Thanks. Had no idea as a Finn what this was about and I was born in the 80’s.

Can you understand that I see a fluffy animal I’d like to pet despite thinking it’s not immoral to eat them?

Because I don’t think you do. And if you want more people reducing the amount of (factory farmed) meat they eat and/or supporting vegan products, perhaps don’t paint eveyone who eats meat as a “someone only capable of seeing burgers and leather belts”.

I have a leather jacket. It’s older than me. It’s from the 70’s or perhaps even 60’s. It’s still in good condition because I take care of it. How many plastic (polyester) jackets have you gone through in the last 20 odd years? Because those hurt mother nature both directly and indirectly. How often do have you used an airplane? What’s your carbon footprint? Despite me eating meat, I guarantee mine is lower than yours.

But that’s okay, because you’re not capable of equating indirect harm to anything you contribute to, no, it’s only the evil “carnists” who just can’t be nice to animals or even ever really feel happiness from the gut wrenching hunger to consume animal flesh they must be suffering from all the time.

Oh well, it’s still a bit cheaper than here, relatively.

But I remberer lots of people saying how they were gonna quit once packs hit 5€. And at the time it felt like something crazy that would never happen, and packs cost like 3 or at most 4€ then.

I mean yeah, I don’t consume as much cigarettes nowadays, in fact none, but am still a smoker as I don’t like smoking weed without tobacco, but I also don’t like smoking tobacco without weed.

My opinion is just that vice taxes are shit, because while there might be an argument made, it disproportionately affects people of different income. What’s a pack of ciggies tripling their price to someone with high and stable income? Nothing. What is it to the lowest classes? With minimum wage back in idk say 2005 you only needed to work like 15-20min to earn enough for ciggies, now it’s definitely more than an hour. And that’s not counting income taxation etc, just from gross pay.

Honestly it’s weird how adamant people are there have always been people who solely preferred one sex over the other. While it’s generally true for modern society, people wouldn’t have even understood what you mean in ancient times by “sexual orientation”, really. I mean you could obviously explain it and people could answer to a degree, but…

Well, think of this, we have left and right in our languages. We all know those are relative terms. My left and your left are different, most of the time. Anyway, there exists a tribe who don’t have relative words for directions, and they only use cardinal directions, all the time. As in if they’re hanging a painting, they’d say “no, no, a bit to the north” instead of “left”. On a tangent, it makes them very much immune to getting lost as they have incredible sense of direction for that reason. My point being that to us it’s simple that you just use left and right, why wouldn’t you, when people know what it means and it’s simple. So why doesn’t that tribe use them? Idk, it’s just not in their culture. Just like such strict classifications of sexual orientation weren’t much of a thing in ancient and prehistoric times.

Bill And The Romans Talk About Sexuality | The Eaters Of Light | Doctor Who

Cornelius: Yeah, don’t worry, Bill, Lucius will look after you.

Lucius: Shut up, Cornelius!

Bill: Ahh, Lucius, erm, right, listen there’s, erm, something I should explain.

Lucius: What?

Bill: This is probably just a really difficult idea. I don’t like men that way.

Lucius: What? Not ever?

Bill: Nah, not ever. Only women.

Nah…not ever.

Lucius: Oh. Alright, yeah, I’ve got it. You’re like Vitus then.

Bill: What?

Lucius: He only likes men.

Vitus: Some men. Better looking men than you, Lucius.

Lucius: I don’t think it’s narrow-minded, I think it’s fine. You know what you like.

Bill: And you like both?

Lucius: I’m just ordinary, I like men and women.

Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch

I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it’s probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There’s a few price-hikes every year.

“No. They aren’t. You can only keep them for eggs in some places.”

I call bullshit.

There is no U.S. state where it is illegal to kill your own chickens or where you are restricted solely to keeping them for eggs. While California has strict humane slaughter laws ( California Humane Slaughter Act) and various localities have zoning restrictions, home slaughter for personal consumption is generally legal throughout the United States, provided it is done humanely

https://www.animallaw.info/article/detailed-discussion-legal-protections-domestic-chicken-united-states-and-europe#2D

Well despite it, I think his bombings still kinda pale in comparison to the ones US pulls.

Whenever I see an article with something I’m not sure who it’s being pushed by and why, I tend to check the profile.

If there’s several posts a day but several weeks since they last commented on anything, I usually disregard the article, because I’m too lazy to find out what agenda the account is pushing.

I love the implication that the Rapture happens via balloons and harnesses.

I don’t know, but I need to see that.

I can. But I can’t exist in polite society. So… here we are.

I’ll be the first to say “well done, you”. I only got 32 could’ve easily spulrged at least for 64.

Oh yeah that might be the one I’m remembering. Idk there were so fucking many it’s gross

I think that was still very much a thing at least a decade after Britney became legal.

Gif reminder that Daenerys is 13 at the start of GoT. But ofc the actress was 24 in s1 so not really anything controversial.

I can’t say for sure that actresses ages were tracked as much but I remember like sites showing countdowns to when Emma Watson became of legal age. I’m the same age roughly so it wasn’t weird for me but it was weird that people did it.

And still do.

https://medium.com/@yomiadegoke/counting-down-to-female-celebrities-turning-legal-is-more-than-crass-its-dangerous-94f8abbf4674

I thought it was a joke up until… today.

Idk “account tenure” sounds like “if you signed up when we first opened in 2015 we prolly don’t need an id”

But what do i know

Yeah I’ve had mine for roughly the same time. It’s kinda annyoing being anywhere without smart lighting. You have to shut off lights before going to bed, instead of shutting them off after you’ve climbed under the covers.

And having to put on the lights just to go have a piss in the middle of the night? That would wake me up too much. So I just put on a few red low lights to roughly see where things are without waking myself up.

Then again anyone super into privacy wouldn’t probably love these, as as far as I know, having several WiFi using bulbs on the ceiling also means that anyone with access to the data could actually function as movement sensors. So the metadata Hue has about me (or at least could access if they wanted to) would tell them when I’m in bed or in the kitchen or having guests or whatnot. Apparently it’s based on the attenuation of the signal strength and based on those numbers you can “see” the object moving from the signal strength changes.

Oh apparently to use it myself I’d need a Hue Pro Bridge, but they came up with the system on the old one. Now the pro version has an analyser in it so makes it work better.

I sort of knew some of this, I think, but definitely not all of it, nor as succinctly.

Thanks!