poopkins @ poopkins @lemmy.world

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Interesting read, thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I personally think that in many ways, we do simply choose to eat meat. I'm vegetarian, and even by avoiding some animal products like milk and eggs, I find that since doing so since my early thirties it has had no impact on my health whatsoever. My iron and vitamin levels are fine and in checkups my blood work always looks good.

Are you my alter ego? I feel exactly the same way!

In many subreddits that I used to follow, there was that kind of healthy banter. I genuinely appreciated that there was a community where the collective mindset was to encourage constructive conversation, even if the content of the discussion wasn't something you'd necessarily agree with.

Looking back, I appreciate how much effort it must have taken to create and foster that space. Lemmy is unfortunately, from my experience, a much more toxic place. It would be great to see the majority of readers adopt a mentality of voting based on discourse. I know that I try to do my part…

Lovely, so your rebuttal is that not only is my emotion wrong but my software sucks, too. I would suggest putting yourself in my shoes and envisioning what a shitty thing that is to say.

To offer a bit of background: the clone my game published itself on Google Play with ads removed. Aside from simply the confusion of a game with verbatim the same name, this further entices users to install it, because Google Play displays a label when an app contains ads.

What is the worth to a user? This is a terrific question, and I have spent years narrowing down the right valuation of ad content and in-app purchase pricing to remove ads. The game currently has 15M historical installs with fairly industry standard retention rates, so it can't be completely off. But the thing is, that valuation will always be higher than 0.

So where does the steal come from? The cloned app only offered the ad-free experience long enough to gather enough installs, to then revert the change with a swapped out AdMob account number.

I think most of this has been offset by that change now as I've seen a similar growth return to my app. But those losses in the interim period are gone forever. Somebody took my code base, republished it in blatant violation of GPL, causing me to lose revenue. I feel robbed and your apathy genuinely perplexes me.

Surely you realize that you have constructed a logical argument around the conclusion that you wished to make? You can make life choices that best align with your principles and do your part to make a difference.

With reducing animal suffering, there's is veganism on one end of the scale. It seems that you lean somewhere towards the opposite end by making no attempt to resolve this whatsoever. Vegetarianism and pescatarianism exist somewhere in the middle.

In my opinion, it's okay to aspire to change antiqued cultural norms that, through a modern lens, we no longer find ethical. By setting the bar so high that it's effectively "your objections to killing any animals are only valid if you eat no meat at all," there's no reasonable approach to reducing meat consumption.

As for myself, I lead by example and eat no meat at all, but that's not where I began. I first reduced red meat, then became pescatarian and only in my early thirties became fully vegetarian.

Similarly, I believe that identifying a wide range of reasons to justify change can help with taking the first steps to accomplish it, like recognizing dogs as companion animals and for their intelligence, the health, environmental and ecological benefits of reducing intake, and so on.

Probably that's the healthier mindset that I should adopt as well.

Whoa whoa, we don't take kindly to people telling us that. Only a boot-licking, brain-dead, corporate shill wouldn't outright endorse piracy. Take your nuance somewhere else, pal!

Strange that the parent comment is downvoted for highlighting the fact that electric bikes (and scooters & trikes) continue to make more of an impact.

For me personally, since I got my electric bike 2 years ago, I use it at least 90% of the time to commute to work (unless the weather is too miserable).

Sure, and don't get me wrong, I'm by no means discouraging people from weighing in with insights about those shitty things. Does every post that even tangentially mentions a company name need to be full comments endorsing piracy, though?

I come to Lemmy for discourse on the content of the submissions. If I wanted to hear about wicked Plex setups and best torrent what-have-you's, surely there are relevant communities filled to the brim. The level of conversation in this community is in my opinion extremely poor and I hope to see it improve with more contributors and broader demographics.

I tried a trial a long time ago, and perhaps things have improved, but there was so little content on there that I didn't find any value in supporting it so broadly.

I've instead remained subscribed to YouTube Premium and make monthly contributions to four creators I especially like. (I especially love Climate Town, that is top notch content!)

Honestly it's more a how-to on digital piracy if anything. Nearly every submission will fixate on hating this or that company and stacking on comments about how we're sticking it to the man through one illegal method or another.

Whoa, I was with you there until the last bit.

In all seriousness, I do feel like Lemmy (and oddly, this community in particular) is quite toxic. There's a lot of shouting matches and aggressively partisan one side vs. the other commentary and voting. Even on Reddit there was more civility that encouraged discourse.

Here on Lemmy—and to continue your theme of closing a comment with an awful visual—it's often a bunch of circle jerking.

Hey buddy, I have a question. What are you talking about?

Ownership is one condition that a copyright holder might offer, but that's not guaranteed. Video rental shops would allow unlimited consumption for a limited time period, for example. We can argue all day about the differences and what consumers want versus the conditions under which content producers currently operate. I am personally also extremely frustrated by that, and I vote with my wallet: I do not subscribe to services that I find too restrictive or too expensive.

Where I am in the minority, however, is my position that copyright infringement is illegal, unethical and can in any way be legitimized.

I don't mean this in any disrespectful way at all, but I'm completely missing the context of what you're trying to tell me and genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.

Hi, welcome to the Technology community here on Lemmy! Discourse is not tolerated here, so please just tack on your endorsement of piracy and leave your civility at the door.

The entire goal of my comment was to avoid mincing words. As somebody who has first hand experienced copyleft violation, it sure doesn't feel different on the receiving end. I feel this very personal experience is equivocal to copyright infringement. I'm not licking any boots—thanks for that accusation.

It's easy to excuse illicit behavior from your armchair by gaslighting with the choice of words, because after all, violating copyright is just sticking it to the man, right? In truth, I feel that my software was stolen for profit and just for me as the little man, there's no other word that comes to my mind than "theft."

No, I don't get it.

If it satisfies the way in which you want to label me, ok. For what it's worth, I'm typing this on a Pixel 7 and own a MacBook and a Windows 11 desktop for different purposes.

It's really not that different. The main difference is the audience size. For an independent musician selling merchandise, it would be equally insulting to them to tell them that they will be repaid in exposure if they give you one for free.

Making a copy of something "to see if you'd enjoy it" or because it's somehow great for their exposure is mental gymnastics to justify piracy. Let's just call it intellectual property theft and stop beating around the bush.