(Note: I don't think hitting a fly is as cruel as hitting a human.)
On the flip side though, pigs are smarter than human kids up to 3 years old, plus a great many humans with mental disabilities. Doesn't stop people from eating pigs.
But also, if given the choice I'd save the life of a two-year-old or a person with severe mental deficiencies over saving a pig's life.
I've been vegan for almost a decade and I don't think anyone, vegan or omnivore, actually bases their ethical choices concerning animals with intelligence as a priority.
A brutal atrocity committed by a police department and your reaction is to "Well, AKTSHUALLY", where's your goddamn sense of empathy man?
Calling the bombing of a neighbourhood simply "inappropriate" is fucked and I fear for your humanity. "Inappropriate" is when I fart at the dinner table, not when one uses bombs on other humans.
I'd bring the album 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs and show it to The Beatles. In 1965, they'd have been at peak boy-band coming hot of the release of Help! and just about to drop Rubber Soul and a few months away from dropping (IMO their greatest album) Revolver.
Imagine if instead of George Harrison getting really into Indian music, he discovered hyperpop. The Beatles are such an influencal band that it would have ripples throughout the music industry. Imagine what 100 gecs would be getting up to in an alternate universe where Revolution 9 might get replaced with something like One Million Dollars?
Get a distro running XFCE, slap the Chicago95 theme on it, and try to convince your friends that their computer updated to the latest version of Windows.
Really hot take here: Super Mario Bros (you didn't mention it in your list).
For a game from the '80s on the limited hardware available at the time, they really put a lot of work into the mechanics of the platforming. It's an incredibly responsive game compared to its contemporaries.
In what way it obvious? I've seen so many people make similar "jokes" just to spread their hateful rhetoric.
If you want to make a joke like this, you should really use a sarcasm tag or similar indicators that they're not your truly-held beliefs. Unfortunately modern conservatives have kicked Poe's Law into overdrive, and if one leaves a comment like this one wihout a clear indication of sarcasm, people really have no choice but to assume they're a bigot.
"Trans kids should have to overcome a bunch of hurdles to access necessary treatment" doesn't sound that supportive to me.
Calling the natural variety of combinations of gender and sex "a mental disorder" doesn't strike me as particularly supportive either. Do you consider homosexuality to be a mental disorder?
(Note: I don't think hitting a fly is as cruel as hitting a human.)
On the flip side though, pigs are smarter than human kids up to 3 years old, plus a great many humans with mental disabilities. Doesn't stop people from eating pigs.
But also, if given the choice I'd save the life of a two-year-old or a person with severe mental deficiencies over saving a pig's life.
I've been vegan for almost a decade and I don't think anyone, vegan or omnivore, actually bases their ethical choices concerning animals with intelligence as a priority.