where can I move to

they can both be witchy.

might be bigot-rocks, but it could just be cheese. We should send some witchy astronauts up to double-check :)

sounds like we’re in agreement

idk, I’m not them. I convey explain their feelings with any justice.

okay, yes, I agree, but your mesh is poor in the point you were making. It’s not transphobic to say that society is misogynistic if it makes life hard for people with afab anatomy. And uh… that the moon is oppressing women too I guess? What were we even talking about…

in other news, you’re not racist if you only oppress 98% of black people but allow a small number through.

Yeah, definitely true for the Texas parade. I know somebody who is ashamed of being straight though, so there probably could exist an earnest straight pride community. What there is definitely not a need for is a straight lib movement.

you must be mistaking me for user gandalf_der_12te, earlier in this thread.

There is a straight pride movement. Wasn’t there a heterosexual pride parade in Texas last month or something?

Okay so I must be in the minority, but I don’t feel any particular pathos for these billions of slaughtered animals. Seeing myriads of baby chicks ground into dust doesn’t really move me in the slightest. Just understanding that the farm industry causes intense, agonizing, slow deaths for billions if not trillions of creatures every year is enough for me to understand its morally imperative to not consume the vast majority of animal products. Bentham’s Bulldog has been quite moving for me.

Yesterday I decided to stop buying honey after reading his article about how honey plausibly causes orders of magnitude more suffering than everything else. I’m also vegetarian, and I have replaced most of the dairy in my diet with plant-based alternatives. I still haven’t eliminated cheese and eggs from my diet though. For cheese it’s because I don’t think there’s good evidence the cheese I buy causes any agony in particular, but eggs is the next step for me.

No, why?

Given the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it’s certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.

Possible, but they’ll probably have to actually try somebody for a capital offense before people are legitimately scared of capital punishment.

well, they have someone in the oval office, so they already have legitimacy. I think we’re well past one-nazi-walks-into-a-bar by now.

They were able to take away the legitimacy of “woke” instead of avoiding using it to deny its legitimacy. Worked for them, might work for us.

Ontop of that, factory farming is a lovecraftian horror that floods the universe with terrible agony. And there’s very good reason to believe that the suffering of animals is as real and awful as yours or mine.

yeah, this is why I’m #fuck-ai to be honest.

Protect the children is basically always cover for something sinister. If there were easy gains to be made protecting children without sacrificing some critical personal liberties like privacy, I think those gains would have already been made.

Anyway I agree with you that everything is really bad, especially for queer people who are now a scapegoat. Or, just a target of hate with no particular scape in mind, I guess. But it’s rather detrimental to make stuff up (i.e. about this specific law) to make things look worse than they are. You have already shown you have dozens of actual established facts with the links you’ve posted, that show things are really bad and getting worse. If you want to speculate that the death penalty is coming, that’s fine, just please be clear that it’s an inference, not present-day reality.

The notion that AI is half-ready is a really poignant observation actually. It’s ready for select applications only, but it’s really being advertised like it’s idiot-proof and ready for general use.

may well be a Gell-Mann amnesia simulator when used improperly.