jicksta2's comments

Evolving beyond being amoral nutjobs ourselves is the first step to eliminating amoral nutjobbery elsewhere. There's a lot of extra work that needs to be done on top of that, such as good-faith social programs to help their society recover, etc.

I had issues with DNSCrypt after using it for a few months. I had strange DNS resolution issues, felt I couldn't truly trust it, and found myself disabling/re-enabling it too often to see if it was the point of failure. I now use https://proxy.sh for a private VPN with the Viscosity VPN client which properly sends DNS traffic over the VPN.

That said, I'll probably give DNSCrypt a try again in the coming months. YMMV

"...this fact"? The only fact here is that the thing you're claiming is a fact actually isn't.

By the way, your celebration of this policy change is especially ironic considering the United States empire is completely buckling under the enormity of its failure as we speak. Right, we're "re-discovering the efficiency of representative democracy" by decreasing accountability...

America's governance system is very complex but it's hardly worth calling democracy in any meaningful use of the term. Money buys political results. Americans overwhelming see this to be the case. The state is made up of only the upper class and exists to serve the interests of the upper class. They run it, not the people in general.

"With too much freedom comes far too much responsibility; not that users aren’t entitled to full responsibility but, honestly, they don’t want it."

Equating communism in general to a restriction of freedom is simply erroneous. A core tenet of communism is democratic control over production. There are two main branches of communist philosophy: statist and anti-statist. The anarcho-communists, who are more liberal than any other political philosophy I can think of, would never say that a freedom must be restricted by someone above.

"Authoritarian" is what the author meant. Ironically, capitalism exists to allow for the design of somewhat decentralized, somewhat competitive authoritarian institutions that will control production. What he's describing is more inherently capitalist than communist. He's confused by the fact that the USSR was simply a state-capitalist society just like the US is, only with weaker trust networks.

Vegans have their own social circles and social media groups. In vitro meat is one of the biggest discussion topics of contemporary vegan politics and philosophy. Yes, I have discussed in vitro meat with all of my vegan friends, as many of them have with their other friends. I would say vegans are overwhelmingly supportive of it -- anyone who says the contrary instantly discredits himself/herself and will only get an eye roll from someone who knows this community.

Can I ask you a favor? If you do truly care about "responsibility" of "improving the world," please stop using exclusively strawman arguments against vegans, a group which adapts their entire lifestyle and existential place in the universe toward positive change. This is far more than most meat eaters. You have a really patronizing tone and make little, subtle suggestions that vegans are just idiots. This crosses the line.

I'm a highly technical "ethiveg" vegan and every vegan I've met have not only heard of in vitro meat but strongly supports it.