Bad Influence.

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I can only surmise the point here is a fact-free circlejerk completely lacking in humor or self-awareness?

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Is 1984 banned? That was mandatory reading...

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Veganism seeks to exclude animal exploitation and cruelty as far as is possible and practicable.

For a Western audience, where one would have access to a well stocked supermarket, that would generally mean a complete boycott, but it does ultimately come down to the individual to decide what is and isn't practicable. If you have nessary medication that contains animal products, or is tested on animals, for example, I don't think you'd find anyone expecting you to give that up.

As for insects, they're within the kingdom of Animalia, so yes, veganism applies to them too. That said, you can't go through life without ever stepping on an ant, and I don't know anyone who'd place the exact same value on an fly and a cow. One has a vastly more sophisticated brain and nervous system.

Ultimately it's a "do your best" situation.

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Animal cruelty maybe not, but I know a few friends who get randomly shown car crashed and combat recordings and the like. I agree with your sentiment for the most part, but I think the real point is that books that should be required reading for young minds are being banned, while the majority of young people are on sites that will show you all kinds of crazy shit to keep you scrolling

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It and Fahrenheit 451 are, ironically, among some of the most banned books in the US.

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Ignoring the 1984 element for now, this has interested me for a long time.

In the US if a movie contains nudity then its age classification is going to be high, the same as if it contained murder, torture, or other violent actions.

In Germany, anecdotally, nudity is rated as appropriate for a much younger audience than violence.

It makes a lot of sense to me, but I understand why it would take forever to adjust from "puritanical" values to something more open as an entire nation, for example.

I feel like I'm more inclined to go with the FSK rating than the US equivalents, or the UK ones, but that's my viewpoint, complete with all my bias.

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I read it in middle school and it was one of my favorite books for years after. The topics are not too adult for school. We should obviously protect children, but prudishness and politics should not dictate school libraries

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Just buy a tesla and a smartphone. Those are the spy machines described in the book. The difference is that the 1984 government had to hide that stuff in your house and now, people even pay for them.

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Trump was nearly 60 when he had him. Barron could have genetically disposed mental health issues.

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Yes, and I'm glad that it is.

record skip, everyone stares at HawlSera awkwardly, guns are cocked and pointed at her

Because when you tell a people that a piece of media is too evil and vile to ever be looked at, that only makes them wanna read it more. I guruan-fucking-tee more people have read 1984 now that they're not allowed to!

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This, I find it weird that I keep getting people saying "YOU CAN'T MOCK BARRON HE'S JUST A CHILD!"

He was a child 8 years ago, people age.

(I will admit, even I forget this from time to time... Like when I saw Ant MAn 3 and was like "Wait, why's the cute little girl who basically sold these movies by being best character now a generic angsty teen.... oh... right... live action, the actress aged... and there's been a time skip.. and a tonal shift... right"

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Honestly don't do anything you wouldn't want a fascism regime knowing about on any PC running Windows or MacOS or any smart phone.

On that note, what Linux distro are best for privacy?

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Fat cats

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Depends on your opsec scope and use case. It also depends on the software you are running ontop like your browser or other services that probably have even more data on you.

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Admittedly I'm not keeping up on this, so maybe outdated but it used to be Tails.

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yes they are literally banned at most schools in my state. Along with books that have LGBT charicters in them

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It's unlikely that insects (or any animals for that matter) are a better use of the land, because ultimately animals need to eat plants, too, and they use up a good chunk of the energy themselves.

Occasionally, you can grow grass where proper crops won't and animals can graze there, but to my knowledge, this isn't particularly relevant in practice, because farmers will typically feed more nutrious food to minimize the time until the animals can be slaughtered.

You talk about complete protein, by which I assume you mean the amino acid distribution, but I find it hard to believe that the inefficient land use of animals is offset by them converting some of the amino acids to be better suitable for us.
Because ultimately, if you manage to grow more lentils and whatnot, you can totally just eat more lentils to reach your 100% of each amino acid.
Wealthy cultures eat significantly more protein than is actually needed, for example.

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Kali took Tails' place a few years back, I think.

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Footloose amusingly enough as well.

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Points for self awareness, and for Streisand effect.