Diabeetus

I figure I quit smoking around 1990. I am not sure what I was paying for a pack, but the number that keeps popping up in my head is 4:25USD.

I remember cigs being about $2.25 my first years of smoking from '93 in southern California. I used to be able to steal quarters from my brother’s jar to buy a pack.

I see them at like 4 bags for about $10.

I think this is their sneaky way of raising prices. They know most people aren’t going to buy 4 bags of Doritos and 5 12-packs of soda to get the lower price on the shelf, and the single unit price is crazy.

Zypper is the Gen X of package managers.

Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been away from Lemmy.

Animals killing other animals for food is what complex life if based on. This is a necessary part of complex life. Rape is not. This is a key difference. Should species that eat other living things let themselves go extinct so as to not violate consent? Should they sacrifice their health eating species inappropriate foods in an attempt to minimize violations of consent? Even if you think this, it won’t happen, living things are the result of successful past generations, and a species that sacrifices itself to be nice to it’s prey would not evolve.

Thinking of participation in the food chain as a “crime” is silly on many levels. I was a vegetarian in my youth and thought many of the same silly things as you until I thought about things more deeply and realistically.

Killing an animal for food is nothing like rape. Rape is unnecessary and not required for sustenance or reproduction, it’s not something our species evolved to do (the fact that something can be done doesn’t mean we evolved to do it, ducks on the other hand…). Are you equivocating most of the world’s population for all of history with rapists? Is your mom and dad a rapist then? Are lions rapists, just not smart enough to know they’re raping gazelles and zebras?

If you think animals killing and eating other animals is rape, then I hope you’re a blade of grass because even vegans would be unintentionally raping animals in pursuit of sustenance. Don’t kid yourself that a vegan diet is free of suffering, you just care less about those species apparently.

So far every response to be has been straw man args.

Nobody is talking about boiling cats alive, I’m not arguing for the morality of that.

alba people would totally win the evolutionary race and no game theory would bring justice. Doesn’t sound great if your hair happens to be brown or red.

I’m not saying game theory can be used to justify anything, I’m saying it’s the basis for morality, it’s how morality came to be in our species IMHO. I think agents (things with agency, which are subject to game theory) develop strategies, and morality is based on these strategies. Harming other beings unnecessarily often puts one at risk, therefore harming other beings without need is often bad strategy. I’m not saying that anything that can create benefit is morally OK, this is a straw man, know what that is?

You’re speaking as if there’s a global, cosmic morality in which harming others is wrong, this is a religious belief, I’m not talking about religion. There are many moralities with different foundations, I explained the basis for mine.

You’re a crazy one, nobody is talking about raping animals.

Life eats life.

I was talking about food, not rape and murder. I never said killing is right in general. Stop with the straw men.

Morality, whether based on game theory or not, has little to do with law.

Any great injustice is justified by game theory at the end.

You should learn more about game theory.

Wow, I like that “spent since page load”.

I want a ticker like that “Lemmy pages since bong load”.

but nobody argues we should build ethics around it

I argue that we should build ethics around it.

An idea that species can “be meant to do x” by y has roots in teleological philosophy.

People, even those that understand evolution often speak this way because it’s easier, this is Lemmy, not a research paper.

I claim that what we call morality and ethics is human cultural interpretation of what we call game theory. My foundation for morality is respect for consent, except in cases of self/community defense and participation in the food chain as evolution has produced my body in this way due to natural selection to operate at a particular trophic level.

If by benefit you mean survival, then yes. Fucking animals is not what humans evolved to do for survival.

If life is to continue on this planet simultaneously with ethics, there must be an exception for living beings to morally participate in the food chain as their bodies evolved. This does not excuse our modern industrial system or domesticating animals, it excuses carnivory as it evolved only.

Now you might say “but humans are meant to eat plants” or “humans are omnivores meant to eat a large variety”. No, you’re deluded. No animal on Earth has every evolved to eat a large variety of foods, plant toxins are too numerous and varied too allow this, that’s why humans cook and process most (non-fruit) plants before eating them. Animals we call omnivores are really flexible carnivores that would die on an all plant diet that wasn’t fortified or selected by humans from plants outside of the animal’s habitat.

Most of the plants we eat today did not exist in our specie’s early days, we’ve bred almost the entire produce section at the grocery store, taking toxic barely digestible plants and changing them into broccoli and such. The plants we eat that did exist only existed in their native habitat, which was not necessarily where humans were. A human in Africa was not eating oranges from China 300k years ago.

Animals that evolved to eat plants have digestive systems oriented around providing an environment for bacteria to break down cellulose, they have adaptations to withstand the specific toxins in the specific plants they evolved to eat. Rabbits have to eat their shit and re-digest it get enough nutrition from plants. Cows have a multi-chambered stomach without an acid barrier in front, horses have to eat constantly. Gorillas are “hind gut digesters” that fart constantly and have massive barrel torsos to fit a digestive system large enough to support the rest of their bodies. Human digestive systems are clearly oriented around digestion of meat and using high-energy density fat to provide the massive amount of energy our brain needs.

But why don’t we have claws and fangs like other carnivores? Well, first, many carnivorous animals don’t fit this mental image. Second, human ancestors were frugivores going back like 5+ million years that started eating meat via scavenging, this explains our stomach acid on par with buzzards and condors, an acidic stomach is an “acid barrier” bacteria cannot pass. Then we evolved to eat large prey with lots of fat that we hunted by group coordination, ability to throw, and ability to create weapons, ability to direct an animal to fall to it’s death. Humans didn’t evolve to directly chase and kill animals with our hands and teeth, we’re tool masters.

Our bodies do poorly with chronic carb intake, this is the cause of most modern maladies. Our bodies evolved to fuel themselves with saturated fat we eat, small animals with little fat are inappropriate human food (e.g. “rabbit starvation”). In fact, almost all animals are “powered by fat”, not by sugar as we’re told. Cows are powered by short chain fatty acids produced by bacteria eating the plants the cow consumes.

I remember seeing that airplane on the VHS all the time at the video store

Ya, sucks when Tailwind goes out of style and now have to learn CSS again.

You keep my init system (and resolver, and timekeeper, and task scheduler, and container manager, and …) out your f**king mouth!

NixOS sounds like a way to avoid learning Linux by learning an abstraction.