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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That pedos shouldn't be subject to extra-legal punishments. Think being lynched and shit. I also don't think they should be getting their own special cases in the law beyond those with a clear purpose of preventing reoffending.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are pure scum.

But things we allow on the basis of the accused being a pedo or terrorist have a habit of spilling over and affecting the general population. A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

People overlook vegetarianism and semi-vegetarian lifestyles as an option too much and it is not helpful that real life examples of vegetarian cultures, get co-opted by Vegans purists as "Vegan cultures" in easily disproven claims- thus hurting the whole movement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't eat meat or dairy, so i technically i'm a vegan, right? But i wouldn't identify as a vegan. When someone cooks and says: oh i forgot that you are vegan, and i used butter, still eat it. When i'm at a bbq and there is a steak leftover, and no one eats it and it goes to the trash, i would eat it. I find the idea of factory meat absolutely repulsive therefore i don't support it in any way. Once i talked to a vegan guy, and he was super weird so we didn't have a lot to talk about. I told him something like: when i was a kid i was really into chicken wings, and now in hindsight, i don't think chicken is actually good. And he said: oh, you are one of THOSE people. Meat eater are like pedophiles, once you fucked a kid, you'll always be a childfucker.

Eh... Okay, i'll just stand over there and make sure to never talk to you again

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be honest, I could see myself as a vegetarian. I can still eat eggs, have mayo, and most importantly, eat cheese. Also with vegans, they don't just abstain from eating animals, they also abstain from consuming animal products, and using them in general meaning that not only are you giving up on eggs and cheese, but also leather boots and jackets etc. That's too much. We are omnivores. Our ancestors survived on the scraps left by lions and other predators. Our only way to keep warm was leather skins. We could survive on berries and fungi, but we couldn't keep warm with fire only. Anyways, I'm taking this a bit too far, but my point is, I'm supportive of vegetarians, but not of vegans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never been closer to vegan than I am now. And I love meat and animal products and have long given up on the illusion of any ethical consumption in capitalism. It just turns out meat is way overpriced and you can make some tasty meals for cheap without meat and most animal products.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a vegetarian just because it's the cheapest option. Meat is absurd in prices while going fully vegan, where I live, isn't feasible either.

So I live off a mostly vegetarian diet. It's not even for ethical reasons. It's literally a "I want to save money" motivation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the only animal I'm tryna save is me. Shits insane rn.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should invest massively in longevity. Healthy longevity, fighting aging.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you wanna fight aging when we reproduce in such a massive way that we are pretty much doomed? The last thing we need is a bunch of 120 year olds who rule the world.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Eating meat and dairy is not sustainable in terms of resources and greenhouse gases, and non-vegan environmentalists are clowns on the level of people flying private jets to climate conferences.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (54 children)

8÷2(2+2) comes out to 16, not 1.

Saw it posted on Instagram or Facebook or somewhere and all of the top comments were saying 1. Any comment saying 16 had tons of comments ironically telling that person to go back to first grade and calling them stupid.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Let's see.

8÷2×(2+2) = 8÷2×4

At this point, you solve it left to right because division and multiplication are on the same level. BODMAS and PEMDAS were created by teachers to make it easier to remember, but ultimately, they are on the same level, meaning you solve it left-to-right, so....

8÷2×4 = 4×4 = 16.

So yes, it does equal 16.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Back in gradeschool I was always taught that in Pemdas, the parenthesis are assumed to be there in 8÷(2×(2+2)) where as 8÷2×(2+2) would be 16, 8÷2(2+2) is the above and equals 1.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not quite. It's true you resolve what's inside the parentheses first, giving you. 8÷2(4) or 8÷2x4.
Now this is what gets most people. Even though Multiplication technically comes before Division the Acronym PEMDAS, that's really just to make it sound correct phonetically. Really they have equal priority in the order of operations and the appropriate way to resolve the problem is to work from left to right solving each multiplication or division sign as you encounter them. Giving you 16. Same for addition and subtraction.

So basically the true order of operations is:

  1. Work left to right solving anything inside parentheses
  2. Work left to right solving any exponentials
  3. Work left to right solving any multiplication or division
  4. Work left to right solving any addition or subtraction

Source: Mechanical Engineering degree so an unfortunate amount of my life spent in math and physics classes.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That this meme is low effort content and it's spamming everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All drugs should be legalized. Not quiet the whole World but a large portion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doing drugs should be decriminalized, but not legal. Ideally when someone is found addicted to drugs they would be provided help rather than punishment. Selling drugs should remain criminal but consequences should be determined based on the amount found selling and to who (like a child or someone who's pregnant would be a higher penalty at the discretion of the court), legalizing would just give a tax incentive for pushing drugs similar to gambling.

Edit: I want to clarify, I'm talking about addictive drugs with known negative health effects like meth. Weed can be legal, who cares.

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