CarmineCatboy [he/him]

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don’t tell them this but they could have looked for sparse vegetation and dug in the sand nearby and waited for water to trickle in but the bullshit they pulled off was very cool

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.

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.

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’.

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

britain shall become a new peninsula of europe and at the base it shall be a mountain of pure salt

it seems that the sheer amount of salt we accumulate when desalinating for scale consumption is so large that there’s no easy way to spread it. yeah, the ocean will take care of it eventually, but we aren’t gonna ferry salt across a large body of water to dump it gently into the ocean. we’ll pipe it somewhere, and wherever it is it will create a pocket of dead ocean water. it’s a matter of choice and water regulation, really.

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.

a freudian dive

maybe they had to create an entire new position for Civilian Auxiliary Harry Kim to make room for Tom’s Admiralty

just imagine its two comedy scenes coming together at last

please lower decks i need you to make fun of tom paris’ stupid hobbies. also make harry kim an admiral or something.

you can’t kill an idea