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[Lemmy has] no mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

Hey mods, you can do the funniest thing right now:

Why is Spacemacs listed separately to Emacs when it’s just a fancy Emacs’ config?

Been playing quire a bit of the new Dragon Age. I normally don’t play games close to release, and I’ve never played a DA game before, but I watched a review and it seemed like something I was in the mood for. Been enjoying it quire a bit, more than I expected. I just really need to do something about my thermals.

This was actually discussed at one of their recent meet-ups.

.ml is running the beta branch that actually started to apply image size limits to thumbnails, your app is probably using the thumbnail URL instead of the main URL and thus getting the compressed image.

This has been fixed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4937

Clojure, a simple grammar but most of the vocabulary is imported from another language.

There was some discussion of this in one of the admin chats and this seems to be a Hetzner issue. You’re post on SDF has the correct metadata. Also compare my post here on feddit.uk (Hetzner) to this one here (Linode).

I don’t believe this is mine or Mat’s first time making it onto this (I also only changed a number, hardly work).

Lemmy’s upvotes are same thing as likes, and downvotes are dislikes. This is kinda hard to tell because Mastodon doesn’t federate likes, so Lemmy posts will always show up as having no favourites.

No, the devs have explicitly stated they don’t want to add following users to Lemmy.

It’s performative cruelty to desperately claw back some points in the polls.

I think being indifferent to the suffering you cause on those around you is a moral failing. You said yourself you aim to treat people how you want to be treated, do you not care if those around you inflict suffering on you? I don’t see how indifference to suffering can be universalised.

Edit: didn’t see your edit before posting, I still don’t think you’ve justified why the unnecessary killing/causing suffering of a person and animal are different. Your argument seems very circular on this, killing humans and animals are different because they are different.

Why not? If actions I take cause you suffering, shouldn’t I try my best to prevent that?

Is disease prevention also amoral?

Do you think we shouldn’t try to minimise unnecessary suffering?

No it’s not. Disease is a natural phenomenon and is bad.

i don’t know what it’s like to be a chicken or a pig

But you do know what it’s like to suffer. And you know pigs, chickens, and other farm animals can suffer. Does that not count for anything? Or do you not consider suffering to be an inheriently bad thing?

OK, so this is literally an appeal to nature. I seriously don’t see why behaviour should get a free pass just because it’s ‘natural,’ except the very natural phenomenon of humans killing each other.

living things are in competition and killing is a matter of course. it is natural.

And?

i think a special case must be made against killings. among humans, there are many (distinct) arguments against killing. among the ones i’ve heard, the ones which would also apply to animals are not ones that i personally believe.

What do you believe? From what I’ve been able to gather from your replies to me and others, you put hold the following two beliefs:

1. That ‘human’ is a distinct category of being that makes us the only thing worthy of moral consideration;
2. That the practice of killing animals is so widespread, so normalised, that it must be morally OK, because if it were wrong, we wouldn’t practice it so widely;

I don’t think these are sound arguments.