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As someone left of Mamdani, why should my choice of Linux distro prevent me from having a loving feline pet?

Somewhere between vegetarians and jains, depending on how much they respect the right to life of non-mammal animals (roaches, mosquitos, ants, etc) outside of food contexts. But veganism isn’t generally a distinction from vegetarianism with regard to right to life, just rights more broadly, so it’s on a somewhat different axis. Many seem only concerned with “cute” animals (i.e. mammals and a small subset of marine animals) outside of food contexts, but I’m sure there are some who wouldn’t bug-bomb their house. I doubt many sweep the ground in front of them to avoid stepping on bugs, like devout Jains. In fact, most vegans would consider that extreme, which betrays their bias towards the cute animals that deserve to live, since they’d absolutely go out of their way to not step on one of their preferred species.

We all do. Some people just extend that that circle larger than others.

Carnivores/omnivores extend it to most humans.

Pescatarians to mammals with regard to food, but often not to other mild inconveniences like pest control.

Vegetarians to the rest of animals with the same caveat.

Jains to animals with fewer caveats, but not to bacteria, plants, or fungus.

And we’re distant cousins of all of these.

There are arguments to be made for each line, like sapience, sentience, consciousness, and pain response, but the line chosen is largely arbitrary.

In my region (Tennessee) the most popular intentional lawn grass is Tall Fescue, which is very soft, but it doesn’t spread laterally, so when gaps happen due to heat and such, spiky/hard crab grass fills in the gaps, and isn’t killed by broad-leaf herbicide since it’s also grass, so semi-maintained lawns quickly get taken over. The lawns with no herbicide regimen get taken over by clover instead, so you end up with a horseshoe of sorts where the completely un-maintained lawns (fescue and clover) and meticulously-maintained lawns (pure fescue) are soft, but the lawns in the middle are spiky.

crumb tray

Grease trap

The trick is to wear clothes when sitting in it.

I agree with Alex O’Connor. Yes, they’re right, but also, fuck that, I don’t care.

It’s ok, Uncle Roger.

That’s why I said miss it. Believe it or not, Reddit did and still does exist. I’d like to think we’re not a cult that demands pretending that our before-lives never existed.

Except Korean broodwar

Can’t be a popsicle until you ram a stick up me.

Almost makes me miss /r/ketodrunk