actionjbone
@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
Same, came here to say this.
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 3 weeks ago:
I see what you did there
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 3 weeks ago:
(the one simple trick is diarrhea)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about the government not knowing.
The government already knows if you have money.
But there are lots of programs available to help defer money. A good financial advisor will know how to take advantage of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Talk to a financial advisor.
Do you belong to a credit union? You may have access to one for free.
They’ll be able to tell you how much you can squirrel away for retirement (legally).
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
Or an engineer.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to justify anything to you, or to anyone else.
Ethics don’t exist in the world outside of humans. That’s simply a fact.
And many different human ethical systems exist. If you believe that eating animals is always unethical, that is your ethic. If that means you believe I am unethical, then that viewpoint is valid within your system of ethics.
It’s not possible to sway somebody by contradicting their own ethics; the only way to change a person’s ethics is to appeal to them by showing the commonalities between belief systems, then showing them the benefits of certain variations that you believe.
Neither you nor I like animal suffering. The difference is, I’ve seen plenty of animals lead relaxed, happy lives, that end painlessly before the animal is turned into meat. I understand that the notion repulses you.
I’ve also seen plenty of “free” animals who’ve led short, painful unhappy lives. I’m sure you and I can both agree that this is not good. And if the animal led a short, painful, unhappy life in captivity directly because it was destined to be food? That’s an inherently bad thing.
I’m not criticizing your viewpoint, and I’m not trying to justify my viewpoint to you. But my viewpoint exists, and many people hold it.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
That statement is untrue, because many different sets of ethics disagree with you.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
“I’m not vegan because I love animals. I’m vegan because I hate plants.”
-SMBC, I think
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
An omnivore is predisposed to eat anything. Absent synthetic food processing? Yes, an omnivore must eat both meat and plants.
Humans are the only species (that we know of) who chooses whether or not to eat something based on a system of ethics. But at the same time, most of the world doesn’t have the privilege to decide whether or not to eat only specific things. In parts of the world, if you don’t eat meat, you don’t eat. In other parts of the world, if you don’t eat plants, you don’t eat. It’s simply nature.
I don’t criticize your reasons for not eating meat. And I don’t criticize your perspectives and responses to me, because I understand your viewpoint. But if you think your arguments are novel to me, you’re wrong. And if you think I eat meat only for flavor, you’re also wrong.
All that said, Americans do eat way too much meat. We need to reduce the amount of animal protein we take in - not because of ethics, but because it’s unhealthy too overindulge. Similarly, we need to reduce the amount of sugar we take in.
Reality is complicated. I don’t deal in absolutes.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
My cats eat a diet almost entirely of delicious, delicious meat.
None of it is made of cats.
Nor do I eat cat meat.
There’s nothing wrong with being omnivorous as long as you’re ethical about it.
There’s also nothing wrong with veganism as long as you’re ethical about it.
I draw the line at cannibalism, though. Way too easy to spread human pathogens that way.
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 1 month ago:
You are correct. His statement wasn’t about technology, it was about expectations.
- Comment on Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache? 2 months ago:
Short answer, probably not. Anatomy is complex, and the source of the pressure may or may not be at the single point where you most feel it. Even if it is a single point, you wouldn’t be dealing with what caused the pressure, and the body would seal the wound as quickly as it can.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
…I’m not sure how else you’re trying to be seen, based on how you keep responding to me.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
I’m not talking about how it was seen. I’m talking about how it is. There’s a difference.
Cutting off hands was seen as socially acceptable at certain times in history, if someone was merely accused of theft. But it is horrific and terrible. How it was seen as irrelevant to it being terrible objectively terrible.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
No, but it was harmful.
I’m talking about the objective harm of encouraging underage girls to avoid study and live their lives in the service of older men. There is nothing good that can be said about such a thing. It’s basically indentured servitude.
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
I can both agree with your statement AND assert with evidence that something is objectively bad. 🤣
- Comment on is iceraven a good fork of firefox? 2 months ago:
It’s not possible for one person to know every browser in existence, and on what platforms they’re available.
- Comment on is iceraven a good fork of firefox? 2 months ago:
Mobile wasn’t specified :)
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 2 months ago:
As disgusting as we see it now, keep in mind that, back then, child marriage was not only condoned but sometimes encouraged in those parts of the Southern U.S.
We’ll never know if he did it because he had a thing for young girls, or if he did it simply because it was an accepted practice.
Regardless of why, it’s objectively terrible that he did that.
- Comment on is iceraven a good fork of firefox? 2 months ago:
In my case, I’ve been using Librewolf because it’s out-of-the-box security and privacy settings are tighter.
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 3 months ago:
No, they’re a pair
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 3 months ago:
Nipples killed my dad :(
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
Or to start with the wealthiest people and biggest corporations.
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
I’ll say. Even Thanos only wanted to kill HALF the population.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 4 months ago:
It originally needed a phone number because it was originally a phone texting app.
- Comment on Have you ever had a phone call interrupted by a 3rd party voice saying "this call is being recorded"? 4 months ago:
Don’t try to reason with someone who puts their wants over others’ consent.
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 4 months ago:
You’re not missing anything. Based on the ruling, the president may now murder anyone they want - just so long as they claim it’s an official act.
- Comment on Have you ever had a phone call interrupted by a 3rd party voice saying "this call is being recorded"? 4 months ago:
No, being the asshole is expecting other people to be recorded for your benefit - without first telling them so that they can consent. And then blaming Google for it.
- Comment on Have you ever had a phone call interrupted by a 3rd party voice saying "this call is being recorded"? 4 months ago:
You are correct, you have the right to be an asshole.