Realistically I’ll have to look into this before trusting a random comment and I probably wont because it’s half the world away from me and he’s dead anyway.

I am sure there is some subtly in personal culpability though because between Mao and peasants killing birds was a whole bureaucracy that evidentally thought it was worth doing (and idk how much is slavish obedience/fear).

Temujin personally killed a lot of people. Like personally ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and his overall campaign was ~10% of human population at the time an estimated 40 million, which seems to be comparable to famine figures even if we personally blame both of them. Dude was a certified maniac and I think that especially given the overall lower population at the time and deliberate murderous intentions stands as histories greatest monster and most murderous person.

Like personally? I often feel like attributing famines solely to one person is a bit messed up, although there are cases like Bengal where specific government individuals were enthusiastic .

The party later distanced themselves from him somewhat, so presumably they thought his ideas could be improved on but I had thought a lot of china and USSR famines rested on really dumb ideas about industrial agriculture that were popular in many places + officials hiding bad numbers + desperate need to show immediate superiority of alledgedly better numbers + upheavals of massive civil was and ww2.

temujin? who claims he’s leftist?

CRISPR is possibly one of the most significant technologies invented this century lmao. It’s a technique for inserting base sequences into DNA at targetable sites, the idea being that you can attach their expression to the expression of another sequence.

It enables making transgenic organisms reliably. You can actually like order sequences and do it at home with a little knowhow.

Have a read about it, it’s truly one of the most exciting things of our lifetime.

I’m sorry, I was just trying to raise her in line with my values. I would never dream of commenting on another person’s life. Of course when she was an adult I would encourage her to use as much heroin as she wanted and would even help her rob elderly people to afford it.

This is so hard to hear. I know it’s true that most people who have heroin want more but like I’m just trying to do right by her.

I need to make some radical changes, I’ll remain heroin free but start letting her have it whenever she wants.

If you are reading about vegan stuff, why is it important that people from a us politicalmemes community can come in and tell you you’re stupid?

Why is total federation necessary? vtc feds with many instances including some large ones like hexbear, dbzero, ml, and ee.

I source my smegma ethically by flirting with nerds in wow guilds and then gently scooping it out during head.

No it can’t, you obviously misunderstand this community. Of course, I don’t expect carnists to have basic cognitive skills or they’d be vegan.

consumption 🤮

In medicine there is a concept called “implied consent”. Suppose you come across a human who is dying, they are not able to say that they would like you to save their life. You are assumed to have consent to try, assuming they have specifically not refused consent (e.g. through an advanced care directive) because there is the implication that they would prefer to live than die.

There is not really a good reason to apply this concept only to humans. For example, if you saw a train bearing down on an oblivious wombat moving the wombat off the tracks (or scaring them off or whatever) is obviously something you should try, despite generally having moral reservations about interfering in their life, because wombats generally aren’t trying to commit suicide.

We can assume most abandoned animals that were formerly pets (or in entertainment industries or whatever) would like to go on living given that they continue to try staying alive. Although approaching that as ownership is definitely non-vegan, like if you take one into your life with a mindset that you can just stop caring for them or sideline their needs when inconvenient that is not vegan.

They don’t. Pets aren’t vegan.

Adopting non-human animals that would otherwise be killed for lack of facilities to care for them is basically the only way a vegan can end up with individual custody. Even then, it’s harm reduction and not ideal.

Sanctuaries with professional full-time staff are better, but there are mass graves everywhere full of non-humans that there were no spots in a sanctuary for.

Good luck!

You will probably need to sticky a post in each thread automatically as very few people read the sidebar. You also need to be prepared for deliberate trolls.

I had wondered about the utility of a bot that automatically acts on reports from a list of manually selected good users, which moderators review the actions of as reports whenever they’re around. It’s a fair bit of effort to set something like that up as a system and maintain it, but if mods aren’t around dunk-cycles can tank productive discussions in a few minutes.

Reports also don’t federate properly btw, less an issue for you but anyone you invite who isn’t using a .world account won’t ?always? see them.

That level of reading comprehension absolutely tracks with some of the shit I’ve seen written about us lately.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I don’t run vtc, and I think Hamid is probably more likely to eat his own teeth than refederate.

DBzero is federated, and a widely federated instance. The admin has a sense of humour at least so you could do worse than signing up there if you want to see world stuff.

dbzero is federates with both. They’re honestly not bad. I think there’s a bit of a moral panic around them because usaians aren’t used to seeing anti-usa opinions be mainstream.

The one thread I saw on hexbear about Russia for example was people lamenting how horrible it is for lgbt people there. Expressing frustration and anger at Putin’s regime, and expressing frustration at the role usa policy has played in his rise and the reactionary political culture there.

you might disagree with the degree to which the usa government is responsible but that hardly seems like a community where dissent against Putin is crushed.

Idk, at any rate the vegan communities are awesome. Mander is a good instance with good users, although I think it’s natural science focused and unsure if it’s appropriate for a vegan community. Dunno about the other.

I’m a boomer with insane takes like “having an account per forum is normal” and “handing over your entire digital identity to an untrusted third party is ridiculous” but I know we’re dying out.

lmfao this is hilarious

The above comment is made of glyphs arranged to convey meaning. The Code of Hammurabi is made of glyphs arranged to convey meaning.

So the comment will very well be likely a significant contribution to human culture.