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I enjoy the posts, I’ve just always assumed this is another user doing a bit though — which is fine

All the better if there is a real person behind this, it gives me some hope for the younger generation, and I hope nothing you encounter here makes you regret sharing who you are and what you’re going through.

But you’re in a community that is skewing older and more early-internet, and thus most of us find it prudent to pretty much assume every identity in a community like this is partially or largely fake. I am, for example, a 4 year old Australian Shepherd in real life and my human has no clue.

Real or fake, I enjoy my game of “Stamets or Violet” every time I see a horny or uncouth post.

But he’s right though.

Also heat pumps!

This is my favorite Stamets alt.

Don’t tell me what to do

I owe my soul to the company store!

Ah, it is nice to think back to a simpler unprecedented time.

squinting to make sure this isn’t also loss

Comparing them against each other creates the false impression that these are somehow mutually exclusive activities.

More than ever hour after hour work is never over

I think it’s hot when my wife is into something and is explaining it to me. Even if I don’t share an interest in xyz thing, I find her fascinating, and I like understanding what she likes about a given thing.

I think she feels the same so I don’t second guess showing her something.

I may have seen it already but if I have I’ve forgotten it.

Bring on the artists renditions!!

These tech employees should rest in the knowledge that their noble sacrifice helped to delay the Epstein Files a little bit longer.

Call me when there is a self-hosted solution.

Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.

I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.

But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.

I haven’t either but I do find myself having to master the urge more and more.

Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.