ColdSideOfYourPillow

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[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was the original meaning. Eventually, it evolved into “some change is inevitable and desired, but we'd like to do it gradually while preserving most traditions”.

Now it seems to be evolving back.

Don't worry, there's a WikiHow article on how to do exactly that.

"You may have outsmarted me, but I have outsmarted your outsmarting."

The good thing is, you already are! And from what I've seen of your online presence, you seem like a very fun girl at that :D. I'm sure many other people here would agree with me as well.

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Conservatism, in the original sense of the word, wasn't such a bad political ideology. It used to mean a desire reforming the current norms through gradual change and evolutionary measures.

Unfortunately, it has been perverted, as the social norms modern "conservatives" seem to want to promote include transphobia, homophobia and heteronormativity.

This particular video seemed more like an educated opinion piece rather than a proper presentation of scientific facts. The usual Kurzgesagt video presents science in an accessible and fun manner (I think this is the explanation for problem 7: they didn't want to be too dark.). This video, however, was just full of estimates.

This approach isn't necessarily wrong. This video seemed like an attempt to highlight some of the injustices of the meat industry, and encourage people to reduce their meat consumption. I think that this is a noble goal.

Obviously, I'd prefer everyone to fully go vegan, but many people don't want to do that. I'm fine with 50M people cutting their meat consumption in half rather than 5M people quitting meat.

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm in this image and I don't like it.

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, I'd probably suck at that. For some reason, I transform into Vincent van Gogh when crafting shitposts. For things like actual fiction, however, I'm about as creative as a dead oak.

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's John PieFed and John Mbin?

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Then who is the CEO of Reddit?

[–] ColdSideOfYourPillow@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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The unintended second message is probably closer to the truth, anyways.

 
 
 
 
 
 

btw, for those on PieFed, try out the feed ~veganism@piefed.social.

 
 

Also, is this guy seriously suggesting to stop planned parenthood?!

 

I think the idea was that "donut" "do not".

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