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If I drew a 3 mile circle around my house, I'd have to cross three numbered highways with no sidewalks or crosswalks to reach the edge in any direction. The US was built with cars in mind, and it fucking sucks.

Regan was corrupt, selfish, racist piece of shit who was terrible for the economy. But he would have vomited to see what Trump is doing.

PartyCity Putin. That's gold.

I dunno, I don't do free streaming. I'd rather just pirate the content. Mel Blanc has been dead for 35 years, and art is not a commodity to be pimped out.

I think it's one of those apocryphal quotes that gets misattributed to different people. Most commonly Ledru-Rollin, as Pumpkin Escobar mentioned.

I mean, just because people are watching it on Tubi doesn't mean they were going to pay HBO Max subscription fees to watch it there. Tubi is mostly ad supported and targets an entirely different demographic. Zaslav is a douche canoe and a moron, but this isn't the smoking gun the author seems to think it is.

"Check where my people are going so that I might lead them there."

I'm sorry you feel that way.

... And I'm going to do it again, after promising that it won't take very long to get it done.

The fucked up part is that this bill permits the bypass of existing regulations. Wilderness protections already included a process to receive exemptions for critical infrastructure, including security-related improvements. The new bill simply removes the review process and creates a rubber stamp they can use to do whatever they want under the guise of border security, with zero review, oversight, or accountability for abuses.

That's one way to look at it. On the other hand, these gravy seals are armed to the teeth and itching to fulfill a lifelong dream to "justifiably" murder somebody. If they can't manage to arrest someone without their pants falling down, they're just going to start blasting.

Right, because every vegan is exactly the same.

It's not incorrect. Of course there are plant-based alternatives, but beet sugar is only like a third of white sugar, and activated charcoal sugar is an even smaller fraction.

Huh?

Ok. Of course they aren't exactly the same. My point is that people are capable of compartmentalizing the suffering of others, regardless of species. But yeah, we don't eat the child slaves who sew our sneakers. Good catch.

I would just think you're trying to be funny. If you keep a deadpan face, you might succeed.

For years, I had my own headcanon for the Labyrinth movie. In the scene, the young Sarah correctly solves the riddle, passes through the correct door, says "This is a piece of cake!" and then she immediately falls down a pit of doom. This confused me, because she got the answer right. So I reasoned that the guards were both liars, and because they both participated in explaining the rules, they were lying about the rules.

It was only a few years ago that I read in an interview that the Labyrinth (or Jareth) dropped her down the hole because she said it was a piece of cake. It was her arrogance that set her back, not that she got the riddle wrong.

But now it still bothers me that the liar, whichever one he is, helps explain the rules of the scenario. If he always lies, then she can't trust that either of them ever tells the truth. The rules have to be described separately, like on a sign or by a disinterested third party. Or you could phrase it differently, like "One of us will answer your question truthfully, and one of us will answer your question dishonestly." That way you avoid saying that they always lie, and specify that the lie will only be in response to the one question.

Fuck, I've had too much coffee. How the fuck did I get up on this soapbox? Why are you still reading? Go do something productive.

Most table sugar is not vegan because it is refined with bone char, although the end product (white sugar) does not contain any animal product. The ethics of consuming this sugar is debatable among vegans and vegetarians, because the bone char is considered a byproduct of the meat industry rather than a primary driver of animal suffering, and you're not consuming the bones.

Some vegans feel strongly about avoiding any products created with animals , others are OK with sugar.

I mentioned it because it is a good example of something seemingly innocuous that many people aren't yet aware is made is animal products. Even the people who are aware of it don't necessarily agree on how strict we should be. Plenty of alternatives exist, but sugar pops up in a lot of unexpected foods that you might otherwise assume are vegan.

I'm not suggesting we do nothing. I'm saying we shouldn't expect information to drive action. If you want real change, you need to be political and you need to be proactive. Without regulations, we would still have children changing bowling pins 12 hours a day while smoking unfiltered cigarettes and drinking polluted water. If you want to reduce animal suffering, you need legislation to regulate factory farming. Any change would need to be gradual regardless, but any positive change is a reason to celebrate.

I don't think that premise is true. I think most people who eat meat have at least a vague idea of how animals suffer to become food. Most probably don't know the specifics, and few will want to watch the videos showing conditions and procedures in factory farming, but it's not the knowledge that fosters empathy for animals. Humans are really good at disconnecting conflicting ideas becauseconflict makes us uncomfortable. They will say they prefer that animals suffer as little as possible to become food (or leather or sugar or pharmaceuticals, etc) but most humans won't change their behavior to match that stated preference.

It's the same way we feel about sweatshops or slave labor or child labor or the general exploitation of workers. The vast majority of humans don't want other humans to suffer, and most humans are at least aware that a child died to bring them that chocolate bar. That doesn't stop people from buying chocolate or fast fashion or bacon cheeseburgers.