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  • Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?

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  • We probably kill insects just by walking, but it's not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.

    There's this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it's about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they'd win for sure.

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  • Who would build those robots? With which materials? No one is going into the mines or into a soul crushing factory production line if their needs are already met. If this survey were made to retail workers, for example, I bet it would be much closer to 100%. We aren't getting ubi ever, not in our current society, because it literally would collapse in a few days without miserable, desperate fuckers that can't afford quitting slowly killing ourselves to make the rich richer.

  • Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

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  • First, I cannot grow trees in my small rented flat. And felling trees and turning them into paper is quite a hard work, it's only cheap at an industrial scale and it kinda fucks up the environment a bit. Paper used to be an expensive commodity (people would wrote letters like this).

    The properties that make gold expensive are its limited supply, as you pointed, and the fact that it doesn't degrades with time, which make it a great material to use to 'store value'. It has some other interesting physical properties that make it useful, but those aren't the main reasons of its price.

  • Russia Starts Selling Off Its Gold Reserves to Fund the War Budget, Breaking a Long-Held Taboo

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  • Paper has many uses as well.

  • There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter

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  • People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we've got where I'm from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold's so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.

    For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that's it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn't understand boundaries, it doesn't change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.

    As a side note my grandma's bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn't as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.

  • .... huh...

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  • Japanese gooners instantly aroused.

  • BYD undercuts every EV in Australia with the Atto 1, now the cheapest new model

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  • Yeah, those old delta, golf, 205... looked quite pretty. But it's not the same, these new cars are unnecessary pointy and sharp everywhere, like that edge they put in the middle of the back of every other model.

  • BYD undercuts every EV in Australia with the Atto 1, now the cheapest new model

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  • Yes, yes you do mon ami(e) lmao.

  • BYD undercuts every EV in Australia with the Atto 1, now the cheapest new model

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  • That's more like it! Look how happy it looks! But even that one is bigger than the old twingos, have you seen the new r5? It's a suv! Yes, compact suv, or urban suv or whatever, still huge for an r5.

    I have a 2001 206, the 208 would be the current version of the model and it's a foot longer, and looks super aggressive, specially compared with the absolute beauty that is the 206.

    Edit: French people laugh more like 'hon hon hon' (the n is not actually pronounced, but turns the o into a nasal vowel)

  • BYD undercuts every EV in Australia with the Atto 1, now the cheapest new model

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  • Great! At last a small and (kind of) affordable electric car! Tired of those massive SUVs. Maybe in, like, ten years 🤞🏻...

    Bit of a tangent but, why all new cars are so ugly? Subjective, I know, but they all look so angry and aggressive, full of ridges and crests... where are the cute, happy cars?

  • How to clean those super cheap foam earplugs?

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  • Given you use them often, I would go for professional earplugs. Anything above €25~30 would be infinitely more comfortable than disposable ones, and you would still be able to understand people talking to you. If you feel extra fancy and have the cash (€150+) there're some you can adjust the level of attenuation so you could use them at a concert as well as, let say, the super market.

  • Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

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  • That article only cites deaths due to autoerotic asphyxiation, which I haven't seen or heard portrayed in porn, and says that are mostly men, which contradicts the stated objective of preventing harm to women. Have you even read the source you linked or the article, mate?

  • Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

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  • Well, where are all those deaths caused by choking during sex because of porn? I would bet that many more visits to er are caused by trying to emulate the sex in the bath tube while having a couple wine glasses around scenes so typical in 'romantic' movies/shows, than by all the kinks seen in porn together.

    Parents should, and I'm aware many do, tell their children that tv, movies, porn... are meant to entertain, not teach, and they are very different from how real life things work.

  • Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says

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  • Only porn allowed will be missionary position?

    No. I think it's a step by step approach, that will go further than that. After only missionary, they'll make the actors get married before having any sex, all under the blankets and as clothed as possible, no condom or pulling out allowed either, and at the end of the scene it has to show the beautiful baby born nine months after. No gay porn, of course, or trans, interracial, more than to people (man™️ and woman™️)... sex is for procreation! How you dare enjoying it, you sinner!

  • Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

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  • Even though, knowing how physics works, putting anything in orbit with only a cannon is not possible, no matter how powerful it is, I wholeheartedly agree we should try it with Elon anyway.

  • The usual

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  • When I pour my dog's food I tell her 'yes! This is super rich and tasty food for very small, and very good, and very beautiful doggies! D'ya see? It says it right here (it doesn't, actually, it only says it's for small dogs but she can't read), see? There's even a picture! But this doggy isn't as good, or as beautiful, or as small as my wee girl is, is it?' And then I have to pet her, kiss her on the fore head, and point to her plate and say 'come on! Do eat it!' Or she just would keep staring at me like waiting.

  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • I recognise their username. It's half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

  • Data protection trumps price: Cloud users prefer to pay more for EU servers

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  • Do they tho? This is a poll/survey asking the users, not actually looking at what they are using. All the people I know use either the default option provided by the device or os vendor, ie Apple, Microsoft, Google, or maybe Dropbox for work because it's their company's choice. Aws or google cloud for cloud computing. I'm very privacy conscious and honestly could not name a European cloud provider even if my life depended on it on it.

    Also, if I have to chose a government peeping into my data I might prefer the farthest one...

  • I'm (31m) having trouble communicating things that are bothering me to my partner (30F) because her insecurities and anxiety keep me having to assure her.

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  • Disclaimer: not a professional or expert in mental health, only experience is my own awful mess of a brain.

    First, you don't have any obligation to endure any shit from anyone and would be on the clear to get yourself out. That said, I want to give you a very different perspective from the rest of the comments here.

    Reading your post I felt very identified with your girlfriend, tho I haven't self-harmed and I'm self aware enough to have been straight forward with the partners I've had. When she says she's getting the cat food, or she's going to clean, or whatever, she actually means it, for real, but she's unable to get herself to actually do it, or at least to do it in time. This is very anxiety inducing, trust me, or even better, don't trust me and get some information on disorders that affect executive function, I'm suspecting adhd and/or social anxiety, but these usually come mixed with other several issues. Before anything she's going to need a diagnosis, other comments are advising therapy, which for sure is necessary, but I don't thing is gonna be enough, I'm afraid she'll need also medication—your brain gets so out of balance that's impossible to get it to work normally without adjusting its chemistry, if a ram or graphics card in your computer is broken no matter how many drivers you update, it's going to still act up or crash.

    Best of luck to both of you and, as I said, this is only your responsibility to the point you want it to be, but at least give my comment a thought or even show it to her, because she does need help.

  • Salaria Kea, Lincoln Battalion, and her husband John O'Reilly, British Battalion, both members of the antifascist Republican forces, Spanish Civil War, 1938

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  • You cannot get more badass than the Brigadists. How unfathomably based they must've been to just leave their homes to come fight fascism in Spain.

    May their courage never be forgotten ✊.