I love my privacy. And I would never give up encryption.

But I’m not naive not lying, I know that privacy can also be used by criminals to do crime while avoiding prosecution by law enforcement. Not every crime is morally wrong, but many are.

It would be dishonest for my part saying that without privacy it wouldn’t be easier for law enforcement to detain certain criminals. But that doesn’t erase that without privacy law enforcement could also take morally right criminals. A d without privacy other bad actors also have an easier time getting you.

My best take is that is a complex matter, but without downplaying the fact that not all privacy is used by good people, overall having privacy is a good thing.

And being realistic 100% privacy would never be achieved and that level of privacy maybe it’s not desirable. In the sense that with 100% privacy anything you do could be trazable to you without your consent no matter what, which mean that you could do really nasty things without repercussions. But with a great level of privacy it’s more plausible that the greater resources that law enforcement would need to disclose your actions would more likely be used in nasty crimes more than in other things. But, then again. It’s a complex issue, it has a lot of grays and I don’t think it can be oversimplified in a dogma.

Some of my best memories online are in golden era Tumblr, which was a pretty big social media. So I don’t think social media, per se, is the issue.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but what are neopronoums?

I do know the classic she, he. And the new gender neutral “they”. Are there more that are starting to be used recently that I don’t know about?

Rainbow flag is cool. 🏳️‍🌈

Due the spectral (is that said correctly?) nature of gender identity and sexual preferences individualized representation of every part of an infinite spectrum is, by definition, impossible. Thus a catch them all flag is the best in representing our diversity.

I hope this doesn’t awake anything in me.

There are still smaller communities out there. It can be discussed that Lemmy is a small community itself.

I vibe coded with cleverbot.

It’s just using logic to destroy some common militant-radical-vegan arguments.

These people kill thousands of animals each years. And get angry that you kill a thousand and one.

They get angry that you say that human beings are more important than cows. But then they act as cows are more important than ants.

At the end that line of thinking is approaching religion levels of dogmatism. Thus why I feel compelled to rebate some arguments.

Your history for instance doesn’t really hold up. A little home leisure grows doesn’t provide for a family. To provide food for humans you do need proper agriculture, and proper agriculture, even traditional one, means the destruction of animal habitats and their massive killing.

If you don’t want to eat animals, specially the bigger ones because you feel sorry for them that’s ok. I would never question your personal choices. But if you start trying to enforce your personal choices on me, and start trying to moral shame me in a religious sort of way, then is when I have to push back. I already had my cup of religious moral shaming on catholic school, I don’t need more of it.

There’s nothing inmoral about eating meat. And not eating meat doesn’t make anyone a better person.

You pit your line respecting animals body integrity at one particular position. As you have already recognized.

Respect that other people’s position of that line are different. At the end of the day you kill 1000 animals a day, eating meat I might kill 1050 animals a day. Not that much of a difference so… Just respect, it’s not that hard not to try enforce your way of life in others for such a small difference in animal deaths. Who knows maybe due your other habits you end up killing more animals than me. Do you do international travel by any chance? Do you drive cars or mount on motorized vehicles daily?

Be aware and prepare to be heavily judged by others if you pretend to judge people on those basis.

At the end we should just make a throughout body count of animals killed, including insects, you’ll probably be surprised by the results.

Or, much easier option, just respect that other people eat meat. And don’t try to enforce your traditions on others.

The fact that you don’t see the bugs being killed in the agricultural process do not mean they do not die because of your choosing. Killing bugs is a necessary part of the making of all the food you eat. It’s not an “accident” or “undeliberated”. The word “pesticide” for instance should give you a hint. Also a lot of the cleaning process of any vegetable is meant, among other things, to get rid of any bugs present.

You also, presumably, live in a house, what do you think that happened with the thousands of bugs that used to live in that plot of land. They didn’t die by accident, they died because you wanted a cozy house instead of sleeping on the grass. The clothes you wear, all consumer products you use, your phone. Millions of bug deaths could be prevented if you decided to live caveman style. If they die is your choosing. And everyone else respect that choice. Respect yourself other people choices that imply a small margin more of animal deaths.

We really need internet beyond ISPs.

Maybe they are kinky. Idk.

All food is cruel. You can, at most, minimize the cruelty.

But you should know that millions of insects are killed in agriculture. Insects are indeed animals.

You can, if you want, minimize the amount of animals your presence in this world brings to an early death. But you cannot reduce it to zero no even near zero. Probably hundreds of small animals (most insects but surely many other small animals) die each day because things you do.

The line on how much do you want to minimize might be on one place for you, and that’s ok. But you have to respect other people lines as well.

How have you diagnosed them?

Put up a simple fan and sparkle water on your naked skin. That will bring your temperature down pretty quick for cheap.

Cons is that it’s a little trying to be constantly spraying water on yourself and that it can be a little messy. It’s also more convenient to do in a private space like your house. But it’s way cheaper than air conditioning and you will be as cool. The principle of evaporative cooling is amazing.

Tell them that’s completely true, and that if they keeps spreading the truth the black vans will come for them, they know too much.

The birds have already heard the rumors, and the clock is ticking. They better do something and shut up before they end up in “the facility”.

1. Win elections without caring how you win.
2. Elected representatives do nothing for you , because they only care for wining and they don’t even know how to improve people’s lives.
3. Proceed lo lose elections to the worst opposition candidates because wining without substance left people out of any hope for the electoral system.
4. Left wing party straight up disappears as it has happened in several european countries because voting for them and make them win achieved anything.

That makes no sense at all. You need some air, I suggest you take a walk outside without a hat.

Wining is not sitting in a particular chair. Much less having some asshole that doesn’t care about you sitting on a chair because they convince you to vote them.

Wining is having a society worth living in.

We are not talking about science, we are talking about politics.

In science you can study gravity and then your opinion on how gravity works is more important than the opinion of someone who hasn’t study gravity.

But we are talking about politics, politics is about what people want with their lives and how they are able to live those lives. And no matter what have you studied or how much have you studied. The biggest authority on someone’s life it’s always going to be that one person. You are not going to be able to know more about someone’s life, their goals, their fears, their aspirations and hopes, what makes them happy what makes them sad that themselves. Because they live with themselves 24/7 you cannot “outstudy” that.