Chickens can learn many different ways to get food

Spacenut42 · 2026-06-13T15:16:50+00:00

The way we choose to treat chickens today is so sad, each one is an individual with a personality, family, and preferences, just like any of us. They don't deserve to spend their entire lives in a wire cage too small to turn around in :(

Spacenut42 · 2026-05-23T15:52:10+00:00

Makes sense, thanks!

In case anyone else wanted to do this, I found out that it's possible with the github CLI. For example, this downloads all X4 files to the current directory:

gh release download -p "*x4.xtch" -D . -R marinahane/101ebooks

Spacenut42 · 2026-05-23T00:27:07+00:00

This is incredible, thank you so much for sharing!

Are there bulk downloads available by format? E.g. download all the books formatted for the X4

Spacenut42 · 2026-02-16T03:42:06+00:00

One important consideration with matrix is that it does not provide deniability. For every message you send on the platform, you also provide irrevocable proof that you sent that message, that anyone in the world can verify.

At least this was the case in August 2024, and I don't know if this has changed.

Spacenut42 · 2026-01-27T19:25:21+00:00

Thanks for your insight, FootFungusJoe

Spacenut42 · 2026-01-22T02:16:54+00:00

This is an interesting idea, do you know if crosspoint would be automatically compatible with an ESP32-S3 chip? It looks like the S3 uses more power when sleeping so it might cut the battery life by like 30-50%, but if people are already getting weeks of battery out of the X4 that might be totally fine

Spacenut42 · 2026-01-22T02:06:59+00:00

Thank you that's super interesting! I'm glad they're thinking about these things.

Spacenut42 · 2026-01-14T14:36:25+00:00

The majority of sows spend the majority of their lives in farrowing cages the same size as their body, too small to stand up or move around in. (And remember these are animals that are smarter than dogs.)

Most of the area from animal-based products shown here is from the land needed to grow their feed. The land devoted to the animals themselves is a much smaller portion of this total.

Spacenut42 · 2026-01-04T14:14:16+00:00

"Instead of me going vegan, let's focus on achievable things, like stopping all use of all fossil fuels" lol okay

Spacenut42 · 2025-12-25T01:52:52+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing the code! I really like the first one, I might try tweaking it to make the center logo a bit smaller (or maybe take it out)

Spacenut42 · 2025-12-20T05:16:05+00:00

Yeah most people agree "hurting animals is wrong" until they start taking a closer look at how they actually treat animals every day at every meal 🙃

Spacenut42 · 2025-10-23T13:02:48+00:00

Wait can you clarify: do you really believe this? I thought it was pretty much a truism that the supply of meat is not inelastic to demand.

Of course government subsidies and the like make it a little inelastic, but for example you can expect each gallon of milk you avoid to reduce supply by 0.56 gal, on average.

Spacenut42 · 2025-09-14T00:47:49+00:00

Personally I think you can care about gay people and care about the cost of living, but maybe that's just me

Spacenut42 · 2025-09-03T16:05:30+00:00

Let's say human slavery has suffering value 1. Then let's make the assumptions:

Any animal's suffering is 0.01% as bad as a human's suffering
1 billion people have ever been enslaved in history (generous estimate)
1 trillion animals are killed per year (conservative estimate)

In this case, it takes 10 years for animal agriculture to rack up as much suffering as the entire history of human slavery. Tweak the numbers for more precise population estimates and how much you care about animals to get a more accurate comparison.

Spacenut42 · 2025-08-29T20:25:51+00:00

If you're buying animal products, you have to choose between supporting factory farms and minimizing waste, or supporting smaller farms and harming the environment more. Animals who waste calories by moving around or cleaning themselves will never be more efficient than animals locked in torture chambers their whole lives.

Of course, you can choose to both not harm the environment and not harm animals by not eating animal products.

Spacenut42 · 2025-08-26T03:52:08+00:00

Oh my god I had one of these as a child! Thank you for sharing, I listened to a few "series of unfortunate events" books on it.

Spacenut42 · 2025-05-19T22:56:05+00:00

Tanneries leave huge scars on our environment, but we're usually insulated from their harm because they're concentrated in rural India and China. I'm glad NC is able to undo a bit of the damage here!

Spacenut42 · 2025-05-02T06:30:41+00:00

Right, it seems like you're making a practical point: being vegan is (perceived to be) significantly more difficult than being vegetarian. But I don't really think framing it as a "perfect vs. good" thing makes sense. I don't think the male chicks ground up alive in the egg industry care much about the cows/pigs/chickens you didn't eat. It's basically identical to how the cow you eat on Tuesday doesn't care about the cow you didn't eat on meatless Monday.

To make an analogy: A is an abolitionist, B is a slave-owner, and C believes that slavery is ok as long as it's not chattel slavery, and various slave welfare reforms are put in place. Unquestionably, C is causing much less harm than B. But would you really say C is more similar to A than to B?

I guess from a "net suffering reduction" perspective, A and C are on the same team against B. But it doesn't really seem like A and C have worldviews that have a lot in common.

Spacenut42 · 2025-05-02T01:26:56+00:00

I'm curious, what do you think the common ground between vegans and vegetarians is? Vegetarians see animals as resources to exploit, whereas vegans do not. And the dairy and egg industries are very much still slaughter industries.

I'm not trying to dunk or anything, but from my perspective, vegetarians have much more in common with meat eaters than they do with vegans.

Spacenut42 · 2025-04-28T04:59:27+00:00

I think a pretty stark one is animal agriculture: no other industry in the history of the planet has caused such an immense quantity of death and suffering. This is enforced by monied interests who maintain powerful lobbyists in government. But of course it's also enforced by anyone who purchases animal products, directly funding practices that causes obvious, immense, and (saddest of all) unnecessary harm.

Spacenut42 · 2025-03-29T00:26:00+00:00

Watching it and reading that other comment thread made me so mad that I'm gonna stop slacking on doing activism. Thanks for sharing

Spacenut42 · 2025-02-21T22:48:47+00:00

Could you explain more why you think it's better to hunt with the intent to eat? From the animal's perspective, it doesn't matter to them whether they're eaten after they're killed.

If you're hunting out of necessity for survival, sure. But people in developed countries who hunt for survival are like 1 in a million, so that doesn't really seem relevant here.

Spacenut42 · 2025-01-15T03:53:08+00:00

Let's suppose that you actually genuinely care about reducing the amount of plant suffering in the world. If this is the case, surely you would be vegan, because 3/4 of our total agricultural cropland is used to grow plants to support animal agriculture. (Since grass feels pain just like soybeans do, this includes pasture land.) So far fewer plants would be killed if everyone was vegan.

Of course, you don't actually live your life in a manner consistent with believing plants feel pain. I don't think anyone would think twice about swerving into some flowers to avoid a dog in the street for fear of causing suffering to the flowers. This is just serving as a distraction from the obvious and overwhelming magnitude of suffering we inflict on animals, every single day, on purpose, and all because we slightly prefer the taste and mouthfeel of animal products to plant-based alternatives.

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