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  • Krudler@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. English
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    12 days ago

    Is any of what you are saying material though?

    It’s kind of revelatory that vegan is a shifting term, that means whatever it wants to mean for the believer.

    I tell vegans all the time that in order to have their potato chips brought to them, first they have to have millions of hectares of fields destroyed, planted with a monoculture potato crop, sprayed with pesticides, harvested by diesel equipment, made in a factory with pollutants, placed on trucks which ship all over the country.

    Swallow a fly, oh my God the world is ending. Kill a couple thousand things on the way to get your vegan chips, let’s not talk about that.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•The Last TokensEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Great post, thanks

    Our local arcade guy, I’ve known him casually for decades. He realized the DDR craze was over and the old school game profitability was long gone. He refactored and has an absolutely fabulous pinball arcade downtown, and I’m talking like 20 minty tables that he maintains par-excellence. There’s an SF cab, a NEO GEO, a DDR, a few novelties like grip strength and punching bag, 2 pingpong tables, air hockey. He rolled with the punches and stayed relevant, moved to a high-rent somewhat touristy area with shitloads of foot traffic.

    I love the imagery of the arcade in that article. We didn’t have one like that in my city, but we had the last of the true Snooker parlours and the look was nearly identical - hand written screeds all over the place adhered with yellowed tape that welded itself to the wall over time. Rickety equipment that is barely holding on.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.world•Why has there never been an algebra or calculus learning app?English
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    2 months ago

    This is so true of many people.

    I was a professional game developer for two decades. I was never formally trained, I am completely self-taught.

    I must break things apart and build them up from the individual molecules, in order for me to understand things.

    When I learned trigonometry in school, or should I say when they attempted to teach it to me, it flew over my head like a flock of birds. I could understand none of it nor could I understand any of the reasons.

    When I started to develop an obsessive passion for programming when I was around 14, and I needed to figure out how to shoot a bullet out of a cannon at a certain angle and break down the components of motion into x and Y… I felt like I invented trigonometry myself in about 3 hours.

    People are weird and everybody approaches things differently. I could see myself beginning to Intuit calculus concepts with a game, but at the same time I think it’s such a specialty ask that it’s not realistic.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predatorsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I used to very much feel that way. I was incensed that we’d keep animals in tiny boxes, which must be existentially destructive to the psyches of these creatures.

    Recent visits to moderns zoos and conservatories have shown me that zoology has seriously evolved from when I was younger. I’m not trying to say you shouldn’t feel the way you do, just maybe take a look at what they’re up to now, I think the underlying approach has changed for the better.

    I’m know there are still lots of for-profit zoos around the world, however, that treat the creatures like hell. And in that case I don’t defend that even remotely. That’s where I’d be in total agreement with your sentiment.