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Moved over to lemmy.zip due to this instance shutting down.

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  • I mean, you are paying someone else to do those things for you.

    That's not exactly what's going on. I believe a more apt way to describe it would be paying somebody that has harmed animals. This may sound like a distinction without a difference, but I don't believe it is. Whether I buy pork at a grocery store or not, they aren't going to kill any fewer pigs because of it. It's not like the slaughterhouse is going to butcher exactly one less pig because I stopped buying meat. If I decide not to buy pork chop the next time I go to a store, either somebody else buys the pork, it's donated to a food bank right before expiry, or it's just thrown away. The pig is already dead, and the meat goes somewhere regardless.

    Unless you're the type of person that eats meat every day, there is very little change you can make at an individual level. Of course, much like voting, change starts to happen once you get a lot of people to make that individual choice. Get 20 people to stop buying pork, and the store might order less. But at that point, I would argue it is far more of a societal issue. So while we are directly responsible for what happens to farm animals, I don't think it's at the level of us literally killing them ourselves.

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  • Yeah, it's really just chaotic neutral but fancier.

  • You're ignoring what they're saying. They know that. They simply disagree with your definition of consent because, well, its not the definition of consent.

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  • Yes, I'm quite aware vegans have a reason to be upset. Unfortunately, equating eating meat or drinking milk to personally murderering and torturing animals is not going to earn them any fans, and will in fact push people away from their just cause out of spite.

    That's not at all relevant to the comment I was responding to, though.

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  • The vocal minority of gays don't call me a murderer for liking women.

  • Seriously... they could have at least mentioned her name in the title. The article is about her. Come on.

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  • One benefit an app for something like Lemmy offers is significantly better customization.

  • But how am I supposed to get the joke without irrelevant parts being underlined for me?

  • Calling him a narcissist isn't really an insult either way. It's just a fact about him. The dude only cares about himself.

  • I'm unable to hear lock him up much at all. "Loh 'im uh!" is the closest I can get when forcing it... I'm just not hearing any Ks or Ps at the end of those words, no matter how hard I try.

  • The words "the Lord of the Rings trilogy." are darker and lower than the rest of the text. Its definitely edited.

  • I personally recommend watching all of GoT in order, not because it's good, but because you won't appreciate the flawless genius of S8E3 without the other 7 seasons of context. It's a slow drag through those 7 seasons, but once it picks up in the last 5 episodes, it'll all be worth it, I swear. There's so much character development packed into those episodes that they'll seem like completely different people!

  • Hint: America’s ‘literally’ and its dog-food spelling isn’t the leader.

    Okay? I'm talking about American English. Everybody's languages evolve differently based on their culture. I'm American, so American English is what I know best.

  • It doesn't change magically. It changes through continuous usage and acceptance from society. That's how language works.

    Some examples. When was the last time you heard somebody say something was "awful", as in awe inspiring? When a kid says literally, do you take them 100% seriously or do you accept that the word's changed to be a synonym for "figuratively" among younger people? And as far as spelling is concerned, colour and color are both correct spellings, depending on where you live. Gray vs grey, acknowledgment vs acknowledgement, same thing. Or look at barbecue vs barbeque; the latter was incorrect for a very long time until the popularization of the abbreviation BBQ, after which it became a commonly accepted variant.

    These things were not always correct, and yet, now they are. Society adopts and uses different meanings and spellings for words all the time. Sorry friend, you're not the arbiter of English. It changes with or without you onboard.

  • Whatever you say, Sithik!

  • Both are correct. Language changes.

    Do you say *newb when correcting people that spell it noob because the origin of the word is newbie?

  • Eh, its just a community of people having fun and being themselves. I also think it's weird, but it's harmless, so who cares? I don't have the self esteem to be so open about something that society at large finds weird af, so honestly, good for them.

  • Bro gives edge lord a whole different meaning.

  • AI art has a very real place in current society. It's very useful, and is absolutely going to get better and become a normal part of the future. We're not going to avoid it, so we should work on making AI less morally fucked. The technology isn't the problem, the people behind it are. Rather than stealing art, the multi-million/billion-dollar companies behind these models need to pay artists for every single piece of art they use in their models.

  • "[It] sucks they're banning..."

    Probably autocorrect or something like that, it's not that hard to figure out.