CarmineCatboy

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[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

so the original balloon meme wasn't humiliating enough, they are doing it once again

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

that's a healthy way to distrust the US and chinese governments i guess

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

people could leverage PTRs to towards early firsts, this is such nonsense lmao

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course you're talking about harm. We all are. It's even in the OP: 'vegetarians won't eat things that caused harm to produce'. Well, that's a generalizing statement. Do the vegetarians in question eat eggs? Quite a few do, and that's factory farming. Do they consume animal products that purport to be from 'free range' farms, that in itself is a cope to be quite honest. Are they vegetarians for religious reasons? Then there's a lot of variety there. And then there's the world of crafts, as every single inch of a cow is used in industries other than the food industry. The idea of abstaining from animal products is always tied, somehow, to harm reduction. Even in a spiritual sense.

The parallel to IP breaches is, frankly, not very convincing at all. Not eating an egg because it comes from a tortured chicken has very little to do with wether downloading a movie hurts the studio's bottomline. The consensus is that piracy is a service issue because IP monopolies are not breached by literal theft. Not every pirated download is a prospective client. Many plain don't have the money to pay the tithe. Many others plainly just pirate to test and then buy it anyways. Others still will download cracked games because of the damaging software that comes with the paid versions.

Regardless, as I said, even if you estabilish a parallel between abstaining from animal products to boycotting entertainment then that parallel only strengthes the retort. Just as a vegan abstains from anything related to factory farming, a person might refuse to studios who take a deleterious ideological stance with their money. Ultimately, the only thing that binds these two worlds together is the idea of 'voting with their wallet', which actually strengthens the vegan position. This I say as someone who actually does eat meat.

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vegans avoid animal products because modern factory farming is the torment nexus given form. If organized religion wasn't bunk, pastors across the US would call the food industry satanic.

Meanwhile, people do in fact boycott products from other industries which they perceive to be engaged in harmful and anti-human activities. If a studio executive donated money to transphobic causes, I'd pirate whatever they put out that interest me.

There's no contradiction whatsoever. Both cases are about industry and the harms thereof.

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the article comes with 'a message from lockheed martin'

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this all began when antifa thug nelson mandela normalized rudeness

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i love when people will just ask the AI to pretend that its not against the rules and then they manage to get it to make egregious breaches of its 'ethical guidelines'.

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

i guess the first z arc? it has kaioken but thats not a form its a technique

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah from what i understand the desalination technology is there, the problem is what to do with all the salt. you can dump it on the ocean, creating a dead sea zone. or you can dump somewhere on land, creating a dead land zone.

the only solution is the gene mod humans so we can eat larger and larger intakes of salt.

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

why is that chicken so yellow are you sure its not a pheasant

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