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  • WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldUnpaid lunch
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    5 days ago

    A yearly meeting with your boss where they either tell you all the things you did great and maybe a couple small things you can improve on while not paying you more, or they tell you how terrible you did and try to pressure you into doing more work by hanging the threat of your job (homelessness, loss of insurance, death) over your head.





  • For many of us, reducing ecological harm is one of the big motivators, and many vegans apply this mindset elsewhere. I’m also in the US, and it’s pretty hard to avoid needing a car outside of major cities which I can’t fault any vegans for. Many of the vegans I know are activists for public transit and one in particular has worked to improve it immensely in their city.

    Anticapitalist sentiment is pretty huge in vegan spaces. There’s a leftist to vegan pipeline and vice versa. Ironically being vegan is pretty big in punk spaces now too.

    I won’t pretend there aren’t plenty of people who are vegan more for the aesthetics rather than the principles because for some reason it caught on as a trend among the remnants of the “upper middle class” for whatever that means with the ever growing wealth disparity. There’s a huge supply of overpriced vegan options, but you can also eat vegan super cheap too without shelling out for the pricey fake meat options. I can make a ton of seitan or black beans burgers at home for almost nothing, but it’s $$$ at the grocery store.


  • So, yes, bugs count as meat and eating them outright is avoided by most vegans, but it’s impossible to not eat remnants of dead bugs in produce. The agricultural process inherently involves the death of bugs, and that’s literally unavoidable.

    Some vegans try to avoid the kinds of figs that require wasps to die, but most of the figs in grocery stores are artificially pollinated and don’t have wasps in them.

    Personally, I’m not going out of my way to avoid produce that has marginally higher bug death. Being vegan is already a pain in the ass without putting further restrictions on “is eating X plant really vegan because it requires Y?” It’s still a way better environmental impact than meat, and I hate the purity tests a lot of online vegan spaces turn into. Most other vegans I’ve met IRL are chill and we can have reasonable discussions around that sort of thing without people getting into a fit over it.





  • It perpetuates the myth of recycling and puts the onus on the consumer and state to recycle instead of the corporations to stop using containers that pollute the environment, will be in the environment for decades without breaking down, and is likely causing yet unknown harm in our bodies since plastic is inside all of us now.

    The first of the “3 R’s” is reduce but instead of that being the focus because it hurts their bottom line, they prop up recycling and sell the lie that we can keep living as is if we just recycle more and get better at recycling.



  • As a long time zip-up wearer and supporter, how is the pull-over better? I always find it way more annoying to put on and take off.

    It’s like putting on an extra shirt that then clings to your first shirt whenever you want to take it off so you have to work harder to not flash everyone when you take it off. For the zip-up, it just wraps around you and zips up. It’s easy on, easy off.




  • If everyone was supportive, I think it would be fine. It’d be seen like needing glasses. We just need this relatively easy medical care and it’s far less effort if intervention is done before puberty.

    Transitioning socially would be less of an issue too since it’d be seen as just something that happens sometimes and has been normalized.


  • Yes, ass is tighter around the opening. Depending on how strong the muscles are, you can feel squeezing. Ass squeezing is more noticeable than vagina squeezing ime.

    Mouths are very different.

    No real difference in a vagina that’s already been fucked unless it’s getting drier from all the friction but just use lube and it’s fine. An ass that’s already been fucked isn’t quite as tight, but that’s a good thing because you want the ass to be a bit more relaxed and the start is a bit of work to make sure the other person is relaxed enough so you don’t hurt them.