Droggelbecher
@Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 18 hours ago:
That is an important distinction, true! But that just means they’re the target group of all those resource-intensive innovations towards animal based proteins that are more sustainable. So I felt it important to consider them.
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 18 hours ago:
Politely disagree. I think we’re kidding ourselves if right wing conspiracy theorists are the only anti plant based crowd. There’s plenty of otherwise leftist people that would never question this one unjustified hierarchy. The meat and dairy industries have done a stellar job with advertising over many decades. Most people still believe we NEED meat or dairy to thrive. And even those that don’t very often wouldn’t give up the sensory pleasure of the taste and texture of meat or other animal products.
- Comment on ‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts? 1 day ago:
Im having a hard time understanding why there’s so much time and effort being put into finding new sustainable protein sources when we already have legumes
- Comment on Honey 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t want to go into it in the original comment, but yes. It is a relevant debate whether it’s vegan to swallow another humans semen, or even saliva. And yes, it is, if the human consents. Consent is the more or less the basis of whether vegans find it moral to consume something. Humans can give consent to sharing their fluids. Other animals cannot.
- Comment on Honey 3 weeks ago:
Bees make honey for their hive. Honey also does indeed contain bodily fluids from the bees.
The bread making human consents to you taking the bread (presumably). Breast milk and other human bodily fluids can be vegan for the same reason.
And insects pollinate plants not because they use the fruit, but for the nectar. They don’t care what happens after they leave the flower.
- Comment on Honey 3 weeks ago:
You avoid an avoidable luxury, yet you do not avoid something unavoidable that’s necessary. Curious.
- Comment on [Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? 1 month ago:
Imo what’s key to a cosy game is that you choose within the game how much you want to challenge yourself. Take stardew, for example. My mum was content just farming crops. I went into the difficult mines with lots of combat etc. You can enjoy the game if you don’t do the hard parts, or you can do them sparsely, or all the time. You choose, and that’s what makes it so relaxing.
- Comment on [Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? 1 month ago:
I’m not a hardcore gamer, but usually mostly in RPGs. But I’ve also got hundreds of hours in stardew and thousands in the Sims. When I play one of those, I’m always low key scared to grow bored because I LOVE those games and I know that there won’t be another good one right around the corner.
When I got bored of Skyrim, I played the Witcher, and when I got bored of that, I played Fallout. Repeat ad nauseam, because there’s more playable, entertaining RPGs out there than any one human could play in a lifetime.
With cosy games, not so much. When you grow bored of one, chances are, there won’t be another one that’ll be enjoyable to you at all, and you’ll have to hope and wait that something good will come out at some point.
- Comment on Russian govt backs legislation to tackle child-free ideology 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure one of my parents wouldn’t have had kids if he’d fully realized it was a choice. Let me tell you, growing up with such a parent isn’t great. I don’t know how they justify this to the public.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 1 month ago:
A bit of a more serious comment on that: knowledge is never useless. Many, maybe most, researchers agree with that. It’s why we do what we do. Publishers and sources of funding (be they third party or governmental), however, disagree. So we have to sell them on the importance of our research this way.
- Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it? 2 months ago:
My room is a nightmare of a mess and I’m not a drug dealer. We exist
- Comment on My personal favourite: "Oh, fuck me. CHRIST." 2 months ago:
Mine is: fuck it, I’m going into industry. And then I don’t.
- Comment on Scratch that. Let's do an airstrike instead. 2 months ago:
The person intently listening to what another person is doing on the toilet is calling the person who’s minding their (pun intended) business in what they think is private a psychopath. Nice.
- Comment on Scratch that. Let's do an airstrike instead. 2 months ago:
When I have to take a shit and there’s a toilet, i shit.
- Comment on Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies? 4 months ago:
It can also happen after you consent to SOME intimate acts, but not others, and the other person can take you by surprise. (That one has happened to me, im not male though)
- Comment on Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies? 4 months ago:
Power over another person, the prerequisite for most sexual violence, doesn’t have to come from superior physical strength. It could come from an age difference, a professor-student or boss-employee dynamic, or some form of blackmail, for example. And the body can experience physical arousal in response to the right stimuli even when you don’t want to have sex. You can also do acts of sexual violence that do not require an erect penis.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 4 months ago:
Think about dairy what you will, but ‘I didn’t do it, I paid someone else to do it’ is never a very solid argument in a debate on ethics.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 4 months ago:
Im sorry, but what kind of mammal biology are you talking about that says that two different types of milk come from the same animal?
Also, milk production usually does go down somewhat over time and sometimes even does cease, and it’s different for every individual, which makes it less predictable and less profitable to just impregnate a cow once. This is why dairy farmers almost always try to impregnate their cows yearly. Here’s one source, there’s plenty more coming up if you look it up on a search engine though www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/…/farming
- Comment on He's got a point 6 months ago:
Droggelbecher
- Comment on He's got a point 6 months ago:
Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into it! I’m really grateful to have this new thing to look into, as physio didn’t help much
- Comment on don't tell iceland 6 months ago:
What do you think happens to dairy cows after their milk production declines? Or their male calves?
- Comment on He's got a point 6 months ago:
Tbf the combination can be worst. During COVID lockdowns I’d spend all waking hours either coding or hand writing for uni, hand writing to teach online, or gaming. Sometimes I’d crochet. I have chronic painful tendinitis now.
- Comment on Exception implies deficiency. Am I the only one who sees this? 8 months ago:
Not necessarily INHERENT deficiency. Providing exception for someone who grew up oppressed, poor, abused etc can help level the playing fields and doesn’t imply that the oppressed etc person has any inherent deficiencies. Just that they’ve had it harder so far and maybe we should cut them some slack for that.
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 8 months ago:
For much of the internet, optimization used to mean improving usefulness and usability for end users. Now that we (as a society as well as individually) can’t go without the internet anymore, optimization means improving usefulness for shareholders and/or advertisers, to the detriment of the user. This doesn’t matter to them anymore though, since giving up on search engines, social media etc just isn’t an option for users anymore.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
I thought this was a discussion about languages people speak.
Esperanto is an interesting case though but it wasn’t designed to be as simple as a language can be (since that is highly subjective). It was designed to have as many similarities as possible to major European language in order to make it easier for speakers of those European languages to learn.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
Because languages aren’t constructed, they ‘evolved’ naturally from humans communicating with one another for many generations. As such, they aren’t intended to be as simple as possible. They aren’t intended in the first place. They’ve grown over time with no regard for whether the rules makes sense because nobody designed those rules, they just happened.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I went to the US in 2013 and there were still a lot of hotels (and I think some other places but I’m not sure) that skipped the 13th floor and room number 13
- Comment on U.S., Texas Attorney Who Drugged Wife's Drinks To Induce Abortion Sentenced to 180 days in jail 8 months ago:
You’re right, better to give the benefit of the doubt
- Comment on U.S., Texas Attorney Who Drugged Wife's Drinks To Induce Abortion Sentenced to 180 days in jail 8 months ago:
Are you implying the US is one of the best countries for women’s rights?
- Comment on That's a low blow 8 months ago:
I fucking love that 5’8 life, the world is built for me. I can reach every top shelf but nobody ever asks me to get them something from up there. I fit in every plane or car or train seat. Being average height (in my country at least) is amazing.