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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Well, I hope you are happy with the answers you already got, because my answer is that I personally don’t care to keep these items, so I don’t have much of an opinion on it. 😎

    That’s kind of the point I was trying to make up there, that I don’t have to be the arbiter of all morals, just my own morals…

    But if you want to keep such trinkets and you feel like you’ve informed yourself enough to know that no harm is done to these animals, and that makes you decide that it is moral, I will gladly accept your decision.
    If I learn that it does harm in some way, I would let you know, though. Not to attack you, but because I would assume that you want to do no evil. And that you don’t subscribe to the horseshit belief that your own ignorance of evil makes it moral.

    I feel like I really need to drive home that veganism is when you care, but you’re also lazy. I don’t want to have to inform myself about every supply chain for my food and every possible moral effect that my actions might have. So, I just nope the fuck out of a large chunk of that by not dealing with animal-sourced products.

    Like, yeah, if a bird drops a feather in front of you, the supply chain is quite obvious and I would hope you don’t set off a trend of enough people wanting feathers in their homes for there to emerge an industry.

    So, it’s almost certainly fine. But if I myself don’t actually want a feather, you can bet your ass that I will gladly stop thinking right then and there.

    If these were not just random examples and rather genuine questions, then I would try to help you reason through it, but ultimately the decision is yours…


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldWomen and men and consensual sex
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    I guess, they might not be talking about individuals, but rather humanity as a whole. So, if a person rapes someone and this becomes publicly known, they will generally be shamed more than a woman having consensual sex (even though some rapists also get to be president, I guess).

    But across the board, we have insults that every kid knows, which equate to “woman having (consensual) sex bad”, as well as gossip of the like, and even men being shamed for going out with a woman who has sex.
    Compared to that, rape is rarely talked about…





  • Veganism isn’t a hivemind. We’re all individuals that came to similar conclusions. And we will have different opinions on the details.

    Some folks will say consuming those that died naturally is a-ok. Others will argue that it incentivizes creating conditions under which animals die “naturally” to harvest them.
    Personally, I’m part of the group that is probably the largest by a long shot, whose opinion is: Why are we even thinking about that?

    The vast majority of vegans find corpses gross, much like anything you might derive from corpses.
    It also seriously does not happen often, that animals drop dead in front of you. And there’s nothing on an animal’s body that you can’t find a different alternative for. So, it really just is not a relevant question in our lives…




  • I’m currently prototyping a macro to help reduce boilerplate, as part of a more general library. And I’m doing some wild shit, like defining the fields of a data type from the parameter list of a function.

    But then, yeah, what I’m now stuck on is that my generated code references a data type under one name, but it’s actually got a different name in the public API. All the wild shit was smooth sailing, but a technicality now fucks me over. 🫠






  • My opinion is kind of invalid, since this is pretty much the only game I play that has items, but well, the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup devs decided to add guns, uh sorry, hand cannons to the game, a few versions ago.

    It’s a game with swords and magic, and they did make the guns rare to find, but when you do find one, it’s always a blast (pun intended).

    The guns are really powerful, but also noisy which means they attract enemies. And they spit out clouds of smoke, which can obstruct your vision when you shoot too much, allowing enemies to draw close. So, it’s just a really fun risk-reward loop.