Plants are also alive. The assumption that they are less worthy of respect than animals is arbirtrary (though understandable, since we too are animals).

“I’d like to reduce suffering” to “We need to control nature, eventually”?

This is the totalitarian villain slope. Who gets to decide? How long until “there can be no suffering if there is no life at all”?

Easy: there’s nothing ethically wrong with killing animals to eat. Life requires death.

Companies definitely should not be allowed to own companies.

Oh I’m very much aware of the entire coin. Police overreach, judges willing to turn a blind eye, Defense Attorneys more interested in looking out for themselves than serving the public, we’ve got a whole pile of shit before you even get to the jails-as-punishment and slavery-for-profit problems.

In Finland no-one wants to recognise our university-educated police can have anything wrong with them, especially on a systemic level.

This is getting tangential, but this point is pretty frustrating as an American. We hear about how racist our country is and how Europe doesn’t have these problems but it seems like we’re the only ones even trying to see the bigotry and classism inherent in the system, much less do something about it.

I’m sorry your own experience was so bad but I’m not surprised.

No, “felony murder” is not a good thing in our legal system.

Police don’t need consent if they have reason to believe a violent crime is happening, and even from an ACAB perspective it would be wild to make community-protectors wait at the door in this situation. Everything after that point is an abject failure.

We have to try voting first or any resistance movement will have no legitimacy to the less-informed public or the world stage.

What, and lose an opportunity to funnel tax money to private interests?

And do something about John Wilkes Booth while you’re at it.

Fuck no I’m not, I’m just continuing to use it in ways I want rather than that make money for billionaires.

Anyone who listened to rock radio in the year 2000 would recognize it. Hit Billboard’s top 10, 41 and 32 in the UK and Scotland, it even did decently in Germany peaking at 84 per GfK. None of this is to say that it’s particularly good but it damn well was popular. (And looking this up I am reminded that the second hit on that album was “Cowboy” which also did numbers in the US and Europe)

Washing the rice reduces the starchiness which makes it less sticky.

A lot of rice sold (most?) is “enriched” so the vitamins and minerals are added back. But the fiber is gone and rinsing the rice washes away the nutrient powder.

That doesn’t sound like a very good sandwich.

There was Bawitdaba in 1999, and the song that I always think is going to be Werewolves of London and get mad when it isn’t. That’s all I know.

Fifteen? Interior Crocodile Alligator was 2007, back when ytmnd was relevant.

Hella can also mean “yes” in some contexts.

Anti-Defamation League awareness spot about how 2/3rds of Jewish people face discrimination.

Ooh, sportsball bad. What a cool, original take that makes you look smart and cultured.

His likeness was but I think that whole thing was deepfake head and voice replacements rather than de-aging. Still made money whether he was actually there or not.

Might have been 100% generated but that seems a little less likely.