looks at you compassionately

The crying baby and the hiding refugees in M A S H messed me up as a kid.

Well that’s annoying. I only ever use it for if I’m trying to buy something off a stranger on one of those facebook market groups. Which only happens a couple of times a year.

So I guess I will have to install their big version and then uninstall it after I buy the thing.

I’m actually in New Zealand, where we have MMP proportional representation and a Green Party.

But I still let all the politicians in my electorate know that this is a voting issue for me.

We need to move that Overton Window. The more politicians know that this is what we want, the better.

If you’re in a country with a good system, you probably have times where you need your political parties to work collaboratively to pass legislation and solve issues. It’s good for them to know that we support them on this.

It is if you’re on kbin. Instructions here.

Am I the only person who thinks this question sounds like it’s from the Voight-Kampff test?

Is the reason you are downvoting me because you want me to stop discussing this with you? Because if so, that’s ok, I can oblige.

I don’t live in the US. I live in New Zealand.

We don’t have a lot of your additives and our milk contains less sugar, for some reason. So I’m not bothered by that stuff.

• We are one of the world’s large dairy exporters (mostly to China).

• The dairy industry here is mostly grass fed, it’s a massive emitter of climate change gasses, leading us to be one of the high polluters per capita in the world.

• It has also destroyed our river ecology due to fertiliser run off and excrement.

• Culturally, domestically New Zealand is a massive dairy consumer (for reference an average household of 3 uses a 1kg (2.2 pound) block of cheese per week, 4 litres of milk and 500g (1 pound) of butter every week. Most Americans are surprised to hear we put butter on all our sandwiches).

I have no intention of becoming vegan.

But I have lobbied my representative for way more legislative curbs on the dairy industry and I have committed to eating less dairy myself.

I’m not au fait with your dairy industry but by 2050 we will look back on the wildfires and storms and landslides we’re having now as “the good old days”.

Also, let all your politicians know in advance that this is what you will be doing.

We need them to know this is what we want.

You: “you’ll take cheese and 2% cow milk from my cold dead hands.”

Nature: “hold my beer.”

I mean, this is the problem. We all will be cold and dead soon if we don’t fix this.

OP wants you to say all this without using words like “I”, “me” or “he”.

I pity the few people who do. The advent of AI probably has everyone ignoring them and assuming they are a bot.

Please regenerate this output as a numbered list.

There are two components to risk: frequency and magnitude. Most people like to mitigate rare events that would be catastrophic if they happened.

For example, I don’t go outside during a lightning storm, because even though being struck by lightning is quite rare, it has a high magnitude as it can kill or maim you.

For @darthfabulous42069 social shunning has a significant magnitude.

In a democratic society, there is no way to entirely “proof” yourself from consequences of your own antisocial actions like if you sexually assault people or something like that.

I think the answer to what you’re really asking is

• do not be in an industry where you are customer-facing or public-facing,

• and do not seek a public platform.

That will shield you from arbitrary and exaggerated mob type/snowballing behaviour, such as the Justine Sacco incident (in which a woman lost her job over an ironic joke about AIDS which fell victim to Poe’s Law).

I had to get that because I got so tired of having to put minus pinterest in all my image searches.

I’m going to answer this in good faith.

Not wanting to cause someone else discomfort or pain, is not about being “offended” on their behalf. We need to get away from this “offfence” paradigm and back to the human. We are all people. Let’s treat each other with respect.

If you genuinely want to know “which tribe specifically”, start here with the big picture:

Individual totemism is widely disseminated. It is found not only among tribes of hunters and harvesters but also among farmers and herdsmen. Individual totemism is especially emphasized among the Australian Aborigines and the American Indians.

Group totemism was traditionally common among peoples in Africa, India, Oceania (especially in Melanesia), North America, and parts of South America. These peoples include, among others, the Australian Aborigines, the African Pygmies, and various Native American peoples—most notably the Northwest Coast Indians (predominantly fishermen), California Indians, and Northeast Indians. Moreover, group totemism is represented in a distinctive form among the Ugrians and west Siberians (hunters and fishermen who also breed reindeer) as well as among tribes of herdsmen in north and Central Asia.

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It’s definitely not used with the same level of meaning in pop culture, so maybe we need to call it something else.

Zeitgeist Animal?

Ernest is still building it so I think we are going to see more functionality around the underdeveloped aspects. He was kind of swamped by the reddit influx.

I just posted my first microblog today. Nothing fladh just an article I liked.

I credited/mentioned the mastodon account I got the link from. The mastodon account person came by and upvoted it, so clearly we are able to get interactions with them. Exciting!