otherwise you justify all kinds of “just following orders” arguments.

I’m not sure I’d equate having your hand forced with following orders blindly. It’s nearly impossible to change individuals’ behaviors unless it’s due to systemic forces (minus the few who just want to be correct as long as it is visible). But if you’re more focused on individuals and their “responsibility” even though they had no input on the creation of this system, I’d only assume that you’re fine with this system and would rather shout at the brick wall of “individual responsibility”, then get frustrated when people end up hating vegetarians and vegans. I’m like 90% vegetarian nowadays because I can’t really afford meat anyways as well as it giving me headaches and foul moods, but I don’t think you’re being realistic in what you’re asking. Would the world be better with no factory farming? Absolutely yes. But we’re in this situation not because of people’s choices. We’re in this situation because the choice has been made for a lot of us. Some people are a single paycheck away from homelessness, so they likely don’t have the resources to learn how to cook, then ruin a bunch of food in the learning process, only to overspend, and be threatened with getting kicked out all for your own comfort. Go fight the people making this the reality we’re living in.

There’s something to be said about the ease of access and personal energy needed to deal with changing a diet that has been inherited by birth where the alternative is possibly much more expensive. I don’t blame individuals who eat cheap meat out of necessity just as I don’t blame people for not recycling since the responsibility of the exploitation and destruction of our planet lies entirely with the people who run the machine, not those who are forced under threat of violence to exist inside it.

Shhh we’re not allowed to speculate on the reason for not wanting to poop for 3 days

Bandcamp might have been bought out by Epic Games, but the platform has given me magnitudes more money for my music than every other streaming platform combined.

We’re all bags of flesh that can be bruised and bloodied, even billionaires.

If someone brings Monopoly, the rule is that we have to introduce them to better board games.

My go-to board game for people who don’t want to sit through an hour of set up and another hour of rules explanations is Nightmare, a 1991 Australian VHS “horror” (read: cheesy) board game where you go around the board trying to collect keys enough to win the game. It’s not that fun mechanically, but it’s always a fun time with friends.

I mainly liked tmobile because I’d always get free in-flight wifi with american airlines, but I barely fly anymore. And now with the price increase with my legacy magenta plus plan, I might look elsewhere.

I just know we’ll find that damned Insulindian Phasmid soon

This lawyer doesn’t post the actual study referenced anywhere in that blog. After looking for the study, it seems to be referencing a quite limited series of tests in a YouTube video made by the Association for the Development of Motorcycling in Romania.

https://youtu.be/v9QTPyMJGgo

Sending bombs is actively participating

God I spent too much time playing Adventure Quest back in the day

Beer is a little tricky to compare with cocktails since beer can range from a little over 1% to 15% and cans are generally the same size. Though at a bar, specialty higher ABV beers do typically come in smaller size glasses.

Everything else you said seems pretty accurate though. Gotta always watch out for drinking things too fast before you know where your comfort levels are.

Leftists are anti-capitalist. Liberals support capitalism. Republicans and Democrats have more in common than liberals and leftists. Would you call a debate between trump and biden infighting?

You overestimate how much power you have in this situation. We don’t get to pull the lever. The choices given to us have been approved by the same people who are tying people to the tracks.

You are either tied up to the track or shoveling coal into the trolly’s furnace.

Liberals getting angry at leftist isn’t infighting, it’s just regular fighting.

So the correction would be that republicans fall in love and fall in line while democrats do neither?

You can’t get out of a hostage situation by making out with either of the two bank robbers.

Rights are proclaimed and fought for by the marginalized, not gracefully given by our rulers. If you put so much emphasis on which group of tyrants to vote for, you’ll never think “maybe I should become a Stormé DeLarverie and actually make a difference”

There’s Meshtastic/LORA if you also like getting yelled at by airport security lol

Idk DeepSeek probably just stores things in the history of my Terminal window.