👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
I do encourage y'all to consider the alignment between your ethical ideals and culinary actions; I'm not here to judge anyone for eating meat, but even if you choose not to make any chances, you may gain a deeper connection with and appreciation for the lives which feed your own
I still eat takoyaki occasionally, if someone at the table has ordered it, bc it would just be rather silly not to
but I do try to avoid causing marginal octopus mortality
squid idc about tbh, they're dumb af
cuttlefish don't seem intelligent but they're utterly fascinating
so if there is a budding species right in our own backyard, I'd like to do my best to nurture it, potentially expedite its journey to self-awareness
remember that we are in a race against heat death, and the more intelligent minds there are, the better our chances of beating it
there are a few different motivations for this ethical yardstick, but the primary one for me is that intelligent beings have a higher chance of contributing positively to the world, not only paying for their existence but adding surplus value
intelligence is rare in the universe
much I could say, but short version is that I consider life sacred esp.when it has the capability to develop intelligence & consciousness
seems to be a nonzero chance one day an octopus might ask me why I consumed his ancestors w/ impunity
that would be rather embarrassing, eh?
years ago when I was dating this vegan chick, she got really me thinking through the alignment of my ethical positions w/ my lifestyle; this caused me to go pescetarian
the one additional rule I adopted was no cephalopods; I realized that intelligence was rather important to me
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RT @robertwiblin
Octopuses are pretty nuts.
Totally separate evolution of intelligence — our nearest common ancestor was a worm or something. They're hig…
https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1393174557612199937
many of you saying this doesnt make sense bc there aren't enough MtF individuals to account for the entire trend
consider there may be shared underlying factors driving both (yes, we're not supposed to say there are factors driving MtF but cmon)
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RT @Virtual1nstinct
@pee_zombie mtfs are an indicator species
i will not elaborate
https://twitter.com/Virtual1nstinct/status/1393250614214373379
are we really going to talk about the fertility crisis without bringing up the obvious reason no one wants to mention, ie so many more AMABs coming out as trans? because that's a pretty huge factor imo
when you meet the Buddha-cop in your mind, kill him
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RT @michaelcurzi
https://twitter.com/BecomingCritter/status/1393009968702427137
https://twitter.com/michaelcurzi/status/1393055577815797768
such an experience is a double-edged sword; it can open your mind to higher truth, but it also can make you dissatisfied w/ simple mundanity, which is not a tradeoff that should be taken lightly
I just really wish some of my coworkers would at least nibble on the forbidden fruit
a life filled w/ physical pleasures & comfortable distractions is one unlikely to expose you to true beauty, to show you the raw edges of the universe, make you strive for truth. it's often some sort of trauma, a boundary experience, something missing in your heart that drives it
w/o real constraints, one often also lacks any real motivation; after all, why try hard if your life is simple, if you don't want for anything? you can just coast along, enjoying yourself
and indeed, this is a fine way to live; but it does seem to be missing something deeper
if you were a professional athlete, you'd hone your body, your tool, w/ much gusto; why do so many white-collar professionals neglect their mind?
if one were resource-constrained, this would be understandable, & indeed, free time is a resource; but I don't think this explains it
sometimes I wonder if this is just a rather convoluted form of procrastination, but then I spend 10 minutes watching someone do a task which would have taken me 2, and am reassured it's not. small optimizations add up over time, compounding their time savings as your power grows
I'm pretty neurotic about this sort of thing; it takes some effort for me to decide to do something, so I try to ensure that there is as little as possible standing in my way when motivation strikes. I relentlessly introspect my processes & micro-optimize the smallest aspect.
I get rather frustrated watching people do everyday tasks quite often, seeing all the little frictions in every movement, the paper cuts sapping their willpower & energy. so many ways to improve, if they'd only slow down & consider, but they've no time to write a shorter letter
your inhabited environment is an extension of your self; you store body parts in it, & embody them on-demand, to re-spec. are we not different machines when cooking, cleaning house, researching online, coding, etc? there is little differentiating not cleaning & not working out
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RT @provisionalidea
Yo so you know how a bunch of scientists and theorists have been saying for years that tools are an extension of the human body?
A n…
https://twitter.com/provisionalidea/status/1392854515347513351
in English: you don't need anyone else to validate your understanding
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RT @chaosprime
once your gnosis is powerful enough to derive via gnosis the knowledge that it's fine if you're obstructed from justifying your knowledge to others because it was derived via gnosis, you've got it made
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1392927084226416642
I was maybe a little bit of a dramatic edgelord
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RT @alt1na1
so dramatic https://twitter.com/hipcityreg/status/1392841329907011587 https://t.co/kX146wcTl7
https://twitter.com/alt1na1/status/1392846817998561282
