1. Fear of making near friends / difficulty making the new friends
2. Actual naivety of thinking the POS behaviour doesn’t matter
3. Weirdly, peer pressure from other people? For instance you might want to distance yourself from one friend and you are then peer pressured to be in situations with them more often by the other friends, told to build your tolerance of them

… 1 + 2 also applies to romantic relationships!

Edit: just realised ‘best friend AND roomate’ is just a way of referring to a spouse. But there it is, there’s the low-down in my opinion.

Wife told him

“We send them to your planet with a briefcase full of counterfeit Earth currency”

Fine I’ll grow some fricking beans

isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

That’s not why people do it though. It is wrong to make up new justifications for actions after the fact. It exists as an industrial process to get animals pregnant more often than they’d naturally choose to.

isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

And no, not all sex between 2 animals is rape. Animals can consent to sex with other members of their species, animals can’t consent to sex with other species because of communication differences (the big one being any animal with a human).

If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

The same way that hunting is more moral than farming, letting animals go at it in a natural way is way better than 1. tricking bulls into ejaculating into tubes and 2. forcibly inseminating cows with that genetic material.

You need to quantify the rate at which animal rape is occuring to justify using this method on the basis of “preventing rape.”

Also if you sought to prevent any animal rape, you’d have to seperate them all by sex. As far as I know this doesn’t generally happen except for their specific breeding season, and it would be cruel to seperate male and female livestock for their entire existence, just as it’s cruel to deny them their natural sexual intercourse. Humans aren’t supposed to play God with every facet of an animal’s life.

Veterinary in the sense that “it’s a duty a veterinarian might perform do,” but in this context it’s done to create more animals for us to harvest food from. Because letting them do it at their own rate wasn’t fast enough for this industrialised society’s appetite.

It’s disingenous to call it a veterinary procedure; we’re under no illusions about why this is being done. The cow didn’t ask for a bloody sperm donor, lol.

idiot

Don’t need to say that

I think it really depends where you live and what your lifestyle demands of you.

Where I live, meat is on sale a lot at supermarkets, lots of frozen food meals have meat in, and people might not have time to shop for ingredients or even to cook all the time - which i presume is the key to making veganism cheaper.

If you want to convicne people veganism is cheaper then you have to unfortunately (for you) “spell it out for them” - e.g give examples of vegan meals against meat meals, tell us where you’re shopping.

What I don’t like about them is that it makes it seem like you’ve cast your butt in pottery or something, just completely rigidly fixed into that shape. To be fair I also don’t find leggings good looking, but they exist also for a functional, exercising purpose, and they’re good at that (afaik)

Stiffy

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conservation status: least concern

Scientists: “Kill it off.”

So strange though. It’s like a tree which didn’t get the memo that trees are supposed to be nice, friendly and helpful.

Pros: your leggings last longer! Yay!

Cons: everyone will think you have an Eldritch Butthole™

TBF that one sounds like no lines are crossed

I get what you’re saying but it’s sexual assault, no?

On a related note why do people wear leggings thst have weird wrinkles or lines where the leggings bite into your ass crack? It looks so wrong. I’m not the only person who has noticed this, right??

It is sexual, it sounds like they jack them off to acquire genetic material to impregnate the female livestock with

I have heard so many bad things about Eucalyptus trees.

In fact, the latest bad thing i heard about them was in a koala copypasta submitted to the animal thread from last week, where it was insinuated that the abundance of eucalyptus trees is a large reason why Australia is barren/ecologically weird, due to their very low provision of calories. This obviously will not do. A mammal’s main love of trees is their ability to bear fruit.

Likewise, in California, the mass plantation of Eucalyptus trees led to very severe wildfires in the future (our present day). In part, this is just a debuff of any forest monoculture, but i have similarly heard that they’re actually more flammable than many other types of trees. [Edit: while source hunting, it looks like Eucalypti are actually known to BLOW THEMSELVES UP to remove competition. This makes them the suicide bombers of the natural world!!]

And what really bites the biscuit is that Eucalyptus trees STINK!! Their ultra minty sour fragrance seems so artifical to me - like worn down tyres, melted down and mixed with equal parts of antifreeze. I had the misfortune of trying eucalyptus flavoured chewing gum on a few occasions and it almost killed me. Psychologically. One of the worst things i’ve ever tasted and smelled. It’s like an alien plant trying far too hard to get us to like it.

Completely the same thoughts that I have. I’m very curioous as to what the story could be that gives them credence to call it “THE F1 movie”

That damn movie is marketed so heavily around brad pitt though.

When i saw its listing om amazon prime I thought it was called “Brad Pitt: The Movie” and I was baffled.

Don’t tell the aliens this, but some people theorise that all abduction stories are actually demonic encounters because of the anal probe aspect. Which is interesting.