It doesn’t have custom emoji support, which is one of the reasons Discord even got such a large userbase (a lot of people are paying for nitro only to get the general custom emoji support). Maybe some forks (or whatever the proper term is) do have that, but those seem to be hard to find and even harder to convince anyone to use

Yeah it is not the fault of the people working in animal shelters and in rescue. If there’s place for a hundred dogs but two hundred need places, what are you gonna do?? Kill those with most health issues, then those with serious behavioral issues, then the ones that are least likely get homes, and hope you get enough space so you don’t have to keep killing. It’s fucked up but it’s the reality of scarce resources

Cucumber is very bitter. Smells and tastes like some sort of chemicals. Same for watermelon, it just doesn’t smell as bad

I’m always taking the side of harm reduction, but that’s pretty much reserved for when you’re in the voting booth and there’s nothing else to be done. I’m some rando from overseas, but this applies everywhere in the world where you can still vote.

Before elections is the time to take action so you don’t end up having to choose between evils

I’d add that considering Vegeta’s point of view; he’s calling him Kakarot as a sign of messed up respect. As he’s really racist and prideful, and views all the other races weaker, him using the name Goku would mean also lowering himself to the level of “lower races” as he’d have to admit sayans can be on the same level as them. Him using Goku more and more would be in effect a sign of him slowly becoming less racist

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Jesus would probably be a cool guy

I’m an atheist but I fucking love Jesus. As an idea he represents so much good in humanity; selfless love, mercy, helping those in need, humility, even self-sacrifice for greater good. If you take him away from all the crap christianity has accumulated, there’s so much you can learn from his example. He’s even imperfect, just like all humans are

I don’t disagree at all, but looking at the state of the world right now, even building that damn barn appears to be too radical for way too many people. Selfishness and greed are the virtues of today it seems

by ending harm

That’s the issue, really. People won’t get behind anything new or radical etc., so the options usually are “getting worse slowly” or “getting even worse right now”, and picking that latter is not better than the first one. What’s the solution? Fuck if I know, but allowing the latter to happen cannot be it

Just let people live their life how they want to

I’d rather have them not climb the damn mountain though. It’s become a sort of tourist trap -thing (literally), there’s people selling commercial climbings and all. It’s extremely wasteful and them littering the place with all their trash (like extra oxygen tanks) and then with their corpses is disgusting and kind of insulting considering Sagarmatha has some religious significance to locals as well

Yep. There’s multiple layers to it as well, as you can make up compound words, and then you can do the “bending”, adding specific endings to make the word mean whatever. You don’t even really think about it, you just do it kinda naturally when needed.

For a random example today I used “ylöspäinkapuava”, “(someone/something) climbing upwards”. Ylös = up, päin = towards, ylöspäin = upwards, kavuta = to climb, kapuaa = someone/something climbs, kapuava = someone/something is climbing (adjective) -> ylöspäinkapuava. You could use “ylöskapuava” (up climbing) to make it simpler, but that leaves out some nuance and sounds more like just getting up after you fell down.

Yes, since in my native language creating new words is a build-in feature (I’m finnish). You don’t know what’s that called? Forgot the word? A new thing that doesn’t even have a word for it? Just slap two or more together and it’s fine

The optimal “daylight” is about 5700-5800K. It’s not blue then, but pure white.

(I know this because that’s the optimal for parrots. They also have to have UV lights as an extra though, they need that for health and to see their full spectrum)

That’s the sad thing about revolutions, really. They pretty much happen when people don’t have any other options anymore - so what can they do, but to revolt, even if it leads to an another shitty situation? At least with trying there’s the possibility of things changing for the better, while allowing the status quo to continue it will only get worse

Hating any child actor is incredibly mean though, I don’t understand it. The damn kids don’t know any better and don’t even have the mental capacity to be responsible yet. If there must be hate it should be aimed towards the directors and whoever chose that kid

He should taste it either way, just to be sure

Applying strict moral purism to veganism means leaving most of harm reduction out, though, it’s the paradox that happens when moral purism meets lesser-evilism. If the options are getting lots of people to eat less meat by understanding changing cultural norms takes a lot of time and will happen slowly and thus encouraging them to take at least smaller steps towards leaving animal products out (more animals saved = lesser evil), or demanding everyone immediately stops eating meat and becomes vegan, which fails to consider people grown in a meat eating culture will fight aggressively against sudden changes and thus makes people less likely to listen and reduce their meat consumption (more animals eaten = greater evil), a moral purist vegan will choose the latter or do neither (leading to animals still being eaten more than with the first option - so not a harm reduction stance).

As moral purists views it is completely unacceptable to eat animals, encouraging people to eat just a little animals is not an option. If you can accept the lesser evil, you are not a moral purist, and if you don’t accept the lesser evil then you’re choosing against harm reduction

I’ve been warning people around me for years about shit like this, and have been promptly ignored or thought delusional. Who’s crazy now, huh?? I wish it wasn’t this way though, it really sucks to see all my paranoia becoming reality. What’s next, state approved, AI controlled drones hunting people on the streets based on AI risk assessment and recognition based on databases collected from stuff like assigned passports and voting records?

If you like creative writing in general and want to interact with others through it, you could always look into play-by-post rpgs? There’s a whole subcultures around them online and the english speaking player base is probably the largest (and I’m talking about the free side of it, not those using dnd mechanics and such)

the question of the worth of a life, and whether a human life is worth a lifetime of meat eating/killing.

Yes, this paradox is the root of it, I think. Is it ethical for me to live while that requires killing a lot of something else? I don’t think there is any “right” answer since it all depends on what you consider to be worth more (which is also why opinions on this are interesting). I guess generally people don’t tend to say you should kill yourself if you end up in a situation like this, since it could happen to anyone with some really bad luck

Just out of curiosity, what’s your stance then on people who cannot switch to a fully vegan diet because of health reasons? I’m always interested in hearing vegans takes on this, since they seem to vary a lot, and it’s a personal issue for me