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[–] jerkface 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do you consume non-human animals? Then you are probably psychologically dependent on ignoring all the ways they are the same as we are. You probably believe there are lots of things that distinguish us, as long as you never think too closely about it, that make it morally permissible or even morally encouraged to exploit their bodies and pretend that they don't have a mind fundamentally like yours.

Being an animal means having animus. But we act as though we are the only creature having it; the only with interests, with thoughts and feelings, with desires and goals, that uses reason, that struggles with everything within us to live.

Do you actually have anything to say beyond, "I disagree", or are you (like most carnists) just psychologically required to obstruct your own inconvenient thoughts whenever they arise?

[–] jerkface 3 points 3 days ago

Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

Fortunately I have added a few dozen gigabytes of RAM since that aphorism was popular, and today emacs barely ever swaps very much when I don't deserve it

[–] jerkface 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

When you say, "Sorry for having trauma the wrong way," when you do not even express your trauma in this performative way, you are weaponizing your trauma to win an argument against strangers on the Internet. Sexual trauma is pervasive. You are well advised to assume whomever you're speaking with has the same trauma.

[–] jerkface 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A tiny minority did! And do, today.

[–] jerkface -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Commercial movies made for the specific purpose of manipulating people to turn over their money should not be any part of your cultural record. It's been updated so it can continue to fill that purpose, not so that we can get in touch with the 80s again.

[–] jerkface 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

emacs is everything

[–] jerkface 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Drag, no one believes you go around with stuff about pedophiles written on your clothing. If you do... well that's another interesting little bit of information.

[–] jerkface 63 points 4 days ago

If someone has stuff about pedophiles written on their body, the details don't really matter.

[–] jerkface 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

We don't pretend we are not animals. We pretend we are the ONLY animals, and all others are merely objects.

[–] jerkface 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it doesn't have the legal powers of a union, then it's not a union. It would be impossible to have a military that is unionized in any meaningful sense of the word. Yes, they still have the power of collectivism, and they should still use that power to their common advantage, but that doesn't make it a union.

[–] jerkface 1 points 4 days ago

No. It will not help. The problem is not the individuals we hire. It is the job we hire them for. The JOB is not labour. It is violence. The purpose of the police is to maintain the state's "legitimate monopoly on violence." The reason every police officer exists in every nation is to do violence against members of a state on behalf of that state's needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

Police are not labour and this is well known. So well known that technically, police in North America (and likely other jurisdictions) are not allowed to form unions. If you take a close look at the "police unions" in North America, you will find that they are all actually "police associations." They don't enjoy the same rights and powers as an actual union, but they adopt all the trappings so that people don't realize, and don't think about the true relationship between citizen, state, and the police.

 

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20016751

Campaign by the US government to save rubber after the Japanese blocked supplies from Southeast Asia.

 

The Agenda: Is Monopoly Power Undermining the Canadian Food System?

19 Nov 2024

A new report from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project argues Canada's food system is being undermined by monopoly. And while grocery stores have become an easy target for consumer anger over the cost of food, this report says consolidation has occurred at all levels of the supply chain. The Agenda looks at the implications of the report.

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TVO Today Hallowe'en show (www.youtube.com)
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I love these nerds

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31516170

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31516123

It's happening, the worst mayor Toronto has ever had is removing three major recently completed bike lanes at tax payer expense. That's right, Ontario tax payers are footing the bill for Ford to meddle in Toronto municipal infrastructure. This is of course to distract us from failing healthcare and education while appealing to his mostly car centric base.

There is a protest happening Wed. 23rd of October, please come out if you can. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/rally-ride-for-road-safety-tickets-1045417761667

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