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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • I don’t hate work itself. I hate companies and the system that forces me to work a job I don’t give a fuck about.

    I don’t have the resources nor opportunities to just work on something I love until it can maybe make some money. Unfortunately, that’s reserved to the wealthy or the lucky. I’ve been working in private on many things that don’t earn money. Maybe what I’m working on is shit. Maybe what I’m working on doesn’t matter. Maybe it never can be profitable. But I can’t throw everything away and just dedicate hundreds or thousands of hours to it like some lucky few can.

    This is why UBI will always have my support. It’s my firm belief that anti-UBI people are actually afraid of the competition is would cause. Imagine if instead of 100 people having the time and resources to compete with you, there’d be thousands, maybe even millions. Imagine suddenly thousands of people actually digging into politics and deciding they want to give it a shot. Imagine thousands deciding they wanted to do their hobby fulltime and give it a shot at becoming something. Woodworking, climbing, athletics, journalism, gaming, content creation, mechanics…
    There’d be a flurry of activity.





  • We could obviously argue about this for a long time. We could link to studies supporting our own viewpoints and still end up disagreeing, so I’ll just short circuit that and disagree with you on most of what you said.

    Only the last part I agree with: animals exhibit intelligence and social structures. That isn’t limited to mammals, hot or cold-blooded creatures but insects as well.

    We humans think we are better, more evolved, more intelligent, and thus more deserving of the crown on this planet. How intelligent are we though if we lose our capability to reason in groups? How smart are we if refuse to tackle climate change? How deserving of the crown are we if we are willing to roll the dice and continue the mass extinction even we are provoking just so that a few of use can indulge for a few generations?





  • When a cheetah hunts a gazelle, the gazelle doesn’t consent to death. When parasites infest you, you don’t consent. When cows eat grass, the grass doesn’t consent.

    There is nearly no form of food consumption that doesn’t extinguish a life or subjugate another lifeform. Until we can grow food in tubes to feed the human race, that will stay a fact of life for humans. Wild animals will continue though and that isn’t something we can nor should intervene in.