Jerkface (any/all)

Humans didn’t become effective hunters until after we started using technology. We’re not evolved for hunting. We have the biology of herbivores, for crying out loud! The more meat we eat, the younger we die and the more diseases we experience. [1] [2] We’re evolved for running, sweating, speaking, and eating starches.

Inducing consumption of meat, and corrupting people’s scientific understanding of our natural history and biological needs, is exactly one of the goals of contemporary capital.

Whatever you eat, something has died for it. Yes, even plants.

Okay? So what? That’s irrelevant, and I think you know that. I think you are just trying to distract yourself from processing ideas and feelings that are inconvenient for you.

No one is against the death of any living creature. That’s a ridiculous straw-man.

You cannot be cruel to a plant. You cannot commit violence against a plant. You cannot commit atrocity against a plant. These are things you do every time you buy an egg. Plants DON’T HAVE EXPERIENCES. The experiences of animals are real and matter.

It’s funny how plants rights advocates only seem to exist in the presence of people appealing for compassion to animals. Funny, transparent, and pathetic.

Do you know why people don’t have empathy for animals? Because they are cowards. Experiencing the feelings of creatures that you abuse so heartlessly HURTS more than you are even willing to understand. So you just block it all out and pretend it isn’t even happening. You make stupid little arguments that ignore the point, just to distract yourself from thinking about that very point. It doesn’t matter that you’re making the same arguments that have been refuted a million times before, because you are not interested in engaging in good faith, you just need a distraction.

From your own fucking cruelty and violence. Never allowing yourself to even consider that you can JUST STOP being cruel and violent. Because then you’d have to admit to yourself that you’ve been manipulated into being a monster all your life.

How many eggs do you have to eat before thoughts of the violence and cruelty you are committing impinge upon your consciousness?

Psychological theory advances every year, but we don’t get more resistant. Not only do we all have basically the same brain, but our culture is gradually shaped to prevent us from having unprofitable ideas, like that mercy and compassion are values that area genuinely important to cultivate.

Could be a thing among FOSS projects

I usually treat a path as a series of dereference operations, each with a potential security precondition. You could protect /secure/… with credential checks, and report 403 at that point, before even looking at the rest of the resource path. It exposes the prefix but not the multiple endpoints that might exist below that point.

Is this true?? I suspect something closer to the way the KGB was “dismantled” and then re-assembled around the entire government.

And I’m saying that’s looking for a reason to be helpless. The behavioral differences between educated and uneducated are shockingly small. Regardless of your education, you (AA5B) are probably doing the same stupid things, some of which you know you shouldn’t be doing, but you keep doing them because of cultural conditioning. Leading to your own predictable, preventable death. Knowing that is hard to cope with and there are entire industries dedicated to helping people find a reason to be helpless and just accept their situation, when they could easily change. And some do.

Preventable heart disease is the leading cause of death in every US state, but not of every nation. It is not the leading cause of death in Japan, and nearly that alone enables them to have one of the highest life expectancy of any nation. Any two US states are more alike each other than they are a healthy country.

Canada is the USA with good (for the sake of discussion…) healthcare. The life expectancy is only slightly better, because they share the “Standard American Diet.” There is only so much medicine can do with people are killing themselves at every meal.

How Not To Die in 82 minutes

How Not To Die in only 17 minutes

How Not To Die from Heart Disease, the leading killer of Americans

The leading causes of death of Americans are all preventable, and none of them are viral infections. (Though COVID might have moved the numbers somewhat.)

And yet every state has the same leading causes of death. Nearly any two states are more alike than either of those states and another country.

Note that says reverse, not prevent. This means that if you are on the verge of a heart attack, you may wish to consider additional interventions. CVD takes years of bad behaviour.

Atherosclerosis is acquired from diet. There is no other way to get it. The components of diet that lead to atherosclerosis are entirely avoidable. They are not just non-essential, they are harmful.

I have a resource I can check for a source, but I don’t think you’re fully acting in good faith. You keep trying to deny the premise rather than actually engaging with it. Like I’m trying to pull one over on you or something. Or, like 99% of other Americans, you are desperately trying to avoid processing the truth of the matter.

I get that you are skeptical. I also see that you are not informed. So maybe just take a minute and consider, what if it’s true? What would that discussion look like?

(Here is a collection of links to research showing that CVD is both preventable and largely reversible: https://pmri.org/research/heart-disease)

The leading cause of death is the same. The leading cause of death of poor Republicans is the same as that of wealthy cardiologists: preventable forms of heart disease. There is so much toxic masculinity and superstition about food in the USA, even people who know better conform to the cultural norms, and kill themselves with unhealthy food.

Asking Americans why they are like they are is just going to result in a bunch of denial, obfuscation, rationalization, and misdirected aggression.

This is what kills Americans the most: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/ And almost all of them are preventable.

Lol got me. I am of course referring to atherosclerosis, which is on its own the leading cause of death of Americans. Now what?

The leading cause of death is not viral infection, it’s heart disease. And heart disease is 100% preventable through diet that is cheaper than the SAD. There are more examples. Just go down the leading causes of death of Americans, they are largely preventable.

Some things, people cannot change, except by getting worse. Someone who is suffering from dementia, certain personality disorders, etc., may learn techniques to cope and even thrive, but there’s nothing that can restore lost brain function, or undo childhood developmental issues that fundamentally affect the brain.

The British went about their lives with bombs falling on them every day. When you are powerless, this is how you survive.

People in glass houses, name caller.

Just open TikTok! Now your problem is solved, as well as mine.

At least you’ll be out while you’re still young