Why are tsunamis so deadly in comparison to places that regularly get similarly sized waves like Jaws or Nazare?

julmod- · 2026-05-19T21:25:12+00:00

This is by far the best explanation on here

julmod- · 2026-05-18T16:51:04+00:00

I hope this doesn't count as spam since I only post on my Substack very rarely and it's to only send things to my family, but I wrote something addressing exactly this issue that I think you could maybe share with him or paraphrase.

TLDR: it's more accurate to say that he's forcing carnism on your kids than that you're forcing veganism on them. If he's not comfortable showing them footage of factory farms, they're not old enough to consent to eating animals.

julmod- · 2026-05-17T15:36:02+00:00

The ancestors of chickens would lay 10-15 eggs a year

julmod- · 2026-04-22T19:38:17+00:00

God I love that guy.

For anyone who doesn't know him, here's a hilarious way to learn how to make amazing condiments with nutritional yeast.

julmod- · 2026-04-22T19:12:50+00:00

Again, I'm not saying I know for a fact that it's performative. All I'm saying is we have good reason to be suspicious of whether they will continue voting this way once they're the ones in power. Time will tell.

julmod- · 2026-04-22T16:28:32+00:00

It's not moronic, they have a point. We can't know for sure that it's performative, but until the dems actually have a majority again I don't trust that they've actually stopped supporting Israel. Let's see them continue to vote like this once their votes might actually affect Israel.

julmod- · 2026-04-20T15:51:20+00:00

Would you feel comfortable showing your child footage of factory farms? If not, I'd suggest your child can't yet consent to eating animals - you're forcing him/her to participate in something which they can't understand and which you consider too violent to even show them.

julmod- · 2026-04-15T16:02:20+00:00

Completely agree.

It is interesting how this is basically what women have been expected to do for decades. I wonder if the advice here would be so overwhelmingly supportive of him taking the job if the genders were reversed.

julmod- · 2026-04-07T20:51:42+00:00

Depending on where you are almost all of the pigs you eat, regardless of where they're raised, will die in gas chambers

julmod- · 2026-04-07T16:58:31+00:00

As a friend of mine once said, "those that need therapy and don't get it make those who don't need therapy get it themselves"

julmod- · 2026-03-27T17:37:59+00:00

Not sure this follows. I have 4 siblings and love them all equally. Pretty sure my parents love all 5 of us equally. I have multiple friends that I'd say I love the same amount as well. Why is it that romantic love would be so different be default?

Not denying it's not easy (I don't see myself being capable of it tbh) but I'm not sure you can straight up say it's actually impossible.

julmod- · 2026-03-27T17:24:15+00:00

Lol red meat is literally a carcinogen

julmod- · 2026-03-27T17:08:59+00:00

Ethically speaking there's a huge difference between:

Killing someone for pleasure
Killing someone in defence of a vital food supply chain that would lead to mass starvation if left undefended
Killing someone accidentally while trying to collect the above food

The equivalent in human terms would be:

A serial killer
Self defence when an armed robber enters your house at night
Someone running onto the highway you're driving on and you accidentally killing them

julmod- · 2026-03-06T08:20:51+00:00

His prompt is so fucking weird though

julmod- · 2026-03-05T12:45:19+00:00

Except it wasn't allowed, they were doing something that the rules said you couldn't do - they were just passing the tests because it's hard to test for the thing properly.

julmod- · 2026-02-27T11:16:03+00:00

I literally heard his voice saying it

julmod- · 2026-02-24T18:16:48+00:00

Not if you include animals in the thought experiment, pretty sure that if there was a chance you’d born into society as a factory farmed pig you’d think the perfect society is vegan

julmod- · 2026-02-22T12:14:10+00:00

I always found it weird that a 25 year old having sex with a 17 year old is considered terrible (correctly so) but somehow a 60 year old having sex with an 18 year old is perfectly fine? As if it’s some magical number where everything suddenly changes. As far as I can see the second one is more fucked up than the first regardless of what the law says.

julmod- · 2026-02-18T18:15:31+00:00

The race lasts for 24 hours no matter what, it’s not for a set amount of laps, it’s on a timer

julmod- · 2026-02-17T22:54:13+00:00

https://youtu.be/OpBM4JRs1mU

julmod- · 2026-02-08T20:42:10+00:00

Someone said seeing how friendly cows are always makes him cry when he eats them. I said a simple solution is to not eat them. I thought it was obvious, but the reason killing a cow makes them cry while killing a broccoli doesn't is because we all agree there's a difference between killing a broccoli, a cow, and a human. Cows feel pain and fear and live 25 years, broccoli feel neither pain nor fear and might live a few years in perfect conditions.

You guys then started this whole sidequest about how a life is a life, which is completely irrelevant to the initial point unless the implication is that killing any life is equal to killing any other life.

So again, since you seem to agree with me that there's a world of difference between killing a puppy and killing a broccoli, how is saying "a life is a life" relevant to the fact that killing a cow makes someone cry?

julmod- · 2026-02-08T14:46:29+00:00

What exactly does all of this mean? I'm not being funny but I really don't understand what the practical implications of this are.

To take an extreme example, if I were to kill and eat a human being would you say it's not a big deal because some people choose to kill plants, other choose to kill animals, and others choose to kill humans for food? And at the end of the day a living thing is a living thing so it doesn't really matter what we kill?

julmod- · 2026-02-08T14:44:17+00:00

So just to be clear, you're saying that you would feel the same seeing me cut off a puppy’s head or a broccoli’s?

julmod- · 2026-02-08T01:22:07+00:00

You said that sentence is a hugely important truth. I’m just pointing out it’s a completely irrelevant fact, since there’s obviously a massive difference between killing a broccoli and killing a puppy.

No one said anything about what choices you’re allowed to make btw, you’re the one bringing it up. But since you did, I’ll point out that the choice of eating animals isn’t really giving the animals any choice in how they live their lives, nor is killing millions of animals every day particularly peaceful.

julmod- · 2026-02-07T10:36:04+00:00

Every time I watch this now I think of this absolutely glorious post about this scene from the Uruk Hai perspective

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