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weastie

@ weastie @lemmy.world

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  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Bringing friends and community together? I see an awful lot of Lemmings talk about disliking people, being introverted, etc.

    I think if there's one main thing people will remember about me, it's how I bring people together. I get all my depressed friends off their ass and make them hang out with me, fun stuff :)

  • How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?

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  • I think some people mistakenly think that being in a city means you have to go out a ton because there's all these cool bars, museums, etc.

    But to me, I think of it more like, it's nice that if I want to do one of those things it doesn't require much effort, but I still only do it if I want to

    Scenarios:

    • You want to drink a lot and have an energetic night - One of the coolest things about cities is how close and accessible bars are. This makes it super easy to meet up with your friends and pregame a ton. Then you can walk over to a bar or club already hammered, and you only have to buy one or two drinks to keep it going.
    • You want a cozy night - Then just get together with friends at one of your places and play board games or watch a movie or something. Now, if every single one of your friends has a really small apartment, then I understand this might be less comfortable. Maybe the apartment building has a common space?
    • Daytime events - Parks, community events, festivals, etc. There's usually a few free events every day, check your local news

  • What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup?

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  • Mind sharing what service you use for it? Paid or free?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    weastie @lemmy.world

    What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup?

  • How many musicians we got here on Lemmy?

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  • I'm a bassist in a few bands. Wish there was more bass discussion here on Lemmy.

    If you're into prog rock, check out one of my band's songs: frog rock

  • Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is

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    weastie @lemmy.world

    Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is

  • Reader stuff

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  • Try to frame it like it's exciting, not a failure. It's fun that you have so many more books you want to read!

  • What was your cringe teen/preteen phase?

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  • I thought I was far superior to people because I liked Pink Floyd and their music is actually meaningful and intellectual... yikes. I still like Pink Floyd though

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  • Scary if true, but I'm in the US and everything seems to be working for me. It could have been a temporary bug that was already fixed? Not sure

  • If you want to talk to me so bad join my ventrillo server

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  • Honestly, I hard disagree. Texting is so inefficient. If I want to have a conversation with someone, I just call them. It's so much easier to just get everything sorted all out at once instead of trying to send messages back and forth and you get distracted and forget to reply. Meh. You can so easily turn a conversation that takes hours, sometimes days into a 2 minute phone call

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    What do you think you know about nutrition and what is "healthy"?

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  • Am I missing something, why would you get less of any of those in a city? You would definitely go on more walks in a city, and I don't see how water or sleep would change.

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    What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?

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  • Sometimes I just wanna wear an outfit that makes people laugh and smile...

  • What is your favorite time of the year?

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  • Summer. Especially at night. I feel like summer nights are always the perfect temperature, makes up for it being too hot in the day.

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  • I know this might sound strange but autistic people are roughly 3x more likely to be LGBT so you could consider going to an LGBT meetup. I'm neurodivergent and LGBT and that certainly matches my experience.

  • Hilarious or insane? You decide.

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  • I am more than happy to be preachy about ending the suffering and abuse of literally billions of animals.

    Listen, I appreciate someone who is at least not hostile towards vegans, but I hate this whole "I respect what vegans eat, so they should respect what I eat". Sir, you are eating an animal that was most likely tortured and abused its entire life up until the point it was murdered

  • Hilarious or insane? You decide.

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  • What if my dietary preference was cannibalism? Then would it be okay to shit on my dietary preference?

    Not eating animals isn't a dietary stance, it's an ethical stance.

  • Whats your such opinion

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  • Okay but there's a moral hierarchy when it comes to eating meat. Humans used to hunt, meaning we would kill animals that lived natural lives. Not to mention, we would typically target animals that were older or sickly, because we would have a harder time killing animals that are in their prime.

    That's so much different from modern day agriculture practices. We raise animals in fences so tight they can't turn their heads, and feed them nasty stuff. We abuse the shit out of them until they reach the point where we deem them the most profitable then we kill them. There's nothing natural about that.

    Also, it's really hard to know for sure, but we have a good amount of evidence that humans didn't eat that much meat. First of all, the animals we hunted wouldn't be nearly as fat as the animals we eat today. Secondly, there's evidence that many humans ate roughly 100g of fiber per day, which is not possible if you had any serious amount of meat. Humans ate a lot of plants. 100g of fiber is an insane amount of plants.

  • Whats your such opinion

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  • Honestly I feel like the idea of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is so lame. Like I understand that you could find something technically ethically wrong with everything, but that statement just feels like a way for people who don't want to give up certain things to justify themselves.

    Capitalism, especially modern day capitalism where the government and companies collaborate, does lead to a lot of ethical issues. And yes, I understand that it is not liveable to give up everything that is unethical. But you can still have boundaries.

    I mean like, buying oats and grains from a grocery store, which are typically grown domestically, compared to buying dead abused animals or bananas from a company that uses slave labor. Those are totally different things.

    If you prioritize buying things that are made in countries that have better labor laws, and avoid animal products, then that's a pretty damn good start.

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  • I mean, most vegans would still commend your effort to reduce animal product consumption.

    But from a moral standpoint, simply eating less animal products really doesn't have much value. Imagine using your argument for other moral dilemmas.

    "Racism is wrong, so I reduced the amount of racial slurs I use to only 1/3""Rape is wrong, so I only rape on Mondays now" (in reference to meatless Mondays)

    I hate to be so militant about it, but you either think animal abuse is acceptable or you don't.

    Now, what I do think could be a moral standpoint, if you really want to still be able to eat meat, is to only eat "humane" meat. I put "humane" in quotes because even farmers with the best intentions are still killing animals young. I don't personally believe any animal product can be humane, but even then I can recognize that any animal that was raised on a pasture and ate real food is more ethical to eat than one in a factory.

    So if you genuinely only ate pasture raised beef and chicken (and you were sure about it), then I would say that is quite honorable.

  • Deregulation will surely help the housing crisis 🤡

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  • Lots of open job positions is very healthy for the economy, it gives the worker the ability to choose, and it makes companies have to compete. A ton of companies are literally being forced to increase their wages in order to get enough employees.