Xkcd Rule : 196

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why I'm not on Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

This is why Lemmy is as close as I get to any social media.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is my experience with every fourth post on the Nextdoor app.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No kidding. Nextdoor is a disaster.

I checked in recently and this literally was my news feed

Dance in the park Event
Free boxes
Bar has new sandwich
WHY IS BLACK TEENAGER WALKING ON SIDEWALK
Pictures of a rainbow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mine right now (sorted by recent):

Ad for local flooring installer
Sponsored ad for power company
"Hey, everyone. 👋 I'm Shawn. Hello!"
Ad for local home remodeling
User giving away a cat
Sponsored ad for garage doors
Another user welcome message
Found pet alert from local animal shelter
Sponsored ad for bathroom showers
Ad for local bathroom remodeling
Ad for local handyman service

So when it's not ranty freakouts it's 85% ads.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here's the real one:
Adopt pets from the shelter cause they won't live as long and that means less responsibility. So people will think you are a good person, but you actually just want a lazy old dog that will die a year from now. Soon you will be able to tell fake sob stories about the 40 shelter dogs you had to have put down. Does that make you a good person or not? Where is your god now?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Im gonna dare say it, if the dog lived a good life in your hands, you are a good person. Even when your motive might not be good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

To quote another XKCD:

[+] [email protected] -17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will never understand how something like 96% of the population kills for pleasure but thinks hunting for pleasure is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Uhm, what 96% of the population actually kills stuff themselves?

[+] [email protected] -17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My mistake, I forgot that paying hitmen absolved you of moral responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I assume you're talking about the meat industry, which is definitely not ethical, but let's not pretend killing stuff for food is the same as killing stuff to pass the time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess it gets somewhat blurred when you don't need to kill stuff to eat, but you do it anyway because you like the taste better. That's arguably some version of killing for fun?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I think it's still different, as killing is an unfortunate means rather than an endgoal. I'd love to eat lab grown meat, that'd satisfy my needs without killing animals. But that wouldn't satisfy a hunter who is killing for fun.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why not? It's not necessary, right, healthy, or environmentally friendly. What reason is left but pleasure? you eat steak instead of tofu to pass the time more pleasantly, no different from someone whaling or shooting rhinos

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is very much a problem with a lot of people simply refusing to accept what butchering actually entails.

There was a public experiment done by a reputable German science magazine where they asked a farmer to set up a stand for freshly butchered geese at a nearby city's outdoor market. The catch was that the geese were still alive and they'd be killed and butchered at the location. So many people reacted with outrage, and in the end only one goose got slaughtered, because the buyers themselves were more than aware of the butchering process. The rest of the geese were rescued by an animal rights advocate who bought them all to be kept at a rescue farm.

Here's the video, obviously fully in German, but you can see pedestrian reactions: https://youtu.be/9AXt-6mAVEo

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

And yet almost everyone I've ever shown slaughterhouse footage to did not change at all.

I think that has more to do with being seen to do a thing or not. Nobody is actually stupid enough to just forget what is involved from one moment to the next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think a big difference is how seeing it happen in real life is much more impactful than on a video.

I grew up around butchering animals, and even got to visit a nearby family-owned slaughterhouse on occasion, for me slaughtering and butchering animals is something that I'm much more aware of due to these experiences, I've even been taught how to slaughter animals, and though I would never advocate to have everyone who wishes to eat meat slaughter an animal themselves, I think it's absolutely important to see the process in person and not just on video.

Something that happens a lot in my experience is that specific animal parts are considered "gross", entrails and such are usually the most common parts considered as such. That's probably the easiest way to figure out if someone is aware of what butchering means or not, no, considering them gross is not directly a problem, but going all "eek" and stuff is a great way of telling me that the other person is ignorant of the meat industry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'd recommend not judging others based on merit. I for one have an eating disorder which makes it really difficult for me to eat, let alone enjoy most vegetables or meat alternatives. So yes, meat pretty much is a necessity for me, even if I would like to eat less of it. So does that make me a killer, doing it to enjoy my freetime or make a profit? Or does that mean I'm just trying to live my life without starving?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yep. They have just as much right to live as you. Find other options, I'm sure you can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, a friend of mine tried to be vegetarian and then found out that she's fructose intolerant.

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

There is a difference between wanting food you think is delicious and killing something for that reason and taking pleasure in the process of killing something. In one scenario the killing is a necessary evil in the other it's the whole point of the process.

Aside from that the fact that so many people do pay "hitmen" should tell you that they do not enjoy the killing part, because otherwise they'd do it themselves.

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

There's a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?

How is a meal different to a trophy or a photograph? Or even just the memory of the killing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

There’s a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?

I'm not sure what the difference between those two options is. But those aren't the two options I was talking about. There are people that enjoy the process of killing things. There are people that like to eat dead animals but do not enjoy the process of killing the animal. Those are two different things in my mind.

[+] [email protected] -41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's wild how the same people who upvote antibullying comments and talk about how awful the orange guy is are the same ones who are horribly bullying, in threads the don't agree with.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

What?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah that's me.

The difference is where Orange Man actively instigates violence. Everything out of his mouth comes from a egotistic or selfish perspective.

Where me mocking idiots on the internet is more about shutting down bad ideas from spreading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not a fan of orange man. He also gets way too much media attention.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Projection or wrong thread?