Compliments make me uncomfortable because I only really recieved them when I was quite young, so I have a habit of associating compliments with being a child. So compliments make me feel infantilized.

I also struggle with self-worth, so I also often times feel like I am undeserving of compliments. This causes me to not trust compliments as being genuine. I have a bad habit of assuming compliments are backhanded or are manipulative, or just overall just not genuine.

All I can say is I don’t. And that maybe I am not explaining it clear enough, or that there is an misunderstanding of semantics

I heard from a diagnosed narcissist that its because they see those people as extensions of themselves basically. Like they don’t care for you as an individual, but as a part of themself.

But take all that with a grain of salt

The filter is the fucking community. This space is for shitposts, not political news. You guys spit in the face of the natural filters in place (communities curated for specific things) and just tell us to filter it. Itd be like if you broke into my house and pissed on my floor and just told me to lock the doors. Like bro I did, you came through the second floor window.

Shit post, not a shitpost

You make good points, and I overall agree with you. Although I don’t believe we need to stop farming animals . I think we can continue farming them for stuff like eggs, milk, wool, etc and do it in ethical ways. What are your thoughts of meat from end of life animals?

And I support degrowth. I do not see how this helps you. I never said we don’t have an excess, I just said we need agriculture and we dont need ai data centers.

One, as you said it require properly planned meals, which you seem to understate the actual difficulty of that. I can tell you right now, I would have a bitch of a time factoring that level of meal planning into my life. Secondly, while supplements are something you can do, it is not accessible to everyone. Thirdly, allergies complicate things as well, furthering the need for suppliments.

Vitamin b12 deficiency is quite prevalent in both those in a low socioeconomic status, but also vegans and vegetarian. So clearly this is an issue facing vegans despite supplements. Likely due to supplements not being as accessible as you are letting on. Supplements would especially be more inaccessible if everyone became vegan or vegetarian. Hence why I said veganism and vegetarianism require serious scientific and logistical innovation to make possible.

I am also not too keen on centralizing more power to pharma companies. Do we seriously want to take autonomy away from poor regions as they become even more dependent on major pharma companies in the first world so they can get their daily b12 and other vitamins cause of the ethics of meat consumption?

I also genuinely do believe if any ethical issues with harming animals can be extended to plants and fungi. They are able to sense, communicate, and think. Just in very different ways than animals. Fungi particularly are fascinating regarding this. I do not think just because they exhibit that differently means they’re life should be ignored.

You also need to realize we domesticated a bunch of animals, and we would need to decide what to do with thwm. You just gonna release all those animals in the wild? Animals that have become entirely reliant on humans to survive. Or do we kill every one of them? Either way we are sentencing them to death.

And so I say again, just because something is unethical, doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t do it. And just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it in the most ethical way you can. If you are able to live as a vegetarian, or even vegan, go ahead. I encourage it. But I do not think it is reasonable or realistic to expect it to become a world standard. Lets take it one battle at a time and work to make the harm we do as ethical as we can realistically do now.

I fucking hate AI, but this is a stupid fucking take on why its bad. Guess we gotta go back to hand drawn animation, computer animation takes away from the process. Guess we gotta hand paint family photos cause cameras take away from the process. As long as workers are keeping their jobs, the environment isn’t being destroyed for it, and the end result was ultimately made by a human… I don’t fucking care. And in this case, we are 2/3. So the only problem to me here is the environmental impact, and they could easily fix that through self-hosting the AI model.

Sounds like they need to turn that Pride Parade into a Pride Riot

Except agriculture puts food on the table, and ai data centers just spits out soulless art and tells people to kill themselves. I would not consider them to be comparable.

Yeah, PETA’s propaganda is so focused on showing the horror side and gross out shit that they forget to show why we should be grossed out or horrified in the first place. If someone showed me a pumpkin getting dissected, I am not going to care how “violent” or “gory” it is unless you give me reason to empathize with it. We have alienated people from their food so much, I think people forget that animals are more than food. And secondly, I believe there goals (veganism) are unsustainable, privileged, and unhealthy.

I am not a vegan or vegetarian, despite believing harming living things is ethically wrong. This is because I do believe humans need meat to survive. There are certain nutrients from meat that we simply need, and those nutrients are far too difficult to get without meat. There are just sometimes things that are unethical that we have to do anyways. Sometimes there simply is no ethical choice. That is not to say you shouldn’t strive to make those things as ethical as possible though! We can make meat consumption more ethical, and we should.

I just do not think getting rid of meat from our diet is possible, at least not without some serious innovation in science and our economy. You would need to be able to supply the world’s population with suppliments for every nutrient, vitamin, etc that non-meat food sources struggle to supply in any meaningful way.

This is exactly my thought. I hate AI, I find it unethical. But I find it unethical because of how it affects workers, and I hate it because I believe it is being overused and its environmental impact. I think it is useful as a tool, not as a medium or replacement. It can help with a lot of tedious work and help spur up quick drafts of things, but the final product should be human made. And for the love of god people, stop using it as a replacement for search engines!

Genuinely had a therapist like this. Kept telling her my problems were from an abuse relationship I had in high school, and she kept insisting it couldn’t of been that, it had to of been my parents. Despite me repeating ad nauseum that my parents were supportive and loving. Needless to say I did not continue seeing her.

You’ve never BEEN?!

Its not dose, its the conditions for making it. The temperature when producing it needs to be super accurate. Even being off by a couple degress will fuck the whole thing up.

https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ

Its safe when made in VERY VERY VERY specific conditions. Specifically temperature. If its off by even a couple degrees it will create another compound that is deadly. That is why it is unsafe, because its is too easy to fuck up. Its why when researchers tested, it was fine. Cause they were following the instructions to a t, and could reliably replicate the conditions.

This video covers it. The first half is about the pesticide, the rest is about why farmers can’t plant their own seeds.

Or we could learn from this and reduce speeding and accidents through better road design, because studies show punishment is ineffective. Secondly, in cases where design fails, rehabilition is more effective than punishment. Punishment should be a last resort, and it should be directly related to the problematic behavior. For example taking away their license.

10% of 100 is a lot bigger of an impact than 10% of 1,000,000. If I have 1000$ in my bank account and I get fined 100$ that could be the difference between me making rent or not for that month. If I have $1M and get fined 100K, thats the difference of if I can buy a bigger yacht that year

Are you white? And if so, have you ever asked non-white people if they feel they get treated with prejudice or discrimination because of the color of their skin?

Yall like to say America is so different yet you also forget, America as a nation was founded through colonization BY EUROPEANS. We learned our racism from europeans because we were europeans.

https://youtu.be/jgjujVEDo7Q