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Eating meat is not inherently wrong, raping is.

Life consumes other life to live. Humans have evolved to eat meat, we are living beings, a part of this planet just like a lion or hawk.

The lives we must take to live, whether they are plant, animal, or both, were not decided by us but by nature. Killing and eating to live is the only moral reason one has to harm another living being. This is not nice, it's just nature. Does the wild boar chased to it's death by a tiger not suffer a cruel death? Does that make the tiger evil?

Animal Agriculture and Massive Human Populations

Our modern animal agriculture industry is what's wrong, it is disgusting and evil and treats conscious beings as objects indifferent to their suffering. But feeding 8 billion people can only be accomplished using an industrial food industry.

The answer is not trying to turn 8 billion people into vegans, that is simply not going to happen. Rather, we should be striving to reduce our numbers and change culture to respect animals and their sacrifice for our food.

One of the more effective ways to do that are to eat like a "flexitarian" and reduce the amount of dependence on the animal agriculture industry. The other key way to reduce animal suffering is not something an individual has control over -- to have a human population that is not grotesquely oversized for the environment.

Our species has no entitlement to grow to maximum size and kill other beings to support this unnecessary growth. The Haber-Bosch process effectively caused human eutrophication, an imbalance, and like the overgrown algae causing fish kills in lakes, our numbers are causing the unnecessary death of a great many species in our environment and will lead to ecological failure if not taken care of. The solution to eutrophication in a lake is stop the overflow of nutrients.

While it's possible in modern times for a person to live on a vegan diet, it's not a normal, not healthy without significant effort and education, or more moral.

There will never be a time when no humans eat meat. Therefore, we should strive to reduce the suffering required to sustain our own life. Eating flexitarian is a highly practical way to do this. If an individual is willing to sacrifice their health and/or work to gain the knowledge required to be healthy without consuming animals at all (i.e. be vegan) then good for them, but this cannot be expected to occur globally.

ls is bloat, real Linux users just need echo.

echo *

Technically CD quality digital is superior, but the recording and mixing can have a lot to do with it. For example, it could be that an decades old Dark Side Of The Moon on vinyl (played on proper equipment) could sound better than a modern remastered CD with maximized loudness (See the "loudness wars").

IMHO popular culture is not popular because it's the best, it's because of some combination of corruption and being the "lowest common denominator". Popular culture is cultural detritus and Facebook is a prime representation of it.

Another way is to add urine to compost and use the compost.

Wow nice one! I don't think anyone outside of Gentoo or LFS would even go there.

This deserves some sort of funniest Linux problem award.

That's fine, I don't trust Google anyways. Any real backing up or archiving of internet culture can't be done for profit or it will be shut down when not profitable or enshitified.

Maybe the rich are starting to see Bentley means "bring the guillotine over here!"

Robot Jox

Slave labor force here we come! Whips are so last millennium, the whip is a chip now.

Can you please stop peeing everywhere?

Right, organization does not require authority, it requires coordination. Authority's only purpose is to coerce other's behavior, this is what is to be avoided in an anarchist society.

Anarchism can still have leaders, but they would lead voluntary teams because they are respected and capable of coordination, not because they are powerful.

Ah interesting, could def see that happening.

I suppose, these words are so nebulous. I understand socialism as needing a state and (real, not authoritarian) communism as being incompatible with a state.

I guess we have a different definition of failure, at least when it comes to "socialist" states like China, Russia, and N. Korea.

Anarcho-syndicalism has some good things going for it, it could be part of a solution. I don't know why everyone assumes I am naive to all these ideas, I just don't fit in the little leftist boxes people made for us last century that the right already has formulas to defeat.

I looked into it in detail enough to know what I need to know. I also didn't read Mein Kampf, should I read that before deciding I don't agree with fascism or is it enough to know that fascism fundamentally harms people and it doesn't matter what Mein Kampf says?

... reformist position Marx painstakingly disproved the viability of over 150 years ago

Disproved to you maybe, these are not facts. The bible proves things to Christians, they are wrong too.

A Labyrinth game with well endowed Goblin King and a Bog of Eternal Stench and doors that give you riddles.

Ya, I think the key lesson is: Don't get your health information from the news, your health is not their goal.

Why do you assume I don't know these ideas just because I don't agree with you? I am familiar with all of that, maybe not at your level, but enough to know I disagree fundamentally with the methods even if our compassion may be in common. I've talked with enough tankies that "burning it all down" is an apt enough description. War tends to do that.

There is nothing I could read that would convince me that massive authoritarian power structures put in place by war are the way to a stable sustainable peaceful future, the same way nothing I could read would make me believe in santa claus.