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  • Wouldn't you want to use "vegan" to describe the diet and "veganist" to describe the ideology, then?

    "Carnism" makes veganism a lot easier to discuss, because simply "vegan or non-vegan" places carnism in a position of inherent normalcy. Imagine another movement (especially a minority one) that could only describe anyone in terms of "us or non-us". Positioning carnism as an ideology (which it objectively is) challenges its otherwise unchallenged position.

    Having a word for "non-us" doesn't really prevent the word from being used rhetorically in an "us vs. them" way, though... and there are plenty of other minority movements that were defined by that same kind of binary language (most of them are not remembered fondly.)

    I guess the point I am trying to make is, if your hypothesis is true, that terminology isn't widely understood outside of vegan circles. If you write a paragraph at someone and they would have to look up a half dozen words to even understand your point, they are much more likely to dismiss you as some kind of radical and/or loon rather than spend the time. It's kind of like when you stroll into a philosophy or politics discussion and your brain balks at all the lingo.

    They walk away thinking a vegan said some stupid shit to them, the vegan walks away thinking some stupid shit was said to them, and the interaction is a failure for all parties.

  • I think it is probably because it gets used in a way where it takes on a slur-like connotation. It feels a bit complicated to this onlooker; vegan and non-vegan would seem like adequate terms at first glance, but because "vegan" is overloaded (it's both used to describe a diet of non-animal by/products and the broader social movement of advocating against the same) it feels a bit lacking.

  • Oh jeez. In my experience Accenture is barely competent; this does not bode well.

  • I don't suppose write-in votes are a thing in that election but it would be mighty funny if two Republicans made it on the ballot and neither of them won

  • thank you for explaining it better than I could.

  • He said he was recently in a satisfying relationship that really only ended because it was long distance. Yet, he confided, it still all “affects me as far as, like, confidence and wanting to approach new people, especially females”.

    I don't think your micropenis is entirely to blame here, chief edit: so are we not concerned by calling women females anymore?

  • Apparently I am, meant to reply to the person pointing their browser there , sorry

  • Per the thread, it is on its deathbed.

    Typing reddit.com/r/all in a browser will work until the rollout is complete.

  • No, it is clarified within the thread that /r/all will stop working "after the rollout is complete"

  • And don't forget that you still have to pay US income taxes on income earned overseas! 🙄

  • I'm sorry for your loss.

     
        
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  • When the alarm goes off in your building... you evacuate. Doesn't matter if it's a test or not.

  • I was taught in driver's Ed to maintain a 3 sec following distance on the highway. I have a car that monitors it for me and the display tops out at 2.5. I usually maintain 1.5-2s in city traffic. My car's display gets anxious with less than 0.8... and most of the drivers I see on the road are keeping even less than that. It's very evident how little most drivers care.

  • Don't sweat it. Set yourself up for next time with a better alarm clock, boo. Get something like sleep as Android that requires you to put some effort in to turn it off (CAPTCHA )

  • Looks delicious, I look forward to your next iteration reaching closer to perfection

  • Or like, a CR2032.

  • not surprising that it's Deceptichum

  • Aircela is targeting >50% end to end power efficiency. Since there is about 37kWh of energy in a gallon of gasoline we will require about 75kWh to make it. When we power our machines with standalone, off-grid, photovoltaic panels this will correspond to less than $1.50/gallon in energy cost.

    Meanwhile, an electric vehicle could go hundreds of miles on the same amount of energy input...

  • If people are ostracizing you for struggling with depression, you're hanging out with the wrong people. And if you only think that's what's happening, you probably need to stop listening to your liar depression brain

  • Ye Power Trippin' Bastards @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    @progressivepolitics@lemmy.world moderator shares a national shutdown proposal, deletes dozens of comments for being skeptical or critical