@mcfate Hmm.

I could see this turning into a convenient tool for fascists.

Celebrity Y is standing up for democracy? It's a few hours' work to make deepfake porn. Then: Oops, we have to censor all mention of them.

@TrueBloodNet I get you. Sorry, I was making a Futurama reference and it apparently utterly failed to land 😁

@TrueBloodNet Ok then, forget about the YouTube alternative and the responsible ownership.

We really should start a YouTube alternative with responsible ownership and blackjack and hookers.

Capitalism and the YouTube Exodus- Why Are So Many People Quitting YouTube?https://youtu.be/tAfaXFIcuvc

@Kinnison It me

Morning.

@AskTheDevil Same, in some ways.

Was just seized with a sudden, gripping nostalgia for a time 24-odd years ago.

Talk about simpler times.

@SeismoTEK I think that's legit a D&D item now.

Also pretty sure Munchkin.

@imagine_enigami I...

Wow.

Where, how much, and... Well that pretty much covers it!

@LnzyHou I could see USING one of those to polish a table... Or dust the cupboards 😂

@Kittiekatt53 We definitely need to stop breeding so many of them, and start treating the ones we have better. Not a fix but definitely a good start. Happy cows make better milk anyway!

@kel Oh, I know it's gross AF. I just have an easier time with that than the cows.

I'm not going full vegan or anything by any means. For one, dairy is awesome. I'll probably even still eat beef occasionally- but I am definitely going to be a lot more aware of my consumption- and there will be less of it.

Pigs too.

Chickens? I'm on the fence. They're literally little dinosaurs and would gladly- GLADLY eat us if the sizes were reversed. 😮

My impulse was the same as with most any other critter looking at me in a not-unfriendly way: I wanted to give it treats and scritches. I specifically had an impulse to go back in, get something to feed the moo cow, and then attempt to befriend it.

And I have been struggling ever since with the dichotomy of that and my American, beef-heavy diet. I wasn't unaware of the beef industry's shenanigans before, but this experience put a face to the concepts. I can't justify it.

I have to share a personal experience I had the other night, and what it meant to me- as well as what I plan to do about it.

I was leaving the local gas station, which is close enough to the freeway that it has a specific, different area for trucks to pump diesel. A truck was there, and it happened to be full of cows.

Now the imagery of any feeling being bunched onto a truck headed for slaughter is, and I think should be, problematic. But in that moment, I saw one of the cows looking at me.

@stueytheround However, due credence should be given to your point about judgement being tempered with wisdom.

Including self-judgement. Many of us are, just out of sheer human nature, much more permissive of faults in ourselves. Some unfortunate folks are also much LESS forgiving of faults in themselves and are much harder on themselves than others.

I suppose most people engage in one, the other, or both at some point.

To me, it's about having realistic expectations in the first place.

@stueytheround I think the more accurate and responsible way to put it is "Judge, and prepare to be judged."

But that's me.

My point, however, is about the specific claim that "Only being X can judge me" which, IIRC, has no actual scriptural basis in any system.

What it DOES have is the de facto effect of placing the claimant in a special moral category that only includes beings with perfect divine authority. This is incredibly narcissistic and shows a profound lack of insight.