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- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 days ago:
If the advanced aliens had the control over us that we exert over animals then I wouldn’t have a choice. And whether I fight or not isn’t relevant to their choice to farm me. If anything it’s in their best interest to keep me healthy and content until I’m harvested.
You keep avoiding the moral implications here because you know the argument is bs. If some groups of people mass bred and slaughtered monkeys or dogs on an industrial scale would you not care, because they don’t have a choice? It would be the same as your example, without the alien hypotheticals.
A medical procedure could return them to normal function
The disconnect between the logical, robotical analysis in the first case and the childish, optimistic look here really just highlights the compartmentalization you have to go through for a “coherent” position.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 days ago:
If ultra-advanced aliens showed up tomorrow and started domesticating humans for food or some other purpose, I would have the default expectation of them having the same or similar morals. Maybe we’d get access to decent healthcare and good libraries before we went to the slaughterhouse
I can’t believe you said this with a straight face. This is the depths of depravity and mental gymnastics that a non vegan philosophical position leads to. I’m also sure that if this actually happened, you would throw your logic in the trash, where it belongs, and you would fight for the liberation of the slaughtered race.
Do you want to extend the argument to a person who is in a permanent comatose state? By your definition, they are without “higher levels of thought and expression”. Is it cool to eat them?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Schrodinger’s left: small enough for Dems to ignore, large enough to make Dems lose
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 1 week ago:
Palantir’s UK division is headed by Oswald Mosley’s grandson
Some things really never change
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
English teachers hat this one simple trick!
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 1 week ago:
Has anyone here actually tried the app? The first (and thankfully last) time I tried it, it was full of nazis and actual CSAM. Maybe too censorship resistant for its own good??
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 week ago:
Like a lot of these big, consolidated, years long projects, the real work is maintenance. The rest is just a bunch of people desperately trying to improve obscure KPIs by 1%
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 week ago:
I’m sure tech companies will fight really hard to protect their users from a fascist government /s
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It’s pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, some of them can be launched directly from the exe without the steam client, or with some modifications to the game files.
Here’s a list of DRM free games: pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Stea…
Also it’s kind of silly how people automatically blame Steam for this, even though Valve does not force you to use DRM to publish to Steam. It is the developers themselves that chose to add DRM or tie themselves to the Steam API so that the game can’t run without it.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to 5 star it! This author’s stuff is brilliant: Forbidden Loveseat: A JD Vance & Usha Novel
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 weeks ago:
No, it wasn’t. It just needs content moderation. There’s zero reason for a Palestinian guy to platform white supremacists.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 weeks ago:
I tried it for an hour or so and it’s absolutely filled with Nazis. One of them was criticizing Elon Musk and Trump for not being nazi enough. No thanks.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 weeks ago:
In case it wasn’t obvious, you have to be pretty fucking stupid to install surveillance in your own house linked to tech corporations, with your own money, while making them a profit.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 5 weeks ago:
For software developers Linux was and is the superior choice. For media based professions (video editing, digital art etc.) there’s still a long way to go. There’s way more choice on Windows and not everything works smoothly through Wine
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure the patch was something super important like shoving more Microslop Copilot in your face, making Copilot OS even slower, and using Copilot to spy on you better
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 5 weeks ago:
Most of the White House accounts were boosted by freshly created accounts. They got flagged in multiple lists immediately after joining and their engagement went to hell. After that, they got bored and went back to the nazi platform. Good moderation tools for the community helps.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 5 weeks ago:
The excellent article in question: propublica.org/…/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-ne…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Unsurprising that capitalists want to seize all the means of computation for themselves.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 month ago:
Copilot Firefox Downloader
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
Lol, give these people a real fucking job.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026 1 month ago:
The problem with the AVIF change is that the default lemmy web client doesn’t recognize avif as an embeddable image, so when you click on it, it opens the image in the new URL, instead of zooming it to full size like a jpeg. This tanks any engagement you get on images, since people are less likely to click on links than open an image.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Clair Obscur is not indie by any definition of the term. I don’t even know why it was even considered at all.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 2 months ago:
I haven’t updated my LG TV in over 2 years. I just know it’s going to be some useless shit that just makes it worse with more ads and AI
- Comment on Why? 2 months ago:
It’s also because Lemmy’s sorting algorithms are much better. On Reddit, if you’re more than 6 hours late to a post, comments won’t get any interaction.
You can tell Lemmy is written by socialists, with upvotes being much more evenly distributed and less focused on the top 5% going viral.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 3 months ago:
Matushka, can we have robots at home? No, we already have robots at home. Robots at home:
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
Exactly. The performance to price ratio is much better for ARM. The only barrier to adoption is compatibility, but they seem to have a decent emulation layer for that.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
This could be huge for ARM adoption on PC. Exciting stuff!
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
Didn’t Steam already have some home console like hardware a few years ago? That flopped so badly I don’t even remember the name