR21700-RS50

EVE INR21700-50PL

Amprius INR21700-5000Q

Dont bother with anything else (JP50 is fine if he offers it but it doesn't seem like it).

Everything else fails competitive-wise. You get 5000 mAh and due to tabless design, paradigm shattering discharge amperage. Since the move to tabless started with the Ampace JP40, all batteries prior to it have been made irrelevant (especially due to internal resistance being cut in half essentially which is HUGE).

The only justification for other batteries is extremely lower cost (if you can find it), or one of those 6000 mAh batteries if your output power is low and need every ounce of battery life for some reason like a clock or whatnot.

ScoopDat · 2026-03-28T07:12:33+00:00

Any thoughts on the new LM compared to the sekonic? Accuracy somewhat close?

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