causasui

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"Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways - the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever."

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Comment · 6 months ago

I don't know what it would take to replace my iPhone SE 3. I can't come to terms with the losing the home button and the fingerprint scan auth.

Comment · 1 year ago

Totally agree. Apply can pry my iPhone SE 3 from my cold dead hands.

The perfect form factor. Touch ID instead of Face ID. It's the absolute pinnacle of the iPhone models, based on the iPhone 6.

I don't understand why I can't just have this same phone with a slightly better camera. That's all I want.

Comment · 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m6Blqs0IgY

Comment · 1 year ago

I read for about 30-60 minutes in the sun before the UV gets too high.

Started this ritual a few years back and I couldn't imagine not doing it now.

Comment · 1 year ago

You probably want to use Discriminated Unions https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/concepts/unions/#discrimina...

Comment · 2 years ago

This response to the point made by the person to whom you're responding is the philosophical equivalent of plugging your ears and going "la la la can't hear you".

> In the grand scheme of things, we're all just temporary cosmic dust, right?

What else would you be able to justify using this platitude?

Comment · 2 years ago

People will say they've had children to quell existential dread _and_ also claim having children is an unselfish act all in the same breath.

Comment · 2 years ago

They're called "knockers"; generally the score threshold for a free game or "replay" isn't hard-coded but is instead based on the grand champion score, so depending on location they can very from very low to very high.

Comment · 4 years ago

As an avid (but terrible) disc golfer, this gives me an idea...

Comment · 4 years ago

A package of tofu costs $1.99, which is enough for a meal for 2. How much does meat cost you these days? This trope is so tired.

Comment · 4 years ago

People suffering from poor health because of a shitty diet is not a uniquely vegan phenomenon. Heart disease kills more people in the US than anything else and a poor diet plays a massive role in that. Talk about a straw. man.

Comment · 4 years ago

None of those are straw men; I've heard every single one, including one of my favorites "cow overpopulation" from you "cheese goddess" specifically.

The same way plenty of farm animals are supplemented with b12 for later human consumption, it's mindlessly easy to get the adequate amount of b12 in a vegan diet. Tons of vegan food come fortified, and if not, a 1000mg supplement once a week couldn't be simpler.

Both the American Dietetic Association[0] and British Dietetic Association[1] confirm that a well-planned vegan diet is healthy for all stages of life.

_My_ bingo card says: someone whose entire life and identity has been in animal agriculture takes personal umbrage to the notion that their lifestyle is immoral and destroying the planet.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19562864/ [1] https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/vegetarian-vegan-plant-based...

Comment · 4 years ago

If you trace this thread backwards to its root (by essentially responding to every answer with "so what?"), you end up with the question "would it a 'bad thing' if humanity were to become extinct?"

Anecdotally, the vast majority of people I've met - from all walks of life and religious/political leanings - will answer this question with an unthinking "yes, of course that's bad".

I've been curious lately why this is. From the standpoint of Christianity, isn't the end goal rapture followed by total extinction anyway? From the standpoint of agnosticism/atheism, wouldn't an extinction mean the end of human suffering?

Why are we as a species so afraid of not being able to sustain ourselves through a constant churning of new births? Is it just our monkey brain ultimately calling the shots?

Comment · 4 years ago

Yeah but my ancestors natural human history circle of life top-of-the-food chain indigenous people crop deaths protein deficiency b12 free-range cage-free humanely-killed cow overpopulation lions and gazelles moral relativity plants feel pain canine teeth bacon is delicious though

Comment · 4 years ago

What? The far left has _never_ liked Musk. He's a billionaire. He's the perfect representation of all they decry.

Unless by far-left you really mean neoliberals.