I use the concept of "vectors", but it's basically what you're saying. Floors are a primary vector, clean floors will help keep other things clean. Another example, you can think of say e-coli on your kitchen counter and see your cat as a vector for the e-coli to get from the litter box to the counter. Oh, dirty hands are another huge one.
In this case it is. Cannabis laws globally were influenced, often coerced by the U.S., so the race issues that made cannabis illegal here affected much of the world for decades and still does.
My answer to the OP's question, I think alcohol fits in a capitalist society better than cannabis. Same with caffeine and nicotine. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are addictive, (caffeine arguably also facilitates labor), and don't tend to cause pondering one's place in the world, etc.
Production is about using the best tool for the job
I find this attitude kinda simplistic and problematic. This attitude applied elsewhere can be used as justification for all sorts of terrible things, I don't know why it should get a pass in tech. Sometimes the best tool for the job is produced by an evil company you want to boycott. Sometimes the best tool causes lots of collateral damage or harm, or has potential to lock you into an ecosystem. Maybe you want to support the growth of other tools and are willing to sacrifice some performance.
Even if only profit is considered, I think it's reasonable for a company to conclude that open source software is inherently better due to reasons that go beyond immediate utility and profit making potential by thinking longer term.
Ya, grass isn't inherently a bad thing. A lawn where I live in some serious desert is grotesquely wasteful, an appreciated lawn in other regions not so bad.
It's not the grass, it's capitalism. It's the eradication of native species for profit, and the spreading of fossil fuel derived fertilizers and poisons to support conspicuous consumption (real-estate values, golf, keeping up with the Joness, etc) that is problematic.
We currently have hundreds of millions of people suffering food insecuring now according to the UN, if we can't feed everyone now, how do you propose to ensure they eat vegan and have adequate vitamin 12.
It's a logistical impossibility in our current global order. I want starving people to get food, my relatively rich ass has no place telling starving people that their food is immoral.
did you notice the "or simiar" part? That meant if you're from somewhere where you're wealthy enough to by vitamin supplements and do stuff like use the internet to post to Lemmy you're way ahead of much of the world who do not have access to these things.
No, most non-progressive dems would qualify as being disingenuous. The progressive ones that still call themselves dems aren't right wing, they're naive.
Tankies and their ilk don't understand the concept of "worse". They are only intelligent enough to understand "Biden means genocide, can't vote for him", anything outside that thought is beyond their capacity.
I mean, what do you expect from people who think that strategies that failed 100 years ago are somehow going to work now in a totally different world?
Because as we move into the future with a larger population and worse environmental destruction, the stakes become greater.
Because we've been on the verge of losing our democracy for a couple decades now. I'm almost 50, we've been on the verge since the presidency was taken from Al Gore. It was not this way before that in my lifetime.
You think one election is going to take a nation on the brink to being in safe harbors? This is a battle for democracy that occurs over multiple elections, why is that so hard to understand? You can only repeat what your friends say?
There’s one big flaw in your logic; humans don’t need to eat meat
We can survive and with significant effort and education some can even thrive without meat in modern times with B12 supplementation. What you might be able to do as a wealthy American or similar cannot be expected of the rest of the world.
We are living beings driven to reproduce, some more than others obviously.
Because that is the cultural plan we are trained to follow. You, like me, probably live in a capitalist society, everything about our existence is for the enrichment of our rulers, so that means the more you and your kids generate, the more there is for our rulers to take from us.
Never let anyone denigrate you as lazy. "Lazy" people are not the ones destroying the planet.
I use the concept of "vectors", but it's basically what you're saying. Floors are a primary vector, clean floors will help keep other things clean. Another example, you can think of say e-coli on your kitchen counter and see your cat as a vector for the e-coli to get from the litter box to the counter. Oh, dirty hands are another huge one.