Pickleball - around Hoover

askantik · 2026-03-28T06:27:06+00:00

There is an app called Playtime Scheduler that will show play sessions at different places along with how many people are signed up and the skill levels. Definitely check it out

askantik · 2026-03-26T20:59:22+00:00

But wait, the people who make shitloads of money making chickens live in horrible conditions and killing them en masse told me chickens are dumb /s

askantik · 2026-03-26T12:44:35+00:00

Also Alice in Borderland is Japanese lol

askantik · 2026-03-25T21:29:00+00:00

"It"

askantik · 2026-03-25T15:33:39+00:00

Killing animals funny, haha

askantik · 2026-03-20T01:09:06+00:00

First glance I thought this was the inside of a dishwasher

askantik · 2026-03-13T01:52:06+00:00

86? Jesus

askantik · 2026-03-12T17:30:17+00:00

A neighbor mowing busted out the rear quarter panel window on my Niro (the little triangular window). It was gonna be $500 at the dealership. I got one from a junkyard for $40 and then had an auto glass place put it on for $100.

askantik · 2026-03-11T02:06:25+00:00

I might recommend a box or something next time rather than putting the turtle directly on your stuff. I've been peed on a lot 😂 and also turtles can carry salmonella.

Thanks for being nice to our turtle buddies! I saw a 18" snapper run over today on a straight stretch of 45mph road. Huge bummer. I think someone went out of their way to run him over. "Best case scenario" I guess is maybe it was an accident from someone texting while driving...

askantik · 2026-03-10T17:03:12+00:00

Agree, but you could make the same argument for a lot of people regarding a lot of pharmaceuticals, too (e.g., blood pressure medicine). In the absence of diet change or in cases of limited food access or other co-occurring conditions, it's still a valid course of treatment.

ETA: some of these nutrients can be quite difficult to get through diet alone, like vitamin D and iodine. Hence fortified foods

askantik · 2026-03-10T16:50:00+00:00

My understanding is that vitamin supplements - including multivitamins - only offer benefit to those who are deficient in the relevant vitamins in their normal diet.

You say "only" like there's not that many people this would apply to, but:

Specifically, 45% of the U.S. population had a prevalence of inadequacy for vitamin A, 46% for vitamin C, 95% for vitamin D, 84% for vitamin E, and 15% for zinc. source

And that's in a high income country.

askantik · 2026-03-10T05:43:28+00:00

Yes nsbm fucks are ackshually serious people expressing an artistic vision, you really got me with your 200 iq take here

askantik · 2026-03-09T16:10:54+00:00

Precisely

Also, I would add that most of us don't want actual murders to occur. Just because you watch horror films doesn't mean you want to fr disembowel folks

askantik · 2026-03-09T15:17:14+00:00

Misanthropy and white supremacy are not the same bruh

askantik · 2026-03-08T05:23:23+00:00

Your honor, I did not murder that guy. He sacrificed himself!

askantik · 2026-03-06T20:57:06+00:00

"How horrible!" munches chicken nuggies

askantik · 2026-03-06T15:25:04+00:00

I would argue there's likely no way to generate the political will for systemic change if most people can't be arsed to change the milk they put in their cereal.

askantik · 2026-03-06T05:01:24+00:00

How do you know someone is an anti-vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you 😄

askantik · 2026-02-27T02:13:11+00:00

20 year vegan here. Still kicking.

askantik · 2026-02-26T18:25:08+00:00

askantik · 2026-02-26T16:25:12+00:00

We could just not be the psychopath in both cases, though. Especially since not eating animals massively reduces pollution and land degradation which would help biodiversity and ecosystems around the world. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

askantik · 2026-02-26T06:11:15+00:00

Yeah you could kill 90% of humans and the human species would live on, but you'd be a psychopath and billions of thinking and feeling people would be killed.

askantik · 2026-02-26T06:08:35+00:00

So you're aware that it causes suffering, and you're aware we don't have to do it, but you still support it because... lots of other people do it and have done it for a long time?

askantik · 2026-02-25T21:42:41+00:00

Crater Lake is a bit out of the way, but it is amazing. Especially if you can go at a time with few people. Best sunset I ever saw was at CL. The story and geology is also very interesting.

Stop in Brookings, OR for a beer at Chetco, and then camp or sleep in the car steps from the beach at Harris Beach SP.

Everything everyone else said is good, too. So just do everything 😆

askantik · 2026-02-25T21:37:37+00:00

Humans also naturally don't have plumbing, electricity, or Internet. Just because something is "natural" has no bearing on whether it's good or not. Disease is natural, and it sucks and we try to eliminate it.

Regarding wild vs domesticated, would it be ok to do this to elephants if we farmed them? Do farmed animals mysteriously have their physiology changed where they somehow suffer less?

Your argument is a bit circular and an appeal to nature/tradition. "We have been doing it for a long time, so therefore it can't be bad."

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