threeduck

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oh this is my jam, I analyse sleep studies on one screen, watch stuff on the other.

Films (highly rated) that don't require you to look: Rope, The Apartment, My Dinner With Andre, The Sunset Limited, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Locke, Buried

Long form YouTube content: Some More News, Climate Town, Pop Culture Detective, Jenny Nicholson, Münecat, Summoning Salt

Podcasts: Hamish And Andy (it's the only podcast I've ever liked)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could probably say that to the majority of social media comments, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My dad was a bit of a tinkerer, and he attached a power plug to the battery terminals of my gameboy and gamegear to avoid buying me batteries. So long as the wires never popped off the battery springs, I was right as rain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Jokes on you, the trash heap is now deliciously seasoned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did you buy your pet some ashes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

How interesting, as I shared this with my partner I prefaced it with "this is easily the whitest post I've ever read", and she agreed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The best review of chess is right here IMO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, 2026. I hope you CAN wait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Please Litter Tsar, add tagging to your death penalty list.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure toxic masculinity only applies to the toxic parts, right? Surely no one thinks getting excited about the Nissan Z is toxic?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah a few more classic meat eater points to rebut, I thought we had run out!

Your initial point is that "most people think eating meat is fine, so it's fine". I doubt that's binding your morality, as if suddenly 50.1% of people were against eating meat, you wouldn't then swap to veganism. You're asserting that if the majority think something is morally permissible, then it should be. Which would make Hitler's reign (who was very popular in Germany at the time) morally permissible. Also I'm not trying to legitimise slavers, and you know that, don't strawman.

"People have been eating meat since before people were people". That's either an appeal to nature or an appeal to tradition. First, nature. Just because animals eat meat, doesn't mean we should. Animals eat meat out of necessity, which makes it morally permissible. We do not need to do that. Furthermore, animals murder and rape, surely you don't find this nature permissible? As for appealing to tradition, that argument could be used to justify any number of problematic issues. "Gas companies have been polluting since time immemorial!" "Men have been marrying 13 year Olds since the 40s!", it's a broken argument without validity.

You keep saying that I haven't justified the assertion that it is wrong to cause harm to sentient beings for pleasure. Rather, it is your responsibility to assert that the harm IS justified. YOU'RE the one causing harm, YOU'RE the one who needs to justify it. Currently your justifications include "because we just do", "because we always have" and "because it's not wrong". Those are extremely poor reasons to harm others.

A valid argument to kill and eat another sentient being could be "because it's necessary for me to live". That would be valid. "Because you haven't convinced me not to" is not. You wouldn't accept that excuse from a murderer.

When did we establish that it's not about pain? I don't want to cause animals pain. Vegetarianism DOES include death. Male chicks can't produce eggs, so are ground up in a machine shortly after hatching. Male cows do not produce dairy, and must be killed as soon as financially possible. I say pain and death, because that's what meat eating causes? Sorry I didn't understand your paragraph on this one.

As for "respecting other cultures", you wouldn't accept that as reasoning for me to kill and eat people would you? If a culture/people require the killing and eating of animals for their own survival, it is permissible. But as for western culutures, it is not necessary, and thus is only done for pleasure. Which is not a valid reason for killing something (as we agreed upon in the dog stomping example).

Like I've said here, I'd love to not be vegan. I loved eating meat, I grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. If you can come up with a good reason to kill and eat animals, I'd LOVE to hear it. But if the argument "you haven't convinced me not to" doesn't justify the murder of humans, why would it justify killing animals, who also feel pain, sadness, grief and fear?

 

After watching a lot of Some More News and Climate Town, I made the shift from Hesta (which has $2,000,000,000 invested in fossil fuels, and most recently in the new Woodside gas plant) to Future Super.

Yes, the fees are significantly worse, but if I'm putting my own financial gain ahead of the planet, I'm no better than all the banks investing in fossil fuels.

 

I pre-ordered a pair of Jennen shoes (elevator shoes, so I can be a big boy) from their online site (they no longer have the shopfront on Johnstone street) and got asked for a tip at the end. For basically changing a stock allocation assignment. I had a whinge on their contact forms, and they replied "the tip function is optional".

2 years later I emailed again, saying "I haven't bought a replacement pair of shoes, all because of the audacity to ask for a tip. I get that it's optional, but so is a cashier going 'hey give me that twenty from your wallet', and when the customer goes 'wtf??' the cashier replies 'oh lol it's optional'. You may have thought 'you know, a tip screen could give us free money! What's the harm?', and I guess this follow up email is proof of that harm. Don't bring tipping culture here please!"

I get this reply a day later, and can confirm the tip function is now gone. Loverly! Whinging may be one thing, but persistent whinging made the difference.

 
 

"Lemmy at em!" says some wisecracking character in my video game maybe, in a referential nod to a relatively niche community in an attempt to appeal.

For the past six years I've been working on Game Over, a Comedy Rhythm RPG, and maybe you'll like it?

There's a little demo on Steam and also one on itch.io which you can play free of charge! What a deal! What a sweet treat for yourself and friends!

Also I don't have a complaints form, so if you have any, please comment below and I will angrily defend myself and take potshots at you.

Call now!

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