naevaTheRat

fascist creep is repressed queer therefore hateful of visible lesbian romance is blaming homophobia on repressed queer people.

please stop blaming gay people for homophobia. Some people are just awful.

Is hurdle jumping an Olympic sport? I want to see those bag slappers.

That's such a cop out. Arguments from nature can be used to justify anything and they're just ridiculous puppet shows anyway, nature is many things but you have moral agency.

If a rapist mounts that defense? a whaler? someone who runs a puppy mill? someone who beats their children or spouse? an abusive boss etc what would you say to them?

It is dishonest to yourself and cruel to others to behave in a way you know is wrong because it is, as of yet, still socially permissible to do so. It's like being a homophobe in the 2000s waiting for gay marriage to be legal before they'll stop shouting slurs at couples they pass.

edit: also none of us are great moral crusaders. People realised this shit thousands of yeare ago, probably much earlier too but we don't have records. People did this when it required sacrifice. Going vegan is easy now, there's a wealth of information on how to eat well — both from a hedonic and health perspective, can find off the shelf products most places, it's easy to find plant based options eating out in most places, workplaces and events tend to be accomodating. Literally the worst consequence is seeing people online post stupid stuff.

I am a human garbage fire, I can be lazy, I can be selfish, I can be abrasive and impatient, I phone it in at work sometimes or tell small lies to get my way/exaggerate difficulty to avoid work. If you think you have to be some paragon of morality to go vegan you have an incredibly warped view of the average vegan and your own capabilities. It is literally the moral baseline and down there with not snatching shiny objects.

You should go vegan, if you realise hurting animals for food is wrong then it's a bit weird to have an allowed level. Imagine that in other contexts, like an allowed amount of bar fights or something.

Anyway you can make jerky from mushrooms, I favour hydrating dried shittake mushrooms in a marinade and then drying them again. In Asian groceries you might also find these delicious oily and spicy tofu sticks. They're pretty chewy and spicy.

I would recommend asking at groceries for a vegan/vegetarian (sometimes understood as the same thing sometimes not, depending on cultural background) chewy spicy snack and try what they recommend.

Heavy rain the last few years damaged the roads a lot suddenly, councils have limited budgets, lots of heavy trucks (potholes are almost all trucks, heavier cars are bad for many raisins but they don't really add much wear compared to delivery/freight trucks etc).

Maybe other cities have better road traffic and less freight by road?

No frotting the electricity

Yeah fair call. I mean the human can always quit their job, fight back, or seek justice.

Yeah I never call out anything. The other week I was at the shops watching someone go on a racist tirade against the clerk for getting something wrong, all I was thinking was "that's cool, everyone lives their own truth".

It's so sweet being enlightened. Morality is relative and all.

I snapped and instead bought a large computer monitor, Edifier speakers + fossi BT amp, and use a computer running kodi to watch media now.

No apps, no end of support life, no subscriptions, no shitty UI, no ads etc. I power on and yay my shows. Can also play the radio/music through it and retro video games when feeling nostalgic, control through phone if needed.

Cost more (TVs subsidised because they sell your data) but I don't have to worry about that or learn some manufacturers bespoke and bizarre settings.

You should probably know that historically societies collapsing has typically resulted in improved health of the lower classes as judged by skeletons in the archeological record.

We should not really understand societies collapsing as a violent or spectacular thing. It's usually just growth slowing, people move away, the ability of states to enforce taxes and provide services weakens and people work out their own stuff.

I'm not saying society is collapsing, just that if it does it'll probably look more like declining birthrates and movement away from cities and advanced manufacturing to more agrarian lifestyle. Also that for the poor and downtrodden this will probably, on average, be an improvement.

I've been called a tankie for just trying to be clear about what Marxism actually is. I would say I'm sympathetic to Marxists but not one. Having far stronger anarchist sympathies.

But you know, being critical of the usa or saying anything remotely positive about China/the ussr means you are either a Russian bot/op or a tankie.