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29 Jan 2026, 11:56 pm

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Dogs.
People who act like eating dogs is morally worse than eating pigs or cows or sheep or goats or chickens.

Cú Chulainn might disagree.

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29 Jan 2026, 11:57 pm

Carbonhalo wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

Dogs.
People who act like eating dogs is morally worse than eating pigs or cows or sheep or goats or chickens.

Cú Chulainn might disagree.

He can whine all he likes, he's still on the menu.

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30 Jan 2026, 3:19 am

When you've been a self-loathing Aspie since you were 8 years old and now for the first time ever you have found some peace with your condition, which has pleasantly surprised you and is a huge step for you, but nobody on online forums supports you for it. I thought it may have gained me some popularity points.

RSD, please f**k off...

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30 Jan 2026, 7:56 pm

Break-ups of any kind

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30 Jan 2026, 8:28 pm

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You have popularity points from me.

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30 Jan 2026, 11:25 pm

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Tamaya wrote:

You have popularity points from me.

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01 Feb 2026, 1:02 am

Shipping. It's stupid. Seriously, I did not need to see Mickey mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit "romantically entangled" with each other, but I ended up seeing it on Wikipedia of all places. It's like characters can't be close friends or even close relatives without toxic fandom crap sexualizing them.

I get it, rule 34. But it's still stupid, gross, and annoying.

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07 Feb 2026, 9:05 am

How do you use the phrase That's not fair without some ungrateful petty person turning it against you by saying Life's not fair?

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07 Feb 2026, 2:08 pm

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Dogs.
People who act like eating dogs is morally worse than eating pigs or cows or sheep or goats or chickens.

It's because we view dogs as pets and companions, not as food. Also, sheep, cows, and other grazing animals are really stupid compared to carnivorans like cats and dogs. Pigs are fairly smart though. I mean, if you want to make an argument against eating pigs, I'll accept that. I always found bacon to be kinda revolting anyway.

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07 Feb 2026, 2:13 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:

How do you use the phrase That's not fair without some ungrateful petty person turning it against you by saying Life's not fair?

I made a comic about the libertarian "Life's not fair" fallacy. I think it sums up why it's a fallacy pretty well:

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09 Feb 2026, 7:25 am

When the internet doesn't provide beneficial features such as disabling certain keywords in search engines without being able to reverse it, or being able to save where you left off on Facebook pages that have loads of memes that you like to scroll through.

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09 Feb 2026, 8:31 am

EmpireHonda wrote:

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Dogs.
People who act like eating dogs is morally worse than eating pigs or cows or sheep or goats or chickens.

I've heard every cope for why dogs deserve special status, I disagree. The comparison with pigs is fair, but I don't see that as a good reason to treat pork as taboo. I don't see eating any non-human animal as a moral issue, even if other non-morality based arguments might exist such as being an inefficient source of calories, unsustainable, potential health risks, etc.

I don't see 'many people like this animal' as an inherently compelling moral argument, even if I'm one of those people. It'd feel hypocritical to act like eating cats is somehow morally worse than eating dogs.

I don't see eating animals others view as pets or companions as a moral issue, except when it involves theft of someone else's pet or if it's being done explicitly to provoke upset.

I'm much more concerned with considerations like rearing and slaughtering practices than I am with which specific animal someone eats. Given all the problems that exist within the culture I'm a part of when it comes to those concerns, it feels gross when people from my culture (the Anglosphere) get worked up over what people from other cultures eat or may have historically eaten.

Basically, a real life example of people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.

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09 Feb 2026, 8:45 am

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When the internet doesn't provide beneficial features such as disabling certain keywords in search engines without being able to reverse it

Well, to be a bit blunt - "The Internet" isn't responsible for your browsing habits and you could avoid searching for certain keywords by... not searching for them.
This is also reversible at any time. :nerdy:

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or being able to save where you left off on Facebook pages that have loads of memes that you like to scroll through.

Any browser page can be bookmarked ('made a favorite' in Windows-speak) so if you're part-way through a multi-page list of memes, just bookmark the page you're on. You can also add your own bookmark title at the same time, say - "Current FB memes page".
You can pick up at that point later and to keep things tidy, delete that bookmark then at some later stage bookmark the new page you're on.

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09 Feb 2026, 9:35 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

EmpireHonda wrote:

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Dogs.
People who act like eating dogs is morally worse than eating pigs or cows or sheep or goats or chickens.

You could also make the argument that farm animals like sheep and cows were specifically bred by humans to be food sources, whereas dogs were specifically bred for helping humans in other ways like hunting, guarding people's homes, being guides for the disabled, etc. I kinda feel that hunting and eating wild animals (especially intelligent ones like whales and dolphins) is more immoral than slaughtering farm animals for this reason. There's nothing wrong with killing and eating animals that we ourselves created for the specific purpose of killing and eating them, but on the other hand animals like whales and dolphins are God's creatures, not ours.

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09 Feb 2026, 9:54 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Tamaya wrote:

When the internet doesn't provide beneficial features such as disabling certain keywords in search engines without being able to reverse it

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or being able to save where you left off on Facebook pages that have loads of memes that you like to scroll through.

I meant as a "rehab" type of thing. Internet addiction is a real thing and it can be extremely hard not to look up certain things whenever you get a burning question in your head and your phone is right in your pocket. I can get serious addictions with the internet, a bit like how some get addicted to porn or gambling. Sometimes with addiction the line that needs to be drawn becomes hazy and you think "oh, asking one little question won't hurt" - until you find you have just tortured yourself once again. But I think the repetitive searching of Foster is drawing to a close now, as I'm not as consumed with urges to search for him as I was last week. I'm still in love with him but I just think the obsessive searching is starting to fade, thank God.

It seems impossible to bookmark pages on a Facebook app on a phone. What I do is share the last meme I read, then when I click on it on my laptop it continues from that meme, but this can only be done on a laptop or computer, not on a phone. So I only search through memes when I'm on my laptop, which isn't very often, as I do all my interneting on my phone (I can share memes on my phone of course but I can't bookmark it nor return from where I left off by tapping on the shared meme).

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10 Feb 2026, 5:10 am

I absolutely agree with Tamaya above Facebook. It's horrible. I also think the idea of blocking certain search words or results has a lot of potential. Might need a browser other than Chrome to get that to work

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