Jyek

@Jyek@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little miracles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not OP, the only position I stated was that many people dislike vegans because they position themselves as mightier than thou without checking their own privilege.

  If you’re going to try and turn this around on me, maybe you should try and find a way to make your counter point actually an effective one based on the information I had given you. I didn’t express my privilege to you before you decided to tell me how unaware I am of it. In fact as far as you know before your comment, I could have been a citizen of one of those Mexican villages. Would you have told one of them to check their privilege? I doubt it. But then again, why would they bother arguing with such a tiny world view that assumes they were an edge case at best. Want to talk about the south east Asian farm towns in the same boat? How about aboriginals? Or the many African tribes.

  All I know about you is that you’re a vegan and you believe that anyone who eats meat is morally wrong and should feel ashamed for not just eating plant based protein. That’s what you’ve given me. So I should assume that about you. What I shouldn’t assume about you is that you’re a well to do white person in a major metropolitan area of the US or Canada or some other first world power where you know where your next meal comes from and have a stable income. I shouldn’t assume those things about you because you never said those things. See how that works? I know you’re privileged because you don’t worry about edge cases like poor Mexican villages or north Canadian Inuits. I also know you’re privileged because you think your world view is more important than others’ and you talk about it that way on the internet.

  So now give it a good thought with the information you can glean from my prior comment to you. Did I say I was anti-veganism? Did I say I eat meat? Did I say I lived in one of those major metropolitan areas where everything is accessible? Is it safe to assume anything at all other than I dislike when people push their beliefs on others to make them feel bad about themselves when all they’re trying to do is get by?

  I wouldn’t want an evangelist knocking at your door about becoming a Jehovah’s witness just the same as I don’t want people like you picking on perfectly good people who eat meat. Eating meat doesn’t make you deserving of shame any more than a sinner in the eyes of a church.

  And just like you said before how you think all meat eaters know that it’s wrong, you might be projecting a little bit. Because I suspect you know it’s kinda morally gross it is to evangelise through guilt even if the goal is an individual eating less meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little miracles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No he’s saying there are places that can’t get 200g of tofu. So it would need to be imported which would make it cost more than 200g of meat. Also, often times, those places that don’t have 200g of tofu, the people living there grow and eat their own livestock. I personally know of Mexican villages that don’t have a grocery store within 150 miles. So like you’ve already been told once in the thread, check your privilege. I’m happy that you’re happy about your dietary choices. I’m also especially happy for you that you have the opportunity to make those dietary choices. Not everyone can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better have done his homework⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the only one thinking the joke is about Asians. Which makes you the racist. That’s what I’m saying. The joke is about family owned restaurants and you could have it be any family of any race. You’re the one focusing so hard on their race. You’re the one with the issue with the race in this picture.

  Read: you have a problem with the fact that there is an again child in this photo and would rather it be a non-Asian.

  Do you see the problem with that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better have done his homework⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are assuming it’s a race thing at all. So you think this same photo where the restaurant was a family owned burger joint and the kid at the cash register was white that suddenly wouldn’t be racist? That makes you the racist. You clocked the race of the child and presumed a whole lot of information that was not given to you. How do you know this isn’t a summer job? How do you know the actual age of the kid? He could be 16 with a slower development. There’s so much that you are assuming based solely off of your experience around Asians and Asian restaurants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, it’s been less than 24hrs and I got a ticket in complaining about why PDFs look one way in Ease US PDF editor and totally different in Adobe Reader. You’re just wrong. I didn’t say it was worth the money to pay for Adobe, and I didn’t say it wasn’t a scam. But I do tell the truth when it comes to true parity, there are competitors to PDF editing but there is no free PDF editors that properly do the job 100% of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adobe acrobat is THE PDF editor. PDF is a proprietary format created and developed by Adobe. Any software that can edit PDFs is doing so in a format they do not have any control over. And there just aren’t any proper PDF editors that are feature complete. now if you’re an individual who needs to make a PDF in the privacy of your own home, by all means, use a cheap or free or FOSS application to do so. But if you need that PDF to be readable and useable and seamlessly compatible on other computers for other users for ever? Better pay the Adobe tax because there is a good chance, it won’t look the way you expect it to when someone opens it up in Adobe which their company definitely has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did we read the same article? The article was pretty open to the idea especially in the demonstrated environments. I also read nothing about AI…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Revolt isn’t new. Matrix and revolt are around the same age and are both not even feature competitive with Discord. So until there is a fully featured truly open alternative to discord, there will be still others trying to take discord’s audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad supported search is the only way people will continue to use the internet. I feel the only real reason the internet is so widely used is because of the accuracy and accessibility provided by search engines and without them, the web as it currently exists will die and become small factions of like-minded individuals on forums. Some people like that idea but I’ll tell you, as someone who lived through the internet in that era, there was some pretty fucked up shit that came out of those spaces.

  We need global agora and we need ways to stay connected on unified platforms and we need to maintain history and knowledge. The Internet is our species’s latest evolution. It allows us to combine our collective thoughts and knowledge for better or for worse. Destroying the primary way to navigate the Internet is an awful idea even though the leader of that industry is Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5318008

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks( facial age estimation, ...etc) and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with rioting in the states is that, there absolutely are riots and thus riot police. Rioting gets you shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t have a Biden law. Biden introduced that so it must be bad for the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why it’s based that it wasn’t promoted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guarantee he doesn’t actually believe this shit. He’s just a grifter grifting just like the rest of the Whitehouse circus cast. The only exception might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case penultimate is used to describe something that is nearly perfect. As if to say, there is little room for improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People on the internet all seem to have the most refined and bougie pallet. I’m not going to shout from the rooftops that Olive Garden is amazing or anything. But it’s not terrible food in my experience. And I’ve eaten plenty of authentic Italian. Olive Garden is Nickelback for pasta restaurants. Perfectly serviceable, but the Internet seems to be convinced you will die if you consume it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A terrorist is someone who enacts violence against civilians in order to create political change. Not saying Luigi deserves any of this, but if his goal was to make a point to the world about the mistreatment of patients at the hands of insurance companies in order to push change, then the terrorism charge is accurate.

  What insurance companies do is far worse than terrorism. They harvest the sick, elderly, and injured for their money in order to sate the capitalist urge to increase revenue for the investors. But that isn’t illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The modern porn industry is much more independent than it used to be. Most creators control and own their content and choose where it gets uploaded initially. In the past, the porn business was absolutely abusive to their stars but I think it’s much less the case these days. Filmmakers have to fight for actors because if they don’t treat them well or pay them their worth, they’ll just post their own content directly to their fans. I’m sure there are still huge negatives but I just don’t think it’s as bad as it once was and I certainly don’t think the porn industry is something to be upset about these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies Beware!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an album cover for sure. Album titled Milf Hunter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every finite range has 2 limits. A bottom limit and a top limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that still doesn’t change the belief that a creator could have created the universe in whatever state it currently exists in. That’s why these arguments never go anywhere with hard core young earth creationists. It’s also not worth the energy arguing with them because they often believe that anyone trying to convince them otherwise is an antichrist trying to lead them astray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of stuff everyone has that they don’t need. What’s your point? Are you going to go vegan? because technically you don’t need meat. Are you going to stop driving an automatic transmission? Because you don’t need that. Oh, social media (Lemmy included), you definitely don’t need that.