Leviathan
@Leviathan@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 days ago:
Yeah, that’s because you know how to drive. I can’t tell you how many people just turn in front of a truck and expect it to slow down for them. Playing with their lives.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 days ago:
Another thing that enrages me is people who think driving slowly is safer for whatever reason.
Getting on the highway? Let’s SLOWLY merge at 60% the speed of oncoming traffic.
Changing lanes from stationary traffic into a full speed lane? I won’t wait for the lane to clear, I’ll just turn signal and move into the lane REAL SLOW because that’s safe.
Turning right? Let’s slow down to a complete stop and force traffic to a halt so I can turn right.
As a delivery truck driver I can’t tell you how many people think that everyone else can just stop on a dime for them and they’re being safe because they move over at a snail’s Pace.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 5 days ago:
Yup. Be predictable, not courteous. You’ll save lives.
I’m fine with moving forward and using his car as my new stop line until the lane is clear. He’s the asshole for assuming everyone waiting behind him wants to be as courteous and patient.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
What does what your ancestors did have to do with what we now know about modern factory farming? The question was about still eating beef despite what we know today, what does that have to do with your ancestors? Is your comment not the very definition of a strawman?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never once in the last decade seen a single vegan post other than recipes. What I do see is constant posts about how “vegans are always throwing it my face/holier than thou”, “I’m gonna eat extra meat because vegans make me feel bad”. I really don’t think vegans are the problem, I think these fools fall for every single piece of beef industry propaganda that comes across their screens.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 weeks ago:
Dumb fucks who fall for propaganda on every platform.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 3 weeks ago:
Sir, this ain’t the exciting dystopia, this is the boring dystopia.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 3 weeks ago:
Listen, he should’ve at least offered to kill you first. That’s the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 3 weeks ago:
That’s the problem, it isn’t delicious. That’s why they keep coming up with schemes to use them as a protein additive, like “cricket flour”.
I’ve actually had a bunch of delicious insect based dishes, if you’re open minded about it they aren’t all that hard to find. Asian cooking is where they’re at.
I raise lamb free range on pasture, no inputs other than grass, and that’s what I’ll be eating for the foreseeable future. Let me tell you, that’s delicious.
That’s cool, I grew up raising steer and sheep, I’m also aware of the environmental issues. I also still eat them although I’ve cut it down drastically.
I would encourage anyone else concerned about factory farming to find a small producer, most of us will gladly even give you a tour and let you see our herds, we love to show off healthy animals on green grass. And we’re often cheaper than the supermarket these days, no greedy middlemen to mark it up.
I personally know many small producers, slaughter and dress my own meat, and I still think that, environmentally consciously, we should all switch to a mostly plant based diet and explore meat alternatives without fear.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 3 weeks ago:
Fuck billionaires, if eating bugs is delicious and cuts emissions from factory farming, I’m in. The environment doesn’t fit into some dick measuring contest with the rich and they don’t decide my moral position.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 3 weeks ago:
Or we move on with our lives and accept that fruit don’t have to be sweet and vegetables don’t have to be savory. Life is beautiful and nature constantly challenges expectations.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
I switched to weighing everything a few years ago and I when I moved I didn’t have to have a set of spoons, dry cups, wet cups. I just use the scale.
- Comment on oWo 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I see you are also VerySmart™.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 5 weeks ago:
Right, so forgive them and make education free. Gotcha, I’m with you.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 5 weeks ago:
And?
Right wing think tanks exist specifically to make you feel like you have data to back up your claims. They were invented for it. Look into the history, try changing your position when faced with facts or faced with lack of foundation for your arguments.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 1 month ago:
Yeah I go out in the yard with the dog or take out the trash in winter here in Montreal. Granted it’s a minute here or there but it’s true. Not calling anyone weak or anything but it’s just a little snow or cold.
- Comment on ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets 1 month ago:
This is pure insanity, but at least I can see the kind of insane thinking that allowed Germans to live their comfortable lives just a few kilometers away from concentration camps. When you say “Hamas is from Palestine, therefore Palestine is a target” and you manage to convince yourself that infant civilians are an acceptable casualty then you are no better.
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 1 month ago:
I feel like there could be Italians having the same conversation in reverse saying “Mi piace Moon”. To most Latin languages Luna is as boring and generic as Moon.
It should be a name that the whole world could use instead of the basic word they use for a natural satellite because that was just the name for the Moon in their language.
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 1 month ago:
In French and Italian it’s the same as in English, I would say que Jupiter a 95 lunes, a moon is the colloquial word for a natural satellite. Luna isn’t some pretty personal name, it’s exactly equivalent to “moon” but I’m a different language, but it sounds exotic and like a personal name to English speakers.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Just rude, really.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, calling Robertson “square” is insulting to a superior screw design and fuck you for even pretending it isn’t.
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 2 months ago:
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 2 months ago:
Where are the lusts? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on those damn vegans! 2 months ago:
I totally agree, lawns are a huge waste of space and resources. I’ve torn up every lawn on every property I’ve rented or owned and replaced it with local plants for native pollinators (honeybees are invasive and harm native pollinators).
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 2 months ago:
I feel like relentless bullying is in this truck’s owner’s future.
- Comment on those damn vegans! 2 months ago:
Yeah, instead of using that land to grow monocultured grass, we could use it to grow plants we do eat. It’s not like we would keep growing grass there and say “Darn! We can’t eat this grass!”, we wouldn’t need to plant plants we don’t eat in the first place.
- Comment on those damn vegans! 2 months ago:
I grew up with an uncle who raised steer and the sheer amount of land it took just to grow the corn and grass they ate was astounding. The animals also needed constant medication to stop them getting each other sick due to diet and proximity. So that’s the regular non organic, non grass fed/finished reality. With human population the way it is that kind of farming is pretty much the only way we can sustain eating meat in the amount we do.
I wonder, realistically, how much land it would take to produce our meat, at the current rate of consumption per capita, to grass feed/finish all those animals.
- Comment on Choose your ultimate lineup! 2 months ago:
Deftones and have $60 left over to book local bands.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 2 months ago:
I don’t call that a real consequence to opening fire on an acorn on a public street.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 2 months ago:
I remember when wanting to end the careers of idiotic cops who shoot at acorns wasn’t a partisan issue.