[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

A friend of mine has a farm and adopts the occasional "free-range" chicken (which just means there is some outside part accessible from the cage). They are so heavily bred that they kept falling over because their breasts were too large, so they wouldn't move much. This is always what I think about when I read free range. Basically a chicken too fat to move that can look outside an open window.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Your first point is literally why I went vegetarian. I tried getting meat out of sources that I could ethically comply with but gave up after a while. If you live in a city it is practically impossible.

I say vegetarian, because I eat the occasional egg if I personally know the chickens and their living conditions.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

He's also right. The headline is shit.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Geheimtipp: Aufhören in Hotels zu gehen. Besonders die mit Animateuren. Geh in Unterkünfte, die von locals geführt werden. Und Besuch die Gegenden richtig. Dann lernst du die Menschen auch wirklich kennen.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The solution is a Multi-Party system with coalition and then compromise out of a position of power. We need to accept that in almost all societies the real left are a minority. Humans don't like the socialist ideas even if it benefited then Right now because they dream of escaping poverty and to then be better than others. If we destroyed the class system they'd have no chance to some day be better than other people. I believe this drive to get ahead is part of human nature and only few are able to fight it and think in the benefit of the whole.

So there are 2 options:

  1. Is a revolution, violent and ends in establishing an authoritarian government forcing your beliefs on the majority of people which kinda goes against my democratic beliefs and the right of freedom

  2. Go into politics. In europe it would be voting very left and gain enough votes to join a coalition to make the centrists enable more and more socialist policies. This worked very well in some countries like early Germany, netherlands and a big portion of Scandinavian countries. In America basically the only option would be to join the democratic party and advocate socialist policies from within like Bernie sanders is trying for example. Vote more left in the primaries to try and gain influence.

After that when it comes down to voting either of the 2 parties though you probably need to accept the current majority in the democratic party in order to not enable far right.

The time to go more left is between big elections and from within. In big elections like the upcoming its time to set differences aside and unify for the lesser evil.

Never forget that a democracy is a rule of the majority of the population and not a rule of the best policies from your perspective. If you think: Fuck the majority, this is how the country should be run, you are not democratic.

This of course disregards the influence powerful people take in politics which is another topic and way more complicated.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

"I respect christians who don't force their views on me"

No, you don't. You just prefer not to be reminded that you're living in sin.

Everybody preaching thinks, everyone must adhere to their personal moral beliefs. They don't.

And we are not advocating veganism by antagonizing people. That just makes YOU feel better about yourself and doesnt help the animals at all. If you actually care about animal well-being you will set your ego aside and try to actually convince the carnivores by being a good example and adapting your arguments.

I always point out that I will not discuss the morals of killing animals because it's difficult for a lot of people. I will go on the level how our society treats the animals before killing them. Almost noone is arguing about that. And I've convinced a lot of people that way to at least drastically reduce their meat consumption. The rest will come later.

Isn't it about reducing animal suffering in the world in total? It should be. Making everyone be vegan in no time at all is unrealistic. We are reducing global meat consumption by emphatically making people question their choices and not by antagonizing them. They'll just get defensive and mock us.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Can someone develop a tool that automatically screens TOS and small print for apps and warns you of agreeing to shit like this?

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Would you be okay with me moving into your garden and building a hut there and threatening you when you protest ? And when you silently let me live in your garden I bring all my family and friends and build more and start taking your rooms because you know, I need the place and some ancestor of mine told me God promised me your garden. Would you maybe wanna hit me if I don't stop?

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Of course kids don't have basic common sense. It develops with experience and from the things we teach them. That's why you don't leave them on social media completely unsupervised. They learn stupid shit from influencers because they don't have any filters yet.

There is a reason kids don't have full rights. Don't judge them like they're adults. It's our responsibility to protect them.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Radiator Springs is the name of the city in Pixar movie 'cars'

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

It wants to stop staring at a screen all day and go outside.

[-] Malidak@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Even better. All the bottling and filling machine manufacturers could sell expensive upgrade packages for the beverage companies to even be able to work with the new caps. In our case we even had to completely retire two older machines because there are incompatible and buy new ones. Great for the environment for sure.

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