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@ Flagg : Well, we were having a talk about political correctness, and given the context the word was said in and to whom, I was just pointing out the fact that it could be actually hurtful. To Amend: It probably could for some people, but I didn't find anything inherently shameful after I'd functi...

Flagg wrote: I happen to be a tender flower. And I hate marysville. It stinks. Literally.

*giggles* Yes. Yes it fucking does. It has stunk since like 1989. Probably earlier but that's when we moved up north of you from south county.

@ Flagg : Well, we were having a talk about political correctness, and given the context the word was said in and to whom, I was just pointing out the fact that it could be actually hurtful. I know better than to let stuff like that offend me. I mean, it's Flagg, he probably prefers iron rods to di...

I'm deeply sorry, Flagg, but I don't have a strapon big enough for your gaping hole and I don't fuck pilchucks anyway. Useless fuckers--why the shit does State Avenue have a 30mph speed limit when the same road in Everett's at 35 -40? Oh right, because you're all USELESS. You turned your shopping ma...

My conclusion from this thread is that evilsoup wants Flagg's manhole.

We got into see the GP today for our Hep and HIV results and he goes "so...what did you want these for?" So I explained aboit our lifestyle and he goes "well stop it, there's too much stuff out there." Yeah, no shit. Thats why we came to you. Wasn't expecting the judgement thoug...

My favourite one would be uncontrollable endless peat bog fires in Russia and Canada which fill the atmosphere with so much choking soot that it drives temperature down. Fires in those bogs were long expected to be the closest thing to actual nuclear winter the world would get in a nuclear exchange,...

Yes, Flagg. It's just intensely likely that this will bring about a planetary response in a completely unpredicted fashion.

++http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/847.full

Long story short, humans actually burned more biomass in Africa 70 - 40k years ago than they do today and radically altered the climate of the entire continent because of it.

If meat consumption is harming the environment then eventually meat production will degrade the environment in such a way as to render meat production more expensive. This will make meat less attractive to consumers in comparison to plant products. Thus if we keep consuming meat at the current rate...

If meat consumption is harming the environment then eventually meat production will degrade the environment in such a way as to render meat production more expensive. This will make meat less attractive to consumers in comparison to plant products. Thus if we keep consuming meat at the current rate...

I think that plants are as capable of feeling and communicating as most animals, and making yourself a vegan is to preferentially choose less anthropomorphic victims of your need to consume as an animal for essentially emotional rather than ethical reasons... Straha's veganism is... part of an anim...

1. If I was overly flippant before it's only because the argument "You're mean to plants" is the probably the most common argument that vegans run into, along with "Don't you know that harvesting plants kills animals?", and it's just a bad argument all around and makes me want t...

Yes, Aaron, I do. ..Speaking of which, I should clean them this weekend.


And I suppose that's accurate, Jung.

It is seriously a good way to teach yourself to be gentle and respectful of the needs of all things without exception. Most people treat cars terribly, and in doing so cause huge amounts of unneeded pollution because the ignoring oil/transmission lubricant changes, neglecting the air filter, failing...

Because the collectivity of it all is that we're all occupying parts of the ecosystem. Humans have a responsibility (that we're failing massively at) to tending that, but in most of our environments we're actually apex predators. Note that I think that meat consumption in the US should be limited to...

I have a philosophical perspective that defends traditional points of view, and I apologize for getting aggressive, Straha. I don't think we can ever approach each other on this issue, and I regret making the post, because, it just seems silly now to even try to have a conversation about it. I will ...

I think that plants are as capable of feeling and communicating as most animals, and making yourself a vegan is to preferentially choose less anthropomorphic victims of your need to consume as an animal for essentially emotional rather than ethical reasons, and that sustainable and spiritually respe...

Well, I already cited the one specific claim I made, and guess what, here's another citation! ++http://www.alternet.org/story/151806/15_years_in_prison_for_taping_the_cops_how_eavesdropping_laws_are_taking_away_our_best_defense_against_police_brutality But let's just pretend I wasn't posting links a...

In Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland, it is a felony. In nine other states it is a misdemeanor to record police. Even in states where it is technically legal the police will frequency seize and destroy film and then clog up the legal gutter with objections to you getting your recording device ba...

Maybe when you've been asked "Papers Please" randomly by federal police while driving out to go hiking in the woods in the home state you were born and raised in, from the area of the peninsula you live in to the one your parents owned a dacha in, you'd feel different about allowing any ki...

Did I mention that in the US the legal rationale at the federal level for allowing DUI checkpoints that some states use to conduct them has also explicitly been extended to "citizenship checkpoints" operated by the Border Patrol within 100 miles of any land or sea border, which includes al...

The point is that in many states the mere act of recording police without their permission being granted before the camera begins to role is automatically a felony, which you cannot fight back against, as it is a felony regardless of intent; i.e., the mere act is felonious, no matter the purpose.

Thank you. I understand why people in other countries are fine with DUI checkpoints, but, look, okay, this is America. And I'll support checkpoints and gun control when every single cop in America has been fired and replaced with cops trained in your academies, working under your laws and your rules...

Look, okay, Aaron, I'm just fucking terrified of police checkpoints. I won't even drive in MA, CT after 8 PM on friday and saturday nights lest I come across one. Have to plan my trips to get back to RI where they're illegal before then, or to a hotel. I just, there is nothing more terrifying than t...