NaevaTheRat [she/her] @ NaevaTheRat @vegantheoryclub.org

Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.

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Sharpening stones.

you need an edge so many times in your life. When you're using scissors, slicing veggies, pruning trees, harvesting mushrooms, posting online, mowing grass, carving wood, cutting roots, trimming nails, scraping stoves/ovens, shaving, digging, trimming, pealing whatever.

There are so many dumb fancy arse awful tools that butcher edges and work in one specific case. No! For millenia people have been grinding edges, it is not difficult to learn it just takes practice.

Modern manufacturing means we can enjoy extremely consistent stones in well characterised grades. Go use some, and enjoy how much less effort life requires when everything that cuts, cuts easily.

Are people surprised by this?

Aussie privacy law is a joke

And lots, and lots, of painstakingly collected data to measure against

Not even but like literally this country. There's less justification for the Australian government to claim sovereignty here. When you look at how aboriginal Aussies are treated, by the legal system and the health system for example, it's hard to argue it isn't genocide of a minority who have a claim to this land.

I get so frustrated at how, meaningful issues about the dubious actions of nation states are justified under international law become political theatre for power struggles.

Basically all large nations have peoples that want to split, but because international law requires nations to recognise a people before they get the protection of the law nobody properly does it as everyone could say "ok, you first". International law is important, it lets us resolve conflicts without war and somewhat check superpowers. Reducing it to farce is a tragedy.

Is mass spec hard to explain? Zapy deflecty binny county correlatey.

I sincerely hope that this wave of anti assimilation centered around China manifests as a universal view that peoples have the right to break away from states.

Like holy shit to I hope for a future where states crumble and fragment, where indigenous Aussies can claim the red center (at least), the Catalonians and Basque people can break away etc.

International law is so strongly biased in states favour (because they make it) I would absolutely fucking love for anti Chinese sentiment to manifest as actual fucking consistent viewpoints.

Yep. They have just as much right to live as you. Find other options, I'm sure you can.

And yet almost everyone I've ever shown slaughterhouse footage to did not change at all.

I think that has more to do with being seen to do a thing or not. Nobody is actually stupid enough to just forget what is involved from one moment to the next.

There's a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?

How is a meal different to a trophy or a photograph? Or even just the memory of the killing.

Why not? It's not necessary, right, healthy, or environmentally friendly. What reason is left but pleasure? you eat steak instead of tofu to pass the time more pleasantly, no different from someone whaling or shooting rhinos

My mistake, I forgot that paying hitmen absolved you of moral responsibility.

I will never understand how something like 96% of the population kills for pleasure but thinks hunting for pleasure is wrong.

100% read it. I think most things aren't "must reads" even my favourite stories, but some have such unique ideas or skillful execution that if you enjoy literature you owe it to yourself to read them.

There's obviously a very large list, I suggested some I didn't think would be represented here. The dispossessed is a short read and uncomplex in its construction and pros so it's easy to squeeze in a chapter here and there or before bed.

Idk if you will agree it's a must read, that's obviously quite subjective, but I highly doubt you'll find the time you spent with it unsatisfying.

Unlike tissue paper yaml is actually fit for purpose. I actually don't know of any lang that literally can't run a program. The most you could stretch what you're saying to is that some esolangs are akin to making bricks of packed tissues to build with. They are art projects not serious submissions though.

I don't like js as much as anyone else but as evidenced by reality it works. Programmers need to stop sniffing their own farts, you have such strong opinions about the most insane shit when at most you should be talking about narrower scopes for use and trade offs.

Ursula Le Guin's the dispossessed is pretty impactfull. Very confronting anarchist utopia that is not a Paradise.

The lions of al rassan by guy gavriel Kay (worked on the silmarillion). A deeply melencholic fictional reflection on the reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.

The liveship traders by Robin Hobb has the best realised characters in fiction I've ever seen. Jaw dropping craft.

And finally, an entire shelf of book: The malazan book of the fallen. you will laugh, you will cry, and in the end you will love compassion.

Hey would you rather build from wood or steel?

What glue is better: 2 part epoxy or PVA?

Do you prefer soap or bleach as cleaning agent?

Pleased to have touched your life with levity, stranger.

That is absolute nonsense. Where does the idea that the nastiest expression of desires is the truest come from? It's a completely absurd and unverifiable idea.

People do stuff, putting people in power over others tends to result in the people doing worse stuff. The variable we can tweak here is the power.

Programmers hate everything. You could design a spec which serenades you with angel song and feeds you chocolate dipped grapes and someone would be like: This is awful, my usecase is being a dog.

Teenagers after rolling in yellow #5 at a party.

Fuck yeah topical reference