Ashy

Point given. Or at least half a point… The problem I have with animal testing is, that for (…)

I’ve not been keeping up with it either. I’m all for avoiding animal testing when it’s not needed. I’m just not against it on principle.

Animals in testing facilities are treated like shit their whole life, just because it is “cheaper” that way.

I mean that sounds horrid at first, but it’s a valid point. I’m not quite sure what the alternative methods you mentionred are, but something like a complex computer model is probably much more expensive and slower then just testing on mice. And it could help getting a procedure or drug to people faster and cheaper.

So, if I would keep some cute, fluffy dogs or cats at my place just so that I can kill them tomorrow and eat them - maybe even sell their meat - would that be still be OK for you?

Again, I won’t object on principle. I know someone that tried dog and it’s apprarently not that good. Also I think you can somewhat legally eat dog where I live. Like you can’t trade the meat, but slaughtering and eating are fine, so you kind of have to find a farmer that will invite you to dinner. But not really something I’m interested in.

I’d have much more objections to people eating rare, wild animals, like whales. Cats and dogs are domesticated animals, so we’re not going to run out of them.

At this point I’d be happy with a medicore tracker that has any German content.

Well, stop playing airplane and lend a hand!

Depends on what upload speed your internet has.

Ha, there is no “spinkpissers” community on lemmy, yet. Yes, that was a real sub on reddit … thanks for reminding me.

Though It actually makes sense from a purely water saving point of view I guess? Especially if you don’t have a toilet with different flush settings.

Well, that’s an extremly complex questions and there are many cases to consider and personal opinion on these can vary a lot.

For example one of the least limited cases should be animal testing for medical purposes. There should still be limits, but they have to be carefully decided by weighing the potential benefits against the suffering caused.

Another prominented case would be factory farming. I think that’s quite bad and also makes for a poorer end product. But I don’t think there is anything fundamentally wrong with keeping livestock for eating it. But the details of how regulation should work exactly are again quite complex and beyond the scope of a lemmy comment.

There should be some limits, sure. But but comparing it to slavery or forced labour is just silly anthropomorphising.

No because I can tell a cow from a person.

No, you can almost always tell when someone isn’t a biologically women.

I mean, you can. It’s stupid, yes but when has this ever stopped people?

Vegan cheese exists

Yeah, but it’s shit.

But you can make cheese out of it and cheese is life.

While backend- and other types of software developers seem to be unaffected

What if you write backend code for web application?

Yeah, but there isn’t any nuance on lemmy, so in this context bad and “as bad as nazis” literally mean the same.

Most popular opinion on lemmy …

I doubt that most downvotes are made out of spite and some posts are simply bad and don’t deserve to gain momentum. Downvotes provide important quality control.

Unless you physical control your media, you don’t own your data.

I tried signing up for a few but they want me to disable my VPN … nope.

Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to work.

What you are describing are conditions so that would by definition not be UBI.

Asteroid the size of 64 Canada geese to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

I’m not even making this up …