I believe pets are counted as livestock, but it’s not specifically referenced as far as I have the interest to read.
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As an animated work, Steven Universe is kind of garbage. There are YouTube essays out there detailing its problems, but it’s most glaring when a guest animator takes over a small portion of the series and blows the entire thing out of the water.
The OP is disingenuous, but animation is having a problem these days with restricted budgets, homogenized designs, and poor use of digital tools. Quality animation was always expensive and therefore in the minority, but the everyday budget stuff is worse than in the past. There are recent series that I can’t even watch due to awful framerates and bad CGI.
But what if she had four wheels?
No. What is or isn’t a vegetable is determined entirely by whether we collectively consider any given plant or plant part a food item.
I don’t love the honor translation partially because it’s been used in racist caricature, but also because it’s often inaccurate. Like you might say ohana because you’re in an extremely formal interaction, or because you want to sound poetic or whatever, but you’re not actually saying “honorable flowers” usually. You can mean that though. I feel like it’s too context-sensitive and culturally nuanced for simple translation.
In Swedish the prefix for bad stuff is the same as the prefix for not or un-. So a monster is a not-animal and a weed is ungrass. Which is especially interesting to me because that same prefix (o) is for better versions of things in Japanese.
e: This got me thinking about “plant,” and I realized it’s literally the verb to plant. In Swedish it’s a growth, or thing that grew. Japanese and Chinese: planted thing. Spanish is also the same as the verb. I feel kinda bad we mostly talk about them in terms of farming them rather than giving them a proper name. Like if they get sentient someday, plant will probably be considered a slur.
It definitely counts as invasive if we put it there though. I don’t see rabbits swimming to Australia.
stray@pawb.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Americans kinda don't like pickpocketing ruleEnglish7·6 days agoSpraying someone with pepper spray is a violent assault. It’s banned in a number of counties due to the possibility of permanent injury or even death, and the risk to bystanders.
stray@pawb.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Americans kinda don't like pickpocketing ruleEnglish6·6 days agoI don’t think whether an attack is physically violent should play a role in whether someone is allowed to use violence to defend themselves. Plenty of forms of sexual assault are non-violent in the sense that they don’t cause bodily harm to the victim, but I still think you should be allowed to resort to violent methods of stopping/preventing them. Things like gropings, upskirt photography, etc are a form of psychological violence in my opinion.
This is different from break-ins which are a more serious crime as they violate the private living spaces of people on top of violating their property rights.
What is the reasoning behind this distinction? Are you suggesting it’s okay to defend your home with violence?
To come at this from another angle, do you think theft should be legal? If not, why is it okay for the state to enact violence on perpetrators, but not victims?
stray@pawb.socialto Gaming@beehaw.org•Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales1·6 days agoEverything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn’t really mean much to me without data to show it’s actually the case.
My personal feeling is that I don’t care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn’t have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won’t purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.
stray@pawb.socialto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Americans kinda don't like pickpocketing ruleEnglish293·6 days agoI don’t agree with characterizing being robbed from as not a big deal, especially when it’s as physically intimate as pickpocketing.
Maybe it’s no big deal to lose a bit of money if you’re rich, but I would be truly fucked to lose my phone or wallet, and more than inconvenienced to lose money or objects which would need to be replaced with money.
But more than that is the sense of violation. What gives someone the right to come into my home or put hands on my body and take my personal things? It’s dehumanizing. It feels disgusting to be treated that way. Of course I’m going to defend myself.
It’s fine if people come in to learn about it though, right? I think a lot of people like myself can’t get diagnosed for various reasons, or maybe they just have a loved one who has ADHD. I think it’s better to say that if you’re going to be ableist about it, you can keep your mouth shut.
That’s why you set up code ahead of time. Gestures are especially useful for nonverbal communication.
stray@pawb.socialto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis2·13 days agoI put the phrase in quotes to indicate the meaning of treating someone poorly. Treating animals poorly is not appropriate.
stray@pawb.socialto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis31·13 days agoBut my point is that animals should not be treated “like animals” either. They should be included in the social contract and afforded a basic minimum of respect and autonomy, not enslaved and exploited.
stray@pawb.socialto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis811·15 days agoIsn’t similarly militant and self-righteous when someone feels this way about trans rights or abolishing slavery?
stray@pawb.socialto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis7·15 days agoIt is demonstrably true that life on a planet alters the conditions of the planet (which then alters the life, etc). Most glaring is the abundance of oxygen in our atmosphere. We don’t look for oxygen on other planets because oxygen is necessary for life; we look for oxygen because it’s unlikely to exist in high densities without life to produce it.
The sci-fi novel Death’s End by Cixin Liu (third in a series) further suggests that life alters the universe rather than just local systems, which was a fun idea. He’s a rather long-winded author, but he’s easy to forgive.
That said, this is the first time I’m hearing of the hypothesis by name, so I can’t be sure what all it says. A quick skim lines up with reality though.
Something I pretty much never see pointed out is that we don’t need billions of humans. Our governments keep encouraging us to have children, but they should be working to end the culture of pressuring people (especially women) into having children because they’re somehow incomplete without them. There should be more programs offering access to birth control and family counseling services. This endless and meaningless growth is as harmful to us as it is to the rest of our planet.