What hills are you dying on?
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Must be nice being rich enough to eat what ever you feel like having. Some of us are not so fortunate and have to make do with what is available.
Rice and beans are only for the wealthy I guess.
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Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.
How does that make sense, it's just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.
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My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn't ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.
Can you give examples of unnecessary rights?
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How are you going to get vitamin B12 while being vegan? As far as I know it's not possible.
By supplementing it. As should people who are not vegan, cause B12 is one of the most common deficiencies.
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saying it doesn't make it true
Right back at you
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how do they pronounce it? "latinequis?" I haven't heard -u but I'll take your word for it.
I didn't think about it, but they pronounce it like in english, /lætˈinɛks/
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all of that can be true without necessitating veganism
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Moral baseline is not a necessity. It's a comparison point. Basically, if you're not vegan, you should be doing something else to end up net-positive (from a utilitarian point of view). I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian, so I'm in the negatives I guess.
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I'm not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like 'everything is an array' (APL) or 'everything is an integer' (Forth, assembly).
I'm of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, "Strong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected." In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.
I also prefer the 'build the program while it's running' workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.
One time I found a C++ library where everything was of a single type, the "untype" essentially. It removed all type safety, in other words, to allow pure binary access to all data. I mean, there's an occasion now and then when one needs that sort of thing, but I found in every case it was just a headache. Now I know there's two people like that, haha.
Well, I don't agree with you, but I respect a hot take about coding when I see one. My own a-little-less-spicy-than-yours take is that OOP is overated.
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Vista was either magic or crap depending on your hardware/software needs. Almost no middle ground. I was supporting about 100 PC's at the time, and it was a nightmare for work, but I enjoyed running it myself.
From a corporate standpoint, skipping it for win7 was a serious win for IT.
On the upside, the latest Samsung UI on android has something pretty close to Vista's old task manager.
It's truly a shame that most of the world got the short end of the stick here.
Also, I literally just updated to the newest version of One UI and I don't really see what you mean by the similarity to Vista's old task manager. If anything, it just made my color matching app icons look ugly. It even installed Gemini without my permission.
On the previous version, they looked like this:
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I actually love Vista. It's what made me switch to Linux!
I use NixOS btw
Windows is the best advertisement for Linux.
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Right back at you
I'm not the one making a positive claim.
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Moral baseline is not a necessity. It's a comparison point. Basically, if you're not vegan, you should be doing something else to end up net-positive (from a utilitarian point of view). I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian, so I'm in the negatives I guess.
you are splitting hairs
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It does, because the meat industry is tremendously abusive to animals. Ontop of that it's a poor use of land and it contributes greatly to global warming. But for sure, the animals feel pain and suffering assuming it is possible for them to do so. Trillions of shrimp die horribly painful deaths every year, but nobody cares because they have a funny-sounding name.
none of this makes eating meat cause pain or suffering. these are all problems with production, not consumption.
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none of this makes eating meat cause pain or suffering. these are all problems with production, not consumption.
Describe a way to eat meat that doesn't require prior suffering then.
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Describe a way to eat meat that doesn't require prior suffering then.
an event in the future cannot cause an event in the past. eating the meat doesn't cause it to have been produced.
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an event in the future cannot cause an event in the past. eating the meat doesn't cause it to have been produced.
I am not interested in discussing meta-physics. For you to eat meat, an animal suffered. That is the point.
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I am not interested in discussing meta-physics. For you to eat meat, an animal suffered. That is the point.
eating meat doesn't cause an animal to have suffered.
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Rationality and empathy are equally important. Blind empathy is just as capable of causing harm as a lack of empathy.
The real issue is the relation one has/lacks with capital, not just individuals wealth.
Balkanization typically leads to more violence and worse outcomes. For example, the current situation in eastern Europe is a result of the balkanization of the USSR. WW1 (and 2) were a result of the Balkanization of the Ottoman empire. The balkanization of India.
Where did I say people without rationality should be elected lol.
The individual wealth that can destabilise democracies is a problem. Do you not think so? If your solution fixes that I'm all on board.
More violence in russia? Or more violence than russia trying to occupy europe again? I take the more violence in Russia because it will dtop one day, the uncheckef russian empire ambitions not so much.
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Russia should be denuclearised and split up.
I agree, but the hard part is how. Splitting up Germany required winning a World War. The next World War will be nuclear. Mass starvation from nuclear winter will result in the death of the vast majority of humans. That's too horrible a price to pay.
We need to bloody russias nose, and break their economy IMO. And be there when the cracks form to ease the maneuver a much as possible.
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There's a vast difference between capability for empathy (as in: feeling someone else's feelings) and acting upon that feeling.
What I want is people NOT acting because they have empathy. That IMO would already be an enormous step forward.
