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- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 days ago:
Then those indigenous people need to figure out their morals. Chances are, they are embedded in a context where this is a lot easier, because they don’t have factory farming. They are part of the food network and take only as much as nature can recover.
You want me to be the arbiter of all morals? Well, there’s my take. Indigenous people hunting are not the problem. Other parts of the hivemind might have a different view on that, though, and I’m not gonna apologize for their take.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 2 days ago:
Yeah, the complaint isn’t so much that we should be talking about rape all the time, but rather that we should stop shaming consensual sex.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 days ago:
Well, I hope you are happy with the answers you already got, because my answer is that I personally don’t care to keep these items, so I don’t have much of an opinion on it. 😎
That’s kind of the point I was trying to make up there, that I don’t have to be the arbiter of all morals, just my own morals…
But if you want to keep such trinkets and you feel like you’ve informed yourself enough to know that no harm is done to these animals, and that makes you decide that it is moral, I will gladly accept your decision.
If I learn that it does harm in some way, I would let you know, though. Not to attack you, but because I would assume that you want to do no evil. And that you don’t subscribe to thehorseshitbelief that your own ignorance of evil makes it moral.I feel like I really need to drive home that veganism is when you care, but you’re also lazy. I don’t want to have to inform myself about every supply chain for my food and every possible moral effect that my actions might have. So, I just nope the fuck out of a large chunk of that by not dealing with animal-sourced products.
Like, yeah, if a bird drops a feather in front of you, the supply chain is quite obvious and I would hope you don’t set off a trend of enough people wanting feathers in their homes for there to emerge an industry.
So, it’s almost certainly fine. But if I myself don’t actually want a feather, you can bet your ass that I will gladly stop thinking right then and there.
If these were not just random examples and rather genuine questions, then I would try to help you reason through it, but ultimately the decision is yours…
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 2 days ago:
I guess, they might not be talking about individuals, but rather humanity as a whole. So, if a person rapes someone and this becomes publicly known, they will generally be shamed more than a woman having consensual sex (even though some rapists also get to be president, I guess).
But across the board, we have insults that every kid knows, which equate to “woman having (consensual) sex bad”, as well as gossip of the like, and even men being shamed for going out with a woman who has sex.
Compared to that, rape is a rarely talked about… - Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 days ago:
Veganism isn’t a hivemind. We’re all individuals that came to similar conclusions. And we will have different opinions on the details.
Some folks will say consuming those that died naturally is a-ok. Others will argue that it incentivizes creating conditions under which animals die “naturally” to harvest them.
Personally, I’m part of the group that is probably the largest by a long shot, whose opinion is: Why are we even thinking about that?The vast majority of vegans find corpses gross, much like anything you might derive from corpses.
It also seriously does not happen often, that animals drop dead in front of you. And there’s nothing on an animal’s body that you can’t find a different alternative for. So, it really just is not a relevant question in our lives… - Comment on Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use 4 days ago:
I am still wondering whether vibe coding will really get folks excited about programming. It is a way to create stuff, so I can see folks getting excited about vibe coding by itself. But making the jump from there to programming seems like it would be frustrating, since you would need to start over with small projects to have any chance at learning the basics.
And yeah, for now I do not believe that vibe coding will displace programming, because natural language is in many ways just a worse way to formulate logic.
It’s like going through a translator to talk to someone in another language. It works for simple instructions and to some degree, you can have the translator explain a more general concept, like how to get to a specific place, without you needing provide every detail, but:- You can only guess what instructions the translator actually provides.
- If the result isn’t as expected, e.g. the person doesn’t show up at the described place, then it is nigh impossible to find out which part of the instructions were wrong. Both because you don’t understand the instructions, but because you might not know the way either.
- And it is just a less efficient way to communicate than when you know the other person’s language.
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 6 days ago:
Ah, I thought that “they” referred to ad corporations…
- Comment on Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode 6 days ago:
Auto-clicking ads to fuck up metrics is already a thing: adnauseam.io
- Comment on Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online. 1 week ago:
Yeah, most errors occur somewhere in a library that you use (because libraries typically do the actual heavy lifting) and in the vast majority of cases, it will give you a (English) string describing what went wrong.
If you can just slap that string into the final error message (or at least into logging), that is so much easier and more helpful than pretending you could possibly assign an error code to each such error case.
- Comment on Save us!!! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my immediate thought was “Why would anyone voluntarily listen to this song?” and it had nothing to do with the quality of the song.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 2 weeks ago:
I’m saying spray-mop the floor once a week and you’ll take most of the dust out of that room before it settles on harder-to-clean surfaces, which reduces how often you need to clean shelves, plants etc…
Most dust in a typical household is from shed skin cells, from either humans or pets. And I do imagine that most shed skin cells just fall onto the floor at first and can be collected there.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found that regularly wiping the floors helps quite a bit. You don’t have to be super thorough, just reduce the amount of dust in the room.
Not sure, if vacuuming would work similarly well, since it kicks dust into the air, which can settle on surfaces again…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Alright, yeah, we’re talking about a pH value of around 8 for alkaline water. That’s also the pH value for eggs, sea water or blood. So, I do imagine our mouth+esophagus can deal with that. At the very least, alkaline water should be food-safe.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
The body doesn’t care much about alkaline water, since the stomach acid is so acidic that it will easily overpower it…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
She did the math (with some assumptions), but basically 0.25 mL of lemon juice will turn 500 mL of alkaline water into neutral water:
Image This is in the video at 13:16.
The reason is that pH is a logarithmic scale. Alkaline water has a pH of about 8, whereas lemon acid is at 2. That means lemon acid has 1,000,000 times more hydrogen atoms.
Lemon juice isn’t pure lemon acid, so that’s why you do still need 0.25 mL (rather than just a millionth of 500 mL). - Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 3 weeks ago:
Dried lentils don’t need to be pre-soaked, but I prefer to cook them separately and drain the water they boil in.
Pre-soaking lentils (and pouring the water away) makes them easier to digest, in particular it makes them bloat you less.
farmhouseguide.com/benefits-of-soaking-lentils/
An exception are dehulled lentils, like red lentils. They don’t need pre-soaking and are quicker to cook, too. I often throw red lentils into the cooking water with my noodles or rice, just to add some protein into the meal.
- Comment on Show your pride 3 weeks ago:
What also surprised me is that the speed difference depending on medium is actually quite substantial. For example, glass has a refractive index of about 1.5.
So, the speed of light in glass is c/1.5 ≈ 200.000 km/s, i.e. 66% of the speed of light in vacuum.
- Comment on Scientific explanation 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the exponent threw me for quite a loop, too. Had me wondering what kind of formula you used to get Euler’s Number involved. 🙃
- Comment on Fictional 4 weeks ago:
As I understand, the speed of light in vacuum is bound by the speed of causality. So, light would go at infinite speed, if it could (it being massless means any acceleration should result in infinite speed), but instead it goes as fast as the universe allows, which is the speed of causality.
- Comment on return 2 krebs 4 weeks ago:
Nah, the guy who discovered it was called Hans Krebs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Krebs_(biochemist)
- Comment on return 2 krebs 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: “Krebs” is German for “crab”.
- Comment on YSK about Wikimedia Commons - a wiki-style media repository of freely licensed files 4 weeks ago:
It’s a logo commonly used for political movements: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
- Comment on Appropriate compliance 4 weeks ago:
There’s cardboard envelopes which often don’t fit into mailboxes, but might not be completely obvious under the doormat?
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, for me it’s not even just the creative freedom, but an actual fuzzy feeling that me and the devs are having fun together. Open-source games also hold a special place in my heart for that reason, no matter how scrungy they are.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I might be showing my age, but my interpretation of “a better game” was right away “a more fun game”, which got followed up with the thought: Did it make them more fun?
I feel like we had fun figured out pretty well in the last century already. And in many ways, the higher specs are used to add realism and storytelling, which I know many people enjoy in their own way, but they’re often at odds with fun, or at least sit between the fun parts of a game.
Like, man, I watched a video of the newest Pokémon game and they played for more than an hour before the tutorial + plot exposition was over. Practically no fun occurred in that first hour.
Just imagine putting coins into an arcade cabinet and the first hour is an utter waste of time. You’d ask for your money back. - Comment on Mom they're fighting again 5 weeks ago:
I just ate wholemeal rice and still would not have guessed rice. 🥴
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
I was overplaying it for comedic effect. 🙃
My mum makes fruit salad with oranges, apples, bananas and then adds in apple juice to make it blend well.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 5 weeks ago:
To be honest, I’ve noticed that with lots of foods. I know what the thing looks like in stores, but I have no idea what it’s like in nature.
Cashews were another recent one, where I never would have guessed what they look like:
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
Excuse me, it’s smoothies that are an abomination, if anything.
You’ve got beautiful fruit where each bite tastes and feels different, which have long fibers with structural integrity to prevent your stomach from ingesting the sugar all at once, and then you decide:
Nah, I’d rather have fruit soup, where the whole thing just has a singular monotonous taste. And where there’s nothing to chew. Just sign me up for the retirement home now.
