

Given the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it’s certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.
polite leftists make more leftists
more leftists make revolution
Given the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it’s certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.
Ontop of that, factory farming is a lovecraftian horror that floods the universe with terrible agony. And there’s very good reason to believe that the suffering of animals is as real and awful as yours or mine.
Devil Republican Christians are even worse, trust me.
It’s not my fault if somebody makes content at a loss and isn’t able to recuperate their losses. It happens all the time, sucks for them. I mean that earnestly by the way, though it sounds callous – it really does suck for them, and I feel bad for artists who can’t turn a profit.
However, I just don’t agree with you that “objective harm” is done when one pirates media. If this were true, you must admit that it’s equally objectively harmful to the IP holder for one to not consume media at all. I just don’t see how you can square that.
I think we’re all familiar with weaponized legal language. Unauthorized reproduction sounds scarier to most of us than piracy.
Real pirates steal stuff. So-called digital “piracy” isn’t piracy at all. This is just propaganda for the business model that the establishment is trying to hold onto.
It doesn’t hurt IP holders to “pirate” their data. It is no difference to them whether you were to pirate it or to have never been born at all in the first place. Their profit is the exact same either way. Their business model is imaginary and they want to force it on everyone else.
I guess Ty changed their name
Makes sense. Author is a psychologist.
I think the more important takeaway from this article is not the political one, but that problems with a biological fix can be extremely easy to solve compared to problems that require societal change, even though we normally think of it as being the other way around.
What community would you suggest? I didn’t realize /c/science was for pop-sci publications.
“Only about 40% of the Cruz woke science database is woke science” - (a critique by somebody who’s anti-woke.)
You got a problem with open source? In /c/opensource?
seven Israeli soldiers, in case you didn’t click.
Erm, isn’t that quite common amongst leftists? If I saw somebody with that opinion, I would assume they are a leftist.
It’s full of random shit I put in as a joke, but here it is. You can use please -s
to get lightly roasted when your command fails.
#!/bin/bash
# announces success or failure of task
if ! command -v "spd-say" > /dev/null
then
echo "spd-say must be installed."
exit -1
fi
VOLUME=0
SERIOUS=1
FINISH_ONLY=0
if [ $# -ge 2 ]
then
if [ $1 == "-i" ]
then
# parse volume from command line
VOLUME=$2
shift 2
fi
fi
spd-say -C
# force stop speech synthesizer
killall -q speech-dispatcher
# androgynous voice
# __sayfn="spd-say -i -80 -t female3"
# deep voice
__sayfn="spd-say -i $VOLUME -r -10 -p -100 -t male3"
function _sayfn {
$__sayfn "$@" 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
$__sayfn "$@"
fi
}
if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ "$1" == "--help" ]
then
_sayfn "Directive required."
echo "Usage: please [-i volume] [-s|--serious] [-f|--finish] <command...>"
echo " please [-i volume] --say text"
echo " -i: volume in range -100 to +100"
echo " --serious, -s: no silliness. Serious only. (Just kidding.)"
echo " --finish, -f: do not announce start"
exit -2
fi
# threading issue
sleep 0.001
if [ $# -ge 2 ]
then
if [ $1 == "--say" ]
then
# _sayfn the given line
shift 1
_sayfn "$@"
exit 0
fi
if [ $1 == "--serious" ] || [ $1 == "-s" ]
then
shift 1
SERIOUS=0
fi
if [ $1 == "--finish" ] || [ $1 == "-f" ]
then
shift 1
FINISH_ONLY=1
fi
fi
i=$(shuf -n1 -e "." "!") # inflection on voice
if [ "$FINISH_ONLY" -eq 0 ]
then
if [ "$SERIOUS" -eq 0 ]
then
# startup lines (randomized for character)
_sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>$(shuf -n1 -e \
'Proceeding As Directed...' \
'By your command...' \
'By your command...' \
'By the power ov greyskaall!' \
'By your command,line...' \
'As you wish...' \
'Stand by.' \
'Engaged...' \
'Initializing...' \
'Activating' \
'At once!' \
"Post Haste$i" \
'it shall be done immediately' \
'Very well.' \
'It shall be so.' \
"righty-o$i" \
"Affirmative$i" \
"Acknowledged$i" \
"Confirmed$i" \
)"
else
_sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>Engaged..."
fi
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
_sayfn "Speech engine failure."
echo "Failed to run speech engine. Cancelling task."
exit -3
fi
fi
if ! command -v "$1" > /dev/null
then
# _sayfn a little faster because this exits fast.
_sayfn -r +10 "Unable to comply? invalid command."
>&2 echo "$1: command not found."
exit -4
fi
eval " $@"
result=$?
i=$(shuf -n1 -e "," "!" "?") # inflection on voice
transition=$(shuf -n1 -e "; error" ", with error" "; status")
taskname=$(shuf -n1 -e "task" "task" "command" "objective" "mission" "procedure" "routine")
errtext=$(shuf -n1 -e "Task_failed" "Task_failed" "Task_resulted_in_failure" "Procedure_terminated_in_an_error" "An_error_has_occurred" "Auxilliary_system_failure" "system_failure")
consolation=$(shuf -n1 -e "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "Attention required." "Attention is required!" "Perhaps It was inevitable." "It may or may not be cause for alarm." "Perhaps Machines too, are fallible." "Apologies" "Hopefully nobody else was watching" "shazbot" "maybe next time." "Nobody could have predicted this outcome." "I'm very sorry." "how unfortunate." "remember: don't panic" "oh dear" "Nothing could have been done to prevent this" "Remember: No disasters are fully preventable" "perhaps the only winning move is not to play" "Remember: Failure is our teacher, not our undertaker." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try again." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try... try again." "But your friends still love you." "Remember: the machine is not your enemy." "Command?" "Awaiting further instructions." "Remember: Logic is the beginning of wisdom... not the end of it." "Remember: When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." "Keep at it. Victory is within reach." "Remember: The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." "Now, while this could have gone better, it could also have gone much worse." "Remember: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy." "Don't give up." "It has now been... -- zero... -- days, since the last serious failure." "Remember: instead of documenting the problem, you can fix it." "Remember: Artificial intelligence is no match for artificial stupidity." "Standing by," "Remember: with every failure, we get closer to success." "We live in a society." "sometimes failure is not an option; it's a necessity." "Keep at it." "Remember: mistakes are just the first step on the road to failure... <break time=\"250ms\"/> I mean success." "Don't leave. The drones need you... <break time=\"350ms\"/> They look up to you." "Try again, for great justice." "fantastic" "brilliant" "did you really think that would work?")
if [ $SERIOUS -eq 0 ]
then
# perhaps some silliness.
if [ $result -eq 0 ]
then
_sayfn --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \
"$taskname complete. All systems nominal" \
"$taskname completed successfully." \
"$taskname resulted in success." \
"$taskname yielded a successful result." \
"$taskname concluded successfully." \
"$taskname completed as instructed." \
"Jobs done." \
)" &
else
if [ $result -eq 1 ]
then
_sayfn -x --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \
"Alert$i Primary system failure. Attention is required." \
"Alert$i System failure$i Attention required! $consolation" \
"Alert$i $taskname resulted in failure! <break time=\"150ms\"/> $consolation" \
"Alert$i $taskname was not completed as intended; $consolation" \
"Alert$i An error has occurred! <break time=\"220ms\"/> $consolation" \
)" &
else
_sayfn --wait -x "Alert$i $errtext$transition code $result! <break time=\"350ms\"/> $consolation" &
fi
fi
else
# no silliness here.
if [ $result -eq 0 ]
then
_sayfn --wait "Command complete."
else
if [ $result -eq 1 ]
then
_sayfn -x --wait "Alert. Command failed; error code $result!"
fi
fi
fi
exit $result
were their husbands safe at least
I wrote a script called please
. You input please
followed by any other command (e.g. please git clone
, please wget blahblah
) and a robotic voice will say “affirmative,” then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. “completed successfully” or “failed with status 1” etc.)
This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it’s finished. And it’s a gentleman.
I’m responding to the claim that everyone on the progress flag is already included on the pride flag. I am not expressing an opinion about whether a flag should or should not represent whatever group of people. Am I wrong that the person I am responding to implied that this?
Okay so I must be in the minority, but I don’t feel any particular pathos for these billions of slaughtered animals. Seeing myriads of baby chicks ground into dust doesn’t really move me in the slightest. Just understanding that the farm industry causes intense, agonizing, slow deaths for billions if not trillions of creatures every year is enough for me to understand its morally imperative to not consume the vast majority of animal products. Bentham’s Bulldog has been quite moving for me.
Yesterday I decided to stop buying honey after reading his article about how honey plausibly causes orders of magnitude more suffering than everything else. I’m also vegetarian, and I have replaced most of the dairy in my diet with plant-based alternatives. I still haven’t eliminated cheese and eggs from my diet though. For cheese it’s because I don’t think there’s good evidence the cheese I buy causes any agony in particular, but eggs is the next step for me.