The meat industry is organized animal abuse, there is no doubt about it. It doesn’t have to be that way but by all accounts it is. If you can eat meat procured separately from these industrialized processes that is great, but that cannot be scaled to meet all current demands for meat.

Alright if you want to go that way, there was a legend of a Buddhist monk who let a hungry tiger eat him, if you really want to go all out just lay on the ground and let the earth take you.

I only ever see meat eaters argue about what the body needs or how our teeth are meant for meat. There is no way to argue that the modern meat industry isn’t horrific, I think some carnists that react strongly to vegans unconsciously know this and react with anger because of guilt and shame.

Yeah, well it’s still unfun!

A brief search shows in the US the median salary for a teacher is at least 60k, while the median for garbage collector is around 40 to 50, they might make more than teachers in some places but that doesn’t seem typical.

Haha I forgot it even meant that, I did just pick it at random from a food label :p

It’s a classic simple joke probably decades old, but the humor is in the implication they want a bigger portion of something bad. Edit: ah it seems to be from the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4151-there-s-an-old-joke---um-two-elderly-women-are

There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.

Unfortunately in the US many trans and trans-supporting people do view guns as potentially necessary. Glorification of trans murder is common among the right-wing here and they definitely are armed.

I mentioned in another comment, I’m talking about visiting my grandma who lives on the opposite coast, like once a year or less, it’s not cheap to drive that far. And for a trip that would be better to drive than fly I’d rather take a train, it’s more pleasant and comfortable, they usually have bars and food served, I don’t have to worry about parking or traffic and I could rent a car there if I need one.

How often do you ride the subway? Thousands of people take the subway in NYC everyday of all income levels, it’s a pretty big success.

That’s a problem with the infrastructure and transit policy, not the technology. I can’t afford a car, where I’m at I’m able to take a train to cities nearby, I can take a free shuttle to the train station or bike because it’s not very far. In the past in the US at least there were more train and tram routes, when cars because more prevalent cities stopped developing the infrastructure, but if done properly it can be superior to driving.

I know right, a plane ride will take me exactly to her house! What kind of logic is this? Can you recommend a method to travel across the US to visit my grandma that wouldn’t require me paying or being restricted in where I could go? That is how modern travel works in every form.

Also anyway when I take the train I could take a bike with me and bike the rest of the way, or in my city there is a free shuttle from the train station to the center of downtown, with buses every direction from there, any many bigger cities have light-rails or subways that connect from train stations. And it’s healthy to walk, people have walked for thousands of years.

I’ve heard it in lyrics from long before twitch existed

In Black slang, to cap about something is “to brag,” “to exaggerate,” or “to lie” about it. This meaning of cap dates back to the early 1900s.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/no-cap/

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Cap

If it ain’t an MRE and you are busy cooking you aren’t gonna be ready when the commies kick down your bomb shelter door and take your guns! And also cooking is for women.

Okay sure, but by mocking and dehumanizing trans people he encourages violence against them which is already a massive issue for trans people. But I love comedy, other than bigoted it’s just lazy and played out and comes across like an old dude mad at scary new changes in society.

“What do you mean black slaves don’t have it as good as the whites? It says right in our founding documents all men are created equal!”

Roma people can justifiably show up in tel aviv tomorrow and start conquering the place since they have no nation of their own

Please Roma, I would donate money for this to happen, unfortunately that would just end with genocide too though.

I have Samson headphones that I notice the build/material quality is a bit nicer than Anker, I had the Life Q20 and they fell apart, but that was after something like two years of rough use, although the actual speaker and electronics work fine and holds a charge. But yeah for the price I haven’t seen any other brand perform as well.

I like the physical plug for display port more too. Is it just because there isn’t some LLC pushing adoption of display port like there is for HDMI?

I don’t know enough about this really to speak on it, but I think if there was a problem with encryption, a person could spoof a connection to your device and get your passwords or other data maybe. There was a big data leak a few years ago from someone getting into a network through a smart fridge or similar device because of weak security standards.