SapientLasagna

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[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Many people who aren't vegan still choose free range eggs, organic beef, fair trade coffee and chocolate.

The 500 mile diet is absolutely a moral choice, even if it includes meat.

Albertans preferentially eating large amounts of Alberta beef is viewed as a virtue there. Veganism is viewed as immoral, unalbertan (amongst some communities).

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because if you look closer at the data in the Geekbench browser, it's kind of shit. The iPad entries are probably not too far off, but there are a ton of entries that are obvious garbage, like a Pixel 7 Pro with a Ryzen 9 5900X. Also, a lot of system names are VM hypervisors. In a VM, you can control the realtime clock that the Geekbench profiling software sees, so you can just kind of dial whatever performance number you want.

Geekbench obviously just takes the average, but the average of garbage is still garbage.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

For a concrete example of what @asterfield@lemmy.world said, if there are 10 workers, and 9 of them are making minimum wage ($17.40 in BC), then the remaining worker would make $192.90/hr. $1772.40/hr if 99/100 make minimum wage.

Median is definitely the better measure, though no single measure is adequate to answer the question of whether Canadians are better off than they were last year.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's literally the opposite of taxing innovation. If you reinvest your revenue back into improving the company, you don't pay any tax. If you use the revenue to prop up stock prices instead, expect to pay taxes on the capital gains.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Furries, to be sure, but atheists?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What "other side"? Vegans? I suppose there are some who are just sort of "cultural vegans" too, where they don't have a moral stance, but are vegan because their friends or family are.

I'm not sure if maybe you're reading more negativity in my comment than I meant. There's certainly nothing wrong with animal welfare as a moral stance.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The question is so vague as to be essentially useless. It leaves so much to the reader to imagine that everyone is all over the place drawing different conclusions. How much does the reader know about forests? What kind of forest did they imagine? What kind of bear? When the reader imagines a random man, what pops into their mind? Does he live there, or was he randomly kidnapped and placed in the forest for the purpose of the scenario?

Further, even if we go with what some other posters are saying, and ignore the bear, it's still kind of useless, except to highlight how careful women feel they have to be around strange men.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, in Canada the recommendation is to base the response on bear behaviour, taking into account the bear species. Don't challenge or threaten a bear that's protecting its cubs, or guarding a kill. Do challenge a curious bear, and fight back against predatory bears. Some information here: https://bcparks.ca/plan-your-trip/visit-responsibly/wildlife-safety/#page-section-405

Of course, since bears behave like big dumb humans, the advice mostly also applies to meeting people too :)

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Fully automated luxury gay space communism FTW.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

bears won’t stalk you, pretend to be friendly to gain your trust with the intention of harming you

Actually they will (sometimes). I had one young black bear that kept approaching me like a shy dog. It kept looking away and pretending to nibble bushes when I shouted at it. I left before finding out if it wanted to eat me (it probably did, being first thing in the spring). Another time we had a black bear that wasn't too obviously aggressive, but followed one of our crew around for two days. We ended up shooting it because we were in a fly-in camp and couldn't leave.

Most bears I met walked or ran away, including grizzlies.

Bears are complicated.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But she's not telling me, is she? She's telling every man everywhere, forever. I can't do anything with that information, except wonder if she's calling for all men and women to be strictly segregated for women's safety. At which point you've gone so far into nth-wave feminism that you've arrived at Saudi society as as model.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because mercantilist wind turbine blades recycle themselves? Or did you mean to imply that communist wind turbines recycle themselves?

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