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I do not think you are wrong. Urban environments are too cramped for anything but cats, and most people do not have the time to devote to pets outside of jobs, shopping, restaurants, gyms, dating, etc.
My heuristic is: only animals that would live “naturally” in an apartment, or those that have been modified for centuries by humans specifically to live in their homes, would live well in an apartment. In the former category: flies, spiders, cockroaches, mice, rats, ants… In the latter: some breeds of cats, perhaps some breeds of tiny dogs, perhaps some rodents other than mice and rats.
Most dogs? Probably not — especially large ones. No birds, no reptiles, no amphibians…
Not sure what the shortcomings of the structure of our human society have to do with this, tbh.
I don't like #pets, and I don't understand the concept of keeping pets in urban environments.
Very few species are adapted to live well in an apartment, right? Some cat breeds, rodents, what else?
It always seemed cruel to me.
❤️ I very much sympathise with that. I'm an effective altruist and I try to think carefully about those things.
Mine was just a (pedantic) point about scarcity being an inevitable component of reality — and even a necessary one, since scarcity is what makes us value things in the first place.
I think the most plausible instance of your original proposition is: being ultra-rich. That's as close as one can possibly get to abolishing scarcity (for oneself, of course). It's the closest we can get to being free to take care of what really matters to us…
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Not bad. (Outdated, but I haven't really used the birdsite in the last three years or so.)
You made me realise that in a universe without scarcity, beings capable of suffering (humans, many animals) would still be valuable to us, because sentience is what gives moral worth to things. (Even then, how much would any being actually suffer if there were no scarcity of nutrition, shelter, medicine, entertainment, etc?)
About things, of course we value stuff (ideas, objects, resources) just because they're scarce. Just think of the few things that are virtually free and unlimited in our current universe. We don't even notice rocks, bits, numbers, the air above our head, noises, natural light — we wouldn't sacrifice anything to have one more unit of any of that (ie, we wouldn't pay any money), because there's almost zero scarcity there. If you're tempted to discard these examples because they sound ridiculous (“come on, I'm talking about important stuff here, of course nobody cares about the number 711 or values an individual grain of sand”), notice that they seem ridiculous precisely because there is plenty of those things. My point is that if nothing were scarce, nothing would matter.
What really matters to us is, necessarily, scarce. You wouldn't care about your life and your time alive of you had multiple lives or lived forever. You wouldn't care about your family if you had any number of children you wanted, at no extra cost. This planet wouldn't be that important if we had an entire galaxy at our disposal. Art wouldn't matter if talent and ideas weren't scarce.
Your hypothetical is not only hypothetical, but also contradictory.
Exhibit #8,253:
OK, I’m done with opaque gadgets handling proprietary formats via closed protocols. I’ve always defended #OpenStandards and #FLOSS, and opted for i...
tripu
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If only there were a way for the entire 🇬🇧 to enjoy such an unbelievably special position 🤷♂️🤦♂️ #BrexitShambles
https://twitter.com/haggis_uk/status/1630516003267309570?s=12&t=6BTuEclU9Uf9pOzWhtgfBg
tripu
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
Yes. Life is about more than constant and meaningless toil for 40-50 years and a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell, where no amount working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in YOUR resume?
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Errr, freelancing. I was freelancing.
I think that's what he's saying: don't put so much weight on identity, don't dwell on differences.
Seems constructive advice to me.
tripu
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If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
@freemo Congratulations!
> _“People who detest #prejudice, […] instead of trying to make differences go away, they accentuate them. How? By building group #identity. […] If you want prejudice to go away, don’t tell people to be proud of their identities. Instead, ask them to focus on our common humanity – the sense that our differences are ‘only skin-deep.’ If you must have a sense of identity, make it not proud but casual.”_
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Keyboard navigable, “load times as short as possible”, fuzzy search, “works offline, on mobile, and can be installed as web app”, and “with a clean and readable user interface”.
You're right: I will claim I didn't see that poll of yours. Because I didn't.
Think what you want, [my post](https://qoto.org/@tripu/109893448799024883) had nothing to do with you.
#RoaldDahl is part of my childhood. I find this irritating and stupid. Young readers are smarter than their #woke guardians.
tripu
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Short #biking #route: #GuadalixDeLaSierra and #EmbalseDePedrezuela (~50 km). #Madrid #motorbike #dam
