AnimalsDream
@AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 weeks ago:
Came in to say this. Bean chocolate!
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 weeks ago:
Part of an overall concerning trend, but as someone who decided to stop buying consoles years ago: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
Show me where any vegan has ever argued that these deaths are okay? Your argument is both a strawman and bad faith. It’s the equivalent of when people claim anticapitalists are hypocrites because they have no choice but to participate in the existing system to survive. Cheap.
Why are vegans in particular given blame for crop deaths, when it isn’t vegans who are doing the farming? We have veganic forms of agriculture that we advocate for, and practice in the case of veganic farmers and gardeners. But until that gains more traction all anyone can do is the best they can, with what they have access to - which is far less harmful and destructive than omnis.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
No, they’re really not. What is wrong with you?
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
See the problem is the same as people who think it’s still funny to joke about abusing women. Even ignoring the offensiveness, we’ve heard it already. A million times. It’s old, really old, really uncreative. Boring.
Just like the shitty, thoroughly debunked crop deaths regurgitation. If you’re going to try debating vegans, at least take a few minutes to do some basic research, cause you have no idea how repetitive this is for us.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
No animal-burgers are definitely disturbing if you can see past your own bias.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
Same. Plant-forward veggie burgers are great. Seitan is a revelation.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
Because the animal ag industries are some of the biggest sponsors of the republican party. Eating animal products is a great way to directly support fascism.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
Some do consider it vegan, same as the “freegan” subset. There’s even at least one influencer who is a bit infamous for it But there’s also a few problems with this line of reasoning. It still normalizes the idea of the consumption of animal products, so it’s a slippery slope at best. It’s also not scalable, as soon as probably even a modest proportion of people would adopt such a diet, demand would quickly start to surpass supply which would incentivise the artificial production of more road kill.
And then there’s just the why? of it. Like if we’re talking about extreme situations like starvation and poverty where there is literally no other choice, okay that would make sense. But otherwise, what is so wrong with eating plants that someone would go out of their way to eat carrion instead? With the likely putrefaction involved we are talking about literal self harm to avoid eating some good ol grains and beans.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
About on par with usual omni mental gymnastics.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
This is true, but it’s also true that the older gpl versions can’t be revoked.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
If you care about RetroAchievement support, this is what they support.
Beetle is the RetroArch core that’s most often recommended. If you don’t like RA (they have serious issues of their own), the Beetle core comes from the emulator Mednafen.
And the other main open-source option is PCSXR.
- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 1 month ago:
The main issue I’ve had is trying to share memes in that format via mms.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
So, going from Mealie’s instructions, having to learn how to work with Docker, whatever underlying server you’re working with, and a database system is easy 2-5 minutes?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Such as?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
A large part of it is the obnoxious monetization and general enshittification and privacy violations, but that’s not all. There are a number of usability annoyances. If I’ve been away from Discord for a little while and try to continue where I left off in a thread on a server, it never properly preserves where I last stopped reading. There are often times when I get notifications but it won’t actually take me to the relevant message, and that can even result in situations where the ping just gets lost entirely.
Then there’s things inherent in Discord’s design and how people use it. It’s become a tool that people have decided is a convenient replacement for chats, wikis, and forums - but it’s a shittier version of all of those things. Pinned messages are such a tucked away and half-baked feature. The fact that people are using Discord both to organize and discuss projects - as well as using that same space to host documentation or other critical knowledge-bases has made information significantly less accessible. I don’t want to join someone’s niche club just to “learn more.” If I want to read something I would rather just go to a wiki on the actual open web.
Discord is hot garbage ultimately for the same reasons as Facebook. It’s trying to be everything to everyone, and dropping a black box on the open web by doing so. It’s just another example of people trading convenience for actually using the appropriate tools for the kind of job they’re trying to do.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How so?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Isn’t everything a pain to selfhost?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sometimes, but my point is you don’t have to start from scratch. It’s free software. You are allowed to make extensions or even fork it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sure, go for it. Though XMPP has so many features at this point, it might already have Matrix, irc, Discord, and email for all we know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 1 month ago:
We really need to stop abandoning existing foss projects and thinking a whole new thing needs to be invented. Free and open-source software is not a product, it doesn’t abide by the same rules and relationships that proprietary tech does.
It’s more organic. It’s also a commons that we can continue to draw on, and reshape. If I recall correctly, there were something like three different vector graphic editors from the same codebase before Inkscape managed to be the one that gained traction.
Matrix isn’t perfect, but abandoning it just to reinvent it all over again just because some people really need a thing that works like Discord, even though Discord is absolute hot garbage; is just going to re-create all the same problems. Matrix today is better than it was two years ago. And Matrix in a year will be better from now.
- Comment on The night water 1 month ago:
I dunno, hearing him talk makes me feel like I’m being cursed.
- Comment on The night water 1 month ago:
Almost. Kind of more like:
w̴̝̉A̷̘͋t̸̨̊E̴͖̔ŗ̸͝ ̴̞͗l̵͉̍E̷͉͝f̵͙̄T̸̜̅ ̷̰̀i̷͙̿N̷͙̒ ̸̪͠a̸̪̐ ̵̪̑G̷̥̾l̷̜̑A̶̩͠s̵̟̿S̸̡̍ ̵̠̕o̷̙̓Ṽ̶̬e̴̲̕R̸͈̐ṇ̷͠I̸̝̾g̶̹̐H̶̛̪t̷̞̓ ̴͙̍T̶̜̊a̵̳͌S̵̩̈́t̵͊͜E̸͚̐ś̴̤ ̴̡̆B̸͎̌â̷̞D̶̳͐ ̵͕̌b̴̭͗Ë̵̟́c̵̮̆Ä̷́ͅu̵̹̾S̶̝͛e̷͚̓ ̷̠̆I̸̛̯ť̵̙ ̸͙͗G̶͎͐e̵̞̿T̷̬̕s̵̟̍ ̵̱͌H̸̡̉a̴̟͝Ǘ̸̞n̸̖̅Ṭ̷̎ḙ̴̽D̴̡̓
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
I don’t have plant-based grease, because I don’t eat foods high in saturated fats plant-based or not, and I almost never cook with oil (except for rare occasions like the popcorn with olive oil I had last night).
What exactly is unhinged and overdone about my comments?
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 months ago:
It’s a little weird that anyone still thinks a joke that was overdone 30 years ago, would do anything other than make you sound unhinged today. “Tell me not to do a thing that causes suffering, will you? Well what if I cause even more suffering then?!”
I dunno, cartoon villain isn’t a good look in real life.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
Yeah, tough call. It’s all just fucked.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
Lol, nobody is eating candy for the calcium, and there are better sources.
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
It’s less macabre than that.
“Ferdman found that one single McDonald’s patty can contain the meat of up to a shocking 100 cows.”
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
Right, and I’m just saying why expend so much energy on a Gordian knot, when there’s a much more effective, reasonable way to cut right through it? The puzzle is essentially saying, “how can I do a thing that is like the thing I’m trying to avoid doing.” Just do the thing! 😅
- Comment on Gelatine 2 months ago:
It is so disturbing that so many companies have been macabre enough to slip powdered bones into a product marketed at children.