No, it is not vegan. Much like for example cultured meat, real animals had to be harmed to create the original specimen that is being cloned. For the purposes of veganism, animals are assumed to lack the capacity to consent to exploitation, in much the same way that children are assumed to lack the capacity to consent to various things.

Are you old enough to remember when librarians posted signs that their records had not YET been investigated by (I want to say) HLS?

It’s not a public space, it’s a publicly-accessible space. Limits on public access can be imposed by the property owners using trespass law. Violating posted signs is trespassing; cops that enter without a warrant or other special authority (beyond just being a cop, eg hot pursuit) are subject to criminal trespass.

There are many pros and cons. They are different things. While the main reason is that commercial solutions are selected to be as accessible as possible while piracy solutions require the user to make a lot more decisions (many of which can be made wrong), there area also valid reasons that spring directly from being different mediums. It is not hard to discover these reasons by simply trying it for a week.

Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking exploited

“The door you are pulling on is a push.” “I’m sorry!”

“The USB cable you are trying to use is broken.” “I’m sorry!”

“You can never step in the same river twice.” “I’m sorry!”

I mean, don’t apologize to me. I truly hope venting helps, but clearly you need more than that. And lemmy is a dangerous place for vulnerable people.

Perhaps there have been times of famine where it kept people alive, but today and throughout most of human history, it’s simply killing people. Something like eight of the top ten causes of human death are consequences of diet. The leading cause of all human death goes away completely without consumption of a class of products that includes all dairy. Dairy is not healthy to consume, it is harmful.

What is your actual point? “Don’t worry about water consumption?”

The crops are literally standing in a field collecting water through their roots. Sometimes it comes from rain, but an ever-increasing share comes from irrigation. One way or another, that water has to be accounted for. Rainfall is a limited resource in agriculture, like any other source of water. Even entire rivers are often 100% consumed by agriculture.

Evading a ban to harass a user. Wow.

Necroing a two month dead thread just to harass someone. What a fuckin’ guy. Someone’s itching for a ban.

Lemmy is not a suitable strategy for dealing with your profound and urgent mental health issues.

Better than starting a war to manufacture unity.

Meaning must be generated, not found.

Sounds like an attempt to increase the barrier to entry.

How much water do you believe AI consumes? The 31 billion land animals we keep in captivity and the crops we grow to feed them dwarf most human water consumption.

He’s never alright because his motivations are corrupt. When he superficially seems to be doing something that aligns with your interests, it’s just because he thinks that’s the best angle to fuck you.

Lets cat roam outdoors. Posts evidence to a community dedicated to squirrel appreciation. Like, read the room?? Holy fuck. People have no fucking idea.

I don’t know what you are referencing. It has not gotten harder for me recently. It’s always been like this.

Ooohhhhh, these are old-ass comics. I thought you were just posting the current weekly comic. I presume Ivan is still retired.