I saw GayBot comment that there was another vegan struggle session and got excited to post in the trenches but I think that was a ruse cause I didnt see any threads about it anywhere. devastating

bought darkest dungeon (1) cause it was $3 and its been great, no deaths yet so overconfidence will definitely be my slow and insidious killer

when making my account i checked the available planets, and there is an account name for Venus (who is fairly active), Mars (not very active), and Mercury (last post 4 years ago), but none of them have a picture of the planet as profile picture smh.

also ‘obscure’ (but true)

I think my two favorite that have stood the test of time are:

I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards)

They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app” is “bad vibes”

and also

The dive bar at the end of the universe

also why I frequent healing crystal stores because the good ones have some cool looking or geologically interesting rocks, then it’s 50/50 if it’s a reasonable price or a $200 spray painted quartz crystal lol. although the real shame is when all the rocks are rounded and polished because that gets rid of half the mineralogy

was mainly just hanging out with others in voice chat, but sibling gasped and I tabbed back in to see the World of Goo 2 trailer which is possibly the most excited and amazed ive been for any trailer ever. especially since i just replayed the original recently aaaa hype.

guess we’re in alignment cause same, but we can make it

It should be a stylized version of the Orion Trapezium, which looked like minnesota the first time I saw it:

That’s a good summary ill have to use it

I think I just couldn’t tell if you were suggesting ‘buying or not buying harmful products doesn’t make a difference’ to mean supporting carnist stuff is fine, cause it felt like an odd inclusion but I getcha now.

But yeah I was, in response, arguing the importance of still considering consumption habits in your veganism, which comes from my mechanistic worldview thinking that everything has an affect on something, so what should instead be the limiting factor for these decisions is stuff like privilege (instead of util priorities), which ends up at the same stance as you (I think). Anxiety over my political alienation making me min-max my veganism lol.

I mostly agree but think its strange to dismiss the individual part of it. Although a social movement is the goal being worked towards, I feel its a bit harmful to state the goal as ‘global vegan movement’ instead of ‘stop exploiting animals’ because that difference provides wiggle room to do harmful things if you don’t expect it to affect the odds of the movement succeeding, which gets yourself thinking in unhelpful utilitarian terms. Easier to get intersectional-understanding benefits of connecting veganism to other issues, and be a better voice for that movement, when you’re an abolitionist vegan who doesn’t care if what you’re doing might not be worthwhile according to an arbitrary metric.

The movement is of course the vitally necessary action to end the industry, but I’m also sick of carnist leftist friends excusing individual carnist actions because of it ‘not really changing things’, which I think is driving my thoughts here.

im surprised you don’t want 1 month with 2 days (the days are extremely long)

They must have amnesia, they forgot that I’m Her

I still don’t know how to approach veganism when talking to most strangers, because theyll first bring up how theyre proudly buying free range eggs and I shut that down, then talk about how the impossible burgers they bought are pretty good, then i explain PBC, then they frame it as just whether they’re directly buying anything non vegan like you said, and at this point ive just told them theyre wrong ten times in a row and nothing is more effective at convincing them that veganism is utterly impossible (for the average westerner with money of course) ahhh

about to make a bowl of onion-perogies, veggies, hot sauce, and avocado for lunch.

also hi other dwarf planet

100% of the time I type ‘big’ it suggests ‘Boobs’ for the next word help