Great ending

Thank you for sharing this. What shameful and disgusting behaviour by the university

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha. He chose to leave the castle, as opposed to being forced to leave, in the pursuit of truth

You’re right about the disconnect between the aims of veganism and the US military, but all public institutions should offer vegan meals - and that’s what this post is about. Welcome to Lemmy :)

Go Emily Lowan! Great messages. Love that she’s on Mastodon/ Fediverse

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Also he expanded fox hunting and the like: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-dog-hunting-1.6860189

Don’t forget he passed ag-gag bills as well and sold off parts of the greenbelt that threatened species use. I’m pretty sure cats and dogs will still be dissected and otherwise used in medical training, etc. This is Ford’s vapid populism - it’s just an issue he can use to lure some into supporting him, I suppose, and distract even more from realizing that his style of governance is simply that many parts of this province are available for purchase by corporate bidders. Outside of the great harm he does to this province and its inhabitants, I do pity him a little. To have seen what he saw in that slaughterhouse and to turn his back on those animals through ag-gag laws - he proverbially sold his soul to the devil in my books

the Farm Transparency Project said, “We’re devastated to announce that in its decision handed down today, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has granted the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse’s appeal seeking a permanent injunction to block footage of its cruel and illegal practices. The court upheld the Game Meats Company’s argument that it should be granted copyright over the footage, setting a chilling new legal precedent affecting footage obtained of commercial activities on private land… While we originally published over an hour of footage on May 17, 2024, we were served with a temporary injunction shortly afterwards, and had to take it down that same night. This means that the footage can only be shared or published by people who downloaded it prior to it being taken down…This trial has always been about the public’s right to know what happens to the animals who are bred and killed for food. Today it was confirmed that, in the eyes of the law, the transparency the animal slaughter industry loves to brag about in their marketing campaigns is nothing but a smokescreen, designed to hide their real actions from the public.”

I just did 5 min of research and share here to maybe save some a click into less pleasant stuff. I think many of us here know that CO2 or nitrogen-gas asphyxiation is a common means of killing undesired non-human animals on farms. I don’t think that’s what’s at play here, as I found no guidelines recommended ‘gassing’ as a killing method on dairy farms. Moreover, one of the greatest risks to workers’ lives on farms with cattle, seems to be the enormous amount of manure that builds up on these facilities. Not only can humans easily drown in it, but it’s a powerful source of methane gas and fumes around these massive manure pits can prevent normal breathing and cause loss of consciousness and death. There are several reports of these things; search “US dairy farm asphyxiation” (although the current story predominates early hits). It’s also worth noting that there are many ‘ag-gag’ laws that prevent regulators from examining these spaces for safety in the first place and also prevent them from investigating after casualties like this.

More:
Manure pit injuries: Rare, deadly, and preventable
Dairy Workers on Wisconsin’s Small Farms Are Dying. Many of Those Deaths Are Never Investigated

occupation genocide

Thanks, I always VPN :). VPN and adblockers seem like basic online hygiene to me, but I only understand how they work abstractly and enough to use the apps (uBlock and Proton [I know, I know; I already had a student plan with them and next it’ll be Tuta])

It’s wild how different this response is to the US’ response to COVID and other infectious diseases in humans

That’s the most insightful and chilling comment I’ve read in a while. I especially like the “it’s not age verification; it’s identity verification” part. (That messaging needs to be more commonplace.) The key(s) for organizing data about individuals online will shift from email addresses only to enough stable identifiers to impersonate someone or maybe even steal their identity. Data leaks and fraud will probably increase dramatically given the value-add of these data.

With the level of quashing dissent these days - eg UK police arresting hundreds of nonviolent people with placards denouncing genocide; military deployments in LA and DC - no wonder certain states/ governments support online identity verification laws.

“No Kings” protests are already a non-story in mainstream news today. Tomorrow, they can be prevented from happening in the first place! /s c/aboringdystopia

Yeah, not at all awkward to me. It sounds so consistent with other labour or civil rights related organizing messages like “hold the line”

“No Kings” and “Black Lives Matter” are larger statements about the aims of movements. “Do Not Split”, “No Cracks” seem like smaller-scale strategies rather than manifestos (outlining the nature of the entire movement). So, if they don’t feel comparable, I think that makes sense.

I too appreciate that this is all discussion. I think “Do Not Split” is good because it makes the desired behaviour very clear, and it speaks to a strength in numbers. Usually, more sinister language than “a crack” is used when trying to discourage people from acting against collective interests, like “don’t be a scab”. Psychologically, I think the former is more effective than the latter, especially when it’s not as clear as crossing a picket line or not whether one is “cracking” or “splitting”. People will often deny that they’re a ‘crack’ or whatever, so I think the clearer messaging is to describe desirable behaviour. Good discussion :D!

I think you’re asking about a slogan to capture the idea that less confrontational activists will stand in solidarity with more confrontational activists (and maybe vice versa). As a lifelong English-speaker, “Do not split” sounds pretty good to me. “Won’t be split,” “won’t be divided,” “don’t let them break us up,” “don’t break,” “stand united” are other alternatives. “Vote splitting” is a well-known term in English (as is “divide and conquer”). So, I think “Do Not Split” might actually be the best English term based on a very limited knowledge about the issues at hand. I hope that’s somewhat helpful

The CNE is where I had that mini Ag Fair experience. I haven’t been to the CNE in 8 years, but it’s very invariant in its presentation (across decades). Ag Fair presentations are pretty circumscribed and thus easily missed or avoided. Factory farming and the like are typically in the Western half of the Better Living Centre (the Eastern part is turned into a casino). There are probably horses or other stuff going on in the Horse Palace. There’s like a trick dog show in the Enercare Centre (Hall D or so) that I’m fine going to. There might be some caged non-human animals and stuff in Beanfield Centre. There’s usually a trailer of reptiles in small cages on the Dufferin Gates’ side of the Kiddie Midway (just north of the Toronto Event Centre in the map).

https://www.explace.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ExPlace-Grounds-Map-Master-File-FINAL-Jul2018-1.pdf

In 2013, Facebook bought an Israeli company called Onavo for about $120 million. At the time, the app was marketed as a helpful VPN, a tool to protect your data, reduce mobile usage, and keep your online life secure.

What most users didn’t know: installing Onavo gave Facebook complete visibility into your phone. It allowed the company to monitor every app you opened, how long you used it, every website you visited, and even when you did it. Over 33 million people downloaded the app, believing they were protecting their privacy, when they were actually opening the door to corporate surveillance.

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Snapchat was the biggest target

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They are really into animal abuse as a lifestyle, not just to survive.

To me, and not that I’ve been to many, but this is what “agriculture fairs” are. It’s like omnis check their morality and compassion at the door and look at victims and instruments of immense suffering with curiosity and appreciation of their technological benefits with no acknowledgement of the costs in terms of sentient being suffering. I think I would have saw something like a gestation crate last time I was at a mini Ag fair, a year before or after I went vegan, 9 years ago. I stayed with it a while. It was so creepy, cruel, inhumane. I live in a city, and while there are butcher shops around me, I’m pretty removed from the grotesque treatment of non-human animals. I want to live an a more rural place when I’m older but I’m worried about being more confronted by the cruelty towards non-human animals; e.g., knowing there’s a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of town, or even seeing ‘livestock’ in fields. I guess another thing I’m saying is that the more out of sight the ‘frontiers’ of mass non-human animal consumption are (e.g., truckloads of parched animals crammed into a truck en route to be killed), the easier it is for me to get along with omnis. Needless to say, I avoid ‘ag fairs’ like the plague. Just glorification of barbarism

Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely