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You don't axiomatically presuppose human supremacy? I don't understand how that moral position works, and I want to hear more.

In general, we empathize more with creatures that are more similar to ourselves, and creatures that are cute. Given that, human supremacy follows logically for me. Humans are top of the heirachy, followed by similar mammals, then birds, then fish, then insects. It's sad that's there's a heirachy, but the alternative is considering the life of an insect equal in value to the life of a human. I think that's a less moral position, but it would also drive you insane because we murder so many insects in our lives.

I don't believe it's possible to have a consistent and non-hypocrytical ethical system, and if it was that wouldn't be desirable. Every meat eater I've ever met agrees that agriculture kinda sucks, but they have other priorities.

But you do exploit humans. The food you eat, the clothes you wear, actually pretty much everything you use was made with exploitation. The fact you can choose to go vegan and complain about it on the internet means you are incredibly privledged. As am I.

You talk about rational discussion but all I'm seeing from you is the opposite, "all meat eaters are evil".

The world is complicated and there's a lot of things wrong with it. You chose one problem to focus on, and that's great. But just because other people have other things that they prioritize doesn't mean they are bad people.

Why would there be load on the clutch if the handbrake is on?

True, but low rez web jpegs is a huge part of the market for images. AI will replace stock photos and that's incredibly disruptive on it's own.

in-lane is the only option for them to pass and the lane is too narrow for that.

In this case the correct thing to do legally is to take the whole lane, but I get that having cars honking at you is stressful.

The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.

The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.

You can be a pirate? Why join the navy when

The interstate standard max grade is 6% and that's only used when there's no other option over mountains. The limit for standard passenger trains seems yo be 4-5%. So it's not that different, the vast majority of the interstate corridor could support passenger trains. Not freight trains through, those need a much gentler grade.

The US has essentially built a railway network with the interstates, it's just paved over and less efficient.

Conversely, I'm so opposed to the enshitification that I've carefully tailored my internet usage to places that aren't shit and have no prospect of becoming shit, like Lemmy. Since I don't even have the motivation of not supporting an evil company, I'm more addicted that ever.

That would be regulation of the banks. I believe the OCR is simply the interest rate that the banks can borrow money from the reserve bank. The banks can lend out money at whatever rate they want, it's just market forces that keep their rate at around the OCR.

In the current system of free market capitalism the banks have to be free to leech as much profit as possible from the people, no equitable regulation allowed.

The way to achieve this is with a land value tax. Undeveloped land and developed land are taxed the same, so the owner is incentivised to maximize the development to make as much money as possible to offset the LVT.

There's no issue with driving whatever on private property. But driving a professional vehicle on public roads should require a professional license.

Idk man, some people wear high heels. $10 shoes can't be worse than that.

What is the Q movie?

Hello. It's the only walking and cycling route through a densly populated(by rural NZ standards) area. It's also a very busy road that can be a pain to turn on and off. I'd rather they built a shared path, improved the busy intersections as they are doing, and left it at 100. But in the absense of that, this is an improvement.

So being enthusiastic to see the Barbie movie is a red flag for you. That doesn't make sense to me, but hey, I hope you find love in someone that shares your movie preferences.

I know, it's a misleading political statement, like the rest of the survey.

Refusing to see a movie their partner wants to see with them is a sensible red flag. I think it would be higher if it was phrased generally rather than specifically about Barbie.

In New Zealand, neoliberalisim was introduced by the center left Labour party.