This is why I find it confused.

I just told you how I'm doing what I can, and having great success convincing others to do the same

I told you I don't subscribe to your moral system

You've entirely ignored most of what I've said and failed to engage me in any area where we have common ground. Instead, you attacked me for not doing more under your own value system

You're working at cross purposes to your goals... You're a hardliner. This approach is why some of my family gatherings have a vegan and a "normal" option for foods that taste basically the same. This is why I can't reach some of my family members on this topic - they were attacked and talked down to for their eating habits, now it's about winning and losing for them

Veganism is not the highest ethics of eating habits. The correct answer to my concern for the suffering of plants was a fruititarian diet... But it isn't higher in my own value system, due to the transport involved

Doing more for me means growing my own food, and maybe keeping chickens. Maybe hunting the occasional deer. It means reintegrating with the ecosystem... But I'm not able to do that yet

Also, voting with your wallet is a lie to keep people complacent. Systematic issues must be solved systematically - already there're huge subsidies for the meat industry to keep prices down and for big agro to over produce certain crops. This can only be changed through collective action

So if you don't want me to see you as confused, ask yourself "what are my goals?" and "am I using the best methods available to me to meet my goals?"

There are people basically immune to caffeine. There are extreme caffeine addicts. I can drink two pots myself, and I'm extremely sensitive to caffeine

The metaphor works because it doesn't matter how much coffee you drink - it matters how fast you drink it. And that's a limit set by the business - the size of the cups and how quickly they're refilled

At this point, I feel like you're not even trying to understand what I'm saying...

No, I just eat very little meat. Most of my meals are rice and beans with whatever veggies I have on hand mixed in, preferably locally grown. I'll also add in eggs sometimes, which unfortunately don't come from a local source because I don't have one anymore

And occasionally I go out for a burger or sushi, but I do it rarely and consciously. I enjoy it even more because of that And by framing it this way, I've convinced most of my friends and family to cut back and think more about their choices.

I don't subscribe to the vegan moral system, I find it often inconsistent and confused. Like here... What's best for the bees? What's best for the ecosystem? What's best for the humans?

Wozniak is probably the most famous example. He recognized the corrupting nature of money, decided he had enough, and stopped to live in comfort and occasionally work towards causes he finds important

Lots of people have done the same... But if they're rich and still chasing after money? They'll never stop

No, I can't save them. Because systematic problems cannot be solved through individual action

That being said, it's bold of you to assume someone conscious of the suffering of plants isn't eating as sustainably as they can with the choices they have available

Also, this is about honey - honey production encourages freely planting wild fields rather than mono crops, and it discourages killing the bees. I don't share your moral system, but in mine this is about as good as it gets

You just have to work in legal costs to anything you do. Call it an asshole tax

It seems so silly to me. Do plants not feel pain?

They do. I learned it first hand... You can call it stress if you like, but plants most certainly experience suffering

Like coffee. It might cost them 1¢ a pot... It might cost them $1200 up front and $60 a month for their coffee makers

I find it hilarious that my personal AI, that can run on even a budget gaming PC, is far more reliable than most of these corporate ones 100x the size

I couldn't get past the title.

Good remakes are good, they must bring not only graphics, but game mechanics and balance, up to date. They must be better than the original in all aspects, or they lose out to nostalgia

Bad remakes are bad, and most remakes in this era are bad

It's not about remakes, it's about quality

Yeah... But why is this being pushed so hard? When the billionaire owned media pushes a message this hard, I can't help but look for the terrible consequences I'm missing

This smells like bullshit

Or, you know, you could offer free unprocessed food to the unemployed? It'd be easy to lose weight and improve your health if you got nothing but veggies with a bit of meat

I mean, it would be great if you could write a comprehensive view of a topic and have people read it. Unfortunately, both sides of that are nearly unachievable in this day and age

Science communication is hard. You can't put understanding into words - you have to dance around understanding, over and over from many angles, before you can capture even the most basic understanding of a complex or complicated system

I'm a software dev. My brother started teaching me concepts when I was 14 and he started learning it, I was 22 before he stopped being my mentor and we truly became peers. My friend, who I've been mentoring for the last 3 years, calls me to share achievements and to do after action discussions on his decisions - more and more I have nothing but validation to give him

Everything has endless depth - but understanding can only be learned, not taught. You gain understanding one fragment at a time through thousands of interactions or experiences, not a manifesto

You could make an enclosure. You'll get better prints too

I heard a really great description of this the other day

Imagine you're an ant. Your world is small and scent based, your life is simple and straightforward

Now imagine you experienced a human perspective. You feel the stress and anxiety of something as abstract as money, you know of events on the other side of the world - you understand that there is a world, and how walking in one direction long enough would bring you back here. You see the beauty of the sunset, and dream of traveling to space

You see how humans see ants

You also understand where food is stored, what ant traps are, and the layout of the surrounding area your colony has yet to explore - things incredibly useful for an ant

Now you're an ant again. Your ant brain can't hold onto this knowledge, but you have a notion of what you saw.

You know you found all the food everywhere, and learned of hidden dangers to your colony... But you can't remember the knowledge. You saw impossible ways to travel, but they no longer make any sense. You know the humans see you as pests, just minor annoyances in lives filled with emotions you don't understand. You know they were scared of something... But what could threaten such a being? Another ant touches you to see if you're alright, and you want to scream and vomit using organs you don't have

That's cosmic horror

Infrastructure costs. Their costs don't change with how much data you use, they change with how much data they can throughput

Those two ideas don't clash

Energy use is outpacing renewables so we're still emitting more carbon than ever. When we manage to transition away from fossil fuels, the prices will drop and make that harder

The coherent message is: we can't save ourselves by letting the economics slowly play out

The problem with health insurance as a metaphor is they have real costs... The insurance company does pay out real money every time you use your policy, and that makes it easy to muddy the issue

Let's take the coffee metaphor further. They say "you can drink up to 400ml of coffee, past that we'll add an extra fee. But don't worry, no one does that". Then they refill your coffee without saying a word, they won't tell you how much you've used unless you ask, and they won't stop refilling it unless you tell them not to

The reason the coffee metaphor is great is because, while it's a real thing, it costs them basically nothing. Just like the extra electricity to send your data costs basically nothing

The cost is the number of coffee pots, the labor, the restaurant - all things that don't change in cost no matter how much coffee you drink

Coffee works because the nature of the transaction is the same

Cyberpunk is basically futuristic GTA in a first person view, saints row 4 was basically GTA with superpowers, spiderman is basically GTA as Spider-Man

Even in this one format, there's endless room for creativity and innovation. It's a formula for a fun game...

But where I loved cyberpunk, watchdogs was similar in many ways and I just couldn't get into it

The problem is that they want to shove slop in proven molds and get a winning game. It's still slop