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It's not some big gotcha: it's unethical because consent is impossible to achieve. You have to have been alive for quite a number of years before you even have the cognition and experience to form an opinion about existing.

But that doesn't just mean creating new beings is good because it's impossible to consent. How would that apply to anything else?? By some logic (if you ignore obvious pain signals) animals can't "tell" us they don't consent to being butchered and eaten but that doesn't make eating meat ethical either (I'm not vegan btw.) Having sex with an unconscious person is rape, because they can't consent.

There may be suicidal animals who want to be eaten and there are certainly people who enjoy non-consensual sex and people who like being alive and believe their existence is a gift. The outcome still doesn't excuse the act in these cases.

In all seriousness, visit your local library and ask them about it. Most library systems work with local authors to promote their work and regularly hold meetups and workshops for writers. Many cities have local zines, publishers, and anthologies. By getting to know your local writing scene, you can find opportunities to do readings of your work, have works published in collections, and so on.

I haven't absorbed much about this release yet, but with talks of selling the company, and how massive a success elden ring is, and now this... I'm just saying, the signs are all there. ER is going to be FROMs Skyrim: so successful it destroys the good part of the company.

Still the 🐐!

I install rR on every computer and device that'll run it. Wonder what Cho is up to? clicks link in OP Wow! Apparently he's been cranking games the whole time, what a back catalog to dig through!

Mini-manul

Anon discovers religion, inshallah may the spirits watch over him.

This is so surreal and funny! Something about the idea of secret holiday lunch meat cock fights is just too much

I've even seen a moderator on Lemmy describe "freedom of speech" as nothing more than a right wing wolf whistle and banning someone.

A minor point (but maybe English is a second language): what right wingers do is "dog whistle," as in a sound so high-pitched only dogs can hear it. A "wolf whistle" is, funny enough, a kind of non-verbal cat-call. That is, it's a sound expressing interest or approval, specifically its the hi-lo whistle like Phwooooot- WOOooooo.

https://youtu.be/eLbyGJgc7Uk

Please take down these candid photos of my partner and I!

I swear there was an ancient funny blog that introduced me to huitlacoche in the early 00's. I finally tried it a few years back (in Mexico) and it's pretty good!

I thought the blog was Steve Don't Eat It! but I've only found those archived posts and no corn smut. Maybe it was an old Cracked or Something Awful listicle?