Realistically I’ll have to look into this before trusting a random comment and I probably wont because it’s half the world away from me and he’s dead anyway.

I am sure there is some subtly in personal culpability though because between Mao and peasants killing birds was a whole bureaucracy that evidentally thought it was worth doing (and idk how much is slavish obedience/fear).

Temujin personally killed a lot of people. Like personally ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and his overall campaign was ~10% of human population at the time an estimated 40 million, which seems to be comparable to famine figures even if we personally blame both of them. Dude was a certified maniac and I think that especially given the overall lower population at the time and deliberate murderous intentions stands as histories greatest monster and most murderous person.

Like personally? I often feel like attributing famines solely to one person is a bit messed up, although there are cases like Bengal where specific government individuals were enthusiastic .

The party later distanced themselves from him somewhat, so presumably they thought his ideas could be improved on but I had thought a lot of china and USSR famines rested on really dumb ideas about industrial agriculture that were popular in many places + officials hiding bad numbers + desperate need to show immediate superiority of alledgedly better numbers + upheavals of massive civil was and ww2.

temujin? who claims he’s leftist?

Yeah but you understand the difference between the state and the people who lived there right? Like Jewish settlers came from Europe, to the place Palestinian people were and had been living in.

They have a connection to the state of Palestinian (inasmuch as it exists given differing degrees of recognition) by way of having moral rights to continue living on the land they live on regardless of what some lines on a map call it.

Me approaching Foss developer with bug: Pardon me, if you could grace this lowly worm with but a moment of your attention; I with me a bug report, and I believe I have found the section of code responsible. This inadequate being lacks the technical expertise to fix it and would be eternally indebted if you would turn your monumental skills upon its trifling problems. It would please me immensely if my paltry efforts were of some assistance.

This user: SOFTWARE NO WORK FUCK YOU!

There are kill shelters because shelters that never kill won’t take or pass on to kill shelters the dogs with broken legs that’ll live in pain, the dogs with health issues nobody wants to pay to treat, the dogs that have been mistreated to the point of fearful aggression, the dogs that are aesthetically undesirable, the old dogs etc

Nobody working in a rescue wakes up and says “gee golly! I sure am looking forward to killing a dog today”

Hell I have a rescued greyhound next to me right now, and no matter how many I adopted there would still be mass graves of them because they only race fast when young.

Are they harmful? why do we remove them? is it just conformance based or are there actual good reasons?

What do you mean? eating dogs is a personal choice. Like ok you find them cute or whatever but like pigs are smarter and humans have canines so what ground can you stand on?

I enjoy a nice deep fried dog leg ok? cope harder.

Don’t be an arse. Active sonar can be pretty dangerous, using it when animals are in the water is risky a.f.

The flag a ship is flying doesn’t change that it’s a pointlessly dangerous thing to do.

flat beats Phillips you Philistine! sure it’s not self centering but at least you can torque it and it’s compatible with improvised tools.

GPT creates plausible looking sentences, it has no concept of truth or anything like that. Since if you have an “an” it’s overwhelmingly likely that the next word will begin with a vowel it will choose one which plausibly fits with the corpus of text that came before. Likewise for an “a”.

There is no compromise in ability. It doesn’t have anything to “say” or whatever. What it produces is more like nonsense poetry than speech.

arch is basic. It’s just minimalise by default.

It has an amazing wiki, extremely active and helpful user forums, and an installer (i think now) or at least a massively helpfully customised shell for initial setup.

you can install arch and make it look like mint or whatever easily, then the only difference is pacman and the amazing AUR

which should be really easy given there will be all the people free and not rounded up on camps with limited expression

Something can be both sad and funny.

Like it really sucks for the victims but it’s also darkly hilarious that every single time these libertariany scammy I’m smarter than everyone types do a thing they get an abject lesson in why communities have like safety rules and “red tape”.

You’re definitely on the right side of things when you silence people calling out genocides.

You know how people put spices on meat because they want it to taste more like plants?

sometimes people want to put spices on vegetable protein in order to make it taste more like meat, or fill a similar role in a dish.

People who avoid meat because killing pointlessly is wrong don’t hate the taste. It’s as weird as being like “people on a diet shouldn’t make healthy desserts, they should appreciate low calorie veggie bowls for what they are”

The V word makes people go nuts because they know they ought to be.

Notice how nobody is flipping out about my preference for people unfraid of getting their hands dirty, or imagine if I had written Buddhist. Would anyone have replied that it’s a red flag for them or written weird fantasies about anti Buddhist violence?

It upsets people because we all know killing animals is wrong. It’s easy and it’s tasty though. We tell ourselves it’s ok because everyone else is, but then a vegan comes along and the illusion shatters.

Earthlings are all of us, all sentient beings. We are from earth, we are the earthlings.

Like not just plowing through birds foraging, or lizards sunbaking, or ants doing a nuptial flight or whatever.

Considering others’ right to use space equal to their own.

I’m not going to hide my values. They’re not shameful

I’m not a saint. If people are going to try and hurt me I’m going to ridicule them.

Go audit what that person has said.

Besides maybe I’m a piece of shit, there’s no guarrantee I fulfill my own green flags.

I actually frequently identify myself as a human garbage fire, which is funny really. Like I am a human garbage fire and even I am vegan, so what does that make non vegans?