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New comment by BagelGuy in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

BagelGuy — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:08:14 +0000

I took a similar one, I remember "trying" really hard to prove to myself that I wasn't faking but about 30 seconds later I was looking about the room and struggling to recall if the screen changed at all. Was a nice confirmation of my issues.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

BagelGuy — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 23:05:55 +0000

Calculating future possibilities and making plans for all of them is hard work.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

BagelGuy — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:40:44 +0000

My foot hurts everyday but next to someone who had their's amputated I'm okay; therefore, my foot is fine.

New comment by BagelGuy in "I Know What You Download on BitTorrent"

BagelGuy — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:41:13 +0000

I've never thought about it this way but it makes a lot of sense. In a world where it looks like everyone is tweeting there are actually a lot of people not tweeting, you just don't hear about them because, well, they aren't tweeting!

New comment by BagelGuy in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

BagelGuy — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:53:08 +0000

The Redditors are coming

New comment by BagelGuy in "A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely"

BagelGuy — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:41:48 +0000

If they aren't in physical danger why would they leave the office before 6pm?

New comment by BagelGuy in "You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed"

BagelGuy — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:34:22 +0000

Boredom + Freedom = Creativity.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Awareness at Death"

BagelGuy — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:07:22 +0000

It was pointing upwards

New comment by BagelGuy in "Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem"

BagelGuy — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:28:12 +0000

OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING HOW DID I NOW KNOW THIS

New comment by BagelGuy in "Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture"

BagelGuy — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:33:22 +0000

"If you genuinely believe the lives of mammals are morally equivalent to human lives"

I didn't say this ;)

Of course all human agriculture leads to animal suffering.

A more pertinent (and difficult to measure) metric would be suffering per calorie. Industrialized dairy is brutal. Momma cow is forcefully impregnated and separated from her baby so you can have that baby's milk in your coffee.

One could also argue that you have a higher moral obligations to a cow that you are exploiting than a mouse attempting to eat your grain.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Dining like Darwin: When scientists swallow their subjects (2015)"

BagelGuy — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:52:16 +0000

Cognitive Dissonance is a powerful force.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture"

BagelGuy — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 19:13:06 +0000

  and there's no cognitive dissonance

There is but I've grown tired about arguing this on the internet.

Once you dive deep enough there aren't a whole lot of logically sound ethical theories that allow for one to systematically imprison, enslave, and murder these beings without allowing us to do the same to less intelligent humans (which most agree is horrifying).

It's a horrible thing that humans subject these beings to and we will look back on it with great shame.

If anyone reading this is open minded and interested in reading more, I'd recommend diving into the arguments against speciesism.

New comment by BagelGuy in "Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture"

BagelGuy — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:27:54 +0000

While their living conditions are better it seems a stretch to say that these farmers "care" much for the beings they imprison, artificially inseminate, and extract resources from.

I imagine they aren't providing much care for the males born from their cows.

New comment by BagelGuy in "How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be"

BagelGuy — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:00:18 +0000

Humanity built a suicidal doomsday machine that can be set off by accident.

It's not scare journalism to remind people of this.