I wouldn’t call that hypocrisy. I’d call that cognitive dissonance. You don’t respect all life, you only think that you do.

Hypocrisy would be demanding that other people follow a standard that you don’t hold yourself. Your standard seems to be…all standards are arbitrary. You can use this “logic” to justify anything. If we can’t determine the worth of a life, then killing anybody could be justified.

it is ridiculous to pretend not to understand the quite special place that dogs occupy in human culture and society across history.

Dogs only have that “special place” because we gave it to them. What’s the argument here? Dogs have earned the right to not be treated like pigs?

Second, shoe-horning in vegan talking points is just as bad as shoe-horning in relatively fringe identity issues when discussing political and class issues.

The topic of this meme is obviously a vegan one, so I don’t see how this is shoe-horning.

No, you can’t have bigotry against software. At least, not currently.

Maybe in the future somebody will figure out how to make a sapient AI, like you see in science fiction, and then you can say that somebody is bigoted against it. We don’t have sapient AI, though, so this is simply prejudice.

Humans have been hating software since the dawn of computing. Do you get upset when people say bad things about Windows? And if not, why is it different with LLMs?

Reading a book or watching a movie requires engaging your brain in some way. This guy isn’t engaging his brain in any way whatsoever. He’s completely offloaded this onto the AI.

However, this is still better than just plopping your kids in front of the TV, because at least they have to use their imagination in some way.

℧ theory manifest

Which political alignment in the US is pro-war now? Serious question.

It isn’t horseshoe theory if everybody agrees on it.

When do you not need a cake?

“Republicans against Trump”

AKA Democrats.

Our presidents have been committing war crimes for decades. Unfortunately, it isn’t news.

Why would you create something before there was demand for it? Seems completely backwards.

They celebrated when they turned 18…and then never spoke of them again.

I was wondering what happened to the Olsen twins after they turned 18. Apparently, they turned into ringwraiths.

agentic

Yeah, we created a new buzzword that means the same thing as “autonomous”.

Okay, well, it’s actually less good than autonomous, because you have to babysit the thing to make sure that it doesn’t shit the bed. But totally worth it! Because it’s agentic!

You can find subs on lemmyverse.net.

I think everything labeled “plant butter” is vegan, whereas “margarine” can contain both plant and animal fats. I don’t think that’s regulated, but I think that’s how those terms are used in practice. I always check the labels just to be sure, of course.

It wasn’t laziness or apathy. It was opposition to Biden/Harris. It was opposition to what’s happening in Gaza.

The anti-genocide candidates, Jill Stein and Cornel West, didn’t get any media coverage, so voters didn’t know that they were an option.

They didn’t disappear; they were killed off.

Two words: space marines.

So, Space Force was created during the first Trump administration, and they still haven’t been to space? Sounds about right.

He was watching a Jazzercise tape.