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by yawpitch 7d ago
I mean what’s another $1.3 trillion on the national debt?
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by yawpitch 11d ago
I’m not sure that qualifies as unpopular, but I am sure both quality and trust have already collapsed, at least for me.
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by yawpitch 12d ago
When these assholes finally find themselves in jail, may the soap be both extremely slippery and far too caustic to safely lubricate. #americahasfallen
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by yawpitch 16d ago
… first, find a mirror.
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by yawpitch 16d ago
Not sure it can be defined as malware if what it’s doing, if successful, is a net gain for humanity.
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by yawpitch 19d ago
Assuming these cameras capture only license plate data (which cannot, and does not, happen) even the 100% elimination of all vehicle-involved criminal activity (which cannot, and will not, happen) cannot possibly justify the creation of
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by yawpitch 20d ago
You could contact the Parton Community Council: https://glenkens.scot/community-councils/parton-community-co...
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by yawpitch 20d ago
Doesn’t the head of Health and Human Services have a symbiotic relationship with one of these?
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by yawpitch 20d ago
They’re cultured from either pluripotent stem cells or neurosurgical specimens.
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by yawpitch 24d ago
Instructions perfectly clear: fail to do the first hing, do the second thing. Nothing precludes you doing both, you just don’t need to.
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by yawpitch 24d ago
Oh wow, someone on a tech site that doesn’t know how OR works!
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by yawpitch 26d ago
In much the same way as exercising any other muscle, by increasing the strength and flexibility and utility of your moral fibers.
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by yawpitch 27d ago
> Those species do not care about ethics. Our discussion started from ethics, which is uniquely human. We are not discussing if a behavior occurs in nature. We are discussing if that behavior is ethical for humans. Those species also don
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by yawpitch 28d ago
Well that’s not obviously original.
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by yawpitch 28d ago
Mutual evolutionary pressures represent a kind of symbiotic relationship, even when that symbiotism is heavily weighted to one side. In your view has the anemone enslaved the clownfish? Or the decorator shrimp the anemone? In all cases one
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by yawpitch 28d ago
It’s pretty easy to empathize with a rock, actually… they pretty much always feel stoned.
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by yawpitch 28d ago
We don’t help only cows, we milk a whole lot of mammals. Admittedly many mammals aren’t all that into being milked, and many (if not most) of the carnivorous animals won’t let you hang around long enough to see if they do, or do not, consen
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by yawpitch 28d ago
A well-nourished, well-protected, comfortable cow will produce much more milk than is required by its normal complement of newborns, and it will (and loudly) want rid of it. In my experience not milking a dairy cow of the excess would b
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by yawpitch 28d ago
1 is unnecessary and wasn’t present for most of history, 2 is a natural consequence of cattle being cattle, even without humans, but today we have both painkillers and bovine veterinarians, 3 is, again, not strictly necessary unless you’ve
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by yawpitch 28d ago
You’re clearly not a top-level CEO; keep pruning.
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by yawpitch 28d ago
I do, and I hopefully will eventually get to leeches too.
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by yawpitch 28d ago
You tell me where the consumption of dairy products must result in harm to the cow. I grew up around small-scale, subsistence-level dairy farming, it doesn’t inherently require any more suffering than either egg-harvesting or apple-growing
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by yawpitch 29d ago
Depends a great deal on the planet and the snowball, doesn’t it? But, that said, a mark of being more important than a lesser being would kind of be the virtue of still empathizing with that being, even if we assume there’s a hierarchy. And
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by yawpitch 29d ago
Self-improvement, for one.
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by yawpitch 29d ago
Ever met a Jain?
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by yawpitch 29d ago
If your circle of empathy doesn’t include fruit flies, endeavor to expand your circular of empathy until it does. Goto 0.
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by yawpitch 29d ago
Ethics has nothing to do with how an action is perceived, rather its focus is on is the action moral. One should never take any action without considering the ethical implications of that action. Being capable of that is, arguably, the sole
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by yawpitch 1mo ago
Yeah… so the food that would have only been available to those with excessive wealth is now available to everyone, leading to problems that used to be reserved to those who could afford excessive calories being the problems of everyday peop
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by yawpitch 1mo ago
> this problem literally did not exist until the 80s. Henry VIII might have a word for you on that one, as would many other of history’s aristocrats. The only thing that’s really changed is the cost of food that used to be reserved for k
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by yawpitch 1mo ago
Well no, nowadays you don’t get a bathroom, you get a juice bottle on your “break” between sprints around a Bezosian Labyrinth. Also, bit of news for you, the USSR no longer exists, while the people who still see communism everywhere carry

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