Lucky. I think about my own mortality literally every single night, it’s become a pattern that I have to just stop thinking about, like, block that thought, think about something else otherwise panic.

I hate hate hate that I’m going to die, I will rage against it for as long as I live (hopefully forever as CRISPR will allow… Right?)

No sorry it was ai

I think racism and tribalism is easy. It’s the first thought of an uneducated person, it’s base, it’s instinct, and it feels good to follow through on any conviction. But most people had no good reason to he racist, you worked with a few migrants, the black guy at college was great, and Jackie Chan movies are great. Then the internet / bot farms / Russia came along, and fed the uneducated a constant steady stream of racist content. Couple that with the people who found politics too boring getting Donald Trump. And he’s seen the racist bot farm content too! He just gets us! Bam, a recipe for disaster.

Man the ones in Melbourne Australia cost up to $3,000 to adopt, unless you get Pitbulls and mastiffs, then it’s $600. I just adopted a little Maltese looking thing for 1.5k

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Ive been here over a year and I still don’t know wtf is going on. I don’t know what aussie.zone is, I don’t know what “local” is versus “all”, I don’t know what “all” includes and why it changes. I don’t know how to find new subs except accidentally on “all”, my brother wanted to drop Reddit and join Lemmy, I had no clue how I signed up.

But, after all that it’s still better than Reddit.

Every time proper left wing policy is offered to Americans, you vote it down. Progressive policy does not fly in the US.

Your country has abandoned you GI, why donate your time and effort to a nation that only takes? Defect GI, migrate to a nation that appreciates your labour. Come to Australia! We have nationalised health care, some of the highest wages in the world, the best electoral system in the world, and Melbourne constantly ranking as one the best cities in the world.

Imagining complaining about someone tipping out fresh water, while eating a burger when a single kilo of beef uses between 15,000 to 200,000 liters.

Like, until you stop doing the worst thing a single consumer can do to the planet for literally nothing but greed and pleasure (eating meat instead of healthier alternatives), you have no leg to criticize.

The holocaust was well scaled too. Animal ag is responsible for 15-20% of the entire planets GHG emissions. You can live a healthier, more morally consistent life if you give up meat.

1 beef burger is equivalent in water consumption to 7.5million chatgpt queries.

All the people here chastising LLMs for resource wastage, I swear to god if you aren’t vegan…

I AM AN AI SLOP WHORE. I use chatgpt every goddamn DAY. You are all Luddites to me, who scoff at the motor vehicle while your horse stubbornly refuses your commute today. So many of you write “I used it once in 2022 and it was bad so now I Bing everything and spend hours of my precious life wading through the godforsaken modern internet”. Not me, I send my AI slave into the fray while enjoying a fine Moscato, from the throne I built (with help from chatGPT on material selection and how to do joinery). If AI is “no good”, you are not using it correctly.

I have some music on streaming services, and get a couple of coins every month. If you pirate my music instead, I’ll get nothing.

I like Tidal, it pays the artists the most of all services.

The fact people are greedy is not the reason pure socialism/communism fails, there’s a multitude of reasons it simply doesn’t work well: a lack of market forces upending resource allocation, incentive problems, lack of consumer sovereignty, reduced innovation++

Best system IMO is a fusion model, publically owned industries where it matters (health, education, PT), and private where it doesn’t (goods, foods etc).

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If you could voluntarily STOP your taxes going to these wars, you would, right? That’s what I’m doing when I stop buying meat, literally stopping the sale of meat.

But hey, good luck with your preaching for mass suicide I guess. I’ll keep being based here on earth while you waste yourself.

That’s relative privation - appeal to worse problems. It incorrectly assumes that we can or should only care about the current worst suffering and that moral concern is zero sum.

There’s very little I can do to end the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran etc. But I am directly funding and maintaining the meat industry every time I buy meat.

Also don’t kill yourself, that’s cringe. Be based, fight on.

Well that person is literally helping you sleep at night by reducing the planets GHG emissions. You’re welcome I guess?

Yeah currently the difference doesn’t amount to much because we’re still eating livestock, BUT if we stopped eating that livestock, we could return to a more natural Australia where shooting our national animals isn’t a requirement.

As I said, you’re right, eating roos is definitely better, but your argument is an appeal to futility, “I won’t be able to convince everyone to stop eating meat, so I’ll continue doing moral failures”. You could use that argument to continue all horrible injustices, right? “I won’t be able to convince everyone to vote for Labor, so I’ll vote Liberal as well”.

It’s much MUCH easier to convince people to drop meat when you’ve done it yourself, I’ve converted 5 of my friends over the course of my 6 years, two of which are from rural NZ.