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  • BillyClark@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJust a negative vegan?
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    3 days ago

    If she doesn’t eat any creature that feels pain, that doesn’t mean she’s a vegan. She might be a vegan, but that statement makes her a vegetarian by most definitions.

    And he’s snuggling with pigs on pig farms. I think there are some people who would say that such actions are only possible on exploited pigs who are headed for the slaughterhouse, and therefore, because he has made himself part of the meat system, he wouldn’t be a vegan, either.

    I’m not a vegan either, but I find it weird that SMBC would use that word so loosely in a strip where the definition of “vegan” is so central.




  • I never worked for Google, so I can’t say for sure, but I have this weird suspicion that they use a shitload of open source software, and I’m not just talking about their Android OS or Chromebooks, but for their most core businesses.

    It wouldn’t be odd to think that Google might not exist except for their being able to use the open-source software that people had made before they founded their company.

    The alternative is that they were complete idiots who paid for all sorts of retail software.

    Of course Google hates open-source. They can’t compete with it.

    Again, it’s just my supposition, but I’d bet that they can’t compete without it, either.

    For any major tech company, apart from ones that are absolutely dedicated to proprietary software starting from firmware up through the OS and on to applications, like Microsoft and Apple, it’s going to be deeply hypocritical to hate open-source.





  • Jamie Raskin berated Bondi’s earlier Senate performance before the questioning began, saying that she brought… What did he call it? A “burn book” or something?

    Basically, instead of preparing for the actual questions she’d be asked, she prepared a book of insults and ad hominem for the people asking the questions.

    And I couldn’t help but notice that in her testimony yesterday, every time she flipped through the huge binder next to her, rather than answering the question, she’d just start attacking the person who asked the question.

    So, she did the same thing again. A one trick pony who couldn’t imagine that they’d prepare countermeasures for her embarrassing previous performance.

    And she was caught lying under oath immediately after she did so.

    Only a complete idiot would allow themselves to be put in such a situation.

    She should have resigned long ago. She should have done a lot of things, but what can you expect of a complete idiot? If she’s remembered at all in the future, it will be for her unparalleled stupidity.



  • One of the many fundamental problems with ICE is that they seem to have little to no training.

    Police with no training should not be allowed to perform traffic stops or to arrest people. Or really to interact with the public at all.

    One of the ICE failings we’ve seen over and over is how they needlessly escalate situations. If you pull someone over and they flee, if you pursue them, you have to consider the danger to others. Sometimes you just have to let them go and figure out how to pick them up at a later time when it is less dangerous.

    Yes, it makes policing more complicated, but if police are escalating situations and making things more dangerous, that’s an even larger problem.

    ICE has such a bad reputation now that I think people will flee at a much higher rate. Their lack of training is part of the reason they’re causing this mess, and if they want to keep pulling people over, they’re going to need massive amounts of training to learn to do it correctly. Even more than normal police because the situation today is what it is.








  • BillyClark@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyzNo way!..
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    9 days ago

    I don’t know about Islamic texts, but the Bible doesn’t really say much about hell. If you want to learn about hell, you have to go to preachers. Fire and brimstone is their bread and butter. The more they talk about hell, the more money they make.