hell yeah

Yeah, the US would never allow that.

Critical support.

So, we’re trapping them in debt slavery so that we can steal their natural resources. They die, we profit. Win/Win

No. Killing and hurting animals is not bad for humans

This is an assertion.

Evidence suggests the opposite. Communities with slaughterhouses experience higher rates of depression, alcoholism, overdoses, domestic violence, violent crime, murder, self-harm, suicide, and other forms of mental/emotional/social distress. People who abuse pets are universally reviled because pets aren’t just toys or property, they’re family. We empathize with anything that has a face or voice, sometimes even things without faces or voices, and killing and hurting makes us feel bad.

I’m even speaking from experience! Killing feels bad. I don’t want to do it, and I don’t want to force anyone else to do it.

Are you so arrogant to believe other life forms are blameless or even without ethics?

I am not motivated by ethics. I am motivated by our species-being. We, as a species and society, would be happier and healthier if we stopped the slaughter. People who kill for a living are hurt by it, and the trauma becomes dangerous to themselves and others.

Even humans with diminished/lacking capacity for empathy are harmed by killing and hurting animals. It still trains the brain to make it easier to hurt and kill, there’s a reason animal abuse is highly correlated with interpersonal, human-to-human violence.

Carnivores don’t feel empathy the way humans do. They literally don’t feel anything when they kill, besides satisfaction. It’s just food for them. Lions can eat gazelle and it doesn’t make them want to hurt or kill their families, or engage in self harm, or kill themselves. Their species-being is to be hunters and killers, that’s literally what they are. Ethics don’t even enter the equation.

If you didn’t donate your life savings to Harris, really, you donated to Trump.

We subconsciously find each other and vibe with each other, our friend groups are reflections of ourselves.

Sometimes it doesn’t work out that way, bad luck or what-have-you, but it’s definitely too common to be a coincidence.

They heard about the Peaky Blinders cosplayers in Afghanistan and knew they needed to act quickly.

The Democrats could mobilize their base (not just the voters, but the unions and civil society orgs and universities and the like) and actually implement some party discipline by going after rogue party members that stand in the way of the agenda.

Senators have homes. They have investments. They have donors. They have families. All are points of leverage.

But they won’t, because that’s their job. The whole reason those “”“centrists”“” are in the party is to discipline the left flank and stop them from hurting the money’s feelings, disciplining their right flank would defeat the purpose.

I heard about that! Heat from data centers is harder, unfortunately, because the amount of waste heat generated by a nuclear reactor is far higher than the amount generated by a data center. With smaller quantities of heat come greater costs to recuperate it, at least until they link all the waste-heat sources up into a single network that can collect from multiple data centers.

China is moving fast, though. I bet we’ll see some kind of project like this before the bubble pops in the US.

Also if you tried to hug one they’d make you regret it instantly.

As is their right.

I feel like dumping “waste” heat is the same as burning off “waste” gas from pumping oil.

It’s not really just a waste byproduct, there just isn’t a profitable way to utilize it. That heat could be used, but we just dump it into the ocean or the atmosphere because it’s cheaper than building municipal heating or recycling it for industrial uses.

They’re not. Not really.

They know the government is hiding information and they support it, but the party line on the issue is that this is the most transparent government in history and so they give the “correct” answer as party loyalists. It’s like Nazis saying they don’t believe the Holocaust happened. They totally do! They just know that the “correct” answer, the party line, is to deny the Holocaust.

They’re not stupid. They’re evil.

It could be anyone! I’ve never seen him before in my life.

If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoes.

Talking to you is self harm.

That’s what Democrats are afraid of.

It’s complicated. Only a few companies can afford to pay out bribes to avoid lawsuits, which means they’d effectively be destroying all of their competition in exchange. Bluesky and Lemmy can’t afford to pay their way out of lawsuits, after all. This would be a handy win for total monopolization of the internet under only a few companies, even if it might also be expensive.

On top of that they were starting down the barrel of FTC for monopoly practices, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of backroom deal with the government here. Maybe if the tech companies allow Section 230 to be repealed and for age-verification laws to pass, the government doesn’t force their companies to be broken up in antitrust actions.

I have no idea what is going to happen.

If the news were that it was being amended to make carve outs for businesses who pay an amount of money, then I would be more inclined to agree.

But the news is that it would be repealed entirely.

Functionally every law has a carve out for businesses who pay an amount of money.

You literally didn’t say it was wrong.

And they aren’t amending it. They’re repealing it. The internet is going to be destroyed, and you’re wishcasting about something irrelevant that isn’t on the table. I think we should probably focus on how absolutely fucking horrible a repeal would be.