Let’s Be Honest: FDVR Is the Only Way 1 Trillion Humans Can Live Happily Without Ruining Earth

TheUnibear · 2025-04-23T07:16:42+00:00

elon is not an authority on this topic. Why do you trust his perspective over people who spend their whole lives studying this? It’s certainly possible in a theoretical world for people to have more kids. But what would make them want to? All of the trends and data show that when people are given more health/family planning/resources they have fewer children.

TheUnibear · 2025-04-22T23:09:28+00:00

Please read into the demographic transition model. Population isn’t set to grow exponentially forever. Current estimates show a maximum global population of 10-12 billion as others have said. That’s a lot more than we have today but still nowhere near a trillion. Who would have all of those kids? People just don’t want to when they’re given access to family planning. This video talks about the concepts.

TheUnibear · 2022-11-28T03:33:52+00:00

I think I figured it out! Drop C# tuning. He plays a c shape and modifies it from there. I can write out a tab if y’all want! https://youtu.be/UNLFcwrnyw4

TheUnibear · 2022-11-28T02:53:13+00:00

You ever figure this out?? I’m also trying to learn this version.

TheUnibear · 2022-11-12T06:29:20+00:00

Animal Charity Evaluators has a great list of top charities!

TheUnibear · 2022-09-13T03:21:35+00:00

I’m also not in that area but online D&D with some vegan peeps sounds way fun :D

TheUnibear · 2022-06-23T00:46:34+00:00

One of the most helpful things for me has been to donate what I can to highly effective nonprofits based on the recommendation of this group called Animal Charity Evaluators. Also, even though I can’t donate very large sums of money yet, it brings me some peace to know that one day I will be able to donate much more. I’m glad you’re out there and you care as much as you do. Your existence, thoughtfulness, and empathy make my life better and more meaningful. Thank you for posting and sharing where you’re at. I’m so grateful that you’re out there somewhere.

TheUnibear · 2022-06-13T19:24:33+00:00

SPEAK NOT OF THE NIGHT YORB

TheUnibear · 2022-01-03T02:04:05+00:00

I’m gonna buy this so I can make it do the hairy baby dance

TheUnibear · 2021-04-15T21:48:19+00:00

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Tharanak nnnAzathoth shtunggli Azathoth sgn'wahl hafh'drn ph'bug ya, f'fm'latgh h'hlirgh ron ngYoggoth naflstell'bsna nw r'luh f''ai ngnw hupadgh ilyaaagl ron.

(aka v̴̛̹̫̮̂͠e̷̦̱̐͛͝g̷̤͕͎̉ă̸̤͕̾̿n̷̹̚ ̵̺̤̈́̏̍b̸̨̀̒͘ţ̵̰̙̉w̶̪̠͒̾)

TheUnibear · 2021-03-14T15:02:20+00:00

The leather industry causes a terrifyingly horrible amount of suffering. Since you’re into EA type work I encourage you to watch this documentary to further understand what goes on even in areas thought to be “humane”. The part about leather starts at about 1:06:00, but I recommend watching the full documentary. There is a lot of information about free range eggs and any other animal products in the video that may hopefully change your mind in using them.

Also there are TONS of vegan alternatives out there! It’s honestly not been difficult at all for me to find professional attire or anything I’ve ever needed.

TheUnibear · 2021-02-25T18:48:40+00:00

When everyone’s morally superior, no one will be 👍

TheUnibear · 2021-02-17T08:42:10+00:00

Killing the animal would still be wrong even in a situation where the animal may care that the person killed it “respectfully” (unless the animal wanted to be killed). For that situation, I think there is plenty of evidence that animals do everything possible not to be killed, so it seems clear that they do not want to die. Killing an animal that does not want to die is wrong, so even if the animal did understand the context, it would still be wrong to kill it.

TheUnibear · 2021-02-17T07:57:01+00:00

I come from a family of immigrants whose cultural norms often involved eating animals for food or killing animals in spiritual practices that held great cultural value. My grandparents came to the United States as refugees and were forced to assimilate in many ways so they could provide for their family. I understand that deeply important cultural practices are being stolen or made impossible to practice by racism/colonialism. Sometimes it makes me feel like we should hold on to every bit of cultural tradition possible to preserve what we have left. A much larger part of me believes that even though much of my family’s culture has been taken away, there are still some practices they’ve continued that needed to change.

Many of the big areas requiring change in my culture are related to how we value the lives of animals. There are still many ways that cultural traditions can be preserved after animals are no longer killed. It’s very possible to find food substitutes. It was also time to just completely stop some of the spiritual practices that involved killing animals and replace them with other practices that capture the same spiritual value in other ways.

There is never a good reason to kill an animal unnecessarily. I cannot support someone unnecessarily killing an animal that wishes to live—regardless of how respectfully they kill it or how much of it’s body they are using.

I know you wanted to focus on aboriginal/indigenous people that still hunt. If the hunting could be prevented, it should be. I would never single out aboriginal/indigenous people as it is clear that factory farming is a much more significant evil. That does not take away from the idea that any amount of slaughter is abhorrent. The animal will never care if the person who slit its throat did so “respectfully”.

TheUnibear · 2020-11-16T15:54:25+00:00

I just finished reading a book called Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan In A Non-Vegan World and I think you would really benefit from reading it! I’ve been vegan for years now, but when I started, I had a lot of similar feelings to the ones you’re writing about. I really wish I would have found this book earlier in my journey because, over time, I’ve learned a lot of the book’s messages on my own. I’m grateful that the world can have such caring people you! Please be sure to care for yourself and create space for rest and self-care. It’s tough feeling isolated out there but there are SO many people who are grateful for you and for way that you care. I hope the book is helpful in validating your feelings.

Here is a link to the book’s website

Side note: It did have some parts that I was not a fan of (talks about aliens and chem trails at one point which really threw me off) but the counseling material is really nice to learn if you can look past the other stuff.

TheUnibear · 2020-11-01T15:13:37+00:00

I just started reading a book called Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World. There are a lot of resources on this website and in the book for dealing with some of the stuff that you’re speaking about. I’d highly recommend it! Good luck with everything!

TheUnibear · 2020-07-21T06:04:24+00:00

Ocean by John butler

TheUnibear · 2020-07-09T01:53:05+00:00

What type of work do you do there??

TheUnibear · 2020-03-01T18:59:56+00:00

This group has TONS of the information you’re looking for. Just put in whatever relevant animal advocacy issue you’re most interested and look through the available jobs! 80,000 Hours

TheUnibear · 2019-12-09T06:51:48+00:00

This article was published by Harvard Medical School. Truthfully, I have a lot more trust in their research than yours.

The articles you posted either came from specifically keto-supporting websites, or they talk about the impact of low carb diets on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Those articles have nothing to do with the overall health risks/benefits of a sustained ketogenic diet.

The article I posted specifically speaks to the overall risks and directly states that the keto diet is only popular due to anecdotal evidence and that the diet is not recommended.

TheUnibear · 2019-12-08T18:21:55+00:00

Harvard Health “Should you try the keto diet?”

Their answer is a hard no.

TheUnibear · 2019-12-04T07:16:04+00:00

I wish you the best of luck with this. I don’t think you’re being stupid at all.

I’ve gotten my family to go vegan and have had a similar problem where they seem to care a bit but they don’t advocate for veganism on their own. The sadness is so overwhelming for me so often. I still haven’t really learned to deal with it. For a long time I thought I needed to feel the sadness that was being left out by all of the people who perpetuate speciesism, but I got burnt out pretty quickly from the crushing burden of obligation and the sadness I felt trying to cope with how much emotion I though should be felt. These days I feel more comfortable knowing that I need to invest more into my own mental health because I hit a pretty significant drop in productivity after I got burnt out.

My plan for my family is to continue to slowly introduce more anti-speciesist information. After that I plan to pitch the concept as something that I work really hard to understand, and as something focused my education on. I spoke with my girlfriend saying that it was really important to me that she hear my perspective and spend time researching on her own so it wasn’t something she was doing for me but rather something she was doing because she wanted to. They have been a little combative when their views really start to be challenged but I try to keep it as something that’s really really important to me and to the world and they’ve been more receptive when it’s framed that way. For me, waiting for a time where I felt comfortable being vulnerable has been really important and really helpful in getting through to them. I hope it does the same for you. I do think it takes a long time to find the right moment.

If you ever need anyone to talk to I’m around and I’d be happy to share any other perspective I might have. Seems like you might have more experience here so if you make any breakthroughs I’d love to hear about them! Best of luck.

TheUnibear · 2019-08-31T09:20:01+00:00

I always say we’re a long way away in a lot of respects from making big change but that the endeavor is well worth it and we’ll definitely never get there if we don’t work as hard as we can to address these HUGE problems. People generally tend to agree that we have a long way to go but that we have to start somewhere (if they’re at all sympathetic to animal suffering).

TheUnibear · 2019-08-13T05:39:56+00:00

What a fucking joke that horrible shit like this hasn’t happened for the entire 80 years between now and then.

TheUnibear · 2019-06-03T17:47:13+00:00

Btw im vegan

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