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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

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My first assumption was that it was only the Democrats voting, which seems to have been the case, as it was a DNC internal vote. If there were more than democrats voting on it, then to say that it was the democrats who were voting would seem to me to be unnecessary or misleading.

They certainly could have mentioned the DNC in the title to make it more more clear, though.

To be fair, I didn’t lose any weight after going vegan. You can still stuff your face with vegan junk food. Lol.

I ate tofu before I was vegan, but man I’ve upped my tofu game since then. Pan fry it and finish with sesame oil and soy sauce, and its a game changer.

I know it’s a bit of a meme to say “you just haven’t had the right one yet”, but I think a lot of people get the idea of mushy plain tofu and are rightly turned off. It’s so frickin good when you make it right.

Here’s the recipe I use.

I personally think that humans do “matter more” than most other animals, but I’m not a human exceptionalist. I think there’s a spectrum of neurological complexity (for lack of a better term) that determines a lifeforms ability to experience complex emotional life. The more sophisticated that machinery is, the more moral consideration a being deserves.

One of the benefits of this is line of reasoning is that it also rejects speciesism for a more fundamental categorisation, but still fairly trivially answers questions like: Why can’t animals vote? Or, should killing a sentient animal (an ant, or bee, perhaps) deserve the same punishment as killing a human?

I also think that there is some threshold where there’s essentially no complex emotion processing capability. This, to me, provides a clear and consistent answer to why it is OK to kill some life (plants, microbes) for our own survival, but not others.

Of course there are some problems. The “emotional capacity” or “neurological complexity” measure kinda hand waves away a lot of tough questions about the nature of consciousness that’s at or beyond the limits of our current sciences.

If you asked me to elaborate, in the “name the trait” scenario, and kept digging, I’d quickly run out of my depth, because it’s not my area of expertise.

daww I can’t help but give more headpats for cute anime girls. *patpatpat*

*patpat NEET-kun* do your best!

Factorio did it right, IMO. V2.0 as a free update to the base game, launch a paid expansion at the same time.

Wube is pretty much the only developer I have faith in to consistently do things right.

Of, we goin full Delta Heavy mode!

It’s honestly not even the worst way I’ve even seen it used.

I used to watch some League of Legends (I know, I know) streams from time to time, and there’s a meta where your mid laner, who is supposed to be a strong carry, gives up all their farm to the roaming jungler roll so they become the super-carry.

In any case this somehow got termed to be the “vegan mid” strategy. Ugh. Veganism is when you starve, apparently.

Right? *glomps u* ^//^

Journalists in 2025 be like: OwO *pounces on you*

Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will push you one step further into the valley of despair, where a capitalist hellscape leads you to constantly say “Yeah, that seems about right” and to feel a small twang of loss before moving on with your day.

The factory gatcha pull info says there’s a 0.002% chance of pulling “Short Day Factory”, and the pity system has been globally disabled for over 10 years now.

Better luck next pull!

Pack it up boys. Just one comment, and the thread’s already over.

You’re welcome!

Yes, I think that’s generally pretty accurate. That’s why when a vtuber graduates (leaves their corporation, that is) even though they’ll have a new avatar, (usually the IP is owned the corp) they’ll often still keep most of their fans.

A few of those even have actual real live victims, unlike video game porn. This whole debacle is truly absurd.

Ours will attempt to get his butt to eye level, and start wagging the tail to smack you in the face. It makes me crack up every time.

Just getting around to trying it now. Will update with further info.

Very first impressions:

Yep, its sexo pokemon snap! If you’re into furry or pokephilia, and enjoy photography, this’ll probably be a fun time. It seems like it is more anthro focused though, not that I’d be a good judge of any of this or anything. >_>;

Right off the bat, the walking animation is very janky, but otherwise it seems surprisingly polished. The tutorial is a bit info dumpy, but it’s not that overwhelming.

Just starting actual gameplay now.

Edit 1: Managed to soft lock myself on the very first quest. Got stuck in a tent flap. Lol. Fixed with a reload.

Edit 2: Now I can’t find this expedition log for the 2nd part of the first quest. This does not bode well. I swear I should work in QA, as I can’t find anyone who’s had this problem.

I’m giving up for tonight. It kinda feels like nobody play tested this.