That feature never affected my driving at all and never bothered me at all. In fact I don’t think I ever remembered that it was a thing after the first week or two.
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3·2 days agoBut NoNvEgAnS ArE BaD is so fucking convincing. Veganism would absolutely be more popular if it weren’t for dipshits like you
I keep telling you you are unreachable. If you were reachable you might get it
I lived in a world of realistic optimism where it was possible that maybe ya know, up to 10% might vote for Donald Trump. Like 35% of eligible voters chose him and most of them still would even after he’s hurt them directly. And I started off “more negative” than you are now. There’s being optimistic and then there’s being mad at the world for not being perfect.
Yeah you’re clearly very open to being convinced that your incorrect characterization of what I said is true.
See previous comment. It was extremely clear.
I mean even that’s not true. Probably 98% could learn these things. 2% is not zero. In reality though even if a much greater number of volunteer teachers existed, we’d still end up with an even more non-zero number.
Food deserts existing is completely irrelevant to your price point argument
It’s 100% exactly one of the situations I was referring to.
This is just pointless talking to you here. You’ve clearly made up your mind that not only is every non-vegan actively not choosing veganism, they do so even though their lives would be easier if they did.
You may not be able to grasp the concept that many people live a long drive/walk from even a friggin grocery store but it’s still their reality which you’ve chosen to refuse an ounce of understanding toward.
Everyone can learn to read.
See, this is exactly my point. No, they absolutely cannot. Over half of adults in America are functionally illiterate. I’m close to someone who teaches middle schoolers to read who struggle, usually with a combination of horrible educational background, low income situations, intellectual disability, or hardship caused by having to flee their country of origin, for their own safety.
Even if we had universally offered free classes to teach reading and cooking (we don’t, not even close), there still would be many people who wouldn’t even be able to take advantage of them, for various reasons.
What I’m really arguing here is against the absolutist attitude. It’s just not helpful and it sets you up mentally to be even more disappointed in people than you’d be without the attitude…
Edit: the fact that this comment is getting downvotes tells you all you need to know about why people have to choose veganism in spite of your horrible messaging about it, and never because of it.
You may hate the argument, and I get that too, but many people just don’t have your level of knowledge. Many men I know for example, literally wouldn’t even know how to operate a stovetop. I’m not even trying to make the point that it’s the most common situation to not have a possible way to being vegan, I’m just trying to make the point that it is ludicrous to suggest that everyone can “EASILY” go fully vegan today. That makes so many assumptions that don’t fit the lives of many people.
What an unrelatable privilege-assed human. People live in food deserts all over America, as only one example. You can pretend they don’t all you want, but all you’ll do is give people the impression that vegans are out of touch assholes. For the record, and to reiterate, I support veganism. Just not people like you who lie and dodge truth because you need to feel superior. You’re absolutely working against what you claim to advocate for.
PS; username checks all the way out.
you’ve totally dropped the transportation angle
No I didn’t drop anything. You’ve lost the thread.
you are trying to avoid confronting your own needless cruelty and violence
This is the kind of sanctimonious shit that guarantees many people who could choose veganism, never will. I noticed your addressed absolutely zero of the valid points I made. Kinda admitting I’m right to bring them up.
We can consider believing that only if we assume everyone is privileged enough to have constant access to vegan food. Which is a ridiculous assumption. Being vegan is great and I’m glad people choose to, but you must have a warped view of how others live if you think it’s not just possible, but “EASY” to have that diet. Billions of people cannot even afford the luxury of food that isn’t the cheapest and most processed food money can buy.
And this is not even addressing your “zero” assertion. Unless you carefully grow and harvest your own crops, all your meals ended up killing and hurting small animals that were attempting to live in a field where your meal was grown.
1·3 days agoI appreciate these tips. I’m gonna save this comment for the next time I circle back to Jellyfin.
Because I have friends and family that want access to some of the media I host. It’s a lot easier if I can just give them access and have it just work and whatever device they want to use.
I don’t know, and honestly that’s the beauty of it. It just works, and while I know every system is vulnerable to attack, I suspect it’s more secure than what I’d setup myself.
They provide super-simple access from outside your home without any tech knowledge. Automagically. It even works (albeit slowly) without port forwarding.
You may not need Plex to do anything, but it’s kinda disingenuous to say most people can easily and securely set up port forwarding and a DNS service/reverse proxy/etc to keep outside access working.
I am hoping that jellyfin gets better over the next few years. I keep trying it and it keeps feeling broken to me. Lots of people have the same experience it seems but then there’s also always a few people that act like I’m crazy. Nah, it’s still not there, unless things have changed a lot in the past year.
I appreciate the story and that you’re not like two of the other commenters who couldn’t wait to fight me.
The truth about that is “most people”. The same way if someone flips you off while driving when you didn’t even do anything wrong, that is offensive. The same as the other day when some asshat made a bad driving decision and took it out on me yelling “hurry it up” while I was (already quickly) crossing the street. It matters how people treat others when they’re trying to take a moral stand.
As it happens, I know a lot about veganism and I’ve thought a lot about it. For about 12 years now I’ve reduced my meat intake. I’ve backslid slightly but for probably 5 years I probably was 90% vegetarian. Now I’m probably at about 60-70%.
If I truly was just now thinking about it for the first time, the original commenter I responded to would’ve driven me far from having a desire to become vegan. They were insanely rude and self righteous and distorted facts to the point where it’s accurate to call some of their statements lies.
The only reason I even commented to begin with is they said anyone can “easily” reduce animal suffering in their lives to “zero”. Which is just flatly false. So I challenged it and I wasn’t rude about it. Which was…not rewarded.
There absolutely is in western culture at least, a correlation between affluence and avoidance of animal products. It’s the reason you’re gonna find like 2% of the population as vegetarians in the tiny town I’m from, while in NYC it’s probably like 25%. Screaming at people condescendingly, using phrases like “you have the flesh of innocent suffering in your teeth” is not helping anyone. Telling people they can easily change their entire lives, implying it’s only their moral failing that they haven’t yet, is not helping anyone.
I’m sure you get a lot of this, I’m just explaining why this thread had me in the mood that it did. The other commenters were shitty and dismissive and honestly, lying. Partly an “Internet person thing” and partly a unique “self righteous vegan thing”. I’ve tried to live in a way that minimizes negative effects on others as well. We need more people doing these kinds of things, not people getting screamed into a guiltfest (doesn’t work at all anyhow) if they haven’t started yet.