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Miphera

@ Miphera @lemmy.world

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fan of beans and buns, JS enjoyer, Genshin addict

  • Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

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  • If anything, it's climate change and failing systems due to late-stage capitalism, followed by some form of fascism or other authoritarian system, aided by AI to stay in power.

    Electricity use from AI data centers on a global scale isn't impactful enough to make that much of a difference, it's more of a local issue, at least at the current rate. Water use is entirely negligible outside of the surrounding area, animal agriculture uses more than a thousand times as much as all data centers combined.

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  • Subs for almost everything, including things like donghua or live-action stuff, it just always feels way better to me.

    The only exception I can think of where I preferred the dub is Dragon Ball. And I've seen Princess Mononoke in Japanese, English, and German, and enjoyed all versions a lot. Outside of anime, also SpongeBob and The Simpsons in German, but that might just be bc that's how I grew up with them.

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  • thank mr skeltal

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    What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?

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  • We made an unspoken promise to the animals we domesticated: If you provide for me and my family, I will ensure your line never fades from this world

    It is unethical to abandon that promise, and the extinction of a species may be the single greatest wrong mankind can commit.

    Dozens of species go extinct every single day, in large parts due to deforestation for animal agriculture. Acting like keeping a handful of species we eat from extinction is somehow noble is silly by contrast. The concept of a species is a human construct in the first place, individual animals don't care that their species (which isn't even natural, we bred them like this) is kept going.

    If you compare the health of wild animals to domestically cared for animals, you will obviously see that domesticated animals are healthier and have greater opportunities for enrichment and happiness under human care.

    It's not about if those animals live under animal agriculture or in the wild. The animals in the wild already exist, the ones in captivity wouldn't exist at all, if we didn't breed them.

    Yes there are vile humans who torture and keep animals in miserable conditions, and they should pay consequences for their cruelties and greed

    Don’t you dare paint every farmer with that same corporate battery farm brush.

    Most animal meat nowadays comes from factory farms. Worldwide it is roughly 90%, in the US it is 99%.

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • Yeah, they were great back then. I have the first generation Kindle Paperwhite (12-ish years), though at this point I only use it to read fanfics lol

    AO3 let's you download entire fics directly in the EPUB & AZW3 format, doubt they're ever gonna change that 😁

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  • Did your account get hacked or something? Your comment history seems entirely normal, and this one is also just entirely unrelated to the post it's under

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  • The style at the time :)

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  • I sometimes use :))))) to express giddiness :p

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    A girl's bed

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  • soraaa >:(

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  • Copilot stops working on gender related subjects

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  • If you really think about it, everything a trans person does is a trans-action 😎

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • A live-action or animated adaptation of Worm.

    Pump as much money as humanly possible into the JWQS / Clear and Muddy Loss of Love animation they're currently making.

    Straight up entirely remake Borderlands 3.

    A Pokemon game like Colosseum & XD, but only going up to Gen 4, I don't really like the direction the designs went after that.

    Fund a proper Pacific Rim sequel.

    A high budget Bionicle game would be neat.

    And, provided I can pay money for a licence or just buy the original IPs, I'd have my favorite fanfics turned into animated shows as well.

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  • Don't you feel that you just see it that way because you're on the opposing side on this? This sounds to me exactly the same as how a homophobe for example would describe gay rights activists.

    Just go through all the points you mentioned in this and your previous comment, and replace those scenarios with the issues of various types of bigotry and ethical issues like transphobia, racism, child labour, slave labour etc.

    Don't get hung up on how bad these are in comparison to each other, that's not the point. Just look at how they're all ethical issues where a group of sentient beings are being harmed, and what kind of advocacy you're in favour of to prevent that harm. And why you would see the one issue you might be on the side of the harm being carried out so differently.

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  • Again, all of these reactions to stimuli can be explained as direct, chemical reactions, not signals that get sent to a central unit, are processed, being "felt", and then being reacted to. There is no one thing or being in plants like the central nervous system of animals that is capable of feeling something.

    Regarding the topic of sentience, I propose looking at it like this:

    There's a range of definitions that is somewhere around it being the capacity to perceive, to be aware, to be/exist from ones own perspective. However you define it, a central nervous system or other type of similar central unit would have to be a requirement, because that is what would actually be sentient. You are your brain, your hand is just part of your body, if it was chopped off, it by itself is not sentient.

    And whatever vague definition of it you go with, there's two options: Either sentience is real, or it isn't. If it isn't real, literally nothing matters, gg. If it is real, non-human animals with central nervous systems, and therefore sentience and the capacity to suffer, deserve ethical consideration, and we should do what is reasonably possible to reduce their suffering and death.

    Since we don't know the answer to the existence of sentience, we should err on the side of caution. If we're wrong, and we're all as sentient as a rock, the inconvenience we'd have suffered in our efforts to protect fellow sentient-but-actually-not beings can't be felt by us, no harm done. If we're right, the suffering we'll have prevented, in both scale and intensity, is indescribable.

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  • Reacting to stimuli like the colour of light is irrelevant. My phone camera would fall into the same category, then. A light switch reacts to getting pressed and turns on a light, it's reacting to a stimulus.

    What matters is sentience, which plants cannot possess, since they don't have a central nervous system. And even if they did, a diet that includes meat takes more plants, since those animals have to be fed plants in order to raise them.

    They all make it up as they go along. It's very similar to religious beliefs in the way it is personal. Each has their own set beliefs on where to draw the line of what is vegan and what is not

    The extent to which we are tied to every living thing on Earth means that many vegans have set impossible goals.

    Regarding these two, is this any different from human rights? Where people draw the line regarding slave labour, child labour, which type of humans they care about (considering racism, homophobia, trans phobia, ableism etc). I'm sure lots of people have impossible goals regarding human rights, but working to get as close to those as possible is still sensible.

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  • lol

  • Are there any animes or TV shows you can't stop recommending?

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  • Ok, I'll plan on reading the light novels then. Seems like it's pretty long, and I personally adore the premise, so I'm really looking forward to this!

    Since you added on a separate recommendation with Wheel of Time, I'll add one as well and hope it's not in your >1k books yet: the webnovel called Worm. If you already read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts instead :)

  • Are there any animes or TV shows you can't stop recommending?

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  • Are you referring to Ascendance of a Bookworm? If so, would you recommend I keep watching the anime whenever a new season comes out, or jump into the manga?

  • It's a me. FBI open up.

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  • GameCube Star Fox gives this a 50% chance of it being Star Fox Adventures, making you a great friend 😎

  • TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than females

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  • I think it's "Yes, thank you".

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    Double Slit Experiment, now with 20% less particle loss!