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Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Friday, 02-Sep-2022 08:59:12 JST 
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@coolboymew rotflmao, I just can't -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Friday, 07-Jan-2022 10:10:47 JST
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@Moon @orekix @lain The graphic is just a lazy copy-paste from these guys: https://www.v-dem.netAnd the latest data is six months+ old. -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2021 21:46:50 JST
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@Moon @has The modern world has an equivalent process called "sending the kids off to college". And it's shooting itself in both feet by pricing more and more young people out of. -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Oct-2021 21:46:46 JST
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@lain @Moon @has Better for whom? The British "public" schools used to be quite monasterial. They certainly were good at perpetuating class distinctions and restocking British elite society with fresh personell, but dear god did (and do) they fuck those kids up in the process. -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Monday, 28-Jun-2021 03:43:22 JST
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@Moon @lain @Wyatt Not quite the Olympics, it's the American olympic trials. Now I know American sports organizers just looooove to blast The Star-Spangled Banner at every opportunity (and then some), but to have a flag ceremony with anthem at an event where by definition only Americans take part in the first place - now that's pretty special.And those pictures capture just how special America is b e a u t i f u l l y -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2020 04:08:07 JST
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@shmibs @Moon @alex I'm thinking less about the yuck-factor and more of the simple convenience. It's just incredibly convenient to get meat now. Unprecedented. Mind-boggling in fact.To go back to the people == animals angle, imagine murder being that convenient. I can't, it would be absurd. Like, forget about legal guns vs. gun-control.Think about prepaid cards redeemable for murder available at the supermarket checkout.Think about people designated made-for-murder at birth, who will be efficiently offed once somebody clicks on their portrait on murderzon.com.Just reduce the convenience of meat and keep the convenience of everything else. There'll be results to show. -
Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2020 03:49:33 JST
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@Moon @shmibs @alex I guess the slightly cynical effective altruism take I would offer here is that inconvenience to the point of aversion is a much more effective demotivator than trying to teach people ethics and get them to act on those.Hence, I like to imagine a world where non-meat-based food production and distribution remains mostly unchanged, but everybody is both free, and required, to kill their on meat. This would take care of eliminating industrial meat processing, most if not all factory farming and, if my hunch about human motivation isn't completely off, reduce meat consumption immensely.And before you ask, yes, I do actually think the largest part of the general aversion in people against killing other people does not come from ethical considerations or even learned morals. We're probably just a couple evolutionary dice-rolls away from being a species of predatory cannibals who would never have bothered with organizing hunting and gathering in the first place.
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